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Huckabee to Newsmax: ICC a 'Bad Joke,' Warrants 'Not Funny'

It is "one of the most ridiculous and irrational things" that the International Criminal Court would issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Mike Huckabee, who is President-elect Donald Trump's nominee as ambassador to Israel, told Newsmax on Friday.

"I was outraged," Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "The ICC is a joke, but it's a bad joke, and the tragedy is, it's not funny. It's not funny because they are playing with absolute fire."

The ICC's warrants accuse Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of committing the war crime of starvation, as well as crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts against Hamas after the Iranian-backed group's terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

"Let's remember that 412 days ago, Hamas ran from Gaza into Israel and massacred, they didn't just murder, they massacred Israeli civilians," said Huckabee. "They did it with the intention not only of inflicting the most level of pain, but humiliation. And the result of that has been they still hold hostages, seven of whom are Americans."

President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned the warrants, calling the actions "outrageous."

Huckabee said he is grateful for the administration's stance.

"The Biden administration was very clear in not trying to step back or in any way give any soft answer to this," he said. "They were clear, and for that, I think we can all be grateful."

Meanwhile, Huckabee told Newsmax that he was "overwhelmed" by Trump's nominating him for the ambassadorship.

He said he believes the role, if he is confirmed, will be "one of the most significant tasks that I will have ever had in my life, and an extreme honor."

He noted that he's been going to Israel since he was a teenager in 1973, and he has built significant relationships there.

"Some of the things that the president did in his first term, the Abraham Accords, and so many ways in which he was, I think, supportive of Israel, but not just verbally but demonstrably," said Huckabee. "That's what we need right now. It's what Israel needs."

Trump "understands that Israel is in some ways the centerpiece of the world," he added.

"It's a tiny little sliver of real estate the size of New Jersey, but it's the most contested piece of real estate on planet Earth," said Huckabee. '[Trump] also understands that it is the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people and has been for 3,500 years, and they have a right to exist with freedom and security, and no one has done more to help foster that and to really stand with that than President Trump has."

Huckabee also commented on Trump's pick of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his attorney general, replacing Matt Gaetz who dropped out of contention for the spot Thursday.

"I've known Pam for many years," said Huckabee. "We have a personal friendship. We both serve on the Kennedy Center Board and had been friends a long time before that. She's great. I absolutely think it was a brilliant choice."

Gaetz also made the right call "by realizing he didn't want to be a distraction," said Huckabee. "Pam Bondi is going to be wonderful, and I think President Trump made a brilliant choice in selecting her."

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Joe Rogan Ridicules Media for 'Hemorrhaging' Audiences, Drops Brutal Dose of Reality: 'You're Delusional'

UFC color commentator, comedian, and just generally interesting dude Joe Rogan has proven that he’s not just a podcaster—although his “Joe Rogan Experience” has proven to be one of the most popular podcasts ever to hit the interwebs—but he’s shown that he actually has significant influence in the political realm.

Both Donald Trump and his vice presidential running mate JD Vance sat for three-hour interviews with the maverick just days before the election, while Democrat appointee nominee Kamala Harris wimped out and instead threw hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a set so she could air her views on some trash named “Call Her Daddy.” 

Many observers thought this was a key mistake by the Queen of Word Salads and a massive win for Team Trump.

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Receipts: This Expensive Podcast Misfire Manages to Sum Up the Costly Problems of the Harris Campaign

JD Vance Lights It Up In Terrific Interview With Joe Rogan, With Hilarious Moments About Kamala

Joe Rogan's Epic Interview of Donald Trump, Including What They Said About Kamala

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On Wednesday, Rogan blasted what remains of the legacy media after they were so thoroughly humiliated on November 5:

"I was just reading something about CNN's ratings and MSNBC's ratings post-election - they've crashed," Rogan said on Wednesday’s episode. "All these left-wing kooks on YouTube are hemorrhaging subscribers. Where people go, ‘You guys are out of touch, you're not accurate, you're delusional.’ And people are speaking with their subscriptions and they're speaking with their purchasing of the Washington Post and their purchasing of the New York Times."

As we reported, the New York Times sullied its reputation even further, if that's possible, by running a ridiculous fact-check on RFK Jr. where they tried to say he was wrong but, in the next sentence, basically proved that he was one hundred percent correct. Rogan wasn’t having it:

He then recalled how the New York Times published a baffling fact-check this week of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that a popular breakfast cereal contains several artificial ingredients in the United States that are not used in other countries.

"The New York Times just debunked - in the most insane way - debunked RFK Jr's assertion that the ingredients in Froot Loops are different in Canada than they are in the United States. They fact-checked it, while saying he was accurate, so their fact-check - it's so dumb when you see the fact - I tweeted it."

He went on to say, "The fact check is so dumb because the fact check says it's not correct, they have the same ingredients… except for these harmful chemicals."

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Idiocy: Do You Want More RFK Jr.? Because This Is How You Get More RFK Jr.

Joe Rogan Hilariously Mocks 'The View' After They Launch an Incredibly Silly Attack on Him

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Rogan refused to let up, continuing to call out the absurd parody that has become our once-respected media:

"That made my brain hurt just reading it," one of Rogan’s guests said.

"That’s the New York f---ing Times," Rogan exclaimed in disbelief. "This is what the New York Times is doing, so, of course, you’re gonna hemorrhage subscribers, of course. You're crazy, you're saying something that's nuts and also… What is your motivation?"

"If we're saying that these things have been eliminated in other countries because they've been proven to be dangerous - what is your motivation for saying he was wrong?" he wondered.

Truth be told, I would never have in a million years thought a UFC commentator could become the voice of the top podcast in America—one that regularly receives far more ears and eyeballs than the dullards over at MSNBC—and turn into an influential political voice. But that’s exactly what he has done, mostly by talking truth to his listeners and suffering no fools.

He became a major factor in the 2024 elections because he relentlessly exposed one thing—something we do here at RedState indefatigably—and that is, when it comes to our formerly powerful lamestream media, the emperor wears no clothes.

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The Democrats Continue to Fall Down Their Doom Loop

Byron York, the doyen of the conservative media – I can remember seeing his shaggy mane at Supreme Court Nomination Hearings for the Senate Judiciary Committee in the mid-00s – wrote a truly fascinating column recently about the Democrats' mood post-election.

In his column, York reported:

Democrats are angry about a lot of things.  But the three that have attracted some attention in the last few days are 1) the massive amount of money Harris spent and where it went, 2) the campaign role Harris gave to former Rep. Liz Cheney, and 3) the part the media played in Harris’s loss and Trump’s win.  All have Democrats nearly gagging in disbelief and, in some cases, anger.

The latter two points were what attracted my attention. And both indicate that Democrats are not done falling into their Doom Loop, which I discussed in my earlier column.

A doom loop, in economics, describes a situation in which one negative economic condition creates a second negative condition, which in turn creates a third negative condition or reinforces the first, resulting in a downward spiral.

The 2024 Democrat Doom Loop I wrote about described the fact that the Democrats knew they were behind in the presidential race because of the economy, the border, the world chaos, and the left-wing and lightweight record of Kamala Harris, and how all this compared (poorly) to Donald Trump’s 2017-2021 presidential record during his term in office (minus the year of COVID). So, the Democrats were forced to lean into the “Trump is the devil” campaign they had started in 2015 to right their ship. In other words, they campaigned heavily on the idea that Trump was a crude barbarian crook who abuses women and minorities and wants to overthrow America’s democratic society in favor of dictatorship. But, because that campaign had been ongoing for almost a decade now, the gettable voters for it had already been gotten, and the charge itself had lost its impact with other voters because of “the boy who cried wolf” syndrome. But, because the Democrats didn’t have anything else to work with, and because they really believed their own propaganda, the Democrats couldn’t stop pushing the “Trump is the devil campaign,” and each time they used it, they expected it to finally stop Trump dead in his tracks.

This is why Kamala Harris and her campaign advisors chose to end her campaign with Liz Cheney. Cheney was the unquestioned Republican leader in the “Trump is the devil” campaign. So, it was quite natural (considering their logic and bias) for the Democrats to hope that Liz Cheney singing from their mutual playbook with Kamala Harris would move some Republican voters or swing voters into the Harris column.  

But it (once again) didn’t work for the reasons I explained above, and now the Democrats are angry about it.

And what do the Democrats think should have been done instead?  Well, according to York, “(t)he current idea in Democratic circles is that the liberal media establishment — the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, plus Hollywood, the music industry, and academia — was too timid in reporting on Trump’s liabilities.” Even their popular comedian, Jon Stewart, thinks this is true.

That’s right – the current Democrat conventional wisdom is that there was not enough browbeating of the swing voters with the idea that “Trump is the devil.” And now, to impede Trump’s second presidential term, they and their allies believe they need to talk some more about how Donald Trump is a crude barbarian crook who abuses women and minorities and wants to overthrow America’s democratic society in favor of dictatorship.

Yup, truly… fascinating. (Imagine me arching my eyebrow as I type this, a la Mr. Spock.) And very indicative of the fact that the Democrats are still spiraling down into their Doom Loop.  

 

Georgia Conducted a Hand Count Audit of Its Election Results. Guess What it Found?

You may recall a bit of a pre-election hullabaloo over Georgia's plan to hand count votes.  A judge determined that the state's new elections rule was untenable, in a late October order: "After Georgia voters began heading to the polls Tuesday for the first day of early voting in the state, a judge enjoined election officials from moving forward with a controversial new rule that would require the hand counting of ballots when polls close on Nov. 5," CBS News reported at the time.  "Judge Robert McBurney called the rule 'too much, too late.' ...The hand count rule and others were passed in September by the five-person State Election Board on a 3-2 vote, pushed through by a trio of supporters of former President Donald Trump. The rule would require precinct poll managers and poll officers to unseal ballot boxes and count the ballots by hand individually to ensure the tallies match the machine-counted ballot totals."

What Georgia actually ended up doing, it seems, was to complete a post-election count-by-hand audit of the machine-counted election results -- reviewing approximately three-quarters-of-a-million ballots (out of more than five million cast in the state) after the fact, to compare them to the original tallies.  The results found microscopically negligible shifts in votes:

A hand-count audit of Georgia’s presidential election reported miniscule discrepancies from the machine count, confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The results of the manual review released Wednesday showed 11 more votes for Trump and six fewer for Harris out of nearly 750,000 ballots reviewed by election officials across the state. “Georgia’s election systems are our nation’s best,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “This audit shows that our system works and that our county election officials conducted a secure, accurate election — they are the cream of the crop.” The tiny difference between the two ballot counts was largely caused by human error during the hand-counting process, Raffensperger said.

Trump gained 17 net votes, a rounding error of a rounding error. His overall victory margin in the Peach State was roughly 117,000. Hats off to Georgia for running a strong, secure election, which also boasted record turnout levels:

A record 5.29 million Georgia voters turned out in this year’s election, shattering the previous high set four years ago. About 64% of registered voters participated in the race, with a majority of them supporting Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris. Trump received nearly 117,000 more votes than Harris, a 2% margin of victory.

Four years ago, just shy of five million Georgians voted in the presidential election. That number soared by hundreds of thousands in 2024, after the state implemented a voter intergrity and reform law that dishonest critics labeled a "voter suppression" scheme. Since the supposed "suppression" measures took effect, Georgia has administered a midterm and presidential election in which new turnout records were set. Those who lied and demagogued about this -- the revolting 'Jim Crow on steroids' crowd, from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris to Stacey Abrams to both Democratic US Senators from Georgia -- should be ashamed and embarrassed. So should the corporate players who went along with the racial fear-mongering, including Major League Baseball and Delta Airlines.  Incredibly, two-time loser and election denier (whose election denial raised her status among Democrats, who profess to care deeply about "democracy" and accepting election results) Stacey Abrams is still blubbering incoherently about her stupid, mendacious conspiracy theory:

Despite record voter turnout thus far in Georgia, ⁦@staceyabrams⁩ says “that does not mean there is not voter suppression activity.” pic.twitter.com/ui9h7eSUjl

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 1, 2024

Speaking of election deniers and sore losers, Bob Casey's pitiful refusal to admit that he lost his Senate election to Republican Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania has pushed the Commonwealth into a costly and time-consuming recount, which will not change the outcome. McCormick won by a margin in the ballpark of 20,000 votes (the number has bounced around), and recounts very rarely move the needle at all.  The multi-million-dollar recount has thus far moved the totals single digits:

As more counties report over the next few days (the recount must end by mid-week next week), the totals will move around at the fractional margins, but the outcome will remain the same: Dave McCormick is Senator-elect, Bob Casey has lost.  He finally woke up to realtiy last night, with one last middle finger, given the timing of this:

Also, the people who tried to steal the election by openly violating the law should be in real trouble.  Their corruption won't carry the day, but it has infuriated the state Supreme Court (which issued a 7-0 ruling slapping them down), as well as many citizens:

Lawless Casey donor and Bucks County Democratic Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia should really have a problem on her hands, despite her damage-control apology. I'll leave you with another note out of Georgia, where the popular Republican governor's strong ground game (which help him crush Abrams in 2022) was valuable to the entire ticket this year.  This is good news for the party:

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Joy Reid Spews Hate Toward Trump Supporters Once Again

More Trash Talk from a Piece of Trash.

One of the most racist, anti-conservative talking liberal heads is at it again with the hateful rhetoric aimed at Trump supporters. 

MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed on Friday that people have a legitimate fear of MAGA supporters and do not feel “safe” around them in a doomsday video message. Reid told her fellow liberals they had a right to be scared of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet choices. 

“He's put together a cabinet of horrors! People are afraid; they're not just mad because they lost an election,” she said. 

Without giving a reason, Reid warned the small amount of viewers she had left that Republicans were going to “control everything.” 

“People are scared,” she continued, questioning whether the United States has a future. 

“People are rightfully alarmed; they have a reason to be alarmed,” she added. “And if you would vote for [Trump], people may not feel so confident that they are safe with you.”

The far-left progressive Democrat claimed she was the one who was not crazy despite alleging that the country, under Trump, would be over. However, without actually saying it, she suggested that if Vice President Kamala Harris had won, all would have been well in the country. 

But it wouldn’t have been. 

Under a Harris presidency, all the destruction President Joe Biden caused would have tripled. The southern border would have crumbled and allowed a near-perfect legal pathway for illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. Prices for basic necessities and grocery items would have exceeded unsustainable levels than they already are— and doctors would be putting gender-affirming care patients above people in critical need of care.  

However, with Trump back in office, none of that will happen. 

Reid went on to threaten Trump voters, saying they will have to “live with” anti-MAGA individual’s unprecedented reactions— warning them to “step back.” 

“If you think you can vote for what people see as their destruction and then demand that they’re still cool with you and have Thanksgiving with you, you are kind of missing the point about what people are upset about,” she said. “They’re afraid. Autocracy and fascism are things that are legitimate to be afraid of.“

Despite Trump clearly and consistently insisting he has nothing to do with Project 2025– which claimed the incoming president would ban abortion— Reid, without evidence, said women would die because of him. 

"You really can't demand and expect that people who are terrified about Project 2025 being fully implemented - including a national abortion ban, a woman dying of sepsis for no reason because they're pregnant and can't get healthcare, conception being made illegal, IVF being made illegal," she asserted. 

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Musk 'Jokingly' Considers Purchasing MSNBC Network As Ratings Continue To Drop: 'How Much Does It Cost?'

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks alongside Elon Musk (R) and Senate members including Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND (C) before attending a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an expert in the fields of technology and space exploration, is seemingly considering purchasing the left-wing MSNBC network, which is owned by Comcast.

MSNBC’s ratings have continued to fall since the 2024 election, and the network’s parent firm is now reportedly attempting to sell it along with its other media holdings, such as CNBC.

Meanwhile, the son of the 47^th president-elect, Donald Trump Jr., publicly reached out to Musk on X, telling him to buy the “failing” network, which sparked a flurry of back-and-forth conversations about Musk’s possible offer for MSNBC.

“Hey [Elon Musk] I have the funniest idea ever!!!” Trump jr. posted on Friday.

“How much does it cost?” Musk responded.

“The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely,” Musk continued, while adding a laughing face emoji.

This week, the total projected value of the networks Comcast proposed spinning off into a new publicly traded company, which include USA Network, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, among others, is $8 billion. This amounts to around 18% of the 2022 price Musk paid to purchase Twitter, now known as “X.”

“The transaction will be structured as a tax-free spin to existing shareholders,” Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said. “While we don’t have a precise timetable for completing the transition, we are estimating that it will take approximately a year.”

Over the last few years, MSNBC and other major corporate news networks have experienced ratings difficulties in comparison to previous decades.

Following Trump’s overwhelming presidential election victory, MSNBC viewership declined even further.

The left-wing network’s flagship morning show “Morning Joe” has particularly seen a disastrous rating slide in the past week, losing 16% of its viewership since Monday, according to a report published earlier on Friday by the National Pulse.

Many suspect that this is due to the hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, announcing their recent travels to Mar-a-Lago in Florida in order to “restart communications” with Trump.

“Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump,” host Mika Brzezinski said. “It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.”

Since a large majority of MSNBC viewers loathe Trump, the 47^th GOP president-elect, they could view the talk show hosts’ decision to meet and discuss media with Trump as the network turning their back on them.

Since the presidential election on November 5^th, MSNBC has lost over 1.1 million viewers, which is a 54% decrease in overall viewership.

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Dr. Dave Weldon Nominated As Director Of CDC Under Trump Admin

Former Florida Representative Dave Weldon, MD, was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), replacing Mandy K. Cohen.

“In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting,” Trump said in the Friday evening announcement. 

“Dave also served in a leading role in Government Oversight and Reform Committee Hearings, addressing issues within HHS and CDC. Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos,” Trump said.

According to Trump, Dr. Weldon will be instrumental in “Making America Healthy Again,” focusing on fixing the previous administration’s “past errors.”

“Americans have lost trust in the CDC and in our Federal Health Authorities, who have engaged in censorship, data manipulation, and misinformation,” he said. 

“Given the current Chronic Health Crisis in our Country, the CDC must step up and correct past errors to focus on the Prevention of Disease. The current Health of Americans is critical, and CDC will play a big role in helping to ensure Americans have the tools and resources they need to understand the underlying causes of diseases, and the solutions to cure these diseases,” Trump added.

The president-elect also noted that Dr. Weldon “understands American Family Values.”

“As a father of two and a husband of 45 years, Dave understands American Family Values, and views Health as one of utmost importance,” he said. “Dave will prioritize Transparency, Competence, and High Standards at CDC. Dave will proudly restore the CDC to its true purpose, and will work to end the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and Make America Healthy Again!”

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Texas Gov. Abbott Orders State Agencies to Sell China Assets

The governor of Texas ordered state agencies to stop investing in China and sell assets there as soon as possible, citing financial and security risks, a sign of rising U.S.-China tensions starting to impact global capital flows.

In a letter to state agencies dated Nov. 21 and posted to his website, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said "belligerent actions" of China's ruling Communist Party had increased risks to Texas' investments in China, and told investors to get out.

"I direct Texas investing entities that you are prohibited from making any new investments of state funds in China. To the extent you have any current investments in China, you are required to divest at the first available opportunity," he said.

Texas has been taking an increasingly activist stance in its agencies' investments, having previously restricted public pension funds from doing business with Wall Street firms that have embraced environmental, social and governance principles.

Its state agencies include the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, which had $210.5 billion under management at the end of August, according to its annual report.

The TRS has roughly $1.4 billion exposure to Chinese yuan and Hong Kong dollar assets, and listed Tencent Holdings as its 10th largest position, worth about $385 million at current prices.

Abbott's letter said he had told the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), which manages nearly $80 billion, to divest from China earlier this year.

Neither Texas Teachers nor UTIMCO responded immediately to a request for comment outside business hours.

Markets in China fell sharply on Friday, with the Shanghai Composite down 3%. Tencent shares were about 2% lower in afternoon trade in Hong Kong, in line with the broader market.

Dealers said trade had been light in Hong Kong and sentiment already weak as Chinese authorities have disappointed expectations for economic stimulus, but that the news had added to the downbeat mood.

"Even though we all know that there will be more and more policies against China from the U.S.... whenever there's any news like this, it will hit the sentiment here," said Steven Leung, executive director at brokerage UOB Kay Hian in Hong Kong.