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MSNBC caught deceptively editing clip that made it seem Joe Rogan was praising Kamala Harris

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By Stephen Kokx

MSNBC has admitted to misleading viewers into thinking popular podcaster Joe Rogan was praising Vice President Kamala Harris when he was really expressing admiration for former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

Liberal cable news network MSNBC has admitted to misleading viewers into thinking popular podcaster Joe Rogan was praising Vice President Kamala Harris when he was really expressing admiration for former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

The original video of Rogan’s remarks was published on MSNBC’s TikTok account on August 2. It shows Rogan saying he believes “she can win” and that “she is a strong woman.”  

The words “Joe Rogan predicts Harris will win the presidency” appeared on the top of the video in black letters. 

As noted by both Rogan and Gabbard, Rogan was actually speaking about Gabbard’s own run for the presidency. 

“One part of the video @joerogan was talking about Kamala; on another part of the video, he was talking about me,” Gabbard said in an X post.

“MSNBC combined it together to make it look like everything said was about Kamala and that he was endorsing her. Of course this is completely false.” 

Rogan himself said he was speaking about Gabbard and her being “a congresswoman for eight years and about how she served overseas [as part of] two deployments.” 

He added that MSNBC didn’t “care about the truth” and that they “just want a narrative to get out there amongst enough people because most people are just surface readers.” 

While Gabbard has endorsed former President Donald Trump in his re-election bid, Rogan, who previously expressed appreciation for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has so far resisted doing so, even though Kennedy has dropped out and endorsed Trump.  

Trump did not take kindly to Rogan’s praise for Kennedy. In a Truth Social post in early August, Trump said, “It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024.” 

Rogan is the main color commentator for UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, which is run by Trump supporter Dana White. Rogan shares insights and interviews fighters after their matches. Trump himself often attends the fights as a spectator to much fanfare. 

Both former Democrats, Kennedy Jr. and Gabbard will help shape the potential next Trump administration, with the former president announcing their addition to his transition team. Both endorsed Trump following long-standing and highly publicized breaks from their former party over free speech, medical freedom, and foreign policy issues.

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Top Brass Is On The Run Ahead Of Trump’s Return

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Morgan Murphy

With less than a month to go before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the top brass are already running for cover. This week the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, pledged to cut approximately a dozen general officers from the U.S. Army.

It is a start.

But given the Army is authorized 219 general officers, cutting just 12 is using a scalpel when a machete is in order. At present, the ratio of officers to enlisted personnel stands at an all-time high. During World War II, we had one general for every 6,000 troops. Today, we have one for every 1,600.

Right now, the United States has 1.3 million active-duty service members according to the Defense Manpower Data Center. Of those, 885 are flag officers (fun fact: you get your own flag when you make general or admiral, hence the term “flag officer” and “flagship”). In the reserve world, the ratio is even worse. There are 925 general and flag officers and a total reserve force of just 760,499 personnel. That is a flag for every 674 enlisted troops.

The hallways at the Pentagon are filled with a constellation of stars and the legions of staffers who support them. I’ve worked in both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Starting around 2011, the Joint Staff began to surge in scope and power. Though the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is not in the chain of command and simply serves as an advisor to the president, there are a staggering 4,409 people working for the Joint Staff, including 1,400 civilians with an average salary of $196,800 (yes, you read that correctly). The Joint Staff budget for 2025 is estimated by the Department of Defense’s comptroller to be $1.3 billion.

In contrast, the Secretary of Defense — the civilian in charge of running our nation’s military — has a staff of 2,646 civilians and uniformed personnel. The disparity between the two staffs threatens the longstanding American principle of civilian control of the military.

Just look at what happens when civilians in the White House or the Senate dare question the ranks of America’s general class. “Politicizing the military!” critics cry, as if the Commander-in-Chief has no right to question the judgement of generals who botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, bought into the woke ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or oversaw over-budget and behind-schedule weapons systems. Introducing accountability to the general class is not politicizing our nation’s military — it is called leadership.

What most Americans don’t understand is that our top brass is already very political. On any given day in our nation’s Capitol, a casual visitor is likely to run into multiple generals and admirals visiting our elected representatives and their staff. Ostensibly, these “briefs” are about various strategic threats and weapons systems — but everyone on the Hill knows our military leaders are also jockeying for their next assignment or promotion. It’s classic politics

The country witnessed this firsthand with now-retired Gen. Mark Milley. Most Americans were put off by what they saw. Milley brazenly played the Washington spin game, bragging in a Senate Armed Services hearing that he had interviewed with Bob Woodward and a host of other Washington, D.C. reporters.

Woodward later admitted in an interview with CNN that he was flabbergasted by Milley, recalling the chairman hadn’t just said “[Trump] is a problem or we can’t trust him,” but took it to the point of saying, “he is a danger to the country. He is the most dangerous person I know.” Woodward said that Milley’s attitude felt like an assignment editor ordering him, “Do something about this.”

Think on that a moment — an active-duty four star general spoke on the record, disparaging the Commander-in-Chief. Not only did it show rank insubordination and a breach of Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 88, but Milley’s actions represented a grave threat against the Constitution and civilian oversight of the military.

How will it play out now that Trump has returned? Old political hands know that what goes around comes around. Milley’s ham-handed political meddling may very well pave the way for a massive reorganization of flag officers similar to Gen. George C. Marshall’s “plucking board” of 1940. Marshall forced 500 colonels into retirement saying, “You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and they will fail.”

Marshall’s efforts to reorient the War Department to a meritocracy proved prescient when the United States entered World War II less than two years later.

Perhaps it’s time for another plucking board to remind the military brass that it is their civilian bosses who sit at the top of the U.S. chain of command.

Morgan Murphy is military thought leader, former press secretary to the Secretary of Defense and national security advisor in the U.S. Senate.

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Trump has started negotiations to end the war in Ukraine

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For the first time since Russian soldiers entered Ukraine in February 2022, the US is negotiating with Vladimir Putin.  Surprisingly it’s not President Biden’s team at work, but President Elect Donald Trump.  Trump has been working through Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban.  President Orban traveled to the US to meet with Trump a day before he had an hour long phone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Clearly Trump is looking for at least a quick de-escalation if not an all out end to the conflict in Ukraine.  Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran podcast explain the current situation.

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