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Former President Donald Trump is now referring to Kamala Harris, the current vice president and 2024 Democratic nominee for president, as "another dummy" who is "incompetent."

Trump made the comment Monday morning in Falls Church, Virginia.

"We can't have another dummy as a president, OK? We cannot have a dummy," Trump indicated.

"She can't talk," he said, adding Harris is "incompetent" as she continues avoiding interviews and news conferences.

Trump also slammed Joe Biden, and the possibility of rules changing for his upcoming debate with Harris on ABC Sept. 10.

"Where is our president? We don't even have a president," Trump said.

"We have a fascist person running who is incompetent and we have a president who is not even around."

"He went to California for a vacation because they threw him essentially out of the party. And then he came back home and said will he go to the White House? No, he went to Delaware to take another vacation.

"And you got Russia over there with nuclear threats. We don't have a president. We got to have a real president that's respected. So as to your question, I think it is disgraceful and I think ABC is a disgrace. I think having Donna Brazile sitting on that panel if she is the one that gave the answers and the questions to Hillary Clinton before a debate, I think ABC is really should be shut out.

"I'd much rather do it on NBC. I'd much rather do it on CBS, frankly. I think CBS is very unfair but the best of the group. And certainly I would do it on Fox. I'd even do it on CNN. I thought CNN treated us very fairly the last time. I think Jake Tapper was very fair and Dana Bash was very fair.

"But when I watched this interview of Tom Cotton, fortunately he's a total pro, he knows what he is doing and when I watched the round table after that, I said the hostility is crazy.

"So we're thinking about it. We're thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. The deal was we keep the same rules. Now all of a sudden they want to make a change in the rules because she can't answer questions. Why doesn't she do a couple of question — why doesn't she do something like I'm doing right now?

"She can't talk. We can't have another dummy as a president, OK? We cannot have a dummy."

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Inflation under the Joe Biden-Kamala-Harris administration has inflicted untold damage on American consumers, especially those at the lower income levels.

Officially, it has pushed prices up more than 20% from the day they took office.

Anecdotally, some costs have exploded far beyond even that.

Now, in a debate between Kamala Harris, the defender of the inflation, and Kamala Harris, the leader empathetic with the plight of Americans, has been televised.

It's the Donald Trump campaign that has released the video in which Kamala v. Kamala plays out.

It starts with Kamala Harris, the consumer advocate, complaining, "Everyday prices are too high. Food, rent, gas, back-to-school clothes."

Then Kamala Harris, the defender of the Democrats' current economy, speaks out "That is called Bidenomics."

Again with the complaints: "A loaf of bread costs 50% more today. Ground beef is up almost 50%. There's not much left at the end of the month."

And Kamala Harris the defender of the status quo? "Bidenomics is working."

Once against, Kamala Harris the consumer's friend, explains, "The price of housing has gone up. It feels so hard to just be able to get ahead."

The status quo defender Kamala Harris: "And we are very proud of Bidenomics."

A report at the Gateway Pundit explained, "Kamala Harris has successfully undergone an image makeover following the Biden coup thanks to a fawning press and catchy clichés while avoiding all questions and interviews that could trip her up."

But, the report said, "Since reporters will not do their job exposing Harris' horrible record as 'vice president' and her Marxist agenda for America, the pressure is on the Trump campaign to ensure Americans are fully exposed to the real Kamala Harris before it is too late."

It's good, the report said, "The campaign appears up for this challenging task."

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Kamala Harris frantically has been moving "to the middle" on many divisive political issues ever since Democratic Party elites handpicked her to replace the aging and mentally failing Joe Biden as the party's presidential candidate this November.

Her strategy of simply refusing to post her policy plans, refusing to answer reporters' questions and refusing to be available for interviews has worked for her, as she has gone more or less silent on critical issues now facing American voters – including today's ever-more-radical gender ideology revolution.

It's not just homosexuality, lesbianism and same-sex relationships as a few years ago. It's the ideological teaching that boys are actually girls if they think they are, and vice versa. It's the ideology that there are dozens of different genders, not just male and female. It's the powerful chemicals used to delay puberty in children, which can alter them for life, including making the sterile. It's the surgical body mutilations including double mastectomies and genital amputations and other shocking procedures on youngsters too young to drive a car or buy cigarettes, often without their parents' knowledge or consent.

A report in the Daily Signal confirms that Harris has simply "avoided addressing" many such questions.

That's perhaps because the "far-left position" on these issues that Harris has always supported is something that most Americans reject. And Harris, as vice president for Joe Biden, almost always has been a front-line advocate of LGBTQ extremism.

Indeed, LGBTQ organizations know Harris is in their camp, and thus are "eagerly backing" her, as well as VP candidate Tim Walz, also a far-leftist who in his own state of Minnesota has pushed for radical actions, including the state actually taking custody of children should their own parents not sufficiently support the latest LGBTQ beliefs.

Walz, in fact, signed an executive order creating a "right" to trans chemicals and surgeries in his state.

The report noted that LGBTQ promoters including the American Civil Liberties Union, GLAAD, Advocates for Trans Equality, and the Human Rights Campaign all are pushing a fear-mongering campaign that suggests Republicans are intent on carrying out "anti-LGBTQ" plans.

Those would include protecting children from transgender surgeries.

Harris' decision to go silent is understandable, as those agenda points that have been created by far-left organizations do not have mainstream American support.

"The White House, which has previously embraced 'medical care' for trans-identifying kids, appears to be aware of this. In early July, the White House flip-flopped on the topic, first telling news outlets that the Biden-Harris administration did not support transgender surgeries for children, before reaffirming support for irreversible procedures for minors after 'intense pressure' from LGBTQ groups," the report explained.

The Biden-Harris administration, in fact, has been fully on board with trans promotions, naming Rachel Levine, a man identifying as a woman, to a critical federal post. He reportedly pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to drop age requirements for minors to be subjected to those extreme and irreversible body alterations.

Levine's office has claimed that those "early" treatments are important for children, based on the largely manufactured claim that children are "at risk of self-harm" without them.

Actually, research has confirmed that the likelihood of suicide attempts increases after "so-called gender-affirming care."

GLAAD, which originally was the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, openly demands the chemical and surgical treatments, and assures its supporters the Biden-Harris administration is the "most pro-LGBTQ presidency in history."

It endorsed her pick of Walz, too, explaining, "Vice President Harris' choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz underscores a longstanding commitment to the equality, prosperity, and safety of all Americans, including and especially for LGBTQ people."

The organization said Harris has pushed for at least "66 positive moves for LGBTQ equality."

That includes her performing a "wedding" for a same-sex duo two decades ago, in 2004.

Further, she's been fully behind the leftist "Equality Act," which would open the door to private women's facilities like locker rooms and changing rooms to men, and she has opposed allowing counselors to try to help victims become free of unwanted same-sex feelings.

She's also joined the campaign that Walz has supported, to threaten families who won't allow their underage children to be subjected to life-altering surgeries.

The report noted the ACLU helps minors file lawsuits in pursuit of those chemical treatments and body alterations and believes Harris "would be a champion for the community if elected."

In fact, it wants Harris, from the White House, to "issue an executive order on day one directing federal agencies to examine ways that they can affirmatively enhance access to gender-affirming care in federally funded programs."

This is much the same process that Joe Biden used to activate the entirety of the federal government to recruit and enlist leftist voters.

The ACLU's James Esseks, in fact, said, "With further attacks on our rights and a landmark Supreme Court case on the horizon, we would encourage a Harris-Walz administration to … do everything in their power to protect our rights, our health care, and our freedom to be ourselves without fear."

An official with the LGBTQ group called the Human Rights Campaign said, "Her pick of Gov. Walz sends a message that a Harris-Walz administration will be committed to advancing equality and justice for all."

That group's statement said, "As vice president, Harris has helped lead the most pro-equality administration in history."

The organization is another that promotes subjecting children to irreversible and disfiguring "treatments" in opposition to parental rights.

The Daily Signal report said, "The Human Rights Campaign also backs so-called gender-affirming care for minors, criticizing those who wish to protect children. … HRC falsely claims that 'no permanent medical interventions happen until a transgender person is old enough to give truly informed consent.'"

Their evidence is derived from the many young people suing doctors and medical organizations for providing for their "transition" to a different gender, which scientifically is impossible, as "they were not able to fully give informed consent due to their age and mental health issues."

Advocates for Trans Equality said a Harris-Walz regime would go even beyond what Biden-Harris has done to help push transgenderism.

A report from an LGBTQ website documents that some 1,100 "queer celebrities, politicians and leaders" have signed an endorsement for Harris' campaign.

"The letter," reported NBC, "includes signatures from actors Matt Bomer, George Takei, Billy Eichner, and Sophia Bush and her partner, Ashlyn Harris, a former U.S. Women's National Team soccer player. Out elected officials, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., and Reps. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Becca Balint, D-Vt., also signed, alongside notable figures such as Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, and Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998."

That report, in fact, boasted of Harris' "two-decade track record of supporting gay rights," and it pointed out how the letter describes her as a key component of a war against traditional marriage in California when she was a state official there.

GLAAD reports that Harris also has fought to deliver sexually explicit books in public schools and libraries and promised to "LGBTQI+ youth" that "We stand with you!"

She also pushed for LGBT ideology to be taught in schools, and for boys who say they are girls to be integrated into girls' locker rooms and showers in public schools.

That agenda, however, has taken multiple hits from federal courts who have ruled that the agenda must be blocked until the court process is completed.

Other pro-LGBTQ organizations that have fallen in behind Harris' pro-trans agenda include the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

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Tim Walz, the leftist Minnesota governor who already has been caught in a long list of statements that have been documented to be untrue, now has been caught in another.

This time it's for an award he claimed during a previous campaign that he got, but he didn't.

The report comes from the Minnesota Sun, which explained "Walz's pattern of misrepresenting his record continues to come under scrutiny as he steps onto the national stage as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate."

The latest controversy uncovered developed when Walz was running for the U.S. House back in 2006.

"His campaign website stated that he had received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his contributions to the business community," the report said.

But not so, said Barry L. Kennedy, then president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.

In fact, in a letter to Walz, Kennedy confirmed, "We researched this matter and can confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce."

A copy of that letter was obtained by Alpha News.

The letter pointedly explained, "I am not going to draw a conclusion about your intentions by including this line in your biography. However, we respectfully request that you remove any reference to our organization as it could be considered an endorsement of your candidacy. It should be pointed out, however, that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed your opponent, Congressman Gil Gutknecht, for his support of small business issues."

Walz later had his website changed, to reference the "Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce," and his campaign manager blamed the falsehood on a "typographical error."

Other issues of truthfulness that Walz already has needed to address including his multiple claims to have retired from the Army National Guard with the rank Command Sergeant Major. While he was in that rank at his retirement, he had not completed the requirements to keep it in retirement, so was downgraded at that point.

He also is on video stating he handled assault weapons "in war," during an anti-Second Amendment campaign.

"We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is [sic] the only place that those weapons are at," he said, triggering charges of "stolen valor" since he was deployed to Italy as a lawyer at the time.

Further, the report said, "CNN recently acknowledged that Walz's 2006 congressional campaign 'falsely described' important details regarding his September 1995 drunk driving arrest in Nebraska."

CNN reported that the 2006 Walz campaign "repeatedly told the press that [Walz] had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard. The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night.'"

But, said CNN, "None of that was true."

And, the report said, "Additionally, Walz has repeatedly implied he and his wife used IVF procedures in order to conceive their children," which was not true.

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One of the most intriguing mysteries in the entire Bible is the famous phrase concerning a plague on the land of Egypt when God told Moses, "there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt" (Exodus 10:21 CSB).

The story also notes "there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days" (Exodus 10:22 CSB).

But what do these cryptic events connote?

The author of a brand-new book illuminating the hidden content of Holy Scripture is now shining the light of clarity on these mysteries on the popular Bible TV show, "Shabbat Night Live."  (WATCH THE EPISODES BELOW.)

"The Bible brings up darkness many times, many different examples from the Old Testament to the New," says Joe Kovacs, author of "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything."

"God is light as we know, the Bible makes no secret about that: 'God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all' (1 John 1:5 NLT). But what is darkness?"

Kovacs explained that Jesus spoke exclusively in allegories called parables (Matthew 13:34), and the term "darkness" itself is packing a metaphorical meaning on the Spirit level, since people themselves are made up of darkness, specifically the dust of the earth as is mentioned in Genesis 2:7.

"The earth, as you know, is dark. Soil is dark. It's not a bright light like the sun is. So WE, on the spirit level of God speed, are considered the darkness, and the Bible uses the term darkness many times to refer to people."

"Here's one Scripture that may seem a little obscure to people: 'See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples' (Isaiah 60:2 NIV).

"That's saying the same thing twice. Darkness covers the earth. Again, at God speed, we are the earth (Genesis 2:7). This is our darkness. It doesn't matter what kind of complexion you have. We, as physical beings, are darkness. And thick darkness is over what? The peoples! 'Cause we are the peoples. The earth is the peoples. If you know how to read the poetry of the Bible, darkness is us. It's our flesh. We are the peoples. So darkness is the human condition in our fleshly state.

"Again we're not Spirit beings yet. We have the Spirit of God within us, and we're meant to get out of the flesh, but right now we have darkness of the earth [covering us]."

"Here's another kind of obscure verse: 'I am dark like the tents of Kedar' (Song of Songs 1:5 CSB).

"'Kedar' is a word that means darkness! So the woman in the story – the bride, by the way – is telling people that she's in the flesh – like we in the flesh now are dark like the tents, 'cause we're all in a tent. We all realize this is an earthen tent, the earthen vessels that we're in – we're in the tents of darkness. We're covered with a tent. Our skin and flesh is a tent of darkness. So when you look up the word sometimes, it helps you get to that spirit level, that parable level. We're all dark like the tents of darkness. That's all it's saying.

"When we take this concept, we can go all over the Bible to find all kinds of fun stories dealing with darkness. For instance, three days of darkness in Egypt. It's one of the plagues on Egypt in the Old Testament. We know that darkness represents the flesh. But why is it three days of darkness?

Kovacs then connected the dots of the Bible by joining the verse to one in the New Testament illuminating its meaning.

"It goes back to the point of Hebrews 13:8, yesterday, today and forever. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Those are the three days. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, and those three days represent the past, present and future. If you are in the fleshly mindset, and literally of the flesh, you are in darkness for [those] three days."

Kovacs noted the opposite of the plague of darkness was the presence of light in Goshen where the Israelites dwelled: "The opposite of that story, incidentally, is that there was light in Goshen. (Exodues 10:23)

"Why was there light in Goshen, but darkness for three days in Egypt? Well, Goshen actually means something … it means 'drawing near.' So the message at God speed, the parable level, the metaphor level, the Spirit level, is that if we're drawing near to God, we have light in our dwellings.

"This is our dwelling place," he said, motioning to his entire physical body, "and if you're drawing near to God, you have light in your dwelling place. But if you're not drawing near to God, you are in darkness. Simple as that."

But what about the enduring mystery of the darkness that can be felt, as Scripture states outright?

"The Bible says it was a darkness that could be felt," Kovacs began. "It's literally a darkness that can be felt because when you feel your skin, your flesh, you are feeling the darkness that can be felt. That's why that phrase is in the Bible.

"God is using every tool in the box, every possible way of phrasing something so that you know what he's talking about if you're paying attention. Jesus even in the New Testament mentions … somebody who's disobedient – [saying] take him away from the king and bind him in outer darkness. (Matthew 22:13, 25:30)

"Outer darkness is this," Kovacs explained as he touched his own hand to demonstrate. "Bind him in the flesh because he's gonna stay in the flesh in the body of the beast."

"This is the darkness that can be felt. These are not scary terms. God is just saying the same thing over and over using different words."

Scott Laird, the host of "Shabbat Night Live" filling in for Michael Rood, interjected: "So when we come out darkness, or to come out of Babylon … come out of Egypt …"

Kovacs responded: "It's all saying the same thing. We are meant to come out of the darkness, the dark place of misery which is Egypt; come out of Sodom, which is the burning place, the flaming place; come out of her my people [referring to the Babylon of confusion]. You see all these phrases in the Bible because the Bible is basically a book about Spirit versus flesh. God is a Spirit, the Bible tells us in the Gospel of John.

"He's a Spirit being. We are not a Spirit being – yet. We are [eventually] meant to be, but we are currently in the body of a beast, the body of flesh, and we see examples of that in the Bible."

Kovacs appeared on four episodes of "Shabbat Night Live," with the discussion of the meaning of darkness in the fourth and final episode here:

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Those people who have sustained brain injuries and are hospitalized in an unresponsive state sometimes provide the biggest puzzles in health care.

Sometimes their condition is a result of an accident, or injury, and sometimes it may come about because of a heart attack or stroke.

There are no strict rules for such cases as some patients live for years and then die without returning to consciousness, while others spring suddenly awake after weeks or even months in what appears to be a coma.

Stunningly, there are those who die from deliberate actions, starvation and the deprivation of fluids, as doctors and family give up on them.

But those suffering those conditions may be more cognizant that many realize.

A report from the Christian Institute in the United Kingdom explains, "Researchers have demonstrated that a quarter of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) can follow simple commands cognitively. In an international study of 241 brain injury patients, 60 performed 'a cognitive task' as detected on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) scans."

There are an estimated 25,000 such patients in U.K. hospitals and homes, the report said.

"Some patients with severe brain injury do not appear to be processing their external world. However, when they are assessed with advanced techniques such as task-based fMRI and EEG, we can detect brain activity that suggests otherwise," said study author Yelena Bodien.

She continued, "These results bring up critical ethical, clinical, and scientific questions, such as how can we harness that unseen cognitive capacity to establish a system of communication and promote further recovery?"

The report warns of horrific consequences, such as withholding food and water or withdrawal of life support, and cited the case of U.K. teenager Jack Dolan, left in an apparent vegetative state following an accident, who rallied after his life support was removed.

Jack's stepfather, David Dolan, explained in the report, "Jack is blowing everything doctors said out the water. He is moving his arms, wiggling his toes, holding eye contact and, while in pain with belly ache, looked his mum in the eye and said 'help.'"

A report at the Independent explains the study monitored brain activity while patients were told to imagine opening and closing your hand or imagine playing tennis.

The report said experts believe now there is "an ethical obligation to engage with these patients, to try to help them connect to the world."

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A new, and wild, claim has been reported coming out of publications run by the Egyptian government:

That Israel and the United States, the two most common targets of Islamist terrorist organizations, set up those Islamist terror organizations.

A report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said that the government-published articles claim, "the U.S. and Israel are the ones who established the Islamist terrorist organizations al-Qaida, ISIS and others like them, and that these countries are responsible for instigating terrorism throughout the world."

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday, they had secured the arrest of a prolific human smuggler in Guatemala, thanks to a successful investigative collaboration between the DOJ and Guatemalan authorities.

Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco was arrested by Guatemalan authorities at the request of the U.S., and has been indicted in the Western District of Texas in connection to the investigation.

Miranda-Orozco was part of an extensive human smuggling network based in Guatemala. Six other individuals were also arrested by Guatemalan law enforcement, and will be charged for their part in the operation.

According to the DOJ, in June of 2022 the network smuggled people over the southern border in a tractor–trailer near San Antonio, Texas, in sweltering heat which resulted in the deaths of 53 migrants, including 21 Guatemalan nationals. Children and pregnant women were among the dead.

The investigation was part of Joint Task Force Alpha, created in June 2021 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and executed through the Department of Homeland Security.

Miranda-Orozco allegedly conspired with other human smugglers to facilitate the journey of four migrants from Guatemala through Mexico, and into the U.S. He was paid up to $15,000 for each migrant. Three of the four migrants perished in the tractor-trailer, and the other had serious injuries.

Garland said in the news release, the DOJ and Guatemalan authorities have arrested 14 people connected with the human smuggling network.

"Over the past two years, the Justice Department has worked methodically to hold accountable those responsible for the horrific tragedy in San Antonio that killed 53 people who had been preyed on by human smugglers. With these arrests, the Justice Department and our partners in Guatemala have now arrested a total of 14 people for their alleged involvement in this tragedy. We are committed to continuing to work with our partners both in the United States and abroad to target the most prolific and dangerous human smuggling groups operating in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, and Panama," Garland said in a statement.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said in the news release the deaths of the migrants in the tractor-trailer should be a warning to those who want to smuggle people, and those considering entering the U.S. illegally.

"As alleged in the indictment, Miranda-Orozco recruited some of the migrants who died in the back of a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas, in June 2022, and worked with a network of smugglers to transport them from Guatemala through Mexico into the United States. This tragedy is a dire warning of the dangers that human smugglers cause by exposing migrants to life-threatening conditions for the smugglers' financial gain. Dismantling human smuggling networks is a critical priority for the Criminal Division, and we will continue to work with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute these cases, no matter where the offenders may be found," Argentieri said in the statement.

According to a May 2024 report from the House Committee on Homeland Security, it is projected there will be around 10 million illegal migrant encounters in total since January 2021 when President Biden took office, and the end of 2024's fiscal year.

In December 2023, the committee published another report detailing how Mexican cartels are making historic profits, collecting $13 billion in 2021 alone, further noting the migrant crisis has escalated in the subsequent years since then.

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A conservative columnist writing at PJMedia has decided to give Planned Parenthood, the leading player in America's lucrative abortion industry, a "thumbs up."

"This one time."

It happened after one of the abortion organization's chapters delivered a "mobile health clinic" to Chicago during the Democrat National Convention in order to give away vasectomies and medication abortion.

The commentary from Athena Thorne noted, "Okay, maybe not a thumbs-up across the board, but I don't entirely hate it. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (PPGR), which bills itself as 'the leading provider, educator and protector of reproductive health care in St. Louis and Southwest Missouri for more than 90 years,' has deployed its 'mobile health clinic' to Chicago to coincide with the DNC convention currently underway.

"There, it will busy itself preventing radical leftists from reproducing," the report said.

Abortion industry players explained in the commentary, "Accessibility is a core value at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, and our mobile health clinic helps us bring care to more people who need it. As people from across the country travel to Illinois this week, we are proud to demonstrate what is possible when policies truly support accessible reproductive health care."

A publication spotlighted a Democrat as he "casually threw away his ability ever to be a father."

The report: "Patient Marcus Aguinaga said the concept of the mobile health clinic seemed 'wild' to him. But the 27-year-old Chicago resident said he has wanted to get a vasectomy since 2020 but the procedure was cost-prohibitive; Planned Parenthood officials said vasectomies typically cost about $800 out-of-pocket and medication abortions are usually around $500. … After the procedure, Aguinaga said he felt 'relief.'"

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Over the last year or so, Candace Owens has made an increasing number of deeply concerning comments about the Jewish people and Israel, leading to the question: What kind of anti-Semitic Kool-Aid is she drinking? In light of her most recent comments, the answer is One of the worst kinds of anti-Semitic Kool-Aid, the kind that espouses the most ridiculous (and malicious) conspiracy theories. Her statements have now become completely unhinged, leading to bizarre headlines like this on an anti-Semitic website: "Candace Owens digs in, calling out Israel's Frankist pedo-protection cult." What?

In her rant, Owens informs us that the horrors of the Holocaust did not help give birth to the modern State of Israel. Instead, many moons before this, Catholics and Christians went missing around Passover, and when their bodies were found, "they were able to trace them back to the Jews."

But, she tells us, she is not repeating the infamous blood libel, which alleges that Jews kidnap and kill Christians during Passover, using their blood to bake matzoh. Not at all! These people weren't Jews at all. "They were Frankists," Owens says, referring to a sex cult led by the notorious Polish Jew Jacob Frank (1726-1791).

The only problem with this unhinged theory is everything. First, this is the same, fictitious blood libel, just blamed on Frankists rather than Jews. Second, the Frankists, with all their perverted practices, did not kidnap and kill Catholics and Christians, using their blood for Passover. Third, the Frankists were Jews, although some of them eventually converted to Catholicism. But I quibble. Why should we trip over historical facts?

According to Owens, Leo Frank killed Mary Phagan during Passover (in 1913) for these same nefarious, bloody purposes. (Apparently, he must have been a Frankist too, since his last name was Frank!) And, she states firmly, "this Frankist cult, which is masquerading behind Jews, still participates in this s–t to this day."

We will soon find out that it is these fake Jews who helped found Israel, which is why, she tells us, Israel is a sanctuary state for pedophiles. Surely, nothing anti-Semitic here! And surely, we shouldn't stumble over the fact that most legal scholars believe that Leo Frank was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of the crime. Tragically, he was dragged from jail by an angry mob and lynched. But not to worry. After all, Frank was a Jew, right?

Owens claims that "the nation of Israel may have been established by some Frankists," which is why "Zionists defend pedophiles and criminals." But of course! How did we miss that? Yes, we are told, this is why Israel allows "pedophiles from America to flee and receive protection from their state." (BTW, Owens jokes that she will punch you in the face if you dare say that Israel is our ally. They are anything but an ally and friend. All clear?)

What is Owens' proof about the founding of Israel? "It is looking like Theodor Herzl's family" came from the same area in Moravia and Bohemia "where the Frankist cult was founded." And while Owens says "maybe" about her theory, she has read "a ton of books" and is quite sure about it. She also informs us that Herzl said that he didn't care how many Jews had to die to establish the Jewish state. How did all the Herzl scholars miss this?

And why quibble over the fact that the Frankist cult originated primarily in Podolia, which is in modern-day Ukraine? After all, Ukraine Moravia, and Bohemia are all in Europe, right? That's pretty close! At some point in time, some Frankists were located in the same country where Herzl was born. So, he was a Frankist sex pervert, and as the founder of Israel, that explains why the Jewish state is a sanctuary for pedophiles. Candace is on a roll! And since no one questions whether Herzl was Jewish, it appears that the Frankists masquerading as Jews were Jews after all. Got it!

As for the fact that the Frankists had largely disappeared by the time of Herzl's birth, again, why split hairs over things like chronology and history and dates and facts? Owens has a theory!

Not only so, but Owens wants us to know that Israel was involved in the assassination of JFK. It was a Mossad job!

But no one dared speak about these things. That's because America is being held hostage by a foreign country – Israel! And so she fearlessly proclaims, "We are an occupied nation!"

But it gets darker still. Owens informs us that the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, was a Frankist. Don't believe her? She has an ironclad answer: "Look it up!"

Unfortunately, not even my AI bots could figure out where this nonsensical and diabolical theory came from, with AI Claude pointing out that: 1) "The Frankist movement was primarily active in the 18th century, while Brandeis lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." 2) "Brandeis was known for his strong ethical standards and progressive reforms, which seem at odds with what is known about Frankist beliefs and practices." 3) "There are no reputable historical sources that suggest Brandeis had any connection to Frankism." (These are just some of the points Claude raised, which also noted, "This myth might have originated from anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. …")

But Owens has still more to say. She alleges that "every person who speaks about Israel has to say a statement like, 'I don't want to get killed.'" Yes, of course! No one in America or abroad would dare say anything negative about Israel or the Jewish people for fear of being killed by the Israelis. And if anything happens to her? "Blame the Zionists, like 1,000 percent, blame the Zionists. …"

Thankfully, she provides an "easy litmus test" by which you can judge "any commentator." If they don't condemn Israel's defense of pedophiles and acknowledge that Louis Brandeis was a Frankist, then they, too, are evil, psychopathic Zionists.

Sarcasm aside, Owens is peddling some sick, terribly dangerous stuff, given her popularity and influence.

May she awaken from this anti-Semitic stupor, may she spit out the poisonous Kool-Aid she is drinking, and may she become an advocate for righteousness and truth. And as much as her statements deserve ridicule and scorn, she needs our prayers. (I say this out of concern, not condescension.)

May the Lord deliver Candace Owens from deception!