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Less than halfway through his presidency, Joe Biden has made so many gaffes while speaking that they’re nearly impossible to keep up with.
At this time, it’s more than apparent than ever that the president’s mental state is in severe decline. In Biden’s youth, as a senator, and even as vice president, he didn’t make the number of gaffes that he does now.
Of course, when Biden does mess up, it falls on the White House to clean it up.
This upcoming Friday will mark Psaki’s last day in the White House. However, in her final days working for the Biden administration, she’s been forced to issue yet another correction, as has been reported by Twitchy.
Explaining Who Controls the Federal Government
On Tuesday, the president delivered one of the most pitiful speeches ever, this one centering on inflation.
However, things truly went south when Biden first claimed that Democrats are in control of the federal government, yet changed his mind mid-sentence.
After saying that Democrats have control over all three branches of the federal government, Biden walked this back, saying it’s “not really” the case, after all.
During a press conference hours later, Psaki was asked about this. The outgoing press secretary then explained that Democrats do, in fact, control the federal government’s three branches. She also reiterated that Biden is “the president.”
The remarks from both Biden and Psaki are strange, to say the least. There are three branches of the federal government: the executive, judicial, and legislative.
Granted, as president, Biden does control the executive branch. However, the executive branch does not control its judicial and legislative counterparts.
Ironically, the three branches of the federal government exist for the purposes of checks and balances.
A White House in Disarray
Between low approval ratings, massive policy problems, and a gaffe-prone president, it’s no wonder that Psaki is leaving the White House for a commentating job with MSNBC.
Psaki is not the first person to exit the current administration and she certainly won’t be the last. It appears that growing numbers of people within the Biden White House sense that its problems aren’t going away.
The high turnover rates speak to massive dysfunction in the current White House. Meanwhile, the current state of affairs in America demonstrates just how gravely this president and his handlers have failed.
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I have always maintained whose life is soil connected has much that favors them.
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Back to the land: Family farms flourish amid food uncertainty By Salena Zito
IRWIN, Pa. — Joann Logan wasn’t completely taken aback when the pandemic caused people to rethink their access to fresh meats and vegetables, especially given that in Western Pennsylvania it’s often as simple as a 15-minute drive to a local farm.
“People were concerned that the reliance their families had had on the food supply chain — that often comes from distant producers, large grocery stores and massive production plants — was at risk, so they started looking locally for their fresh meats and vegetables,” the Logan family matriarch explained.
So, the Logans started a home delivery system for their fresh beef and pork. People ordered online, and the Logans delivered to a drop box at home. It was contactless, which was important at the time.
The first week they did it, they had 15 customers; today they are at ten times that many.
“People have discovered they like the local connection they have with getting their beef and pork straight from our farm — whether they are buying single cuts or purchasing a whole cow and splitting it with other families or friends,” she said.
Inflation and supply chain issues are also a big reason for the repeat business.
“We were fearful that the freezer meat orders would diminish once the pandemic ended, but they have stayed steady. Inflation is a big part of that, but also people enjoy knowing where their food comes from,” she explained.
The Logan family’s farm dates back to 1840 and the Eisaman homestead. When a Logan married an Eisaman in 1894, it became the Logan farm, where the family still calls the original farmhouse home.
“We are considered a beef and hog farm and a crop farm. We raise about a thousand acres of corn and soybean, which we sell into the commodity market,” Ms. Logan explained.
Benjamin — her and her husband Tom’s oldest son — manages the farm. “He married Jen, a non-farm girl, and — God bless her — she’s taken to the business. She was raised in a printing shop, family business, so she knows what the work ethic is.” She said Jen has taught herself all the details — how many pounds of ground meat come out of a side of a carcass; how many steaks, if you cut them an inch thick — that customers might ask.
When I met her, Jen was busy at the family retail store on the property, filling orders and refilling coolers with beef and pork for the booth at the local farmers’ market that night. They do a total of seven markets every week, between now and the fall.
Jen’s four-year-old daughter, Claire, dressed in blue jeans and sparkling pink cowboy boots, was following her mom around and helping her with chores.
Joann said they have plans to move the retail shop across the Pennsylvania Turnpike to one of their bigger barns to accommodate their growing customer base; luckily, there is a bridge right by their home that can take them — and sometimes their cows — over the highway to the rest of the farm’s acreage.
“The Pennsylvania Turnpike cut us in half in the 40s; originally, they built cattle passes under the turnpike so that we could move cattle underneath from one parcel of land to the other,” Ms. Logan explained. Unfortunately, because of the rolling terrain and the way the highway is situated in the valley, those passes kept filling up with silt, which made them impassable. “At that point, we determined that we would utilize the property on the south side of the turnpike for crop production, and then the north side would be the buildings and land and pasture. When we do have to move cattle or machinery, there is a turnpike bridge where we have to load the cattle onto a livestock trailer and haul them across and then release them, so they get a ride once in a while,” Ms. Logan said.
Christian Herr, the executive vice president of PennAg Industries Association, says the farm-to-consumer direct relationships have exploded over the past two years: “I hear from both consumers and farmers that one of the big benefits is the connection people make with each other in this new dynamic,” he said.
Mr. Herr said people are now having the same relationship with a farmer that their grandparents and great-grandparents had before the boom of the supermarkets and massive production facilities: “They know they can buy their ground beef directly and know exactly who raised that animal and what they are feeding it.”
Mr. Herr said the biggest challenge for farmers is making sure they have cattle readily available all year long, something Ms. Logan said was an early kink that they have now worked out.
Everything is in a constant state of motion at the Logan Farm: Benjamin is working the fields, while Jen is packing meat for orders and for the next farmers’ market while fielding a steady stream of calls from customers and getting ready to go feed the more than 200 cattle — not to mention the pigs.
Remarkably, everyone seems to be smiling. Joann said part of that is pride in work, but it is also because they know they are helping people feel more secure about their food.
“We learn as we go along,” she said. “I’m getting to be an old fart, and I’m happy to be able to pass those kinds of lessons on our son and daughter. Why they want to farm, I have really no idea. You work every day, and it’s physical work. It’s hot, and it’s cold, and it’s frozen. It’s not like when it’s rainy, you can sit in the house and wait to mow the grass. You got to do it when you got to do it,” Ms. Logan said.
Given all of that grueling work, the uncertainty of weather, politics, commodity prices and fuel costs, you have to appreciate the farmers like the Logans who put it all on the line every day to make sure we have access to fresh protein.
Joann said someone asked her husband if he went to the casino, and he replied, “No, I gamble every day.”
But, she added: “My husband says that when you put something in the ground and you have faith, it flourishes.”
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Attack on Florida's Scrutiny of Textbooks is More CRT Gaslighting
By JONATHAN TOBIN , EDITOR IN CHIEF, JNS.ORG
According to critics of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' administration, the Sunshine State's rejection of 42 math textbooks that had been approved for use in public schools is one example among many of conservatives attacking straw men.
The New York Times sought to skewer DeSantis' decision on the books with an article that ignored the examples of left-wing politicization provided by the state and instead relied on material provided by some of the clearly disgruntled publishers. The upshot of the piece was typical of the left-wing response to concerns over critical race theory indoctrination: there's nothing there.
Most left-wing commentators claim that the widespread backlash against CRT from parents is a hoax perpetrated by right-wing propagandists. They say CRT is an arcane academic topic only taught in colleges or graduate schools and that any notion of it being introduced to elementary and secondary school students is a product of the fevered imaginations of white supremacists. Such blatant gaslighting ignores a vast store of evidence that variations of this toxic and racist approach to education have been introduced into schools around the country.
The same approach appears to be at work in the discussion about Florida's textbooks. Documentation released by the Florida Department of Education contained 6,000 pages of comments about the books in question by reviewers representing a variety of viewpoints, an admirable illustration of the transparency of the process.
Yet the pushback against Florida has been characterized by condescension and incredulity on the part of those claiming the controversy is right-wing agitprop. Reporters dismissing the state's concerns as imaginary are themselves so much a product of left-wing groupthink that they can't recognize left-wing ideology even when it is staring them in the face.
Indeed, one of the Times' articles on the subject discusses criticism of a book which uses soccer player Megan Rapinoe's complaints about unequal pay with male players—who compete in front of far larger audiences—to teach children about percentages. One may agree or disagree with Rapinoe's arguments, but the insertion of an argument about gender differences in sports salaries is clearly political, and it carries assumptions about topical issues into the teaching of disciplines that ought to be apolitical.
Other textbooks incorporated talking points about race, bias or "social awareness" into math problems.
Some of the books strayed very far afield from math. One included a string of Jewish jokes, such as "Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? Because they're worth it." That sort of jibe might be considered normal in a late-night comedy club. But when included in a math textbook, it's hardly unreasonable or right-wing propaganda to note that it comes across as antisemitic.
The argument hinges on a concept called "social emotional learning"—a method aimed at getting children to think holistically about education and their learning goals. Taken in the abstract, that sounds reasonable, even helpful, especially to students who struggle with math.
But as writer Christopher Rufo has explained, such seemingly anodyne approaches to education provide cover for ideological indoctrination. They allow liberal educators to depict American patriotism and ideals about a colorblind society and equal opportunity as tainted by systemic racism, and to replace those ideals with CRT-influenced concepts about equity and white privilege, as well as radical notions about gender and sex. While one academic quoted by the Times said there was no connection between social emotional learning and CRT, the former is, in fact, the perfect vehicle for bringing all sorts of messages—both obvious and subtle—into math class.
The Florida textbook review is a normal process—not, as it is often depicted by leftists, a matter of conservatives burning books. The DeSantis administration was right to analyze books for evidence of the influence of social emotional learning and to insist that Florida's children learn math without political baggage.
Yet what remains most frustrating about this discussion is that woke educators and the journalists who provide cover for them remain so inured to the critique of American society implicit in these concepts that they dismiss those who point out inappropriate material as reactionaries seeking to defend white supremacy.
How else can one explain coverage that describes Florida's decisions as right-wing "political theater" when discussing a textbook that actually included a racial bias graph as a way of teaching students about polynomial equations?
Over the past two years, DeSantis has become a piñata for progressives. Whether on COVID policy or education, liberal pundits have attempted to smear as a right-wing provocateur someone they rightly regard as a viable future GOP presidential contender. But it is they who are playing politics with education, not the governor who demands that schools teach basic skills children need, rather than giving them math loaded down with progressive notions about social justice.
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Is there a meaningful message in the lack of infant formula food issue?
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Good morning. The baby formula shortage highlights four larger problems with the U.S. economy.
By David Leonhardt
Good morning. The baby formula shortage highlights four larger problems with the U.S. economy.
‘Really scary’
Is my baby getting enough food? It is a typical fear among new parents — and an acute one now, because of a national shortage of baby formula.
A potential bacteria outbreak led to the February shutdown of a Michigan factory that makes Similac formula, and the plant still has not reopened. Its closure has aggravated shortages created by broader pandemic supply-chain problems. Last week, stores stocked about 43 percent less baby formula than usual.
“It gets really scary,” Carrie Fleming, who lives near Birmingham, Ala., told The Times. Her 3-month-old daughter, Lennix, can tolerate only one brand of formula, and Fleming could not find it anywhere near her. She finally located four small cans in New York — for $245.
In Oceanside, Calif., north of San Diego, Darice Browning was recently despondent after failing to find formula for her 10-month-old daughter, Octavia, who cannot eat solid foods. “I was freaking out, crying on the floor and my husband, Lane, came home from work and he’s like, ‘What’s wrong?’” Browning said, “and I’m like, ‘Dude, I can’t feed our kids, I don’t know what to do.’”
For many families, baby formula is a necessity. Some babies cannot drink breast milk — or enough of it to stay healthy — while many lower-income mothers work hourly jobs that do not provide time to breastfeed.
As my colleague Amanda Morris, who has been reporting on the shortage, says: “Most of the parents I spoke with around the country who were feeling the impact of this the hardest were ones that either had limited resources or time, or ones whose babies had allergies or disabilities that severely limited their choices.”
F.D.A. officials say they are trying to alleviate the crisis. Some members of Congress — including Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, and Senator Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican — say the federal government needs to do more.
In addition to being an urgent problem for families, the shortage highlights four larger problems within the U.S. economy. Today’s newsletter focuses on them.
1. The ‘everything shortage’
The pandemic has created shortages for many goods, including cars, semiconductors and furniture.
The main reasons: Factories and ports are coping with virus outbreaks and worker shortages at the same time that consumer demand for physical goods has surged, because of government stimulus programs and a shift away from spending on services (like restaurant meals). As a result, much of the global supply chain is overloaded.
The baby formula industry was already coping with these issues before an Abbott Nutrition factory in Sturgis, Mich., shut down. The company shut the factory after four babies — all of whom had drunk formula made there — contracted a rare bacterial infection; two of the babies died. It remains unclear whether the formula caused the infections.
Because sales of baby formula do not fluctuate much in normal times, factories generally lack the ability to accelerate production quickly, Rudi Leuschner, a supply-chain expert at Rutgers University, said. As a result, other factories have not been able to make up for the Sturgis shutdown.
2. Big business
The baby formula business has something in common with many other U.S. industries: It is highly concentrated.
Three companies — Abbott, Gerber and Reckitt — make nearly all of the formula that Americans use. Abbott is the largest of the three, with roughly 40 percent of the market.
A baby formula display shelf in San Diego.Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times
Over the past few decades, this kind of corporate concentration has become more common in the U.S. economy, and it tends to be very good for companies. They face less competition, allowing them to keep prices higher and wages lower. Thomas Philippon, an economist at N.Y.U., refers to this trend as “the great reversal.” The subtitle of his 2019 book on the subject is “How America Gave Up on Free Markets.”
For workers and consumers, concentration is often problematic. The baby-formula shortage is the latest example. If the market had more producers, a problem at any one of them might not be such a big deal. It’s even possible the problem would not happen at all.
“Abbott does not fear consumers will flee,” Sarah Miller, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, which advocates less concentration, told me. “And it does not fear government, which has a pathetic track record when it comes to holding powerful corporations and executives accountable.” (The Times has profiled Miller and her work.)
3. Big bureaucracy
Even as the industry seems to be under-regulated in some crucial ways, it may be overregulated in other, superficial ways.
This newsletter has covered ways that the F.D.A.’s bureaucratic inflexibility has hampered its Covid policy, and baby formula turns out to be another case study.
Many formulas sold in Europe exceed the F.D.A.’s nutritional standards, but they are banned from being sold here, often because of technicalities, like labeling, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic has noted. Donald Trump exacerbated the situation with a trade policy that made it harder to import formula from Canada. These policies benefit American formula makers, at the expense of families.
The inflexibility of American regulatory and trade policy, Thompson wrote, “might be the most important part of the story.”
4. The gerontocracy
The U.S. has long put a higher priority on taking care of the elderly than taking care of young families.
Americans over 65 receive universal health insurance (Medicare), and most receive a regular government check (Social Security). Many children, by contrast, live in poverty. Relative to other affluent countries, the U.S. spends a notably small share of its budget on children; President Biden’s stalled Build Back Better plan aimed to change this, Urban Institute researchers have pointed out.
Alyssa Rosenberg, a Washington Post columnist, argues that the formula shortage is part of this story. “Babies and their well-being have never been much of a priority in the United States,” Rosenberg wrote this week. “But an alarming shortage of infant formula — and the lack of a national mobilization to keep babies fed — provides a new measure of how deeply that indifference runs.”
In her column, Rosenberg suggests the creation of a national stockpile, as exists for some other crucial resources, to prevent future shortages.
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As each radical concept fails the goal of creating social discord, the ability to come up with new fallacious concepts continues.
Here are a few such orgs in search of a concept that basically bit the dust : Move On. Org, Move On Wall Street, CRT, BLM, BDS Movements etc.
Now comes a new one - Israel is a nation founded on genocide. It is a variant of CRT. Disrupter radicals must be running out of new concepts.
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California Parents Say No to Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies
Activists are pushing curricula that portray Israel as a ‘settler state’ founded on ‘genocide.’
By Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Jesse M. Fried
A group of Jewish public-school parents and teachers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the adoption of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist curricular materials in Los Angeles public schools.
Last year California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring public-school students in the state to complete a course in ethnic studies to graduate from high school. He said it was needed because “students deserve to see themselves in their studies, and they must understand our nation’s full history if we expect them to one day build a more just society.” But the ethnic-studies movement has never been about representation or justice. A creature of 1960s radical left-wing activism, ethnic studies was from the start about attacking the U.S., capitalism and Zionism.
Advocates—including teachers union officials, public-school teachers and other ideologues—have formed the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, through which they hope to influence the teaching of ethnic studies in the state. The consortium, which disseminates teaching materials lifted directly from radical anti-Israel websites, rejects the idea that all cultures should be studied. It asserts that ethnic studies is about only four groups: Native Americans, black Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and Asian-Americans/Pacific Islanders. That last group includes Arabs from the Middle East—but not Jews, who’ve lived in that same region for millennia.
The consortium’s materials—many of which have been taken offline in recent months—are filled with attacks on Jews and the Jewish state. They deny that Jews are indigenous to the Middle East and teach that Israel is a “colonialist” and “settler state” founded through “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing” and “apartheid.” They falsely define Judaism, teaching that “Zionism is distinct from Judaism” and that Zionism isn’t a Jewish religious belief but an invention of the “late 19th century.”
Tell that to the millions of Jews who end their Passover Seders with “next year in Jerusalem,” or end every Jewish wedding by breaking a glass to mourn Jerusalem’s destruction, or pray each day facing Jerusalem—or whose bible, prayer book and calendar have for thousands of years been filled with the yearning for a return of the people of Israel to sovereignty in the land of Israel.
The consortium’s materials describe Zionism as a “nationalist colonial ideology” that seeks the “expansion of the Jewish state into historic Palestine by any means necessary,” and says Israel and the U.S. are “white settler states,” even though Israel’s Jewish population is more than half “people of color”—including people whose ancestors lived in Africa and India and more three million Israelis descended from Jews who’ve lived in the Middle East since before the Babylonian exile 2,600 years ago.
California law requires that publicly funded teaching materials be public, so that parents and taxpayers know what’s going on in the schools they use and pay for. But the consortium instructs teachers to violate that mandate. Classes instructing teachers about the curriculum are by invitation only. The consortium urges sympathetic teachers to “fly under the radar” and advises that it may be best to “shut their doors” before teaching the “liberatory curriculum”—including the denunciation of Jewish beliefs and the Jewish state—so parents can’t find out what’s going on.
The lawsuit has two aims: removal of teaching materials denouncing the plaintiffs’ sincerely held religious beliefs, and public disclosure of all ethnic-studies materials in Los Angeles public schools. The parents and teachers we represent seek public disclosure of what is actually being taught with public money in public schools and an end to the use of taxpayer-funded anti-Semitic teaching materials. Jewish teachers have the right to a workplace, and Jewish parents to a public school for their children, where government-paid teachers don’t denounce their homeland, characterize their people as genocidal criminals, or disparage their religious beliefs.
If the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium prevails in California, it is likely to be deployed elsewhere. Israel and the Jews are only the first of the left’s perceived ideological enemies to be denounced on the public dime. If proponents of the curriculum aren’t stopped, other enemies—and their denunciations—are likely to follow.
Ms. Marcus is legal director of the Deborah Project and lead counsel in Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of LA v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium. Mr. Fried is a professor at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Deborah Project’s board of directors.
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Never a dull moment in Iran:
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Iran Caught Off Guard by Surging Economic Protests
by Potkin Azarmehr and Steven Emerson
Iran's rulers are alarmed at the prospect of nationwide mass protests and unrest as the hot summer months approach. Prices of some basic goods like bread, dairy products and chicken skyrocketed as much as 300 percent overnight. Already there have been nightly protests against the price rises and mismanagement of the economy in the oil rich province of Khuzestan. Protests are spreading to neighboring provinces.
Earlier this week, a leaked audio file from a senior Iran state TV executive demonstrated the depth of the regime's concern. "The country is going through an exceptional situation, the soaring prices, frustration with the officials and so on," Alireza Habibi tells producers and presenters. "... But we should try to calm the public's anxieties, not incite it further .... Don't go and make programs highlighting these problems. This is not the time for making such programs. Wait till things calm down."
To make sure his instructions are understood clearly, Habibi added "the slightest dissent in this regard will be unforgivable, because this is a national security issue. So make sure you yourself and your channel don't suffer as a result of your actions."
These concerns were also echoed on Tuesday by Khuzestan MP Qassem Sa'edi. "People are struggling to make ends meet," he said. They want to be loyal to the regime, but there is a limit to how much they can take. There is a good likelihood we face a bigger danger than the previous nationwide unrests."
Sensing the brewing tension and fears that large gatherings will trigger mass protests, Khuzestan's Security Maintenance Council – a body that assesses current trends and takes preemptive actions to avert social unrest – announced the football match between Khuzestan Steel FC and Tehran's Independence FC will be held without spectators.
Despite all the efforts to maintain order, protests erupted Wednesday night in several cities in Khuzestan province, which is in southwestern Iran. In Ahvaz, protesters called for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to resign: "Raisi, you liar," they chanted. "What happened to all those things you promised?"
In Dezful, people chanted, "We don't want an Islamic Republic," and "We will fight, we will die, we will take back our Iran." In Andimeshk, they chanted "Mullahs Get Lost!" In Izeh, the security forces fired tear gas as people chanted "Death to Khamenei" and fought back.
On Thursday, the protests spread to Khuzestan's neighboring province, Lorestan. In Dorood, people fought the anti-riot special units. In Share-Kord, people pleaded for law enforcement forces to join them, saying they, too, are the victims of this regime's mismanagement.
In one of the videos released on social media, people encircled a Baseej militia member after he arrested a protester. "Can you not see how the people are suffering?" they asked. In another video, a man in his car asks the special units moving towards the protesters with their shields and batons, "Do you not have to buy rice and oil yourselves?"
The regime's response was the usual shutting down of the internet to stop people from seeing the protest videos, which urged others to join the protesters too.
Law enforcement forces have tried to contain the situation and use selective punishment rather than apply a brutal crackdown, as they have on previous occasions.
Despite the regime's fears and concerns about the likelihood of unrest, this week's protests still took them by surprise. They thought such unrest wouldn't start until summer, when the electricity and water shortages, and rising prices synergized into a major discontent.
Meanwhile Iran's teachers are organizing nationwide protests against their deteriorating living standards as their wages fall behind the soaring inflation. The regime has arrested several teachers' union activists to stop the protests but the gatherings have continued. In a desperate attempt to discredit them, the security apparatus has tried to accuse the teachers of being manipulated by foreign agents.
On Wednesday, Cécile Kohler, a French teaching union official, and her husband were arrested as they prepared to leave Tehran after visiting Iran. Iranian authorities accused them of "attempting to create political chaos" by meeting with the Iranian Teachers Trade Association during their visit.
Until now, Iran, sensing an over-eagerness among European countries and the United States to reinstate the nuclear agreement, has sought more concessions and taken more foreign hostages to strengthen its negotiating hand. If the expected nationwide unrest becomes a serious threat to the regime, however, it may be forced into accepting a nuclear deal with fewer concessions in order to get some urgent economic relief and ease domestic tension.
If that happens, it remains to be seen if the Biden administration will send Iran another lifeline to overcome its summer of discontent, similar to when President Obama sent a plane with cash that had been frozen after Iran accepted the original nuclear deal and released four American prisoners.
IPT Senior Fellow Potkin Azarmehr is a London-based investigative journalist, business intelligence analyst, and TV documentary maker who was born in Iran. He regularly contributes to several newspapers and television stations on Iran and Middle East related news. You can follow him on twitter @potkazar
Steven Emerson is executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the author of eight books on national security and terrorism, the producer of two documentaries, and the author of hundreds of articles in national and international publications.
Copyright © 2022. Investigative Project on Terrorism. All rights reserved.
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When retaining power dominates, cheating becomes elevated.
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Democrats Have Overplayed Their Hand in Alaska
As time passes, Democrats’ efforts to rig elections in their favor are becoming more and more apparent.
Back in 2021, Democrats tried to abolish the Senate filibuster in order to pass the For the People Act. This bill would have killed voter IQ requirements, funneled taxpayer dollars into left-wing political campaigns, and otherwise disproportionately benefited Democrats.
Since the failure of the For The People Act, Joe Biden has said the outcome of the November midterms might not be fair. Of course, this assessment from the president comes as Republicans are projected to take home some major wins in November.
Even now, Democrats are still trying to pull off various underhanded tactics in US elections. In the case of a special election in Alaska, Democrats truly showed their cards, as documented by The Federalist.
Uncovering the Cheat Sheet
Due to the recent passing of Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska has a special election happening in June. However, the way this election is being run should send chills down the spine of every single patriot.
For starters, not a single individual is voting in person. Alaska’s special election will only allow mail-in votes, with people on the voter rolls getting a ballot mailed out to them.
On top of this, no authentication requirements will exist for voting in this special election. People in the state won’t even be required to submit absentee ballots in order to vote by mail.
If this wasn’t bad enough, Alaska’s voter rolls remain completely out of order. As of 2020, the state has a higher number of registered voters on its voter rolls than eligible voters. Yet, somehow, state officials have never gotten around to cleaning this up.
At the end of the day, haphazard management of an election in this way is ripe for fraud and cheating. Of course, this is exactly what Democrats want.
Mismanaged elections make it that much easier for Democrats to do things which are not above board for the sake of political power.
Why Democrats Need to Cheat
Democrats’ interest in cheating and rigging elections boils down to the reality that they truthfully can’t win any other way.
Polls show that young people, minorities, working-class folks, and others have grown sick of Democrats. They’re also sick of Biden, whose approval numbers across various states are deeply into the net negative range.
As the midterm elections get closer, the nation can count on Democrats to try new stunts with the endgame of keeping power.
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