Cultural Heretics returns at the top of the hour!

Julians Rum and I will take a blow torch to the ongoing absurdity of Clown World ... and have a little too much fun along the way.

Grab some coffee, some afternoon rum (or both,) and let's get weird.

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BREAKING🚨: The far-right website Gateway Pundit is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company’s founder said this week.

TGP Communications, the website’s parent company, is seeking protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of what founder Jim Hoft called “the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.”

Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a voter registration officer in Fulton County, Ga., and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who both served as temporary workers for the 2020 elections, sued the website in 2021 for publishing false claims about them.

As part of their suit, the two workers argue the Gateway Pundit, which has promoted former President Trump’s false claims about voter fraud, “devastated” their reputations, and sparked “threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”
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The White House on Thursday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s call to send the National Guard to quell pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, insisting that it’s up to state governors to first request such a move.

“That is something that is under the governors,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. “That is something for the governors to decide.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has so far declined to seek federal assistance in managing the protests, which intensified in recent days after Columbia officials invited police onto the campus, resulting in hundreds of arrests.
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Free market advisers to Donald Trump are bracing for a renewed effort by protectionist allies of the former president to devalue the dollar, a measure critics say would increase prices and harm living standards.

Supply-side conservatives are worried about a renewed focus by Trump on the dollar, as well as by reported plans from former U.S. Trade Adviser Robert Lighthizer for devaluing the dollar through administrative action. The purpose of devaluing the dollar would be to slash the U.S. trade deficit and reshore manufacturing jobs, both top goals for Trump in a second term.
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🤣Adam Schiff was robbed in San Francisco, forcing him to show up to a meeting with no suit.

Hello to the city, goodbye to your luggage. That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage.

The heist meant the Democratic congressman got stuck at a fancy dinner party in his shirt sleeves and a hiking vest while everyone else sat in suits. Not quite the look the man from Burbank was aiming for as he rose to thank powerhouse attorney Joe Cotchett for his support in his bid to replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate.

“I guess it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco,’ ” Cotchett’s press agent Lee Houskeeper, who was at the dinner, remarked dryly.
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George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
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😂President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

Some Biden advisers have told Axios they're concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone — especially across the grass — have highlighted his age.

The White House also has taken steps to prevent the president from tripping, as he did last summer on a stage at the Air Force Academy.
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Donald Trump Jr. appreciates but rejects offer to run NRA

A key member of the National Rifle Association and ally of former President Donald Trump is pitching Donald Trump Jr. to take over for former NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.

However, a source close to Trump told Secrets this morning that “it’s not something he has any interest in doing.”

The Reload reported today that NRA board member Bill Bachenberg suggested in an email to other board members that Trump would be a good fit to replace LaPierre, who resigned recently after months of legal troubles personally and for the nation’s top gun lobby.
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Russell Brand is getting baptized this weekend.

https://x.com/citizenfreepres/status/1783847046400655731?s=46

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.

Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a three-day to trip to China, where the top American diplomat spent hours meeting with top Chinese officials including Xi, as the two countries navigated a raft of contentious issues from US tech controls to Beijing’s support for Moscow.

Blinken said he repeated a message President Joe Biden gave to Xi during their summit in San Francisco last November not to interfere in the 2024 US presidential elections. Then, Xi had pledged that that China would not do so, according to CNN reporting.
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Congress Issues Subpoenas On Inmate Tied To Hunter Biden

Congressman Jim Jordan (OH, Chairman Committee on the Judiciary) and James Comer (KY, Chairman Committee on Oversight and Accountability) have questions about the treatment of a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate Jason Galanis. In March, the congressmen issued letters to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams (Southern District of New York) and BOP Director Colette Peters seeking information on whether or not there was interference with Galanis’ ability to get home confinement. The interference, the congressmen believe, relates to information Galanis has on his former business partner Hunter Biden. Those letters received no response and now subpoenas for additional documentation were sent today to both the BOP and Southern District of New York.
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