Protecting the Elderly from Scams Through Mental Health Awareness

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Mental health is a critical aspect of overall well-being, particularly in the elderly population. As people age, they often face challenges such as cognitive decline, isolation, and changes in social dynamics. These factors make older people more vulnerable to mental health issues, which, in turn, can increase their susceptibility to scams. Understanding the connection between mental health and scam vulnerability is essential for protecting our elderly loved ones.

The Importance of Mental Health in Scam Prevention

Mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and dementia are prevalent among the elderly and can significantly impact their decision-making abilities. Depression and anxiety can lead to feelings of hopelessness or fear, making individuals more likely to respond to scams that offer a false sense of security or companionship. Dementia, conversely, impairs memory and judgment, making it difficult for individuals to recognize fraudulent activities.

Mental health professionals play a crucial role in identifying and addressing these issues. Regular mental health assessments can help detect early signs of cognitive decline or emotional distress, allowing for timely intervention. Improving mental health can enhance older adults’ ability to recognize and resist scams.

Common Scams Targeting the Older People

Scammers often target older people due to their perceived vulnerability. Some common scams include:

  • Phishing Emails: Scammers send fraudulent emails that appear to be from legitimate organizations, tricking older people into revealing personal information or clicking on malicious links.
  • Grandparent Scams: A scammer poses as a distressed grandchild, requesting money for an emergency. Driven by fear and concern, older adults may quickly send money without verifying the situation.
  • Romance Scams: Scammers establish fake romantic relationships with lonely elderly individuals, eventually manipulating them into sending money.
  • Telemarketing Fraud: Scammers use high-pressure sales tactics over the phone to convince elderly individuals to purchase unnecessary products or donate to fake charities.
  • Investment Scams: Promising high returns with little risk, these scams exploit older people’s desire to secure their financial future, leading them to invest in fraudulent schemes.

These scams exploit older adults’ vulnerabilities, such as loneliness, fear, and cognitive decline, making it vital to raise awareness and provide protection.

Signs of Mental Health Decline and Scam Vulnerability

Recognizing early signs of mental health decline can help in identifying elderly individuals at risk of falling victim to scams. Some warning signs include:

  • Changes in Behavior or Personality: Sudden mood swings, irritability, or confusion may indicate mental health issues.
  • Difficulty Remembering Things: Frequent memory lapses, particularly concerning finances or personal details, can be red flags.
  • Social Withdrawal: Isolation from family and friends may make the elderly more susceptible to scams, as they lack the support network to discuss suspicious activities.
  • Increased Anxiety or Depression: Heightened feelings of anxiety or depression can cloud judgment and increase vulnerability to scams that prey on emotions.
  • Unusual Spending Patterns: Sudden, unexplained transactions or investments may indicate that the older adult is being scammed.

These signs should prompt caregivers and loved ones to safeguard older people from scams proactively.

Strategies for Protecting the Elderly from Scams

Protecting older adults from scams requires a multifaceted approach that includes education, support, and vigilance. Here are some practical strategies:

  • Educate Them About Common Scams: Regularly inform older people about the latest scams and how to identify them. This can be done through community programs, family discussions, or educational materials.
  • Encourage Caution with Personal Information: Remind older people to be wary of sharing personal or financial information, especially over the phone or online.
  • Help Develop a Support Network: Encourage older people to stay connected with friends, family, and community groups. A strong support network can provide advice and a second opinion on suspicious activities.
  • Seek Professional Help for Mental Health Concerns: If there are signs of mental health decline, consult with a mental health professional for assessment and treatment.
  • Monitor Financial Transactions: Regularly review financial statements for unusual transactions or patterns. This can help catch scams early and prevent further losses.

Open communication and trust between caregivers and older adults are vital to implementing these strategies effectively.

The Role of Mental Health Professionals and Attorneys

Mental health professionals and attorneys play crucial roles in protecting the elderly from scams. Mental health professionals can assess and address mental health concerns, improving the elderly’s ability to make sound decisions.

Attorneys can help safeguard older people’s assets by reviewing financial documents, providing legal advice, and, if necessary, filing for guardianship or conservatorship. This legal oversight can prevent scammers from exploiting older adults’ financial resources.

Protecting the elderly from scams is a collective responsibility that requires awareness, proactive measures, and support. Mental health awareness is vital to this effort, as it directly influences older people’s vulnerability to scams. By staying vigilant, educating our loved ones, and seeking professional help, we can safeguard older people from the growing threat of scams.

©2024. Amil Imani. All rights reserved.

VIDEO: On the ‘Weaponization of U.S. Healthcare System’ from FDR to Today by Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser

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“Since there is no government interference in Veterinary Care, dogs have better access to care and more privacy than Americans do, and a veterinarian is paid more than a neurosurgeon would be paid by Medicaid and Medicare for doing the same operation.” — Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D.

This is an amazing interview of a doctor speaking truth to power. Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. talks about how the government’s power over we the people has dramatically changed from the time of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to President Barack Hussein Obama and now under the regime of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and Kamala Harris.

It is a fascinating discussion of how the doctor/patient relationship has been fundamentally transformed into a system that is controlled by government bureaucrats in the the Department of Health and Human Services.

This Hippocratic Oath has been replaced by the Hypocrite Oath. How doctors are controlled by big government, big pharma and big regulation of everything healthcare related.

The U.S. Constitution’s promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and been replace with death, drug dependency and sorrow.

WATCH THE FULL: Interview with Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser on Dissent Television

ABOUT DR. TAMZIN ROSENWASSER

Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser was born in, and grew up in, Washington, D.C. She was on her own at life by age 15. She earned an academic scholarship to New College in Sarasota, Florida.

After graduating, Tamzin moved to St Louis, Missouri to work in a research laboratory, and then sent herself to medical school. Tamzin graduated from Washington University School of Medicine, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Dermatology.

Dr. Rosenwasser is a life-long dog-lover.

©2024. Dissent Television Channel and host . All rights reserved.

A Short History of American Medicine, 1955 –

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In one of Mark Twain’s masterpieces, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher wandered deeper and deeper into a cavern, and got lost. It is much easier to penetrate deeply into such a labyrinth than it is to find the way out. Such appears to me to be the history of the plight of modern American medicine from about 1955 on.

By1955 wewere10yearspost-war,emerging from what seem now to be primitive medical practices. I would venture to say that most of what we know in science and medicine we have learned in the last 65 years or so. Our nation entered a long period of relative prosperity, and we far surpassed there’s to the world in medical and scientific research and practice.

But just as a stupid idea to enter a cavern with only a few candles can lead to disaster, so can a stupid or immoral idea in politics. Once we realize we are stuck in a figurative labyrinth, we are so lost that we do not even identify the decision(s) that led to it.

When “leaders” in prewar/wartime Germany came up with ideas for which they needed scientists, they used the scientists’ expertise to help them to destroy their nation, and to stain its name. The scientists became like zombies, acting in their own bodies, but controlled by outside, evil forces. The scientists abdicated their human responsibilities to these false leaders, and were complicit in their crimes.

Meanwhile in America, a disastrous immoral idea took hold. It shunted our founding principle aside in a malignantly insidious fashion. Our law contains no “duty to rescue” for a very good reason—it could and would totally drain citizens. If you see someone in need, and have something to give, you are perfectly free to give all you wish—but it is your decision, not a duty.

Until Franklin Delano Roosevelt, no American president dared to lay a claim on one citizen for some other favored citizen. A coup d’etat took place in the 1930s when the Constitution was traduced. Instead of the single category, “American citizen,” citizens were de facto divided into officially favored and disfavored groups. Some citizens were statutorily burdened with the duty to rescue others, not necessarily from disaster, but from responsibility for their own lives.

The Entitlement Labyrinth

Lyndon Baines Johnson went further down this path in 1965, when he bestowed Medicare/Medicaid on favored groups, thus relieving old people and poorer people from responsibility for their decisions about education, work, and health. Politicians who “give” things to citizen groups give other people’s things, not their own. With other people’s labor, and other people’s money, they give favors in exchange for votes. We live in a transfer society now, where government forcibly transfers some citizens’ property and the fruit of their labors to other people. Those other people are not necessarily even in need. Many of them are quite well off. To help the fleeced citizens accept this, politicians excite envy among groups.

Many of the politicians who currently practice the politics of envy are millionaires, but they engage in vilifying others who have done useful work, who created jobs and wealth, not to mention useful products and services, and who freely bestowed voluntary charity on others The politicians who do this may be trying to deflect envy, which they may fear might be directed toward themselves, onto the producers in the nation, such as . “corporations” and “doctors.”

When LBJ decided to make political hay by pretending to “save” the groups now called “seniors” and “the poor,” his chosen method enlisted physicians. Despite early resistance, due to recognition of the destruction socialized medicine would cause, physicians were nevertheless eventually seduced, just as scientists had been by other regimes. By the time many of us currently practicing medicine came of age, Medicare and Medicaid were firmly entrenched, and we were enrolled into them, barely knowing they existed, while we were in medical school.

The original Medicare/Medicaid legislation provided that there would never be interference in the practice of medicine. We were reassured that the programs would never cost more than $9billion a year, maximum. So much for predicting the future: the cost was up to $406billion in 2006. The sage, widely respected luminaries who came up with the $9 billion figure do not seem to have been acquainted with human nature.

In this process, true charity was greatly diminished. Why give to the needy when your labor and money are already being confiscated by government, which pretends to “take care of” so many needs and problems?

Wolf Crying

An interlocking chain of events ensued. As patients realized they could get medical care that was free to them, or almost free, they stepped up their use of the emergency room(ER), they went to physicians’ offices for ever slighter reasons, and they did such things as having their joints replaced not just to keep walking, but to keep playing tennis. All fine, except that the people burdened with the bills for their care might want time and money to play tennis and lead their own lives, with the money that they earned. It wasn’t just the spending. Once, if a person presented at the ER with, say, a headache, we could presume that there was a real problem: a headache out of the ordinary. No more. Since it costs many people little or nothing to come to the ER, they come in for the slightest of reasons. Maybe they could have taken some aspirin. But

maybe in the ER they can get Tylenol with codeine, which has a resale value, or maybe the headache is connected with family problems, and they can score some points against the other side by taking on the sick role.

Maybe they have just learned to be dependent. Maybe they don’t feel as important if they treat the headache themselves as they do if they “have to” go to the ER for it. So we are now faced with an influx of the mildly indisposed, “just wanted to be sure” people drowning out the truly sick, making decision-making much more complicated for the physician. There is a limit to how many people can get head CTs and MRIs. Also gone unremarked is the likelihood that physicians are not immune to the mindset induced by people crying “Wolf!” After a certain number of false-alarm headaches, the physician may be more likely to overlook, for example, a leaking berry aneurysm.

False Turns

Physicians, whose motto has been “First, do no harm,” at first resisted government interference in medicine, but eventually they saw no harm in making taxpayers pay the bills for the medical care their patients received. Naturally, the bills mounted.

As things got out of hand, the politicians got scared. Most of them are too cowardly to face reality. Instead of forthrightly stating that the Medicare/Medicaid system was out of control because there is no brake whatsoever on the medical desires of the population segments the system favors, they attacked the physicians and hospitals.

There was no appreciation of how much worse they could make the problem of giving people total personal discretion in spending their fellow taxpayers’ money by distorting medical care with perverse incentives.

The diagnosis-related group (DRG) system was imposed sometime in the 1980s to pay hospitals a flat rate per diagnosis, regardless of the actual cost of the care of the patient. It provided incentives to make hospital care more efficient—or at least speedier. Discharge planning became more important, with a kind of game to figure out the best (most remunerative) way of stating the diagnosis, and the quickest discharge, ready or not.

As John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis has pointed out, there is a tuning fork-shaped graph that results from tracking all the fixes government has tried. Without radical surgery on the entitlement system that bestows favors on some at the expense of others, tinkering with it can reset the point on the graph showing what our present spending is, but it has no effect on the growth rate.

When DRGs did not work, a big “waste, fraud and abuse” hunt was launched, with Medicare patients told their physicians might be committing fraud, and to look over their “Medicare Beneficiary Notices.”

In order to recover some money, the government now employs “bounty hunters”—people who get part of the loot when they “find” overcharges. Unlike defense contractors, physicians have no big money sluice for sliding cash to politicians, so we mean nothing to them.

With the burdens mounting, and fewer willing to carry them, politicians have decided—again without clearly stating their aims—that we need a huge influx of foreigners to shoulder the burden. And to meet the demand for taxpayer-funded medical services, physicians began using “physician extenders” (sounds like “hamburger helper,” doesn’t it?). Nurse practitioners, a new category, got into the act, supposedly to take care of the less sick, the worried well, the slightly indisposed. Of course, sometimes things did not work out that way. Sometimes the truly sick ended up with a nurse practitioner unable to handle the problem.

An explosion of “initiatives” has been designed to corral people, force vaccinations on their children, monitor their prescriptions, visit their babies at home, and have them beg for permission to take drugs that the government does not approve of.

Instead of studying diseases and therapeutics, physicians waste time learning “correct coding.” Not for their patients, but for the bureaucrats. Some physicians have retired early. Others have fled to an area not “covered”—especially cosmetic surgery—where there is freedom, but which removes them from the heavy lifting in medical care. Some just game the system, meeting absurdity with dishonesty. Some over-treat the patients paid for by government in order to make more money. Now that there is such an outcry about spiraling costs, some under-treat patients, because government has made it a money-losing proposition to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients, by paying less and less for that care.

Very few people saw where this path was leading, as they voted for politicians who promised to give them money taken from their fellow citizens. It supposedly represents some kind of pact between the generations, except that members of the younger generation never gave their permission. But now the giant Ponzi scheme is unraveling, and the nation is going bankrupt.

There’s no guarantee at all that the U.S. will not end up like a Third-World nation. As long as we do not recognize that medical care is not, and never can be, free of charge, people will continue to respond to perverse incentives, and never recognize that third-party control is the whole problem with our medical care. Things can get a lot worse than they are now. To some, the house of medicine may look fine, but it is like a house riddled with termites.

Away Out

But there is good news. We could fix things overnight, by seceding, dropping out of the system. Tom and Becky survived being lost in the cave because they saw a gleam of light, and found a way out. We can do the same. No need to retrace our steps in this Byzantine labyrinth of “compliance” and control. At some point, Medicare and Medicaid will implode, just as the U.S.S.R. did. When it happens, people will still need medical care.

In the meantime, every physician should think about a fallback plan for an alternate livelihood. We should be ready to be independent. We can grow food, modify a house for passive solar heat, install windmills, save money, invest in some other thing to learn or do to support ourselves, and take care of our patients without Big Brother in the room with us.

This column originally appeared in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 13 Number 2

©2024. Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, M.D. All rights reserved.

Over 9 Deaths Linked to Deadly Boar’s Head Deli Meat — Company Prioritized Hiring Refugees Over Sanitation & HAACP Training

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“Boar’s Head is part of the Tent Coalition for Refugees in the U.S., exploring hiring, training, and mentoring opportunities for refugees”

“Inspectors turned up dozens of violations at a Boar’s Head plant in Virginia now linked to a nationwide recall of deli meats”

The is a result of uncleanliness and problems. For what they charge, it should be spotless.

Inspectors found mold, mildew, and insects repeatedly infesting the site, raising alarms about the facility’s safety standards.

New Yorker among 9 deaths linked to Boar’s Head deli meat listeria outbreak

By Emily Crane, NY Post, Aug. 29, 2024, 7:27 a.m. ET

A New Yorker is among the nine people who have died as a result of the nationwide listeria outbreak tied to Boar’s Head deli meats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed.

The updated food poisoning death toll was released by federal health officials Wednesday in what has become the largest listeria outbreak in the US since 2011.

At least 57 people have been hospitalized so far in connection to the outbreak, the CDC added.

No details were released on the identity of the New Yorker who died, or where they lived.

The other most recent deaths were reported in South Carolina, Florida, New Mexico and Tennessee. Three deaths were previously confirmed in people who lived in Illinois, New Jersey and Virginia, according to the CDC.

Meanwhile, a total of 17 listeria cases are being investigated across the Empire State — including eight in New York City alone, according to the state’s health department.

The other New Yorkers sickened by the outbreak are located in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island and the upstate counties of Dutchess, Cayuga, Greene, Onondaga and Oswego.

“All infected individuals that we currently have information on have been hospitalized,” the Health Department said in a statement. “One fatality has been reported in New York. To protect the family’s privacy, we cannot disclose further information.”

It comes after Boar’s Head — a 119-year-old family-run business headquartered in Sarasota, Florida — recalled 7 million pounds of deli meats last month as reported illnesses started to spike.

The problem was first discovered when a Boar’s Head liverwurst sample collected by health officials in Maryland tested positive for listeria and further testing showed the type of bacteria was the same strain causing illnesses in people.

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Symptoms of listeriosis, which include fever, chills and headache, can take up to 10 weeks to manifest in some individuals.

The infections caused by listeria are particularly dangerous for older people, those who are pregnant or those with weakened immune systems.

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Exposing the transgender money machine

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Transgender advocacy is welded into Kamala Harris’s campaign for US President. Her choice of Tim Walz was interpreted as a strong signal to the LGBTQI+ movement, partly because he made Minnesota a “refuge” for trans people.

The participants in a Zoom call convoked by Trans Folks for Harris recently were confident that she would support them.

“We have so much power,” said activist Charlotte Clymer. “We have way more power than they think, that’s for damn sure. And when we use that power, when we organize together and have each other’s backs, we can do great things.”

If trans folks do have power, part of it is surely due to the poorly appreciated fact that trans medicine is a big, powerful, and growing industry worth billions of dollars. So it’s not just the minuscule number of trans people who are involved, but a myriad of investors, corporations, doctors, nurses, and support staff as well.

A trans entrepreneur told Forbes magazine in 2020 that the potential market is immense. “Trans-tech is a budding industry with an enormous opportunity,” said Robbi Katherine Anthony. “Our estimates place the average cost of transition at $150,000 per person. Multiply that by an estimated population of 1.4 million transgender people, we’re taking about a market in excess of US$200 billion. That is significant. That’s larger than the entire film industry.”

This is just pie-in-the sky hype aimed at attracting venture capitalists. But the trans medicine industry is huge.

Last month the American Principles Project published an eye-opening study of the facts and figures for trans medicine, “The Gender Industrial Complex”. It had commissioned a market research company, Grand View Research, to estimate the cost of the drugs and surgical procedures involved in transitioning, the estimated current and future revenue growth of the market, and the most significant players.

After reading the report, it’s hard not to conclude that “the gender industrial complex” is a factory of cruelty and misanthropy. “The prevention, delay, or whatever pharmacological and especially surgical disruption of the process we call puberty is a crime against humanity. It’s horrible what we do to kids,” one surgeon who used to work in trans medicine told the authors of the report. “The surgeries, the revisions, and all that stuff—it’s big business.”

Some of the findings of “The Gender Industrial Complex” include:

  • While the total cost of transitioning varies widely by individual, lifelong use of cross-sex hormones could cost up to $300,000 or more per person, while a full surgical transition could cost more than $150,000.
  • The potential health effects of undergoing transition are numerous, including increased risk of cancer, nerve damage, chronic pain, sexual dysfunction, mental health issues, and the need for additional surgeries.
  • A number of transgender surgery providers, including Cedars Sinai, the Regents of the University of Michigan, the Mount Sinai Health System, and several others, were each estimated to bring in over $100 million in revenue in 2022 from these practices.
  • Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and AbbVie lead the way in hormone production, with 2022 revenues of $74 million and $51 million, respectively, from those products.
  • Total revenues for transgender drugs and surgeries in 2023 were estimated to surpass $4.4 billion. And by 2030, the market is expected to grow beyond $7.8 billion.

The APP points out that these projections could be very conservative. In 2020 an LGBT think tank, the Williams Institute, estimated that there were about 300,000 minors who identified as transgender. If that is correct, the market for paediatric transitions alone could be as high as $37 billion.

Transgender transitioning is not just a matter of a few visits to a doctor and a few injections. It’s a lifelong commitment to regular medication and a long series of surgical procedures.

The report estimates that a male transitioning to a female will have to spend between $87,300 and $410,600 over a lifetime, assuming that he is on puberty blockers for five years and on feminising hormones for 60 years. The surgical component includes:

  • $20,000 to 50,000 for facial feminisation surgery
  • $6,000 to $12,000 for breast implants
  • $10,000 to $40,000 to create an artificial vagina
  • $5,000 to $8,000 to remove testicles
  • $5,000 to $9,000 for voice feminisation surgery
  • $3,500 to $7,000 for shaving the Adam’s apple

For a female transitioning to a male, the lifetime cost ranges from $66,500 to $605,500. The surgical component includes:

  • $15,000 to $50,000 for a double mastectomy
  • $9,500 to $22,500 for a hysterectomy
  • $20,000 to $150,000 to create an artificial penis
  • $6,000 to $10,000 for chest masculinisation surgery
  • $4,000 to $6,000 to create an artificial scrotum

These operations are not like removing a wart or whipping out an appendix. They are complex procedures which often have painful complications – which involve more visits to the surgeon.

And trans folks are forking out these enormous sums to deal with their gender dysphoria, a psychological condition which probably cannot be solved with hormones and surgery anyway.

Let Dr Shayne Taylor, of the Vanderbilt Clinic for Transgender Health, have the last word.

A whistleblower filmed a presentation that she gave in 2018. She declared that that “gender-affirming care” is “a big money maker.” “A patient just on routine hormone treatment, who we’re only seeing a few times a year, can bring in several thousand dollars because it requires lots of visits and labs that actually makes money for the hospital,” she said.

Transgender medicine turns the Hippocratic Oath upside down. Its first principle is not “do no harm” but “do make a profit”.

Is transgender medicine really that big a deal? Tell us what you think in the comments.    

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Michael Cook is editor of Mercator

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Revised 2024 Democratic Platform More Extreme than the Draft

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The final version of the Democratic Party’s 2024 Platform has added references calling transgender procedures “medically necessary,” claiming that Christian schools may further “discrimination,” shifting blame on the U.S. border to the previous administration, and promising American children a more “multilingual” education. The platform maintains its promises to keep “fighting” parents’ efforts to keep pornographic books out of children’s hands, expanding abortion nationwide, and promoting transgender procedures for children and prisoners.

Delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Committee in Chicago adopted the revised platform last week inside Chicago’s United Center. The final version contains minor modifications from the draft platform, which was released on July 13 and obtained by Politico. At that time, Joe Biden remained the presumptive Democratic Party presidential candidate.

Curiously, the 2024 Democratic Party Platform did not update that previous version’s references to the nominee’s name: It contains 20 references to 2024 being an election for Joe Biden’s “second term.” For example, the 2024 platform states, “In his second term, President Biden will continue to support access to FDA-approved medication abortion” and “stand with Ukraine.” It contains less than 10 references to Kamala Harris in an individual capacity, rather than conjoined with Joe Biden or as part of the “Biden-Harris administration.”

Yet the alterations made between the two drafts indicate a Democratic Party moving ever further to the Left. The revised platform added a brand new promise — not to average citizens but to the transgender industry: “Democrats will vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care and respect the role of parents, families, and doctors — not politicians — in making health care decisions.”

Yet Minnesota Governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (D) signed a bill disrespecting the role of parents in their children’s health care by allowing children whose parents will not allow them to undergo transgender procedures to flee to Minnesota, a “sanctuary” where the state will reassign custody until the child has undergone a transition against his/her parents’ wishes. Walz also signed a bill outlawing so-called “conversion therapy,’ even if parents and children want it.” The 2024 Democratic Party Platform doubles down on transgender procedures, adding that Biden “protected transgender Americans’ access to health care and coverage, including medically necessary gender-affirming care” (emphasis added).

The platform also strengthened promises to come after individuals accused of holding the wrong positions on hot-button issues. The revised platform changed its promise of “protecting LGBTQI+ children from bullying and assault” to stopping anti-LGBTQI+ “bullying and discrimination” (emphasis added). The platform still mentions the party’s intent to prosecute “hate crimes,” noting, “The Justice Department is taking an all-of-department approach to protecting LGBTQI+ rights.”

That promise may be directed at Christian schools, which may lose federal funding for holding to biblical morality under the vague language of the 2024 Democratic Party Platform. A new section added to the platform states: “We oppose the use of private-school vouchers, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships, and other schemes that divert taxpayer-funded resources away from public education. Public tax dollars should never be used to discriminate” (emphasis added). Teachers’ unions and LGBTQ pressure groups have accused Christian schools of “discrimination,” because they do not allow teachers who flout biblical morality to set that example for their students, or because they do not allow GSA Networks clubs like the one Tim Walz founded in his high school, which promotes transgender transitions without parental notification. Traditional Christianity teaches that one’s biological sex is unalterable, a gift from God, and should be treasured, as well as opposing all sexual activity outside biblical marriage.

The revised platform also deals with language, promising a greater cacophony inside public schools: “[W]e’re working to provide every student with a pathway to multilingual education, while ensuring equitable access to a high-quality education for English learners, who’ve historically been underserved.”

The revised platform pledges to tax U.S. citizens and their communities to facilitate giving U.S. citizenship to non-citizen immigrants. A new sentence states the Harris administration “will also help to fund community-based organizations that host clinics to assist with immigration cases.”

Seemingly, the revised platform added references to the LGBTQIA+ movement wherever possible. The revised platform adds that, not only did President Joe Biden pardon gay veterans, but he “pardoned approximately 2,000 gay,lesbian, and bisexual veterans who were convicted years ago just for being themselves” (emphasis added). Again, “President Biden … expanded funding for campus sexual assault prevention and is keeping students safe on campus by restoring and strengthening protections under Title IX, including explicit protections for LGBTQI+ students” (emphasis added). At other times, it worsens the reputation of those who disagree. It notes that Biden and Harris “reversed Trump’s un-American ban on transgender service members and ended the disgraceful and discriminatory ban on blood donation by gay and bisexual men” (emphasis added). It also replaced the term “gay” with the ever-more expansive “LGBTQI+.”

The platform still contains its promise to expand taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand nationwide: “With a Democratic Congress, we will pass national legislation to make Roe [v. Wade] the law of the land again. … We will repeal the Hyde Amendment. And in his second term, President Biden will continue to support access to FDA-approved medication abortion, appoint leaders at the FDA who respect science and appoint judges who uphold fundamental freedoms.”

A second abortion-related plank invokes the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, a relic of the 1970s feminist movement led by Gloria Steinem. “Democrats will fight to make the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land,” although the never-ratified ERA has been interpreted to codify both a constitutional right to abortion and women’s eligibility for the military draft.

At times, the revision nods toward reality. It edits a sentence saying “the cost of living can still feel too high” to say the cost of living “is too high.”

The revision specifies that national rent control is coming in a Harris-Walz administration. A new sentence states that their housing policy “offers corporate landlords a basic choice for the next two years: either cap rent increases at 5 percent, or lose a valuable federal tax break.” The new platform added another line on housing policy: “and we will go after negligent landlords who don’t maintain basic habitability standards. We will also crack down on those who violate the Fair Housing Act, and on landlords who discriminate against low-income and minority renters and people with housing vouchers.” The Obama-Biden administration ignored written law and interpreted the Fair Housing Act as though it applied to people who identify as transgender. If you are renting out a room in your home but do not want your children sharing a bathroom with a trans-identifying male, you could become the target of a federal lawsuit.

A new section also alleges that former President Donald Trump “and his allies benefit directly from the housing shortage.”

The language does soften some of its anti-Trump rhetoric in light of the July 13 assassination attempt. Rather than saying, “Trump is a greater danger to democracy than ever,” the revised platform states, “Trump refuses to defend core tenets of our democracy: the Constitution, the rule of law, our system of checks and balances.” In two other instances, the platform changes some variant of the word “threat” to softer language (e.g., “The stakes in this election for the soul of our nation are profound.”). It also deletes a sentence stating Trump “has never respected service because he does not understand sacrifice.”

Yet it seeks to blame Trump and others for an historic influx of illegal immigrants over the last four years, and away from the Biden-Harris administration, discussing “a broke immigration system decades in the making” (emphasis added).

The revised platform contains the pledges made in the previous draft, as well, to continue “fighting” alleged “book bans.”

Since delegates did not revise the nominee’s name — or pronouns — the platform gives an insight into what a Joe Biden reelection campaign might have looked like. Until her rebranding as the candidate of “joy,” Kamala Harris was seen as the weaker link on the ticket, with major publications calling on her to drop out so Biden could choose a stronger running mate in articles with titles such as “The Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris,” in New York Magazine last September, or “For the country’s sake, Vice President Harris should step aside” in The Washington Post this March.

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee adopted a slimmed-down document containing only a handful of campaign promises that resonated with Donald Trump’s campaign. Notably, the 2024 Republican Party Platform jettisoned its traditional language vowing to protect life from the moment of conception until natural death. Over the weekend, vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance indicated that President Donald Trump opposed any federal legislation to protect life, leaving the matter entirely to the states.

That is, however, significantly less pro-abortion than the 2024 Democratic Party Platform.

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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The abortion of truth at the Democratic National Convention

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When the topic of abortion came up at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, truth got dismembered.

How so? By lots of talk about justifying abortion as “reproductive freedom,” “reproductive rights,” and “reproductive health care.”

Thinking people should, well, think.

Reproductive freedom justifies abortion?

No, it doesn’t.

Reproduction, i.e., the creation of a child (pre-natal human being/person) conceived via sex, occurs before abortion takes place. Reproductive freedom is exercised before abortion takes place.

The late Michael Bauman, Professor of Theology and Culture at Hillsdale College, observes: “When pro-choicers have unforced sex, they are choosing. That is freedom of choice. When they decide to kill the child conceived during that sexual encounter, that is freedom from choice. They chose; now they want to be free from the consequences of that choice, even if someone has to die.”

In other words, justifying abortion via “reproductive freedom” is a ruse.

Note: The hard cases — rape, incest, threat to life of the mother — to which many abortion-choice proponents point as justification for abortion account for fewer than 5 percent of all abortion cases. In his 2015 book The Abortion Wars ethicist Charles Camosy reports that the number for the hard cases is 2 percent. But here (and at the DNC) we’re not talking about the hard cases, so don’t get sidetracked.

Again, to justify abortion — i.e., 95–98 percent of all abortions — via “reproductive freedom” is a ruse.

Reproductive rights justify abortion?

No, they don’t.

Every adult has a right to reproduce. That is, every adult has a right to reproduce via consensual sex if they are biologically capable and, preferably (for the sake of the children), if they are married.

But, again, reproduction occurs before abortion takes place. This means that the exercise of one’s right to reproduce occurs before abortion takes place, too. (If this is unclear, re-read previous point about reproductive freedom.)

So justifying abortion via “reproductive rights” is also a ruse.

Reminder: Along with reproductive rights come reproductive responsibilities. Parents have duties to their children. The first duty is to care for children, not kill them. Other duties include provision of food, clothing, shelter, education — and lots of love.

Reproductive health care justifies abortion?

No, it doesn’t.

Dr Kendra Kolb, a neonatologist, states this: “There is no medical reason why the life of the child must be directly and intentionally ended with an abortion procedure.”

Kolb adds: Yes, treatments for ectopic pregnancies occur, but they’re not abortions per se, if we use language accurately. Yes, treatments for heart disease or cancer can involve pre-term deliveries that might result in the death of a child, but they’re not abortions per se, if we use language accurately. When we accurately define “abortion” as the direct and intentional ending of a pre-natal human being’s life, abortions are not medically necessary.

Abortion, then, is not health care at all, let alone reproductive health care.

So justifying abortion via “reproductive health care” is yet another ruse.

Don’t be fooled

That the premeditated killing of pre-natal human beings via abortion is justified by reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, or reproductive health care is simply not true.

Folks, don’t be fooled by the falsehoods.

What do you think about politicisation of abortion in this year’s American election?   

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Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor (formerly at Providence University College, Manitoba, Canada) and author of the book Untangling Popular Pro-Choice Arguments: Critical Thinking about Abortion.

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The 16 Most Extreme and Exotic Moments of the 2024 Democratic National Convention

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The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) has closed but, like its candidate’s views on the issues, much has not been reported. Here are 16 of the most significant events not covered by the legacy media.

1. Planned Parenthood Carried Out Eight Abortions and Nine Vasectomies at the 2024 DNC

Like official statistics about the jobs created by the Biden-Harris administration, the number of abortions and vasectomies carried out during the 2024 Democratic National Convention has been revised downward.

Pro-life sources on the ground reported that Planned Parenthood carried out 25 abortions in a mobile unit near Chicago’s United Center during the first two days of the DNC, which nominated Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president. Thankfully, abortion officials have subsequently clarified that they dispensed the abortion pill mifepristone to fewer than half that many mothers.

“The 25 you refer to was the approximate number of available patient slots,” the Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, based in St. Louis, told The Washington Times via email Wednesday. “We served [sic] 9 vasectomy and 8 medication [chemical] abortion patients between the two days.” The organization claims it did not commit any surgical abortions on site.

Of course, that’s nine more abortions than took place in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the Constitution Party convention in Salt Lake City, and the Libertarian Party convention in Washington, D.C., combined.

The 2024 DNC became so abortion-focused that Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) wondered at one point, “Will any abortions be performed on stage?”

2. A U.S. Senator Praised a Riot that Tried to Burn Policemen Alive

Vice President Kamala Harris has attempted to distance herself from her administration’s record by ignoring the last three years (except scattered discussion of her appointees’ sex or ethnicity) and focusing her campaign almost exclusively on her time as California Attorney General — a position she left nearly eight years ago. In her acceptance speech, she asserted (inaccurately) that voters should reject Donald Trump, because he “sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol, where they assaulted law enforcement officers.”

Yet speakers at her own convention praised a crowd that assaulted police and attempted to burn them alive.

“I believe in America, because our fighters fought at Stonewall,” said Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Wednesday night. He was referring to the Stonewall riots, often considered the birthplace of the so-called Gay Liberation movement (which actually originated in Bethlehem, Pa.). On June 29, 1969, the Stonewall Inn became the site of anti-police violence as thousands of LGBT rioters attempted to burn the seedy, Mafia-run bar to the ground … with six New York City police officers inside. “I wanted to kill those cops,” said rioter John O’Brien.” Then-President Barack Obama, who spoke at the DNC Tuesday night, named the Stonewall Inn a national monument in 2016.

It seems only fitting the party of the 2020 BLM/Antifa riots salutes the Woke anti-police rioters of old, as well.

Speaking of incitement …

3. Al Sharpton Accused Former President Donald Trump of Racial Incitement

Few people embody racial incitement as fully as Al Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network (NAN). His accusation that President Donald Trump fans “racial flames” must qualify as one of the greatest acts of projection in modern American political history.

Sharpton described Trump as “a fellow New Yorker I’ve known for more than 40 years.” He claimed when Trump took out a full-page ad calling for the execution of whomever brutally raped Central Park jogger Trisha Meili in 1989 that “it was then that I saw Trump love to fan racial flames.”

If Al Sharpton considered Donald Trump a racial arsonist in 1989, he should have told Al Sharpton. Before the last presidential election, Sharpton tweeted a photo of himself and Trump at the 2006 NAN convention holding a pleasant conversation with soul singer James Brown and Jesse Jackson. Trump described Sharpton as “[j]ust a conman at work!”

But it takes more than a con’s shamelessness to accuse others of your sins; as Bill Clinton said at a previous Democratic convention, that “takes a lot of brass.” As this reporter has noted:

“Al Sharpton founded the National Action Network shortly before the racially charged August 1991 Crown Heights riots. Sharpton led crowds in chanting, ‘No justice, no peace’ before rioters claimed the life of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. Sharpton’s ‘vile rhetoric incited the rioting,’ said Rosenbaum’s brother, Norman. A month earlier, Sharpton challenged New York’s Jewish community, ‘If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.’ In 1995, Sharpton would lead months-long demonstrations against Jewish ‘white interlopers’ at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, who raised the rent of a black business owner; ultimately, a protester burned the store and killed eight people, including himself.”

This record has earned Sharpton the revulsion of most decent society, as well as appointments to the Biden-Harris administration’s National Parents and Families Engagement Council and a council allegedly dedicated to keeping churches safe.

Sharpton, who was ordained a minister at age nine before becoming a protégé of James Brown, engaged in aggressive rhetoric later in his 2024 DNC speech, promising, “We are going to join with whites and browns and Asians, and we going [sic] to do a job on those that have done a job on us.”

4. Kamala Harris Is ‘Tough as Nails’ on Border Security

As part of the Projection Party’s extreme makeover, Kamala Harris now presents herself not only as a prosecutor but a border hawk. “For 20 years, Kamala Harris has been tough as nails when it comes to securing our border,” stated Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) without proof. “Kamala on the other hand has been fighting border crime for years,” alleged Sheriff Javier Salazar of Bexar County, Texas (D). “She’s taken on gangs trafficking across the border,” insisted former President Bill Clinton.

In hailing Harris, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) praised the Biden-Harris administration’s latest quasi-amnesty, as the president in June promised to allow half a million illegal immigrants married to legal residents to Parole in Place (PIP). “We don’t have to choose between a secure border and building an America for all,” he said. “As president, she will fight for pathways to citizenship.”

In reality, “Biden-Harris-Mayorkas open border policies have facilitated the escalation of human trafficking for both sex and labor in the United States. Modern-day slavery and ultra-violent gangs,” noted Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies. The Office of Inspector General reported that, as of May, ICE had lost track of “more than 291,000” minors who crossed the border during the Biden-Harris administration. Just as the DNC kicked off, officials uncovered a new sex trafficking program of Venezuelans in the United States.

Yet the worst years for illegal immigration before the current administration transpired during years when a president or presidential candidate promised amnesty to illegal immigrants, in 1986 (1,692,544) and its close second in 2001 (1,676,438). The Biden-Harris administration has presided over three record-breaking years of illegal entries at the U.S. southern border:

  • Fiscal Year 2021 saw a historic 1,734,686 illegal entries at the southern border (not including other means of entry).
  • FY 2022 (2,378,944)
  • FY 2023 (2,475,669)

Border Czar Kamala Harris will go down as “one of the most catastrophic failures in American history,” said Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).

Even some of Harris’s fellow Democrats felt the party had ignored the border. “Clearly, the Democratic Party, my party, is not interested in talking about what matters,” Chicago City Council member Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “How are you going to keep people safe? How are you going to secure the border? And how are you going to deal with the eight million undocumented individuals that they let in on Kamala Harris’s lead?”

5. Planned Parenthood CEO Tells Democrats, ‘We Will Decide This Election’

As part of the Democratic Party’s most abortion-centric election to date, the leaders of the abortion industry addressed the DNC on Wednesday; one of them declared bluntly, “We will decide this election.”

“We trust Kamala Harris!” exclaimed Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson during her address at the DNC on Wednesday. Planned Parenthood believes this is a pivotal election for its survival. “Our future is on the ballot,” she declared. “And come November 5, we will decide this election.”

Planned Parenthood Action enthused at her participation, posting on X, “That’s our President and CEO! ?’? #WeDecide.”

PPAct need not have exulted; the DNC indulged the entire abortion apparatus. Earlier in the day, former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards said abortion makes American women “unstoppable.” EMILY’s List President Jessica Mackler insisted, “In 2022, Democrats didn’t just run on reproductive freedom; we won on reproductive freedom. And in 2024, we are coming back to the polls to finish the job.”

All the abortion leaders agreed Harris was sycophantic on maintaining their murderous source of income. Johnson vouched that Harris “has always and will always” hew to the abortion industry’s party line. “Her record shows it.” EMILY’s List posted on social media. “She’s with us, always.” Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) — whose CEO, Mini Tammaraju, spoke at the DNC, as well — stated, “We can’t wait to vote for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_walz in November.”

Being in favor of a candidate is not enough: Alexis McGill Johnson bashed the 45th president, falsely stating that “Donald Trump wants women to be less free and pregnancy to be more dangerous.”

She seemed concerned about the industry’s survival. “Our future is on the ballot,” said the Planned Parenthood CEO.

6. School Lockdown Advocates Endorse Kamala Harris

Aside from the abortion industry, the Harris-Walz ticket has the full-throated support of the organization responsible for ruining the lives of the second-largest number of children: those responsible for prolonging school lockdowns, the teachers unions. The leaders of the largest two teachers unions, Becky Pringle of the National Education Association (NEA) and Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), addressed the DNC on Thursday.

“Donald Trump and J.D. Vance can’t claim they’re pro-child while gutting funding for public schools. That means that being pro-family means we support access to good union jobs, affordable housing, health care, and higher education,” said Weingarten. Gutting funding for public schools seems less hostile to children than dismemberment abortion, which the Biden-Harris administration has pledged to legalize in all 50 states.

“We are all in” for Harris, declared Weingarten.

7. Dem Rep: We Must March for Abortion for Our Daughters and Granddaughters

Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) told the convention they must preserve abortion for their children. When it comes to “our reproductive freedom,” Meng told the DNC, “our mothers and grandmothers marched for us. Because of them, my husband and I were able to choose if and when to start a family. … Now, it is our turn to take up the torch for our children and grandchildren.” President Donald Trump, she implied, would be bad for the abortion plans they have for their children and grandchildren. “He will not stop at banning abortion. He will let states track pregnancies. He’ll put birth control and fertility treatment at risk,” she said without proof. “Trump’s plan is cruel. It’s dangerous,” she said, giving a limp thumbs-down sign. “But it is not inevitable.”

In fact, it’s not even his plan.

8. Openly Gay Governor Tore a Book Defining Marriage as the Union of One Man and One Woman

The Democratic National Convention repeatedly turned the nation’s focus to Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation document produced for more than four decades, as though it represents the Republican Party’s platform. While no president has ever implemented the policy-dense guidelines, Donald Trump has actively disparaged it.

Not only did one governor discuss the project, but he tore out a page that defines a family as the union of one man and one woman.

“Tonight, let’s talk about freedom, including our most intimate freedom,” which is “choosing if and when to have children,” said Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D), who is openly gay. He held up an oversized prop book of Project 2025. “Page 451 says the only ‘legitimate’ family is a married mother and father where only the father works. You know what, I’m going to take that one out; I’m going to put it in my pocket so I can share it with undecided voters, so they can better understand what’s at stake this election. Project 2025 would turn the entire federal government and bureaucracy into a giant machine. It would weaponize it to control our reproductive and personal choices.”

The actual page from Project 2025 says nothing about “legitimate” families, stating:

Goal #3: Promoting Stable and Flourishing Married Families.

Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under President Biden’s HHS are fraught with agenda items focusing on “LGBTQ+ equity,” subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.

Working fathers are essential to the well-being and development of their children, but the United States is experiencing a crisis of fatherlessness that is ruining our children’s futures. In the overwhelming number of cases, fathers insulate children from physical and sexual abuse, financial difficulty or poverty, incarceration, teen pregnancy, poor educational outcomes, high school failure, and a host of behavioral and psychological problems. By contrast, homes with non-related “boyfriends” present are among the most dangerous place for a child to be. HHS should prioritize married father engagement in its messaging, health, and welfare policies.

In the context of current and emerging reproductive technologies, HHS policies should never place the desires of adults over the right of children to be raised by the biological fathers and mothers who conceive them. In cases involving biological parents who are found by a court to be unfit because of abuse or neglect, the process of adoption should be speedy, certain, and supported generously by HHS.

Another book also defines marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman. Jesus said, “a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh. … What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:1-6).

9. Dem Governor: ‘Democrats Welcome Weird’

The same governor, Jared Polis of Colorado, stated forthrightly, “Democrats welcome weird.” He went on to contrast the Democratic Party’s form of “weird” — which featured transgender delegates and an abortion unit — with “these Project 2025 people like Trump and Vance” who allegedly “aren’t just weird; they’re dangerous.” He referred to Taylor Swift song: “We’re not going back, like ever-ever-ever.”

10. Oprah Calls Kamala’s Marxist Dad ‘Idealistic’

Oprah Winfrey called Harris’s parents “idealistic.” The New Yorker described Harris’s father, Donald J. Harris, as “a renowned Marxist economist” and professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Marxist “idealism” claimed the lives of 100 million people in 100 years — and counting. Americans have gratefully been spared their murderous rampage in this country.

11. Former Republican: Vote for Kamala, because the GOP ‘Is No Longer Conservative’

Despite such a radical convention, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) made a pitch for Republicans to support the Harris-Walz ticket, because “The Republican Party is no longer conservative.” Apparently, he believes conservatives should instead vote for the candidate promising price controls, open borders, abortion until birth, pornographic books in school libraries, and transgender surgeries for children.

Kinzinger’s former colleagues expressed disappointment with his about-face. “I served with Adam Kinzinger in Congress when we voted for the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requiring medical care for babies surviving abortions,” replied former Congressman Mark Walker, who served as a Republican from North Carolina. “How sad to now see Adam speaking at the DNC where abortions are available on the street in the back of a truck.”

12. Dem Raised Possibility of Invalidating Donald Trump’s Election?

Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) of th Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) touted the benefits of giving Democrats control of the House of Representatives. Americans “don’t want tax cuts for the wealthy, not a national abortion ban,” DelBene said. “And yes, a Democratic House means a Speaker Jeffries will certify the 2024 election.”

That dogwhistle hinted Democrats may not certify a Trump victory. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in an online clip that the Supreme Court seemed poised to fail its “very clear duty to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot, under Section three of the 14th Amendment.”

“And what that might mean, if their decision says that it’s really up to Congress, on January 5th – or January 6th, 2025, to disqualify him at the counting of the Electoral College votes,” he said.

13. Democrats Mispronounce ‘Kamala’

Kamala Harris’s grand-nieces taught the crowd how to pronounce the name properly. They could have instructed Al Sharpton, who mispronounced the nominee’s name earlier in the evening. So did President Bill Clinton on Wednesday, as he dubbed her the “president of joy.”

14. The Democratic National Convention Featured the National Anthem as a Performance Piece?

The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks (now “The Chicks”) sang the national anthem — a few hours into the proceedings. Typically, the national anthem opens any public meeting. Former President Barack Obama regularly treated the United States like just another nation. Apparently, the Democratic Party treats the national anthem like just another tune.

15. A Country Singer Crooned a Trump-like Anthem

The DNC featured a performance by country singer Mickey Guyton singing, “All American.” Yet the lyrics seem to fit the Trump campaign better than that of Harris. The lyrics state:

“We’re the stars in the Texas sky
And the jukebox vinyl
We’r? the New York City lights
And a hotel Bibl? …

millionaires, spare some change
And everything in between

“We got the same stars, the same stripes
Just wanna live that good life
Ain’t we all?
Ain’t we all all-American?

“We’re different in a million ways
But at the end of the day
Ain’t we all?

Ain’t we all all-American?”

The message seems an inexact fit for the DNC, which began its morning sessions by holding meetings that segregated delegates by race and ethnicity. The lyrics read more like a refrain from one of Donald Trump’s stump speeches:

“There’s one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America — America; it’s the allegiance to America. No matter our background, or income, or geography, we’re all citizens of this blessed land. And no matter our color or the blood, color of the blood we bleed, it’s the same red blood of great, great patriots — remember great patriots. We all salute with pride the same American flag, and we all are equal, totally equal in the eyes of Almighty God.”

Ultimately, our true unity comes from being children of God.

16. As Democrats Sounded Patriotic Themes, Protesters Burned the American Flag

As Democratic strategists told friendly media outlets the 2024 Democratic National Convention intended to “reclaim” patriotism, protesters representing the Democratic Party’s base burned the American flag and assaulted a man who tried to stop them. Reporter Ben Bergquam attempted to intervene as demonstrators set Old Glory ablaze while chanting, “Free, free Palestine!” only for a masked man wearing a keffiyeh to shove him. He attempted to reason with the mob, saying the flag represents America herself.

“It’s our country!” said Bergquam.

“F*** this country! Burn it down! Burn it down!” shouted a masked protester. As he threw the stars and stripes on the fire, he yelled, “This is what we think of your rag.”

Perhaps it’s not surprising that his assault, on America and the patriotic citizens who tried to defend her, received no coverage from the legacy media, which refused to cover the proceedings taking place inside the convention hall — many of which you likely learned about for the first time in this article.

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Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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LGBT Group Walz Founded Wants to Trans Kids, Defund Police, and Abolish Borders

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has boasted of founding the local chapter of an organization that demands the “abolition of the police, abolition of borders,” “reparations for all indigenous and black peoples,” placing males in female correctional institutions, and transgender procedures for minors without parental consent — all while concealing children’s transgender identity from their parents. An LGBTQ website has said Walz’s behavior toward his students would get him labeled a “groomer” today. Walz’s wife, Gwen, is equally supportive of indoctrinating children in this group’s agenda, because she considers it part of her religious faith that “God created … some people gay.”

Tim Walz founded the local chapter of the GSA Network at Mankato West High School in the late 1990s. Numerous delegates highlighted Walz’s connection to the organization as he prepared to speak on the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

“I want to hear from the man who stepped up to create the Gay-Straight Alliance in the late ‘90s — the coach who stood up for the kids who needed him,” a teary-eyed Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told MSNBC’s Joy Reid early Wednesday evening. In a video that night, the Minnesota governor’s wife, Gwen Walz boasted, “When one of our students started the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, Tim agreed to serve as faculty adviser, because he knew how impactful it would be to have a football coach involved.”

Both called the group by its former name, the “Gay-Straight Alliance.” But the organization renamed itself the Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network (GSA Network) in 2015 to prove that its 4,000 affiliates “have moved beyond the labels of gay and straight, and the limits of a binary gender system.” (The Mankato West chapter has also changed its name.)

The GSA Network codified its political beliefs in a document on its resources page titled “Truth Nine Point Platform.” The platform calls for “the Abolition of the Police,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), “Borders and the Judicial System”; “an End of the Cisgender Heterosexual Patriarchy”; “Reparations for all Indigenous and Black Peoples,” including “Indigenous reclamation of stolen lands”; and “free and non-compulsory education for all ages.”

“We demand abolition! Abolition of the police, abolition of borders and ICE, abolition of the current punishment-based justice system. [sic.] We demand for our communities to be empowered to take care of themselves, for no borders, for rehabilitation and healing justice,” the manifesto declares.

The diminutive revolutionary screed claims that it “builds upon the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program,” although the FBI has confirmed that the Black Panther Party “advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government.”

“We are in a moment which calls for us to bravely and ferociously fight for our communal liberation,” which will be launched “in the name of our transgender and gender nonconforming ancestors who struggled before us,” proclaims the GSA Network’s document. “The revolution is a relationship.”

The Walz family signaled its solidarity with the George Floyd/BLM riots, which touched off in Minnesota in May 2020. Gwen Walz said she inhaled the smell of burning tires through her open window in order to feel close to the revolutionary BLM movement. Whistleblowers say Tim Walz ordered police to abandon the third precinct to arsonists, whom Kamala Harris urged her followers to bail out of jail.

The organization’s revolutionary platform, adopted in 2018, is anything but a dead letter: The GSA Network referred to “our TRUTH Nine-Point Platform” last November (specifically, its call for reparations) and quoted the manifesto in its most recent press release in March. (The November press release also demanded U.S. taxpayers furnish “aid to Gaza” and decries “the ongoing colonization and cultural genocide of black and brown peoples.”)

The GSA Network’s Extreme Transgender Agenda

The GSA Network believes in promoting transgender ideology and facilitating children’s transgender “transitions” with or without parental consent. “Know the laws in your state around students’ privacy rights and what you do and don’t have to tell parents/ guardians/families. This is important so you don’t inadvertently out a student as a member of the GSA,” states the GSA Advisor Handbook, aimed at public school teachers like Walz. “When calling youth, it may not be safe to mention ‘GSA club’ or another trans or queer reference.”

The Nine-Point Platform also states “trans youth” should have “self-determination” over “all aspects of our lives.” The GSA Network slammed state laws that protect children from the predatory transgender industry. Laws against “providing gender-affirming healthcare to trans youth … effectively deny trans youth basic human rights and dignity,” claimed GSA in 2020.

At the local level, Mankato West High School’s GSA chapter walked out of class in April 2022 to protest Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which says teachers should not “encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” before the fourth grade.

The GSA Network also believes in placing teenage boys who say they identify as transgender in female juvenile detention facilities. In a 2017 report co-authored by the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, the GSA Network complained, “LGBTQ youth are frequently placed in facilities according to the sex on their birth certificate or based on their genitalia. … [T]ransgender youth should be housed based on the gender identity they express rather than based on anatomical sex or the sex on their birth certificate.”

Tim Walz has put many of the GSA Network’s political priorities into action as governor of Minnesota. He signed a bill (House File 146) that would take minors into state emergency custody if the child has been “unable to obtain gender-affirming health care” because his parents objected, as well as banning compassionate therapeutic care for people suffering from unwanted transgender feelings. The roots of these policies date back to Walz’s days as a teacher.

Walz’s Action Would Get You Called a ‘Groomer’: LGBT Website

Walz has said publicly that Mankato students came to him about founding a GSA chapter — but his advocacy of the LGBT agenda predates his time at Mankato West High School. While teaching at a high school in Nebraska in the early 1990s, Tim and Gwen Walz took a student who identified as homosexual to a concert by the Indigo Girls, an openly lesbian folk rock group.

The LGBTQ website Them stated that, today, the Walzes’ behavior would be “liable to get you called a ‘groomer.’”

In 1997, two years before the founder of Mankato West’s GSA chapter ever thought of the idea, Gwen Walz announced “out of the blue” on the first day of her 10th grade English class that it would be “a safe space for gay and lesbian students,” according to former student Jacob Reitan. He reportedly told Mrs. Walz about his sexual preference before he told his own parents.

Tim Walz also encouraged children to have frank discussions about adult subject matter at school. One of Walz’s former students, 2004 graduate Seth Elliot Meyer, remembered that Walz “wanted me to be OK with who I was” by embracing a bisexual identity as an impressionable teenager. Another of Walz’s former pupils — Micah Kronlokken, who described himself as “a young, closeted, queer kid” when Walz coached him in the seventh grade — said Tim Walz believed that teenagers should be “treated a little more like adults and trusted to have tricky conversations, and that high school is a microcosm for our world at large.”

Walz later confessed, “To create a culture in a school that was welcoming, open, and understanding” of the LGBTQ movement and its aims “was something that Gwen and I always strove for.”

“Both Tim and Gwen were incredibly supportive of their gay students,” said Reitan, who is now a lawyer and LGBTQ activist. Walz “showed the bully a better path forward, and I can think of no one better than Tim Walz to show that better path forward for America.”

Walz did not defend these policies during his debut on the national stage Wednesday night. Instead, the Harris-Walz campaign appears to be relying on media tropes that brand their political enemies as intolerant hatemongers. In the DNC video, Walz’s former student Noah Hobbs said Walz “stands up to bullies,” repeating the common LGBTQ activist tactic of bullying people of faith, who do not celebrate extreme transgender ideology or sinful sexual relationships, as “bullies.”

Walz has used the same language throughout his political career. While running for governor, Walz asserted that he — as “an older, white, straight, married football coach” — could assure “that there’s no bullying.” During his 2023 his State of the State address, Walz alleged that Republicans “want to put bullies in charge of your health care,” while he would “put bullies in their place. And that’s why we protected access to gender-affirming health care.”

Walz, who has been accused of opportunism, may believe his association with the GSA Network boosts his standing with the Democratic Party’s left-wing base. In a 2018 campaign ad for governor, Walz cited his founding of his school’s GSA chapter as proof that he “can actually deliver on those progressive promises,” because he had “done it in the past.”

Walz’s ties to GSA would send a more concerning signal to the parents of children suffering from Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). Yaeli Martinez first encountered transgender ideology at an LGBTQ high school club. In time, she began to identify as a boy named “Andrew” and ran away from home. Upon learning that her mother, Abigail Martinez, did not support her gender transition, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services put the underage Yaeli into a group home. In 2019, Yaeli committed suicide by stepping in front of a moving train. (Her heartbreaking story is illustrated in the movie “Gender Transformations: The Untold Realities,” an original production of The Epoch Times.)

The Walz Family: ‘God Creates People … Gay or Straight’

Stories such as these, or those of other detransitioners left with the scars of poor adolescent decisions facilitated by adults, seem unlikely to sway Tim Walz and his wife, who appear to have a religious devotion to LGBT ideology.

“For Ms. Walz, being an ally for gay students was a matter of living up to the tenets of her Christian faith,” reported The New York Times. A spokeswoman for Gwen Walz, Claire Lancaster, told the newspaper that Mrs. Walz holds a “strong belief that God creates people in the way they are supposed to be, whether that is gay or straight.” President Joe Biden has expressed similar sentiments.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has described Tim Walz as “steeped in the Catholic social justice traditions of his parents.” However, the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that sodomy is a grave sin that can never be approved:

“Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”

If Tim Walz rejects the Roman Catholic Church’s binding doctrine on faith and morals, he is also out of step with U.S. voters. Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump contrasted Walz’s extreme views with the mainstream of the American electorate. “This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner,” said Trump. “He’s very heavy into transgender — anything transgender he thinks is great.”

“He’s not where the country is on anything,” Trump concluded.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Kamala Harris Promises to Impose Abortion on All 50 States as President

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Kamala Harris promised to use the federal government to expand abortion nationwide, because Americans cannot “truly be prosperous” without abortion, and pro-life Americans are “out of their minds,” said Harris while accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night.

Harris basked in the glow of the audience as she stood at the podium of the United Center in Chicago to deliver an acceptance speech long on personal history but slight on policy specifics, aside from a vow to extend the abortion industry into all 50 states, irrespective of each state’s individual laws.

“When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” candidate Harris vowed.

Jarringly, as Harris made those remarks, the official DNC video feed of the acceptance speech panned out to feature a baby in the crowd.

Although Harris did not name a specific bill, the Biden-Harris administration has endorsed, the so-called “Women’s Health Protection” Act, which goes far beyond the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling by striking down more than 1,300 state pro-life protections including laws:

  • Prohibiting sex-selective abortions;
  • Barring many abortions after viability;
  • Preventing abortions on babies 20 weeks or older, who are capable of feeling pain;
  • Disallowing abortions undertaken without parental consent or notification;
  • Prohibiting telemedicine abortion drug prescriptions, which involve no in-person medical examination;
  • Banning unlicensed individuals from carrying out abortions;
  • Allowing pregnant mothers to receive scientifically accurate information about their babies’ development, or to see an ultrasound or hear the child’s fetal heartbeat; and
  • Allowing pro-life medical professionals the right to refuse to participate in an abortion.

A more modest national abortion expansion bill, dubbed the Reproductive Choice Act co-sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), would reestablish the guidelines of the Roe and Casey decisions. However, Senate Democrats and the Biden-Harris administration have favored the more sweeping, top-down WHP bill.

The abortion issue emerged as the convention’s defining issue, referred to by one speaker after another. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), an outspoken advocate of national abortion expansion and regulation of pro-life pregnancy resource centers, promised earlier in the evening that Kamala Harris will “take on the right-wing extremists who think they should decide who has access to abortion or IVF. Kamala will protect abortion rights nationwide.” Warren inadvertently put abortion in a separate category from health care, stating that the Democratic Party’s agenda consisted of “groceries, gas, housing, health care, taxes, abortion.” Earlier in the evening, former Rep. Gabrielle Gifford of Arizona, who was shot while in office, said, “Kamala can beat the gun lobby. … She will protect abortion access!”

Harris’s acceptance speech signaled a further break with past candidates such as President Bill Clinton, who spoke on Wednesday night; as candidate, Clinton said abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” Harris, who has spent much of the last two years since the Dobbs decision as the White House point person on abortion, extolled abortion as a vital component of American liberty.

“I believe America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives,” said Harris moments before invoking “reproductive freedom,” the convention’s preferred euphemism for abortion-on-demand. Her words echoed those of Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night that abortion is part of “the American dream.”

Pro-life advocates pushed back forcefully on the notion. “Not being allowed to kill your child does not equate to slavery,” responded Bryan Kemper, an Ohio-based pro-life advocate.

In office, Harris has seen her administration give the green light for abortionists to mail the abortion pill, mifepristone, to pro-life states in violation of federal law and furnish taxpayer-funded leave to pregnant members of the military who travel out of pro-life states to undergo an abortion.

Moments after promising to allow surgical abortion throughout the country, Harris slammed her political opponents for pro-life positions they never adopted. “We know, and we know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in Project 2025,” insisted Harris, although CNN’s fact-checker ranked Democrats’ continual references to the Heritage Foundation project — which President Trump has publicly disdained — false.

Trump “and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress,” Harris claimed. “And get this — get this! He plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator, and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.”

“Simply put, they are out of their minds,” Harris thundered.

The demur 2024 Republican Party platform does not promise to enact any federal pro-life protection and leaves all new legislation protecting the unborn to the states, a position President Trump has reiterated consistently. His campaign and allies denied Harris’s allegations. “Fact Check: there is no circumstance in which Trump wants to track and monitor miscarriages,” retorted Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). “President Trump has REPEATEDLY stated he will not sign a federal abortion ban. Kamala is a liar,” said Trump 2024 National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Yet Harris’s speech indicates efforts to distance the GOP from the pro-life issue have failed, and that the Democrats see abortion as anything but a state issue.

In economic policy, Harris vowed, “We will pass a middle-class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million Americans.” To date, the Biden-Harris administration has proposed $7 trillion in tax hikes, according to the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.

She also promised “to create jobs, to grow our economy and to lower the cost of everyday needs like health care and housing and groceries,” as well as to “end America’s housing shortage, and protect Social Security and Medicare.” The Biden-Harris administration presided over near-record inflation levels that peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, increasing the prices of all household staples. “A loaf of bread costs 50% more today than it did before the pandemic,” admitted Harris last Friday. “Ground beef is up almost 50%.” The price of a gallon of gasoline has increased from $2.33 in January 2021 to $3.62. “It costs a family an extra $13,300 per year for the same house compared to January 2021,” reported Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation.

Harris accused President Trump of seeking to enact “a national sales tax, call it a Trump tax, that would raise prices on middle-class families.” She is referring to his statement that he may consider an across-the-board tariff on foreign-made goods.

Like the Democratic campaign before President Joe Biden exited the race, much of the party’s rhetoric aims at demonizing President Donald Trump and placing him beyond the pale as a figure committed to overturning “our democracy.”

“The consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious,” Harris insisted on Thursday night. “He sent an armed mob to the U.S. Capitol, where they assaulted law enforcement officers. When politicians in his own party begged him to call off the mob and send help, he did the opposite — he fanned the flames.” In fact, President Trump encouraged marchers to walk to the Capitol “peacefully” and posted a video online asking them to disperse — a video online platforms later suppressed or removed.

“Consider what he intends to do if we give him power again. Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol; his explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy; his explicit intent to deploy our active-duty military against our own citizens,” said Harris.

The threat her opponent may lock up journalists rang hollow to investigator David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress. Daleiden and Sandra Merritt published undercover videos showing officials at the highest levels of Planned Parenthood describing how they perform a potentially illegal partial birth abortion to harvest and sell aborted babies’ organs to scientific researchers. After pushback from the abortion industry, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris prosecuted the undercover reporters for filming Planned Parenthood without their express permission—something Daleiden’s lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, likened to “60 Minutes” investigations.

Daleiden accused Harris of being “‘unburdened by what has been’ in 2016.” Daleiden reminded Harris, “As a citizen journalist, I had my home raided, work product seized at gunpoint, and spent an afternoon behind bars because of your fealty to” Planned Parenthood.

Harris attempted to appeal to moderate and undecided voters, promising to abide by the rule of law. “I know there are people of various political views watching tonight. And I want you to know, I promise to be a president for all Americans. You can always trust me to put country above party and self,” Harris proclaimed.

That echoes a promise repeatedly made at the outset of the Biden-Harris administration, which critics say turned out to be false. “I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as those who did,” Biden promised just one day after the media declared him winner of the 2020 election. Biden made the same promise in his inaugural address.

Once in power, the Biden-Harris administration oversaw the first FBI raid on the home of a former president, prosecuted peaceful pro-life advocates such as Mark Houck, and attempted to recruit informants inside traditional Roman Catholic churches. This administration’s targeting of its political enemies has become so outlandish that the House Judiciary Committee formed a subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate it on a case-by-case basis.

Harris’s critics, especially her Republican opponent, noted that Harris has attempted to distance herself from her own record over the last three years, and to feign powerlessness as the sitting vice president of the United States.

“Why didn’t she do the things that she’s complaining about?” asked Trump immediately after the speech on Fox News “She could have done it three and a half years ago … and she could still do them. She’s got four-and-a-half, five months left.”

“She didn’t talk about China. She didn’t talk about fracking. She didn’t talk about crime. … She didn’t talk about housing really, the trade deficit. She didn’t talk about child trafficking that she’s allowed to happen, because she’s the Border Czar and she’s presided over the weakest border.”

“She talks, but she doesn’t do. There’s no action.”

Harris’s speech concluded the 2024 Democratic National Convention. You can read The Washington Stand’s coverage of day one, day two, and day three.

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More Girls Than Ever Are Caught In An OnlyFans Trap, But There’s A Way Out

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When Bree Solstad was kneeling beside the tomb of St. Claire in Assisi, Italy, in 2023, her life began to change.

A force compelled Solstad to genuflect and cross herself as she entered and exited the basilicas and cathedrals of Florence and Rome. Solstad, however, felt disgusting and guilty when she returned from her trip. She had spent a decade in the pornography industry.

Solstad told the Daily Caller she converted to Catholicism in April.

Financial incentives are pushing young women like Solstad to flock to an increasingly popular app called OnlyFans, where lewd material prevails. Solstad, who posted such content on the network, says women “don’t have a chance” nowadays in avoiding the temptations of modern society. Luckily, however, many are waking up to the downsides and choosing a different path.

“The perversion of our society and pornification of our culture is everywhere, not just in entertainment, but everywhere,” Solstad explained to the Daily Caller. “I recently ran out of blush, and I was thinking, ‘What is this blush that I really liked using back then?’ And I look it up, and the name of the blush was ‘Orgasm …’ Does it really have to be called that?”

Her journey in the adult content world wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be.

“Now in society, it seems almost like there’s a shift. Before it was embarrassing to be in porn and was something that you would hide. Now it’s empowering, like girl power,” she said.

British tech entrepreneur and investor Timothy Stokely launched OnlyFans in 2016. He previously owned two other adult entertainment businesses, GlamGirls and Customs4U, according to Business Insider.

OnlyFans is a subscription-based service where creators can charge anywhere from $5 to $50 a month for viewers to see their content and interact. The app saw an explosion during the COVID-19 pandemic: Approximately 200,000 users signed up daily between the months of March and April 2020, Business Insider reported. OnlyFans had 384,000 creators in 2019, but in 2020, the number skyrocketed to 1.6 million, the company’s financial report says. In terms of users, the app leaped from 13.5 million to 82.3 million within the same time period.

Transactions on OnlyFans also rose seven-fold to $2.4 billion, the Financial Times reported.

Celebrities have taken a liking to the platform and have found astounding financial success: Famous actress Bella Thorne rakes in $11 million monthly. Rappers Cardi B and Iggy Azalea follow with $9.5 million and $9.2 million, respectively. Coco Austin, a model and actress, is at the fourth place spot with $9 million a month and adult actress Mia Khalifa makes $6.5 million, according to Lad Bible.

OnlyFans did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

The profitability potential entices young women across the globe, but according to Influencer Marketing Hub, 10% of OnlyFans users are earning 73% of all the money on the platform.

Those who have dipped their feet, toes and other parts of their bodies into OnlyFans know this all-too-well.

“I was never very successful,” Solstad said. She expected this, however, since her goal was for OnlyFans to be a mere supplement to the X-rated content she was doing elsewhere.

Solstad told the Caller about her experience interacting with her subscribers, which might not be an apparent feature to outsiders. She would have Skype sessions with certain “regulars” and developed relationships with them, allowing these men to masturbate while she belittled them.

It’s not only women who are harmed by sex work, but men, too, Solstad said. The tables have turned, and she feels like she objectified men, rather than the other way around.

Solstad also felt enslaved.

“I was really miserable. I was angry all the time, really irritable, and I was going to therapy once a week. There was a period when I went twice a week. And it wasn’t until I truly allowed God, Jesus and Mary back into my heart that I started to feel actually happy with myself and proud of myself,” Solstad explained.

Content on OnlyFans can be a lot more addicting than porn, due to the interactive features, Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes explained to the Caller. These features can lead men into thinking they’re forming an actual relationship.

Former OnlyFans user Jada Bell says she managed to earn an impressive income by sharing explicit content on the site, but she quickly felt the weight of that pressure. While she set limits about what she was willing to share online, her morals and ethics were tested: Bigger risks could lead to even larger payouts.

According to Jada, she joined OnlyFans at the tender age of 19 and quickly earned as much as $10,000 in her first month posting explicit content.

“I didn’t post pornography or sex work, like it’s mostly used for. But since I knew that was what it was used for, I did take advantage of that and promoted a little bit more sexual content, being in lingerie or a bikini and things like that,” she said. “And I was really just trying to get fast money, really fast.”

“And that was very addictive, very, very addictive,” she explained.

Like Solstad, Jada believes sexual OnlyFans content also harms men.

“You’re preying on men with sicknesses, men that really need to get help.”

Jada said she had made more money than some of her peers because she had a significant following on social media and was able to parlay that to paid subscribers, which isn’t the case for most OnlyFans girls. She knows women who are either losing money or making just enough for rent, and they could probably be working any other job.

Ultimately, Jada says she decided to quit the app in November 2020.

“It’s just not worth your morals,” Bell said. “You’re thinking about right now instead of the future, and I would really make some bigger goals for yourself.”

Jada Bell – Sexual Revolution Has Destroyed Society

One of Snipes’ specializations is helping people get over porn addiction. The first thing men who are suffering from this should do is define their “rich and meaningful life,” and then identify how their addiction is interfering with that, Snipes said. They should also evaluate how its affecting their relationships.

Once that is figured out, men can start being more practical.

“Put on what I call nanny-wear on your computer to make sure that your firewall is strong enough to block OnlyFans and anything similar to OnlyFans, ideally blocking any porn as well, because porn can be a gateway,” Snipes says. The nanny-wear can also alert someone trustworthy to prevent one from consuming again.

“We need to help people replace what they were using with something that helped achieve the same goal. Were they engaging with OnlyFans because they were lonely? Okay, if you’re lonely, how can we address that in a healthier way that can help you meet in real life?” Snipes continued. “We try to help them create a schedule. Downtime is bad time because that’s time where you can get into your own head and start thinking about it. So helping them develop a schedule that is incompatible with OnlyFans can also be helpful.”

YouTuber and musical artist Iolande Melody was distraught when she discovered the trouble her friend was in after joining OnlyFans. This subject is one that is “very close” to Iolande’s heart.

The popular portrayal of this kind of work is “completely fabricated,” and nobody touches on how dark things can get, according to Iolande. Girls think they can easily make a ton of money just by posing in their underwear, but that’s not the case, she says.

During one disturbing exchange between Iolande’s friend and a male subscriber, his requests grew more and more extreme and pushed her well beyond her usual limits.

“He first asked for used underwear. He said, ‘Could you send me your used underwear with all types of bodily fluid on the underwear?’ And he was offering 40 pounds for this. And she was willing to agree to that. And then he said, ‘I have another request. Please don’t try and block or delete me if you think this is too weird, but I’m willing to pay a sizable amount of money for this if you’re willing to do it.’ And she was like, ‘Go on, tell me what it is.’ And he said, ‘I have a fetish to do with teeth. I would like for you to extract your teeth and send them to me. If you could try and retain as much blood as possible from the extractions and send that as well.’”

As disturbing as this sounds, Iolande says her friend entertained the idea.

“She had no money, and she believed completely that this was her only gateway out of poverty.”

Sex is now cheap and no longer a sacred, private thing two people who love each other do, which is destroying society, according to Iolande. It’s just a tool for financial gain.

If there wasn’t any demand, OnlyFans wouldn’t exist, conservative filmmaker and podcast host Robbie Starbuck told the Daily Caller.

“Men need to be leaders again and shape culture to build the world we want to see. A guy so desperate that he goes on OnlyFans to see a woman naked should be viewed the way we’ve always viewed a peeping Tom: creepy. Once we successfully categorize this as creepy, it becomes less socially acceptable to do these things,” Starbuck said.

The ability and desire to lead, provide, innovate and protect should define a man, and they should strive to build a world they want their daughters to live in, according to Starbuck.

“This needs to be an aspirational goal for men instead of the hedonistic values Hollywood has sold them. Those hedonistic values are like meth … It might make you feel good for a little while, but you’re going to destroy your life with it. ”

There seems to be a silver lining, as there are now various high-profile cases of former OnlyFans users quitting posting sexual content and turning to a more traditional, religious life.

Blac Chyna, famous rapper and actor who used to be married to Rob Kardashian, had reportedly raked in $240 million posting racy photos of herself on the app.

“It’s a dead end. All that stuff is a dead end, and I know that I’m worth way more than that,” she said on The Jason Lee Show in March 2023.

That same month, she got baptized and became a Christian.

“I was reborn on my birthday 5-11-22 🙏🏽 God is Good 🙌🏽,” Chyna wrote at the time.

Popular TikToker Gwen the Milkmaid followed suit, abandoning OnlyFans and becoming more conservative.

In a similar instance, internet personality Nayla Ray had made $9 million on OnlyFans, but she too quit and became a Christian.

Young men are trending in a conservative direction, a Financial Times article from January shows, which coupled with online social media accounts that promote family farming, gives Starbuck hope.

“We need to continue this trend but with an extra focus on men modeling what what it truly is to be a man. It’s not parties, it’s not a harem of women and it’s not a fancy car collection. Your worth as a man is defined by the safety you provide your family, the love you have with your wife, who your children grow up to be, how you lead your community, how you take care of the body that God gave you and how you overcome adversity,” Starbuck told the Caller.

Young women, on the other hand, need to realize that the best men will not desire someone who easily reveals their intimate parts to the world. One this is made clear, less women will think this lifestyle is a good idea, according to Starbuck.

Both the public and private sectors have roles to play when it comes to reviving our culture, Starbuck said.

“The best thing we could do long-term is incentivize family. Higher child tax credits, nationwide school choice that allows homeschool as an option to take then money so more parents can afford to stay home from work and make culture celebrating family dominant once again,” he told The Caller.

Starbuck said it’d be nice if right-wing billionaires could fund alternative entertainment industries, since pop culture has always been a crucial part of a society and its behavior.

“Culture will decide our politics and our future. Will we win the culture war or not? That will decide the reality our kids live in.”

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Leena Nasir

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MUST WATCH VIDEOS: From Vasectomy Vans To Hotties For Harris, The DNC Was Truly A Freak Show

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Throughout the Democratic National Convention, Democrats made a big show out of being “normal,” of standing for “freedom” and traditional, patriotic values. They did their best, but of course it is all a lie; there’s nothing normal about them.

Allow me to guide you through the Democrats’ wondrous world of human freaks and oddities. But first, we must get inside!

Careful, this is a dangerous path. Stay alert as we wade through the crowds of unwashed protesters — rabid, the lot of them.

Feast your eyes on a veritable buffet of causes. Do you want to see the destruction of Israel? Care to donate to Hamas? Perhaps trans rights are more your speed. Or, think bigger: the true idealists here want global intifada or worldwide communist revolution. Purple hair here; blue hair there; is that a man or a woman?

“Excuse me sir, would you like an American flag to burn?”

Over there, you’ll see Planned Parenthood’s free spay and neuter clinic. Excuse me, I mean free abortion and vasectomy “health” unit. Because nothing says “family values” like a mobile clinic for life’s little oopsie-daisies.

“Step right up, folks, get your reproductive rights sorted while you finger paint a Hamas flag!”

And what’s this? A girl holding a sign with the N-word boldly emblazoned. Is this a vicious “white supremacist?” Who’s to say. She may be an over-zealous theater kid striving for an A+ in Performance Art.  Or, like the rest of her fellow travelers, perhaps it’s all a desperate plea for attention.

Now, let’s venture inside where the real circus begins.

It appears we’re too late to see our Dear Leader. Joe Biden might be the President, but that still didn’t secure him a prime time spot. No, the shadowy figures behind the curtains could not allow that. Biden went on some time ago, in the wee hours of the night. Some say you can still hear his voice trailing off if you listen very closely…

Up next, we see the King and Queen of the Democratic Party — although who’s to say which title belongs to whom. The Obamas have reigned supreme for over a decade, yet still they bristle with resentment. What’s that Michelle? You say you’ll “never benefit” from “generational wealth.” Perhaps you should have skipped the  $3,000 pantsuit for this speech.

Here, take this prophylactic before we head into the next exhibit. You can never be too careful around these ladies.

Take a look at the Hotties for Harris. Here you’ll find everything you need to slut it up at the DNC: Plan B from a gumball machine, pregnancy tests and UTI treatments. There’s even a bad bitch boxing corner. And if it wasn’t all Mean Girl enough, there’s a wall of hotties and a wall of notties. All we need now is a Burn Book.

Who’s that stomping onto stage? Here comes Tim Walz, the gesticulating governor from Minnesota. A wave here, a raised fist there, watch as he directs an invisible orchestra with a stride in his step. Is he really such a dorky dad, or is he a beady-eyed communist in disguise? You have to respect his acting chops.

And it looks like he passed down the acting genes. “I love you dad,” cries Little Timmy from the balcony. Watch him stand and cheer, waving almost as madly as the old man. Like father, like son; but how many times did he rehearse this in front of the mirror?

Speaking of the kiddos, take a look at Kamala Harris’ beloved step daughter. She crawled out of the sewers of Bushwick just to show her support. Her tapestry of tattoos tells the story of her life, but her camo Harris-Walz hat is the real statement piece. What’s this quirky girl doing wearing hunting gear? Irony — it’s all the rage these days. She’s wearing it because she thinks it’s ugly, and she wants you to know what she thinks of the people who earnestly share her tastes.

Alas, we approach the end of our pageant of peculiarities. But don’t worry, you can still leave with a souvenir. You record a Tik Tok dance for posterity. If Gen-Z goes somewhere and doesn’t do a TikTok dance, did they ever really leave the house?

Democrats talk a good talk, but they can’t walk the walk. No matter what they do, the weirdness shines through. Sadly, our tour of the DNC has come to an end. But don’t fret. If our screwball heroes prevail in November, you’ll get another four years of the freak show.

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Gage Klipper

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Tim Walz Doubles Down on Pornographic Books in School at DNC

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sided with radical LGBTQ activists and public school administrators in their bid to make pornographic books available to minors during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night.

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, told the assembled DNC delegates he happily opposed parents’ wishes to protect their children’s innocence. “While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours,” said Walz.

The book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, which is consistently reported as the book parents object to the most, contains multiple graphic images illustrating homosexual sex, sometimes between adolescents.

Another controversial book, “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison, features a character who casually reveals that, as a child, he performed fellatio on a grown man. “I was in fourth grade. It was no big deal,” the character said. “It wasn’t terrible.”

Concerned parents would like to see these books, which are often available to minors of any age, moved to an age-restricted area of the library, where they would be available to minors only with their parents’ permission. But Democrats have repeatedly accused them of censorship and voted to keep the books on school shelves.

“This is a big part of what this election is about: freedom,” said Walz in a 17-minute address. “When Republicans use the word freedom, they mean the government should be free to invade your doctor’s office.” It was not clear if Walz’s comments referred to transgender procedures for minors or abortion-on-demand until the moment of birth, both of which he favors.

Accusing parents who refuse to furnish pornography to their children of supporting “book bans” has been a leitmotif of the 2024 Democratic convention, with former First Lady Michelle Obama sounding similar themes on Tuesday. Just before Walz took the stage, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) — whom Harris ruled out as a potential running mate to avoid offending anti-Israeli protesters — defined children’s ability to override their parents’ wishes vis-à-vis reading sexually explicit material as an essential component of freedom.

“It’s not freedom to tell our children what books they’re allowed to read. No, it’s not!” said Shapiro. “And it’s not freedom to tell women what they can do with their body.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg concluded his speech Wednesday night by shouting that Democrats “embrace the leaders who are out there building bridges and reject the ones who are out there banning books!”

Longstanding talk show host and New Age practitioner Oprah Winfrey made her first appearance at a Democratic convention Wednesday night and joined in on the “book ban” bandwagon, decrying “people who want to scare you, who want to rule you, people who would have you believe that books are dangerous.” She also warned about “tricks and tropes meant to distract us from what really matters.” Democrats often define GOP opposition to left-wing culture wars as a “distraction.”

Walz and his fellow Democrats went on to include the ability to take unborn life as an unalienable aspect of “freedom.” Walz boasted, “We also protected reproductive freedom” in Minnesota, where he signed a bill essentially codifying abortion until birth, with no protections for the unborn child at any stage of development.

“We are the party of real freedom,” Shapiro declared to his fellow Democrats. “Real freedom comes when [an American] can join a union, marry who she loves, start a family on her own terms,” a euphemism for abortion-on-demand. In a video aired at the DNC on Wednesday evening, a man said he defined freedom as being able to love his “husband.”

Winfrey tied the availability of abortion to the American dream. “If you do not have autonomy over this,” she said, gesturing to her midsection, “if you cannot control — women — how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American dream.”

Walz and others went further, comingling their support for the taking of unborn life (and, at times, for sodomy) with the Golden Rule and other biblical themes. “We respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make — even if we wouldn’t make these same choices for ourselves. We’ve got a Golden Rule: Mind your own damned business,” said Walz, misquoting the Golden Rule laid down by Jesus to love all human life.

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who acted as emcee for the evening, also invented Bible verses as he vowed Kamala Harris would support “LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, the right to marry who you love, the right to be free.”

“We’re not going to lose our faith,” Booker said. “I believe in America, because our elders told us, as the Gospel says, ‘We shall overcome.’” The Bible does not say, “We shall overcome,” which is the title of a Gospel song that became associated with the 1960s civil rights movement.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who would be the next Speaker of the House if Democrats take control of the lower chamber, alternately quoted Taylor Swift and the Book of Psalms as he promised to “protect our DREAMers, and always protect a woman’s freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions.”

“We are one nation under God,” said Jeffries just moments later. “In the Old Testament, Book of Psalms, the Scripture tells us that weeping may endure during the long night, but joy will come in the morning.”

His predecessor, Speaker of the House Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saluted Kamala Harris as “a person of deep faith,” a trait for which Harris has not been known. “She is a leader of strength and wisdom and eloquence on policy, most recently demonstrated fighting for a woman’s right to choose” abortion on demand. Pelosi also saluted Harris for “quickly securing the nomination.”

In a speech MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called “weird and meander-y,” 78-year-old former President Bill Clinton put the fight for abortion and sexual liberation in a different worldview. “We know that we’re being asked to fight the same fight that the forces of progress have had to fight for the last 250 years,” he insisted.

Buttigieg, who often accused his opponents of using “faith as a cudgel” during the 2020 primaries, said Wednesday night that his Republican foes support “darkness — darkness is what they are selling.”

“I believe in a better politics,” he said, citing his Episcopalian church background. Proof of a brighter future, to him, came in the nation’s rapid about-face on redefining marriage. The legal recognition of same-sex marriage “was literally impossible” 25 years ago, he noted. “This kind of life went from impossible to possible … in less than half a lifetime.”

Buttigieg also claimed same-sex marriage triumphed through “persuasion” and “politics.” In fact, voters in 31 states (including California) protected natural marriage, only to have their elections overturned by judicial activists on the Supreme Court in 2015’s Obergefell opinion.

Kamala Harris will deliver her acceptance speech on Thursday night.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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‘Third Rail’: Here’s Why Team Kamala Isn’t Peddling The Typical Dem Climate Panic This Election

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Vice President Kamala Harris has been tight-lipped about her record on climate change while major green groups continue to support her anyways — a dynamic that political pundits and energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation is no accident.

Harris — who called climate change an “existential threat” in 2019 —  previously probed major oil corporations as California’s attorney general and co-sponsored the Green New Deal as a senator, but she has mostly avoided climate change and green energy on the campaign trail, framing the issues in terms of economics, jobs and investment when she does bring up the subject. That many major eco-activist groups are still supporting her indicates that Harris is trying to broaden her appeal to more moderate voters in order to win the election and subsequently govern as a climate hardliner once in office, energy experts and political strategists told the DCNF.

“The Democrats have figured out that the apocalyptic vibe isn’t really likely to bring people along for this particular ride,” Mike McKenna, a GOP strategist with extensive energy sector experience, told the DCNF. “So, they have obviously made a command decision to focus only on the carrots and ignore anything that looks like a stick.”

Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have campaigned on climate issues in passing, but eco-activist leaders are generally unconcerned about the lack of focus on the issue, according to The New York Times. Walz did not address climate change during his Wednesday night speech at the Democratic National Convention , sticking primarily to his background as a rural American.

Even after the Harris campaign walked back her previous support for a fracking ban, a slew of environmental organizations opposed to fracking endorsed her candidacy. The campaign’s apparent strategy of not focusing much on climate change “suggests that Democrats see talking about the environment as a lose-lose proposition” in this election cycle, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

“They know what she’s going to do. There’s no upside to talking about climate,” Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, told the DCNF. “Keep in mind, I believe it was in July of 2022, The New York Times ran a poll reporting that only 1% of voters prioritize climate. So it’s a loser issue … And they can’t afford to lose Pennsylvania. So, they don’t want to talk about climate, because when you talk about climate, then you have to talk about fracking, and then they’re going to have to talk about how she wants to stop fracking, regardless of what she says.”

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has pursued one of the most aggressive state-level climate agendas in the U.S. in his tenure as governor, recently told the NYT that he doesn’t think Harris needs to leverage her climate record on the campaign trail.

“I am not concerned,” Inslee told the NYT. “I am totally confident that when she is in a position to effect positive change, she will.”

Moreover, the political wings of three green groups — the League of Conservation Voters, Climate Power and the Environmental Defense Fund — are spending $55 million on swing state advertisements to boost Harris, but the first three ads released do not actually address climate change. The ads back into the subject of green energy and pitch Harris’ record on the issue as centered on protecting ordinary Americans from greedy corporations and promoting “advanced manufacturing and clean energy” as a means of helping the middle class.

This approach is different than the one Harris used during her first run for the presidency in the 2020 cycle, in which Harris attempted to outflank many of her Democratic opponents from the left by endorsing policies like carbon taxes, changes to dietary guidelines to decrease red meat consumption and a ban on plastic straws to complement a fracking ban.

Eco-activists and climate-focused voters “definitely believe she will go left, left, left on climate and energy,” Scott Jennings, a political strategist and on-air pundit for CNN, told the DCNF. “Of course they do. Her 2020 campaign agenda is what they are banking on. And I assume she will deliver for them if she wins.”

President Joe Biden also made climate a key aspect of his successful 2020 campaign, guaranteeing that he would end fossil fuels and calling former President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” who was failing to protect Americans from the “ravages of climate change,” according to Inside Climate News. Nevertheless, Biden and his top officials still frequently drew the ire of hardline climate activists despite the administration pursuing what it describes as the “most ambitious climate agenda in history.”

Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s signature climate bill. While its price tag has ballooned from initial estimates and some contend that the bill has actually worsened inflation, the IRA unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars of private and public spending on green energy and manufacturing projects.

The Biden-Harris administration touts that investment as evidence that its domestic agenda is working.

“The climate activists in the Democrat Party have finally realized that no one is buying their ‘climate emergency’ claptrap anymore or their claims of 5, 10, or 20 years left to ‘save the planet.’ Instead, they are pedaling a barrage of silly economic claims that somehow pouring hundreds of billions and now trillions of dollars into government centrally planned projects,” Marc Morano, the publisher of Climate Depot, told the DCNF. “This new Democrat climate messaging, where they don’t mention climate, is part of the legacy of the Inflation Reduction Act, where local communities and certain states get unlimited federal funds poured into them via taxpayers to create a ‘green economy.’”

Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, said that the Harris campaign’s lack of attention to climate change and green energy issues is deliberate given her need to secure the support of a broad coalition if she is to win in November.

“First and foremost, Kamala Harris’ responsibility in this race is to win it. And to do so, she has to present her priorities in a way that resonates with those who are concerned about the economy and frustrated with their own financial situations. Specifically, she has to emphasize the opportunities that exist for better jobs, higher wages and long-term cost savings for the ratepayers,” Foxwell told the DCNF. “This is particularly imperative when discussing renewable energy investment, because the upfront costs tend to be considerable and the financial benefits to the middle class are largely speculative.”

As the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Harris “has to communicate her vision and values in a way that attracts the broadest possible coalition,” though it remains to be seen how she would actually govern if elected given uncertainty about the future balance of power in Congress, according to Foxwell. Harris and her team must take care to not propose policies that would increase the cost of living for middle class Americans, which would be “third rail” politics given how concerned people are about the economy, he added.

The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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Nick Pope

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Lost, Abandoned and Forgotten: DHS Loses 32K Children to Trafficking and Slavery

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  • Biden Administration’s open border policies are fueling human and child sex trafficking, with migrants repaying cartels for their illegal entry.
  • The Administration prioritizes avoiding lawsuits over protecting children from sex slavery.
  • HHS has knowingly placed unaccompanied minors into the custody of criminals, including sex traffickers and slave laborers put into debt bondage, and threatened to be recommended for deportation if they don’t comply.
  • Sponsors are typically unrelated non-citizens lacking a legal presence themselves.
  • Once children are placed with sponsors, HHS loses control and cannot intervene.
  • The U.S. government is effectively paying to place children in the hands of criminals.

I am outraged and heartbroken! I must share this with you now with a heavy heart.

It’s been a year and a half of waiting, only to confirm the nightmare we feared all along—at least 32 thousand children abandoned at the southern border were lost and left to fend for themselves by the very authorities tasked with their safety and protection. In November 2022, Project Veritas exposed the horrifying truth: unaccompanied children discarded at the border were being sex trafficked, enslaved by unvetted and non-citizen sponsors, and then lost to the system.

The shockwave was felt across the nation, igniting fury and action from those who couldn’t believe such atrocities were happening on American soil. Over half a million voices cried out in outrage—one for every child gone missing.

Yet here we are, 18 months later, and the so-called “investigation” results have done nothing but confirm the terrible truth we knew back in November. These children are still missing, and the horrors they’ve likely endured during this time are unimaginable.

We expected more—we expected these children to be found, to be saved, to hear more than just the bureaucratic failures of the agencies involved. But we got a disgraceful acknowledgment of incompetence, a shrug from the system that failed them. I’m disgusted, and you should be, too.

The Inspector General’s audit is a damning revelation of ICE’s inability to track these vulnerable children once they were handed over to Mayorkas’s DHS Circus and the utterly worthless Department of Health and Human Services. Over 448,000 unaccompanied minors were transferred to HHS between 2019 and 2023, yet 32,000 failed to appear for their immigration court dates because their so-called “sponsors” didn’t bring them—and HHS, the very department responsible for their care, lost track of them entirely. How is this even possible?

How do 32,000 sponsors and every person involved in HHS and DHS who allowed this to happen not face jail time until these children are found?

The report’s focus on administrative failures is a disgrace when the absolute priority should be finding these children who are at high risk for trafficking, exploitation, and forced labor. Instead of answers, we’re left with the same horrifying reality we started with—a growing number of unaccompanied minors entrusted to incapable hands and an unknown number still missing, their fates uncertain.

Here is the testimony of two young girls. In their accounts, “Aunt” refers to any adult female; in both instances, the “Aunt” mentioned is not the child’s relative.

Child One: “An aunt [sponsored me] but kicked me out of her house. She was pimping me, and I didn’t like that. She would pimp me to men.”

Child Two: “I just escaped one night. I told her [aunt], ‘I’m going to the laundromat.’ She [aunt] went to the laundromat but couldn’t find me there. Later on, she called Immigration.”

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