Andrew Surabian, senior advisor to the Great America Alliance spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Monday regarding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s claim that Steve Bannon and others are “specialists in nominating people that lose.

Surabian blasted McConnell as “the opposite of a fighter,” adding, “that’s why he hasn’t been able to pass any of the Trump agenda through the Senate. So, that’s number one.”

He continued, “No Senate candidate across the country wants to be associated with Mitch McConnell. Then you have to ask the question, why do these candidates not want to be publicly associated with Mitch McConnell and the reason is because they all know Mitch McConnell is an albatross on their campaigns in the primaries and in the general election.”

Mitch McConnell is the most disliked national political figure in the country,” said Surabian. He then went on to point out a number of McConnell’s handpicked candidates who have lost elections in recent years.

“No one has higher disapproval ratings than Mitch McConnell, so these candidates and their consultants and their pollsters understand that it’s much better for them to be associated with Donald Trump and Steve Bannon than it is to be associated with an albatross like Mitch McConnell.”

“We’re witnessing the meltdown of the McConnell industrial complex,” concluded Surabian.

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has hinted at running for president in 2020, and if he does, it will “probably” be as a Republican, he said in an interview with TMZ’s Harvey Levin for Fox News Channel’s “OBJECTified.”

Cuban explained it has entered his mind to run for president, but said he is “far from” a decision one way or the other.

Partial transcript as follows:

LEVIN: Are you a Democrat or a Republican?

CUBAN: I’m fiercely Independent.

LEVIN: But if you run, you’re going to have to run one or the other.

CUBAN: Um, maybe.

LEVIN: Well, if you had to choose, what would you choose?

CUBAN: Probably Republican.

LEVIN: How come?

CUBAN: Because I think there’s a place for somebody who is socially a centrist, but I’m very fiscally conservative. But I think there’s better ways now to make government smaller than the old traditional Republican ways. Again, using technology, you know, government as a service can have a dramatic impact on how we live our lives. If you don’t understand technology, and you don’t understand the impact on jobs that technology is having and will continue to have, then you’re going to run into some severe roadblocks.

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In light of the NFL anthem-kneeling controversy, famed Harvard law scholar Alan Dershowitz recently went on 970 AM in New York with John Catsimatidis to talk about the legality of a potential rule banning the NFL players from kneeling, the Washington Examiner reported.

“The players are entitled to kneel if the owners allow them to. Now the owners could say ‘no’ because the players don’t have a First Amendment right in relation to the owners. They only have a First Amendment right in relation to the government,” Dershowitz explained.

Dershowitz is correct. The First Amendment’s protections apply to the government not coercing speech. Private businesses and entities are still free to impose some limits on speech if they so chose.

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Dershowitz noted that if the government started intervening in the situation — say, passing a law banning the protests — that’s when things would get messy and the players would have a legitimate reason to claim First Amendment violations.

“If it’s just a dispute between owners and players, then the owners have a right to impose their will on the players,” he explained.

You can listen to the full interview here. His remarks on the protests begin at time 1:00.

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Dershowitz also stated that the First Amendment was “working well” because “both sides are being heard” in this dispute, with the American public largely siding against the protesters.

There are many people blindly claiming the First Amendment protects these players’ right to protest, but that’s simply untrue.

If the NFL owners had a spine and wanted to ban these protests, they could do so. But so far, it seems they’ve been afraid to actually stand up for the flag and tell these players that this sort of disrespect won’t be tolerated.

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It’s real shame to watch, and in the meantime millions of Americans will exercise their right to not attend football games and not watch these players on TV.

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This Sunday’s National Football League games showed that the anti-Trump national anthem protests may be a drain on ratings, but so is the product on the field.

Even before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell caved in to Colin Kaepernick and his cult of disciples over their cop-hating disrespect of the flag, the games had been becoming increasingly unwatchable due to too many rules, excessive replays, slowness of games, inconsistent penalties and the failure to have an officiating staff that understands what a catch, fumble or touchdown is from week to week.

One can argue that there were already big problems with Goodell’s product before he ran up the white flag and let the racial grievance pirates hijack his once mighty vessel.

A glimpse at stadiums from yesterday’s games shows that the league has big problems that extend beyond the cratering television ratings.

Empty seats are multiplying at an alarming pace:

The NFL became no longer about sports and instead all about liberal propaganda… The result, Empty seats across America! #NFLBoycott #MAGA http://pic.twitter.com/LwH0VDWDdw

— TRUMP USA ?? (@MADE__USA) October 23, 2017

Chicago #NFL #CARvsCHI RT @chrisbleck: lots of empty seats at kickoff http://pic.twitter.com/hrs7vXgj6Z

— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) October 22, 2017

And we are underway #Browns #Titans http://pic.twitter.com/dcrirhjo6r

— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) October 22, 2017

#NFL #NYJvsMIA RT @nsbbcom: Nobody cares about jet or dolphins @[me] http://pic.twitter.com/k6wPSlIRJG

— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) October 22, 2017

Swaths of empty seats here post kickoff. http://pic.twitter.com/5hCHF89wkq

— Armando Salguero (@ArmandoSalguero) October 22, 2017

The @Colts Lucas Oil is very, very empty… people are coming simply because that paid for the season in advance… @zkeefer @GreggDoyelStar http://pic.twitter.com/P4wjBs37Zq

— Timothy Riethmiller (@thetimdeluxe) October 22, 2017

You know who isn’t winning? The NFL. This was kickoff time in Jacksonville. Look at those empty seats! http://pic.twitter.com/fd7CwOuHk4

— Fistful of Doom (@fistfulofdoom) October 15, 2017

1 minute before kickoff. Oodles if empty seats!! @NFL has destroyed one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in sports history! http://pic.twitter.com/1d1wfSTmx4

— Deplorable Greg (@OBgynFl) October 22, 2017

Photo via @ednorris – keep it up @NFL @NFLPA @Kaepernick7 @jemelehill those are thousands of empty seats in Baltimore. #StandForTheAnthem http://pic.twitter.com/NVHeqvZ4ER

— Gerard Kane (@nyjerrykane) October 15, 2017

These shots are from yesterday as well as last Sunday and attendance is only going to continue to drop as long as the NFL has surrendered to the miscreants. On the bright side, if revenues plunge enough the games may once again be affordable for the average family, that is if anyone has any desire to go ever again after the league’s 2017 suicide.

 

I’m not going to say this is a lie, weirder things have happened, but, come on. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren claims the she was sexually harassed by a colleague when she was a law professor. In fact several democrats have come forward to claim victimhood at the hands of evil men. Democrats turned a blind eye to serial rapist Bill Clinton and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein for decades, but suddenly it’s trendy on the left to be outraged by something they have tolerated and encouraged for so long.

Meet the Press reached out to all 21 female Senators to get their stories about sexual harassment and only got 4 (all democrats), most of whom weren’t harassed at all. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill told this story when she was seeking advice from a male state lawmaker about getting her bill passed:

“I cautiously approached the very powerful speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. He looked at me and paused and he said, ‘Well, did you bring your kneepads?’ I do think he was joking, but it was shocking that he would make that joke to a colleague,” said McCaskill.

Okay, even McCaskill thinks that guy was joking so let’s call this first one BS; she wasn’t harassed.

Next, North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp talked about how a male law enforcement official said something to her after she made some sort of an effort to curb domestic violence:

“He put his finger in my face and he said, ‘Listen here, men will always beat their wives and you can’t stop ‘em,’” said Heitkamp.

That might be “mansplaining” but it’s not close at all to sexual harassment. So far these ladies are 0 for 2.

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono had the least credible sexual harassment story by claiming men have asked her out on dates:

“I’ve been propositioned by teachers, by my colleagues, and you name it,” Hirono said.

0 for 3, which brings us to Elizabeth Warren who said a colleague once invited her to his office:

“He slammed the door and lunged for me. It was like a bad cartoon. He’s chasing me around the desk, trying to get his hands on me. After several rounds, I jumped for the door and got out and I went back to my office and just sat and shook and thought: ‘What have I done to bring this on?’” Warren said.

Warren also mentioned that she kept this attempted attack to herself, which adds zero credibility to her story.

Maybe this did happen, but Warren looks a sissy little boy, so I doubt it. Then again, some dudes have very weird fetishes. If I had to venture a guess, I’d say that Warren’s colleague was just trying to play “Cowboys and Indians” and she misinterpreted it. If it happened when she was a law professor, that’s back when she was pretending to be a Native American princess. It seems cultural appropriation really does have a price.

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