• Despite being an artist of underwhelming talent, Hunter has sold paintings for as much as $500,000 to anonymous buyers.

• President Biden refuses to acknowledge his granddaughter's existence and has reportedly instructed White House staff to do the same.

Rogue gallery: These are the paintings Hunter's daughter will receive in lieu of cash, according to documents recovered from an iPad the Washington Free Beacon exclusively found on the floor of the men's bathroom at Archibald's Gentleman's Club in Washington, D.C., several blocks from the White House. Enjoy!

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Context: An email recovered from Hunter's abandoned laptop said the "big guy" was to receive a 10 percent stake in a sketchy investment deal involving a Chinese energy firm in 2017.

2)

Context: Hunter has claimed to have "no recollection" of his sexual encounter with his daughter's mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, but admits to cavorting with dozens if not hundreds (thousands?) of women who were "hardly the dating type."

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Context: Hunter Biden smoked copious amounts of crack cocaine.

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Context: Hunter wrote eloquently about how good it feels to get high from crack cocaine in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things. "The sensation is one of utter, almost otherworldly well-being," he explained. "You are at once energetic, focused, and calm. Blood rushes to every extremity; your skin ripples with what feels like bumblebees ... the sensation of being transported—at something like warp speed, as if riding bareback on a rocket ship—to some far-off, beautiful place."

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Context: Hunter once described his stepmother, Dr. Jill Biden, as a "selfish silly entitled c—t" who "wouldn't survive one class in a ivy [sic] graduate program."

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Context: The Secret Service still can't figure out who left a bag of cocaine in one of the most secure locations in the White House earlier this month.

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Context: Located a short walk from the White House, Archibald's is Hunter's happy place. He spent enormous sums of money at the gentleman's entertainment club over the years and wrote it off as a business expense on his taxes. Hunter was once admonished for smoking crack in one of the VIP rooms. Good times.

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• Celebrity actress Kristen Bell earlier this week posted a photo on Instagram featuring Tapper and his wife, Jennifer Marie Brown, enjoying a fancy dinner at the South Fork Lodge in Idaho.

• They were joined by a large group of celebrity couples, nearly all of them proud members of the white race.

• Social media users were stunned that the rich and socially enlightened liberal celebs would engage in such a flagrant act of white supremacy.

What they're saying: "Serious question for well-meaning white people. When you show up at a get-together like this, do you notice there are zero Black people, or nah?" wrote Twitter user Jay Perkins, a biracial black man and "antiracist" higher ed lawyer. "If so, do you say or do anything about it? To who? Please be honest. This is a safe space (unless you say something dumb or racist)."

What it means: The racially homogenous partygoers were most likely celebrating the Supreme Court's June 29 decision striking down race-based affirmative action in college admissions, an outcome backed by the vast majority of Americans.

• There appears to have been only one non-white celebrity couple in attendance. David Chang, the Korean-American restaurateur, was spotted at the dinner with his wife Grace, a Korean-born immigrant.

• The Supreme Court's ruling found that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violated the Constitution because it explicitly discriminated against Koreans and other students of Asian descent.

By the numbers: More than 82 percent of Idaho's population is white, according the U.S. Census Bureau, making it one of the whitest states in the country.

• The celebrity dinner party was even whiter. At least 90 percent of the guests were white, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

• Approximately 0 percent of the guests were black, meaning the dinner party was demographically equivalent to a Pete Buttigieg campaign rally.

White power party: In addition to the Tappers, a bunch of other fancy white people attended the now-notorious dinner party in Idaho.

• Jennifer Aniston, star of Friends, one of the whitest shows ever made; Courteney Cox, star of Friends, and boyfriend Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol, one the whitest bands in the world; Jason Bateman, host of the all-white podcast SmartLess, and his white wife; art gallery owners Heather Taylor and Alex De Cordoba; actress Shiri Appleby and restaurateur Jon Shook; Jimmy Kimmel and wife; Jimmy Fallon and wife; Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard; comedian John Mulaney and his half-Vietnamese mistress Olivia Munn; David Chang and wife; actor Adam Scott and wife; YouTube celeb Mark Rober; improvisational comedian Tim Curcio and wife.

Why it matters: At a time when many of our nation's journalists insist on touting the so-called benefits of diversity and inclusion, we applaud Tapper's courageous decision to reject phony moral values and embrace the "taboo" of "white racial solidarity."

• There's simply nothing wrong with a rich white journalist wanting to hang out with a bunch of rich white people (and a handful of Asians) at a fancy lodge in Idaho. It's a free country.

• The vast majority of Americans oppose the explicit racial preferences struck down by the Supreme Court. If that is indeed what the mostly white partygoers were celebrating, there's nothing wrong with that, either.

Bottom line: For rejecting diversity and refusing to live his life according to the "enlightened" moral code espoused by his colleagues in the corporate media, Jake Tapper is the Washington Free Beacon Hero of the Week.

Go deeper: CNN's Jim Acosta Celebrates Painfully White Staff in Majority Black City

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Hope you're all appropriately hungover and/or hospitalized after celebrating America's birthday. Two-hundred-and-forty-seven years! (Almost as old as Sleepy Joe Brandon, "supplanter in grief" of our magnificent Country.)

The Founding Fathers would be so proud of their Resilient Broad. Sultry and strong in equal measure. Embrace her and she'll blow your mind; reject her and she'll break your bones. British invasion, Civil War, a Great Depression, two World Wars, hippies, the Obama administration. America has survived them all.

Speaking of survival, I just spent the Fourth of July weekend with my insufferable liberal nephews. Despite enjoying the exceptional privilege of an American birthright, these craven woketards hate their own country more than any ChiCom or Islamic terrorist ever could. Indeed, their disdain for American freedom can only be matched by a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist like Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Try as they might to ruin our family's celebratory rampage and disparage the Greatest Country on God's Green Earth, my nephews did not account for my unwavering determination to humiliate them in public and eviscerate their braindead liberal propaganda with the precision of an R9X Hellfire missile. Survived is understatement. I f—ing thrived.

I'm sharing my story in case it is of any use to the millions of Real Americans out there plagued by obnoxious left-wing relatives determined to turn every family gathering into an Ivy League "struggle session" or incoherent lecture about the "people on TikTok" who make a "compelling argument" for why "transphobia is worse than the Holocaust."

Make no mistake. It's our Patriotic Duty to shut them up and put them in their place. Thanksgiving is only four months away.

Brayden, 29

Rolled up to the cookout wearing a Brittney Griner "Team USA" jersey. I inquired as to whether he always played basketball in a dress, or if the women's medium was simply too large for his undernourished coatrack of a body. He countered that the WNBA has the fastest growing fan base in the United States and unfolded a printout of a Forbes.com article purporting to justify his claim.

I thanked him for the piece of paper and used it to wipe the sweat between my ass cheeks. That's when I noticed the blue-and-yellow anklet he wore to show his support for the Ukrainian war effort. I attempted to bond with him by sharing my childhood dream of killing Russians, but toward the end of the night I found the stupid anklet on the ground surrounded by a bunch of half-smoked nicotine-free cigarettes.

Albus, 23

Couldn't remember if I'd seen the kid since his 21st birthday, so I jokingly offered him a Bud Light. He launched into a lecture about the lack of corporate support for "Dylan" Mulvaney, the trans influencer who tarnished the brand. I zoned out for the whole thing, but when he was done I brought up the Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action. To be quite honest, his response startled me.

The kid goes on a 15-minute rant about "ungrateful" minorities. Hispanics who identify as white and vote Republican. Asian nerds who study all the time and can't accept the fact that black people are more oppressed and deserving of an Ivy League education. "Traitors" like Tim Scott whose ancestors "are ashamed." Muslim immigrants who should "go back to Syria if they don't want to celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month or send their kids to Drag Queen story hour." He voted for Elizabeth Warren in 2020.

Cullen, 18

Every Fourth of July we gather as a family and go around the table and talk about why we love America. This little pipsqueak used the occasion to "come out as pansexual" and express his desire to live in a country that accepts "vulnerable minorities like me." I interjected to suggest he remove his face mask on account of the fact that it was 2023 and we were sitting outside.

"Ever heard of Long COVID?" he whined, the greasy tendrils of his unwashed mullet flapping in the breeze. "Ever heard of PTSD?" I remarked forcefully, raising my brand new H&K VP9 and dispatching a round into the glorious American sunset. I think he got the message. I left an Army recruitment brochure on his bedside table next to the bottle of anxiety pills that I flushed down the toilet and replaced with Hydroxychloroquine.

God Bless America!

Strickland

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About the job: The purpose of the role is to develop and implement a communications strategy that endeavors to 1) Publicly humiliate Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson by, for example, letting a journalist accompany her to a personal training session or Botox appointment, 2) Foment sophomoric angst among Free Beacon employees, and 3) Create an untenable status quo that forces Johnson to step down in disgrace.

Required qualifications:

• At least 11 years experience as head of strategic communications at a mid-tier cable news network such as CNN

• A demonstrated disdain and disregard for conventional journalist practices

• Must love dogs (and manspreading)

• Must have solid industry connections

• Must love America

• Must have bold fashion sense

• Must be willing to go topless

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous experience facilitating the forced exit of a chief executive at a major media company

• Previous experience being defended by former CNN employee Brian Stelter

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel

• Ability to execute flawless "raised leg" pose in a variety of settings

About the Washington Free Beacon: The Washington Free Beacon is a woman-led (for now) neoconservative war blog based in the United States of America. Our reporting has been denounced in a variety of esteemed publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, the Economist, the Atlantic, Reader's Digest, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, Better Homes & Gardens, Teen Vogue, Playgirl, Cat Fancy, Inspire, and many others.

How to apply: Pay the $2,375 application fee then send résumé, cover letter, head shot, full-body shot, Social Security number, and two dozen original haikus to biffdiddle@gmail.com. Good luck!

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By the numbers: Head injuries caused by cyclist collisions with SUVs were 63 percent more severe, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Trauma to the body was rated 55 percent higher in collisions with SUVs compared with smaller cars.

• Bicycle crash fatalities in the United States surged 50 percent between 2010 and 2020; researchers attribute the rise at least in part to the "dominance of pickups and SUVs in the U.S. vehicle fleet."

What they're saying: "SUVs tend to knock riders down, where they can also be run over, rather than vaulting them onto the hood of the vehicle," said Sam Monfort, lead author of the IIHS study. "That's probably because the higher front end of an SUV strikes the cyclist above their center of gravity."

Why it matters: Cyclists are a public menace. Their arrogance knows no bounds. They threaten the safety of pedestrians and law-abiding motorists who are just trying to get to work on time. In a just world, cyclists would be designated as members of a terrorist organization and dealt with accordingly.

• Cyclists have teamed up with other left-wing activists to promote government bans on pickup trucks and SUVs under the guise of "protecting the environment." They would like nothing more than to neutralize a formidable adversary in their quest to dominate our roads and terrorize the population.

• Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is a known cyclist and cyclist sympathizer.

Bottom line: Science doesn't lie. Big cars are better than small cars. SUVs are a crucial ally in America's war against the evil forces plotting to destroy our way of life. God bless and Godspeed.

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What would have happened: The situation might have played out differently if the Dodgers had decided to honor a so-called gay rights group that "makes a blatant and deeply offensive mockery" of the Islamic faith.

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday were permanently banned from Major League Baseball and forced to vacate all championships and other accolades after the team invited a group of anti-Islam activists to take part in Pride Night celebrations later this month.

"We emphatically condemn the former organization's decision to foment racism and Islamophobia under the guise of celebrating our friends in the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ community," MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "Effective immediately, the Los Angeles Dodgers will cease to exist in the eyes of Major League Baseball."

Manfred continued: "Later this evening, the league will endeavor to facilitate restorative inclusion by demolishing Dodger Stadium and funding the construction of a mosque, anti-Zionist youth center, and outpatient female circumcision facility in its place. Furthermore, the league has initiated legal action to exhume the body of longtime Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda and reclaim the MLB copyrighted jersey in which he was buried." 

Manfred released the statement several minutes after the Dodgers unveiled a list of "community hero" honorees for the upcoming Pride Night festivities. Although the list included a number of mainstream LGBTQQIP2SAA+ rights organizations—the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, among others—critics pounced on the team's decision to highlight the "lifesaving work" of Twinks Against Sharia, a gay rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center has denounced as a "cult of hatemongers" for its efforts to "promote Islamophobia by highlighting the cruel treatment of gays and lesbians in the Islamic world." 

Twinks Against Sharia describe themselves as a "leading-edge order of queer and trans imams" that "use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit." The group's most notable production, a satirical porn film titled The Second IntifaDong: Revenge of the Al-Assqa Otters Brigade contained several depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), which experts agree is way more offensive to Muslims than depictions of nuns in drag are to Catholics.

This is a developing story.

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This detail, according to elderly people in the state and across the country, has pumped toxic gas into an already incendiary situation that has led many of them to fear for their safety.

Just as members of the "trans community" were terrorized by trans school shooter Audrey Hale's killing spree in Nashville last month, old people are the real victims of this tragedy.

Police charged Andrew D. Lester, 84, with felony assault and armed criminal action for allegedly shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl after the teen showed up outside his home on the evening of April 13. Yarl, who suffered gunshot wounds to the head and arm, was released from the hospital on Sunday and is expected to make a full recovery.

The incident occurred amid an alarming increase in anti-elder rhetoric, much of it fueled by Democratic politicians and liberal activists. Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old senator from California, has been bombarded with flagrantly ageist demands that she resign because her advanced age and probable dementia makes her unfit to serve.

"It has become painfully obvious to many of us in California that [Feinstein] is no longer able to fulfill her duties," Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) seethed during an interview on CNN, echoing the ageist attacks that have been lobbed against President Joe Biden, 80, as he prepares to launch his campaign for reelection.

Amidst this noxious fervor of anti-octogenarian rage, liberal commentators seized on Lester's advanced age in an effort to bolster their political agenda. Prominent social media user @JoJoFromJerz viciously mocked the wrinkled features and dazed expression visible in Lester's mug shot.

"If this isn’t the face of evil, I don’t know what is," the Democratic influencer wrote in a Twitter post, several months after visiting the White House. This prompted user @wiley_coyote22 to suggest that elderly Americans should be stripped of their constitutional rights. "That's just a man too old to have guns," quipped the self-described "Very Gay" "Social Libertarian."

"We are terrified for the octogenarian community here," said Joy Summer, a pro-elderly activist based in St. Louis. "Nursing homes are calling in snipers, putting up razor wire, it's like a war zone. More blood's going to be shed."

Elderly Americans across the country are feeling increasingly vulnerable amid what feels like an alarming rise in anti-elder violence. In June 2022, a group of teens attacked a 73-year-old man in Philadelphia and beat him to death with a traffic cone. In October 2020, the beloved actor Rick Moranis, 67 at the time, was sucker-punched while walking near Central Park in Manhattan.

Just as concerning as the epidemic of anti-senior violence is the stunning rise in incidents of elder abuse in recent years. A 2019 study by the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention revealed a significant "increase in violence" against elderly Americans. The assault rate among men aged 60 and older surged 75 percent between 2002 and 2016, while the homicide rate jumped nearly 10 percent between 2010 and 2016, the study found.

Dr. Ronan Factora, chair of the Special Interest Group on Elder Abuse and Mistreatment at the American Geriatrics Society, argued the CDC study underestimated incidents of violence against seniors due to the significant number of cases that go unreported. "This is really a small fraction that represents a larger problem that has been growing," he said.

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Sen. John Fetterman's (D., Pa.) communications director, Joe Calvello, is a former collegiate lacrosse player, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Calvello, the taxpayer-funded spokesman responsible for keeping the American public informed about the senator's health, was a member of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) men's lacrosse team from 2011 to 2014. The 5-foot-8, 150-pound face-off specialist started all 13 games as a senior, leading the Minutemen to a 7-6 record.

Why it matters: Generally speaking, lacrosse players are among the most loathsome individuals in America and should never be trusted by anyone. Calvello's ties to the sport, not to mention his sub-six-foot height, undermines his credibility and raises serious questions about Fetterman's judgment.

It wouldn't be the first time Fetterman employed a disreputable figure to make public pronouncements about his physical and mental fitness. For example, Dr. Clifford Chen, the physician who gave Fetterman a clean bill of health several weeks before the election last November had donated tens of thousands of dollars to Fetterman and other Democrats.

Background: Fetterman returned to Capitol Hill this week after suffering a health scare last Wednesday. The stroke victim was rushed to a hospital in Washington, D.C., after feeling "lightheaded" and remained under observation for more than 24 hours. Calvello insisted everything was fine.

While the senator was hospitalized, the New York Times published a damning report on Fetterman's "extraordinarily challenging" adjustment to serving in the U.S. Senate. The report appears to contradict Dr. Chen's glowing assessment of Fetterman's health in October 2022, detailing the "physical impairment and serious mental health challenges" Fetterman suffered as a result of his stroke.

Fetterman "has had to come to terms with the fact that he may have set himself back permanently by not taking the recommended amount of rest during the campaign," Times reporter Annie Karni wrote, "and he continues to push himself in ways that people close to him worry are detrimental."

What they're saying: "Lacrosse is a sport of extreme privilege" and "racial fragility" that "holds a mirror to the history of Indigenous cultural erasure and appropriation in the United States."

Bottom line: Prior to the election, journalists and other liberal activists shouted down anyone who suggested Fetterman might be downplaying his health problems. It would appear these skeptics were right. Fetterman has been a senator for just over a month and has already been hospitalized. The Times report suggests that a normal person in his condition would be at home resting, not risking permanent damage to his health by pretending to do a job that is clearly too much for him to handle.

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• Yahoo! News: "Republicans pounce on Biden over appearance of Chinese spy balloon"

• ABC News: "Republicans paint Biden as soft on China as surveillance balloon soars over US"

(Yes, the ABC News headline is real. We're not making this up.)

Why it matters: This is how the mainstream media always cover stories that reflect poorly on Democratic politicians. They'd rather not cover the scandal itself, so they skip ahead and frame the story in terms of the Republican response while implying that any GOP criticism is overblown or in bad faith.

Where it's headed: There are presumably no depths to which mainstream journalists are unwilling to stoop when it comes to protecting their allies in the Democratic Party, no scandal egregious enough to warrant fair and balanced coverage. Their ability to demand the American public's respect while conducting themselves in such an unserious fashion is almost impressive.

Here are a few examples of how the media might cover future scandals using the "Republicans pounce" framing, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis:

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George Santos, the 34-year-old son of Latinx immigrants from Brazil, made history last year by becoming the first openly gay Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Alas, the mainstream media were not impressed.

Rather than applaud him for overcoming systemic racism and homophobia to achieve the American Dream, snarky journalists and late-night hosts taunted Santos and relentlessly probed his personal story for errors and inconsistencies—an unprecedented level of scrutiny that is inextricably linked to his diverse sexual orientation and racial identity, not to mention his lack of a fancy college degree.

Have they no shame? (Answer: They do not.)

We can all agree it's not "funny" when Dave Chappelle uses the guise of "comedy" to openly encourage violence against the transgender community. Guess what? The media's incessant "jokes" about Santos are just as dangerous. They threaten not only his personal and emotional safety but also the physical and mental wellness of every LGBTQ+ individual and person of color in America.

Whether they're mocking the congressman for being a "liar" and a "criminal," or refusing to condemn the chants of "Lock him up!" outside Santos's office in Queens, our media gatekeepers are creating a permission structure for law enforcement agencies to continue their racist crusade against black and brown and gay and drag-queen bodies. That's unacceptable. Americans of good conscience should be literally shaking right now.

Why do these bad-faith actors persist in questioning the authenticity of Santos's lived experience as an LGBTQ+ American and child of Latinx immigrants? (Answer: Racism.)

When Joe Biden, a white man, embellishes his résumé and lies about being arrested in South Africa in 1977, our self-anointed defenders of democracy shrug it off as "Joe being Joe." When first lady Jill Biden, a white woman, insists on calling herself a doctor, they scream, "Yass, Queen!"

When another white woman, Christine Blasey Ford, testified (without evidence) that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, they believed her story and applauded her "courage." When yet another white woman, Elizabeth Warren, built her entire career by lying about her Native American heritage, they insisted it could happen to anyone.

But when George Santos spoke his truth, the media pounced. The so-called fact-checkers seized on his every word. Apart from pervasive white supremacy, what else could explain why mainstream journalists are so unwilling to validate the lived experience of a sexually diverse Latinx small-business owner? (Answer: Nothing.)

There may come a time when Santos is tried and convicted in a court of law, at which point it will be incumbent on all of us as members of a diverse and equitable society to ensure that his racial background, sexual orientation, and above all his lack of élite credentials do not preclude him from receiving the same sympathetic coverage and judicial leniency bestowed on Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, the domestic terrorists of color whose legal careers were sidetracked "when a Molotov cocktail ignited the center console of an empty police car during a Black Lives Matter protest."

Until then, leave the poor man alone.

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When do we want it? Now.

Why do we want it? To protect our fellow Americans from violence at the hands of spoiled youths corrupted by extremist ideology.

For example: Linwood Kaine, the adult son of Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), was arrested in May 2017—less than a year after his father lost the presidential election as Hillary Clinton's running mate—for disrupting a pro-Trump rally in Minnesota by lighting fireworks inside the state Capitol.

Background: Riley Dowell, the 23-year-old "nonbinary" daughter/son of Rep. Katherine Clark (D., Mass.), was arrested in Boston over the weekend for allegedly assaulting a police officer and vandalizing public property by spray-painting "ACAB" (All Cops Are Bastards) on a historic landmark.

(Context: Clark, who has expressed support for the controversial "defund the police" movement, is the second-highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. She described her child's alleged domestic terrorism as "a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting.")

The leading Democrat's wayward offspring was arrested on the same day that hundreds of left-wing radicals rioted in Atlanta. "If you build it, we will burn it," the masked hooligans chanted as they destroyed property and set fire to police cars.

Atlanta police arrested several individuals for engaging in domestic terrorism. The New York Post examined their backgrounds, and found that nearly all of them are white children of privilege who traveled from out of state:

• Madeleine "Henri" Feola—trans activist from Happy Valley, Oregon (median income $132,000); graduate of Oberlin College (Lena Dunham's alma mater)

• Ivan J. Ferguson—award-winning professional clarinetist who studied at the prestigious San Francisco Conservatory of Music

• Francis Carroll—trust fund kid from Kennebunkport, Maine (95% white, median income $82,000); the wealthy vacation enclave is home to the Bush family's summer estate

• Emily Kathryn Murphy—radical activist involved with Al Gore's Climate Reality Project; hails from Grosse Ile Township, Michigan (94% white, median income $114,000)

Bottom line: Rich white liberals, a demographic that includes most Democratic politicians and professional journalists, are a bunch of hysterical doomsayers who nod in agreement when Nikole Hannah-Jones denounces the United States as "one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world."

According to them, the world is on the brink of destruction due to climate change, our democracy is on the brink of destruction due to white supremacists pushing "Jim Crow on steroids," and expressing an opinion they don't like is literally an act of violence. All cops are bastards. All men are pigs. All white people, including "white Hispanics" and black people concerned about crime, are irredeemable racists.

They might not actually believe the things they say, but they shouldn't be surprised when others, including their own children, take these ideas seriously and act out accordingly. Because if you actually believe this shit, becoming a domestic terrorist and trying to "save the world" by any means necessary is a perfectly logical response.

(See also: Hunter Biden, Sam Bankman-Fried)

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Many people are freaking out (for the wrong reasons) over something Reuters journalist Patricia Zengerle reported on Twitter. "So there's indoor smoking on the House side of the Capitol now that the Republicans have taken control," she wrote earlier this week in a tweet that has been viewed more than 5.5 million times.

Is it true?

No, it's not. The Reuters journalist was peddling dangerous misinformation. House GOP aides assured the Washington Free Beacon that indoor smoking is still not allowed on the House side of the Capitol.

As Zengerle noted in a series of follow-up tweets that received fewer than 500,000 views, however, the Washington, D.C., ban on indoor smoking does not apply to the private offices of House lawmakers.

Nevertheless, the anti-smoking zealots at the American Cancer Society responded to Zengerle's initial false tweet by urging House Republicans to "prioritize health" and "reconsider" the decision "to allow smoking in the House side of the Capitol."

What's the bottom line?

Fake news and other forms of misinformation are an existential threat to American democracy. That being said, bans on indoor smoking are also an assault on liberty itself. If Republican politicians won't stand up to government bureaucrats who want to take away our cigarettes, they sure as hell aren't going to stop them from taking our gas stoves and our gas-powered pickup trucks.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) needs to step up to the plate and show some leadership by overturning Nancy Pelosi's cruel ban on indoor smoking in the House. Furthermore, he should immediately call a vote on legislation to make indoor smoking bans illegal in every state, especially the liberal ones.

If McCarthy is too much of a coward to get the job done, he should resign.

Final thoughts?

Why are House Republicans acting like a bunch of uptight nerds all of a sudden? Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.) recently suggested that "people shouldn't be drinking" on the House floor, "especially when you're a redneck." We fact-checked this outlandish claim and rated it 4 Clintons. Man up, for crying out loud!

Editor's note: The Free Beacon is a vehemently anti-anti-smoking publication.

Read more:

The 10 Best Cigarettes in the World

Big Tobacco Goes Soft

Biden's Cigarette Crackdown a Boon for Drug Dealers, Experts Warn

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After eight unsuccessful attempts to elect a leader in the lower chamber, Trump had received two total votes while Pelosi had received none. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) voted for "Donald John Trump" on the seventh and eighth ballots, whereas every single Democrat has voted for someone other than Pelosi.

The speaker of the House need not be a sitting member of Congress, though Trump has already endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) for the position and has shown no interest in doing a job for which he is demonstrably overqualified.

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The target: Bari Weiss, the successful Substack writer and friend of the Washington Free Beacon. Lorenz reacted poorly to an Axios article about Weiss's new media company, the Free Press, and decided to vent her rage on the immigrant-owned social networking website.

"Notable what gets framed as a 'buzzy media startup,'" Lorenz seethed. "If u start off rich, have a rich spouse, rich friends, don't follow any journalistic ethical rules, and focus your content solely on serving the interests of extremely powerful rich ppl, you can go far!"

A number of Twitter users observed that Lorenz's rant was rife with projection and petty jealousy. Weiss is younger*, better looking, and more successful as a journalist and as a human being. Why wouldn't Lorenz be jealous? But that was hardly the most scandalous aspect of the so-called reporter's public tantrum. Weiss also happens to be Jewish, and Lorenz's tweet was a textbook example of an anti-Semitic trope about how all Jews are rich and powerful, conniving, and immoral.

Lorenz has a history of targeted harassment against Jews. Earlier this year, for example, she publicly identified—or "doxxed"—the anonymous woman behind the popular Twitter account "Libs of TikTok." Doxxing is an explicit endorsement of physical violence. The woman who operates the account is Jewish. Lorenz also attempted to ruin the lives of four Instagram influencers by revealing their true identities. They are the daughters of a prominent Jewish political activist. Coincidence?

This blatant anti-Semitism is one of many reasons why Lorenz has been described as "literally worse than Putin." She has also been criticized for ordering expensive avocado toast, attending a TikTok celeb's 16th birthday party, urging young journalists to "recognize the power of having their own brand," and generally acting cringe AF. Her reporting is ethically dubious, which is why the Post is constantly adding lengthy corrections to her stories.

*Weiss is 38, while Lorenz is estimated to be between 38 and 44 years of age.

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President Joe Biden naturally tried to claim credit for the economic data. "You're beginning to see the impact of our economic strategy," he said Tuesday, nearly two years after taking office. Whereas Biden pompously neglected to cite Trump's campaign announcement as the most likely catalyst for the strong inflation numbers, the former president was characteristically demure in response to the BLS report.

Trump declared his candidacy on November 15, vowing to "make America great and glorious again" and alleviate the "pain, hardship, anxiety, and despair" that have defined the Biden era. Tuesday's inflation numbers suggest Trump is already making good on that promise. Probably because he cares so much about this country's future, unlike the current president who will probably die soon.

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Fortunately for the curious of mind, a Washington Free Beacon analysis has determined the eight most likely explanations for the committee's interest in AOC's numerous ethical shortcomings. Enjoy!

1) Met Gala shenanigans 

The celebrity politician drew attention to herself by waving a "Tax the Rich" dress to the swanky Met Gala in 2021. Ethics watchdogs accused Ocasio-Cortez of violating the House rules by improperly accepting gifts—in the form of clothing, fashion accessories, and various grooming services—for the event. A second complaint accused the congresswoman of ethics violations for accepting free tickets to the Met Gala, which reportedly cost $35,000 a piece, and sitting at a sponsored table valued at $300,000.

2) Shady finances

AOC has struggled to file her required financial disclosure forms on time.

3) The time she pretended to get arrested in front of the Supreme Court

Ocasio-Cortez drew attention to herself once again in July 2022 by pretending to be handcuffed by police during an abortion protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The stunt was orchestrated in collusion with the Center for Popular Democracy Action, a left-wing dark money group funded by billionaire George Soros.

4) Illegally parking her Tesla like a degenerate wine mom

The Free Beacon is the only media outlet courageous enough to report on the congresswoman's Tesla ownership and inability to follow the rules. On multiple occasions, we exposed AOC for illegally parking her Tesla in front of a Whole Foods in her posh Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Her refusal to follow simple parking laws suggests an addiction to antisocial behavior that can only be sated by committing increasingly sinister crimes.

5) Betraying Hillary Clinton (and stealing her signature outfit)

Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)—Hillary's bitter rival—in the 2020 presidential election. In the most recent election cycle, AOC backed Nina Turner, a radical left-wing "defund the police" advocate, in the Democratic primary for an open House seat in Ohio. Hillary and other establishment Democrats endorsed Turner's opponent, Shontel Brown. Hillary's choice would go on to win the party's nomination, but she'll never forget the slight. May God have mercy on her enemies.

6) Dating well below her level of attractiveness

Is this ethical?

7) Cavorting with anti-Semites

AOC routinely pals around with fellow "Squad" members Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). Both are notorious Jew haters.

8) Manspreading

Some have compared AOC to bloodthirsty Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who has been accused of "manspreading" to intimidate his opponents.

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A bold statement, indeed. So we decided to run it by our smartest fact-checking consultants to assess its accuracy. Our analysis determined that the congressman's claim lacks crucial context, is demonstrably false, and threatens the physical safety of millions of vulnerable Americans. We also identified hundreds of living people in the world who have saved more human lives than "Doctor" Fauci. Below are five prominent examples. Enjoy!

Peter Lax

The Hungarian-born math nerd was just 19 years old when he was recruited to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he helped develop the world's first nuclear weapon. Lax, 96, is one of the last living scientists responsible for this historic innovation, which saved millions of lives in 1945 by compelling the Japanese to surrender and millions upon millions more in the ensuing decades via nuclear deterrence in addition to the environmental benefits of nuclear power.

Abraham Karem

Karem, aka "The Dronefather," is regarded as the founding father of unmanned aerial vehicle technology. Born in Iraq to Jewish parents in 1937, he moved to Israel as a teenager and studied aeronautical engineering. Karem built his first drone for the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He move to the United States shortly thereafter and began developing what would eventually become the Predator drone, which served honorably from 1995 to 2018 and saved an untold number of innocent lives by eliminating terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, and Somalia.

Dr. Nicholas Terrett

The Cambridge-educated science nerd was lead chemist on the Pfizer research team that developed Viagra, the groundbreaking erectile dysfunction treatment the late Sen. Bob Dole (R., Kan.) famously described as a "great drug." Terrett's work has undoubtedly saved millions of lives (and millions of marriages) and contributed to the improvement of the human condition on a scale that puts 'Doctor' Fauci's comparatively meager accomplishments to shame.

Dick Cheney

The most powerful vice president in history saved countless lives by waging war on America's enemies and championing robust "enhanced interrogation techniques." As CEO of Halliburton in the late 1990s, Cheney helped supply American motorists with cheap gasoline and delivered tremendous returns to shareholders. His early support for gay marriage—decades before Barack Obama's "evolution"—was an act of moral courage rarely seen among politicians.

Donald Trump

The 45th (and arguably current) president saved millions of lives by authorizing Operation Warp Speed, his administration's initiative to facilitate the rapid development and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine. In March 2020, Fauci predicted that a viable vaccine would take "at least a year to a year and a half" to produce. Thanks to Trump, the first COVID-19 vaccine in America was administered less than nine months later on December 14. Some might argue that Trump saved even more lives in 2016 by preventing Hillary Clinton from ever becoming president.

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In what can only be viewed as a triumph for the Biden administration's efforts to persuade the Taliban to adopt a more "inclusive" approach to governing, an Afghan woman played a key role in the authoritarian regime's first public execution since President Joe Biden's disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The BBC reports that a man was recently hanged at a sports stadium in Farah province after he confessed to fatally stabbing a man named Mustafa in 2017. The victim's mother told BBC that Taliban officials had "begged" her to "forgive this infidel" and spare the murderer's life, but she refused.

"They insist me to forgive this man in sake of God, but I told them that this man must be executed and must be buried the same as he did to my son," she said. "If you do not execute him he will commit other crimes in the future."

A public notice was issued prior to the execution inviting "all citizens" to come and watch. It was the first time the Taliban has publicly acknowledged carrying out a death sentence since regaining power in the wake of Biden's botched pull-out.

This heartwarming tale of female inclusion is precisely what the Biden administration has been calling for since abandoning our Afghan allies to the mercy of the Taliban. "We have made clear our expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government," a State Department spokesman said in September 2021. The administration expressed concern that the country's interim cabinet "consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates and no women."

At the time, some diversity advocates criticized the Biden administration for failing to recognize the Taliban's progressive accomplishments. For example, the regime's senior leadership is comprised entirely of Muslim people of color, while a number of top officials are formerly incarcerated individuals impacted by the criminal justice system. That includes Khairullah Khairkhwa, a senior Taliban commander who was detained at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 until 2014, when former president Barack Obama ordered his release against the advice of U.S. military leaders in exchange for U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

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Taylor Lorenz and other journalist influencers often complain about the challenges of "being a woman online," but they have never had to endure the trauma of being a soccer skeptic during the World Cup.

I am an innocent victim of cyberbullying and harassment. I was targeted for the "crime" of refusing to celebrate soccer, a tedious sport that incentivizes faking, flopping, and fraud.

Soccer fans, as it turns out, are even more deranged than the snowflake libs who typically clog the Washington Free Beacon's inbox with heinous filth. Who would have thought that a sport so boring and effeminate was teeming with such anger and toxic masculinity?

Below are a few of the many hateful messages I have received in the past two weeks.

Sam writes:

Really? That's what you got to say about the biggest event on the planet? You are a moron. How they let you in the building is incomprehensible. You must have nobody in your life.

Mark writes:

Not sure why you need to denigrate soccer. Perhaps it is because you are not athletic. And please don't say soccer is boring if you watch baseball. Soccer players can't play while chewing tobacco and scratching themselves. Perhaps you are jealous.

Jeff writes:

Hey Doucheface,

Straight up, you're a giant fucking chode. Go eat a bag of dicks assclown. Absolute joke of a reporter go find a real job.

Kevin writes:

Footie players have six packs and bulging calf muscles. What do you have? A brain full of shit!

Owen writes:

You suck, retard. Were you molested or something? Number one sport in the world. Maybe this is why you have no friends. Fucking loser.

Steven writes:

You are truly a shallow, moronic, horse's ass. Did writing that story make you feel like a big man? I have had the pleasure of firing people like you, who don't have a clue and refused to learn how to treat others.

I'll bet you grew up without a Father.

Rick writes:

Hey, dickwad! Your wife is begging me to come over. LOL.

Editor's note: If you or someone you know is experiencing online harassment, remember that you are not powerless. Please contact Free Beacon ombudsman Biff Diddle at biffdiddle@gmail.com.

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