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You Won't Believe What They're Calling "Nazi Propaganda" Now... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The US Department of Labor and the National Guard have just released motivational ads drawing on American patriotism, so cue disturbed America-hating leftists calling it all fascist. The USDL ad is vintage 'your country needs you' type ad featuring a young blue collar worker. Here it is: We need YOU to help unleash the Golden Age of America.https://t.co/IuqkysM2kp pic.twitter.com/iBDsyFcPFk — U.S. Department of Labor (@USDOL) August 16, 2025 But, hang on, white man + patriotic lingo = Nazi. This is nazi propaganda https://t.co/P6IELa6iwH — Organizermemes (@OrganizerMemes) August 16, 2025 Of course it is. You may as well start posting in German. It'll feel more authentic ,,? — ✙Woke AF Fella????✙ (@PewPewPotatoe) August 19, 2025 OMG, can you replicate Nazi Germany more? What a disgrace. — jmcw (@jmwiebke) August 19, 2025 This is literally Nazi st...

Sen. Klobuchar Denies Saying Sydney Sweeney Has 'Perfect Titties' Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has taken to the NY Times to slam "deepfakes" - after a video emerged in which she appears to declare that Sydney Sweeney has 'perfect titties.' (also, definitely don't go on X and search for "perfect titties")...  "The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase 'perfect t-tties' and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to wear jeans or too ugly to go outside," Klobuchar wrote. "Though I could immediately tell that someone used footage from the hearing to make a deepfake, there was no getting around the fact that it looked and sounded very real." (that only a complete retard would be fooled by). "If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t-tties in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know?" she 'says' in the deepfake.  "We want ugly, fat bitches wearing pink wigs and long-ass fake nails being loud and t...

Texas Dem Has 'Oh Sh*t' Moment After 'Felony' Bathroom Call A Texas Democratic lawmaker who fled the state earlier this month abruptly hung up on a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other top party leaders on Wednesday, after she says she was warned that she was committing a felony. Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on July 29, 2021. Rod Lamkey / CNP / Sipa USA via Reuters file "Sorry, I have to leave," state Rep. Nicole Collier (D) said during the call - interrupting Martin. "They said it's a felony for me to do this. Apparently I can't be on the floor or in a bathroom." "You told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom," she told someone off camera. "No, hold on — bye everybody, I've got to go." Texas State Rep. Collier says she's forced by police to abruptly hang up a press call: "I have to leave. They said it's a felony for me to do this. App...

Trump, Netanyahu: War Heroes? Should they be getting military medals pinned on them? ...Not quite (imagined 'battlefields' and self-delusions notwithstanding), but President Trump in an interview which aired Tuesday with Mark Levin hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war hero" for ordering his military to launch a surprise attack on Iran in June. Trump then quickly followed by saying that the same label should apply to himself. He had started in the interview by calling Netanyahu a "good man" - echoing the chummy atmosphere of self-congratulations on display when the two leaders met at the White House in July, following the 12-day war which by the end saw the US military hit three key Iranian nuclear sites, upon orders from the Commander-in-Chief. "He's a war hero, because we work together. He's a war hero," Trump said of 'Bibi'... "I guess I am too," he added. Show host Levin can be heard quickly chiming in with a "yup&quo...

Trump Orders Review Of 'Woke' Content In US Museums Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has instructed legal experts to review “woke” installations in museums nationwide. According to an Aug. 19 post on Truth Social, the president believes that museums are the “last remaining segment of 'WOKE,'” and he wants to address the issue the same way his administration has treated colleges and universities. Trump pointed specifically to a Washington, D.C., icon as a demonstration of the issue, saying, “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been—Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.” According to the president, his administration won't allow the current trajectory to continue, and attorneys will “go through” the museums to “start the exact same process that has been done with Coll...

Chinese Tech Giants Keep Buying Nvidia's H20 Chips Despite Beijing's Warnings Chinese demand for Nvidia's H20 chips remains strong despite Beijing's warnings over "security" risks, industry sources told Nikkei Asia. The U.S. chipmaker, which agreed to hand 15% of China sales revenue to Washington in exchange for export approval, is now eyeing a rebound in the world's second-largest economy. Beijing recently summoned Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu, urging them to rely more on domestic suppliers like Huawei, Biren, and Cambricon. State media later echoed government concerns, alleging H20 chips carry backdoor risks — a claim Nvidia denies. Bloomberg also reported officials warning against using H20 in government projects. Executives at major Chinese firms, however, say the guidance is only "advice," not a ban. One told Nikkei that their projects are not "critical infrastructure" and will continue to use Nvidia chips. Another noted that while Huawei's ...

Biden-Era USPS Fleet Contract For EVs Has Failed To Deliver, Time To Pull The Plug? Via American Greatness, A $10 billion contract awarded by the Biden administration for the production of 35,000 electric vehicles (EVs) to replace the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) aging fleet has produced only 250 new vehicles in more than 2 years. Despite receiving billion of dollars in contracts and government subsidies and building a new plant, Oshkosh Defense has failed to deliver the 3,000 battery electric vehicles it promised to have produced by late 2024. The failure is prompting calls for the Trump administration to cancel the Biden-era contract and to instead award the money to Morgan Olson,  a veteran-owned manufacturer which promises to make a gas-powered, right-hand-drive delivery truck, faster and more affordably than the Oshkosh program can. ?WASTEFUL: Biden gave $10B to Oshkosh for new EV USPS trucks—only 250 built in 2+ years. Vet-owned Morgan Olson can make 100K American-made GAS trucks ...

Kremlin Makes Clear There Are No Zelensky-Putin Talks On Horizon The Trump administration has, coming off the Friday and Monday Ukraine-related important summits, been touting that a direct Putin-Zelensky meeting will happen soon, likely in the coming days or weeks, but the Kremlin is now downplaying and contradicting this.  No, there is no Putin-Zelensky meeting on the immediate horizon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has made clear: The Russian president told Trump on Monday that he was "open" to the idea of direct talks with Ukraine, but the next day Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov watered down that already vague commitment. Any meeting would have to be prepared "gradually... starting with the expert level and thereafter going through all the required steps", he said, repeating a frequent noncommittal Kremlin line. Dmitry Polyanskiy, a Russian deputy representative to the UN, told the BBC "nobody [had] rejected" the opportunity for direct talks, "b...

Escobar: What Really Happened In Alaska Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool... Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world's top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the brakes on an out-of-control train in a mad high-speed rail dash towards nuclear confrontation.  There were no assurances, given the volatile character of US President Donald Trump, who conceived the high-visibility meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. But a new paradigm may be in the works nonetheless. Russia has essentially been de facto recognized by the US as a peer power. That implies, at the very least, the return of high-level diplomacy where it is most needed.  Meanwhile, Europe is dispatching a line-up of impotent leaders to Washington to kowtow in front of the Emperor. The EU's d...

Gabbard: Deep State Agents Are Sabotaging US Elections Via VigilantFox.com Hannity just asked DNI Tulsi Gabbard whether there are still DEEP STATE actors inside the intel community SOBATAGING elections. She didn't even have to think about it, and said “Our national security depends” on exposing them. BREAKING: Hannity just asked DNI Tulsi Gabbard whether there are still DEEP STATE actors inside the intel community SOBATAGING elections. She didn't even have to think about it, and said “Our national security depends” on exposing them. Hannity: “Do we have deep state actors… pic.twitter.com/Tp7XEEhSNi — The Vigilant Fox ? (@VigilantFox) August 20, 2025 Hannity: “Do we have deep state actors that are trying to influence our presidential elections? Is that what we are concluding here?” Gabbard: “Yes.” She said Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and their allies inside the agencies all worked to manipulate intelligence to serve partisan interests. “These are bad actors that have ...

Judge Refuses To Release Epstein Files, Says DOJ Should Do It Instead Of Legal 'Diversion' A Clinton-appointed federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury materials used to charge Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking, and instead said that the federal government is the 'logical party' to dump said 'files.' "The information contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice," US District Judge Richard Berman wrote in a 14-page ruling, in which he said there is "clear precedent and sound purpose" for keeping the records under seal - and that the DOJ failed to show the Epstein papers demonstrate a "special circumstance" which would justify their release.  You do it... According to Berman, the government has already conducted a comprehensive investigation into Epstein, and has assembled a "tro...

She Thought That Her Computer Science Degree Would Get Her A Six Figure Job – Instead It Got Her An Interview With Chipotle Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If you recently graduated from college, good luck trying to find a decent job. What we are experiencing right now reminds me so much of the early 1990s. If you were a new college graduate in those days, it was extremely difficult to even get an interview for a good job. Sadly, we are now entering a very similar environment. There is enormous competition for any good job that is available, and mass layoffs are occurring all over the nation. In fact, through the first 7 months of this year the number of job cut announcements in the U.S. was 75 percent higher than it was during the first 7 months of 2024. I am not here to give people the Pollyanna version of what is going on. I am here to give people the truth. 21-year-old Manasi Mishra believed that if she worked really hard and got a computer science degree she...

Leaked Emails Show EPA Sought To Discredit Scientist After Ohio Train Derailment Disaster Via American Greatness, Leaked emails from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that the agency sought to discredit an independent scientist who questioned official data on contamination following the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and fire in February 2023. Following the official EPA announcement that were no dangerous levels of toxins in the area and that it was safe for residents to return home, independent testing expert Scott Smith reported finding high levels of dioxins in the soil in East Palestine. According to News Nation, when Smith's findings were reported in spring of 2023, former EPA administrator Judith Enck said the agency should pay attention to Smith's test results. Instead of taking new samples and doing similar testing, leaked emails show that the EPA began collecting Smith's personal information and monitoring his actions in an effort to discredit the environmental ...

Big Mac Price Cuts Signal McDonald's Return To Value As QSR Battles Intensify The era of $18 Big Macs, which we called "Mcflation," ignited during the Biden-Harris regime years of generational-high inflation fueled by out-of-control green spending, looks to be ending. A new internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal shows McDonald's will slash combo meal prices to drive increased foot traffic and restore its reputation as an affordable burger chain after the $18 Big Mac price shocked working-class and middle-class customers during the Biden-Harris years. One McDonalds branch in Darien, CT is charging as much as $18 for a Big Mac combo meal. https://t.co/Nj7RLTh4KP pic.twitter.com/ojEOnBVO3J — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 30, 2023 The burger chain will slash the price of eight combo meals by 15% and launch $5 breakfast and $8 Big Mac and McNugget specials later in the second half of the year. The new marketing campaign, focused on affordability, will be branded as "...

Meta Artificially Inflated Ecommerce Ad Metrics, Former Employee Claims Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been accused of artificially inflating the performance metrics of its ecommerce advertising product, Shops ads, according to a whistleblower complaint filed Wednesday in a U.K. employment tribunal. The complaint, brought by Samujjal Purkayastha, a former product manager on Meta's Shops ads team, alleges the company misled advertisers by overstating the return on ad spend (ROAS), making its newer ad offering appear more effective than competing products, ADWEEK reports. Allegations of Inflated Metrics According to the filing with the London Central Employment Tribunal, Meta allegedly boosted Shops ads' performance numbers by: Counting shipping fees and taxes as part of total revenue Subsidizing bids in ad auctions to secure more prominent placement Applying undisclosed discounts to give the impression of stronger results Internal reviews conducted in e...

Solid 20Y Auction Stops Through Thanks To Record Directs With bond yields sliding thanks to the ongoing stock drawdown, there wasn't many concerns about demand for today's 20Y auction. And rightly so, because the sale of $16 billion in 20 year bonds went through without any difficulty amid solid, if hardly stellar, demand.  The auction prices at a high yield of 4.876%, down from 4.935% in July and stopped through the When Issued 4.877% by 0.1bps, the second consecutive stop through after 2 tails. The bid to cover was 2.54, down from 2.79 and the lowest since May; it was also below the six-auction average 2.63. The internals were on the weak side, with foreign buyers stepping back as Indirects took down just 60.6%, down from 67.4% and the lowest since Feb 24. And with Directs stepping up to buy a record 26.5% of the auction... ... Dealers were left with 12.9%, below the recent average of 14.1%. Overall, this was a solid, if forgettable, auction and the market response confirms as much: the 1...

'Hawkish' FOMC Minutes Shows 'Majority' Fear Inflation More Than Employment Since the last 'dovish' FOMC statement (and Powell's post-statement 'hawkish' presser) on July 30th, we have had 'cool' payrolls print and 'hot' inflation prints with retail sales mixed... and now everyone is anticipating Friday's speech by Powell at Jackson Hole. So, maybe these Minutes will be a nothingburger... Source: Bloomberg Overall, rate-cut expectations are higher... Source: Bloomberg ...with September price-in as almost a done-deal for a cut... Source: Bloomberg Markets have generally gone nowhere in that time (except for crude prices, which have plunged on the heels of potential peace breaking out). Under the hood, there is some considerable pain in stock land (as momo and retail favorites have all suffered in recent days) Source: Bloomberg So, with two dissents (preferring to cut than hold), we anxiously await The Fed Minutes to see what Powell and his pals want us to know about the division w...

Billionaires Backing Woke Math Doesn't Add Up Amid DEI Rollback Authored by Lee Fang via RealClearInvestigations, Jim Simons' mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic models made Renaissance Technologies one of the most successful hedge funds in history. After his death last year, one of his consequential bequests went to his daughter, Liz, who oversees the Heising-Simons Foundation and its nearly billion-dollar endowment. What Liz Simons has chosen to do with that inheritance might have surprised her father. Jim Simons devoted much of his charitable giving to basic research in mathematics and science, but his daughter's foundation is moving in a very different direction. The Heising-Simons Foundation and similar organizations are supercharging a movement to remake K-12 mathematics education according to social justice principles. The revamp the advocates seek is profound. They reject well-establis...

DHS Secretary Says Southern Border Wall Will Be Painted Black To Deter Illegal Crossings Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Aug. 19 that President Donald Trump has requested that the entire wall along the U.S.-Mexico border be painted black in order to deter illegal crossings. Speaking to reporters in New Mexico, Noem said the border wall is being built tall and extended deep underground to prevent any breaches, and the metal would be painted black to make it even more difficult to climb. “That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb,” she said. “So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally, to not break our federal laws.” Noem noted that cameras and sensors...

Trump Set To 'Crush' Russia Economy If Putin Evades Zelensky: Sen. Graham Republican Senator and notorious anti-Russian hawk Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that he believes President Donald Trump is ready to hit Russia's economy hard with a new round of sanctions if President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the near future. The White House has said, after Trump met with Putin in Alaska Friday - and then with Zelensky and European leaders on Monday - that the Russian president agreed to a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian leader. And then "if necessary" there could be a trilateral meeting involving President Trump after Putin and Zelensky meet. Via Reuters "President Trump spoke with President Putin by phone, and he agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, a meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, which would be followed, if necessary, by a trilateral meeting between President Putin, President Zelens...