The president of a college in Idaho has been fired shortly after imposing a double-mask mandate on campus, according to reports.
Rick MacLennan was ejected from his position as president of North Idaho College by the school’s Board of Trustees during a “chaotic” meeting on Wednesday.
Led by Board Chair Todd Banducci, the trustees voted 3-2 to terminate MacLennan and appoint Vice President Lita Burns as interim president until a suitable replacement is found.
In August, MacLennan imposed a rule requiring staff, students, and visitors wear two face coverings at virtually all times inside campus buildings.
The trustees quickly rescinded the mandate, inflaming preexisting tensions between MacLennan and some board members.
Police reportedly removed at least one woman from the meeting after she screamed at Chair Banducci.
The dominant wing of the Board of Trustees — Banducci, Greg McKenzie, and Michael Barnes — has been attacked by local media for being politically “right wing,” an anomaly in American higher education.
“This is a huge victory in the culture war here in North Idaho,” Dave Reilly, a local radio host and school board candidate, told Infowars. “Last year we elected Todd Banducci, Greg McKenzie and Michael Barnes to the board of trustees of North Idaho College because it needed to be reigned in.”
“Here we are less than a year later, and they’re actually getting the job done.”
“It’s not like D.C. politics where people promise you the moon and then fail to deliver. The Republicans in Kootenai County under the leadership of Brent Regan means business,” he asserted.
Lol, bye! This is how it’s done folks!
NIC President Fired by Republican board for implementing “mask mandate” at school…https://t.co/z8eoTfADYU
MacLennan reportedly served for five years as president at the school and is expected to collect 12 months of salary and benefits after the firing, per his contract.
Football players in Tennessee led parents and fans in a post-game prayer after a school district in the state was told that its teachers, coaches and staff are forbidden to do such.
According to WZTV, the Putnam County Schools (PCS) was forced to impose a rule that prohibits school staff from leading a prayer following a letter from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sharing about incidents of prayers and proselytizing at events in schools.
“As a district, we absolutely understand the importance of prayer in the lives of our students, faculty, and staff members. We support the right of students to participate in and lead spontaneous prayers. That right is and will continue to be protected. We also understand that faculty and staff members can not lead or participate in the spontaneous student-led prayers.”
In this regard, the players of Upperman High School and Stone Memorial High School decided to lead the prayers themselves after their game last week. They were joined by some parents who gathered around to pray with them.
The fans were moved and commended them for the action.
“Satan’s power was defeated tonight, as the threat of a legal action to forbid prayer after the game was overwhelmed by player lead prayer supported by parents and fans in solidarity on Overall Field. God bless the Baxter and Stone players for their faith and courage,” Bob Vick wrote on Facebook, captured by The Blaze.
According to Pew Research Center, major laws against religious activities in schools began when the Supreme Court ruled in the 1962 Engel v. Vitale case that a school-sponsored prayer violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
In June 1963, Bible reading was also banned when the Court upheld in “School District of Abington Township v. Schempp” case that doing such in public schools is unconstitutional.
In 1992’s Lee v. Weisman case, the highest court forbade clergies to conduct prayers in school ceremonies. In the 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy contended that composing “official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried out by the government” is not part of the latter’s business. He also noted the possibility of psychological coercion in such action.
The decision was said to have surprised many. Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented the majority’s opinion alongside Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justices Byron R. White and Clarence Thomas, described it as a rejection of history and tradition, favoring “the changeable philosophical predilections of the Justices of this Court.”
Further, in the “Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe case in June 2000, the Supreme Court prohibited student-led prayers before football games in high school. In the 6-3 decision, Justice John Paul Stevens ruled that such move conveys that unbelievers are “outsiders.”
“We recognize the important role that public worship plays in many communities, as well as the sincere desire to include public prayer as a part of various occasions so as to mark those occasions’ significance. But such religious activity in public schools, as elsewhere, must comport with the 1st Amendment,” he said at the time.
Stevens was supported by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O’Connor, Stephen G. Breyer, David H. Souter and Kennedy.
But Chief Justice Rehnquist opposed the majority’s opinion, saying that it “bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life.” Justices Scalia and Thomas also dissented the ruling.
School children in Wisconsin are forced to wear face masks to school even if they are vaccinated or had the coronavirus.
According to DHS Wisconsin these policies are still in place.
However, if you are one of the Afghan children who were lucky enough to get a flight from Kabul last month you are not required to wear masks at school.
Masks are only for the second-class American children. It’s the liberal way.
Recent photos were released by DVIDS military website:
Three Afghan evacuees learn English from other evacuees who have volunteered to teach on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 2021. The classes assist Afghan evacuees, who are here as part of Operation Allies Welcome, as they transition to life in the United States. These informal lessons occur at various times across the installation. The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees at suitable facilities, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Rhianna Ballenger, 55th Signal Company)
An Afghan evacuee learns English from other evacuees who have volunteered to teach on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 2021. The classes assist Afghan evacuees, who are here as part of Operation Allies Welcome, as they transition to life in the United States. These informal lessons occur at various times across the installation. The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees at suitable facilities, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Rhianna Ballenger, 55th Signal Company)
An Afghan evacuee learns English from other evacuees who have volunteered to teach on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 2021. The classes assist Afghan evacuees, who are here as part of Operation Allies Welcome, as they transition to life in the United States. These informal lessons occur at various times across the installation. The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees at suitable facilities, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan.
At a Homeland Security committee hearing today, Senator Romney grilled DHS Secretary Mayorkas about the President’s “human infrastructure bill.” As Romney said, the bill allows illegal aliens to get $300 a month, per child, by obtaining a tax ID number once they’re here. That is just one of many perks one gets for coming illegally.
Senator Mitt Romney actually said it’s outrageous. He can’t think of a more enticing reason to enter our country illegally – at the expense of American taxpayers.
An illegal alien family of four would get as much as $1200 per month, way above the wages for a family in Latin America.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas responded by saying our immigration system is broken because millions of illegal aliens are in the country.
It’s Democrat policies that are breaking the system. The irony of the accusation is stupefying.
He also tried to say there are only 11 million illegal aliens here and they would be the only ones who get the money.
Illegal aliens get the tax credits now. They pay taxes but get the money back as do 47% of American taxpayers and that makes them eligible for tax credits. Mayorkas is a liar since he undoubtedly knows this. In other words, 47% of the nation’s taxpayers have no skin in the game, and that includes illegal aliens who send our tax dollars home, wherever home is.
Deadbeats, or people who can’t make decent salaries, fuel the dependent class Democrats need to survive. Democrats are deliberately destroying our immigration system, especially our asylum and refugee laws, as part of their overall intent to take down the capitalist USA. They want a socialist-communist government and they are very close to having it. This is Cloward and Piven.
“The Cloward-Piven Strategy”—named for former Columbia University sociologists and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leaders Richard Cloward and his wife, Frances Fox Piven—posits that activists can effect radical change by “crashing the system.” Their theory—which echoes their ideological ally and intellectual godfather Saul Alinsky—encourages the orchestration of various crises designed to push society into economic turmoil and panic. Confronted by an escalating crisis, Cloward and Piven believed, the masses could more easily be led to accept explicitly socialist government interventions.
There is little doubt that the massive stream of humanity currently breaching our southern border is swiftly approaching a breaking point. In the wake of Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, the influx of unvetted refugees from that nation who bring with them the potential threat of Islamic terrorism has only compounded the growing catastrophe. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has amplified the crisis by weakening and undoing Trump-era reforms that helped to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Keep in mind that the fraud in these programs is massive. People with children in other countries collect now.
Watch the clip:
The President's "human infrastructure bill" would allow illegal immigrants to get $300/month, per child, by obtaining a tax ID number once they're here. It's outrageous. I can't think of a more enticing reason to enter our country illegally–at the expense of American tax payers. pic.twitter.com/nnIX9EMwjz
Biden has already promised Social Security and Medicare to illegal aliens. It will bankrupt the systems. Their tax plan will bankrupt both systems. Watch:
Not only has Joe spent decades in DC trying to cut Social Security & Medicare, just days ago he said that illegal immigrants should get the same benefits "everybody else has access too."
Giving illegals Social Security/Medicare would bankrupt both programs for American citizens! https://t.co/Wf2EjiJXSQ
There’s something so satisfying about seeing liberals in a sissy slap fight with other liberals – you just want to grab up a bowl of popcorn, pop some frosty brews, and egg them on. The good news is that there’s going to be more of this coming because of the nature of the Democrat coalition – it is less an ideological alliance than a bunch of interest groups united by their shared perception that the GOP is against what is in their respective interests. When their interests collide, which they will necessarily do, then the fun begins.
Look at Washington, where the caucus kept in line by the Scat Francisco dominatrix is falling apart before our eyes. Remember Bart Stupak? No, he’s not some Reno Buick dealer. He’s nobody anymore, and he’s nobody anymore because he listened to Nancy Pelosi a bit over a decade ago and voted for Obamacare even though his congressional district was not down with the sickness. As a result, in 2010, the Republicans took the socialized medicine votes of “moderate” Dems like Bart Stupak and used them as an electoral suppository. And, not to carry the analogy too far, dozens of moderate Democrats like Bart Stupak were expelled from Congress in figuratively Swalwellian/Nadlarian glory.
No one wants to be 2022’s Bart Stupak, but the inexplicably rich Speaker is still trying to get the nervous swing district Dems to dive on the grenade and vote for the trillions in spending that nobody in their purple districts wants. Safely ensconced in her commie hellhole by the Bay, she’s perfectly willing to let these blue dogs fight to the last drop of their blue blood for her pinko priorities. But this time, they don’t seem quite as willing to commit ritual suicide so the brother-marrying progs don’t have a meltdown as the Stupakers were in 2009.
This means Joe Biden is at grave risk of seeing his entire agenda go down at flames. This does not mean that he is at grave risk of realizing that what he is seeing is his entire agenda going down in flames because he is manifestly senile, but that’s another column.
Just watching Manchin and Sinema mock Schumer, who (as Hugh Hewitt noted) is desperate to ward off a primary challenge from up-talking, irony-free socialista AOC, restores one’s faith in cosmic justice. The libs are furious that Joe Manchin is ruining their party – it’s awesome. And their fussy threats are even more precious. Yeah, someone’s going to successfully primary Manchin from the left in West Virginia, right after the Boy Scouts let the Lincoln Project be honorary jamboree co-sponsors.
That Schumer and Pelosi are not feared like they should be by their own caucus is delightful. Mitch McConnell is feared by his caucus, and rightly so. And he’s playing this masterfully. Yeah, we have our own fights – including Trump’s silly campaign against McConnell, who is indisputably the most effective legislative knife fighter in generations. The guy drives me nuts too – his insurrection whining was stupid and lame – but no one wrecks the Dems’ dreams like the Murder Turtle. He just threw a Baby Ruth bar in the Capitol Hill pool by refusing to help raise the debt ceiling – the Dems have a majority, so it’s their problem. Of course, the Dems don’t want to do it because it looks bad – they want GOP cover. Mitch refuses to provide it, which is chum in the water to another Dem feeding frenzy.
It’s glorious.
Oh, and the Dems want to increase state and local tax deductions in their “infrastructure” bill, which I love – as a blue state lawyer, ka-ching! The Trader Joe’s demo will be psyched – the rest of their coalition, which gets to subsidize coastal elites, not so much. Please, give tax breaks to the rich! This is great on every level.
The border nightmare is fantastic too, except for all the human tragedy. The Dem coalition includes rich limo libs who get the moral preening benefit (and, they hope, the votes) while American minorities pick up the tab. A long-standing Dem town just elected a GOP mayor largely because half of Guatemala is cutting through their county. Larry Elder improved on Trump’s already improved numbers with minorities. And the lib Dems can’t back down and shut off the border spigot – it’s racist!
Also racist – vaccine mandates! According to numbers the lib media refuses to report, the biggest group of vaccine skeptics is not those science-hating Trump people. It’s minorities, who frankly have a really good reason for not trusting government doctors who assure them everything is on the up and up. It doesn’t help when rich jerks at the Emmys or on Martha’s Vineyard party maskless while demanding you gag your kid – or not allow your kid to go to school at all.
So, when the Karen Caucus of libidinally unsatiated cat ladies get their vaccine passport requirements of their dreams, the hardest hit is…minorities! Put that in your Ibram X. Kendi commemorative pipe and smoke it, ladies!
The brawl and resulting BLM protest at the NYC Italian place was only the beginning. We’ll see more and more battles between these elements of the Dem coalition, and we need to do as Mitch does and stay out of it. Let them pummel each other. Let them rip each other apart. Let them fight!
President Trump demands Abbott take a stand for election integrity
Moments ago, 45th President Donald Trump issued an open letter to establishment Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, highlighting his lack of interest when it comes to the nationwide fight for election integrity and demanding that – as the top Republican in the state – he take an active role in advancing legislation to make elections more secure in the state where voter fraud allegations run rampant.
“Dear Governor Abbott,” President Trump began, “Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit! You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election. Bills to audit elections in your great state’s House and Senate were considered during Texas’ Second Special Session. Instead, the legislature passed a watered-down amendment that doesn’t even apply to the 2020 Presidential Election. This short amendment doesn’t answer the questions Texans have about the last election. Texans demand a real audit to completely address their concerns.”
President Trump added, “We need HB 16, which was just filed in the Third Special Session. This legislation specifically addresses the 2020 Presidential Election, and enables audits for future elections. The bill creates a process for candidates and party chairs to initiate an audit, and uses the same language as SB 97, which already passed the Texas State Senate, but did not have enough time to make it through the House during the Second Special Session.”
Establishment Republicans in Texas originally reclaimed that the 2021 legislative session was the “most conservative in history” despite ignoring or failing to advance legislation on virtually every conservative issue supported by the Republican base. Abbott remained silent on election integrity, the gender mutilation of children, and border integrity. After receiving push back from the Republican base, Abbott called a second special session. Now, Abbott has called a third special session, though some still say it is not enough.
“Texas needs you to act now,” wrote President Trump. “Your Third Special Session is the perfect, and maybe last, opportunity to pass this audit bill. Time is running out. Paper ballots in your state are only kept for 22 months after the election. Your citizens don’t trust the election system, and they want your leadership on this issue, which is the number one thing they care about. It is their most important issue—one that will affect 2022 and 2024.”
The 45th President added, “Governor Abbott, we need a “Forensic Audit of the 2020 Election” added to the call. We’re quickly running out of time and it must be done this week. Texans know voting fraud occurred in some of their counties. Let’s get to the bottom of the 2020 Presidential Election Scam!”
President Trump previously endorsed the establishment Republican governor despite a crowded primary full of America First candidates who oppose him that includes Chad Prather, Don Huffines, and Allen West.
National File Senior Reporter Patrick Howley been instrumental in exposing what many have declared to be a world-class voter fraud operation happening in Harris County, Texas, the seat of Houston, one of the nation’s largest city.
Last year, the county instituted 24/7 drive thru voting, even as the FBI began investigating reports of election irregularity in the county. Nursing homes also received mail-in ballots in large numbers, despite video that appears to show ballot harvesters targeting elderly people in nursing homes and forcing them to vote for Democrat candidates under duress. Last month, despite pressure from his own party, a black Democrat operative blew the whistle on what he identified as massive voter fraud within the county.
Abbott has remained completely silent on these issues.
After days of controversy surrounding a false report that border patrol agents on horseback in Texas used whips to drive Haitian migrants away from the border, the Biden administration on Thursday banned the use of horses in Del Rio, Texas.
During the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said images of border patrol agents confronting illegal immigrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande were “horrible and horrific.” She told reporters that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with civil rights leaders Thursday morning and informed them “that we will no longer be using horses in Del Rio.”
“That is something, a policy change, that has been made in response,” said Psaki.
#BREAKING: Jen Psaki announces that horses will now be BANNED from being used in Del Rio by Border Patrol agents, citing the "horrible and horrific" use of them to prevent Haitian illegal immigrants from crossing into the U.S. pic.twitter.com/hlyZeJVbU2
On Monday, The El Paso Times first reported that a mounted U.S. Border Patrol agent swung a “whip” at Haitian migrants who were attempting to cross the Rio Grande river and illegally enter the United States near Del Rio, Texas, where thousands more migrants were encamped under a bridge.
The article stated: “The agent swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.”
This report was accompanied by photographs of mounted border patrol agents confronting the migrants, which went viral after many people, including politicians, claimed the agents were wielding “whips” against the Haitians.
Use of whips on refugees? Disturbing and unacceptable. This must end immediately. https://t.co/C28fk2QFqL
The images inspired outrage and the White House was forced to address the controversy on Monday, when Psaki was asked repeatedly to comment on “photos of border agents on horseback using what appear to be whips on Haitian migrants.”
“I have seen some of the footage. I don’t have the full context. I can’t imagine what context would make that appropriate, but I don’t have additional details,” she told reporters. “I don’t think anyone seeing that footage would think it’s acceptable or appropriate.”
But the photos were misleading. Border agents are not equipped with whips and it quickly became apparent that the photos were showing the horses’ reins, which were not being whipped at migrants as claimed on social media.
A photo taken from a different angle definitively proved that the image generating the most controversy did not show an agent whipping a migrant.
As the facts became clear, reporting on the incident dropped the term “whip” in favor of “whip-like cord” or “horse reins.”
The El Paso Times has since updated its article with a “clarification” stating “our reporting team witnessed at least one agent on horseback swing his reins like a whip.” But a Border Patrol source that spoke to Townhall writer Julio Rosas explained that some agents will spin their horses reins to deter people from getting too close to the animal, which could harm them.
From a Border Patrol source: “Agents use their reins for a lot of reasons. Primarily it's used to steer the horse, but agents will also spin them sometimes to deter people from getting too close to the horse…We are not aware of anyone being struck with the reins.” https://t.co/yxxyoAuklhpic.twitter.com/t3o3h9dJbL
Nevertheless, Democrats like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of committing “human rights abuses.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said the incident was “worse than slavery.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted: “The images of inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol—including the use of whips—are unacceptable.”
The images of inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol—including the use of whips—are unacceptable
They are fleeing violence and natural disaster and seeking protection in our country
The Administration must uphold our refugee laws and stop Title 42 deportations
After initially pushing back on the claims that border agents were whipping migrants, Mayorkas bowed to public pressure and said he was “horrified” by the images and that DHS would launch an investigation to determine what happened.
“One cannot weaponize a horse to aggressively attack a child. That is unacceptable. That is not what our policies and our training require. Please understand, let me be quite clear, that is not acceptable. We will not tolerate mistreatment, and we will address it with full force based on the facts that we learn,” Mayorkas said.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector use horses obtained from the Bureau of Land Management to secure the border. According to BLM, the horses “enable the Rio Grande Valley Sector to gain better operational control over the border, thus providing greater security to the United States.”
“Due to the rugged and remote terrain, the Border Patrol is responsible for securing, horses meet the agency’s needs by being capable of working in areas virtually inaccessible to motorized vehicles,” an article on the BLM websiteexplains.
And now, the Biden administration has deprived CBP agents in Del Rio, Texas of valuable tool to secure the border because outrage on social media ignited by false reporting apparently dictates administration policy.
Republican House Representatives led by Bob Gibbs of Ohio have filed three articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden on Tuesday, while the Democratic leader was at the U.N. General Assembly. Gibbs, who was joined by Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Brian Babin and Randy Weber of Texas, said he filed the articles of impeachment “based on what I believe to be clear violations of his duties as president.”
In a post to his Facebook page, Rep. Gibbs explained that President Biden’s “willful negligence of the border crisis is a failure to maintain and defend American sovereignty. Biden’s attempts to extend a federal eviction moratorium despite the Supreme Court’s warning and his own admission that he has no power to do so is a blatant and intentional action that violates the separation of powers.”
Rep. Gibbs also accused President Biden of releasing thousands of migrants into the U.S. without ordering a court appearance for an immigration hearing on a specific date. He added that President Biden even allowed migrants who tested positive for COVID to enter the U.S., and extended the eviction moratorium despite a Supreme Court ruling that urged him to seek congressional approval first, the New York Post reported.
According to Breitbart, the first article of impeachment involves President Biden’s violation of “his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President” regarding the crisis at the border, while the second article of impeachment relates to the aforementioned federal moratorium on evictions. The third article of impeachment claims that President Biden violated one of the key principles of American republicanism.
“[President Biden is] not capable of being commander-in-chief, and that’s obvious by the actions since Day One when he took the presidency back in January,” Rep. Gibbs argued, adding that the Democratic leader “failed to act responsibly as Commander in Chief with regard to the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan.”
Rep. Gibbs blasted the failed pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, claiming that the U.S. president “abandoned” Americans in Afghanistan by evacuating military first before evacuating allies and civilians, therefore “willfully putting their lives at risk.” He also condemned the Democratic leader’s withdrawal operation that left Afghanistan “in the hands of a terror-supporting regime and weakens America’s ability to prosecute the Global War on Terror.”
This is not the first time President Biden was slapped with articles of impeachment. When the Democratic leader was sworn into the White House in January, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed an article of impeachment for “abuse of power by enabling bribery” over Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Rep. Greene added two articles of impeachment in August over the Afghanistan withdrawal, while Republican Rep. Randy Weber of Texas filed in September articles of impeachment against President Biden, who did not heed the warning of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who said that Afghanistan may quickly be overrun by the Taliban.
The White House will soon notify federal agencies to prepare for the possibility of a government shutdown, a move that press secretary Jen Psaki described as “a routine step,” to ensure that essential services continue, The Hill reports.
Congress has to pass a funding plan by Sept. 30 to prevent a shutdown.
“It’s just a reminder, we’re seven days out and we need to be prepared of course in any event of any contingencies, so we see this as a routine step, and one just to be prepared in any event of what could happen,” Psaki told reporters on Thursday.
She also said the Biden Administration is particularly focused on protecting against any potential consequences from a shutdown, specifically when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s economic recovery. Psaki also noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health agencies should remain open, as they typically do during a government shutdown, should one occur.
“But large swaths of the federal government coming to a screeching halt would certainly not be beneficial to pandemic response,” she said. “But we are doing everything we can to mitigate.”
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has tumbled down once again, with a majority of Americans now disapproving of the job he’s doing as the nation’s commander in chief, according to a September poll by Gallup.
Since, August Biden has witnessed his job approval rating fall by 6 percentage points to 43 percent, according to a report by Gallup.
“For the first time, a majority, 53%, now disapproves of Biden’s performance,” Gallup reported.
The pollster described the fall in Biden’s job approval rating as the “second significant decline” in Biden’s approval numbers since around June. Biden’s approval had hovered around 55 percent before July, when it fell to 50 percent.
Gallup noted that the most significant decline in people’s approval of Biden’s work came from the independents.
“Biden’s current 37% approval rating among independents is his lowest to date and 24 points below his personal high of 61%. Two-thirds of Biden’s slide among independents since he took office has occurred in the past three months,” Gallup reported.
As for Democrats, their approval of Biden has not moved by over 8 points since his inauguration. Nonetheless, the numbers for this month are the lowest approval ratings from Democrats that Biden has seen so far in his presidency.
“[Democrats’] highest rating of Biden was 98% in late January/early February, and their lowest is the current 90%,” Gallup reported.
As for Republicans, the company reported that their approval of Biden’s work has been “similarly stable at the other extreme, ranging from 12% in February and July to 6% this month.”
“Except for Donald Trump, every U.S. president since Harry Truman has enjoyed a honeymoon period characterized by above-average approval ratings upon taking office,” Gallup reported.
“Biden’s recent slides in approval put him in the company of Trump and Bill Clinton, whose ratings were at or below Biden’s current 43% at some point in the first eight months of their presidencies.”
Gallup derived these results from telephone interviews conducted between Sept. 1 and 17. The company used a random sample of “1,005 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.”
“For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.”
The weeks before the poll witnessed a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan mismanaged by the Biden administration. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed by Islamic State terrorists in the last few days of the withdrawal.
Furthermore, the Biden administration slaughtered an innocent family toward the end of the withdrawal, taking out 10 people, including seven children.
Members of the Biden administration went so far as to claim the killing of the family was a “righteous strike” against ISIS-K terrorists until a damning New York Times report disproved the Biden administration’s claims and revealed that the people the Biden administration killed that day were not ISIS-K terrorists but an aid worker and nine of his family members.
During the time the poll was taken, COVID-19 infections were also surging due to the delta variant, Gallup noted, and the Biden administration kept pushing restrictions in the name of curbing the spread of the virus.
Biden admin bans border agents from using horses after false reporting from Del Rio, Texas
After days of controversy surrounding a false report that border patrol agents on horseback in Texas used whips to drive Haitian migrants away from the border, the Biden administration on Thursday banned the use of horses in Del Rio, Texas.
During the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said images of border patrol agents confronting illegal immigrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande were “horrible and horrific.” She told reporters that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with civil rights leaders Thursday morning and informed them “that we will no longer be using horses in Del Rio.”
“That is something, a policy change, that has been made in response,” said Psaki.
This policy change was made in response to a lie.
On Monday, The El Paso Times first reported that a mounted U.S. Border Patrol agent swung a “whip” at Haitian migrants who were attempting to cross the Rio Grande river and illegally enter the United States near Del Rio, Texas, where thousands more migrants were encamped under a bridge.
The article stated: “The agent swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.”
This report was accompanied by photographs of mounted border patrol agents confronting the migrants, which went viral after many people, including politicians, claimed the agents were wielding “whips” against the Haitians.
The images inspired outrage and the White House was forced to address the controversy on Monday, when Psaki was asked repeatedly to comment on “photos of border agents on horseback using what appear to be whips on Haitian migrants.”
“I have seen some of the footage. I don’t have the full context. I can’t imagine what context would make that appropriate, but I don’t have additional details,” she told reporters. “I don’t think anyone seeing that footage would think it’s acceptable or appropriate.”
But the photos were misleading. Border agents are not equipped with whips and it quickly became apparent that the photos were showing the horses’ reins, which were not being whipped at migrants as claimed on social media.
A photo taken from a different angle definitively proved that the image generating the most controversy did not show an agent whipping a migrant.
As the facts became clear, reporting on the incident dropped the term “whip” in favor of “whip-like cord” or “horse reins.”
The El Paso Times has since updated its article with a “clarification” stating “our reporting team witnessed at least one agent on horseback swing his reins like a whip.” But a Border Patrol source that spoke to Townhall writer Julio Rosas explained that some agents will spin their horses reins to deter people from getting too close to the animal, which could harm them.
Nevertheless, Democrats like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of committing “human rights abuses.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said the incident was “worse than slavery.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted: “The images of inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol—including the use of whips—are unacceptable.”
After initially pushing back on the claims that border agents were whipping migrants, Mayorkas bowed to public pressure and said he was “horrified” by the images and that DHS would launch an investigation to determine what happened.
“One cannot weaponize a horse to aggressively attack a child. That is unacceptable. That is not what our policies and our training require. Please understand, let me be quite clear, that is not acceptable. We will not tolerate mistreatment, and we will address it with full force based on the facts that we learn,” Mayorkas said.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector use horses obtained from the Bureau of Land Management to secure the border. According to BLM, the horses “enable the Rio Grande Valley Sector to gain better operational control over the border, thus providing greater security to the United States.”
“Due to the rugged and remote terrain, the Border Patrol is responsible for securing, horses meet the agency’s needs by being capable of working in areas virtually inaccessible to motorized vehicles,” an article on the BLM websiteexplains.
And now, the Biden administration has deprived CBP agents in Del Rio, Texas of valuable tool to secure the border because outrage on social media ignited by false reporting apparently dictates administration policy.