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Biden is a lot of things and his firing of Trump appointees added a new act to a long list of petulance. In this act he displayed absolute pettiness. The man is dangerous because his judgement is faulty, his mental state is totally unstable and either he is making reckless decisions or Obama appointees are doing so for him.
Actions Biden has taken are knowingly unconstitutional and he seems not to care. They also suggest a desire to grow government authority to a level that is unheard of and beyond anything the "founders" intended/envisioned, SCOTUS is likely to support and certainly "deplorables and Neanderthals" despise. In doing so Biden has purposely sought to divide our nation, pit citizen against citizen in order to take eyes off his failures.
The damage he is doing to his own party will surely become evident after the mid-term election assuming it will be an honest contest and one that survives the smell test.
And:
Transforming America in 17 Days
Democrats rush to pass their cradle-to-grave entitlement agenda with little debate or scrutiny.
By the Editorial Board
Congress is back in session, and don’t blink or you may miss the plan to transform America in 17 days. Never mind Sen. Joe Manchin’s “strategic pause.” Democratic leaders are moving to ram into law their $3.5 trillion plan for cradle-to-grave entitlements with the narrowest of majorities before Americans figure out what they’re doing. As Nancy Pelosi famously said about ObamaCare, Congress will pass the bill so people can find out what’s in it.
The House Ways and Means and Education and Labor committees introduced the text of their sections of the $3.5 trillion-plus spending bill late Tuesday and Wednesday. On your mark, set, go for the 100-meter dash. Within 36 hours, the committees had begun mark-ups.
Industry lobbyists are feverishly trying to parse the hundreds of pages. Good luck. Mrs. Pelosi plans to consummate her crowning career achievement with a House vote by Sept. 27. There will be little or no time to debate the details in the halls of Congress or townhalls with constituents. Democrats in swing districts will be told to get with the program or else.
It’s worth putting Mrs. Pelosi’s blitzkrieg in historic context. FDR’s New Deal programs were passed incrementally over two presidential terms with overwhelming Democratic majorities. Democrats created the Great Society over two years with supermajorities. ObamaCare was hashed out over nine months before Democrats enacted it into law with 56 votes in the Senate. The 2017 GOP tax reform was debated for months, and its principles for years, before Congress voted.
Now with merely 50 Democrats in the Senate and a five-member House majority, Democrats are planning to rush through the biggest tax and spending increase in half a century. We’ll do our best to report and dissect the details in the coming days, but here’s a taste from the text that the two House committees deigned to release:
• A universal paid leave mandate administered by Treasury that provides up to 12 weeks of family and medical leave for all workers including those self-employed at up to 85% of their weekly pay. It’s unclear how the new entitlement would interact with existing state paid leave and employer programs. The federal bureaucracy will iron out the complications later.
• A new employer 401(k) mandate—that is, a tax. Employers would be required to automatically enroll their employees in IRAs or 401(k)-type plans or pay an excise tax. Employee 401(k) payroll contributions would be set at 6% and increase to 10%. There are myriad other legal changes on employer-sponsored retirements accounts that would be land mines for businesses.
• The bill creates new civil penalties up to $50,000 per violation for unfair labor practices (ULPs), which would now include misclassifying workers as independent contractors. Business executives and directors could be held personally liable for alleged ULPs. As a gift to the plaintiff bar, employee arbitration agreements would also be effectively banned.
• Medicare would expand to cover dental, vision and hearing benefits. Health and Human Services would be charged with standing up these expansions, including setting provider payment rates. Cost estimates for this and other entitlements have yet to be announced, but they’re likely to be fictitious anyway. One credible estimate is that the Medicare increase alone would cost $360 billion over a decade.
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There is much more spending to come, and next week come the tax increases that will also be marked up on a day or so notice. It’s important to understand how extraordinary this is. The Democratic bill would fundamentally alter the relationship between government and individual Americans. Entitlements, once created, will be all but impossible to repeal. Even if they start small, they will inexorably expand.
Republicans in 2017 tried to use budget reconciliation to reform ObamaCare and block-grant state Medicaid funding, but they were hobbled by the Senate parliamentarian and internal fights.
Mrs. Pelosi won’t let either get in her way. Americans should be shouting from the rooftops to stop this steamroller before they wake up to a government that dominates their lives in a country they don’t recognize.
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Reality Bites Reconciliation
The Democratic feud over healthcare dollars is a glimpse of battles to come.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Democrats this week released the first text of their $3.5 trillion plan to remake the country. It didn’t take long for the party cracks to become chasms.
For months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have presented their massive spending plan as a fait accompli. Were there teensy-weensy disagreements among members on policies? Not many! Did a few have qualms about the size and scope of the bill? They’ll come along! Was $3.5 trillion truly enough to cover the jaw-dropping multitude of government entitlements and handouts? Who needs math?!
Reality has now hit, and it’s biting. This week’s opening fight over healthcare dollars is but a glimpse at the intraparty combat to come. The wrangling is notable because it explodes the naive narrative that the reconciliation battle will come down to progressives versus “centrists.” Leaders will also have to overcome a dug-in array of state interests, egos and conflicting priorities.
The starting gun for the healthcare fight came Tuesday night, when House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal released draft text for his committee’s portion of the reconciliation bill. It was a first look at where the money would actually flow.
Behind the scenes, tensions have boiled within the party as to where to direct its healthcare focus. On one side are a large group of Democrats—including no less than Mrs. Pelosi—who want to continue the work of her flagship 2010 bill, ObamaCare. In recent months she’s pressed to make permanent the temporary expansions that were included in March’s $1.9 trillion Covid blowout. These Democrats are intent on growing Medicaid, in particular giving it to residents of the 12 GOP states that continue to refuse expansion.
On the other side is a large group of progressives—led by Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders —who continue to insist that this moment be used to begin the march to Medicare for All. In an Aug. 9 reconciliation memo, he directed the Senate Finance Committee not only to expand ObamaCare and Medicaid, but also to expand “Medicare to include dental, vision, hearing benefits” and to lower the “eligibility age” from its current 65 years to an unspecified number.
The notion that $3.5 trillion would cover all Democrats’ competing priorities was farcical, as this one reconciliation instruction highlighted. Locking in the ObamaCare subsidies will cost an estimated $200 billion over 10 years. Expanding Medicaid to holdout states is hundreds of billions more. A 2019 House bill to offer dental, vision and hearing benefits in Medicare: $360 billion. Estimates of making Medicare available to those age 60 and up range from $200 to $400 billion. And this is just the healthcare piece, meant to be a fraction of the legislation. The bulk is reserved for universal pre-K, free community college, subsidized child care, expanded child and earned-income tax credits, home healthcare workers, school infrastructure, affordable housing, green energy, climate programs, etc.
It was left to Mr. Neal to reintroduce his party to arithmetic. His draft text contained no provision for lowering the age of Medicare eligibility. And while he included Mr. Sanders’s demand for expanded benefits, the dental provision doesn’t fully phase in for a decade (2032) and it covers only half the cost of major dental procedures. Progressives had wanted a higher percentage.
The draft is a glaring admission that even $3.5 trillion won’t be enough to foot progressive demands. In the 2019 bill to expand Medicare services, the Congressional Budget Office noted that two-thirds of the bill’s $360 billion price tag was its dental component. Mr. Neal threw in the scraps of hearing and vision to try to keep the Sanders crew happy, even as he delayed and cut the core of their handout. And no Medicare for 60. Progressives are steamed, and Mr. Sanders has already declared the timeline too long.
Yet the clash transcends the liberal vs. moderate dynamic. It pits older-guard Democrats who are proud and protective of ObamaCare against a younger, progressive squad. It’s a clash of Democratic leaders: Sen. Schumer is backing Bernie, hoping to stave off a primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It ensnares state interests, like those of House Whip James Clyburn, who has been on a mission to expand Medicaid because his state, South Carolina, is among those that have refused expansion. Mr. Clyburn told Politico this week that he won’t stand for “all the people eligible for Medicare treated royally and the people who depend on Medicaid being neglected.”
The clash even features a heated debate over the political stakes. The ObamaCare crowd argues it is vital to lock in enhanced subsidies, to protect them from a coming GOP majority. The universal healthcare crowd argues the Medicare provisions—namely an immediate dental benefit—will prove so popular in next year’s midterms that there will be no GOP majority.
If this dynamic seems fraught, replicate it in coming fights over taxes, climate, immigration, and the size of the bill. Mix in the Senate parliamentarian. And add the Democratic Party’s obligation to soon pass a continuing resolution, a debt-limit increase, an infrastructure package, and a White House demand for hurricane and Afghan refugee relief.
Democrats are committed to more spending, and the betting is still that they pull something off. But if the healthcare battle is an early indicator, reconciliation may prove the political lift of the century.
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Tom Fitton, of Judicial Watch, lays out why Biden is beholden to and in the clutches of the, all powerful, Teacher's Union and their money.Teachers Unions Gave Guidance to CDC Director on School COVID Restrictions
The all too powerful teacher unions have been throwing wrenches into efforts to reopen schools amid the pandemic, making all manner of demands with little regard for the students or parents.
Now we know how they have exerted their influence on public officials, particularly in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
We received 12 pages of records showing the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA) influencing the director of the CDC and the White House with their own “embargoed vaccine research,” as well as school reopening policy.
Additionally, the CDC Director states that she used the unions’ language in the CDC’s school reopening policy. (Some of these emails have been previously disclosed.)
We obtained the documents through a FOIA request to the CDC asking for:
All emails exchanged between CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky and email accounts ending in aft.org and/or nea.org.
All emails exchanged between CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat and email accounts ending in aft.org and/or nea.org.
All emails exchanged between CDC Acting Associate Director for Communications Abbigail Tumpey and email accounts ending in aft.org and/or nea.org.
All emails exchanged between CDC Associate Director for Policy and Strategy Robin M. Ikeda and email accounts ending in aft.org and/or nea.org.
The records, some of which had been previously released, reveal:
On February. 8, 2021, Rebecca Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), emailed Director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, requesting an advance copy of the CDC school-related COVID-19 guidance:
I am writing to request an advance copy of CDC school-related COVID-19 guidance that I understand are to be released this week. We will, of course, keep them confidential until they are public. I want to be prepared for any media or internal questions that come after they are released.
Any other information you can offer about the timing of their release is appreciated….
P.S. Our team will be briefing the CDC and White House staff today on our embargoed vaccine research. I will be sure you receive the research memo with our findings after they meet today.
In an email exchange on February 1, 2021, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Senior Director of Health Issues, Kelly Trautner to CDC officials, White House officials, and AFT colleagues, Trautner thanks everyone for the “rich discussion about forthcoming CDC guidance:”
Thank you again for Friday’s rich discussion about forthcoming CDC guidance and for your openness to the suggestions made by our president, Randi Weingarten, and the AFT. We are hopeful that lines of communications will remain open, and that we can serve as a true thought partner as you continue the important work toward safe reopening of schools.
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We crafted the language below using a NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) document, as well as language in some of our agreements with school employers. Thank you for considering it
White House official Carole Johnson forwards Trautner’ s email to Walensky writing, “AFT followed up w suggested lang[uage] on accommodations per your exchange with Randi.”
On February 3, 2021, Walensky replied to CDC, HHS, White House, and AFT officials:
I just wanted to circle back and extend my gratitude for the language you have provided below. Regrets for my delay in reply but I wanted to be certain you knew it is being worked into (with just a few small tweaks) the school reopening guidance. We have also included the executive summary you suggested.
Please know that we are listening and working hard to ensure your confidence and partnership in this endeavor.
Within the “language” provided by Trautner to the White House officials, she suggested adding,
Employers should provide reassignment, remote work, or other options for staff who have documented high-risk conditions or who are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 to limit the risk of workplace exposure. Options for reassignment include telework, virtual teaching opportunities, modified job responsibilities, environmental modifications, scheduling flexibility, or temporary reassignment to different job responsibilities.
Trautner replied to Walensky:
Thank you so much for your responsiveness to the suggestions made by Randi and our team. We are immensely grateful for your genuine desire to earn our confidence and your commitment to partnership. We will pass this message along to Randi. She will certainly be most grateful.
On February 11, 2021, Trautner continued the exchange, emailing Walensky:
Thank you for your continued openness to our suggestions and input. We would like to share some thoughts regarding the paragraph below which was apparently leaked from the imminent guidance on reopening schools:
“At any level of community transmission, all schools can provide in-person instruction (either full or hybrid), through strict adherence to mitigation strategies. Recommended learning modes vary to minimize risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in school by emphasizing layered mitigation, including school policies requiring universal and correct mask use. The recommended learning modes (in-person, hybrid) depend on the level of community transmission and strict adherence to mitigation.”
It would be great to see the insertion some variation of the following: “In the event high-community transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary.”
We are deeply concerned about likely implications this language will have in schools where strict adherence to mitigation strategies is lacking or is impossible to implement, particularly those schools in high-density, crumbling infrastructure areas, and particularly when community transmission is high. We don't believe that any current research has demonstrated that all schools in those areas can safely reopen.
On March 17, 2021, Trautner emailed Walensky about a call from Weingarten, saying: “Randi is hoping to schedule a call with your folks about reopening issue, including maintaining mitigation protections and what might be needed in the context of higher vaccination numbers.”
On March 23, 2021, AFT President Randi Weingarten emailed Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Walensky, saying that she had noted the “shift” in CDC’s guidance regarding physical distancing in schools with “keen interest.”
On March 20, 2021, the CDC issued new “guidance” reducing suggested physical distancing from 6 feet to 3 feet for students.
Weingarten stated:
[A]lthough I was very worried about the implications of the shift, I reserved judgment until we could review the new studies that were presented….
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[W]e are not convinced that the evidence supports changing physical distancing requirements at this time. Our concern is that the cited studies do not identify the baseline mitigation strategies needed to support 3 feet of physical distancing.
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[W]e conclude that any shift from 6 feet to 3 feet must be accompanied by, at a minimum, universal and correct masking; effective ventilation; thorough cleaning of buildings; regular COVID-19 testing of teachers, staff and students; effective contact tracing and quarantine/isolation protocols; and the availability of vaccines to all people in schools who are eligible.
Weakening one layer of layered mitigation demands that the other layers must be strengthened. We strongly urge you, in any discussion of this shift, to forcefully insist on strict and strengthened adherence to the other mitigation strategies….
After months of mixed messaging and misinformation, consistency from our public health officials is a welcome change. But as educators with the expertise on how physical distancing works in schools, we have immediate logistical questions….
Weingarten added a list of questions regarding how school personnel can move about, whether simulcasting lessons was still necessary, and what the government’s mitigation strategies timeline was.
On April 9, 2021, Weingarten emailed Walensky about “Requesting Meeting about Variants,” stating: “On behalf of the AFT we would request a meeting with the CDC on the impact of the Covid variants, particularly what we are seeing in schools and communities.”
Walensky replied, “Dear Randi, Many thanks for reaching out. I’ll connect with my team and work to make this happen.”
What qualifies partisan teachers unions, other than generous contributions to allied politicians, to provide the CDC with public health guidance on reopening schools? The CDC is corrupted by politics and is dishonest when it suggests it is merely “following the science.”
Judicial Watch Seeks Evidence in Lawsuit against U.S. Capitol Police for January 6 Videos
Nancy Pelosi and her U.S. Capitol Police must have something to hide about January 6. Why else would they be hiding evidence from the American people?
Undeterred by their stonewalling, we filed a motion for discovery in our lawsuit against the United States Capitol Police (USCP) for videos and emails and videos concerning the disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 (Judicial Watch v. United States Capitol Police (No. 1:21-cv-00401)).
Congress exempts itself from the Freedom of Information Act, we brought this case under the common law right of access to public records. The US Capitol Police declined to produce any records about the disturbance, however, arguing that the requested videos and other records are not “public records” and the public interest doesn’t warrant their release.
We asked the court to grant us the ability to gather evidence about the preservation and use of the infamous January 6 videos:
This case concerns whether the public has a right of access to records about what Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has describe as “one of the darkest days in our nation’s history,” “an attack on our very democracy [,]” and “an attack on the peaceful transfer of power.” Speaker Pelosi also has stated, “It is imperative that we find the truth of that day and ensure that such an assault on our Capitol and Democracy cannot ever again happen.”
To find out the truth about what took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 and to understand how Defendant United States Capitol Police and other government entities responded on that day, Plaintiff Judicial Watch requested access to certain communications and video recordings.
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(Judicial Watch) therefore moves for limited discovery to seek evidence to prove that the requested records are public records subject to the common law right of access and that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs the government’s interest in keeping the records secret.
We filed the lawsuit for:
Email communications between the U.S. Capitol Police Executive Team and the Capitol Police Board concerning the security of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from January 1, 2021 through January 10, 2021.
Email communications of the Capitol Police Board with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning the security of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from January 1, 2021through January 10, 2021.
All video footage from within the Capitol between 12 pm and 9 pm on January 6, 2021
As the Pelosi House seeks the confidential phone and social media records of countless Americans concerning January 6, its U.S. Capitol Police is covering up 14,000 hours of video about what really happened that day. The U.S. Capitol Police should be required to explain under oath its reasons for refusing to turn over even one second of January 6 video to the American people.
U.S. Invests Millions to Bring Racial, Ethnic ‘Equity’ to STEM Education
You will be forgiven if you think operating a computer has nothing to do with race. And you would be wrong, at least according to the leftist-controlled National Science Foundation, which is pushing extremist and racist Critical Race Theory. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the story.
Weeks after giving a private college hundreds of thousands of dollars to “identify any existence of systemic inequities” in science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM), the U.S. government is doling out nearly $2 million to address racial and gender disparities in high school computer education. The money will come from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which was created by Congress seven decades ago to promote the progress of science, advance national health and prosperity and secure the national defense. With an annual budget of $8.5 billion, the NSF funds more than a quarter of research conducted at American colleges and universities, where theft of intellectual property by Communist China is pervasive.
While the NSF is one of the government agencies that has long permitted Chinese Communist scientists to steal billions in taxpayer-funded research, it is also keeping up with the current climate of political correctness. A few days ago, the agency awarded two public universities a total of $1.9 million to “address the historical and current racial and gender disparities in participation in high school computer science education.” The project is part of a broader program called Researching Equity and Antiracist Learning in Computer Science (REAL-CS) that focuses on expanding participation for black, indigenous, “Latinx” (the new, politically correct gender-neutral term for Latino or Latina) and Pacific Islander students by addressing systemic barriers in high school computer science education. REAL-CS is designed to sustain another publicly-funded, “equity-focused” initiative called Exploring Computer Science (ECS) dedicated to “democratizing” the field by increasing opportunities for “traditionally underrepresented” high school students after a study identified disparities along “race and socioeconomic lines.”
The recent NSF allocations will go to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Oregon. UCLA, which has its own CS Equity Project, is getting $1,026,000 from the NSF to help prepare teachers nationwide to reach thousands of minority high school students to take “an equity-focused CS course,” according to the grant announcement. The University of Oregon will receive $873,999 to do the same. “Overall, the key goal of REAL-CS is to create the necessary conditions and capacity in high schools that lead to equitable participation of students of color in high-quality computer science classes,” according to the NSF. The agency assures the costly program will create systemic change by increasing the use of racially and culturally inclusive practices, refreshing existing curriculum and supplementary curricular materials with antiracist design tenets, and conducting deep qualitative research nationwide that investigates equity-oriented teacher beliefs and practices.
Weeks before awarding the UCLA and Oregon grants, the NSF gave a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania more than a quarter of a million dollars to uncover “any existence of systemic inequities and advancement barriers related to gender, race, and ethnicity in STEM faculty.” The $271,594 grant will fund a project at Bucknell University, which has an enrollment of 3,724, that uses quantitative and qualitative data to develop and implement a plan to remove such barriers. “This project will bring significant insights into issues facing women and underrepresented minority faculty that are unique to STEM disciplines and in a primarily undergraduate institution that strives to enhance diversity in students, faculty and staff,” the NSF writes in the grant announcement. The project is part of a larger initiative called Self-Assessment of Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Equity (AGREE) in STEM Faculty that aims to uncover systemic inequities centered around recruitment, retention, and promotion processes facing women and faculty members underrepresented in STEM disciplines.
The NSF has been embroiled in its fair share of scandals over the years. Most recently, the agency was outed along with several others, including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, for long permitting Communists working in the U.S. to steal scientific research. This was the subject of a scathing U.S. Senate report that determined billions of dollars in scientific research funded by American taxpayers have been stolen by China and the U.S. government has no viable plan to stop the ongoing theft of the highly valued intellectual property, which congressional investigators assure “has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years.” The NSF was also embroiled in a porn scandal years ago in which employees spent significant portions of their workdays watching, downloading and emailing pornography on government computers without ever getting caught.
Until next week …
Tom Fitton
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This was sent to me by a dear friend and retired senior officer and memo reader. It speaks to my own outrage which are enumerated in 13 responses to Gen. Milley
“General Milley:
During testimony before the Congress of the United States you stated:
I want to understand white rage, and I’m white...What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?...I want to find that out.”
Well, General, I am a 76-year-old white man, a former officer in the United States Army (1967-70), a retired Special Agent of the FBI with nearly 29 years of service (1971-1999). I attended Trump’s rally on January 6th and I think I may be able to help you understand the reasons for “white rage.”
You impugn the motives of hundreds of thousands of patriotic citizens, whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, male, female, young and old. They weren’t trying to overturn the constitution! They wanted nothing more than to make their voices heard and, if possible, delay the certification of an election they believed, with probable cause, was stolen. You and the media repeatedly claim Trump’s allegations of a “stolen election” are false. Neither you, I, nor anyone else know whether this is true or not because the evidence (hundreds of witness affidavits signed under penalty of perjury, pristine mail-in ballots, Xeroxed ballots, the synchronized shutdown of ballot counting in 5 swing states until observers were removed from the election headquarters, etc.) has never been tested in court or disclosed to the people.
Apparently, my presence in Washington, DC on January 6th qualifies me, in your estimation, as one of those “outraged white people” you want to understand. Since you appear to be somewhat intellectually challenged, let me give you just 13 easy to understand reasons for my “white rage” as you like to call it.
1. I’m outraged that a duly elected President, the most effective President in my lifetime, was harassed, falsely accused of being a Russian agent, undermined, and lied about by “Deep State” career officials like yourself and a media that has become the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party; he was impeached and acquitted, not once but twice, during his entire 4-year term of office on clearly fraudulent charges.
2. I’m outraged that BLM, Antifa, and other Marxists rioted during the summer of 2020 in cities across the country, and “heels-up” Kamala Harris led an effort to bail those who were arrested, out of jail. Over 500 people, arrested for trespassing and vandalism at the Capitol on January 6th, remain in jail without bail and, in some cases, are held in solitary confinement. This is not a defense of vandalism, but, how does the damage from the riots of summer 2020 compare to that at the Capitol on January 6th?
3. I’m outraged that a president who accomplished more for the American people in 4 years than his three immediate predecessors did in 24 years, e.g. restored the US economy, cut taxes and regulations, made the US energy independent, brought unemployment rates down to their lowest level ever, destroyed ISIS, brokered peace deals between Israel and other Arab nations, defended our southern border, put America first, etc., etc., was fought every step of the way by Democrats and the Deep State.
4. I’m outraged that this same president, who received 11 million more votes than he did in 2016, was questionably defeated in an election in which election laws were unconstitutionally changed in the days, weeks, and months immediately preceding the election, supposedly because of a virus.
5. I’m outraged that a senile 78-year old career politician, who can’t put a coherent sentence together, who accomplished nothing during his 36 years in the US Senate and 8 years as Vice President, who didn’t campaign and seldom left his basement during the campaign for President, and who could never draw a crowd of more than 200 people at one time, was declared the winner over a President who drew tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters at each of his multiple rallies, daily, during the campaign.
6. I’m outraged that Candidate Biden bragged about having put together “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics” (it’s on video!) during an interview on October 24, 2020, with Crooked Media, a left-leaning media company founded in 2017 by former Obama staffers, and the media says that Trump lies when he claims the election was stolen!?
7. I’m outraged that on January 28, 2018, before the Council on Foreign Relations, Joe Biden bragged how he once threatened to withhold $1 billion in authorized military aid to Ukraine unless the former President of Ukraine “fired” the prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt energy conglomerate, Burisma, with whom Biden’s son, Hunter, was being paid $84,000 per month to serve on the Board of Directors. Can you say, “quid pro quo?” But, when Trump congratulated the newly elected President of Ukraine, who campaigned on fighting corruption, and encouraged him to follow through on his campaign promise, Rep. Adam Schiff blatantly lied about what Trump said and Trump got impeached!
8. I’m outraged that the FBI was given Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop computer, the hard-drive of which contained emails reflecting the corrupt practices of the Biden family vis-a-vie Ukraine and China and the FBI did nothing with it since crazy old’ Joe was running for President. Can you say: “Hillary Clinton and unauthorized servers containing top secret documents”? Do you see a pattern here?
9. I’m outraged that the “New Oligarchs” of high tech are censoring virologists of their right to voice their thoughts and opinions when those opinions are in conflict with the Democrat Party or the CDC.
10. I’m outraged that an agency for which I proudly worked for nearly 29 years was politicized and corrupted by James Comey who was accurately described as being “out of his mind” and a “crooked cop” by a former Deputy Director of the FBI.
11. I’m outraged that 13 US Marines were recently killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban just because our senile President was too arrogant to follow the blueprint put together by President Trump and his military advisers for the “conditioned” withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. Perhaps, you and our incompetent Secretary of Defense objected but were either too cowardly or too busy promoting Critical Race Theory to push back and provide needed oversight of this withdrawal. You succumbed to “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and now, as a result, you have the blood of 13 dead Marines on your hands.
12. I’m outraged about how the precipitous withdrawal of US military personnel from Afghanistan was carried out “before” securing the removal of tens of thousands of US citizens, Afghani interpreters and others who assisted the US military over the past 20 years, leaving them and Afghani Christians to be tortured and killed by the Taliban. And, you didn’t even give advance notice to our NATO allies!
13. I’m outraged that you and Lloyd Austin carried out the withdrawal of the US military without first securing the removal of $85 billion worth of military equipment, weapons, ammunition, Humvees and aircraft, which you left behind for the Taliban, al Qaeda, and a re-emerging ISIS to use. I agree with a retired British Colonel who recently publicly stated that President Biden shouldn’t be impeached, but rather he should be court martialed. You should be, as well...for dereliction of duty and cowardice.
I could go on but I believe you get “my drift” as to why I and so many others - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, male and female, rich and poor, young and old - are experiencing flashes of “rage” and “anger” against this current administration. If you had any honor and decency, you would resign and retire.
Quentin L. Smith
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato”
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