Roseanne Barr will never (I repeat) never appear on television in any form.
At 74 years old, Barr might as well continue to raise her nuts in Hawai'i.
Barr along with Omar Gooding, Drea de Matto, Jon Lovitz and Randy Quaid are trying to make a MAGA sitcom. She self financed her sitcom and is hoping a platform will pick it up.
ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The CW and cable networks are not going for it. Netflix, Apple TV and Hulu are definitely a no.
The Daily Wire is probably the only stream willing to do it. Newsmax could pick it up but its extremely risky given that the network is still in a serious lawsuit with Smartmatic.
A sitcom that involves her as a mother of a daughter married to Black man living in a rural Texas community that isn't keen to the relationship. Barr being a meemaw.
Roseanne and its revival dominated television. It came crashing down when Barr decided to claim Ambian was the reason to call a Black woman a racial slur.
Barr was fired from her own show and it was cancelled. Barr made a reactionary to former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett.
Jarrett who is African American and was born in Iran. Her parents left the U.S. due to Jim Crow and threats to their lives. She served as then president Barack Obama's senior policy advisor.
Barr being an indoctrinated putz claimed that Jarrett was a member of the Planet of the Apes. Jarrett was a key figure in the JCPOA which gave a negotiable agreement for Iran to end any ambition to building nuclear weapons. Israel opposed it. The Israelis pushed for Donald J. Trump, a curmudgeon who is semi autistic to become the president.
Randy Quaid and Roseanee Barr had played in the snow back in the day.
Barr posted a tweet stating that Jarrett, a Black former adviser to Barack Obama, was the product of a union between the "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes". The post provoked immediate condemnation for its racism and led to the cancellation of her ABC television show.
Trump immediately ended the JCPOA despite world leaders warning him it would lead to future aggression.
Barr a staunch Jewish white supremacist believed that Jarrett was a traitor for engaging in diplomacy.
ABC television president Channing Dungey was applaud by the remarks. She personally came down hard on Barr. She fired her immediately.
The decision was backed and publicly approved by Ben Sherwood (President of Disney-ABC Television Group) and Bob Iger (CEO of The Walt Disney Company).
Barr revealed to The Washington Post that after the firestorm, she was suicidal, holed up in her mother's basement in Utah, and in tears. She credited her longtime advisor, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (a controversial figure), with saving her life by standing by her during the depression.
She along with the MAGA cast filmed in Austin and Cedar Valley, Texas.
Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable finished a full 8-episode season. Now she awaits someone willing to give her and Randy Quaid a chance to be out of the gutter. A kind reminder, Roseanne Barr, Randy Qauid and Jon Lovitz are washed up celebrities. Omar Gooding is not washed up yet, but aligning to MAGA hasn't got him the Tyler Perry film roles.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy decided to play dirty bull against his rival, Democratic opponent, Amy Acton.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Ohio Republicans, Israel and the far right agitator certainly fear this woman. They see a shy medical professional who was key in the 2020 pandemic as a serious threat.
If she flips the longstanding Republican state to the Democrats, the cards could fall down hard on the party.
Ramaswamy decided to pull his "October Surprise" in his latest attempt to generate voter enthusiasm. After nearly dropping a child while doing a campaign stop in m Dayton, Ramaswamy pulls out an old lady who claims to be the mother of Acton.
His team confirmed late Tuesday that it produced a controversial advertisement featuring the estranged mother of Amy Acton, and the campaign said it will spend $4 million to promote it despite facing bipartisan rebuke for dredging up the painful childhood of his Democratic opponent in Ohio’s governor’s race.
The decision exacerbates a deeply personal element in one of the country’s most closely watched and expensive campaigns for state office. Questions about the video will likely shadow Ramaswamy, a biotech billionaire who previously ran for president but has never before held public office, in the final two weeks of the contest. Democrats said he was growing desperate at a moment when more than 676,000 people have already cast ballots in Ohio.
The Republicans paid Amy Acton's mom to trash her.
The advertisement features Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, calling her “a liar” and insinuating she has mental health issues. Acton, Ohio’s former public health director, has made no secret of facing homelessness and abuse as a child. Arthur lost custody of her children after their stepfather was indicted for raping Acton.
The video’s origins were initially murky when it started circulating online. It first surfaced in a post by an Ohio political blogger, then spread across social media. It did not include the “paid for” tag that is legally required to air on television so viewers can know who produced and paid for it. D.J. Brynes, who blogs as “The Rooster,” told CNN he got the video from a voter who viewed it as part of a poll and recorded it.
Connie Luck, a spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s campaign, said Acton’s mother was not paid for the one-minute video, which she said will stream online and air on television.
Acton spent Tuesday condemning Ramaswamy for the ad even before his campaign confirmed its provenance.
“I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I’m complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse,” she told Spectrum News, a cable news outlet in Ohio.
She said Ramaswamy made similar personal attacks during his run for the Republican presidential nomination two years ago, calling it “a lifelong pattern.”
Ramaswamy’s campaign initially issued a statement that did not address whether he was responsible for the ad or knew who produced it. In the earlier statement, Luck said Acton “has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of.”
Democrats and Republicans condemn the ad
BOMBSHELL: Amy Acton’s own MOTHER just dropped a devastating ad warning Ohio NOT to elect her daughter.
She calls Amy a habitual liar who “needs help” and is totally unfit for governor.
When your own mother begs voters to stay away, it’s OVER.
Must watch! 👇 https://t.co/PnJBDqyqQs
Casey Putsch, a car designer and YouTube provocateur who competed against Ramaswamy for the Republican nomination for governor, said on social media that he would be voting for Acton in the wake of the ad’s release. He called the video “pretty damn low.”
Acton’s campaign released a statement from her brother, Philip Stearns, who said the two were removed from their mother Donna Arthur’s custody as children after their stepfather, Arthur’s husband, was indicted for raping Acton as a child. Acton has not seen Arthur, whose last known address was in Pennsylvania, since they were in a courtroom together in 1978.
Later Tuesday, the Acton campaign released a video featuring Stearns, who recalls his older sister taking “the worst” of the abuse they faced as children in order to protect him and disparages Ramaswamy and his allies for exploiting the situation.
It's almost over.
According to police and court documents obtained by The Associated Press, Cledith Arthur was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter, then 12, in July 1978, after Acton’s biological father reported him to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978.
Cledith Arthur pleaded not guilty. He was indicted by a grand jury that September, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. He has since died.
Vivek Ramaswamy is not fit to lead. Watch our new ad. https://t.co/EhWNMdFjjH
High-profile Republicans who back Ramaswamy — including Donald Trump Jr. and influencer Laura Loomer — elevated the video in online posts.
But others joined Democrats in condemning the ad. Meghan McCain called it “dastardly” and Dan Hauser, a strategist for Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, said he deleted his post sharing the video once he realized “the very serious accusations that caused their issues.”
The Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, described the spot as “disgusting” and said everyone — including his opponent, Sen. Jon Husted — should be willing to condemn it. Husted’s campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.
If Acton was to use Ramaswamy's family, his religion or his parent's immigration to the U.S., the Republicans would be screaming it was racist.
Mike Rogers, Ashley Moody and Michele Tafoya are using the families, the friends and the way some dress to attack their opponents. Abdul El-Sayed, Angie Nixon and Peggy Flanagan are being bombarded with dog whistle.
El-Sayed is an Egyptian American. Born in Michigan.
Nixon is Haitian American. Born in Florida.
Flanagan is Ojibwe American. Born in Minnesota.
But to the ops, they are foreigners running for office.
Despite being a conservative leaning province, Alberta decided that Ottawa is not a threat to their lives. Mark Carney defeats a Trump backed plan to break the dominion.
October Surprise, eh 🍁
Yearly wrap up.
The Make America (I meant Alberta) Great Again plan derails in the Canadian province.
Despite a push from far right agitators in Canada and the United States, the province of Alberta voted to stay tied to the dominion. Had they broken off, they lose citizenship, the right to economic funds and military defense. They would have provide their own defense and infrastructure funding. The power grid that is provided by neighboring provinces and territories would be shut off.
Besides Edmonton is a progressive city. The largest city and provincial capital is not going to lose that revenue from films. Trust me, the U.S. filmmakers loves getting tax breaks when filming in Edmonton.
Calgary, the city that leans more towards conservatives would barely make a dent in the movement to separate.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is aggressively putting forth a border wall between President Donald J. Trump. Since Trump self sabotaged the USMCA, the Republic of Mexico and the Dominion of Canada have all but walked away from trade with the U.S.
Had Alberta voted to align with the U.S. as a self autonomous region, the economic impacts would affect the film, beef, grain, oil, solar, and wind industries.
The United States is facing karma. The recent decision by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch to not charge the Sentobia officer Hunter Foster for killing Kohen Wiley is bubbling anger. The recent political attacks on James Talarico, Amy Acton, Angie Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed are showing deperation from the Republicans.
More Americans are rejecting middle ground.
They are taking one corner and sticking to it.
More Americans are fed up with Christian and Jewish extremism.
Oil prices reached a new high this week with totals over $115 per barrel.
Diesel is drying up in the U.S.
Despite the Congress passing the Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act and Trump signing that shit into law, he is bypassing Congress in working out a deal with the Russian Federation.
Trump privately talked to Russian president Vladimir Putin about diesel exchanges and proposals to end the Russian-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ignored the U.S. president and has continued attacking Russian energy grids. Russia is doing the same. Both are committing war crimes.
Trump endorsed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his faces an election this month. The Israelis are debating on whether they continue allowing this despot to carry out genocide in five regions.
Iran sees all of this chaos in the U.S., Canada, France, Portugal, Albania, Brazil, Argentina, Chad, Sudan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Niger, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Great Britain, Germany, Chad, Mali, Ukraine, Russia and China as byproducts of hierarchy.
The U.S. dictating world order is coming to an end as we speak.
Trump has officially made white men toxic as world leaders. The Global South and Asia look at white men as the cause of chaos in the world. So it's no surprise that African nations are ending their association with European trade and American influnce.
Alberta is the latest example of how far phony populism leads to backlash.
Voters in oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Carney’s push for national unity amid Trump’s trade war and annexation threats.
With more than 1.8 million votes counted so far in 81% of areas and locations, 75% of voters supported remaining in Canada, while 25% backed beginning a process toward separation, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta.
The referendum wasn’t a direct vote on independence, but approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on separation from Canada.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday before a Cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Carney noted that the roughly one-quarter of Albertans who backed beginning the separation process voted for another referendum, not independence itself.
“Approximately one quarter voted in favor of a process,” Carney said.
“The result is absolutely clear. It’s a vast majority in favor of staying in Canada. And now is the time to work together for all Albertans and all Canadians,” he said.
Carney said he spoke with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Tuesday morning about the referendum’s results and greater federal-provincial cooperation, including immigration. He said their first priority was supporting victims and families affected by the deadly military training fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.
Alberta’s separatists, however, saw a silver lining.
“It is fair to say that at least a quarter of Albertans feel that Alberta needs to be treated better,” said Keith Wilson, a leader of the separatist movement.
Smith welcomed the early results, saying they showed widespread support for remaining in Canada.
“Albertans have voted for a stronger Alberta in a united Canada,” Smith posted on social media.
Smith, who called the referendum amid pressure from separatists within her governing United Conservative Party, or UCP, despite opposing independence, said that she would address the province Tuesday evening about the results and Alberta’s future.
“We are a solid country that’s united from coast to coast to coast,” Thomas Lukaszuk, a former Alberta deputy premier who led the Forever Canadian campaign against separation, told supporters.
Results were delayed after late openings forced more than 100 polling stations to extend voting hours Monday.
Alberta, home to the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, is cowboy country and a conservative stronghold whose political culture has long had more in common with the American West than much of Canada. Resentment toward Canada’s federal government in Ottawa runs deep, but hasn’t traditionally translated into widespread support for independence.
Despite the overwhelming rejection, separatist leaders have said they turned a fringe cause into a movement that won’t disappear.
Separatist parties traditionally attracted only 1% or 2% of the vote, former Premier Jason Kenney said. Anger over COVID-19 restrictions helped mobilize activists who later embraced the separatist movement, he said.
Trump’s trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state have helped Carney rally support in Alberta, where Liberal prime ministers have historically been unpopular.
At a separatist referendum night gathering at an Edmonton restaurant, the crowd fell quiet as results rolled in.
“It sends a message to Ottawa that Albertans are not happy,” he said.
Dustin Degenhardt, a voter in the town of Wainwright, said that Albertans have long been mistreated by Canada’s federal government.
“Alberta has essentially been treated as, you know, a colony,” he said after voting Monday. “They want to take and take and take from us, and not return anything.”
Dave Malka, 59, of Edmonton, criticized spending money on a “referendum on a referendum” rather than healthcare.
With Trump threatening Canada, Malka said, “It seems to be happening at the absolute worst time when we should be united; instead we’re fighting among ourselves.”
China has openly boasted that they are seeking grain, soybeans and pork from Canada.
That certainly hurts Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. Each race has a senate candidate aligned to the president and his stupid tariffs and war with Iran.
Centrist agitator wants the Republicans to win. He said that he does not want anything to do with the Democratic Socialists of America. He rather let Republican continue their chaos.
James Carville said he would rather see Republicans keep control of the House by five seats than watch Democrats win the chamber by the same margin, warning that a “nightmare” razor-thin majority would leave party leaders “hostage to the DSA.”
Speaking to The Bulwark’s editor-at-large Bill Kristol for his Bulwark on Sunday podcast, Carville argued that the size of a Democratic victory in November could matter almost as much as winning control outright.
“I would be disappointed if it comes in at 225 House seats,” Carville said. “That would almost be – I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats to win by five because if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA.”
Carville said a slim majority would leave Democratic House leaders with little room to maneuver between moderates and the party’s expanding democratic socialist wing: “Like Hakeem [Jeffries] cannot move. There’s no place for him to go.”
“And even if you have a close Senate, [Senator John] Fetterman would keep [Chuck] Schumer Pepto-Bismol all night,” Carville added.
The comments continue a months-long campaign by Carville against Democratic Socialists and other candidates on the party’s left flank.
In June, he urged congressional Democrats to “stand up” to socialist candidates after a string of primary victories in New York, arguing that lawmakers should not treat some DSA-backed winners as members of the Democratic Party.
Carville escalated that criticism in August, demanding that DSA candidates stop using the Democratic Party’s “Goddamn name” and arguing that Democrats were being defined by figures who were not actually aligned with the party’s broader coalition.
Speaking on Sunday, Carville told Kristol that those internal tensions made the size of any Democratic House majority unusually important: “So, I think this is one of these races where margin matters a lot. Margin is winning big, it’s almost as big as winning, which is weird, but yeah, it’s a nightmare, 225 [seats].”
We are tired of the white leadership.
We are tired of the status quo that keeps white men in power of a nation that is growing more diverse.
We are tired of endless conflicts in the Middle East to appease a white Jewish supremacist apartheid genocidial ethnostate.
We are tired of our leaders meddling in our bedrooms, the boardrooms, the labor force and the grocery stores.
We are tired of white men being the billionaires.
I am tired of old white men being the President of the United States.
We are living in the 21st Century and yet, the current president, Donald J. Trump is living and throwing policies out like its the 20th Century. The days of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Roger Ailes, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Rush Limbaugh and Joe McCarthy are dead and gone.
Why are we still relishing on relics of ignorance?
Bill Clinton won two terms in 1992 and 1996. He served from 1993 to 2001. During his presidency he was guided by Paul Begala and James Carville. They managed to help the Arkansas governor become U.S. president. They worked around a plan to win over white voters with a mixture of moderate and conservative policies.
They went up against an incumbent George H.W. Bush. He had led the U.S. to war with Iraq at the behest of fucking Israel. He was dealing with a crisis in the economy. He had watch the city of Los Angeles go into a riot because of the a woman shot and killed Latasha Harlins. They sawndirty cops walking after beating down Rodney King. They were fed up with high gas prices, high grocery prices, endless wars and distractions.
Ralph Nader and Ross Perot, both polar opposites became spoilers. They felt the system was corrupt and neither Republican or Democrat had the interest of American voters.
Perot cost Bush his election. Nader cost Al Gore, the vice president at the time his election.
Hasan Piker isn't the problem.
The problem is the agitators aligned to Israel, the elite and status quo.
People, please do not resort to the levels of those who profit off the anger. The anger of right wing Americans in the wake of white nationalist Charlie Kirk's death has sparked a censorship and harassment campaign.
Erika Kirk, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Scott Presler, Laura Loomer, Riley Gaines, Lizzy Savetsky, Blaire White, Derrick Evans, Joey Saladino, Hermes, Eric Daughetry, Paul Szypula, Roseanne Barr, Steve Bannon, James Woods, Cam Higby, Kanye West, Tucker Carlson, Catturd, CJ Pearson, Stephen Crowder, Savanna Cannon, Tomi Lahren, Jack Posobiec, Snoop Dogg, Ray J, Waka Flocka Flame, DaBaby, James O'Keefe, Jacob Wohl, Ryan Metta, Matthew Van Swol, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis, Mila Joy, Rick Ross, Ben Garrison, Todd Starnes, Jeffrey Mead, Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Milo Yiannapolous, Nick Shirley, James Carville, Roger Stone, Terrence K. Williams, Ian Miles Cheong, Lindy Li, Guy Benson, Andy Ngo, Alexis Wilkins, Olivia Krolcyzk, Scott Jennings, Brandon Tatum, Neal Boortz, Alex Bruesewitz, Tom Finton, Nick Cannon, Adin Ross, Candace Owens, Nick Sorter, Jillian Michaels, Patrick Bet-David, Harvey Levin, Tommy Robinson, Phil McGraw, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Harris Faulkner, Tara Bull, Theodis Daniel, DJ Daniel, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Neera Tanden, Maria Bartiromo, Simon Abeta, SNEAKO, Lily Gaddis, Rob Schneider, Gunther Eagleman, Nelly, Chaya Raichik, Erick Erickson, Meghan McCain, Tim Pool, Van Jones, Lauren Southern, Icewear Vezzo, Megyn Kelly, Andre Williams, Angela Belcamino, Amir Odom, Lawrence Jones, Tony Hinchcliffe, Ainsley Earhart, Jesse Lee Peterson, Noah Rothman, Dom Lucre, Glenn Greenwald, Jesse Watters, Debra Lea, Brianna Wu, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin, Steven "Destiny" Bonnell, Neera Tendan, Steve Bannon, Myron Gaines, Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson, Mase, Juanita Broddrick, Mordechai David, James Carville, Jake Lang, Larry Elder, Eylon Levy, Brett Cooper, Ben Shapiro, Enes Kanter [Freedom], Dave Rubin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Glenn, Matt Gaetz, Chris Cuomo, Nick Sorter, Fred Guttenberg, Alex Jones, Rachel Blevins, Owen Shroyer, Bill Cunningham, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Kevin Hodge, Keith Hodge, Sage Steele, 42 Dug, Bill Maher, Forgiato Blow, Judith Sheindlin, Royce White, Rick Santorum, Vanilla Ice, Amber Rose, Greg Gutfeld, David Limbaugh, Peter Schweizer, Lauren Chen, Ian Carroll, Gordon Robertson, Malachi Maxey, April Chapman, Ali Alexander, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Shannon Watts, Brent Bozell, Dalton Eatherly, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson, Olivia Nuzzi, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Ryan Lizza, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, Mike Lindell, Braden "Clavicular" Peters, Vince Langman, Brian Kilmeade, Glenn Beck, Xaviaer DuRousseau, Sean Davis, Ian Jaegar, Christopher Rufo, Joey Mannarino, Sean "Softball" Hannity and every centrist or far right agitator in the junk food media is scared of being taken out by a gunman. They are scared that the bullet won't miss. They want you to risk your freedom or your life to protect their right to gas you up to commit unspeakable crimes against one another.
Let me be clear: I do not condone violence towards to politicians, law enforcement, media personalities, animals and property. I am not condemning things any longer. I am getting tired of putting empathy on antipathy.
However, I am not going to shed any tears, offer any condolences or an ounce of sympathy to any Senatobia, Mississippi police officer or state attorney general Lynn Fitch catching a stray. Cause they know its a coming.
The eye for an eye.
They are creating more Rodney Hintons.
Iran studies the United States very well. They watched how Black people are lynched, Muslims profiled, immigrants being dehumanized, women being told what to do with their bodies and LGBTQ citizens being stripped of the rights. Iran sees how the hypocrisy that exists with the U.S. politicians and their moral crusade.
After all, the U.S. is selling the weapons to a white Jewish supremacist apartheid genocidial ethnostate. In return, the state of Israel trains U.S. law enforcement and federal agents. They teach them that its a jungle and they have to seize the moment or the moment could get them.
This alliance has led to the militarization of the police.
Why "defund the police" is polarizing?
We have Flock Cameras, sting operations, vice squads, parking enforcement, speed and red light cameras. Police officers are now mental health counselors, school resource officers, pet rescuers, TikTok influncers, political agitators and future politicians.
Republicans and centrist Democrats believe that law and order applies to the working class, the vulnerable and the poor. We are programmed to obey the laws of the state and federal government. We are told the city ordinances and policies are to obeyed as well.
Some choose to abide by them. Others don't.
To the elite, it's their privilege to commit crimes as long as it doesn't hurt them or their allies. If it affect the money, well it's just a minor inconvenience to the taxpayers and donors.
We just continue to allow these things to happen because a white majority Supreme Court gave limited immunity to criminal acts done by police. Cops are given the benefit of doubt when they discharge their firearm.
Their job is to protect the citizens and property of their jurisdictions.
This Republican, Lynn Fitch is 0 for 2 on accountability.
The ghost of Emmitt Till is coming back to haunt the bastards.
Lynn Fitch is the perfect example of why President Donald J. Trump and his allies are not like us. This bitch is tone deaf.
If you think France, Albania and Portugal got it bad, wait til the catalyst of another Black person dying at the hands of the police.
Let it be another George Floyd.
This MAGA makeover looking bitch clears the dirty cop and those idiots who were involved in Nolan Wells death.
Reminder, the far right loves the Second Amendment. We love it too. They want to prepare for a war. Well, we were always ready for war.
Nolan Wells, Spencer Eckford and Kohen Wiley, Mississippi and the United States failed you.
They allowed the responsible parties walk without even an ounce of remorse.
Fitch cleared the cop who killed Kohen.
She says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle that investigators said was driving toward police, killing a 1-year-old boy who was inside the car.
The conclusion of the state’s investigation into the shooting death of Kohen Wiley follows months of mourning and calls for justice, both nationally and in the small town where the shooting took place, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Memphis, Tennessee.
The shooting occurred in mid-June as Senatobia officers responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart, where they saw Vellesiya Wiley, Kohen’s mother, carrying her son as she and a friend left the store, got into a car and began driving away. Wiley and her friend are both Black. Police believed they stole diapers and baby clothes. Kohen’s mother has denied she or her friend stole anything, and neither of them have been charged with shoplifting or any other counts, according to online state and county court records.
According to a statement released shortly after the shooting by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the car drove toward law enforcement, prompting an officer to fire into the car, striking Kohen and his mother’s friend.
Hunter Foster, the revolving cop. He had a list of misdeeds before this tragedy.
While working for the Southaven Police Department, Foster was named in a federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from a violent confrontation in a Waffle House parking lot. Foster was accused of exaggerating the threat posed by a vehicle by falsely claiming the driver tried to run over an officer—a narrative highly similar to the justification given in the Kohen Wiley shooting. That federal lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2022.
Foster faced a separate excessive force lawsuit in DeSoto County involving aggressive physical compliance techniques and traffic stops.
Just two days before the shooting of Kohen Wiley, an internal complaint was filed against Foster by a Black colleague, Officer Dexter Smith. Smith reported that Foster directed a racially offensive slur at him. Officer Smith resigned a month later, citing department inaction despite surveillance evidence corroborating the incident.
Foster was hired by the Senatobia Police Department in early 2025 and promoted to Sergeant just months later.
Martin Zummach, an attorney who represents that dirty cop who fired the shot that killed Kohen, says the attorney general’s findings cleared his client of criminal wrongdoing. He said the driver of the vehicle “tried to kill” his client and other officers who were present.
“He had no choice but to fire his weapon,” Zummach told The Associated Press.
In a video released days after the shooting, Vellesiya Wiley disputed that her friend, who was driving, headed toward the officers.
Lawyer calls for release of body-worn camera footage
Ben Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who is representing Kohen’s family, has said results of a preliminary independent autopsy indicate Kohen was shot from the side of the car, not the front, contradicting officers’ claims that the car was heading toward them.
Crump on Monday pointed out that authorities have yet to release video footage of the encounter to support the attorney general’s finding that the shooting was a justified use of force.
“How can anyone accept that conclusion when Kohen’s family and the public still have not been allowed to see the body-camera footage?” Crump said in a statement. “If the footage supports the state’s decision, release it. We will not stop fighting until this family gets the truth.”
The cop Hunter Foster (center) is a revolving door. He also is a mouth and fist.
A photo of the car after the shooting shows that the passenger window was shattered and an apparent bullet hole pierced the windshield on the passenger side. The other woman in the car was badly wounded, authorities said.
John P. Gross, an expert on police use of force on moving vehicles, said that if the vehicle had been moving toward officers, the best practice would have been for them to get out of the way.
“This shooting was almost certainly unjustified,” Gross told the AP. “In terms of both officer safety, the safety of the occupants of the vehicle and general public safety, you don’t shoot vehicles.”
Charles “Joe” Key, a firearms and ballistics expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant who typically testifies in defense of police, said the image of the vehicle after the shooting suggests that the officer fired from the side.
That indicates that the officer who did the shooting was not personally at risk at the time he shot,” Key said. “The only way it would have been justified is if officers had been in the path of a car driving directly at them.”
“The body-worn camera’s going to have to tell if anybody was in danger,” he added.
Marquell Bridges, an activist who has been working with Kohen Wiley’s family, called for the release of video footage of the shooting in a statement.
“His family deserves the truth. The public deserves transparency,” Bridges said. “We will not be silent. We will not look away. And we will not allow the life of a Black child to be treated as though it means nothing.”
Child’s death stokes simmering tensions
The shooting is the latest in a string of incidents that has eroded trust between the Senatobia police department and the city’s Black residents.
Last year, a Senatobia officer threatened a Black woman with a Taser, pulling her from her car and onto the ground and arresting her during a confrontation over an accessible parking space in the same Walmart lot where Kohen was shot. Two years earlier, a Senatobia police officer was fired for arresting a Black 10-year-old for urinating in public.
More recently, former Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford was fired by the city’s board of aldermen, after reporting by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News alleged he used racist slurs in private text messages.
Supporters and observers note her conservative legislative actions, particularly her successful litigation in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization which overturned Roe v. Wade, and her participation in joint legal challenges with other Republican attorneys general on immigration and regulatory policies. Her critics point to these same high-profile conservative alignments to characterize her legal and policy decisions as politically motivated.
Following the shooting of Kohen Wiley, new legal developments revealed that Foster’s prior disciplinary records across North Mississippi were officially sealed, drawing sharp criticism from community activists and the Wiley family demanding transparency.
I am for one hoping this will drive Blacks out to vote so they can send Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS).
Make a choice between the bootlickers or the noise makers.
I swear it is a swamp of incompetence from both Republican and Democratic members.
How the fuck does a cop shoot at a passenger side window when the driver is operating?
Police violence is a rapidly growing problem. A systematic alliance with the apartheid genocidial ethnostate of Israel allows the police to be executioners instead of protectors.
If the United States could be less violent, white men would not be in power.
America is so fucked up.
By the way, Israel trains U.S. police officers tactics on how to detain, arrest and restrain suspects. It is a fair exchange. Police officers still use chokeholds and lethal forces when they "fear for their lives."
The need for police reform in the case of domestic animal incidents, high speed chases, apprehension, homeless, the vulnerable and community relations with people of color.
How many civilians killed by police? How many domesticated animals killed by police?
839 people killed by police. On average 60 to 90 domestic pets, farm animals or exotic pets.
The United States is downsizing in democracy and freedom.
I just want to say that the Second Amendment is White, period.
A bullet does not care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence. Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers", "send them back" with a touch of "lock em up."
Gun violence continues to be the number one threat in the United States.
I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases.
Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is lawmakers not willing to stop gun violence.
According to the far right: White shooters are always mentally ill or lone wolves. The far right believes they should receive some sympathy for their crimes. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals who deserve lengthy time in the iron college or death. Gay and transgender shooters are active groomers who want to be pedophiles on children. Muslim shooters are terrorists who should be surveiled or deported. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants and they should be deported. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [leftist or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the politics of the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the ridiculous "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assume the gunmen are Black. Even if the evidence turns out that the shooter has alignment with conservative causes or Republicans, the far right dismisses it as a hoax or a plot to demonize the MAGA movement.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican lawmakers who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms.
Trump gave us open season.
WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!
FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!
IF THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO AID ISRAEL, THE WORLD WILL BOYCOTT THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE DOLLAR!
I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.
These murderers don't have mental illness. They are calculated and prepared. It happened to be a moment where they have the opportunity to take out lives.
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There's no sickness in the head. Most mass shooters legally obtain their assault rifles without little background checks. They have likely no criminal history and they are willing to use the assault weapon in the only thing it's good for: Killing numerous lives.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
Iran isn't a threat. The U.S. citizen with a firearm is the threat.
People, please do not resort to the levels of those who profit off the anger. The anger of right wing Americans in the wake of white nationalist Charlie Kirk's death has sparked a censorship and harassment campaign.
Erika Kirk, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Scott Presler, Laura Loomer, Riley Gaines, Lizzy Savetsky, Blaire White, Derrick Evans, Joey Saladino, Hermes, Eric Daughetry, Paul Szypula, Roseanne Barr, Steve Bannon, James Woods, Cam Higby, Kanye West, Tucker Carlson, Catturd, CJ Pearson, Stephen Crowder, Savanna Cannon, Tomi Lahren, Jack Posobiec, Snoop Dogg, Ray J, Waka Flocka Flame, DaBaby, James O'Keefe, Jacob Wohl, Ryan Metta, Matthew Van Swol, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis, Mila Joy, Rick Ross, Ben Garrison, Todd Starnes, Jeffrey Mead, Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Milo Yiannapolous, Nick Shirley, James Carville, Roger Stone, Terrence K. Williams, Ian Miles Cheong, Lindy Li, Guy Benson, Andy Ngo, Alexis Wilkins, Olivia Krolcyzk, Scott Jennings, Brandon Tatum, Neal Boortz, Alex Bruesewitz, Tom Finton, Nick Cannon, Adin Ross, Candace Owens, Nick Sorter, Jillian Michaels, Patrick Bet-David, Harvey Levin, Tommy Robinson, Phil McGraw, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Harris Faulkner, Tara Bull, Theodis Daniel, DJ Daniel, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Neera Tanden, Maria Bartiromo, Simon Abeta, SNEAKO, Lily Gaddis, Rob Schneider, Gunther Eagleman, Nelly, Chaya Raichik, Erick Erickson, Meghan McCain, Tim Pool, Van Jones, Lauren Southern, Icewear Vezzo, Megyn Kelly, Andre Williams, Angela Belcamino, Amir Odom, Lawrence Jones, Tony Hinchcliffe, Ainsley Earhart, Jesse Lee Peterson, Noah Rothman, Dom Lucre, Glenn Greenwald, Jesse Watters, Debra Lea, Brianna Wu, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin, Steven "Destiny" Bonnell, Neera Tendan, Steve Bannon, Myron Gaines, Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson, Mase, Juanita Broddrick, Mordechai David, James Carville, Jake Lang, Larry Elder, Eylon Levy, Brett Cooper, Ben Shapiro, Enes Kanter [Freedom], Dave Rubin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Glenn, Matt Gaetz, Chris Cuomo, Nick Sorter, Fred Guttenberg, Alex Jones, Rachel Blevins, Owen Shroyer, Bill Cunningham, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Kevin Hodge, Keith Hodge, Sage Steele, 42 Dug, Bill Maher, Forgiato Blow, Judith Sheindlin, Royce White, Rick Santorum, Vanilla Ice, Amber Rose, Greg Gutfeld, David Limbaugh, Peter Schweizer, Lauren Chen, Ian Carroll, Gordon Robertson, Malachi Maxey, April Chapman, Ali Alexander, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Shannon Watts, Brent Bozell, Dalton Eatherly, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson, Olivia Nuzzi, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Ryan Lizza, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, Mike Lindell, Braden "Clavicular" Peters, Vince Langman, Brian Kilmeade, Glenn Beck, Xaviaer DuRousseau, Sean Davis, Ian Jaegar, Christopher Rufo, Joey Mannarino, Sean "Softball" Hannity and every centrist or far right agitator in the junk food media is scared of being taken out by a gunman. They are scared that the bullet won't miss. They want you to risk your freedom or your life to protect their right to gas you up to commit unspeakable crimes against one another.
Let me be clear: I do not condone violence towards to politicians, law enforcement, media personalities, animals and property. I am not condemning things any longer. I am getting tired of putting empathy on antipathy.
Any current or future government shutdown will definitely rile up people. When you start fucking with the money, people start going crazy. Especially when their needs outmatch the noise of Congress and the junk food media.
If you care about the future and want to voice your frustration with your federal officials, let 2026 be the call to action.
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Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. You want no more qualified immunity for police officers who use deadly force when it's not justified. Let them know that deporting law abiding immigrants seeking refuge is inhumane. You want the U.S. to improve the immigration process. You want the U.S. lawmakers stop dehumanizing human beings. You want the U.S. to prove to the world its a beacon of freedom. You want our American military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents out of our cities, the Middle East and every fucking international conflict in the world. You want legislation to focus on lowering the cost of rent, lowering the cost of food, lowering the cost of hospital visits, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that you tired of being lectured about oppresive regimes overseas when the very people running our state and federal government are doing the same in real time. Let them know that you will not tolerate a government shutdown which affects federal services for Americans in need or in support of services. Let them know that pulling out of the UN Human Rights Organization, World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accords will put the U.S. in danger when catastrophic event happen. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel and Ukraine. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism because you support the freedom of Palestinians. You are tired of the propaganda being forced on your media platforms.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire, a weapons embargo, sanctions and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more domestic or foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists and special interest groups.
THERE IS NO GOD!
GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!
LET ME BE CLEAR, PRAYERS DO NOT STOP FUCKING BULLETS!
THIS IS A MAN-MADE ISSUE! WHY IS IT SO HARD TO STOP A MAN-MADE ISSUE LIKE GUN VIOLENCE?
IF YOU ARE A POLICE OFFICER AND FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD NOT BE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
ISRAEL IS NOT AMERICA'S PROBLEM. IT IS AMERICA'S BIGGEST BURDEN.
STOP SAYING YOU'RE PRAYING TO PEOPLE AFFECTED BY GUN VIOLENCE. IT IS FUCKING PLATITUDES. DO SOMETHING ABOUT FUCKING GUN VIOLENCE YOU WORTHLESS LAWMAKERS. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, THE CHOICE TO CONTINUE THE STATUS QUO WILL KEEP YOU AND OTHERS AT RISK OF VIOLENCE. MAKE A CHOICE TO STOP THE CHAOS AND ACT LIKE A FUCKING 80 YEAR OLD MAN. DO SOMETHING TO HELP THE COUNTRY.
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE, YOU ARE TONE DEAF. AS YOU CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF YOUR SON, YOU BASICALLY THUMB YOUR ELITIST NOSE AT THE FAMILIES OF MILITARY OFFICIALS BEING KILLED IN AN UNNECESSARY WAR. AS A 41 YEAR OLD MAN, YOU SHOULD AT LEAST REIGN IN CONTROL OF THIS CURMUDGEON. YOU TALK NASTY OF IMMIGRANTS AND MUSLIMS. YOU ARE EITHER ASHAMED OF YOUR WIFE'S FAMILY OR YOUR CHILDREN. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. YOU ARE MARRIED TO A WOMAN OF COLOR WHO IS A DESCENDANT OF IMMIGRANTS.
IRAN IS RIGHT! THE UNITED STATES HAS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE INSTALLED WITH A SIXTH GRADE EDUCATION. AMERICANS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY OFF OF DIVISION. THEY ARE WILLING TO SOW CHAOS TO THE NEXT POTENTIAL THREATS. I WISH WE CAN STOP GASLIGHTING AND COME TO SENSIBLE SOLUTIONS. HOWEVER, WHITE LEADERSHIP IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF THE CHAOS IN THE WORLD.
I love watching trains. I enjoy looking at freight and passenger trains pass through.
The only thing I enjoy about trains is not being close to it and respecting the rail.
Throwing objects from bridges onto tracks, tampering with switches or signals, tagging rail cars, hitchhiking (hobo), trying to beat the train, walking on abandoned tracks, walking on tressels, tampering with railroad equipment and riding a train on the outside will be considered extremely dangerous.
Again, if you want to be a thrill seeker, get life insurance.
The train does not stop on a dime. It takes about 1½ -2 miles to make a complete stop.
Why risk your life, your freedom and your wallet to mess with a train?
The controversial rail company once again becomes a burden on Ohio.
The Lockland, Ohio Police are very angry. They are calling for accountability after a train delayed a the fire fighters from saving a woman trapped in a fire. The train was stopped at five crossings.
This has been an issue that has been ongoing for decades.
Lockland is an inner suburb of Cincinnati. It is 12 miles from downtown.
This has been a major issue for residents. The freight trains that CSX and Norfolk Southern stop at crossings and do not move. It puts emergency vehicles, travelers and people at nearby businesses at risk.
An elderly woman died after a house fire on Sunday morning after a train delayed firefighters trying to reach her home.
Firefighters were dispatched to a home on Patterson Avenue in Lockland just after 9:30 a.m., according to our news partners WCPO.
A stopped Norfolk Southern train blocked railroad crossings, delaying the Lockland crew’s response, Lockland Fire Chief Doug Wehmeyer said.
Because of the delay, a fire unit from Reading arrived on the scene first.
Firefighters found smoke coming from the home. Crews forced opened the front door of the home, where they found holes in the floor.
An elderly woman was found in a bedroom and was transported to a local hospital, where she later died, said Wehmeyer.
Wehmeyer said the train, identified as a Norfolk Southern train, delayed Lockland firefighters seven minutes, when it normally takes crews 30 seconds to reach the address.
He said that one of his off-duty firefighters saw the train sitting on the tracks at 8 a.m., and it was still there an hour and a half later.
“Why a train is allowed to block critical crossings in communities, affecting life safety, is beyond me,” Wehmeyer said.
He said that blocked railroad crossings are putting the community at risk and have been an ongoing problem.
Wehmeyer has tried working with Norfolk Southern to find a solution, but he believes that federal legislation is needed to prevent trains from blocking critical routes used by emergency responders.
WCPO reached out to Norfolk Southern, which responded with the following statement:
We are looking into this incident and are in communication with officials in Lockland.
• We recognize residents’ concerns, particularly regarding access for emergency responders.
• Norfolk Southern makes every effort to avoid affecting communities with a stopped train. Our goal is to keep our trains moving safely across our entire 19,200-mile network.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The most obvious solution is building a overpass or underpass. Hoewever, the right of way, the costs and the delays of traffic for a new bridge. The river, Interstate 75 and the necessity of travel will be addressed.
Okay, let's clear up a common misconception about apex predator the American alligator.
Most alligators see prey regardless of what gets in the water.
Alligators are common in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. They are known to exist in Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Alligators can grow to be up to 14 feet.
If you are in an area where alligators exists: protect yourself, your pets, your children and your property. Do not make yourself a victim of a chomp.
A 71-year-old man fishing on the shore of a Florida lake was killed Friday by a nearly 12-foot alligator, the second fatal attack reported this year.
Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden was standing on the shore of Lake Apopka at Dr. Bradford Memorial Park, 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Orlando, when he was attacked around 5 p.m., the Winter Garden Police Department said.
The presence of other active alligators in the water complicated any chance of rescuing Hamilton, whose body was recovered about two hours later, Winter Garden Fire Chief Jose Gainza told FOX35.
Police Capt. Michael Mason said authorities were not alerted in advance that an alligator was near the lake’s shore, possibly because it “has tons of alligators in it.” He said police launched a joint investigation with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, whose trappers captured and killed the alligator.
Mason reminded people to be aware of their surroundings and respect wildlife.
“Keep your distance,” he said. “It looks like it’s docile, it looks like your Florida emblem, but it can be dangerous.”
Got too close to the water and the alligator got him.
After a 31-year-old Oviedo woman, Brittany Clark, was killed by a 13-foot alligator near her home in June, Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Steube introduced a resolution calling for the Comptroller General and U.S. Department of the Interior to study the impacts of the American alligator’s listing as “threatened due to similarity of appearance” on Florida’s ability to remove nuisance alligators from residential and commercial waterways.
He said the species has been fully recovered since 1987 but remains protected to prevent trafficking and hunting of the similar-looking American crocodile.
Using Florida state data, the two 2026 deaths bring the total number of individuals killed by alligators since 1948 to 34. Among them were a 61-year-old woman tipped out of her canoe by an alligator in 2025 and an 85-year-old widow who was dragged out of her backyard by an alligator while walking her dog in 2023.
Since the AP ignores history, it was told that slave owners would dangle Black babies over a creek and allow alligators to snatch them. Once the alligators are tearing apart the baby, the slave owner would kill the alligators and pelt their skin for belts, food and whips.
Can we do a Darwin Award for the most stupidest people on the planet?
You can't fix stupid!
You can't change minds!
You are completely trapped in stupid.
You are wrapped and emboldened in stupid.
Again, why do white people always treat wild animals like they're domesticated?
I would never touch a wild animal.
Alas, some people think that animals are timid when you're petting them. Nope.
While rare, alligator attacks do happen and many of the victims are close to the water or have pets within a sight of the reptile. If you get too close to the reptile, you are likely a victim of stupidity. On land, an alligator is fast. In the water, an alligator is deadly.
Especially when you live in a community where water is close by... I mean are they clueless or just stupid?
Once the animal gets a hold of a prey, it's rare that an animal will escape without losing a body part.
It's the unfortunate cause and effect of animals and people.
I've said it before and I stand by what I say: "Wild animals are......well you know!"
If you want to be a thrill seeker, you might want to get life insurance.
To escape an alligator in the water if possible, punch its eyes or put something in its nose. Don't turn your back on an alligator. If you're on land run backwards in a zig zag position. An alligator does not want to waste its time trying to catch a prey that moves too much. An alligator can travel up to 20 mph on land and is very fast and silent in the water.
When you are near ponds or bodies of water keep pets, elderly adults and small children away.
Sorry Mr. Vice President, we don't have a couch to hump on.
For an hour, Vice President JD Vance sits down with Tony Dokoupil in Michigan to diss Abdul El-Sayed, Iran, the left, former president Joe Biden and other entities.
The vice president tries to spin The White House narrative when it comes to the chaos of his boss, President Donald J. Trump.
War with Iran & Military Accountability: Joey Amor—the husband of Master Sgt. Nicole Amor, who was killed in a March 2026 Iranian drone strike in Kuwait—confronted Vance regarding fundamental failures in the conflict. Vance responded that it was the first time he had heard of those specific allegations. The president, vice president, Department of Defense Pete Hegseth get to celebrate with their families at football games, town halls, vacations and publicity events. They showed no care for the U.S. Naval officers who were out to sea for months on the USS Lincoln.
High Gas Prices & Economy: Pushed by a local barber and a struggling small-business owner about persistent high costs, Vance blamed disruptions from Iran's attacks on shipping and claimed that 20% of U.S. refining capacity went offline under the Biden administration. He acknowledged that turning the economy around would take longer than 18 months. A classic deflection tactic. Trump did it when former president Barack Obama was in office and now its being rehashed again with his predecessor former president Joe Biden. Trump has imposed tariffs on many of our trading partners. He started a war with Iran despite U.S. intelligence warning of blowback.
Allegations of White House Corruption: Confronted about Trump's cryptocurrency earnings and the ousting of U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle over a $100,000 wire-tap/access allegation, Vance stated that selling access to the White House is "disgusting and despicable," though he urged decisions to be based on facts rather than media reports. The former ambassador allegedly tried to offer sex to Eric Deters, a Cincinnati area Republican attorney who blew the whistle on the former fiance of Donald Trump, Jr. Guilfoyle was forced to resign shortly after meeting with Greek leaders. The former White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia couldn't even address it during her first and only press briefing before she was fired on Friday.
Vance defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations while conceding that federal agents have a responsibility to face investigation when they "screw up". Killing American citizens, detaining lawful citizens, deporting non criminal immigrants opens the door for other countries to do their own deportation services. The Global South is actively trying boot Americans and find ways to bypass the U.S. dollar. They are getting tired of being scapegoated for America's fuck ups.
When pressed on his political future, Vance acknowledged that there is "of course" a chance he may not run for president in 2028. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance had another child. If he was to run for president, he would not have any time to be with his son. It would be a huge distraction to oversee a presidency when you can't take you children out for an ice cream cone.
Vance faced tough questions from voters about the Trump administration’s policies on data centers, high costs, immigration and his own rhetoric in a town hall on CBS News that aired Saturday night.
The string of sharp queries, some from voters who said they had supported him and Trump, previewed the rocky path he may face trying to answer for the administration’s record if he runs for president himself in 2028.
Vance, who said during the town hall there’s “of course” a chance he doesn’t run for president, faced an especially pointed question about “a failure of leadership” posted by the widow of one of six U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, which occurred the day after Trump started the war with Iran.
“This literally is the first time I’ve heard of this,” Vance said in response.
As he went on, he said, “This job is an amazing honor, but you live in a bit of a bubble and sometimes information doesn’t filter up.”
Questions about Iran war strategy and costs
After telling the vice president about his late wife, Master Sgt. Nicole Amor, who was killed on March 1, Joey Amor asked about mistakes and fundamental failures that led up to the deaths of those soldiers and how leaders would be held accountable.
Vance seemed taken aback by Amor’s questions, saying, “This literally is the first time I’ve heard of this,” and said he wanted to talk with Amor to learn more after.
But as Vance went on, he acknowledged mistakes were made and said, “there were issues with where troops were located that we realized was a huge mistake that we could do better on, and we have changed that.”
A Michigan man who said he voted for Trump and Vance in 2024 but now plans to vote for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pressed Vance about the high gasoline prices resulting from the war. In response, Vance said he recognized that gas prices were too high, and said, “I think it’s important to be honest about why they’re so elevated.”
He said it was because of “what’s happening in the Middle East” and said the administration was taking steps to try to lower prices.
“We’ve never had a situation like this where you have effectively, the largest state sponsor of terrorism that’s trying to choke off world energy supply,” Vance said, without acknowledging that situation occurred because of the war Trump launched.
He also blamed former President Joe Biden, saying that during his tenure, America’s refining capacity was diminished.
But when Vance was pressed on the Trump administration owning the current situation, the vice president suggested that looking backward for blame was not the way.
“Fundamentally, we are where we are, and you have to, in my view, I’d like to know what is Abdul El-Sayed’s solution for the problem that we have right now,” Vance said. “It’s easy to criticize something that happened seven months ago.”
Immigration enforcement tactics and the rhetoric around immigrants
A nun who spoke to Vance about their shared Catholic faith questioned the administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics, including children who are separated from their parents when the adults are swept up in sweeps, and how that squared with their values.
“We’re trying to strike the right balance,” Vance said. When moderator Tony Dokoupil asked Vance if the administration is not striking that balance, Vance replied, “I think that is constantly a work in progress.”
He admitted that, “Sometimes you have some people who made mistakes. Sometimes you have some people who really screw up.”
When Dokoupil asked for specific examples, Vance said there are a number of cases the administration has investigated that resulted in further training or discipline for immigration enforcement officers, but said they don’t advertise it publicly in order to let investigations play out.
Another voter, who said she became an immigrant five years ago and voted for Vance after becoming a U.S. citizen, asked him pointedly about his recent remarks referring to H1-B visa holders as, “foreign indentured servants,” and accused him of “scapegoating immigrants for the issues you’re supposed to be solving.”
“To the extent that my rhetoric has been imperfect here, that’s on me,” Vance said, before explaining that he was trying to criticize the companies that bring in the workers, not the immigrant workers themselves.
Selling access to the White House is ‘disgusting and despicable’
Dokoupil pressed Vance on whether Trump and others in his administration were profiting off the presidency, including the nearly $1.2 billion the president took in from his crypto businesses last year, according to a federal filing. When asked if he’d seen anything in the White House that made him squeamish, Vance said, “I’ve never seen anything like that from the president.”
He said, though, that there is evidence of corruption in Washington, but he doesn’t see evidence of it from the president or the administration.
Vance said he’s read articles about allegations, but said he goes to investigate claims himself and finds that they are not true.
Dokoupil asked Vance about the president’s crypto profits, along with the recent resignation of his ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, over allegations she denies that she was leveraging her position for benefits.
“If somebody’s selling access to the White House, that’s disgusting and despicable and they should suffer consequences,” Vance said.
