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If you find Trump’s VP choice “weird”, it’s because you’re still paying attention to legacy media.

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Opponents of Donald Trump are trying a new line of attack. For the last few years both the Democratic party and much of the legacy media have been claiming that electing Trump to a second term will somehow pose a deadly “risk to democracy”.  That line of attack is on hold for now, and it’s being replaced by a new approach to smear Trump and especially his choice for VP, JD Vance.

What’s interesting in this compilation video below is that not 0nly are the interviewees engaging in this attack, but so are the interviewers!

Below the video ‘supercut’ is an article from The Daily Caller regarding this new line of attack.

From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By NICOLE SILVERIO

‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade Says Many Voters May Resonate With Trump, JD Vance Being ‘Weird’

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on Tuesday that voters may resonate with Republican nominee Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance for allegedly being “weird.”

The Democrats’ new line of attack ahead of the 2024 election has been to attack Trump and Vance for being “weird.” Kilmeade said the Democrats’ label for the Trump-Vance ticket will fail among independent voters in the same way many of their previous lines of attacks have fallen apart.

“You know what wasn’t working? Saying Trump’s a threat to democracy, because no one thinks that,” Kilmeade said. “There are people who don’t like him that think that, but you’re not winning over independents, it wasn’t resonating. So you’re trying to scare people, you try to put him in court, you try to put him in jail, that didn’t work. Then you say he’s a threat to democracy, that wasn’t effective. So now you go, okay, now let’s just say they’re weird.”

“I’ve got news for you,” Kilmeade continued. “There’s a lot of people in America that go, ‘you know what? I’m a little weird, my friend’s a little weird, my parents are a little weird, so, you know, I kind of relate to somebody that’s not perfect, a little quirky.’ You cannot define Donald Trump to anybody on this planet, they already made their opinion. And for J.D. Vance, maybe this approached him, but you watched the movie, you read the book, you know about his upbringing, you watched him run for Senate, you’ve seen him in the last six years or year-and-a-half, but you watched him run for one, so I don’t know how much weird is there.”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said the Democrats’ talking point will likely not turn off candidates to Trump and Vance, while Kilmeade said every person they watched on television growing up was “special” due to their quirkiness.

“Almost everybody that we watched on television was quirky and weird, that’s what made them special,” Kilmeade added. “Right? We’re starting then. So I just think that weird is cool, actually. I don’t have any problem with weird.”

“Well, they’ll do it for two days, it’s not gonna stick,” Earhardt said.

Democrats have particularly branded Vance as a “weird” candidate by pointing to the “childless cat lady” remark he madein 2021 during an appearance on Fox News’ former show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Vance mocked Democratic women, including Vice President Kamala Harris, by branding the political left as a party of anti-family values.

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz used the new term against Vance in an interview last week, sparking Democratic politicians and liberal media pundits to repeatedly accuse the vice presidential candidate and Trump of being “weird.” Harris said during a campaign event that Vance’s commentary and viewpoints “are just plain weird,” and Democratic Illinois Rep. J.B. Pritzker repeated that terminology during a Sunday appearance on ABC News.

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‘Great Reset’ champion Klaus Schwab resigns from WEF

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By Jonathon Van Maren

Schwab’s World Economic Forum became a globalist hub for population control, radical climate agenda, and transhuman ideology under his decades-long leadership.

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and the face of the NGO’s elitist annual get-together in Davos, Switzerland, has resigned as chair of WEF. 

Over the decades, but especially over the past several years, the WEF’s Davos annual symposium has become a lightning rod for conservative criticism due to the agendas being pushed there by the elites. As the Associated Press noted: 

Widely regarded as a cheerleader for globalization, the WEF’s Davos gathering has in recent years drawn criticism from opponents on both left and right as an elitist talking shop detached from lives of ordinary people. 

While WEF itself had no formal power, the annual Davos meeting brought together many of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures, contributing to Schwab’s personal worth and influence.

Schwab’s resignation on April 20 was announced by the Geneva-based WEF on April 21, but did not indicate why the 88-year-old was resigning. “Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” Schwab said in a brief statement. He gave no indication of what he plans to do next. 

Schwab founded the World Economic Forum – originally the European Management Forum – in 1971, and its initial mission was to assist European business leaders in competing with American business and to learn from U.S. models and innovation. However, the mission soon expanded to the development of a global economic agenda.  

Schwab detailed his own agenda in several books, including The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016), in which he described the rise of a new industrial era in which technologies such artificial intelligence, gene editing, and advanced robotics would blur the lines between the digital, physical, and biological worlds. Schwab wrote: 

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, finally, will change not only what we do but also who we are. It will affect our identity and all the issues associated with it: our sense of privacy, our notions of ownership, our consumption patterns, the time we devote to work and leisure, and how we develop our careers, cultivate our skills, meet people, and nurture relationships. It is already changing our health and leading to a “quantified” self, and sooner than we think it may lead to human augmentation.

How? Microchips implanted into humans, for one. Schwab was a tech optimist who appeared to heartily welcome transhumanism; in a 2016 interview with France 24 discussing his book, he stated:  

And then you have the microchip, which will be implanted, probably within the next ten years, first to open your car, your home, or to do your passport, your payments, and then it will be in your body to monitor your health.

In 2020, mere months into the pandemic, Schwab published COVID-19: The Great Reset, in which he detailed his view of the opportunity presented by the growing global crisis. According to Schwab, the crisis was an opportunity for a global reset that included “stakeholder capitalism,” in which corporations could integrate social and environmental goals into their operations, especially working toward “net-zero emissions” and a massive transition to green energy, and “harnessing” the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including artificial intelligence and automation. 

Much of Schwab’s personal wealth came from running the World Economic Forum; as chairman, he earned an annual salary of 1 million Swiss francs (approximately $1 million USD), and the WEF was supported financially through membership fees from over 1,000 companies worldwide as well as significant contributions from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is now serving as interim chairman until his replacement has been selected. 

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Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan Ramp Up Pressure On Google Parent Company To Deal With ‘Censorship’

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Andi Shae Napier

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan are turning their attention to Google over concerns that the tech giant is censoring users and infringing on Americans’ free speech rights.

Google’s parent company Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, appears to be the GOP’s next Big Tech target. Lawmakers seem to be turning their attention to Alphabet after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta ended its controversial fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes system similar to the one used by Elon Musk’s X.

Cruz recently informed reporters of his and fellow senators’ plans to protect free speech. 

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“Stopping online censorship is a major priority for the Commerce Committee,” Cruz said, as reported by Politico. “And we are going to utilize every point of leverage we have to protect free speech online.”

Following his meeting with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai last month, Cruz told the outlet, “Big Tech censorship was the single most important topic.”

Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent subpoenas to Alphabet and other tech giants such as RumbleTikTok and Apple in February regarding “compliance with foreign censorship laws, regulations, judicial orders, or other government-initiated efforts” with the intent to discover how foreign governments, or the Biden administration, have limited Americans’ access to free speech.

“Throughout the previous Congress, the Committee expressed concern over YouTube’s censorship of conservatives and political speech,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Pichai in March. “To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the executive branch’s ability to work with Big Tech to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee must first understand how and to what extent the executive branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.”

Jordan subpoenaed tech CEOs in 2023 as well, including Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Tim Cook of Apple and Pichai, among others.

Despite the recent action against the tech giant, the battle stretches back to President Donald Trump’s first administration. Cruz began his investigation of Google in 2019 when he questioned Karan Bhatia, the company’s Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy at the time, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Cruz brought forth a presentation suggesting tech companies, including Google, were straying from free speech and leaning towards censorship.

Even during Congress’ recess, pressure on Google continues to mount as a federal court ruled Thursday that Google’s ad-tech unit violates U.S. antitrust laws and creates an illegal monopoly. This marks the second antitrust ruling against the tech giant as a different court ruled in 2024 that Google abused its dominance of the online search market.

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