BASED Politics

Chappell Roan is the breakout star of the year with four singles reaching the Billboard Top 100 and a cult following that’s grown up in large part around her own LGBTQ identity.

But over the past couple of weeks, she went from music industry darling to pariah after she did the unthinkable and refused to endorse Kamala Harris for president. 

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The GOP continues its obsession with women who don’t have bio kids as Trump surrogate Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes shots at non-moms during a recent Trump rally. They’re doing this while Democrats point to a recent case out of Georgia of a young mom who died thanks to the Republican state legislature's extreme abortion ban in the state. And, JD Vance admits to lying about the pet-eating hoax in Ohio, but claims the ends justify the means as the initial cat that sparked the whole story is found safe in its owner’s basement. Plus, despite the Biden/Harris Admin prostituting itself for unions over the past four years, the Teamsters have announced they will not be endorsing a candidate, and the FED slashes interest rates for the first time in years - what does that mean for you? We’re covering all of that today.

Internet sleuths have been known to solve the coldest of cold cases, produce family members that were previously unknown to one another, and catch cheaters in real time - yet despite the majority of Republican media being intensely focused on the matter for the past week, right-wing conspiracy theorists have yet to come up with ONE credible case of an immigrant eating a pet in Ohio.

But despite zero proof this is happening, and overwhelming evidence it isn't, conservatives are refusing to let it go. Why is that? America has a long history of moral panics, lynch mobs, and attacking the culinary customs of new populations.

It’s been a little over a year since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, the race-conscious policy that governed college admissions for decades. In the case, Asian students argued that Harvard and UNC admissions discriminated against them and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Court agreed.

Now, the enrollment numbers for the first year without affirmative action in charge are trickling in, and as predicted, Black and Hispanic numbers dropped while Asian acceptance rates went up. But that leaves us with the uncomfortable question: why do some demographics perform so much better than others academically?

Here to help me unpack this week, AEI Fellow Ian Rowe!

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It’s been almost two decades since Scott Peterson was convicted and sentenced to death row for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn child Conner.

But while public opinion was overwhelmingly stacked against him at the time of her disappearance, the years have unearthed new information in the trial that are leading many to question his guilt.

The British are rioting over immigration and their government is responding by...stalking their social media accounts, arresting them for free speech, and threatening Elon Musk. It's official, they've finally gone full Big Brother as their son George Orwell predicted years ago in 1984. First they take the guns, then they shut down free speech - it's a full fledge free fall into a dystopian nightmare from there. In reality, social media, technology, and free speech aren't responsible for the riots. Piss poor policies are, and it's a cycle we've seen repeat time after time historically.

I joined  @jubilee  for my second debate appearance this summer - this time the topic was gun control. Given my background working extensively on gun rights, mental health, and criminal justice reform, it was a debate I was excited to join and actually find "middle ground" on - the title of the series.

But unlike my first debate appearance with them, this time Jubilee's production attempted to pull a seat up in the debate and join the argument in the editing process. They included numerous stats and "fact checks" that were either completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, or even worse, were studies with such bad methodologies they've become a running joke.

Honestly, if their producers wanted to debate me...I would have been happy to do so. But this was a cheap trick - and since so many Americans are never taught how to actually read data, it seems many in their audience are falling for their attempt to discredit very solid statistics. So join me as I yet again have to fact check the fact checkers in this behind the scenes reaction to the final product.

Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz is getting trounced by the Trump camp and right-wing media for taking an early retirement from the National Guard and refusing to deploy to the Iraq War.

But these criticisms ignore the fact that Trump himself was a draft dodger, that the Iraq War was horribly unjust and he would have been right to get out of it, and the changing American perception on war and the draft in general.

But while Walz is being accused of stolen valor, his stance on free speech ironically MAJORLY misses a massive SCOTUS case on the same issue - in which the courts emphatically agreed that misinformation IS free speech.

Plus, the commies in the Biden Administration finally get an antitrust win against Google in a ruling that will likely have collassel consequences on our economy, our market, consumers, and our legal apparatus. 

The Paris Olympics refused to provide the athletes air conditioning and quality food - all in the name of climate change. What makes the situation all the more ridiculous is how little of a difference any of these things even make on the climate.

Plus the Senate passes AWFUL trojan horse legislation known as KOSA (kids online safety act) that they claim protects kids, but will actually endanger them while giving bureucrats the power to censor you online.

The Biden Admin responds to the BASEDPolitics lawsuit over the TikTok ban in a hilarious fashion. And Fauci gets caught lying to Congress AGAIN.