VIDEO: NJ Gov. Murphy OMITTING Information on Taxpayer Funding for Illegal Immigrants Until After Election

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Project Veritas Action Fund released a second video today exposing New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s re-election campaign — this time for omitting information on state funds being given to illegal immigrants.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

  • Wendy Martinez, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Campaign Senior Advisor: “I think it’s 40 million dollars [being allocated to illegal immigrants], something like that — and to designate that at this point would be political suicide.”
  • Martinez: “We need to get him [Murphy] elected first.”
  • Matthew Urquijo, Manager of New Jersey Forward: “There’s definitely [going to be] more aid [for illegal immigrants], especially [since] this will be his [Murphy’s] second term. The goal is to win even more seats in the legislature so that we can like, just push – push through.”

You can watch the video here:

The Murphy campaign and the New Jersey Democratic State Committee certainly have a lot to answer for.

Will they continue to deflect away from these statements and baselessly accuse Veritas of harassment?

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Florida Sues Over Vaccine Mandate

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Florida filed a suit Thursday against President Joe Biden, NASA and several other agencies alleging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates requiring government contractors to get vaccinated is “unlawful,” according to Fox News.

Attorney General Ashley Moody and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Florida’s Tampa division arguing NASA and others “frequently contracts with Florida, has current contractual relationships with Florida, and is and will continue to seek to impose the Biden administration’s unlawful requirements to Florida,” according to Fox News.

The suit also lists NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, White House Office of Management and Budget officials, and Department of Defense officials due to the coronavirus vaccine mandate. The mandate requires workers within those branches and federal contractors be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8.

“Because the government’s unlawful vaccine requirement seeks to interfere with Florida’s employment policies and threaten Florida with economic harm and the loss of federal contracts, the State seeks relief from this court,” the suit reportedly reads. 

The suit argues the administration is “relying on a statute” that gives Biden the authority to “‘prescribe policies and directives that the president considers necessary to carry out’ the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949” to “compel millions of Americans who work for government contractors to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,” according to Fox News.

“Nothing in that statute authorizes such a radical intrusion on the personal autonomy of American workers – especially, as is the case here, when many of those workers are officials of a sovereign state,” the suit reads.

The state argues the administration “misread [the] Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949,” arguing the act “does not authorize the government to use its contracts to impose social policy not authorized by Congress,” Fox News reported.

“We said we’d take action and we did,” DeSantis said Thursday while announcing the suit. “People should be able to work.”

DeSantis has been outspoken against the mandate, saying Sunday “what Biden’s doing is unconstitutional. He does not have the authority” to impose the vaccine mandate. DeSantis said he’s working on legislation to provide a $5,000 bonus to law enforcement personnel who relocate to Florida to evade vaccine mandates.

Biden said in September getting the vaccine is “not about freedom or personal choice,” before mandating all employers with 100 or more employees require employees to be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing.

COLUMN BY

BRIANNA LYMAN

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Poll Shocker: Trump Beats Biden In Presidential Poll In Every U.S. Region But One

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Buyers remorse indeed. President Biden’s poll numbers are plummeting. Millions of Americans voted for Joe Biden, because they disliked President Trump’s demeanor. Now they are paying the price. And watch China and Iran in the months ahead.

“Political watchers note that the sharp jump in inflation, failure to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, surging illegal immigration, the Afghan withdrawal debacle, the supply-chain collapse, surprisingly weak job growth and soaring energy prices have all contributed to a growing sense among many that Biden — at 77 the oldest president in history — is not up to the job of being president.”

I&I/TIPP Poll Shocker: Trump Beats Biden In Presidential Poll In Every U.S. Region But One

By Tip Insights, October 28, 2021

When it comes to President Biden, are voters starting to have a serious case of buyers’ remorse? It sure looks that way. A new I&I/TIPP Poll limited to those who voted in the 2020 election shows former President Donald Trump sharply narrowing the gap between him and Biden and leading across most of the country if the election were held today.

For all intents and purposes, based on current voter sentiment and the margin of error, it’s a virtual dead heat between Trump and Biden, with Trump having all the momentum.

The data come from the October I&I/TIPP Poll of 1,308 adults was conducted online from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 by TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, I&I’s polling partner. The analysis for this story is based 955 Americans who voted in 2020 and revealed their 2020 vote.  The margin of error for the analysis is +/-3.3 percentage points.

In it, we asked: “If the presidential election were held today, and the following were the candidates, for whom would you vote?” Respondents were given the choices of “Donald Trump,” “Joe Biden,” “Other,” or “Not sure.”

Overall, Biden still leads Trump by 45% to 44%, with 6% choosing “other” and 5% saying “not sure.”

But amid growing questions over his leadership in just the ninth month of his presidency, Biden’s slender lead looks tenuous at best. In September, it was Biden 46%, Trump 42.1%. Since then, overall, Biden lost 1.2 percentage points, while Trump gained 1.8 points.

Key demographic groups also show a swing away from Biden toward Trump. The breakdown shows a major swing from Biden to Trump in the last month.

Trump leads in the Midwest (45.9% vs. 44.9%), the South (45.8% vs. 44.6), and the West (42.4% vs. 39.7%).  Biden leads Trump in the Northeast 53.6% to 39.1%.

Trump now leads Biden among those aged 45-64 (45.8% support Trump vs. 41.8% Biden), those 65 and older (50.7% vs. 39.3%), women (44.9% vs. 41.9%), Whites (50.2% vs. 38.4%), independent voters (46.2% vs. 36.9%), suburban voters (47% vs. 39.4%) and rural voters (54.8% vs. 37.2%), and married women (52.2% vs 40.0%).

Moreover, even among those who still favored Biden in October, Trump realized some significant gains. Among Black voters, for instance, Trump moved from 18.1% support in September to 20.3% in October.

Among Hispanic voters, the fastest-growing voting bloc in the U.S., Trump gained a hefty 14.6 percentage points, from 24.2% to 38.8%. That’s more than the 33% of the Hispanic vote that Trump garnered in the 2020 election.

Moderates, often identified with independents and other key swing voters, tacked on 5.8 percentage points to their overall support of Trump, from 32.4% to 38.2%.

Among married women, often viewed as a heavily influential voting group, the shift toward Trump was particularly notable: In September, this group favored Biden (42.4%) to Trump (42.1%). In October, they gave Trump 53.2% of their vote, versus just 40% for Biden, a huge swing.

What’s behind the steep decline in Biden’s popularity with voters?

Political watchers note that the sharp jump in inflation, failure to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, surging illegal immigration, the Afghan withdrawal debacle, the supply-chain collapse, surprisingly weak job growth and soaring energy prices have all contributed to a growing sense among many that Biden — at 77 the oldest president in history — is not up to the job of being president.

This bad news, coming early in Biden’s first term, underscores other recent polls showing a shocking loss of public confidence in Biden’s presidency.

A new Gallup Poll taken from Oct 1. to Oct. 19, for instance, shows Biden suffering the biggest decline in favorability of any president since World War II, plunging from 56% in the first quarter to 44.7% in the third quarter. That’s a 20.2% decline.

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Leftists Are Pushing Fake Facebook ‘Scandal’ to Justify Censorship of Conservatives

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The Democrats loved the censorship of political opposition. For years the enemedia ignored the banning, blocking, shadowingbanning, suspension of my colleagues and myself until …. it could no longer be ignored.

Leftists Are Pushing Fake Facebook ‘Scandal’ to Justify Censorship of Conservatives

By: Allum Bokhari, Breitbart News, 25 Oct 2021:

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Twitter today that leftists are pushing a fake “scandal” about Facebook making exceptions to its rules to justify censorship of conservatives.

“The Facebook “scandal” is a false flag intended to justify an oncoming wave of censorship against the Right,” said Rep. Gaetz on Twitter.

The Florida congressman was responding to allegations from leftists at Facebook that the site makes exceptions to its rules in order to protect political figures on the platform.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks during testimony by constitutional scholars before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. This is the first hearing held by the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, whom House Democrats say held back military aid for Ukraine while demanding it investigate his political rivals. The Judiciary Committee will decide whether to draft official articles of impeachment against President Trump to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. (Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)

This is a complaint made by leftists inside the company, whos constant agitation to censor Breitbart News and other conservative publications was recently revealed by the Wall Street Journal. 

Via Breitbart News:

In a discussion thread called “Get Breitbart out of News Tab,” the company’s employees brainstormed new policies that would see Breitbart News ejected from the feature, which distributes news stories to users from a curated list of websites while maintaining the appearance of neutrality. One employee suggested removing websites that saw their internal “trust score” (as measured by Facebook) decline, but expressed concern that the policy might also affect CNN.

As the Wall Street Journal notes, Facebook already punishes Breitbart News in relation to its competitors by relegating it to a “second tier” of the News Tab, which only delivers news tailored to user’s interests. In other words, only users who are already interested in content similar to Breitbart’s will receive its stories, limiting Breitbart’s ability to reach new readers.

The same Wall Street Journal story revealed that Facebook introduced tools after the 2016 election that reduced the traffic of Breitbart News and other conservative publications.

The story highlighted internal Facebook research showing that if both tools were removed, it would increase traffic to Breitbart News by 20 percent, the Washington Times by 18 percent, Western Journal by 16 percent, and the Epoch Times by 11 percent. Facebook eventually removed one of the tools while keeping the other — but it is unclear which of them had the most impact on traffic.

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VIDEO: Enough is Enough! It’s Time For Us To Resist

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There comes a moment in time when Americans, historically, have stood-up and shouted, “Enough!” The colonists did so after a couple of years receiving “mandates” from a vicious King over in England. The King even housed British Troops in the homes of the colonists to maintain control. But mandate after mandate was not sufficient to bring the colonists to their knees and be totally subjected by a tyrant. So the King, tyrant, continued inventing ways to bring the early Americans into compliance, and much like sheep, not question any orders or mandates but simply comply and walk in lock-step to their slaughter. Our American ancestors went only so far, and then they shouted, “Enough!”

Mentioned below is a message by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) who is shouting, “Enough!” The senator is encouraging Americans to begin doing the same, even more so than what we have begun to witness. There are forces of darkness and pure evil intending to collapse our nation into the New-World Order, a global community without national borders. A New-World Order comprised of a group with staunch Marxist philosophies who view the world as too populated, too independent, too free and with too many choices. Sounds funny at first given how many countries are already dictated by Marxist doctrine. But then look around to once very free nations like, Australia, New Zealand; heck…even Canada, and you will see formerly western oriented countries and governments now compromised and following in lock-step with Marxist doctrine and beliefs of the New-World Order.

Senator Rand Paul is one of the few public servants standing up in accordance with his Oath of Office to Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America from ALL enemies foreign and domestic! May you find courage listening to Senator Rand Paul. Then may you begin to act like our Forefathers did!

©Lyle J. Rapacki. Ph.D.

FLORIDA: Report from Polk County Legislative Delegation Meeting on October 26th, 2021

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I want to thank all the Patriots from Winter Haven 912 who were present at the Polk County, FL Legislative Delegation Meeting on October 26th, 2021 which started at 1:30 p.m. including those who spoke besides me e.g. Glynnda, Maureen M, David C, George B, Nancy W, Fred, D and Kay M and those who came to support us e.g. Boyd R, Del L, Mitchell B., Rocky & Dietz A, Danny & Dy K, Lisa C, Alice K, Pixie. R, Lee A, Bobby , Lorraine J, Denise & Harry K, and one other Gentleman whose name I don’t know for total of 21 WH 912ers, by far the largest group present. If I missed anyone please let me know.

Other constitutional conservatives whom I know and were present were Rebecca Ricks and Amber Lang from Mom’s for America & Medical Freedom who both spoke and several ladies wearing CCDF hats.

The Polk County Legislative Delegation consists of Senators Albritton, Burgess and Stargel and Representatives Bell, Burton, Hawkins, Killebrew, and Tomkow whose districts represent portions of Polk County.

All of our speakers received applause despite being admonished for doing so every time – little bit of proper civil disobedience going on there. Chair Rep. Burton claimed applause takes up too much time which is just not true since the applause occurred during the short period between the last speaker departing and the next speaker coming up to talk. I really don’t understand this protocol which is also present at other public meetings like the Board of County Commissioners and School Board. At least we weren’t repeatedly threatened to be escorted out by Sheriff’s Deputy like the County Manager and Rick Wilson do at BOCC meetings.

On a positive note and with thanks to the Delegation, the meeting was well planned, advertised and conducted including holding all speakers to the 3 min limit, which was not always practiced in past. The Delegation were respectful and seemed attentive to public speakers although few questions were asked except to local government and college officials who made reports, mostly dealing with funding.

County Commissioner George Lindsey was present which was good because he got to listen to several of us mention his, Commissioner Wilson and Santiago’s refusal to sign the letter by Commissioner Neil Combee to Governor DeSantis asking to remove road blocks to access of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine to prevent and treat COVID. They refused despite the overwhelming testimonies and presence of supporters of the letter at the meeting where Lindsey brought in two CDC Protocol supporting doctors to counter our support including PC Health Dept Director Dr. Joy Jackson who condescendingly stated we were “like the wild west of anything you can get your hands on and take it.”

The topics covered by our WH 912 speakers covered a broad range but often reinforced each other and included:

  • Relief from Medical Tyranny by facilitating access to inexpensive, FDA approved Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine along with Gov. DeSantis’s push for monoclonal antibody outpatient infusion.
  • Demand for 100% forensic audit of 2020 election in FL – we know there was election fraud and the closeness of the margins for Gov DeSantis and POTUS Trump emphasizes this; current PC Supervisor of Elections stated to Ledger there was no voter fraud in 2018 as alleged by Candidate DeSantis and in 2020 by many.
  • The experience of a Poll Watcher revealed outrageous voter fraud at the poll she observed.
  • Unconstitutional FL Red Flag Law, the Risk Protection Order codified within the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act, SB 7026 must be eliminated or changed to provide Due Process for law abiding gun owners – over 6,000 have been issued FL-wide with 1,000 of these in PC. Also that the 2A Rights of 18-20 year olds to own/possess long guns need to be restored.
  • Legislators were asked to co-sponsor/support/file companion bill of a list of good bills and to oppose a list of bad bills.
  • Constitutions (both US & FL) should always be consulted and used whenever Legislators are making decisions on political actions like bills and laws – We are a Constitutional Republic rooted in God’s laws not man’s laws and are not a Democracy which is rule by mob. Our Constitution limits the power of the Federal Govt. and our Bill of Rights confirm the Rule of God’s Laws and guaranty they will not be broken by government. Unfortunately our Rights are being usurped by the Fed Govt meaning states must fight back with the 10th Amendment and nullify unconstitutional federal edicts/rulings.
  • Abortions must be stopped and the Heartbeat Bill passed by our Legislature.
  • A Legislator’s Bill of Rights is needed to stop the biased, undue influence of House and Senate Leadership including punishment for Legislator’s who speak their own minds, submit bills wanted by their constituents, etc. which may not fit leaderships desired mold. Removing Republican Legislators from Committees or keeping them off committees, moving them to “time out” rooms in basement; supporting other Republican candidates in primaries for sole purpose of defeating those who don’t tow the line is unfair and unethical.
    Note: Some of us also provided the Delegation with copies of documents providing more details to back up our presentations.

Observations on other speakers:

  • 8 speakers represented groups asking for funds – 2 such groups were artist/art groups looking for money to pay for programs and to pay artists – guess they don’t get enough form Pelosi’s over funded endowments for Arts and Humanities.
  • 3 speakers in row advocated to repeal the current law banning transgenders from athletic competitions & for transgender rights (pure identity politics).
  • A Useful Idiot leftist speaker from PC Democratic Environmental Caucus of FL told us, among other falsehoods, that if we don’t do something about climate change soon, all our FL beaches will be destroyed as Iceland melts; we should go to 60% solar power and should support the Paris accords (meaning US shells out trillions $ to pay for the pollution of others) with no mention about the major polluters of the world e.g. Communist China, India and Indonesia.
  • 3 speakers spoke out against what they called the “FL Kill Bill”. 2 of the impassioned speakers had lost relatives (father, brother) to medical malpractice without recourse because their loved ones were widow/widowers and/or, had no children under 25 etc. The other was a nurse who had dealt with such patients. Support was asked for SB 262 (Damages Recoverable by Parents of an Adult Child in Medical Negligence Actions; Deleting a provision prohibiting parents of an adult child from recovering damages for mental pain and suffering in a medical negligence suit, etc.) and SB 560 (Recovery for wrongful Death; Deleting a prohibition on adult children of certain decedents recovering specified damages, etc.).
  • 1 angry and loud speaker complained about 80% of homeowners in Poinciana who didn’t want Spectrum services having to pay for services anyway making the cost to the 20% who did want it lower and that this extra expense for those on social security could “put them out on the street.”
  • Another speaker preceded her talk by asking if there were any limits to the scope of presentations and being told no, spoke out against Lakeland Electric’s meter. She claimed the frequency emitted by the meter caused her medical problems and changes in appearance and was asking for a different kind of meter which she claimed they had refused to provide.

If you can attend the session of the PC FL Legislative Delegation’s Annual meeting in 2022 (usually held from 1:30 – 6 pm),I highly recommend you consider doing so. Even better if you sign up to speak and express your view (s) on issues in the 3 mins you’re allotted and you can also provide backup documentation.

Thank you.

Royal

Royal A. Brown III
President, Winter Haven 912
LTC-(USA-Ret)

©Winter Haven 912. All rights reserved.

ACTION ALERT: Protect Children from Pornography

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How Can We End the Cycle of Child Exposure to Porn?

Sign the petition here.

Do you believe in building a world free from sexual abuse and exploitation? Do ever feel like that world is so far away?

It can feel difficult to hold on to hope when looking at statistics and hearing stories about how pervasive the online sex industry is becoming. It’s likely that a majority of children have seen pornography on the internet. Now it’s not a matter of “if” your child will be exposed, but “when.”

“According to a 2020 survey, the majority of children were exposed to porn by age 13, with some as young as seven. Most of the time it was unintentional or unwanted.”

British Board of Film Classification

But it’s important to remember that 1) we must understand the scope of the problem in order to effectively address it and that 2), as Martin Luther King, Jr. put it, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Our friends and allies Exodus Cry and Magic Lantern Pictures have released a documentary film Raised on Porn that addresses this problem. Dawn Hawkins, CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, is an Executive Producer of the film.

Exodus Cry says they “feel a sense of urgency regarding the dangers children are facing online and the lack of awareness of so many parents” and they are hoping that this film helps to sound the alarm on a global scale.

In this 35-minute documentary, the stories of multiple people are told with candor but the one story that is followed through from beginning to end is the story of Richie. The film follows Richie’s story from when he was a young child to where he is now—happily married with children—and explores his journey from first exposure to pornography to compulsive use to buying sex and, ultimately, to recovery. Richie talks about how pornography was the influence that shaped the way he approached relationships and eventually what he desired sexually, leading him to hold secrets from his wife.

“You’re socializing men into thinking that women will consent to anything.”

Dr. Gail Dines

Richie confesses to his wife that he has a problem and in a quiet moment with his kids—now the same age as he was at his first exposure to porn—realizes that he doesn’t want them to go through this same cycle he did.

So, how can we end that cycle? How can we teach our children to reject the messages they will get from pornography?

“The internet has made porn not only accessible, it’s really made it inescapable. Now everybody has access to porn on their smartphone… including children.”

Jean Kilbourne

Of course parents have the responsibility to open a dialogue with their children about pornography and what their children should do when they come across it. For these types of conversations, especially with very young children, we recommend “Good Pictures, Bad Pictures” from Kristen Jensen of Defend Young Minds.

Solutions don’t stop there, though.

If children are accessing pornography on smartphones and other devices, we believe Big Tech should be held accountable to implement measures that help protect children.

Big Tech has billions of dollars and nearly limitless resources—not something that all parents can offer. We aren’t asking that Big Tech take the responsibility completely, but that they help parents by proactively mitigating the many and severe risks to which their platforms and devices expose children.

Defaulting devices with safety controls is one way to protect kids. It’s then easy for parents to let kids use devices without having to struggle with instruction manuals and unfamiliarity with tech.

Furthermore, sites with sexually explicit material can require age verification. Right now, we wouldn’t let kids walk into an “adult store” in person. So why do “adult sites” featuring pornography not require ID or verify age?

Raised on Porn offers a stark reminder that “We are in the midst of the single largest unregulated social experiment in human history.” That experiment is the inundation of brains of young children with content that they’re not prepared to deal with—content that is normalizing harmful behaviors.

We can end this cycle. Help us protect children, not porn.

Sign the petition here.

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New Report Shows Growth of the Welfare State Has Fueled Long-Term Declines in the Labor Force

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A massive labor shortage continues to grip the nation and hold back our economic recovery. With countless pandemic and policy factors influencing the shortage, there’s a heated debate over what’s keeping so many workers out of the labor force. But a new study confirms that the growth of the welfare state is playing a massive role—and that this trend began long before the pandemic.

Published by experts on the Republican side of the Senate Joint Economic Committee, the analysis reports, “the U.S. has witnessed an unprecedented rise in disconnected prime-age workers over time.” As shown in the graph below, the men’s labor force participation rate has fallen from more than 97 percent in 1955 to 89 percent prior to the pandemic, while the women’s labor force participation rate has declined in recent decades as well (View chart here).
What’s causing this decline? Well, the study examines popular explanations like displacement from immigration and technological advancements and finds that they do not account for this drastic drop. Rather, it suggests that the biggest factor is that “many would-be workers are voluntarily disconnected from work, and government programs and policies have likely made work less attractive for these Americans.”

There has been tremendous growth in the welfare state over these decades. Per the committee, in 1998 about 20 percent of working-age Americans living in households between the 20th and 50th income percentiles were benefiting from government programs. As of 2014, that figure was up to 30 percent.

Indeed the study notes that “only 12 percent of inactive, prime-age, able-bodied men said they wanted a job or were open to work.” Why? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the widespread availability of robust welfare benefits is a key part of the explanation.

“A significant body of empirical evidence suggests that government transfers— especially those without work requirements—tend to lower employment,” the study reports. “For example, labor force participation and earnings fall after receiving housing assistance, losing Medicaid coverage increases employment and gaining the coverage can reduce it, and the introduction of the food stamp program in the 1960s and 1970s decreased employment significantly.”

We can’t overlook these troubling findings. Yes, there’s no doubt that the pandemic and pandemic-specific policies are contributing to the particularly acute labor shortage currently facing our economy. But in the bigger picture, our long-term labor problems are driven particularly by a bloated welfare system that disincentives work and traps people in poverty.

Yet some are learning the opposite lessons. With their $3.5+ trillion spending plan, progressives in Congress are trying to make the welfare state even bigger! This is bad for the economy and actually bad for the supposed beneficiaries, too—the anti-poverty, mental, emotional, health, and social benefits of being employed are widely and extensively documented. Policies should incentivize employment; not discourage it.

“As the number of Americans who receive government assistance has grown, more Americans have voluntarily left their jobs,” Republican Senator Mike Lee commented in light of this report. “Congress’ plan to spend an additional $3.5 trillion to provide households with new subsidies and fewer incentives to work would only make things worse.”

Indeed it would. Hopefully, this new study injects some much-needed insight into the ongoing conversation about labor shortages. In the big picture, our labor participation problems can’t be fixed without serious rollbacks of the welfare state.

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McAuliffe in 2019: Teaching Diversity ‘Just as Important’ as Math, English

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Amid a gubernatorial race in Virginia centered on the conflict between outraged parents and far-left school boards that promote the racist tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), comments from big-government candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe are resurfacing that are adding fuel to the fire.

Appearing as a guest on C-SPAN’s Book TV in 2019 to promote his race-mongering book Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism, McAuliffe stated, “We’ve got to go back – K to 6. Early on, we’ve got to start teaching, talking about these issues much earlier than we’ve done it before. And we don’t do a good job in our education system talking about diversity, inclusion, openness and so forth. We don’t. We got our textbooks, but, you know, that has to be a big part of how do you fit into the social work of our nation and our fabric. How we deal with one another is to me as important as, you know, your math class or your English class and so forth.”

This is the same candidate who falsely claims CRT is a conspiracy theory of the right and literally does not exist. This is the same tone-deaf candidate who declared in a debate in September, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

His Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin, by contrast, asserted, “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

McAuliffe and his Democrat comrades have intentionally done everything in their power to destroy education in this country. They don’t want an educated electorate — they want social justice activists. That’s why, in McAuliffe’s fanatical mind, obsessing over “diversity” is a more important aim for schools than teaching math or English.

Terry McAuliffe

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In December 2018, McAuliffe blamed President Trump for the partial government shutdown which was in effect at that time. “The Democrats should not give an inch on this,” said McAuliffe. “Donald Trump owns this. He has been in the White House. He has been isolated. He is too emotional. He is too unstable. And he has now forced people to go through the holidays without a paycheck…. Donald Trump, because of his tricks and Republican radio hosts pushing him, challenging his manhood, he has caused so many problems for so many people in this country. He is an angry, emotional, unstable man sitting in the White House.”

McAuliffe expanded upon these remarks in a January 2019 appearance on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, when he portrayed President Trump as “an emotional, moody mess.” “He is a compulsive liar, throwing temper tantrums every day,” said McAuliffe. “He has emotional mood swings constantly. That’s why we’re in the mess with the shutdown that we are in today. I think with that going on with the White House. He [Trump] says we have a crisis on the border? We have a crisis in the White House, and it’s named Donald Trump.”

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Governor Ron DeSantis: ‘No Time for [GOP] Boneless Wonders’

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has no time for “Boneless Wonders” in Congress aka elitist, ruling class, RINOs only concerned about their next election and personal power.

What a great constitutional conservative and brave leader we have in our Governor in Florida!

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What a great constitutional conservative and brave leader we have in our Governor in Florida!

No time for ‘Boneless Wonders’ – DeSantis has scathing message for spineless GOP members

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis didn’t hold back at a Washington, DC Republican dinner where he shredded the media and warned conservatives “we don’t have time for boneless wonders,” referring to spineless GOP politicians.

DeSantis started out by excoriating the media for never apologizing for promoting the false Russian collusion conspiracy that was intended to smear former President Trump. He remarked that the media loves to “gaslight” and smear people.

“You’ve got a press that for over two years created a fake conspiracy theory involving Russian collusion. I was in Congress when that started. I was only one of a handful of people who knew that was BS from the beginning. But they did it. And they milked it. And was all because they disagreed with the outcome of the 2016 election,” DeSantis said.

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Record-Breaking Mexican Border Arrests, Caravan En-Route, Panama Warns 65K More

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Illegal alien tells reporter they’re excited to break U.S. laws

Not only was the record for illegal immigrant apprehensions along the southern border shattered in 2021, the fiscal year, which ended in September, concluded with a bang—a final month spike of migrants from Haiti (132%), Turkey (89%), India (82%), Ukraine (81%) and even China (75%). The number of illegal aliens from Russia nearly doubled from 758 to 1,432 during the same period,  according to year-end figures provided this month by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The chilling stats illustrate the magnitude of the national security and humanitarian crisis created by the Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies.

Federal agents apprehended an astounding 1,659,206 illegal immigrants at the southwest border in 2021, breaking the previous high of 1,643,679 in 2000. In fiscal year 2020, federal agents only arrested 400,651 on the southern border. The upsurge in just one year is difficult to grasp. Eight of the nine Border Patrol sectors saw triple-digit percentage increases in illegal immigrants over last year and one, Yuma in Arizona, reported an eye-popping 1,200.4% hike in apprehensions. The agency’s Del Rio sector in Texas had an unbelievable 542.7% surge. The Rio Grande Valley sector, also in Texas, saw a 508.7% increase and led all stations with 549,000 arrests. Del Rio reported 259,000 apprehensions which surpassed Border Patrol divisions in Texas and Arizona that typically see more traffic. Two other Texas stations, Big Bend and EL Paso, recorded apprehension gains of 331.9% and 256.5% respectively. Big Bend and El Centro in California were the only sectors that did not see six-digit apprehensions this year, though both reported major increases over 2020—331.9% for Big Bend and 115.4% for El Centro.

Most of the illegal aliens, 608,000, arrested by the U.S. in 2021 came from Mexico followed by the Central American nations of Honduras (309,000), Guatemala (279,000) and El Salvador (96,000). In the last month of the fiscal year, migrants from those four Latin American countries accounted for well over half (63.7%) of apprehensions along the Mexican border. The records show that 367,000 arrests included Haitians, Cubans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Ecuadorans. To top the year, Border Patrol encounters with Haitians rose from 7,590 in August to a startling 17,639 in September. The final month also saw big increases in migrants from other countries as well, including Venezuelans (71%), Romanians (49%) and Colombians (44%).

As the government released last year’s record-breaking figures, various Spanish-language news outlets report that the “mother of all caravans” (also known as the “march for liberty, dignity and peace.”) just embarked from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. One news story estimates that more than 4,000 illegal immigrants are in the caravan, which of course, is heading to the U.S. Another Spanish online article, which includes video of the caravan, says the group consists mainly of Haitians and Central Americans. Mexican authorities have reportedly committed to “respecting the rights” of the illegal aliens, allowing them to march through the country on the way to the American border. Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard is quoted in a local news story saying that the government will act with prudence and caution in accordance to human rights laws, though he added that migrants are being fooled because they will not be allowed to enter the U.S.

It appears that the most recent caravan is just the beginning. A few weeks ago Panama’s foreign minister, Erika Mouynes, warned that there are more than 65,000 mostly Haitian illegal aliens ready to head north through Latin America. Since January, more than 86,000 migrants who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border went through Panama, according to Mouynes. “We have been sounding the alarm for months about this,” the Panamanian official said in a Spanish news article published on September 29, adding that the numbers indicate migration will increase.

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INSANITY: Biden Releases ‘National Gender Strategy’

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There’s no end to Democrat madness and their war on G-d.

Biden released a ‘National Gender Strategy,’ and it is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds

By: Conn Carroll,  Washington Examiner, October 26, 2021:

If the Babylon Bee had been asked to write a “National Gender Strategy” to be posted on the White House’s website, it wouldn’t look any different than the document the Biden administration actually released last Friday.

The “fact sheet” contains every buzzword and policy that you would expect to hear from a progressive activist with a degree in gender studies

The four-page document begins by identifying “gender equity” as a “moral and strategic imperative.” Thanks to COVID-19, “we are at an inflection point,” the statement reads, as the pandemic has “magnified the challenges” that women and girls face — “especially women and girls of color.”

Given that the document asserts without any evidence that women of color have been hit hardest by COVID, it isn’t surprising that the document also promises “an intersectional approach” that “considers the barriers and challenges faced by those who experience intersecting and compounding forms of discrimination and bias related to gender, race, and other factors, including sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, and socioeconomic status. This includes addressing discrimination and bias faced by Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American people, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and other people of color.”

To improve “economic security,” the document calls for investments in “care infrastructure,” but nowhere is any real infrastructure ever mentioned.

The document promises to “dismantle the barriers to equal opportunity in education” so that women can “compete on a level playing field.” Never mind that women now make up 60% of all college students and are awarded two out of every three college degrees .

Abortion is, of course, absolutely essential for the “health care” of women, according to the document, which also promises to “defend the constitutional right to safe and legal abortion in the United States, established in Roe v. Wade.”

If there is one document that best encapsulates how out-of-touch the Biden White House is with everyday concerns of voters, this “National Gender Strategy” may be it.

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Harvard Professor of Medicine: ‘Children Should NOT Get COVID-19 Vaccines’

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Martin Kulldorff, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves on scientific advisory committees to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control. Kulldorff said children should not get vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to Harvard University professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff.

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FDA panel votes 17-0 to start giving vaccine to young children

FDA panel member Dr. Eric Rubin called the vaccine “pretty safe” in one article (NBC News) but in a separate interview said “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it” (Twitter).

From Karol Markowicz: Gotta say, not a comforting comment. Doesn’t make me want to run right out and get it for my kids for some reason (Twitter).

Children Shouldn’t Get COVID-19 Vaccines, Harvard Professor Says

By Zachary Stieber and Jan Jekielek, October 26, 2021:

Children should not get vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to Harvard University professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff.

“I don’t think children should be vaccinated for COVID. I’m a huge fan of vaccinating children for measles, for mumps, for polio, for rotavirus, and many other diseases, that’s critical. But COVID is not a huge threat to children,” he said on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. The full episode can be watched on EpochTV.

“They can be infected, just like they can get the common cold, but they’re not a big threat. They don’t die from this, except in very rare circumstances. So if you want to talk about protecting children or keeping children safe, I think we can talk about traffic accidents, for example, which they are really at some risk.

“And there are other things that we should make sure [of] to keep children safe. But COVID is not a big risk factor for children.”

Vaccinating older people and people of all ages with compromised immune systems against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, has drawn support from most medical experts. But vaccinating healthy young people, particularly children, has triggered more opposition, in part because of how little risk COVID-19 poses to them.

Children are more likely to contract serious disease or die from the annual influenza, or the flu, than COVID-19, according to data and studies that Kulldorff has reviewed. Just 195 children under the age of 4 and 442 between 5 and 18 have died from COVID-19 in the United States as of Oct. 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children are 15 times less likely to be hospitalized with the disease than individuals who are 85 or older, and 570 times less likely to die, the agency says.

“One example is from Sweden, during the first wave in the spring of 2020, which affected Sweden quite strongly,” Kulldorff said. “But Sweden decided to keep daycare and schools open for all children ages 1 to 15. And there are 1.8 million such children who got through the first wave without vaccines, of course, without masks, without any sort of distancing in schools.

“If a child was sick, they were told to stay home. But that was basically it. And you know how many of those 1.8 million children died from COVID? Zero. Only a few hospitalizations. So this is not a risky disease for children.”

When weighing whether to vaccinate children, the risk of vaccine side effects must also be taken into account, Kulldorff said. The main risk to young people seen so far is heart inflammation, which has occurred post-vaccination at much higher than expected rates. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a warning label to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines over the summer about myocarditis and pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation.

“If you’re 78 years old, then it’s the no-brainer, in my view, because the benefits are so great that even if you have a small risk for some adverse reaction, the benefit far outweighs the risk,” Kulldorff said. “On the other hand, if you have already have immunity from having had COVID, then the benefits of the vaccines are much, much smaller. If you’re a child, even if you haven’t had COVID, the risk of serious disease or death is minuscule … So it’s not at all clear that the benefits outweigh the risks for children.”

Kulldorff was speaking ahead of an FDA advisory panel meeting. Members on Oct. 26 decided to advise drug regulators to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children between 5 and 11. They said the benefits of vaccinating the age group, such as the predicted decrease in hospitalizations, outweighed the risks, including estimated incidence of myocarditis.

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Vax Hysteria: CDC Dirty in 1976 – Worse Today.

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45 years ago, the federal government, lead by the CDC, used fear to coerce millions of Americans into getting a “vaccine” for the Swine Flu. The shot killed more than the flu. Sound familiar?

Today, it’s the same thing, only this time the folks in government are raking-in huge profits (Pfizer) along with the pharmaceuticals. Ivermectin works both as a prophylactic and as a treatment with a very high success rate. This virus has a 99% survival rate, thus none of the “vaccine” hysteria makes any sense to a rational person, unless it’s about the money and power (or power and money).

Graham Ledger speaks with Del Bigtree, founder of the non-profit Informed Consent Action Network, about why patriotic Americans must fight back against government forcing Americans to get a shot as part of the largest, most dangerous human trial in world history.

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California Unemployment Claims Account For Over ONE THIRD of Nation’s Total

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California unemployment claims account for over ONE THIRD of nation’s total.

And they voted to keep their oppressors in power.

No pity.

As NYC Mayor Ed Koch once said, ” “The People have spoken … and they must be punished.”

California unemployment claims are one-third of nation’s total while Texas cranks up its job creation

California’s unemployment rate stands at 7.5%, as businesses continue fleeing the high-tax state

By Andrew Mark Miller, : FOX Business, October 24, 2021:

The state of California released a jobs report Friday showing the highest unemployment rate in the nation. California alone represents one-third of the overall unemployed in the nation.

The California Employment Development Department September jobs report showed that the state gained 47,400 jobs since August but holds an unemployment rate of 7.5% which ties Nevada for the highest in the United States.

Additionally, unemployment claims rose to 80,700 last week which amounted to one-third of the total claims in the country.

The state’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom painted an optimistic picture of the report blaming the coronavirus pandemic for the slow growth but claiming that the state is “averaging record job creation.”

“Our economic recovery continues to make promising progress, with 812,000 new jobs this year and regaining over 63 percent of those jobs we lost to the pandemic,” Newsom said in a release. “As we continue averaging record job creation, our work is more important than ever to get more Californians back on the job and support those hardest hit by the pandemic.”

“Within the past eight months, California has created 812,000 new jobs, more than any other state,” Newsom added. “That averages out to approximately 101,500 per month.”

In June, and many times since then, Newsom has claimed that California is “roaring back” under his leadership but economic indicators, including the recent jobs report, have suggested that the comeback is moving slowly.

Since the beginning of 2018, California has seen 265 companies relocate their headquarters outside of the state – 74 of which left in the first six months of 2021, according to a new analysis published by the Hoover Institution, a right-leaning think tank at Stanford University. By comparison, 62 businesses moved outside of the state in 2020, while 78 relocated in 2019. In 2018, 58 companies exited the state.

The migration is taking place across a broad range of industries, such as manufacturing, aerospace, financial services, real estate, chemicals, health care and technology. The headquarter exits include Big Tech legacy firms such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprises and Oracle, but also smaller, rapidly growing firms like Darvis, which helps digitize hospital logistics, hygiene and documentation.

The biggest reason that companies are relocating outside of the state is finances: California is “too expensive, too regulated and too heavily taxed, both for companies and for the workers they hire.”

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That’s evidenced in part by the new destinations for the departing companies: States with lower costs, fewer regulations, lower taxes and a higher quality of life for workers are the leading choices for the businesses. Since the beginning of 2018, Texas has seen 114 companies formerly based in California relocate to the state.

According to Gov. Greg Abbott (R), meanwhile, Texas led job creation across the United States in September. According to Abbott, Texas had nearly twice the number of new jobs than California in September.

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