Comedian Dave Chappelle is facing disturbing allegations following his Saturday night performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where an attendee claims the entertainer openly celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and made shocking remarks about the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Author and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Rob Henderson, who was in the audience, posted the quote immediately afterward on X.

Henderson wrote:

“I’m so happy Charlie Kirk was killed. I can’t help it, it’s involuntary.” -Dave Chappelle tonight at Madison Square Garden

The second sentence struck me as particularly odd; forcing yourself to be voluntarily giddy about someone’s murder would be strange.

The second sentence struck me as particularly odd; forcing yourself to be voluntarily giddy about someone’s murder would be strange.

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) November 8, 2026

The show was part of Chappelle’s Karmageddon Tour and the New York Comedy Festival. Both MSG dates (Nov. 6 and 7) were phone-free events using Yondr pouches, so no recordings exist.

Multiple people in replies to Henderson’s post confirmed the line was part of the set on tour, with similar comments reported from earlier stops.

One user wrote:

“I [was] there and yes, he said that. But they locked up our phones so no way to record it. He also said ge didn’t care about 9/11 and he’s sick of people saying “never forget”.”

@robkhenderson I waa there and yes, he said that. But they locked up our phones so no way to record it. He also said ge didn’t care about 9/11 and he’s sick of people saying “never forget”.

— JacquieNYC (@Jacquienyc17) November 8, 2026

This marks a stunning escalation from Chappelle’s comments in his December 2025 Netflix special The Unstoppable. In that special, Chappelle said the murder of Kirk, shot in the neck while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, left him “shook.” He dismissed comparisons between Kirk and Martin Luther King Jr. as “a reach,” calling Kirk a “motherf**king internet personality.”

Now, barely a year later on his Karmageddon tour, the same comedian is describing open joy at the killing of a young husband, father, and Christian conservative activist.

The Gateway Pundit has extensively documented the radical left’s sickening reaction to Kirk’s murder.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, podcaster Jennifer Welch and co-host Angie Sullivan faced backlash after laughing at a social media joke about digging up Kirk’s remains and killing him again.

The disturbing exchange provoked criticism and prompted advertisers to distance themselves from the podcast.

On Friday, November 6, The Gateway Pundit reported that Cash App had ended its sponsorship relationship with Welch’s podcast following the controversy.

Cash App publicly stated that it did not condone violence and confirmed that it was no longer sponsoring the program.

The following day, The Gateway Pundit reported that Welch and Sullivan apologized for laughing at the joke, acknowledging that the exchange was insensitive.

The Gateway Pundit has documented other incidents involving comedians making offensive remarks about Kirk’s assassination.

In September 2025, Jim Hoft reported on stand-up comedian Darius Dinkins, who described Kirk as a demon and expressed satisfaction over his killing.

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Expert Analysis Confirms 85/15 Percent Ratios in 2026 Election Social Media Post Shared by President Trump.

Joe Hoft is a former International Audit and Finance Executive who performed hundreds of audits around the world, oversaw the financial reporting of multi-million and billion-dollar entities, and participated in board, audit, risk, and executive committee meetings in multiple countries and continents.

A post shared by President Trump on Truth Social on Saturday shows a consistent pattern in the results of the 2026 midterm election in 59 Senate and Governor races across the country.

THE 15% BAND

Look at this chart.
59 races. Senate and governor.
States ordered from reddest to bluest in 2024.

The solid lines are 2024.
The dashed lines are 2026.
The shaded bands are what moved.

One formula fits all of it:
Republican 2026 = 0.85 × Trump 2024
Democrat 2026 = Harris 2024 + 0.15 × Trump 2024

For every 1,000 Trump points, 850 stayed Republican. 150 landed on the Democratic side.

The numbers:
Senate: Republicans kept ~85% of Trump’s share
Governor: ~86%

Variation explained: 88%

What makes it strange:
It didn’t matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts: same 15% (p = 0.69). The Democratic gain was sized by Trump’s vote, not Harris’s. The Harris part is zero.

The 0.85 beat both standard election-swing models in every set of races.
Drop any single state and the multiplier stays between 0.846 and 0.853.

Why seats flipped:
At 0.85, any state where Trump got under about 58.5% falls below 50%. Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina: all under that line. All flipped.

What this means:
Midterms are messy. This one isn’t. Two sets of races, different candidates, different campaigns, and the same 15% decrease almost everywhere.

A pattern this even demands answers at the ballot level: paper ballot hand counts, poll-book check-ins against votes counted, and voter files showing who actually turned out.

The numbers raise the question.
The ballots can answer it.

— Truth Is Freedom (@TruthAnswersAll) November 6, 2026

A pattern is not expected, and its presence is concerning and likely indicates wrongdoing.

The data in this post was analyzed using AI.  The analysis supported the tweet.

Summary

The data shows a consistent and sizable shortfall: in nearly every state, the 2026 Republican Senate candidate received substantially fewer votes than 85% of Trump’s 2024 total. The shortfalls range from tens of thousands in small states to over a million in Texas. This is larger than a simple “85% of Trump” rule would predict in most places.

Is there a pattern?

Yes. The pattern is fairly uniform underperformance relative to the 85% threshold.

Initial observations indicate that the 2026 election was stolen across the country in multiple races, and the extent of wrongdoing matches or exceeds that of the stolen 2020 election.

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Earlier on Saturday, The Gateway Pundit reported on the unbelievable numbers coming out of the 2026 midterm elections.

SMOKING GUN: New Report Reveals Algorithmic Pattern on How Dems “Stole” the 2026 Election — Eerily Similar to the Impossible 2020 “Drop and Roll” Pattern Witnessed Across the US

In state after state, we saw results that can be explained by an election algorithm that delivered the desired results to Democrat candidates.

Truth Is Freedom reported on these results on Friday.

In 59 US Senate and Gubernatorial races the results were the same based on this algorithm.

One formula fits all of it:
Republican 2026 = 0.85 × Trump 2024
Democrat 2026 = Harris 2024 + 0.15 × Trump 2024

For every 1,000 Trump points, 850 stayed Republican. 150 landed on the Democratic side.

The numbers:
Senate: Republicans kept ~85% of Trump’s share
Governor: ~86%

What makes it strange:
It didn’t matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts: same 15% (p = 0.69). The Democratic gain was sized by Trump’s vote, not Harris’s. The Harris part is zero.

The 0.85 beat both standard election-swing models in every set of races.
Drop any single state and the multiplier stays between 0.846 and 0.853.

As we reported earlier, this is similar to what The Gateway Pundit reported in 2020 on the impossible ‘Drop and Roll’ election results seen in numerous battleground states.

Here is another shocking set of numbers that is being reported on the 2026 midterm elections.

Jeff O’Donnell, The Lone Raccoon on X, studied several US states and found that for some strange and impossible reason, Republican voters were very excited about down-ballot offices like School Superintendents, Agriculture Commissioners, and Mine Inspectors!

We are posting a few of his tweets her. Please check out The Lone Raccoon to see all of his data on the unbelievable 2026 midterm results.

It appears Democrats were soooo eager to win and bring down MAGA that they were sloppy and reckless. And, now they got caught.

Georgia had a VERY POPULAR Agriculture Commissioner candidate!

GEORGIA

Georgia was wild – they must have worried about Ossoff. Republican Senate Candidate got 210,000 less votes than the Republican Agriculture Commissioner and 190,00 less than Governor. In a total coincidence, Democrat Senator Ossoff got almost 200,000 votes more than the Democrat governor candidate.

However they did this (and I will be opining soon) it allowed them to fine tune which candidates got votes vacuumed away.

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 6, 2026

Arizona – Voters were excited about the School Superintendent and Mine Inspector candidates!

ARIZONA

Did I forget you? How could I. It does my heart proud to think of all those proud Republicans in AZ excited to cast their votes for School Superintendent and Mine Inspector! https://t.co/Lbm92b3AJX

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 7, 2026

Ohio – GOP State Auditor candidate had almost 300,000 more votes than GOP Governor and Senator candidate.

ARIZONA

Did I forget you? How could I. It does my heart proud to think of all those proud Republicans in AZ excited to cast their votes for School Superintendent and Mine Inspector! https://t.co/Lbm92b3AJX

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 7, 2026

Kansas – The GOP state treasurer candidate had 50,000 more votes than popular Republican Senator Roger Marshall – who lost to an old white guy.

KANSAS

Wow you have a popular Treasurer. 50,000 more votes than for the Republican Senate candidate. And that Insurance Commissioner… that’s what gets people out to vote!

Pattern remains. https://t.co/3ZsFqlnFe1

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 5, 2026

And, of course, in Arizona…

ARIZONA

From Did I forget you? How could I. It does my heart proud to think of all those proud Republicans in AZ excited to cast their votes for School Superintendent and Mine Inspector! https://t.co/Lbm92b3AJX

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 7, 2026

From The Lone Raccoon – The bad guys had 2 years to come up with new methods. They used it well.

The bad guys had 2 years to come up with new methods. They used it well.

— The Lone Raccoon (@FSociety_1942) November 5, 2026

** Read more at The Lone Raccoon on X – including the wacky results from North Carolina and South Carolina.

As Hillary Clinton would say, these results require the “willing suspension of disbelief.”

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Beijing stands to benefit from Democratic plans to undo President Donald Trump’s tariffs and restrain the war with Iran, Chinese analysts say, after Democrats took control of the House and Senate in the November 3 midterm elections. The Chinese Communist Party’s state news agency, Xinhua, told its readers on November 5 that most American voters blamed rising fuel and food prices on Trump’s “tariff war” and his military action against Iran.

Beijing’s official response was restrained. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters the midterms were a U.S. domestic affair, according to China Daily, the Chinese government’s English-language newspaper.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said before the election that Democrats would be united from the start on holding votes against the Iran war and undoing Trump’s tariff regime. After the vote, removing the tariffs remained high on the Democrats’ agenda as part of their focus on inflation.

Mu Chunshan, an independent political analyst based in Beijing, told The Diplomat that “if the Democrats can restrain Trump’s impulses to China and other countries in the areas of tariffs and trade, that would be better for China-U.S. relations.” He also said Democratic restraint on Trump’s military operations could help advance negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and security in the Strait of Hormuz.

Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai and an adviser to China’s Foreign Ministry, said that if Democrats limit Trump, he “will be less able to leverage a tariff card in negotiations with China.” The U.S.-China trade truce expires in January, and negotiations are set to resume later this month. Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, warned that Beijing could conclude Trump needs a deal more than China does and press harder for tariff reductions and other U.S. concessions.

Repealing Trump’s tariffs through legislation would require his signature or a veto override, which takes a two-thirds vote of members present and voting in both chambers. Democrats are projected to hold about 54 Senate seats, well short of the 67 votes needed if all senators vote. Trump could also agree to tariff reductions himself during negotiations.

Congressional oversight requires no presidential signature, and analysts expect Democrats to use it against Beijing. Scott Kennedy, senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told CNBC that “the Democrats may nudge the U.S.’s China policy in a more hawkish direction through hearings and legislation, particularly on economic security issues and Taiwan.”

Chinese analysts acknowledge the risk. Mu said both U.S. parties “share negative views on China, for example on national security or high-tech competition,” and that “these will not change in any particular way due to the outcome of the midterms.” Wu warned that a Democratic Congress “may force Trump to resume arms sales to Taiwan next year,” adding, “If that happens, that will also undermine the stability of US-China relationship.”

Democratic pressure on China is expected to center on Taiwan and technology, while the party’s first national security priorities are Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions. A Pew survey released in May 2025 found that 58% of Republicans named China as the greatest threat to the United States, while Russia was the top answer among Democrats.

Gallup found in 2024 that only 18% of Democrats named China as America’s greatest enemy. Xi is counting on that focus to leave Beijing room to rebuild its influence in Latin America. Democratic aides told Reuters that boosting aid to Ukraine will be a top priority when the new Congress is seated in January.

Under the Biden administration, China expanded its influence in the region despite Washington’s efforts to stop it, as Honduras switched recognition from Taiwan to China in March 2023 and the COSCO-backed Chancay megaport opened in Peru in 2024.

Trump has since driven China out of its most strategic positions in Latin America. Panama became the first country in the region to exit China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Panamanian authorities seized two canal ports from Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison, and U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro, whose Venezuela was China’s only “all-weather” strategic partner in Latin America.

Beijing now hopes a Democratic Congress will help it recover some of those losses.

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Iran’s radical Islamic regime is escalating its threats against the United States and its allies, announcing Saturday that it has officially removed its self-imposed 2,000-kilometer (approximately 1,200-mile) restriction on ballistic missile ranges, potentially opening the door to strikes far beyond the Middle East.

Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), confirmed the policy shift during a Saturday press conference in Tehran.

According to Iran’s state-aligned Tasnim News Agency, Mohebbi declared:

“This restriction has been lifted for us.”

The Iranian military official also suggested that Tehran intends to demonstrate its military capabilities through action rather than rhetoric.

“Our duty is to show our capabilities on the battlefield,” Mohebbi added.

The provocative announcement follows a warning from Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who recently instructed the country’s military commanders to respond to threats from the United States and Israel without geographical limitations.

According to Tasnim, the Iranian leader also ordered military commanders to update their database of potential targets, including physical and nonphysical assets belonging to Iran’s American and Israeli adversaries.

For years, Tehran maintained that its ballistic missile program operated under a voluntary maximum range of approximately 2,000 kilometers.

Even under that restriction, Iranian missiles were capable of reaching Israel, American military installations throughout the Persian Gulf, and portions of southeastern Europe.

Now, the IRGC says those limitations no longer apply.

However, there is an important distinction between Tehran removing its declared policy restriction and demonstrating that it possesses operational missiles capable of exceeding that range.

Mohebbi did not identify any newly deployed longer-range weapon. The Associated Press reported Saturday that Iran is not publicly known to possess operational ballistic missiles exceeding its previously declared 2,000-kilometer limit.

American officials have previously warned that technology associated with Iran’s space-launch program could potentially support development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Iran’s missile capabilities came under intense scrutiny in March after reports emerged that Tehran had launched ballistic missiles toward the strategically important American-British military installation at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

In a March 21 report, The Gateway Pundit’s Paul Serran detailed the attempted strike against the installation, located approximately 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory.

Neither missile struck the installation. Reports indicated that one failed during flight while another was intercepted.

Iran subsequently denied responsibility for the attempted attack.

Saturday’s announcement is only the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive warnings from Tehran.

On October 13, The Gateway Pundit reported that Iranian officials were threatening to expand military operations into neighboring countries and attack American naval forces if President Trump resumed major strikes against the regime.

According to that report, Tehran was reinforcing its nuclear installations, preparing its armed forces for additional combat, and warning regional governments that renewed American attacks could trigger a broader military confrontation.

Iranian officials were also reportedly considering more aggressive operations against U.S. Navy vessels and American personnel stationed throughout the region.

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Tuesday’s blue wave didn’t just affect the U.S. Congress. State legislatures and governor’s mansions changed hands, too, and that has serious implications for plenty of people — including the most vulnerable, the unborn.

To that end, I give you one of the people who would most like to change abortion laws in the United States to not only go back to the good old days of Roe v. Wade, but to go even further: Lisa Lerer of The New York Times.

In October, Lerer wrote a story claiming that because Idaho banned killing babies in the womb, OB-GYNs were fleeing the state. This should have said a lot about the state of OB-GYNs in post-Roe America and why the Dobbs decision — and subsequent abortion bans — were necessary.

Not so for Lerer, who didn’t question why “OB-GYNs have been fleeing the state in extraordinary numbers” simply because third-party abortionists can’t kill babies in the womb, but instead passed on claims from hospital administrators that “women facing life-threatening complications are loaded into a helicopter and flown out of state for treatment that OB-GYNs in Idaho are not allowed to administer.”

This is what happens when you don’t let people murder the unborn, folks: Women don’t get the healthcare they need! If I had a nickel for every time I heard that threadbare excuse, I could pay the salaries of a cadre of pro-life OB-GYNs to relocate to Idaho posthaste.

But I digress, because this somehow gets worse.

Appearing on PBS’s “Amanpour and Company” last month, Lerer said the quiet part out loud: The left really wishes we would take the whole “morality” thing out of legislating whether or not we can butcher the unborn.

Speaking of abortion bans, Lerer said that “these laws were not really written often with a sense of science or women’s health or, you know, medical advisories.”

“And so, I was curious what the impact were of these bans beyond just abortion and abortion rights. And so, I went to Idaho because what happened in Idaho is since they had passed their ban in 2022, about a third of the OB-GYNs in that state had left or stopped practicing or retired.”

She insisted that none of these OB-GYNs were doing “elective” abortions, but instead “medically indicated” ones.

“I think the intention was, of course, as all these laws intend to do, to ban abortion,” she continued.

“I just think abortion exists as an issue in this sort of morass of morality and religion and politics. And it’s become sort of disconnected from the actual thing that’s about, which is that abortion is a medical procedure, whatever your feelings about it is that, it is something that involves medication or surgery. And I think that disconnect is what led to this outcome in Idaho.”

New York Times reporter/author Lisa Lerer laments “these [pro-life]laws were not really written often with a sense of science or women’s health or, you know, medical advisories” and “I just think abortion exists as an issue in this sort of morass of morality and religion and politics. And it’s become sort of disconnected from the actual thing that’s about, which is that abortion is a medical procedure, whatever your feelings about it is that, it is something that involves medication or surgery. And I think that disconnect is what led to this outcome in Idaho.”

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) October 28, 2026

Imagine: People are banning abortion because of the “morass” of religious virtue teaching us that murder is wrong and that the unborn are humans, too, and so that goshdarn “morality” gets in the way of abortion on demand, which is what Roe mandated that states provide.

These people actually say these things without realizing how these words escaping from their mouths sound to people whose brains don’t think like theirs.

Thankfully, Lerer’s beloved pro-abortion activists in Idaho were deeply disappointed when voters rejected Proposition 1, which would have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

We are calling it! Proposition 1 in Idaho has FAILED!

Abortion will REMAIN ILLEGAL in the Gem State!

Praise God! https://t.co/kSLp1hWU7R

— Idaho Tribune (@IdahoTribune) November 4, 2026

However, what happens in other states remains to be seen after Tuesday’s blue wave. After all, the people in charge now are the same people who call murder “women’s healthcare” and want to untangle that “morass of morality and religion and politics” from the right to sentence another innocent life to death in the womb.

These are the stakes, these are the consequences, and Christian conservatives must never forget them.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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