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The Trump administration is slamming the Democratic Party for ensuring our elections are less secure than the Olive Garden's Never-Ending Pasta Pass.White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson appeared on Newsmax on Friday and made the humorous suggestion that Olive Garden's pasta pass has higher identification requirements.'Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!'"I saw a tweet yesterday from Olive Garden of all places that in order to take advantage of their Never-Ending Pasta Pass, you have to show photo ID. And I thought, 'That's weird! Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!'" Jackson said while the show hosts laughed."So yes, President Trump is going to keep pushing this, and it just shows how absurd the Democrats are," she added, "that they can't even get behind commonsense policies that even somewhere like Olive Garden can say, 'Hey we need this for us too!'"Video of Jackson's comments was posted to social media, where some on the left imploded with fury."They’re not asking for a f**king passport and a marriage certificate," responded left-wing influencer Joanne Carducci."Happy to show my ID at the polls if it came with unlimited breadsticks," replied former Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan."You know, I never quite thought of it that way because, unlike Ms. Jackson, I'm not quite insane," said one detractor."Can't wait to see what Applebee's has to say about the Constitution," said another critic.Some accused Jackson of citing online rumors as a source, but she was indeed correct about Olive Garden asking for photo identification.RELATED: 'Dead on arrival': Chuck Schumer says Dems will 'go all out' to defeat voter ID bill Jackson posted the social media statement from Olive Garden confirming a valid photo ID is necessary to gorge endlessly on its fettuccine Alfredo or five-cheese ziti al forno."The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering," said an Olive Garden message posted Thursday.Finally, if this is the first time you've heard about the Never-Ending Pasta Pass, and you want to rush over to Olive Garden's website to sign up, you're too late. The 10,000 pasta passes have sold out.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump enraged Democrats and other leftists — including the heir to George Soros' activist empire — on Thursday by disclosing in his national address evidence pointing to the insecurity of American elections."Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost," the president said. "This cannot be allowed to continue."'We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate.'While Democratic officials were still hyperventilating over Trump's insistence that lawmakers pass the SAVE America Act to protect against the kinds of trust-breaking meddling that evidence suggests occurred in recent years, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed in a Friday briefing what his agency plans to do to "secure our elections.""It shouldn't be a partisan issue," Mullin said. "This should be something that every American, regardless if you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're an independent, you're a libertarian — regardless of if you live in a blue state or you live in a red state — everybody should know that their vote counts. And we have individuals that are voting that shouldn't be. It cancels out someone that should be."RELATED: Democrats go into FULL PANIC MODE after Trump exposes election interference from China and the deep state Digging "just a little bit deeper" into some of Trump's claims from the night before, Mullin said the Department of Homeland Security has identified 250,000 noncitizens who were registered to vote in just four states — California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.According to the DHS' preliminary review, there were 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California; 35,152 in New Jersey; 15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.Mullin issued warnings to the secretaries of state for these four states on Friday, asking them to confirm within two weeks whether they intend to collaborate with the DHS on voter security measures. "Mind you, we have 46 other states," said Mullin, who noted further that the DHS has worked with 23 "proactive states" to identify another 28,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, along with "400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased."Again reinforcing concerns raised by Trump on Thursday, Mullin claimed that foreign adversaries are able to gain access to American voting machines."Talking about our machines, we know for sure that our foreign adversaries — not our allies, foreign adversaries — have parts that are vital pieces in our voting machines. We know that they can access what they consider the key to the back of these machines," he explained."We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate," Mullin continued.In terms of remedies, the DHS secretary said his agency will not only apply "maximum pressure" flushing out noncitizens attempting to vote, but — working in concert with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick — will make new security enhancements "mandatory."Accordingly, states seeking reimbursements for administering federal elections must take steps to ensure both that their voting machines are secured and their voter registration lists are "scrubbed.""We are not going to spend taxpayer dollars reimbursing the state that is refusing to secure their elections," Mullin said.The DHS announced last week that all Homeland Security Grant Program recipients must:submit a plan for phasing out certain electronic voting systems and shifting to hand-marked paper ballots;conduct a manual audit of at least 5% of all ballots cast after each federal election;reconcile the number of voters who participated in each federal election with the numbers of ballots cast; run voter rolls through the DHS' citizenship verification database; anduse the Immigration Services' Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system or another authorized government system to ensure that everyone working at polling places or operating election systems are American citizens."States must do their part to secure our election system, and we stand by to help," Mullin said.Mullin noted further that the DHS is working with the Pentagon to safeguard the voting systems used by military service members, and that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release an updated election infrastructure plan providing states with the additional resources "they need to help from the cyber side."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

United States Vice President JD Vance sat down for a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. The eyebrow-raising interview included skewering Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, discussing the Epstein files, and explaining aliens possibly being demons. In the nearly three-hour podcast interview released Wednesday, Vance said many Republicans are "skeptical" because many Democrats want it to be illegal for voters to show identification when voting in elections.'I admire the f**king sheer tenacity that he has in being full of s**t.'Vance asked, "Why not just have voter ID?"Rogan said opposition to voter identification requirements makes it seem "like you want people to cheat." Vance declared, "If you don't want to cheat in the election, then just make everybody actually show an ID."When Rogan asked about the United States' military action against Iran, Vance said he would support President Donald Trump's overseas intervention as long as the decisions are "legal and ethical."Vance stated, “The goal is certainly good, which is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”The prolific podcaster asked about the release of the files related to the investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The vice president conceded that the administration had “mishandled” the Epstein files."If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it — especially the communications of it," Vance said. "We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. We just did," Vance admitted. However, Vance stressed there was no truth to theories that the White House was attempting to hide anything about the Epstein files. Vance declared himself to be one of the original "Epstein conspiracy theorists" and said that he has "probably gone down every single rabbit hole we could go down."Vance added, "But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No."Vance said former Attorney General Pam Bondi's claim about having binders of documents on her desk made "people mistrust the entire effort" and "overstated what we had and what we didn't have."Vance said that he does "like" Bondi and that the binder incident was likely her "trying to respond to the political moment."Vance noted, "We did release all these files. Did it take longer than it should have taken? Yes."Vance said the Epstein files should have been "dropped at the very beginning" once all the reviews and redactions had been done."We should have just done it as quickly as possible," Vance stated. Vance said he believes that Epstein "clearly" had connections to the highest level of American and Israeli intelligence. "Yeah, Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country — or both," Vance said. "Look, he clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence."RELATED: JD Vance reveals the heartbreaking conversation that convinced him to have a fourth child Rogan — who showed support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a democratic socialist, in 2020 — said that he is "really concerned" about Americans rallying around socialism."I'm really concerned that people think that's a good idea and that they think that socialism just hasn't been done correctly," Rogan told Vance. "That drives me nuts."Rogan said socialism "always leads to one thing: It leads to a very powerful military government that controls the population — period, end of discussion."Vance agreed with Rogan's assessment."The whole argument of communism is that you seize the means of production," Vance said. "But because the most powerful means of production is the human mind, you ultimately have to get into totalitarianism." Vance expressed concern that artificial intelligence could unintentionally usher in communism. "The fundamental challenge of AI is, it's going to unleash a lot of wealth creation, but if that wealth creation all goes to some segment of people, you're going to have communism," Vance warned. "But if you don't ensure that there's some broader prosperity from that wealth creation, we have run this experiment before, and it leads to communism," he added.Vance and Rogan both agreed that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is "full of s**t." The pair rehashed the time when Newsom told a group that he "cannot read a speech."As Blaze News reported in February, Newsom apparently attempted to appeal to a reportedly majority-black audience at a book tour stop in Atlanta. "I'm not trying to impress you," Newsom told the group. "I'm just trying to impress upon you, I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got a 940.""You never see me read a speech because I cannot read a speech," Newsom added.Vance said of Newsom, "He's full of s**t."Rogan replied, "He's so full of s**t. Admirably full of s**t. I admire the f**king sheer tenacity that he has in being full of s**t."Rogan asked Vance about remarks he made earlier this year, where he revealed that he believes aliens could be demons. "I'm not one of these people who's, like, a hyper-rationalist," Vance responded. "I think that there are things happening in the world that we're not always seeing. I believe in God.""If you look historically at things that are similar to the alien phenomenon, where some strange being, it kind of looks like a human being, but ... that's not human, and it shows a particular interest in human beings, and then it takes the human beings and does weird experiments on them."Vance said either it is "bulls**t," you're "talking to a crazy person," or aliens could be demons."Just because I believe in the supernatural doesn't mean I believe in everything supernatural,” Vance continued. “But if we're talking about an extraterrestrial being that is human-like but not human that contains effectively infinite powers and is torturing human beings, you can call it an alien if you want, but I think there's a lot of historical precedent to call that a demon.”Rogan described an alleged alien encounter where the extraterrestrial healed a man. Vance replied, “Extra-powerful beings, in this case communicating telepathically, helping people, sounds like an angel."The entire "Joe Rogan Experience" interview with JD Vance can be seen here. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Imagine buying a brand-new car and discovering it comes with a camera pointed at your face every time you drive.Not the road. You.Most drivers never realized their vehicles were quietly building behavioral profiles.As of this week, that's no longer optional across the European Union. Every new passenger car and van registered in the EU must include an interior camera as part of an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning system. The technology activates at about 12 mph, tracking your eyes, head position, and attention. If it decides you're distracted or drowsy, it issues a warning.Officials say it's about saving lives.Camera-readyNo one disputes that distracted driving is a serious problem. The question is whether constant driver monitoring is the only solution — or whether it creates infrastructure that could eventually be used for much more than safety.According to the European Commission, the system is designed as a closed-loop safety feature. It analyzes driver behavior inside the vehicle and issues warnings when it detects distraction or drowsiness. Officials say it does not record video or transmit footage outside the vehicle.The more important question is what happens next.Once every new vehicle is required to have an interior camera, the hardware is already in place. Expanding what that hardware can do no longer requires redesigning millions of vehicles. It only requires new regulations, updated software, or new policies governing how the data can be used.Safety regulations have added new technology to our vehicles for decades. Seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, backup cameras, automatic emergency braking, and forward-collision warning systems all became standard because they delivered measurable safety benefits.An interior camera is different because it monitors the driver rather than the roadway.Big pictureEurope may be moving first, but the United States isn't far behind. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop rules requiring advanced impaired-driving prevention technology in future vehicles. While NHTSA has acknowledged that passive detection systems are not yet ready for widespread deployment, in-cabin monitoring remains one of the technologies under consideration.In other words, this conversation is already happening here.What makes that more concerning is how much information modern vehicles already generate. Over the past several years, investigations revealed that automakers, including General Motors and Honda, shared driving behavior data — including hard braking, rapid acceleration, speeding events, and time-of-day driving patterns — with data brokers. Those brokers, in turn, supplied information used by insurance companies to help determine premiums.Most drivers never realized their vehicles were quietly building behavioral profiles.Now add an interior camera capable of detecting whether you've looked at your navigation screen, reached for your coffee, glanced at a child in the back seat, or appeared drowsy after a long shift.Americans have also watched roadside surveillance expand dramatically. Modern license plate reader systems now identify far more than license plates, using AI to recognize vehicle make, model, color, distinctive features, bumper stickers, roof racks, and travel patterns. Combined with connected-car telematics and interior cameras, those systems create an increasingly detailed picture of where you go, how you drive, and what you're doing behind the wheel.RELATED: The latest 'solution' to reckless driving could limit freedom for all of us United Archives/Getty ImagesWho pays?Let's not ignore the economic incentive behind all of this surveillance.Every mandate creates winners. Camera manufacturers gain a guaranteed market. Software companies secure long-term licensing contracts. Automakers pass compliance costs on to consumers through higher vehicle prices. And the data generated by these systems may become valuable in ways nobody can fully predict today.Consumers pay for all of it.They pay more for the vehicle while giving up another measure of privacy inside what has traditionally been one of the last personal spaces they control.Highway robberySupporters argue these systems only issue warnings, and today that's true.But history suggests technology rarely remains limited to its original purpose once the infrastructure exists. Software evolves and regulations change. Data that wasn't considered valuable yesterday often becomes indispensable tomorrow.We've already watched driving data migrate from vehicles to data brokers and, in some cases, insurance companies. We've also watched roadside camera networks expand well beyond their original mission. Neither happened overnight; both expanded gradually.Every responsible driver wants safer roads. My concern is what happens after every new vehicle comes equipped with hardware designed to watch the person behind the wheel.For more than a century, the automobile has represented personal freedom. When driving increasingly means being observed, analyzed, and potentially scored, the relationship between drivers and their vehicles begins to change.Europe has already decided that every new car should watch its driver. Americans should decide whether they're comfortable heading down the same road before it quietly becomes the default here as well.