As 2024 draws to a close, steve deace, tod azenand Aaron McIntyre is looking back at everything that happened over the past 366 days of this wild and unprecedented leap year.
“What a strange journey it has been,” Diess says.
The team takes on the difficult task of narrowing down the craziest events and happenings of 2024 to the top 10 stories of the year.
10. Adventures of a “swindler”
On January 2, 2024, Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned after journalist Christopher Rufo exposed her as a plagiarist. His research revealed that Gay had used many sources that were not cited in his doctoral dissertation.
“It was the start of a year marked by pro-Hamas orc threats and, in some cases, violence against Jewish students on college and university campuses as Israel continued its war with Hamas,” McIntyre said. “It was always unclear what, if anything, the protesters were demanding.”
9. America still loves killing babies…
While 2023 saw “a very disappointing development for the cause of life,” 2024 was “more of a mixed bag,” McIntyre said.
“Florida's “murder'' amendment was rejected, along with similar amendments in Nebraska and South Dakota,'' but unfortunately “pro-infanticide amendments in states such as Arizona, Montana, and Missouri all passed.'' Ta”.
“The Supreme Court unanimously rendered the following judgment.''
Food and Drug Administration v. Hippocratic Medical Alliance Physicians and medical associations have no legal right to challenge the FDA's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone and “maintained access'' to the drug, even in states where abortion is restricted.
8. The real America: Forgotten, abused and gassed.
2024 was the year of lies and gaslighting. McIntyre cites two prominent examples.
One: Every economic report this year, he explains, “wasn't necessarily good, but if you look at it in the right way, it was probably acceptable.” However, a month later, “the revised numbers are; [were] The economy, it was announced, was not as rosy as earlier numbers had shown. ”
2: When Hurricane Helen hit Florida and moved north up the coast to hit six states, especially in deep red areas in western North Carolina, FEMA and other federal emergency agencies were “nowhere to be found. And so it is now.”
But when speculation spread that the lack of aid was politically motivated, we were repeatedly told that the idea was “trolling,” McIntyre says. That was until a Daily Wire report revealed that FEMA officials had ordered workers to skip homes with Trump signs. Then the truth came out.
This cycle of lies and gaslighting “was repeated, washed and repeated all year long with various people within the Biden administration,” he says.
7. Trance never goes away
Caitlin Clark though[set] New heights for women's track and field [became] This year, the realm of women's sports remained tainted by the fact that several biological men posing as women were allowed to compete in women's sports leagues.
One of those people is San Jose State volleyball player Blair Fleming, who “played all season for the Spartans and had to forfeit a game in protest after several opponents,” said Mackin. Taia says.
He is one of many examples.
6. “I'm getting the team together.”
Unlike his 2016 Cabinet picks, such as “Kerry-scheming John” and “James Tranney-loving Mattis,” this time around, an older and wiser Trump has selected a number of top talent for his cabinet. From Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's second term is set to be different.
5. Goodbye, Joe
Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's alleged improper retention of classified records ended without recommending criminal charges because Biden was a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” A month after it ended, Mr. Biden withdrew from the presidential race for the following reasons. his disastrous debate against President-elect Donald Trump;
“On June 25, two days before the debate, CNN ran a headline saying it was a right-wing conspiracy with a fake video that said Biden was mentally unfit,” Deese recalled.
Later, when Biden's debate performance proved that this “conspiracy” was correct, “the media that had been covering him all this time suddenly reversed course, and now they have great concerns about the president's ability to support democracy.” “We are reconsidering our role as gatekeepers.”
4. Illegal Immigrants and the Murder of Laken Riley
“The most conservative estimates from our government's own data put the number of illegal aliens who entered this country during the Biden administration at more than 7.2 million,” McIntyre said. “What's the real number? It's probably quite high.”
Among those millions are many violent criminals, drug lords and gang members, perhaps the most famous being Jose Ybarra, who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Riley has since become something of a face for the movement of people who support mass deportation.
3. Legal issues
In 2024, “Donald Trump faced extensive and unwarranted legal challenges,” McIntyre says.
That included a New York hush money case in which he was convicted of 34 felonies for falsifying business records. He was indicted on 37 charges in the classified documents case. In the election interference case, he faced numerous federal charges for conduct related to the 2020 election. In the Fulton County, Georgia case, Trump and others were charged under the RICO Act with conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
In addition, “he faced a series of civil lawsuits, including a major fraud case brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, in which he was fined a significant sum,” McIntyre added.
“There were various efforts to remove him from the ballot, like Colorado, which removed him from the ballot before being struck down by the Supreme Court, There have been various efforts to label people.
“Together, these lawsuits add up to a year's worth of lawsuits, whose legitimacy ranges from dubious to malicious. But there's a reason he's called Teflon London. Lawsuits. Many of them have collapsed,” McIntyre added.
2. They tried to kill him.
“A shocking but not surprising incident shocked the nation on July 13 of this year when an assassination attempt occurred at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. At the Butler Farm Show. “Just minutes into his speech, gunshots rang out, grazing President Trump's ears, and chaos ensued immediately,” McIntyre recalled.
However, “In this iconic moment, Trump stands up after being shot in the head and yells to his supporters, “Fight, fight, fight!'', making it one of the most iconic photos of all time. was born.
McIntyre points out that the attempt on Trump's life was largely the result of traditional media perpetuating the theory that Trump was Hilter.
1. Trump wins again
Not only did he win the Electoral College, he also won the popular vote.
“That's all there is to say,” McIntyre says.
Watch the episode above for more details on each event and a list of honorable mentions from the crew.
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