Bribed Biden Asks for ANOTHER $40 Billion in Additional Nazi Ukraine Aid

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$40 billion to Ukraine but nothing for Hawaii. Make it stop. Americans are underwater–we can’t pay our taxes let alone our gas, electric, food etc. bills. But bribery Biden’s billions flow out weekly to that dictatorial hellhole.

Seniors in the USA are told to brace for far lower social security payment boost in 2024 but hundreds of billions for Ukraine.

Biden seeks nearly $40 billion in funding for Ukraine, disaster relief and border

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  • The White House is seeking $12 billion for ongoing disaster relief, $60 million in wildland firefighter pay to cover pay increases and $3.9 billion to address border and migration issues.
  • Biden’s request also seeks over $24 billion in additional funding for Ukraine’s slow-moving fight against Russia.
  • In the nearly 18 months since Russian troops poured over Ukrainian borders, the U.S. has unleashed a war chest worth more than $43 billion to bolster Kyiv’s arsenal.

WASHINGTON — The White House unveiled a nearly $40 billion supplemental funding request on Thursday to provide additional aid to Ukraine and respond to natural disasters, including wildland firefighter pay and border management.

The White House is seeking $12 billion for ongoing disaster relief, $60 million to cover pay increases for firefighters and $3.9 billion to address border and migration issues.

The request came as federal agencies, led by FEMA, mobilized to respond to deadly wildfires in Hawaii that already claimed three dozen lives. President Joe Biden said FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell would be on Maui by Friday, but he warned the danger is “not over yet.”

Biden’s request also seeks over $24 billion in additional funding for Ukraine’s slow-moving defense against Russia’s illegal invasion.

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Biden Seeks $13 Billion for Ukraine Defense as GOP Protests

  • Request included in $40 billion emergency spending bill
  • Proposal seeks $12 billion in extra disaster-relief funding

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Bipartisan support for Ukraine aid has held steady in the US Senate, but the funding has become controversial in the House, where McCarthy has promised not to bring an assistance package to the floor if it skirts defense-spending caps set in the May debt-ceiling agreement…

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Pamela Geller

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J6 Committee Destroyed Key Records, Proving the Whole Thing Was Fixed From the Start

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It is by now abundantly clear that the Jan. 6 “insurrection” was not the work of Trump supporters, but of Leftist plants in the crowd at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, directed by feds who were avid to frame and destroy Trump. Any lingering doubt about this has now been put definitively to rest by the revelation that the self-righteous apparatchiks who ran the House Jan. 6 Committee show trial did not preserve mountains of evidence that apparently disproved the left’s official narrative about what happened on that fateful day. Like the Stalinists they are, it looks as if they framed their enemies and then destroyed the evidence of their own crime.

Fox News reported Tuesday that “the House select committee that investigated the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 failed to adequately preserve documents, data and video depositions – including communications it had with the Biden White House that are still missing – according to the Republican lawmaker overseeing the GOP investigation into the committee’s work.”

Now one would think that a committee that was so ostentatious about its own virtue in hunting down the left’s bête noire, Donald Trump, would have been scrupulous in the extreme about preserving all the relevant evidence, so as to prove forever to skeptics and MAGA holdouts that the evil Orange Man did indeed try to stir up his witless redneck minions to overthrow the government and install him as a dictator, right? Yet instead, the J6 committee was at best cavalier about preserving the evidence, and at worst, worked actively to destroy it.

What’s more, Fox notes that the committee “has also failed to provide any evidence that it looked into Capitol Hill security failures on the day of the riot.” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) “said his staff has had difficulty gathering all the information it needs to investigate Rep. Bennie Thompson’s handling of the J6 investigation.” Loudermilk added: “Part of our task as this oversight subcommittee is to actually address the security failures, look into how did it happen… how were these folks able to get into the Capitol.”

How indeed? The committee ignored video of Trump supporters actually stopping people from breaking windows at the Capitol. It likewise ignored video of DC cops going undercover into the crowd at the Capitol that day as Antifa. We still don’t know how many feds were masquerading as Trump supporters on that day. Back in April, Roger Roots, the attorney for Jan. 6 defendant Dominic Pezzola, a member of Proud Boys, filed a motion to “compel the United States to reveal all informants, undercover operatives and other Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) relating to the events of January 6.” Roots’ motion states that “witnesses first admitted there was one CHS embedded among the Proud Boys on Jan. 6. Then there were two; then there were three. Then the government stipulated on April 4 that there were 8 FBI CHSs among the Proud Boys.” And that’s just the FBI. Nor did the committee ever explain the video of police opening the Capitol doors and ushering protesters inside on that day.

In light of all that they were covering up, it’s no surprise that the committee’s documents were in disarray. Loudermilk noted that “nothing was indexed. There was no table of contents index. Usually when you conduct this level of investigation, you use a database system and everything is digitized, indexed. We got nothing like that. We just got raw data. So it took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all from the Blue Team.” The “Blue Tea” was “the group within the J6 committee that was directed to investigate security failures at the Capitol.” Loudermilk “explained that sources have told him the Blue Team was essentially ‘shut down’ by the committee in order to focus on placing the blame on former President Trump.” Loudermilk added: “What we also realized we didn’t have was the videos of all the depositions.”

What is the committee hiding? The answer is obvious: the whole thing was a frame-up from the beginning. Trump didn’t incite or lead an insurrection, there never was any insurrection at all, and the committee knew this from the beginning, just as Alexandra Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, knew it when she admitted that the Jan. 6 protesters had “no guns, no plans,” and were “just people taking selfies.”

The Jan. 6 Committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Frame Trump), insists that “the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions.” Not obligated. One would think the committee would have felt obligated to preserve anything, legal requirements or no, in order to avoid even the appearance of impropriety and provide abundant evidence to prove its case beyond any doubt.

Instead, the committee has proven that it was conducting a Stalinist show trial from the beginning. But with the Biden regime in power and Merrick Garland still at the helm of the “Justice” Department, this is more likely to get Thompson a commendation and plum appointment rather than any investigation, much less prosecution.

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Robert Spencer

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Kazakh Tycoon Linked to Chechen Warlord Who Called for Jihad On U.S. Bought Hunter a Sports Car After Dining With Joe

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“This is the Big Jihad which we must all take part in.”

Can the Biden crime family get any tawdrier? They’re already giving the Clintons a run for their money.

The House Oversight Committee has revealed that in “April, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch, wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai. The next day, a payment was made from Rosemont Seneca Bohai for a sportscar for Hunter Biden in the amount of $142,300. Archer and Biden then arranged for Burisma executives to visit Kazakhstan in June 2014 to evaluate a three-way deal among Burisma, a Chinese state-owned company, and the government of Kazakhstan.”

This came after a meeting involving Joe Biden and figures linked to Russian and Kazahkh regimes.

In the spring of 2014, Joe joined Hunter and a handful of his business partners for dinner at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. Those at the dinner included Kenes Rakishev, Karim Massimov, Yelena Baturina and possibly Eric Schwerin.

Archer confirmed that Joe was present long enough to eat dinner with the group.

Following the dinner, $3.5 million was wired from Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina into Rosemont Seneca Thornton on February 14.

On April 22, $142,300 was wired into the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account from Kenes Rakishev, a businessman from Kazakhstan, who was also at the Café Milano dinner.

The payment was made as a gift to Hunter, who received an ‘expensive car.’

Archer told the committee: ‘I believe it was a Fisker first and then a Porsche.’

Who’s Kenes Rakishev and what might he have wanted from the Bidens? 2014 is an interesting date.

In 2014, Rakishev obtained a stake in BTA Bank from the Kazakh government, after the Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev temporarily nationalized the bank. Nazarbayev had seized BTA Bank from Kazakhstani billionaire and pro-democracy activist Mukhtar Ablyazov, who feuded with Nazarbayev. Rakishev obtained a controlling stake in the company. The main assets of the company were its claims against Ablyazov, estimated at $6 billion

On February 14, 2014, Rakishev became the new chairman of Kazakhstan-based BTA Bank’s board of directors. The decision was made during an unscheduled meeting of the bank’s shareholders

The timing here is fairly obvious.

Joe Biden was having dinner with the banker for Kazakhstan’s dictator who was looking to recover some cash and gain international legitimacy. And that made Joe Biden kissing cousins with Putin’s Chechen strongman

Once Rakishev did get involved, Ablyazov’s own investigators found that he was working with people close to Ramzan Kadyrov, including Krotov. An Ablyazov acquaintance told reporters from The Project that Krotov played the role of someone who “could kick your ass, if needed.”

The Ablyazov acquaintance also said that the Chechens went on the attack, demanding that Ablyazov’s assets be transferred to Rakishev.

Rakishev and Kadyrov have known each other since the mid-2000s, and frequently appear in photographs together.

In a Facebook post, the Chechen leader heaped praise on Rakishev: “He helps our people a lot, he often visits me, always shares with me his joys and sorrows. He’s well-known and respected in Chechnya. The people call my BROTHER a prince.”

Here’s Ramzan Kadyrov doing what he does.

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has declared the war in Ukraine to be ‘the Big Jihad’ while urging Russian Muslims to rise up and fight ‘demons’ and the forces of ‘Satanic democracy’.

Kadyrov raged: ‘I swear with the Almighty’s name, this is the Big Jihad which we must all take part in.

‘And we will not stop. We will be killing them wherever they are. No matter who is helping them, America or Europe. There is nothing to worry about.”

Nothing to worry about when you’ve got a Biden on your team.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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Michigan State Police Discovered Widespread 2020 Voter Fraud & Turned Over Evidence to FBI—Who Apparently Did Nothing

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Last evening a gentleman informed me that he believes the claims of 2020 Election Fraud were preposterous and “made-up.” Merely a conspiracy theory and Trump being a “poor sport” in losing. After two and a half years of diligent, very slow but steady and emotionally painstaking work proving otherwise, there are still those who choose to live in their self-made “comfortably numb” bubble. I think their predecessors on the Titanic were similar as they were told to leave their staterooms, prepare to board life boats and evacuate the ship. Dressed in high fashion expensive clothing, and growling at the inconvenience these similarly “comfortably numb” remained in their self-made bubbles of opinion even as they were escorted onto the main deck and saw the iceberg mountain the ship had struck which led to the giant ship already tilting downward having taken on mammoth amounts of water. They were far more interested in what would be on the breakfast menu then the reality before them.

Evidence be damned…similar to the “I’m content in my comfortable world of Marxist philosophy and/or sufficient money capable of snuffing out noise and distractions not to my taste” predecessors, the self-absorbed non critical thinkers of today just cannot be bothered examining evidence, their minds are already set or dulled or both! Furthermore their life-styles have not been terribly altered…yet! With less funds and positions of comfort a large number of the younger generation who have been indoctrinated via the school and college systems are, likewise, simply not able to critically think their way through the mounting evidence of planned deterioration our country is experiencing.

A preponderant number of elected officials in public office and candidates seeking such positions have conveniently loss what our founders established and demonstrated in their own lives – Service above Self. It is no longer relevant to place God and Country above or before self when seeking or holding public office. Self-made agendas leading to higher positions is the game. Defending the principles and foundational beliefs of our exceptional nation are no longer proper; or worse, they are racist or some other derogatory term. America may not die from bullets or bombs but be destroyed from within by those who have chosen to alter and abolish our country to serve their own means, their own agendas, their own pride and prejudice. America may very likely survive from patriots, even a remnant, who in their heart believe and are willing to stand, be counted, terribly abused and slandered defending the principles and foundational beliefs of our exceptional nation. Members of the Michigan State Police are such an example.

After two and a half years of diligent, very slow and emotionally painstaking work, there are remnant patriots across our Land still fighting the good fight. Fighting to prove the 2020 Election (2022 Election as well) was a diabolical deception, corrupted financially and otherwise, fraud, even a conspiracy to destroy the basic gift our founders presented to us if we would only hold on to it; the gift of free and unencumbered elections. Look at the link below to see still more evidence presented by the Michigan State Police, and purportedly covered-up by the FBI. For those comfortably numb in their bubble simply move on nothing to see, nothing to learn. But if you consider yourself a remnant patriot like our brothers and sisters in the colonies of 1775, hunker down and continue to fight for the life of this country.

Michigan State Police Discover Widespread 2020 Voter Fraud and Turn Over Evidence to FBI – Who Apparently Did Nothing

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Stunning discovery being shared by Gateway Pundit about a network of massive ballot fraud and voter registration fraud in Michigan as a result of a city clerk notifying local police.  The investigation uncovered a multi-state voter registration operation and the details within the state police report are quite remarkable.

(Gateway Pundit) […] On October 8, 2020. only one month before the 2020 general election, Muskegon, MI City Clerk Ann Meisch noticed a black female (whose name was redacted from the police report), dropping off between 8,000-10,000 completed voter registration applications at the city clerk’s office.

The Muskegon Police Department was contacted and asked to investigate. On 10/21/20 First Lieutenant Mike Anderson was contacted by Tom Fabus, Chief of Investigations for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Office. According to the MI State Police report, Mr. Fabus asked for Michigan State Police assistance with a joint investigation of alleged voter fraud being conducted by the Muskegon Police Department and the AG.   An investigative task force was formed, and an investigation was initiated. (read more)

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Why Prostitution is Not ‘Sex Work’

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Since the 1970s, a tactical and politically driven agenda has been advanced to promote the global sex trade. This agenda has rested on the reframing of prostitution along two seemingly disparate lines, one being the promotion of prostitution as ordinary work, and the other being the promotion of prostituted people as a sexual minority. Although powerful interest groups have expended a great deal of energy and finance in shifting public opinion on both these points, the reality is that neither of these things are true.

Prostitution is neither sex nor work. 

Why Prostitution is Not “Sex”

Sex is a mutual exchange of pleasure, whether it happens within the context of a loving and committed relationship, a brief encounter between strangers, or anything on the spectrum in between. Sexuality is something which is shared in a spirit of mutuality. It is not something ever forced, bought, duped, bullied or coerced.

Pressure, intimidation and compulsion do not happen where mutuality exists, but they happen where ‘consent’ does every day. That is why consent is not a good divining rod for healthy sexuality. The presence or absence of mutuality is the determining factor in a psychologically and emotionally healthy sexual exchange, not consent. 

Mutuality is absent in the context of prostitution. There is none of the sexual giving and receiving that constitutes the reciprocity inherent to a mutually willing sexual exchange. Instead, sexually unwilling and uninterested people (usually female), submit to unwanted sex demanded by other people (almost always male), every day, usually multiples times per day, and because this unwanted sex is actively solicited, it is defined as consensual. The word ‘consent’ therefore creates an illusion; it is a linguistic tool that misrepresents sexual abuse as sex. It is espoused by liberal feminists and other progressives who either don’t know or don’t care to know that they’re endorsing sexual abuse on an industrial scale.

We must hold firm the distinction between sex and sexual abuse, and the clearest way to do it is to hold firm the distinction between consent and mutuality. ‘Consent’ exists in prostitution, and in numerous other human rights violations, if capitulation out of desperation is synonymous with consent; but mutuality does not exist in prostituted sex, and prostituted sex is antithetical to a spirit of mutuality. Mutuality, then, as a concept, reveals the reality of prostitutions unwilling nature. Prostitution does not constitute sex any more than rape does, because in both cases sex is brought about by factors devoid of mutuality.

We must hold firm the distinction between sex and sexual abuse, and the clearest way to do it is to hold firm the distinction between consent and mutuality. ‘Consent’ may exist in prostitution, but mutuality cannot.CLICK TO TWEET

Given prostitution doesn’t constitute mutual sex, it is an absurdity to assign prostituted people the status of a sexual minority. It is, however, a very calculated absurdity. It is also an egregious and indefensible cruelty, considering the decades of research that correlate childhood sexual abuse with prostitution.

Why Prostitution is Not “Work”

Not every activity which is compensated should be dignified by the terms ‘employment’ and ‘work.’ We see and accept this when we’re talking about human rights violations elsewhere, in sweat shops for example. When we examine prostitution however, we see that, unlike sweat shops, it is not the conditions of the ‘labour’ which renders it unviable employment, but every aspect of what passes for labour and, beyond that, the very structure of the framework within which it occurs. Prostitution, as an institution, is abusive in and of itself.

Safe working conditions are integral to any form of employment, but given the very essence of prostitution – not just its conditions of operation or any of the external circumstances that affect it, such as legislation – is harmful in a multitude of ways, prostitution is an irredeemable form of exploitation and in no meaningful way comparable to actual work.

Prostitution is an irredeemable form of exploitation and in no meaningful way comparable to actual work. CLICK TO TWEET

Prostitution does not function like employment on any axis beyond the compensation involved, and even then, it functions very differently. A prostituted person does not enjoy any career progression. Quite the opposite is true. The more experienced a person is in prostitution, the less they are valued and the less they are paid.

A person in actual employment will have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience over the course of twenty years, and be compensated accordingly – a person in prostitution will also have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience, and be considered very close to worthless because of it. A person in actual employment for thirty years will be at the head of their division, or organisation, and often be getting ready to retire with a comfortable and secure pension – a person thirty years in prostitution will be considered utterly worthless and be left bereft, unable to feed themselves. Prostitution operates unlike any actual form of employment at every stage, including its miserable conclusion.

The presentation of prostitution as normal, ordinary employment aligns with the ideological convictions of far-left voices who’ll never have to live it, and it serves the interests of the pimping and trafficking gangs that massively profit from it, but it contributes absolutely nothing of value to the lives of those caught in systems of prostitution worldwide.

There are those heavily invested in presenting prostitution as a matter of sexuality, in order that it can be presented as a matter of sexual freedom and aligned with the rights of sexual minorities. The same people will frame the incongruent argument that prostitution shouldn’t even bear its own name – that it’s valid and acceptable employment and ought to be known as ‘sex work.’ In reality, prostitution is neither sex nor work, much less both at the same time.

Prostitution is neither sex nor work, much less both at the same time. CLICK TO TWEET

ACTION: Ask your Legislators to oppose full decriminalization of the sex trade!

The misleading narrative reframing prostitution as “sex work” has led to increased support for harmful policies that decriminalize pimping, sex buying, and brothel keeping. These policies would hurt survivors and expand the exploitative prostitution marketplace. Please help your legislators understand the true nature of prostitution, and urge them to oppose full decriminalization of the sex trade, by filling out the action form below!

ACTION: Ask your legislators to oppose full decriminalization of the sex trade!

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Interest Rate Hikes Fail To Pump The Brakes As Inflation Rises

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Inflation rose in July after steadily declining from a high of 9.1% in June 2022, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Thursday.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods like energy and food, increased 3.2% on an annual basis in July, compared to 3.0% in June, according to the BLS. Core CPI, which excludes the volatile categories of energy and food, remained high, rising 4.7% year-over-year in July, compared to 4.8% in June.

“Inflation has become much more ingrained in the economy than the White House, Congress, or the Fed want to admit,” E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Combined with slowing economic growth, we have the perfect recipe for stagflation.”

The largest contributor to the increase was shelter, which rose 0.4% for the month of July and contributed to over 90% of the total increase in inflation, according to the BLS.

The Federal Reserve, in an attempt to slow inflation, raised interest rates for the 11th time since March 2022 in July, bringing the Fed’s federal funds target rate within a range of 5.25% and 5.50%. The rate is the highest since 2001.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell remarked after the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting that he did not believe that the inflation rate would return to the normal level of 2% until 2025. He noted that interest rates will be lowered before the inflation rate reaches that level.

“I think Powell is right when he says inflation will not return to 2 percent until 2025,” Antoni told the DCNF. “The Fed under his chairmanship simply doesn’t happen the stomach to fight inflation. Given today’s interest rates and current economic conditions, the Fed’s balance sheet is about $5.3 trillion too big. Powell lacks the will to sell off that much in assets.”

The U.S. added 187,000 jobs for the month of July, 13,000 fewer than economists expected, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. The number of jobs for the months of June and May was revised down by a cumulative 49,000 jobs.

The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 2.4% in the second quarter of 2023, surprising economists who anticipated a more modest expansion of 2%.

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WILL KESSLER

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Los Angeles Schools Create Sex Clubs In Elementary School to Indoctrinate Children Into LGBTQ

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SICK AND EVIL!

‘LGBTQ+ Liberation’: Los Angeles Schools Create Guide For Elementary ‘Rainbow Clubs’

By  Spencer Lindquist •   • DailyWire.com

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) created a guide to organizing “Rainbow Clubs” for elementary school students, which included lessons on “LGBTQ+ liberation,” activism, and “protest art.”

The district explains in a document that the groups are “for LGBTQ+ elementary students and their friends.”  It links to a 20-page “Rainbow Club Activity Guide” produced by LAUSD’s Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department, which provides a detailed list of discussion topics and lessons.

The activity guide contains “art, books, games, and other activities related to LGBTQ+ identity for elementary students.”

“Rainbow Clubs are inclusive spaces for elementary students to explore LGBTQ+ related topics,” the guide explains. “This is a space for celebrating many types of identities, including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Nonbinary, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Ace and Two Spirit identities!”

A section titled “LGBTQ+ Liberation” discusses political activism, saying, “Activists are people who work to change things they don’t think are fair about the world. They speak up when they see something that isn’t right and work with other people to come up with solutions.”

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Pamela Geller

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund Who Reveals What Really Happened on January 6th

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Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Tucker’s Fox News interview with him never aired, so he invited him back.

WATCH AND LISTEN: 

Tucker on Twitter—Episode 15 Former Capitol Chief Steven Sund.

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Pamela Geller

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Where Will All the Craziness Lead?

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We now live in a country, indeed a world, that long ago surpassed the limits of my imagination for craziness. I grew up in a time when we watched what were considered science fiction movies that, in spite of being entertaining, were simply laughable when thinking the content could ever become “reality”. But voila, we now see much of what those old movies portrayed becoming “truth out of fiction”, so I am trying to put into proper perspective the events I now see that, if this were the 1960’s, would be considered beyond the possible. But they are not only possible, they are actually being accepted by some people as the norm.

All of the craziness, the woke lunacy, the climate change madness, climate “geo-engineering” stupidity, the worldwide promotion of anti-God abominations such as transgenderism, the deliberate destruction of our own financial system and currency, the complete inability of the U.S. government to keep its nose out of the entire World’s business, and mainly, the destruction of our future through the murder of millions of unborn children, are NOT merely signs of a nation heading in the wrong direction; rather, they are the visible  symptoms of a very sick nation, suffering from a spiritual disease that is manifesting in the physical realm.

Proper Diagnosis is a Necessity

A doctor trying to diagnose a disease in a human being will look at a myriad of possibilities for the cause(s) of the symptoms displayed. In this way, he or she can narrow the list of possible causes down to the most likely ones. As Christians who are concerned for the direction our nation is headed, we must also examine the various possibilities to explain the symptoms we see.

Humanity was created by a sovereign act of a God who desired to be the father of an abundance of children. He had previously created multitudes of angels who do His bidding, mostly without question or hesitation (Lucifer and his followers being the exceptions) but his work on the beings He called humans was something very different from His work with angels: He made a being He called “man” and gave him one “X” chromosome and one “Y” chromosome in his DNA structure. From the man, He made (skillfully crafted) a being having two “X” chromosomes to complement man and called her “woman” because she was taken out of the man. She was very different from the man physically (Thank God), mentally and spiritually; when she was given to the man and the two of them became one flesh in God’s eyes, that “proper combination” of chromosomes from two different beings was the combination needed to produce a brand new being, consisting of the seed” from the man and an egg from the woman that, when properly joined together, would allow for the procreation of a race of beings that would become the family that God longed for.

No matter what some of the lunatics claim, there is absolutely no way for a being with two “X” chromosomes to unite with another being having two “X” chromosomes and procreate. Has never happened, and will never happen. The result of that idiotic attempt is the deception that prevents some from ever realizing just how beautiful God’s plan of procreation could be. The offspring that should have come from the proper combination will never be realized in the deceived, and that is a shame. But we are currently seeing a drastic drop in reproduction rates in most nations in the west, some of which is likely a result of that particular craziness.

What the Globalists call their “valiant effort to save the planet from man”, is what we rational beings call complete lunacy. The perpetrators of the craziness seem to want us to believe it will end, according to the leaders of The Great Reset and the “Defenders of the Planet”, along with the Climate Change Enthusiasts, when we all capitulate and allow them to take over completely and solve the problems; of course their plan ends with them and their minions in total control of every human asset, every person, every nation, “for the good of all”, of course and with all human beings, except them, living as slaves.

God’s Diagnosis of the U.S. Disease

The diagnosis of the disease of this nation is: Acceptance of evil over good, in contradiction with the origin of the United States as a Christian nation.

What happens when a person, or a nation, accepts evil over good on a long-term basis? The Apostle Paul details that in the Book of Romans, chapter One. In verses 18-32, he explains that everyone on the earth is, and will be, held accountable by God because His existence, and therefore His authority over all the earth and its inhabitants, is displayed in His creation; those who refuse to acknowledge God as the Person He claims to be have placed their future in the hands of Satan, and NOT God. Such a position always leads to a life filled with evil acts, followed by death.

When people ignore and/or reject God and decide to make themselves wiser than God, they have set themselves on a course that will only end in their own deaths (verse 32). They develop a love for evil and sin, and a hatred for righteousness and God. They reject anything from God that would bring them back on to the right course, and as their desire for evil continues, the signs of their rebellion become more and more open and obvious, as we now see here in our nation.

The end result of all that craziness is the decline of the United States, a formerly “Christian Nation”, the “Pride of the West”, into a nation accelerating on a certain path to destruction. The U.S., the last bastion of freedom in a world becoming enslaved by evil and groaning under the weight of the heavy-handed elites who desire nothing more than total capitulation to their evil agenda, is the epitome of that declining nation.

No matter what the crazies say about their agenda, for example, that they are only trying to establish and support love between people regardless of their chromosomal structure, they justify it by saying that “Love is Love”, even though they do not know the God of Love and therefore have no idea what Love really is.

The Prognosis: Ever-Increasing Internal Rot

The crazy signs we see are indicative of a nation that is soon to disappear from the earth. History has recorded the death of nations, empires and civilizations that refused to acknowledge the existence and the sovereignty of an Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent God who keeps a close watch on all human activities on the Earth. There is no human activity of which our God is not aware and all attempts to pre-empt God as the sovereign One in the Earth are recorded by Him.

Evil begets more evil and it never remains stationary or stagnant because Satan doses not rest in his attempt to usurp all authority over mankind. Knowing that his fate is eternally sealed, he is determined to drag as many willing humans down to the hell reserved for him and his fallen angels.

History has shown us that when a society lowers its moral standards and refuses to allow those standards to be properly used as guidelines in every action, whether personal, commercial or legal, eventually morals collapse like a balloon with an air leaking. When enough air is expelled, the balloon becomes deflated and completely useless. The Roman Empire is probably the best example of this. Incompetence in government leadership, financial malfeasance and overextending the military are only some of the reasons for the fall of that magnificent empire. Division over religious and ideological lines were also to blame. The end  result was an internal collapse that became external. Added together, the many issues produced a lack of moral standards that destroyed any unity among the people of the empire, and that lack of unity overpowered the ability of any Roman leader to maintain any control over the empire.

It should be easy for all to see how much the United States compares to the final days of the Roman Empire.

The Most Likely Long-Term Outcome: National Death

The United States has crossed too many red lines in God’s sand. This once-great nation that decided to dance to Satan’s tune must now pay the piper and the price will be far beyond anything man can comprehend. We are witnessing what seems like a mad rush to an agonizing death, both individually and nationally.

One would think that, based on the history of the nation, the majority of the populace would never go along with policies that will bring death and destruction to possibly millions of people. After all, we are among the most “enlightened” of all the nations on earth and that enlightenment should be a basis for behavior that would counter those who have planned the death and destruction outcome.

But the recent Covid “fear pandemic” that brought the entire nation to its knees (and NOT in prayer) proved that fear is a powerful force that can, and often does, cause people to do things they would never consider doing if they stood in faith against evil in instead of giving in to the fear. Fear accepted negates one’s faith and leads to deception. Acceptance of deception is a sure step toward a state of delusion that can damn one’s soul eternally.

The human outlook on the present situation in the U.S., being that most rational humans will NOT accept the slavery planned for the rest of humanity, and will fight against it with all their collective abilities, might tend to bring some comfort in the midst of chaos to some but if the reasons, or the causes, of the national disease are not dealt with, no amount of fighting against the coming death will help.

I have seen death manifested on a physical level in the lives of many family members and fiends over the years. It is never a pleasant event because it seems so permanent; it can easily cause one to lose any hope of ever seeing a person again, especially if the dead was not a born-again individual.

But as devastating as the death of a friend or loved family member can be, the death of a nation, a culture or a species is far more disturbing.

Where Does It All End?

Should Americans, especially Christian Americans be concerned about all the craziness we see all around us? We have been told in advance of the events that will precede the return of Jesus Christ to take His Body, the Church, out of this world, so in that sense we should NOT be concerned, but on the other hand, there are millions of people who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior and they are totally unprepared to face the chaos and horror of the events that are coming. We should be doing everything in our power to warn them and lead them to the Truth, otherwise they will die in a lost state and will not ever know what true peace is.

For the Christian, we should rejoice in knowing that the events unfolding are proof of the veracity and the validity of God’s word. If we can see God in these events, as terrible as they may seem to be, we, as believers can certainly see God in His promises to us who know Him and are covered by, and redeemed by, the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Our outlook should be that, despite all the evil around us, all the coming chaos and destruction, we will see Him and know Him in His glory and His majesty, and He has promised to always be with us.

But most importantly, and the only outlook that really matters, is that of the Being who owns the Earth and everything in it: God, the Creator of all things.

But some may say, “Well, if this God Who created all things is aware that man has so screwed all things up, leaving  little hope for the future of the planet, should He not be trying to fix the problems”? In fact, God knew far in advance of all the craziness we see now, and He did His work to fix those problems by sending His Son to redeem all mankind back to a relationship and fellowship with Him. For all those who have accepted God’s completed “fix”, the craziness has already ended.

Trust me, God has the situation well in hand, His hand, and when the time is right, His solution to all the “problems” will manifest. I for one, do not believe the Globalists will like what His solution entails.

Conclusion

The craziness will end, and for us who are believers, it will be when God sends Jesus to take His body off this Earth to be with Him forever. For those who decide to stay and ride out the horrors of the time of God’s wrath and destruction, His cleansing work on the earth, the craziness will never end. In fact, it will worsen and the eternal outlook for them is dire.

But, God will have His way, and His plan is to cleanse the earth of all sin and evil in preparation for the thousand year reign of Jesus during which time we will be assisting Him in the renovation of the globe. I do not know the day of His return, but I have great faith that it will occur and even greater hope that it will occur soon!

Blessings and Maranatha!

©2023. Bud Hancock. All rights reserved.

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Trial Likely In Hunter Biden Case After Plea Deal Falls Apart, Prosecutors Say

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Federal prosecutors said Friday that a trial is likely in the Hunter Biden tax evasion case.

In a Friday motion, prosecutors said plea negotiations that continued after Hunter Biden’s deal fell apart during his July 26 hearing “are at an impasse.” Biden’s team had sought immunity for charges unrelated to allegations of tax evasion in a pretrial diversion agreement, prompting Judge Maryellen Noreika to intervene in the deal.

“The Government now believes that the case will not resolve short of a trial,” the court filing states.

Prosecutors filed the motion Friday to dismiss charges filed in Delaware so the government could bring charges in a different district. The filing notes the venue for the charges “does not lie in Delaware” and would be either in the Central District of California or Washington, D.C.

“The information was filed in this District because the parties had previously agreed that the Defendant would waive any challenge to venue and plead guilty in this District,” the motion says.

Biden’s initial plea deal, which would have had him plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversion agreement allowing him to avoid jail time for a felony gun charge, included a promise of broad immunity for future charges that Noreika uncovered during the hearing through careful questioning.

The diversion agreement that contained the immunity provision outlined payments Biden received from his business dealings in China, Ukraine and Romania, which legal experts said could have shielded him from potential future charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

If the government files charges in another district, it would bring Hunter Biden’s case before a different judge than Noreika.

Noreika, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who had support from Delaware’s Democratic senators, was confirmed in 2018. Campaign donation records from her time working at a law firm in the private sector reveal she donated to both Democrats and Republicans.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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KATELYNN RICHARDSON

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Rolling Stone becomes latest Leftist publication to glamorize ‘Palestinian’ jihad terrorists

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This is not the first time that Rolling Stone has glamorized jihadis.

Rolling Stone Jumps On Pro-Terrorist Bandwagon

by Karen Bekker, CAMERA, August 3, 2023:

Although they’re slightly late to the party, Rolling Stone seems to have gotten the memo that the latest trend in antisemitic agitation posing as journalism is glamourizing young Palestinian terrorists. A nearly 6000-word piece by Jesse Rosenfeld – who has previously written for +972, The Nation, and Al Jazeera – fails to inform readers of Palestinian rejectionism, payments of salaries to convicted terrorists, or the effect of terror on Israeli society.

Instead, Rosenfeld portrays “Gen Z” terrorists as having no alternative but to take up arms against Israeli civilians: “‘Israel has left us no choice,’” he quotes his 22 year-old interview subject, a member of a Jenin-based terror cell, saying. “‘The occupation has proven that the more we are silent, the more it will take from us.’” What Israel has attempted to give to the Palestinians – that is, independence – isn’t mentioned.

And at the same time, the article portrays Israeli actions as wantonly evil. (“Generals, Peaceniks, and Palestinian Fighters Agree: Bibi Must Be Stopped,” July 22, reprinted on Yahoo.)

The piece brings to mind the adage that “a half-truth is a whole lie.” Consider the following passage from Rosenfeld’s article:

Elias and Mohammad al-Ashqar are in a state of shock. Sitting in the living room of their modest ground-floor family apartment in the Askar refugee camp on a brisk winter evening, they are surrounded by men from the community. The al-Ashqar brothers’ father, 61-year-old Abdel Hadi, had been shot and killed during an Israeli-army raid in the adjacent northern West Bank city of Nablus hours earlier.

The Israeli army stormed the crowded city at 10 a.m., opening fire as residents scrambled, abandoning their midmorning shopping to run for their lives down the winding streets.

Several paragraphs later, Rosenfeld does add that “the bloody Feb. 22 raid-turned-firefight was directed against the Lions’ Den.” From his description of events, however, a reader could easily think the IDF opened fire on Palestinian civilians for no reason at all. In fact, the Times of Israel reported, “The Israel Defense Forces said troops had entered Nablus to arrest [Hussam Bassam] Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October.” According to a military source, “soldiers surrounded a home where three suspects, all members of the Lion’s Den terror group, were holed up, demanding they turn themselves in,” a gun battle broke out between the members of the terror cell and the IDF, and civilians were tragically killed in the crossfire. But Rolling Stone would prefer its readers to think the Ashqar brothers’ grief is solely a result of gratuitous Israeli violence.

This is typical of the nature of the entire piece, which is so one-sided as to be grossly dishonest. As another example, Rosenfeld tells us that in 2022, “29 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.” But he did not humanize a single one of those Israelis, or the 20 civilians, including four children, that were killed so far in 2023, with the kind of story that he told about the Ashqar family. Posting the article, Rosenfeld tweeted, “I spoke to Palestinian fighters, leaders and occupied residents; former Israeli PM’s, a Shin Bet officer, a General and an army refusnik for this @RollingStone long read about Palestinian revolt in West Bank and unprecedented mass protest in Israel.” But he doesn’t appear to have spoken to any of the Israelis whose family members were lost to the terrorism he glamorizes, or those whose day-to-day lives have been damaged because of it.

Nor does he, in a 6000-word piece that took several months to report, relay any conversations with any members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own party, or with any of the approximately one million Israelis who voted for it. He does, however, speak to many Israelis who oppose Netanyahu. The Palestinian Authority has exacted retribution on its critics in the past, which is presumably at least one reason why Rosenfeld’s Palestinian interview subject “Abu Nidal,” uses a pseudonym. But the many opponents of the Netanyahu government in Israel, including his political rivals, feel free to speak openly to Rosenfeld, who obligingly quotes them at length and uncritically. They know that no harm will come to them as a result of their words….

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ROBERT SPENCER

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VIDEO: Russian Iskander Missile Hits the Reikartz Hotel Housing Foreign NATO Mercenaries in Ukraine

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M Files: 45 NATO mercenaries and servicemen were killed and 70 wounded.

Росія вчергове атакувала Запоріжжя, зруйновано готель. Відео шокуючих наслідків [Russia once again attacked Zaporizhzhia, the hotel was destroyed. Video of shocking consequences]:

Черговий удар країни-терориста по Запоріжжю [Another strike by a terrorist country on Zaporozhye]:

Слава Україні та її воїнам! [Glory to Ukraine and its soldiers!]

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‘Huge Mistake’: Anheuser-Busch and Other Brands Continue to Face Worldwide Boycott

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The year 2023 has been full of breaking news stories and madcap headlines. So far, it has entailed a bank collapse, four indictments of a former president, an AI revolution, investigations into the weaponization of the federal government, Hunter Biden’s controversial business dealings, and the list goes on.

In the midst of the political frenzy, one story continues to take the front page as more details are uncovered: the national boycott of several woke companies. The most recent development in this saga includes influential heirs and publications pointing out how far these companies have drifted from the values established by their founders.

Anheuser-Busch was the first to face a national boycott after Bud Light partnered with trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney, ultimately costing the beer company $395 million in North America alone. Soon after, Target, Levi Strauss, Starbucks, and Sports Illustrated “decided to follow transgender advocacy straight to financial insolvency.” Although one would say that the ultimate goal of these retailers is to provide goods and services in exchange for currency, some experts argue that their priorities have shifted.

“Nothing big changes quickly. Corporations started caring more about virtue signaling than serving customers when they started to be led by people who cared more about virtue signaling than serving customers,” Joseph Backholm, senior fellow for Biblical Worldview, told The Washington Stand. “It’s just a fixation with feelings caused by a lack of adult leadership.”

With the collapse of Anheuser-Busch still in full swing, Billy Busch — the great-grandson of Adolphus Busch — weighed in on what he thinks his ancestors would have to say about the direction the company has taken.

“I think my family, my ancestors, would have rolled over in their graves,” he said. “They believed that transgender, gays, that sort of thing was all a very personal issue. They loved this country because it is a free country and people are allowed to do what they want, but it was never meant to be on a beer can and never meant to be pushed in people’s faces.”

In an interview with Sean Hannity, Busch noted that his family “wouldn’t have ever gotten as political as this.” He said that his family lived by the motto “making friends is our business,” which entailed bringing people together, making for a fun drinking experience. He later added, “people that drink Bud Light — that drink beer — really don’t relate to that kind of advertising,” calling the Dylan Mulvaney partnership “a huge mistake.”

As Anheuser-Busch sales continue to plummet over their LGBT advocacy, another massive corporation has walked away from their foundational values, also resulting in a financial crash.

Disney was next to be pummeled by the boycott wave, eventually resulting in the entertainment behemoth taking a monetary beating earlier this year. Not only did two of their recent films, “Lightyear” and “Strange World,” cost them $258 million, but Disney’s “crowds are getting smaller” this summer. Management’s ongoing feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has also proven unsuccessful, as they recently announced the cancellation of their $1 billion construction complex in Florida. Some are attributing their recent downfall to their woke, political agenda, which contradicts the founder’s values.

“Roy and Walt Disney would be shocked to see how Disney’s values have changed, which I believe is the foundation of Disney’s downward spiral in the last few years,” Melissa Henson wrote in an opinion piece published by The Washington Times. “Disney’s shift over the past few years — from broken promises about keeping R-rated content off Disney+ to content that sexualizes children — may have a lot to do with the company’s dismal performance these last several months.”

While speculations have been made as to why so many corporations have been abandoned this year, Backholm addressed the morality of boycotting from a Christian perspective.

“When it comes to boycotting, I think Christians are prohibited from encouraging evil. It’s hard to know where that line is because we live in a sin-filled world, and you can’t ever escape connections to it. But if we become convinced that one action is likely to lead to evil, we can’t take that action.” Ultimately, Backholm concluded, “We should all have a line that we are unwilling to cross.”

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Abigail Olsson

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Biden: Already Declared Climate Emergency ‘Practically Speaking’

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President Biden has “practically speaking” already declared a national emergency on climate change, the president said in an interview with The Weather Channel published Wednesday. “We’ve conserved more land. We rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, we passed a $368 billion climate control facility.” At first, he said he had declared an emergency, but when pressed he said he had done so “practically speaking.”

The point of an emergency declaration is so that executives can exercise special powers to respond to an emergency, which would be unlawful under normal circumstances. However, due to the enormous powers they unlock, federal emergency declarations are limited by three federal laws.

Under the Public Health Service Act, the Health and Human Services Secretary can declare a public health emergency that grants the secretary extensive powers to respond to the public health emergency.

Under the Stafford Act, a state governor or tribal area chief executive can request federal assistance, allowing the president to declare a disaster or emergency; such a declaration enables the federal government to disburse financial assistance and other relief, coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Under the National Emergencies Act, the president may declare a national emergency without a request from a specific state, which confers 123 powers granted in other laws, although the president must specify which authorities are activated.

The law does not recognize a method of declaring an emergency, “practically speaking,” without an official declaration. Thus, even CNN acknowledged, “President Joe Biden incorrectly claimed in an interview with The Weather Channel that he has already declared a national emergency on the climate crisis.”

Biden elaborated on what he meant regarding a climate change emergency. “It’s the existential threat to humanity,” he stated. A threat to humanity’s existence would logically involve a threat to American lives, and a natural event that threatens American lives would typically be an appropriate subject for an emergency declaration. In that sense, it’s possible to follow Biden’s logic.

But while the logic is certainly clear, the solution is not. To protect lives during a hurricane, tornado, or manhunt, a governor could order citizens to evacuate, shelter in place, or avoid a certain area, as well as stockpiling emergency resources. Then, once the emergency is past, citizens can resume their normal lives. These are not only inadequate but meaningless responses to something as ill-defined as “climate change.” Evacuate to where? For how long? The current climate change narrative identifies a global crisis extending for lifetimes.

In fact, the lack of workable solutions might explain why President Biden has so far declined to declare a climate emergency. Biden has labelled climate change an “emergency” in speeches and vowed to combat it through executive actions, but he has stopped short of declaring an official emergency. If he did declare an emergency, what powers would he invoke, precisely?

Another possible reason for Biden’s delay is the inevitable legal and constitutional challenges, which he might then lose. Under normal circumstances, emergency powers are as short-lived as the crisis. But a climate emergency would be practically endless, enabling a presidential administration to sweep away America’s normal operating procedure forever, “practically speaking.” The courts have already struck down a number of Biden administration executive actions on the climate — from stopping offshore drilling to redefining inland waters — and they might not look too kindly on what would amount to a massive power grab.

But climate change is not the only issue on which emergency powers allure Biden. Biden has been contemplating an abortion emergency declaration since last year. He contemplated declaring an emergency over monkeypox, which primarily affects a very specific subset of the population. And he kept extending the COVID-19 emergency until long after he declared the pandemic over, and Congress had forced him to let it end. Somehow, under the president who promised to restore normalcy to Washington, everything is an emergency.

But President Biden’s track record with emergency declarations — specifically, considering them but not declaring them — suggests they serve a purpose other than good governance. That purpose is politics. When the chief executive is constantly mulling an emergency declaration, that stokes fear and alarm in the public, who assume he has alarming information they don’t. Fear can be a powerful motivator, driving people to vote, protest, or answer polls in the desired way. And many politicians today traffic almost exclusively in the rhetoric of fear. Even 70% of churchgoers have a growing sense of fear, although the Bible repeatedly exhorts them to “fear not.”

Biden is not the only figure to misuse an emergency declaration to advance a political agenda. In May, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) officially declared a state of emergency because the legislature was considering a school choice bill. In June, the Human Rights Campaign — an activist organization with no governmental or emergency power — declared a state of emergency for people in Florida who identify as LGBT because the state government enacted measures to check the inroads of transgender ideology in education and medicine. These nakedly political emergency declarations cheapen the whole concept, so that people are tempted to take it less seriously in the event of an actual emergency.

Today’s progressives are apparently trying to improve on former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel’s slogan, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” After lurching society to the Left, their worry is not that they might waste a crisis by failing to achieve their agenda, but that there aren’t enough crises to accommodate it all. Thus, they are proactively looking for crises to exploit or, if necessary, manufacture. “Is this a crisis?” they ask themselves. “Or rather, would people believe it is?”

Healthy representative governments don’t flit breathlessly from crisis to crisis, nor do they replace mature deliberation for fear-driven urgency. This is unacceptable, and it must not continue.

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Joshua Arnold is a staff writer at The Washington Stand.

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When the Transgender Movement Kills

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The most common question transgender activists use to bully parents into approving their daughter’s lifelong dependency on experimental hormone injections is: “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?”

But the tragic story of Abigail Martinez’s daughter, who took her own life after attempting to transition to life as a boy, proves what a false dichotomy that is.

A hard-hitting new film reveals how the trans movement inflicts death, depression, and familial estrangement in service of the pharmaceutical industry.

The story of Yaeli Martinez forms the heart of “Gender Transformations: The Untold Realities,” an original production of The Epoch Times. Though technically classified as a “docudrama,” the term does not do justice to the reality that plays out on the screen: The majority of the film consists of real people sharing heartbreaking true stories, without an interviewer’s prompting. Through their eyes, the 85-minute Epoch Original production traces the transgender contagion from its funding sources in Big Pharma, to ideologically extremist teachers who radicalize children behind their parents’ backs, to trans activists who brainwash and kidnap minors, to the irreversible damage the industry causes teens and young adults. Abigail Martinez sheds real tears for her daughter’s suicide — and real footage shows trans activists mocking her grief.

The “docudrama” label comes from the movie’s dramatization of the short life, radicalization, and death of Yaeli Martinez. The film renames Yaeli “Evie,” who transitions to “Evan.” But the recreation of Yaeli’s life — which can only be reconstructed, since she stepped in front of a train at age 17 — forms the narrative arc turning patchwork of first-person vignettes into a mosaic picture of lives callously shattered for profit.

Yaeli became indoctrinated in extreme gender ideology through a school LGBT group, where she eventually joined her “friends” in identifying as transgender. One night, Yaeli’s “friends” pulled up outside Martinez’s home, picked her up in an unmarked car, and whisked her away to an unknown location to live with other transgender-identifying young people. “They even took the license plate off of their car,” Martinez remembers.

Things got worse when the government got involved. Yaeli said her mother refused to affirm her identity, causing the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to put the minor into a group home. A judge would authorize the minor to receive transgender injections against her mother’s will. Eventually, Yaeli — who now identified as “Andrew” — brought her mother back into her life, just as newfound friends began to desert her and reality began to assert itself.

“She told me, ‘Mom, I realized that no matter what I do I’m never going to be like my brother. I’m in pain. I can’t sleep. I can’t concentrate,’” Martinez recalls. “’It’s not working the way that I thought.’”

One day in 2019, law enforcement gave Martinez the news that her daughter had committed suicide. “I was screaming. I said, ‘No, I want my daughter,’” Martinez later told The Daily Signal. She pleaded to be able to spend time with the body of her daughter, whom she had not seen since the child ran away.

“The gentleman from the funeral home told me there’s nothing really that you can see or recognize,” Martinez recalled.

All that remained of her child’s legacy was the undying hatred of the radical LGBTQ movement. The movie includes real footage of Martinez sharing her story, as trans activists yell, “Cry more!” and “What a sob story!”

After removing a child from a loving home and transitioning her, the Los Angeles government refused to acknowledge any responsibility for Yaeli’s death. “We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Andrew M., as well as to the LGBTQIA community which advocates relentlessly to protect its youngest and most vulnerable members from such tragedies,” responded the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

The statement said nothing about the role of the transgender movement — top to bottom — in creating the tragedy.

That story falls to Martinez and the movie’s ensemble of grieving parents, whistleblowing therapists, investigative journalists, and remorseful detransitioners.

The origin story of transgenderism’s social contagion begins by tracing the money back to the Big Pharma companies that manufacture these drugs. “If you’re going to look for anything in this country, you’re going to follow the money, because it will always tell you the truth. Who’s funding these LGB organizations?” asked writer and investigator Jennifer Bilek. “What I found was a whole lot of very, very powerful moneyed people in the highest echelons of finance, Pharma, and technology.” Dr. Katherine Welch, a concerned physician, agrees that pharmaceutical companies “fund the activists and the NGOs to stir up a lot of passion.” Then the companies ask for emergency use authorization, based on “a mental health crisis among our youth.” Thanks to their combination marketing-and-lobbying efforts, there is now “a $1.5 billion industry for surgery alone,” said lawyer Erin Friday. “And I think that’s an underestimate.”

The trail extends to dishonest researchers, such as John Money, and subject criteria set by organizations such as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The academic cohort produces the shoddy research trumpeted by the media, entertainment industry, and school officials. When Erin Friday learned her daughter had secretly begun identifying as a boy at school, administrators told her, “We need to be a safe space” for her child. “By extension, I’m unsafe,” said Friday.

The message promptly filters down to young people. A few confess to being amazed at the virtually godlike power they hold over their own bodies. “When I went into the Planned Parenthood building to [talk about] the surgery … I could pick from 25 sets of breasts,” said detransitioner David Bacon. “I could build myself.”

But most seek to rebuild themselves from a trauma, or they naïvely believe the transgender industry’s claims that the silver bullet for their depression lies at the end of a needle. Continually hearing the (scientifically inaccurate) mantra that children who identify as transgender will commit suicide if not immediately “affirmed” caused at least one woman to become profoundly depressed. “It made me feel even more hopeless, because I thought there was no way to accept myself. I had to get these painful surgeries and take hormones,” said detransitioner Catt Catinson. Her psychological evaluation “affirmed me immediately” and “just sort of overlooked my eating disorder” and childhood sexual abuse. Abel Garcia received the same treatment, even after telling them, “I might be autistic” and that he felt unsure whether he identified as transgender.

“The worst part, honestly, is that I was allowed to do all this, and that nobody was willing to stop me and have a second opinion,” says Garcia. “Instead, I was affirmed, I was love-bombed. I was allowed to destroy my body.”

So, was Yaeli Martinez, to whom the movie is dedicated.

“This pain never goes away,” says Abigail Martinez. “You breathe and you can feel the pain.”

Yet the movie ends with the hope that some victims of the transgender industry survive long enough to live as their authentic selves, the ones reflected by their biology. “It took me about a year to fully deprogram from gender identity ideology,” said Cattinson. “I feel like it was the act of deprogramming, just changing my beliefs, that allowed me to recover from my depression.” Now, she has reconnected with the family her embrace of gender ideology estranged. “It’s been very healing, having that family connection again. We can just be together and love each other.”

That gives hope to Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a therapist and social worker who believes adults caught up in the transgender movement “didn’t realize just how harmful this was.” One day, Americans will look back at this chapter as “a dark time in our history, but I don’t think this is going to last.”

But until then, the testimony of Martinez and other grieving families torn apart by extreme transgender ideology, preserved in this Epoch Original, reveals the incalculable consequences when darkness triumphs, even briefly.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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

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