Since Will Smith's infamous slap on Chris Rock, comedians have been targets of violence.
Trevor Noah, Pete Davidson, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, Ariel Elias, D.L. Hughley and now Chris Redd were victims of attacks.
Note, Will Smith is also a comedian.
Chris Redd was sucker punched by an unknown assailant just before he was set to take the stage at a local comedy club in New York.
Redd was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and then released.
The New York Police Department is investigating the incident and hope to catch the suspect.
Chris is an American comedian and actor. He was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2017 to 2022. For his work on the show, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2018 for co-writing the SNL song "Come Back Barack". He is also known for his roles in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Disjointed (2017–2018), and Kenan (2021–2022).
He was born in St. Louis but moved to Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, at the age of eight.
According to Redd, he had a childhood stutter that he overcame by learning how to rap. He attended Naperville schools, including Gregory Middle School and Neuqua Valley High School, and later attended community college in Elgin, Illinois, where he took his first improvisational theater class.
Conservatives and Republicans are quick to fail victim to misinformation. The noise that is paraded by Fox is dangerous. They are being sued by Dominion Systems for $1.6 billion for spreading lies about the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
This annoying media agitator has long past his prime.
WATCH: Fox’s @seanhannity receives freedom award from @SenRickScott, Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, “for people that care about freedom… what you do on your show to fight for freedom around this country is unbelievable and unparalleled.” pic.twitter.com/YhfVHZyJVs
Softball Hannity literally sucks a lot for the Republican Party.
The most annoying media agitator in the history of television continues to parade noise and conspiracy theories to help Republicans win. He is officially the softball for Washed Up 45 and the Republican Party.
On his Thursday shitshow, Sen. Karen Scott (R-FL) handed him an award. Mind you, if Fox ever had any ethics, that agitator would have been pulled off the air.
Sen. Karen Rubio (R-FL), Gov. Karen DeSantis and a hodge podge of Republican and conservative noise makers join the annoying agitator in a "get out to vote" townhall.
As expected, they offer no solutions other than blaming President Joe Biden, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the media and their rivals in the general. They are fired up because the Republicans are running on culture wars and inflation.
Scott, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he had created an award for people who care about freedom. The committee gave the “Champion for Freedom” award, which has a colander-like bowl shape, to former President Donald Trump last year.
“Oh my god, wow,” said Hannity, who later raised the bowl above his head as a Florida crowd applauded him.
See there's no ethics here when the host of a television show is given an award from politicians. On top of that, he's a known conspiracy theorist who spews bullshit for profit. It's a damn shame.
Vote to make Softball Hannity and Republicans irrelevant.
When billionaires buy social media..... it often goes down as one of the worst mistakes in modern history.
That geezer Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace when it was extremely popular. He ended up ruining it and allow Facebook to becoming the reigning king of social media.
Folks started abandoning MySpace once Murdoch put his tentacles on it.
MySpace had over 569 million active users in 2009. Now it has barely 10 million.
Facebook is on a slow decline as well but still maintains 1.4 billion active users.
Twitter has nearly 1 billion active users.
When the corporate billionaires take over social media, it's like "jumping the shark."
The stench of Elon Musk.
The social media troll is the CEO and chairman of Tesla, SpaceX and now Twitter.
He already has made enemies already. He had fired the top heads of Twitter. He said that he may eventually allow some of these banned extremists back on the platform.
Washed Up 45 is the most prominent extremist banned on the platform.
A beautiful thing about Twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism – people are able to disseminate news without an establishment bias
Musk fired at least four top Twitter executives on Thursday as part of his first move after officially becoming Twitter's owner, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The executives fired include CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett.
At least one of the fired executives was seen escorted out of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, per the sources.
The Nation of Islam is considered a Black separatist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and anti-semitic by the Anti-Defamation League.
The leader of the NOI, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has often been a subject of controversial speeches and his possible ties to the death of Malcolm X.
Farrakhan has never called for the deaths of anyone unlike some white religious extremists who Republicans often praise as heroes and spiritual leaders.
Farrakhan often is classified as an extremist, which he denies. He was booted off Facebook and he lost his Twitter verification as well as the NOI being banned. He often criticizes the social media platforms for giving aid to folks like Softball Hannity while punishing Black leaders who have differing views.
He has mediated rap feuds, spoke at Nipsey Hussle's funeral, paid for funerals of people and offered scholarships to struggling youth.
Farrakhan led the historical Million Man March which encouraged Black men to not be stereotypes, generate bonds with your children and practice self-empowerment.
His speeches are critical of Israel, white politics, conspiracies about COVID-19 and homosexuality. He often spoke critical of Jewish power in the media, banks and politics, which some claim are anti-semitic. He has often praised Jewish leaders who spoke out against the autocracies committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinians.
Ye and Kim K met with Minister Farrakhan.
Many prominent Black figures have met with Farrakhan.
Often the far right scapegoats Farrakhan as an evil figure while praising real evil figures like Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Greg Locke, Marcus Lamb, Jerry Falwell and white Christian nationalists.
Farrakhan has met with Spike Lee, Ye, then state senator Barack Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, Ja Rule, Tamika Mallory, Rev. Raphael Warnock (now Senator of Georgia), Nas, Fat Joe, Sean "Puffy" Combs and numerous others.
Of course, a picture with the Minister is automatic outrage from the noise.
I mean they're more upset over his remarks about the Jewish community than his threats toward Pete Davidson, his remarks on George Floyd and his literal stalking of ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
The remarks about the Jewish community was a bridge too far. He lost his endorsements, his management team, his deal with Def Jam, his Donda school permanently closed, Adidas and Gap cut loose his clothing and shoe brands and he is no longer a billionaire.
All thanks to his association with Candace Owens amd Washed Up 45.
Will Farrakhan support this nonsense?
Farrakhan stated that he believes Ye should hold his ground and not back down.
"I am fully supporting Kanye West, Anytime, Anywhere, Anyway."
I wish they would take their anger at Ye and throw it at Owens. For way too long, this Black extremist has gotten away with far worse things. She literally fat shames women, attacks celebrities like Cardi B for encouraging voting and denounces systematic racism (even though she was a victim of it). This woman has called for violence.
Yet, they attack Ye and Farrakhan.
I got my issues with Ye over George Floyd. Everything else is noise.
Farrakhan speaks and Blacks listen. We might not agree to everything the Minister says, but he is telling a truth that some are too afraid to understand.
Westside Gunn will soon face his swan song. He released an album with the likeness of Adolf Hitler, which will certainly generate controversy.
The most hard headed media personality in hip-hop is now on a curfew. He is under house arrest. After August Alsina was served a hot plate after snubbing the Canadian media personality, Tory Lanez was shown bragging about it.
Although there is no video of the incident, August showed the injuries.
Will Smith should have been the one serving the R&B singer the hot plate. August and Jada Pinkett Smith confirmed they had an affair while she still married to Will.
Now Tory has earned himself house arrest.
Tory (Daystar Peterson) is required to be at his Atlanta home until trial date.
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that Tory Lanez should be placed under house arrest, TMZ and CBS News Los Angeles report. The rapper and singer is facing assault and weapons charges after allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. (Lanez has pleaded not guilty.) He will be under house arrest, starting this Friday, October 31, until the next court date. The trial is currently scheduled to begin on the morning of Monday, November 28.
The judge ordered the house arrest after determining that Lanez violated the conditions of his bail by allegedly assaulting Alsina in Chicago last month. Lanez is not currently facing criminal charges in Illinois as a result of the alleged altercation.
Lanez has had his bail increased multiple times in the past, including for a surprise appearance at Rolling Loud Miami 2021 before Megan Thee Stallion performed, and another time for discussing Megan on social media.
He remains hard headed and defiant.
If convicted, he could face 10 years in the iron college. He could be banned entry in the United States. The media mogul
Nick Cannon has another child on the way with Alyssa Scott. They honor Zen with a charity foundation.
Nick Cannon will have his 12th child.
This dude is as bad as Ye, Tory Lanez Boosie Badazz and DaBaby.
I don't know these people but these motherfuckers need to get their lives together for the sake of their careers. I mean, two more months and we will be preparing for the 2022 Yearly Wrap Up.
Okay, Alyssa Scott is pregnant and she will give birth to a child bored by Nick. They had a son before he passed away from a cancer. She has a daughter from another relationship.
Nick list his son Zen after five months.
I don't understand what women see in Nicholas Scott Cannon?
He is a C-list entertainer and he is not a billionaire. He is a media personality who ruined Mariah Carey's career.
Cannon is also a father to twins Monroe and Moroccan with Carey, Golden Sagon, Powerful Queen and Rise Messiah with Brittany Bell, twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir with Abby De La Rosa, who is currently pregnant, son Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi and daughter Onyx with LaNisha Cole.
Cannon and Scott announced via their Instagram accounts the unveiling of Zen’s Light Foundation, a foundation honoring their late son with the goal of helping to find a cure for pediatric cancer. The two attended “a beautiful lighting ceremony to honor the life of an Angel” to commemorate the occasion.
Vote to make Candace Owens, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian irrelevant.
I don't know these people, but I believe them for who they are.
Ye's empire is crashing down fast. All we got to do is make sure Kanye West is attached to the conservatives and the Republican Party. We have to assure you that the party that enabled him is responsible for his antics.
Being anti-semitic has cost Ye big time. Denouncing Blacks has garnered not many allies.
His music for now is still being played on radio. Once the radio stops playing his music, it's pretty much over. Jay-Z can't save him when the noise is too loud.
Ye has been dropped by his talent agency CAA and that led to him being dropped from Def Jam. On Monday, the film and television studio MRC announced that it was shelving a completed documentary about Ye following his antisemitic outbursts. He is no longer signed to Def Jam, his longtime record company; his contract expired with his 2021 album, “Donda.” And Ye’s own label, G.O.O.D. Music, which has released music by other artists like the rapper Pusha T, is also no longer affiliated with Def Jam, according to a person briefed on the deals. A representative of Def Jam declined to comment, and Ye did not respond to questions sent to a representative.
“Will Kanye bounce back from this?” asked Randy Phillips, who was the promoter for a benefit concert Ye performed with Drake last December at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum that drew more than 60,000 fans and was streamed live by Amazon. “He could. He’s a musical genius. But it’s going to take time. It’s not going to be immediate.”
The media mogul lost his deal with Gap and Adidas to promote his Yeezy brands.
N.O.R.E. faced intense backlash after hosting Ye on Drink Champs. It turned out to be its most controversial episode and it was pulled due to Ye doubling down on his noise.
Ye and Coondace Owens are being sued by the family of George Floyd. The documentary The Greatest Lie Ever Sold shared misinformation about the cause of Floyd's death. Ye was running his mouth about it and it led to him losing interviews.
He was escorted from Skechers after showing up unannounced to pitch his brand.
I am assuring you that folks are scooping up his shoes as quickly as they can so they'll end up on buyer's sites for hundreds of dollars.
Three athletes have cut ties with him. The Donda Sports has lost ten sponsors.
The Donda Academy, a controversial school in Simi Valley, California has now officially closed after less than a year in operation.
The Parler deal may not happen after all.
Roseanne Barr endorses Ye.
Kim Kardashian condemned his remarks and fears he may have damaged her brand.
No one is holding Coondace Owens accountable for Ye. She should face the same fate as Ye. Because of her, Ye is taking the hard fall.
Republicans should be held accountable for Ye. They always want to scapegoat everyone who said or done something wrong to Democrats. I think every Republican should be asked what they think about Ye.
They support "uncancellable" so ask them if they embrace anti-semitism?
Vote for John Fetterman over Mehmet Oz. Think about your family members who suffered a medical emergency and how folks like Oz are treating Fetterman. Think about how you feel about how callous these folks are when they are using dirty politics as a way to win.
Uh, yeah!
We're stuck with him.
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Dr. Mehmet Oz faced off in their only debate. The two are running for the open U.S. senate seat in Pennsylvania.
Both are deeply unpopular.
Fetterman won the nomination cause of the noise of Bernie Sanders and the white leftists who pushed him over Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA) and spoiler Malcolm Kenyatta. Lamb had the support of the Black vote. It did not stop Fetterman who had an easy ride through the primary. He had a stroke a week before the primary and has been recovering since.
Fetterman who ran in 2016 and failed to get the nomination is now the nominee for the Democrats and could be a game changer if he wins.
Republicans are seizing upon his health as a way to scare up voters. They also are running on the Democrat being pro-crime while driving on the narrative he chased a Black man with a gun who he thought was committing a crime. They claim he values the noise of the far left while saying he is pandering to the middle.
They say he had a stroke and makes him ineligible for the office. But John McCain, Strom Thurmond, Mark Kirk, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) had strokes while in office.
They continued on.
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functioning properly.
My late grandfather had a stroke. My late uncle had a stroke.
It is a factor that affects family members, friends and those in public. What makes Republicans so fucking stupid is the fact they act like its a prerequisite to be 100% healthy and able bodied to run for office.
Texas governor is in a wheelchair. Karen Abbott broke his spine after falling off a ladder.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is a double amputee who lost her legs fighting in Iraq.
Does it make them less able to perform duties if they have a disability.
Oz is a Turkish–American television presenter, author, politician, professor emeritus, and retired cardiothoracic surgeon. He is the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania and is the first Muslim candidate to be nominated by either major party for U.S. Senate. He should know better and should emphasize with Fetterman.
But listening to Washed Up 45 and Softball Hannity is a gift for Oz.
Oz beaten the Black candidate who had more momentum. She lost because of Softball Hannity being an asshole.
The faceoff also put Fetterman's stroke symptoms back in the spotlight as well as what he said was his resilience and recovery from, as he put it, a notable but not disqualifying challenge.
Many eyes were on Fetterman's health as he took the stage. He spoke haltingly and sometimes inconsistently throughout the debate, even more so than he has at campaign events since returning to the trail in August, three months after his stroke. At times he seemed to struggle to complete his answers and articulate specific policy goals to the debate questions.
Two monitors were hung above the heads of the moderators to transcribe both the questions and Oz's answers in real time as an aid for Fetterman's auditory processing issues, which outside neurologists have said are no indication of cognitive issues for stroke survivors.
Fetterman has worked with a speech therapist; his doctor said last week he was ready for "full duty" in office, though he has declined to release his medical records.
Sean "Puffy" Combs goes as Puff Daddy, Diddy, Mr. Bad Boy or Puff. He is the founder of Bad Boy Records, a one time hip-hop label powerhouse that
My first hip-hop CD was Mase's debut album, Harlem World. It went 5X times platinum.
Mason Betha, found his calling in a label in need of new life after the tragic shooting of his longtime mentor Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G.
Mase was blowing up in the late 1990s. He along with 112, Total, Black Rob, Carl Thomas, Shyne, The Lox and Biggie Smalls widow Faith Evans were Bad Boy Renaissance.
Diddy also had a hand in building up Lil Cease, Lil Kim and Heavy D and Darren Lighty.
Diddy was known for hand over the contract signings. Most of the Bad Boy talent is basically Diddy and Machine Gun Kelly.
Most of his acts have left.
Ma$e is clapping back at Diddy in response to the Bad Boy CEO claiming Ma$e owes him $3 million.
Hours after The Breakfast Club aired their interview with Puff on Wednesday (Oct. 5), in which the hip-hop mogul said he had receipts to prove Ma$e is $3 million in debt to him, Ma$e went off on Instagram in response.
"How dare this nigga talk about he want receipts," Ma$e snapped. "Let's start with your mother, nigga. Your mother got the receipts, nigga. Everything is in your mother name. That's the one who got the receipts, nigga."
Diddy and Ma$e's beef goes back nearly two decades, but recently resurfaced. In 2020, Ma$e claimed Diddy refused to accept his $2 million offer to buy back his publishing. The "Feel So Good" rapper has seemingly been on Puff's helmet ever since. Earlier this year, Ma$e put out the Diddy diss "Oracle 2: Standing on Bodies." He followed up with a rant about how Diddy was ruining his artists' lives.
White nationalist got a concrete sandwich. Republicans exploit the incident.
Vote.
Ignore the noise.
Vote to save democracy.
Whenever a Democrat or a person of color is a victim of violence, Republicans and conservatives "need proof" of this incident. When a Republican or a conservative is a victim of violence, they want you to take it as fact and want everyone to condemn it. If the story is proven to be a hoax, Republicans exploit it to the fullest.
We seen how its done.
Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah#Florida
He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery pic.twitter.com/36QpbySg58
Sen. Karen Rubio (R-FL) tweeted his support for "one of [the] canvassers" who was assaulted in Hialeah, Florida. Progressives point out the victim is a known white nationalist and agent provocateur.
An incident two weeks before the Midterms. Smells like an Ashley Todd.
She was a white woman who volunteered for John McCain failed presidential campaign.
She tried to trigger racial resentment by claiming a Black man attacked her in Pittsburgh after noticing she is a supporter of McCain and carved a backwards B in her face to make her a fan of Barack Obama. It happened two weeks before the election. The noise had promoted that for two days and had McCain and Mama Grizzly speak on it. It was revealed that she staged the incident.
Rubio shared photos Monday of a bloodied election canvasser who was beaten in South Florida while wearing one of his campaign shirts, an attack he alleged was politically motivated.
Rubio who facing a race against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) is hoping to keep his senate seat.
I have the state in the LIKELY REPUBLICAN.
Demings can win this if you don't get your asses out to vote in Florida. I mean if the noise is what you want, vote for Republicans. But if you want to save democracy, improve the economy and protect rights, vote for the Democrats.
The Miami-Dade Police did confirm an incident happened between the white nationalist and another person. The Miami New Times and CBS 4 News in Miami identified the man as based on interviews with the president of the Miami Springs Republican Club and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo.
The friends you keep.
The white nationalist is a former member of the white nationalist group Florida League of the South, the New York Times reported. In 2017, he was charged with using a Confederate flag as a weapon during a dispute with protesters who wanted to rename streets in Hollywood named after Confederate commanders, The Associated Press reported.
Hey @marcorubio, is this your campaign staffer wearing the uniform of white supremacist group League Of The South at the deadly 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, saying "They will not replace us"?
Marco Rubio has a long history of associating with violent domestic extremist groups, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that his campaign staffers are tiki torch nazis who chant antisemitic slogans pic.twitter.com/1owtyow5V4
The family of nazi Christopher Monzón invited the press to interview him in the hospital, but when reporters arrived, members of the Proud Boys blocked their way and told them they could not enter. This story smells weirder and weirder https://t.co/lX6mQuxll6
Monzon was arrested in August 2017 after charging at a crowd with a Confederate flag during a Confederate street-name protest in Hollywood, according to a police report. What goes around.... pic.twitter.com/jG0OFB8ZR1
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at last night's rally on the Texas Trump caravan that menacingly surrounded Biden bus:
"We love what they did, but here's the thing they don't know: We do that in Florida every day. I love seeing the boat parades ... We thank all the great patriots..." pic.twitter.com/kRaLcW60jn
This is the Marco Rubio canvasser who was attacked and hospitalized last night.
In 2017 Christopher Monzon was arrested and later plead guilty to aggravated assault when he attacked protesters with a confederate flag. He has a long history of advocating white supremacy. https://t.co/ATEUUgFB3U
— gabagh🔅ul eater👻 🇺🇦🦑🐌🚂🏗🤠📈🐵⛓ (@bethanygabagool) October 24, 2022
But the white nationalist told the Times in June he “had been on a ‘path to de-radicalization’ and disavowed the racist ideology he previously espoused.” Efforts to reach Monzon, vice chairman of the Miami Springs GOP club, were unsuccessful.
Hialeah Police confirmed a 27-year-old man was assaulted while handing out fliers about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, but a police report provides a different account than Rubio’s and doesn’t mention an explicit political motivation. Police did not identify the victim.
The suspect, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in connection with the incident, police said.
The suspect confronted the white nationalist and told him, “You can’t pass here. This is my neighborhood,” the report states. An argument ensued, the suspect threw the canvasser to the ground, and at that point, another person who fled before police arrived kicked the defendant, listed as the suspect, on the right side of the face, according to the report.
The suspect then started punching the white nationalist in the face, according to the report.
Rubio tweeted that the man wearing a Rubio shirt and Gov. Ron DeSantis cap was “brutally attacked” in Hialeah by “four animals” who told him that “Republicans weren’t allowed” in the neighborhood.
Photos shared by Rubio showed the canvasser on a stretcher with what appears to be a bruised eye and blood trickling down the side of his face. He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw and will need facial reconstructive surgery, Rubio wrote.
Upon finding out the canvasser has white supremacist leanings, his team backed down sort of.
Elizabeth Gregory, a Rubio campaign spokeswoman, wrote in an email she didn’t have additional details beyond what Rubio wrote in his tweet. She added the man was canvassing for the Republican Party and not Rubio’s reelection campaign.
Demings condemned the attack.
“I have zero tolerance for any violence against any person for any reason,” she tweeted. “Those responsible for attacking a canvasser last night should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Former treasury minister will be the next sacrificial lamb to a crumbling royalty.
He will be the next sucker.
I bet racism will be his undoing.
King Charles III, President Joe Biden, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders will react to Rishi Sunak becoming the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He is of Indian descent and will be the first person of color to lead the nation. Former minister Liz Truss resigned after serving 47 days at 10 Downing Street. She lost the trust of her party leaders when she unveiled her economic plan.
The challenges facing the U.K.’s third prime minister this year are enormous: He must try to shore up an economy sliding toward recession and reeling after his predecessor’s brief, disastrous experiment in libertarian economics, while also attempting to unite a demoralized and divided party that trails far behind the opposition in opinion polls.
In his first public statement, Sunak said “the United Kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge.”
“We now need stability and unity, and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together,” said Sunak, who at 42 is Britain’s youngest prime minister in 200 years.
Sunak will be the first British prime minister with South Asian roots and its first Hindu leader — a milestone for a country with an extensive colonial past, and one that is still contested.
Elected party leader on the major Hindu festival of Diwali, Sunak takes over from Liz Truss, who quit last week after 45 tumultuous days in office. His only remaining rival, Penny Mordaunt, conceded and withdrew after failing to reach the nomination threshold of 100 Conservative lawmakers needed to stay in the race.
Sunak will now be asked by King Charles III to form a government and becomes the prime minister in a handover of power from Truss on Tuesday.
Victory is vindication for Sunak, who lost out to Truss in the Conservative election to replace former Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the summer when party members chose her tax-cutting boosterism over his warnings that inflation must be tamed.
Truss conceded last week that she could not deliver on her plans — but only after her attempts triggered market chaos and worsened inflation at a time when millions of Britons were already struggling with soaring borrowing costs and rising energy and food prices.
King Charles Meets with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The party is now desperate for someone to right the ship after months of chaos — both during Truss’ short term and at the end of Johnson’s.
As finance minister, Sunak steered the economy through the coronavirus pandemic, winning praise for his financial support for laid-off workers and shuttered businesses.
He now faces the huge challenge of calming markets and trying to tame inflation at a time of weakened government finances, a worsening economic outlook and a wave of strikes. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt, appointed by Truss 10 days ago, is due to make an emergency budget statement Oct. 31 — if Sunak keeps him in the job.
Britain also faces broader economic problems stemming from the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the country’s exit from the European Union in 2020. Sunak was a firm supporter of Brexit.
Sunak was cheered wildly by Conservative lawmakers during a packed private meeting in Parliament minutes after he won the contest on Monday.
Former Cabinet minister Chris Grayling said Sunak had urged the party “to unite and fix the problems the country faces” and had got “a rapturous reception.”
Therese Coffey, who was Truss’ deputy prime minister, said the whole party should support Sunak now.
“We need to get behind him,” she said.
But Sunak still faces resentment from supporters of Johnson for quitting the government in July, a move that helped topple the then-leader. His background as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and his wife’s vast wealth — she is the daughter of an Indian billionaire — also fuel a sense he is out of touch with the struggles of ordinary people.
He takes the reins after Truss’ proposal for aggressive tax cuts that would be paid for through government borrowing pummeled the value of the pound, drove up the cost of government borrowing and home mortgages, and forced emergency Bank of England intervention. Truss executed a series of U-turns and replaced her Treasury chief but faced rebellion from lawmakers in her party that obliterated her authority.
In the lightning-quick contest to replace her, Sunak’s position strengthened after Johnson dramatically quit the race on Sunday night, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister’s job he was ousted from little more than three months ago amid ethics scandals.
The prospect of a return by Johnson had thrown the already divided Conservative Party into further turmoil. He led the party to a thumping election victory in 2019, but his premiership was clouded by scandals over money and ethics that eventually became too much for the party to bear.
He threw in the towel late Sunday despite insisting he was “well placed to deliver a Conservative victory” in the next national election.
The Conservative Party turmoil is fueling demands for a national election. Under Britain’s parliamentary system, there does not need to be one until the end of 2024, though the government has the power to call one sooner.
Currently that looks unlikely. Opinion polls say an election would spell disaster for the Conservatives, with the left-of-center Labour Party winning a large majority.
Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said the Conservative Party is “not out of the woods yet” even after choosing Sunak.
“And certainly I think voters, while possibly they may give Rishi Sunak a little bit of a bounce, a little bit of credit for not being Liz Truss, are certainly out of love with the Conservative Party as a whole,” he said. “So I don’t expect this to make an enormous amount of difference to the opinion polls.”
Vote to make Ye, Kim Kardashian, Coondace Owens and Sucker Carlson less relevant.
If conservative media and progressive media agitators can be hateful, they still have partnerships. But a media mogul and rapper makes a statement that goes against the norms and the noise is calling for a boycott.
It is a free country.
They are more upset over him making anti-semitic comments than his reaction to George Floyd. They did not get upset over his publicist trying to intimidate Georgia poll workers.
Ye made anti-semitic remarks and the noise has gotten so loud, the company that makes his products had severed ties. It came to the company Adidas severing ties with Ye.
The Yeezy products are worth $1 billion. The shoes are still available until the final pair are sold.
The Adidas Yeezy was a fashion collaboration between German sportswear company Adidas and American rapper, designer, entrepreneur and personality Kanye West. The collaboration has become notable for its high-end limited edition colorways and general releases offered by the Yeezy Boost sneakers lineup. The collaboration has also produced shirts, jackets, track pants, socks, slides, women's shoes, lingerie and slippers. The first shoe model ("Boost 750") was released in February 2015.
The company faced pressure to drop Ye after Media Matters released an unedited clip of Ye talking to Sucker Carlson.
Adidas on Tuesday said it has terminated its relationship with the media mogul immediately and will cease production of Yeezy branded products.
Now they are hoping Def Jam drops him.
"Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech," the company said in a press release. "Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness."
There has been growing pressure on big-name brands to cut ties with the rapper after he made antisemitic remarks on Twitter a few weeks ago.
The rapper later followed with more offensive comments against the Jewish community on Revolt TV's "Drink Champs" in a since-deleted interview.
Ye's comments against the Jewish community were also referenced over the weekend by a group of Los Angeles neo-Nazis who hung antisemitic flyers on a 405 freeway overpass.
In addition to Ye's remarks against the Jewish community, another recent controversy has seen the "Donda" rapper sporting a "White Lives Matter" T-shirt during his surprise Yeezy Season 9 show in Paris along with conservative political commentator Candace Owens.
The phrase has been described by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist hate slogan that originated in 2015 as a response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter. The groups note that the phrase has been commonly used by white supremacist groups such as the Aryan Renaissance Society and the Ku Klux Klan on everything from promotional materials to campaigns.
Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.
Responding to the backlash over the T-shirts, Ye wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, "Here's my latest response when people ask me why I made a tee that says white lives matter... THEY DO."
Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, also known as CAA, announced Monday that it would no longer represent the rapper. Film and television studio MRC also said it would be shelving a documentary on West, saying in a statement that it "cannot support any content that amplifies his platform."
Several reports have also stated that brands such as Balenciaga will no longer work with Ye.
Ye's ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, along with many other public figures have stood in solidarity with the Jewish community following his antisemitic remarks.
"Hate speech is never OK or excusable," Kardashian tweeted on Monday. "I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end."
Kendall Jenner, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, John Legend and others have also spoken out against Ye's comments aimed at the Jewish community.
