Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado complimented the U.S. Senate campaign of Texas Democrat James Talarico — and even delivered a humorous jab at his opponent, Democrat U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

Boebert appeared alongside Talarico on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday, talking about everything from faith to Talarico’s infamously pulled Stephen Colbert interview. Boebert also extended a compliment to the congressman, noting that his Senate candidacy has been impressive and joked about giving him a leg up ahead of the primary against Crockett.

‘My concern is not for my campaign, it’s for the Constitution.’

“I do want to congratulate you on the success so far in your campaign,” Boebert told Talarico before adding, “Maybe I should endorse Jasmine Crockett so you could do a little better!”

Talarico, Maher, and the crowd laughed in response.

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Boebert also set the record straight in the aftermath of Talarico’s interview with Colbert, noting that Crockett’s analysis — that the federal government had nothing to do with the decision to pull the interview — was correct.

“It wasn’t President Trump that canceled your segment,” Boebert said. “This is one area where Miss Crockett is correct. This was a decision by the network. They didn’t want to have her on, possibly. They didn’t want to have that equal time.”

Boebert added, “But I also think that the way it was aired — I mean you got over five million views. You raised 2.5 million dollars in 24 hours, so it was a pretty big success for you.”

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Talarico and Boebert also sparred over the pulled Colbert interview, with the Texas Democrat claiming it was a top-down order from President Donald Trump.

“My concern is not for my campaign, it’s for the Constitution,” Talarico said.

“Right, but it wasn’t the president who said ‘Do not allow this to air …'” Boebert replied. “It was equal share time. It was already in the rules. And that network said, ‘We do not want to have the equal share. We don’t want to fulfill that part of the rule.'”

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Liberal leadership often leads to higher gas prices and higher profit margins for oil merchants, a digging expert is saying.

With oil prices once again dropping, it may surprise many to know that while Democrats traditionally are harsher on the oil industry, they actually end up making those companies more money, while the average American’s pocket gets lighter.

‘The left always is looking to punish.’

Dan Doyle, president of fracking company Reliance Well Services, said that when pipelines and other drilling technology are limited by Democrats, it is the consumer who suffers.

“Profitability is a little bit better under Democrats than Republicans,” Doyle told Return in an exclusive interview. “Trump is very tough on oil prices, you know, because he’s using them this time to get gas prices lower. So he’s really pressuring to bring those oil prices down.”

President Biden shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline his first day in office was just one example of Democrat-led moves that increased the cost of daily living for Americans, Doyle explained.

“You shut the pipelines down, it just makes it more expensive. Now you’re bringing it over the roads,” he asserted. “Now you’re putting this stuff over the road or in train cars.”

Doyle referred to the Lac-Mégantic train disaster in Canada in 2013, when a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and killed 47 people in an explosion.

Comparing that to pipeline safety, Doyle said, “There could be a leak, but let me tell you, if there’s a leak, you know it immediately and it gets cleaned up.”

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Doyle asked readers to simply check out the oil prices under Democrat leadership versus Republican.

“Under Obama back in [2013-2014] and, I believe, later, oil was routinely at $100. So you take CPI and you adjust it for inflation. … That’s twice what it is right now.”

Doyle was actually estimating conservatively. According to data from the Energy Information Association, a government agency, the price per barrel was $98.99 under Obama in January 2012; when adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index inflation calculator, that equates to $142 per barrel in January 2026.

Under President Trump, oil prices have never gone over $73.15 (January 2025), whereas the previous three presidents have peaked at far higher prices. President George W. Bush had prices skyrocket to $128.08 in July 2008. President Obama’s top price was $108.80 in April 2011, while President Biden’s peak price was in June 2022 at $113.77.

As of November 2025, the U.S. crude oil purchase price was just $58.13.

“People that are a bit marginalized or either struggling, you know, two jobs, three jobs, they don’t need to be paying these artificially or politically — not necessarily artificially, but politically — [inflated] costly bills.”

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Doyle spoke at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, for then-candidate Vice President JD Vance in 2024. During that speech, the oil entrepreneur argued against claims that his industry is causing environmental damage and spoke on the “war on fracking” that started under President Obama’s administration.

Doyle explained that this was the start of the “punishment” his industry has received under Democratic Party rule. Doyle laughed about that punishment in his interview with Return, but got very serious when it came to who actually suffers.

“The left always is looking to punish. … They care more about punishing with the pricing, and all that ends up doing, really, is driving the price up for the consumer, whereas, you know, the people at the top are just taking a little bit of a hit on their profit margin. So it’s actually tougher for the oil billionaires under Republicans.”

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In less than two weeks, two deadly shootings — both allegedly by transgender-identifying biological males. One was a school rampage in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that killed eight people, and the other a targeted family attack during a youth hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where two of the alleged shooter’s family members were left dead.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere wonders if we’re dealing with a “trans shooter epidemic.”

“We’ve done this story … over and over and over and over and over and over and over again,” he says.

It’s usually one of two scenarios, he says: “You have some person who’s a crazy sort of leftist that winds up getting into the trans ideology world” and becomes “very defensive of it to a violent extent, like we saw with the Charlie Kirk situation,” or “you have a situation where the person is just a crazy leftist and starts going out and killing people because of their mass confusion in their life.”

But what’s the root cause of this kind of violence?

On this episode of “Stu Does America,” Stu dives into a study that might provide some insight into that question.

“Obviously, all [transgender-identifying] people are not murdering others. We do, though, see a disproportionate amount of people who are involved in this ideology … that are involved in violent acts,” he says, citing trans-identifying biological female Audrey Hale, who killed six children and three adults at an elementary school in Nashville in March 2023, and Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, who was romantically involved with a transgender-identifying male.

Stu wonders why of all the “fancy letters” in the LGBTQIA2+ alphabet, it is transgender-identifying individuals who seem more prone to violence.

The answer may lie, at least partially, in how different sexual identities answer the question: “Is disagreement violence?”

Stu cites a study from PsychFORM, which examined how transgender-identifying respondents answered that question compared to gay-identifying respondents.

“About 15% to 18% of gay people say, ‘Yeah, you know, any disagreement, I see as violence.’ … The number for trans people is 100%. 100% of trans people in this poll said that disagreement equals violence,” Stu exclaims.

The study also tested another question: “Is reasoned disagreement permissible?”

According to the chart, roughly 18% of gay-identifying respondents answered no, compared to over 90% of trans-identifying respondents.

“If you’re looking for an explanation to understand what’s going on in that realm when it comes to violence and trans people, look no farther than that chart,” says Stu.

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