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Stephen A. Smith says he only took home ONE-THIRD of his annual income living in California. His ESPN salary alone is $20,000,000 a year. That means the government took over $13,300,000 in taxes. He now lives in Florida. SMITH: "I can't stand high taxes. And if y'all think I'm lying, federal income tax is nearly 40% for people in my range. And then on top of it all is an additional 13.6% in the state of California. And we ain't even getting the LA city tax, and we ain't getting the FICA, and Social Security and disability." "You walking home with less than 34% of your money messing around in California! I got a problem with that." "It's similar in New York. I got a problem with that. So because of that, I speak out against liberal policies that come to take your money." Here is what the tax breakdown looks like on a $20,000,000 salary: • Federal income tax (37% top rate): ~$7,360,000 • California income tax (13.3% top rate): ~$2,630,000 • California SDI payroll tax (1.2%, no cap): ~$240,000 • Medicare (2.35% for top earners): ~$470,000 • Social Security (capped): ~$11,000 TOTAL: Over $10,700,000 a year, before property taxes, sales taxes, and city business taxes. Florida state income tax: $0. That means Smith saves over $2,870,000 a year ($7,860 a day) on state income taxes alone. Sales tax is also 2.75% cheaper in Florida. No wonder he moved.
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MSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so. Rolling Stone called Elon Musk and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation." Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes. MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read." JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes — I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well." MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?" JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to."
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MSNBC contributor tries to corner Byron Donalds on measles and demands to know if he vaxxes his kids. His answer left her looking stupid. And Bill Maher even piled on at the end. MOLLY JONG-FAST: “You’ve had to say some stuff. Like last week on Margaret Brennan’s show, you said rampant illegal immigration was the cause for this measles outbreak and not not being vaccinated. I’m curious. Like, I have three kids. You have three kids. Do you not vaccinate your kids?” BYRON DONALDS: “My oldest son is 23 years old. The vaccination schedule for him was less intense than the vaccination schedule for my 15-year-old son. And if you have talked to my mom, the vaccination schedule for me, being 47 years old, was not nearly as intense as it is for newborns today. “So I think there are parents, there are mothers who have real concerns about the frequency of vaccines for young infants into just being a toddler. And so I think the order that came out the other day from the White House was, well, let’s just spread the vaccination schedule back out. Let parents have an ability to make those decisions for their children with informed consent. And then the last piece is, let’s also make sure that the human body in its infancy can actually manage the amount of vaccines that are being put into their child. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.” BILL MAHER: “I don’t either.” JONG-FAST: “We have people dying of measles. We had two people in Ohio die of measles. We were almost eradicated from measles and now we have measles again, and there’s a reason for that. And the idea that you said illegal immigration causes—” DONALDS: “Under the previous administration, more than 10 million people came into the country illegally, and I know for a fact, just like everybody else — you can read your notes too — they weren’t checking their vaccination schedules coming into the United States. That’s a fact. That’s number one. “Number two, there was a measles outbreak in a couple of the detention facilities on the southern border. There was a measles outbreak in El Paso, Texas. There was also one in Chicago at another illegal immigration facility. Those are the facts. “So when you let that many people come into your country, when we already know in other countries they don’t have the vaccination schedule that we have, and then when the Department of Health and Human Services is talking about American children, now you’re finding fault with vaccination schedules for American children? I don’t think that’s an accurate way to look at it.” MAHER: “I had measles as a kid. I loved it. I was home for two weeks. I ate ice cream every day.” CDC schedule, 1983: 11 vaccine doses. CDC schedule, 2024: 70+ vaccine doses.
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A smug MSNBC contributor thought she had a gotcha on Byron Donalds when she said Trump never explained why we went to war with Iran and the strait was open before the conflict. Then Bill Maher cut her off and said she had such a “DUMB talking point.” BYRON DONALDS: “The regime is psychotic. It’s been that way for 47 years. And then they get a nuke?” MOLLY JONG-FAST: “Well, my question is: the strait was open. Wasn’t the strait open?” DONALDS: “Yes. The strait has always been the leverage point of the Iranians. Yes or no?” JONG-FAST: “But the strait was open before Donald Trump went to war with Iran, never explaining to us why.” BILL MAHER: “He did. He did explain. Please. He did explain. He did explain early on. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s such a dumb talking point. Of course they explained why.” JONG-FAST: “Okay, so why?” MAHER: “To stop them from getting nuclear weapons! And also, they were a terrible actor in the Middle East. There was no way there was ever going to be peace in that part of the world as long as Iran was funding—” JONG-FAST: “But we knew it was an unwinnable war. It’s a humongous crime.” MAHER: “Well, we did not know that. What they did was they f*cked up the timing, Byron. They should have attacked when the people were in the streets during the uprising. They waited till they got shot and then they attacked three months later. So... he has a good idea, and then the execution is f*cked up.” On February 28, the night Trump announced “major combat operations” in Iran, he said: “It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular, my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I’ll say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.”
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Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab. "Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE." "I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving." “Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates." “In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’ “It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.” Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated. That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊7,208,588 views • 1 month ago

Bill Maher tells a CNN anchor and a New York Times reporter to their faces that Gaza is not a genocide and the left only says it because “that’s as deep as they go.” Maher’s rant started when he brought up Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff, whom he called “Obama-esque.” But Maher says there is one thing holding him back that Democrats won’t admit out loud: he’s Jewish. MAHER: “He’s kind of Obama-esque when he speaks, and he really lit into Trump in a way that people seem to be, certainly on the left, thirsting for. And the problem is he’s Jewish. I mean, I know we don’t want to talk about that, but we need to talk about that because that is the situation in the Democratic Party." "They think Gaza is a genocide. It is not. There’s an actual meaning into the word genocide. It doesn’t come close." "And they've all just signed on to this because they’re just big on buzzwords and lawn signs and bumper stickers. That’s as deep as they go.” BASH: “And likes on their social media.” MAHER: “And likes. So you have to say it. There was a Congressman Scott Wiener. He’s... going to take Nancy Pelosi’s seat in San Francisco, and he wasn’t saying genocide and they [leftists] surrounded him, a mob, and yelled at him and said 'You’re not gay.' He’s gay. 'You're not really gay unless you' — what the f*ck does that have to do with genocide?” MAHER: “‘Say it!’ And he did [say genocide] because the Democrats are cowards. What a coward!” It turns out that “Queers for Palestine” is not just a slogan but a demand. Say “genocide” or you’re not gay.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊1,430,412 views • 10 days ago

CNN’s Dana Bash looks uncomfortable as Bill Maher says the Democratic Party is fine with faith “as long as that faith isn’t Jewish.” BASH: “James Talarico wears his faith on his sleeve in a way that he believes will help him.” MAHER: “Well, in the Democratic Party, as long as that faith isn’t Jewish, you’re good.” BASH: “Which, well, you said it, but…” MAHER: “Yeah, I said it because it’s true!” Pew Research (April 2026) found 80% of Democrats now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% in 2022. Among Republicans, it’s 41%.
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Mike Rowe reveals Ford has 5,000 unfilled mechanic jobs paying $120,000 a year. No degree required. AI-proof. And Ford still can't fill them. ROWE: "Not a week goes by when I don’t get a call from some CEO... elected official... freaking out." "They’ve done the math: for every five tradespeople who retire, two come in. It’s been that way for about 12 years now." “Jim Farley (Ford CEO) told me he’s got 5,000 empty bays at Ford. These are AI-proof six-figure jobs, right? $120,000 a year. He can’t fill them.” In a separation conversation with Shawn Ryan, Rowe said he visited a Texas data center and met three “debt-free” electricians under 30 making “north of $240,000/year.” All three of those electricians have been “poached” three times in the last 18 months because the demand for electricians is crazy high. THE BIG TAKEAWAY: If you're thinking about college but aren't sure what you really wanna do, trade school might be the smarter play. Chances are, you'll take on a lot less debt, make a lot more money — and AI won't be coming for your job anytime soon.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊3,086,098 views • 24 days ago

Bill Maher cuts off Hunter Biden mid-rant to remind him that his own father and "every Democrat" swore Iran could never have a nuclear weapon. HUNTER: “[Jared Kushner] is our unelected, unappointed emissary to the Middle East for war that nobody asked for. It’s absurd!” MAHER: “Not nobody.” HUNTER: "What?" MAHER: “Not nobody." HUNTER: "Oh, that's true. Bibi Netanyahu asked for it." MAHER: "Your father. Excuse me! every Democrat said Iran can't have nuclear weapons.” HUNTER: “Every president since Jimmy Carter refused what the Israelis wanted which was to bomb Iran. The only person who fell for it was Donald Trump.” On July 14, 2022, Joe Biden signed a joint declaration with Israel vowing to use “all elements of its national power” to keep Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. A day earlier, he said he was willing to use force against Iran if necessary to ensure they never get a nuke.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊1,041,737 views • 10 days ago

Bill Maher can't understand why Lindsay Clancy has so many "fans" outside the courthouse after she killed her three kids. He says it's "a little like Luigi." He asks an MSNBC contributor to explain why women are rallying behind her. Then he shares his own theory. BILL MAHER: “I just want to ask — this woman Lindsay Clancy, she killed her three children because she had postpartum depression. What I learned is that this is a very prevalent thing. It’s very real. I absolutely don’t think she knew what she was doing. I get that. What I don’t get is why does she have fans? There are so many women now who are, like, outside the courthouse. It’s a little like Luigi. I understand the frustration. Don’t understand why the fans. And is it just because this has been a cause célèbre that has gone under the radar for so long?” MOLLY JONG-FAST: “So my guess is that postpartum psychosis, which is what she had, is very real. I mean, it’s not so common, but it happens. And I think that a lot of women — this has sort of brought up postpartum psychosis as a topic. “The reporting on this story is horrific. Like, she keeps putting herself in mental institutions. She goes to McLean. She’s a labor and delivery nurse. So if there ever were a person who knows about postpartum care, it would be her. In the reporting, it says she doesn’t want to report how bad her symptoms are because she’s worried she’s going to lose her kids. It is one of the worst stories ever. And in my mind — you know, she’s paralyzed now. And so she’s in this wheelchair. I’m not sure that the courts are the answer to a problem like that.” MAHER: “Okay, but if we move away from just this extreme version... not a lot of women go to the length of killing their kid, but a lot of them are not afraid to say, ‘I don’t like being a mom.’ They put up TikToks just talking about it, and they seem to be just frustrated with what... mothers just expected was going to happen when you’re having a kid.”
The Vigilant Fox 🦊251,370 views • 3 days ago

Weeks before Perez Hilton was seen harming himself during a TikTok livestream, he tried selling Christian merchandise to help pay his hospital bills. HILTON: "You don't want to know how much I had to pay in hospital bills WITH insurance." "That's why your boy is now in hustle mode." "I have all that I had to take care of, and I wasn't able to work for over a month, so I just dropped a new merch collection. "I am obsessed with this." [Plugs Jesus merchandise] "Wear something holy. Praise Him and support your boy if you want."
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Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud: MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.” “And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.” “J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.” “Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.” “Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.” “New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.” “Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?” “One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.” “Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.” “Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’” “What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.” [Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps] “Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”
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Stephen A. Smith breaks down how the WNBA is now TRAPPED after Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declared for the league. Not only do they risk LEGAL ACTION if they deny them entry, but the commissioner alone cannot take care of the issue. The players themselves have to help define who is and who is not eligible to play, and good luck to them on figuring that out 😂
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Even this Fox News host is at a complete loss for words after former NBA player Royce White says this about the WNBA. 😅 WHITE: “My goal is to help elevate the WNBA. I think the ticket prices and the attendance will SOAR.” “I think the audience, the live audience will increase. And I think ultimately it’s good for the game. It’s going to help evolve the game.” “Who would argue that a player like myself or an Enes Kanter or, in the future, maybe even a LeBron James after he expires in the NBA. Maybe he wakes up one day and realizes he’s a woman as well.” “Who could argue that that wouldn't make the women's game better?” GRIFF JENKINS: “So, listen, I don’t know what to even say to that.” Royce White was the 16th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. Earlier in this same interview, White said he’s “just having a blast in my feminine era” and that “after further review... it would appear that I am indeed sometimes identifying as a transgender woman.” He has now declared himself eligible for the WNBA, a league that can't even define what a woman is.
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Melinda Gates responds after Epstein Files suggest Bill Gates got an STD from “Russian girls” and planned to secretly medicate her. NPR: “The emails in the files suggest that Bill Gates had additional affairs and that he tried to get medication to treat a sexually transmitted infection, and that he was going to give you the medicine without you knowing. His representative has said all of this is false… What is your dominant emotion when you read these news articles with these details?” MELINDA GATES: “Sad. Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness… It’s just sadness. I left my marriage. I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation. So it’s just sad. That’s the truth.”
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Adam Carolla says Chris Cuomo texted him UPSET that he retweeted one of Cuomo's "bad looks" from COVID. Carolla's message to Cuomo is brutal: CAROLLA: "You said a lot of STUPID SH*T during COVID, and I got a lot of sh*t foisted on me thanks to people LIKE YOU saying a lot of stupid sh*t." "Perhaps you should have shut the f*ck up back then... You ATTACKED people, and now people are rubbing it back in your face. That's how the world works." SIDE NOTE: When Chris Cuomo tried to debate Dave Smith on COVID, he literally got BOOED ON STAGE after he denied shaming people for taking ivermectin. Then Dave Smith played the clip and exposed him on the spot. That clip is in the comment below.
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MCAFEE: “You have a lot of teammates that are vaccinated… heading into the season.” RODGERS: “A lot of people had probably FAKE vax cards back in the day too.” McAFEE: “Not me!” RODGERS: “I remember seeing some of the vax cards. It was like written in CRAYON.” “I’m like, all right, so we’re going to pass that up, but we [unvaxxed] are going to be second-rate citizens over here. I got to wear a yellow armband. Train in the back. Can’t be around more than three people.” [Mocking] “‘Oh, you gotta wear a mask when you do your interview. And all of us are gonna be masked up the entire time back here. We’re 20ft away from you. Cause that’s safety first.’” “What a CROCK OF SH*T we had to go through! Crazy time.”
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Bill Maher confronts a college president over how liberal professors have turned Israel and Western civilization into slurs on campus. He reminded him that Western civilization gave everyone who is a progressive "the things they should be most proud of." The president pushed back and said: No, college professors are totally teaching Western civilization = good. Maher didn’t believe him. Bill Maher: “Since I have been covering news and especially the Middle East, even before that, Israel was known as an ‘outpost of Western civilization.’” Michael Roth: “Yes, it was.” Maher: “And that’s what it was called. That was always a good thing. Now, I don’t think it is. I did an editorial here one night talking about that. The Western civilization, they talk about it like it’s a bad thing. Instead of saying Western civilization is what gave everyone who is a progressive the things they should be most proud of.” Roth: “And I think that a lot of our students learn just that in class.” Maher: “The professors are teaching that message? I think they’re learning it from my show. I don’t think the professors are teaching. I really don’t.” Roth: “I think they are learning it from your show, of course. But the professors watch your show too. Maybe even more often than an 18-year-old.” Maher: “Do you think I could come on campus and speak and be welcomed?” Roth: “Welcomed, maybe not, but certainly—” Maher: “Really?” Roth: “No, but certainly given a hearing.” Maher: “I shouldn’t be welcomed? Someone who twice gave the Democrats a million dollars- that’s not enough credentials to come on and be welcomed?” Roth: “Well, if you came to Wesleyan with a million dollars, I would welcome you with open arms.” Maher: “Okay. Right. Well, I’m not going to be doing that.” A 2018 National Association of Scholars study of 51 top-ranked liberal arts colleges found faculty Democrats outnumber Republicans 10.4 to 1. At 39% of those schools, there was NOT A SINGLE registered Republican among full-time professors.
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Bill Maher explains why the guy who won the $1,000,000,000 jackpot actually didn't win that much money after all. Before taxes even come in, it drops to $450 million, unless you want 30 payments over 29 years. Most people take the lump sum of cash. On top of that, taxes. The federal government takes up to 37%. Then the Illinois government takes another 4.95%. When you crunch all the numbers, the advertised billion-dollar lottery dwindles down to $261 million. That's really good, but not a billion dollars. Your chances of winning the lottery are even worse than getting struck by lightning. Not for the government. They have hundreds of millions of players. And every time someone wins, they win, too.
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Stephen A. Smith looks visibly betrayed as he reveals he took 3 COVID shots and wore a mask just like Fauci told him, and he STILL got COVID, and it almost killed him. SMITH: “We were told, ‘Hey, you ain’t gonna get Covid if you do that.’ And I GOT COVID!” “And damn it, it almost killed me! Going into 2022, I’m in the hospital 90 minutes before the ball is about to drop, and the doctor says, ‘We’ve been at this for three plus weeks. You got double pneumonia. You look really bad. If this antibiotic and this steroid do not work, Mr. Smith, I’m sorry, we’re gonna have to call your family. Looks that bad...’” “And through the grace of God, three hours later, I felt better after they gave me that steroid and that antibiotic. But those were the longest three hours of my life because I thought it was over.” “And I remember I had done exactly what Dr. Anthony Fauci was imploring us all to do.” This is the look of a man who finally understands he was being lied to this whole time.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊1,922,790 views • 26 days ago