The agency’s ‘temporary’ eviction moratorium is a ticking time bomb that’s getting bigger with every delay.
hate to say “I told you so.” Well, actually, I really enjoy saying “I told you so.” And, when it comes to the Centers for Disease Control and its pandemic power grabs, I did indeed tell you so.
In September 2020, I wrote for FEE that, “From draconian lockdown powers to taking over the rental housing market, it’s extremely unlikely our elected officials will cede all the authority they’ve seized during the pandemic.” We’re now witnessing my prediction play out in real-time.
Under the Biden administration’s purview, the CDC just unilaterally renewed its so-called “eviction moratorium.” It did so after the nationwide near-ban on eviction of non-paying tenants expired Saturday and in spite of Congress not passing legislation to renew it.
The new CDC order is somewhat more limited than the original one, claiming to only apply to areas with “substantial and high levels of [COVID-19] community transmission.” But this reportedly applies to roughly 90 percent of the US under the CDC’s definition. The two-month extension will now run until October 3. (When, presumably, there will again be a push for its extension).
“The emergence of the delta variant has led to a rapid acceleration of community transmission in the United States, putting more Americans at increased risk, especially if they are unvaccinated,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said. “This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep people in their homes and out of congregate settings where COVID-19 spreads.”
The CDC is renewing this policy, yet again, even though the Supreme Court only narrowly upheld its last iteration. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh specifically wrote that “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July 31.”
Short version: The CDC doesn’t have the authority to do this.
And guess who agrees? The Biden administration. White House officials have repeatedly acknowledged that the federal government lacks constitutional authority to renew the order without Congress.
Sperling, asked about contention from Dems CDC should go ahead with moratorium extension: "On this particular issue, the President has not only kicked the tires, he has double, triple, quadruple checked." It has been made clear, Sperling says, legal authority isn't there.
But this renewal is more than just an example of flagrant lawlessness and unconstitutional government overreach. It’s yet more illustration of the principle described by Milton Friedman when he said “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
The Nobel-Prize-winning economist argued that we should be wary of “temporary” expansions of government power, because more often than not they become permanent, or at least part of the expansion remains. Why? Well, as Friedman explained, “temporary” programs “establish an interested constituency that… lobbie[s] for their continuation.”
Essentially, the public will acquiesce to more than it otherwise would under the promise that the infringement is temporary. But, then, the intervention will benefit some key parties so much that they will fight to keep it in place permanently after public scrutiny fades.
This is exactly what has played out with the CDC’s eviction moratorium dysfunction.
Even setting aside the fact that the first order was flagrantly unconstitutional from the get-go, it never made any sense. Ordering a halt to evictions without compensating landlords is like passing a law saying anyone may go into a grocery store, load up their carts with food, and walk out without paying. Applying this broken logic to rentals (predictably) bankrupted many middle-and-working class landlords and led to many rental properties being taken off the market altogether.
The moratorium has also created a $21 billion backlog in unpaid rent and millions of evictions that will occur when it is allowed to expire—costs that grow even bigger with every day it is left in place.
This has, as Friedman predicted, created a strong constituency demanding its extension time and time again, prompting the CDC’s latest move. But even setting aside the Constitutional questions, we can’t feasibly continue the policy forever any more than we could force grocery stores to hand out food for free into perpetuity. The shelves would run bare, and so, too, rental units will continue to evaporate from the market—ultimately leaving even renters themselves worse off.
The CDC order is essentially a ticking time bomb, bound to explode and hurt people whenever it ultimately lapses. But the government has every incentive to delay this damage as long as possible, even though it only grows more harmful with each delay. The result will likely be permanent and long-term dysfunction, all thanks to a “temporary” government measure that has proven to be anything but.
The CDC has created an absolute debacle, but there may be one small upside. Perhaps now more Americans will understand why Milton Friedman so famously warned the public to be skeptical of “temporary” government programs.
IHS’s June report is here, and it confirms that the economy essentially went nowhere in May and June. This outcome was easily predicted a week ago based on data already available.
Specifically, here are the revised figures for the four most recently reported months:March – $19.251TApril – $19.358T
May – $19.364TJune – $19.357T March, April, and May were all revised slightly downward from IHS’s May report — to the point where your statement that “The total size of the economy has now surpassed its pre-pandemic level” is barely true, and could easily become false if August’s or September’s numbers are revised downward by even the slightest amount.
More to the point, as seen in graphic below, the economy clearly stagnated in May and June, to the point where IHS’s narrative acknowledged (bold mine, italics theirs) that “the level of GDP in June was actually 0.1% below the second-quarter average at an annual rate.” What also is apparent is that President Trump brought the economy back to 92% of its previous high before he left office.
This is NOT a “solid” second-quarter performance. IHS’s data also makes a mockery of these (and other) statements in your report:
– ” the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.” Two flat months indicate that the recovery is anything but “sustained” — especially with unemployment still near 6%, exploding federal debt, and declining wages.– “For now, the economy is showing sustained strength.” Again, the past two months have been flat, at best.– Your cherry-picked statement about wages (“average hourly pay rose a solid 3.6% compared with a year earlier”) is a pathetic coverup of reality. It ignores the fact that government/BLS figures tell us that wages have fallen 2.3 percent in the first five full months of the new administration in real terms (CPI-U up 3.9 percent, wages up only 1.6 percent).
IHS’s latest monthly report and other recent data are more than likely ringing alarm bells at the White House and the Fed. Why won’t allegedly intrepid reporters with decades of experience and an extensive network of contacts like you tell the public what’s really happening?
‘I have not falsely represented myself as a spokesperson for Baylor Scott & White, nor have I publicly claimed past senior leadership roles at any prior institution,’ McCullough said.
Dr. Peter McCullough, a prominent physician and expert on COVID-19, is being sued by Texas-based health system Baylor Scott & White (BSWH) after appearing on the Stew Peters Show to warn Americans against the COVID vaccines.
Dr. McCullough is being sued for having allegedly misrepresented himself as a spokesperson for BSWH during an interview in which he expressed his expert opinion and listed his concerns on the coronavirus vaccines. The lawsuit coincides with a decision by BSWH to mandate vaccination for all their 40,000 employees.
McCullough is in fact a prominent graduate of Baylor University and worked as a Vice Chair of Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center from January 2014 until February 2021. Though he himself did not claim association with Baylor during the interview, his former title was displayed on screen during the Stew Peters show, and this resulted in the lawsuit.
Stew Peters himself has since then reacted on his program and denounced the lawsuit as being: “nothing less than an attack on Dr. McCullough’s character meant to discredit [him].”
Peters also pointed out that Dr. McCullough’s association with Baylor is public knowledge.
“As a current active member of medical staff for both Baylor University Medical Center and Baylor Heart and Vascular hospital with his office on campus, Dr. McCullough is associated on public internet platforms and groups with countless links and mentions to BSWH,” he said, adding that the Dr. McCullough is also a “prominent graduate from Baylor with an endowed scholarship in his name” and is “commonly associated as a point of pride for Baylor” who “kept him up on their website until mid-July creating a whole bunch of confusion with hundreds of media personnel.”
Peters acknowledged fault in the editing mistake which allowed BSWH to file the lawsuit: “We made an error, and as a result of our error (…), he is being sued.”
Dr. McCullough has since issued a statement to Health Freedom Fund insisting that he has “not falsely represented [himself] as a spokesperson for Baylor Scott and White nor has [he] publicly claimed past senior leadership roles at any prior institution. With >800,000 third party internet profiles and ~16 M hits in Google, [Dr. McCullough’s] views have always been represented as [his] own and not those of any organization.”
This is not the first time that Dr. McCullough, the most published author in his field and one of America’s leading physicians on the early treatment of COVID-19, has suffered serious consequences simply for expressing his expert view on the response to COVID-19. In 2020 a video he published on YouTube discussing early treatment for the disease was censored for “violating the terms of the YouTube community.”
In a recent address to Texas Senate Health and Human Service Committee, McCullough condemned this censorship, which he deemed a “near total block of information” about a treatment that could have reduced COVID-19 fatalities by 85%.
McCullough was already then expressing skepticism over the COVID vaccine, stating that, “given an 80% level of herd immunity, broad vaccination has no scientific, clinical, or safety rationale.”
This new lawsuit appears to be yet another way to censor and discredit one of the few physicians who dares to contradict the mainstream media narrative on COVID vaccines. The real motive of the lawsuit appears even more evident as it coincides with the imposition of a vaccine mandate on BSWH’s employees.
“They announced the lawsuit on the day they announced the ill-advised COVID-19 mandatory vaccination program for their 40,000 employees, many of whom do not want this shot,” Stew Peters stated.
Peters ended his reaction video by stressing that this lawsuit and the constant censuring and persecuting of prominent scientists such as Dr. Peter McCullough could, in addition to being an attack on free speech, have serious consequences on public health
“Free speech and scientific discourse are the bedrock of progress in medicine, and Baylor Scott & White’s ill-advised lawsuit is an attack on civil liberties with serious implications on public health and policy far beyond a lawsuit,” the podcast host said.
Since the lawsuit was announced, a number of doctors’ organizations have expressed their support for Dr. Peter McCullough.
“Health Freedom Defense Fund stands by Dr. Peter McCullough and other physicians and scientists courageous enough to put patients, scientific progress, and truth first,” said the Health Freedom Defense Fund in an August 1 statement.
“As Dr. McCullough is the Chief Medical Advisor for the Truth for Health Foundation, I am pleased to share that the Truth for Health Foundation is setting up a legal defense fund against medical censorship,” stated Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, President and CEO of the Truth for Health foundation.
“We encourage people to go to our website and sign up for email notices and donate to help ALL the doctors and others facing such attacks! Donations to the foundation are tax deductible.”
(The Star News Network) A Mark Zuckerberg-funded nonprofit, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, gave a virtually inactive Michigan nonprofit, The Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration, a $12 million grant in September 2020 for the putative purpose of helping voters figure out how to navigate the supposed complexities of mail-in ballots, as The Michigan Star reported in April 2021.
In the MCELA Form 990, the non-profit reported that it had started the year with zero (0) dollars of cash on hand and had received zero contributions in 2019. But then in 2020, it received $12,040,000 in “contributions and grants,” namely the huge one-time gift from the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR).
MCELA started the year on January 1, 2020 with no money in the bank, received $12,040,000 from the Zuckerberg-funded CEIR some time between September 1, 2020 and October 15, 2020, spent $11,889,365 in the last few months of 2020, and ended up with just $150,635 cash on hand on December 31, 2020.
There were only two expenditures reported in 2020 by MCELA, both for “media strategy and purchase.” The biggest, for $9,799,407, went to Waterfront Strategies in Washington, D.C., a firm that specializes in handling media buys for Democrat and left-wing interest groups. Waterfront Strategies is an in-house subsidiary of GMMB, the largest Democratic consulting firm in the United States. GMMB was instrumental in electing Barack Obama and countless other Democrat office holders.
The remaining $2,088,000 in reported expenditures went to Alper Strategies of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, which is also a Democrat controlled organization. Founder Jill Alper was previously the political director and coordinated campaign director of the Democratic National Committee.
The two firms received a total of $11,887,407 from MCELA for “advertising and promotion,” according to the Form 990. Only a tiny fraction was spent on anything other than advertising and promotion. An additional $1,217 was spent on insurance, and $741 was spent on miscellaneous expenditures.
No member of the board of directors – including President Jen McKernan – received any compensation, so no one one was apparently paid to manage the two Democratic political consulting firms who were paid $11,887,407 to “educate voters.”
This unusual arrangement suggests that MCELA was merely a pass-through vehicle to get the funds to the Democratic political consulting firms, and that no one had oversight authority over how they spent the funds.
Considering that the declared purpose of the MCELA on its most recent annual report is “nonpartisan voter education,” it raises questions – at the very least – why the nonprofit spent all its money on high-powered Democrat consultants.
You can read the 24 page Form 990 filing for the year 2020 for the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA) here
What has previously been painted as an innocent nonpartisan effort to increase voter turnout in the 2020 election in Michigan has all the signs of actually being a partisan Democratic operation, which throws the state’s narrow Biden victory in 2020 into some doubt.
It is unclear what the $12 million grant provided to MCELA – 99 percent of which ($11.8 million) was funneled off to the two Democratic political consulting firms, was actually used for. Notably, neither the MCELA nor the Democrat political consulting firms who received that $11.8 million provided any line item documentation of how those funds were spent.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson praised the grant given to the MCELA as a way to fund crucial voter education, and even suggested that the multi-million-dollar media campaign would somehow improve election integrity.
Benson was the founder and longtime president of the MCELA, the recipient of the grant, although somehow that connection was never promoted by either the secretary of state’s office or the nonprofit itself. But it raises questions of conflict of interest that need to be answered.
Between Oct. 5 and Oct. 28, the MCELA posted a total of 10 times to its Facebook page. The first three posts were simply the result of loading profile pictures and a cover photo. On Oct. 8, the profile picture on the account was changed to a portrait of Benson. Then silence until Oct. 28, one week before Election Day. On that day, six posts featuring Secretary of State Benson were posted, including two copies of the same 30-second video, and three images of would-be voters featuring the posted words of Benson.
“These are uncertain times for all of us, but one thing is certain. Your vote will count. I’m Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and you have many secure options to vote this fall.” That’s how the 30-second spot starts. Then, with the remaining 17 seconds, Benson explains just how easy it is to vote in one of three ways.
As Breitbart Newsreported in October, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $419 million to two non-profit groups that provided controversial private funding to state, county, and municipal governments for “election administration” at the county and state level in the 2020 presidential election.
$69 million went to the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which privately funded state level operations through in 23 states, including $13 million in Pennsylvania, $12 million in Michigan, $5.6 million in Georgia, and $4 million in Arizona – four key battleground states that U.S. President Joe Biden narrowly won. In most of those states, the money went directly to secretaries of state, but the $12 million in Michigan, of course, went to the nonprofit instead.
The revelation that $11.8 million from the Zuckerberg-funded CEIR was used to pay two highly partisan Democrat political consulting firms in Michigan in 2020 drew the attention of a national expert on election integrity.
“The left funneled hundreds of millions of dollars through scores of pop-up non-profits in the 2020 election to turn government election offices into partisan political campaign offices to benefit Biden’s candidacy,” Phill Kline, executive director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society told The Starwhen informed of the $11.8 million paid to two partisan Democrat political consulting firms as part of the 2020 Michigan election administration grant:
These funds empowered illegal activities that turned formerly objective government offices into Biden campaign satellite offices. There was not a person in a closet printing ballots during the election, rather there were billionaires in the counting room hacking the election from within by taking over government election offices and procedures. The 2020 election was managed by private interests for private interests. American elections will not reflect the will of the American people unless this is stopped now!
MCELA was formed in 2008, under the original name of The Richard Austin Center for Election Law and Administration, by Jocelyn Benson, the highly partisan Democrat who was elected Michigan Secretary of State in 2018. In 2009, Benson removed herself as MCELA’s registered agent, possibly because she was running for secretary of state that year. She was replaced as president by Tierney Eaton, a 2008 graduate of Wayne State Law School, where Benson was on the faculty and later served as dean. Wayne State’s website still notes that “Benson is founder and executive director of the nonpartisan Michigan Center for Election Law, which hosts projects that support transparency and integrity in elections.”
MCELA does not appear to be a “nonpartisan” organization. Benson, who has run as a Democratic candidate at least since 2010, was president of the nonprofit from 2011 through at least February of 2020 when the group’s secretary filed an annual report certifying that there had been no changes since the previous report in 2019 that listed Benson in the executive role. For some reason, Benson did not see fit to remove herself from the board when she ran for secretary of state in 2018, as she had done 8 years previously.
Benson has been the Democratic secretary of state since January 2019, at which time she was still on the board of MCELA. Her assistant secretary of state, Heaster Wheeler, also served as a director of the MCELA from sometime in 2018 until at least Feb. 28, 2020.
It wasn’t until the 2020 annual report for MCELAwas filed with the state of Michigan in September 2020 that it became clear Benson and Wheeler were no longer on the board. That same month, September 2020, the Zuckerberg-funded CEIR announced it was giving the state of Michigan $12 million, part of its nationwide “Voter Education Grant Program to support states’ efforts to provide nonpartisan, accurate, and official voting information to the public.”
Twenty-two other states received CEIR grant money, but Michigan was apparently the only state where the funds went to a nonprofit organization, rather than the office of the Secretary of State.
The final CEIR report, released on March 26, 2021, described how MCELA spent the $12 million grant in Michigan, but it did not offer an explanation as to why MCELA, rather than the Secretary of State’s office, received the funding:
In addition to a statewide messaging campaign, Michigan sent out targeted mailings to engage voters. Active registered voters received information about ways to vote, elections deadlines and how to request a mail ballot, and those who had not yet returned their mail ballot received instructions on how to do so. Grant funds also helped communicate changes in election laws to voters.
According to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the state’s low rate of ballot rejection this year was directly attributable to CEIR’s voter education grant
In an interview with Michigan public radio, the president of MCELA in 2020, Jen McKernan, explained how the $12 million would be spent. As recounted by Michigan Radio reporter Tracy Samilton:
The initiative will air ads on television and radio across the state. The campaign will also send direct mail and text messages to people who have never voted before, or who have not voted in a long time. McKernan says people who are being deluged with those kinds of text messages can get rid of them by simply voting.
The targeted use of text messages means that the only way to ascertain the non-partisan nature of the campaign is to know where the phone lists for the text messages originated. If they were provided by Waterfront Strategies or Alper Strategies, they could have been lists of potential Democrat voters.
The text messages were intentionally sent to spur voting. As told by McKernan to Samilton, “once you vote, all those groups urging you to get to the polls will be informed by elections officials that you’ve done it, and the messages will cease.”
Not only could the list of potential voters be targeted to one party or the other, but it would also apparently be evident which voters had responded to the campaign, thus giving a partisan firm like Waterfront Strategies a pretty solid idea of how many votes had been stockpiled for their preferred candidate.
According to public records accessible at Opensecrets.org, four out of the five of the current board MCELA members are also repeat Democrat donors.
MCELA President McKernan donated to Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrat office holders or seekers, including Rep. Mari Manoogian, former Rep. Mark Schauer and others.
Treasurer Ned Staebler has donated money to Whitmer, Sen. Gary Peters, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Hillary Clinton and Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib – all Democrats. He also gave $1,000 to the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee in 2018. Oh yes, and in 2010 he also donated $500 to Jocelyn Benson, none other than the current secretary of state in Michigan, who sang the praises of the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration prior to and after the flawed 2020 election.
Secretary Kimberly Trent, is listed as having worked for Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow and donated to the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee as well as to individual Democratic candidates such as Rep. Debbie Dingell. In 2019, she donated $500 then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) during her failed presidential candidacy.
The fourth member of the board, Jill Farber-Bramson, is listed on the annual report as serving part of the year. Based on her record at opensecrets.org, we may surmise that she’s busy the rest of the year promoting Democratic candidates. She shows a staggering 73 donations over the last 15 years, including to Whitmer, Schauer, Granholm, Hillary Clinton, Rep. Elissa Slotkin , and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
There is no evidence at opensecrets.org that the fifth member of the board, Dee Dee Coleman, a Detroit pastor, is a political donor.
In light of this report, The Star is contacting members of the Michigan Legislature to determine if there will be an investigation to find out exactly how the MCELA spent its $12 million and what exactly it was buying.
A new poll released Wednesday shows that 51% of likely voters in California would vote to remove incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) from office, while only 40% would vote to retain him, spelling trouble for the embattled liberal.
The poll, conducted by SurveyUSA for the San Diego Union-Tribune, KGTV 10News in San Diego and KABC-TV in Los Angeles, came one day after an Emerson College poll showed a dead heat on whether Newsom should be recalled.
51 percent of those asked indicated they would vote to remove Newsom from office.
Forty percent of respondents said they would vote no on the recall.
The findings come as Newsom is trying to convince voters that the recall drive is a product of right-wing Republicans and supporters of former President Donald Trump.
The poll found that YouTuber and real estate investor Kevin Paffrath, a Democrat, led the pack of likely contenders, with 27% of the vote, followed closely by conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, with 23%. The result is considered a statistical dead heat; no other candidates were in double digits.
Newsom’s coronavirus restrictions were given as the most important reason to recall him by 34% of the voters in the poll.
As in the Emerson College poll, a majority of Latinos said they would vote to recall Newsom; in the new poll, a majority of whites said they would do so as well.
The poll also asked vaccinated voters about their preference, and a majority favored recalling Newsom, 47% to 43%.
Ballots will be sent to voters by the middle of the month. The recall will consist of two questions: first, a question on whether Newsom should be recalled; second, a list of 43 candidates to replace him. A majority must agree to recall Newsom for the result on the second question to take effect; the winner need only secure a plurality, not a majority.
Caeleb Dressel, an American swimmer who won five gold medals and set world records, has been outspoken about his Christian faith, which he claims keeps him motivated.
On the top of his left shoulder is an eagle tattoo which symbolizes one of his favorite passages in the Bible, Isaiah 40: 31, which reads, “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
“It’s the reason I’m in the sport – not just to go fast times, but to inspire people and show them where I find my happiness with what God’s given me,” Dressel told the Baptist Standard following the 2015 U.S. Nationals.
According to CBN News, the gold medalist was brought up in a Christian family. Dressel said that his faith became deeper while he studied at the University of Florida and after he began to regularly attend a Gainesville church. He, too, took a break from swimming because he felt like he no longer liked it, but he eventually returned to the sport with renewed hope and faith in the Holy Spirit.
CBN News adds that at the Tokyo Olympics, the 24-year-old Florida native finished the 100-meter butterfly in 49.45 seconds, breaking his world record by .05 seconds. This was only two days after achieving an American record in the 100-meter freestyle. He also competed in the semifinals of the 50-meter freestyle.
“It’s a really tough year, just really hard, so to have the results show up, I mean, it really came together, so I’m happy,” Dressel told reporters following the race.
According to the Baptist Standard, Dressel, who was in his final year of high school at the time, quit swimming for almost six months.
He confessed to wrestling with certain “mental demons” and struggling with his relationship with God during that time.
But he did ultimately return, both to swimming and to his faith in Christ.
“Swimming is my life, and I wouldn’t want it any other way,” he told the news outlet. “This is what I’m supposed to be doing, and God gave me the talent, and I’m going to do that for him, myself and my family and all my friends.”
Dressel quickly rose to prominence as a swimmer. In 2015 and 2016, he won consecutive NCAA national titles in the 50-yard freestyle, and he added another NCAA title in the 100-yard freestyle in 2016. He qualified for the Olympic roster after finishing second in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2016 Olympic trials.
Baptist Standard noted that aside from writing Scripture references on his face, Dressel frequently shares phrases and passages from the Scripture on his Twitter account. And in light of Dressel’s struggles and triumphs, one tweet from a few months ago seems particularly related. It reads, “When you avail yourself of God’s grace and power, your comeback is always greater than your setback.”
According to the Associated Press, Dressel was considered to be one of the most anticipated athletes heading into the games, with many predicting him to be Michael Phelps’s successor as the world’s most outstanding male swimmer.
President Donald Trump posted retired Army intelligence captain Seth Keshel’s new report showing the 2020 U.S. presidential election was fraudulent.
“Highly respected Army intelligence captain, Seth Keshel, has just released his Report on National Fraud Numbers with respect to the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump said.
“I don’t personally know Captain Keshel but these numbers are overwhelming, election changing, and according to Keshel, could be even bigger in that they do not account for cyber-flipping of votes. They show I won the election—By A LOT!”
Trump went on to predict that Democrats will “coalesce, defame, threaten, investigate, jail people, and do whatever they have to do to keep the truth from surfacing, and let the Biden Administration continue to get away with destroying our Country.”
“The irregularities and outright fraud of this election are an open wound to the United States of America. Something must be done—immediately!” he concluded.
“Here is a tale of the tape for Excess Biden Votes based on trend analysis in the modern political era, considering population growth/decline, recent voter history, and registration information, including registration by party,” said Captain Keshel in a Telegram post with over 137,000 views so far.
“My estimates are always lenient, and do not account for cyber flipping of votes,” Keshel wrote in the post, referring to, for example, the millions of votes for which MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claims he has forensic proof were fraudulently changed from Trump to Biden by hackers.
“Likely/Possible Trump if cyber flipping occurring: NM, VA, CO, NJ, NH.”
Keshel also maintains that “WA, OR, RI, CT, HI” were “Closer than you thought.”
“This is about 8 million heavy Biden votes nationwide just on the first pass,” Keshel told Steve Bannon in an interview.
WATCH KESHEL’S INTERVIEW WITH BANNON:
President Trump: "These numbers are overwhelming, election-changing, and according to Keshel, could be even bigger in that they do not account for cyber-flipping of votes. They show I won the election—by A LOT!"
Biden admin implements Trump’s Title 42 expulsion policy in response to CDC’s warning of “serious danger” at the U.S. southern border.
QUICK FACTS:
The U.S. southern border is being overwhelmed by surging illegal border crossings.
In response, the Biden administration will leave in place a Trump-era public health rule (Title 42) that has ensured the blocking of hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings into the U.S., according to The New York Times (NYT).
Title 42 allows U.S. officials to send migrants back to Mexico without offering asylum or other protections in the United States, according to Reuters.
Border officials are calling the persistent pace of illegal migration into the country a “humanitarian crisis,” notes NYT.
The CDC said that allowing illegal immigrants through the border “creates a serious danger” of further spread of the coronavirus, according to NYT.
The CDC renewed Title 42 on Monday, notes Reuters, “issuing an updated version of the order that called for the measure to be reevaluated every 60 days, rather than 30 days.”
THE BORDER CRISIS:
The number of times border officials caught migrants crossing illegally in June was the highest monthly figure since April 2000, notes NYT.
U.S. Border Patrol “informed the police department that on July 25, 2021 they had surpassed 1 million apprehensions in the month of June,” according to CBS DFW.
The National Sheriffs Association said that “up to half of undocumented immigrants are infected with the deadly disease,” notes Reuters.
WHAT BORDER OFFICIALS ARE SAYING:
Assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) David Shahoulian said keeping the CDC’s public health order to mitigate illegal border crossings in place is “critical” given the current conditions, according to NYT.
The United States “is currently encountering record numbers of noncitizens, including families, at the border. These encounter rates have strained DHS operations and caused border facilities to be filled beyond their normal operating capacity, impacting the ability to employ social distancing,” said Shahoulian in an official declaration.
Shahoulian goes on to say that “DHS is also experiencing significantly increased rates of noncitizens testing positive for COVID-19,” so taking away Title 42 “would exacerbate overcrowding at DHS facilities and create significant public health risks.”
“The department lacks sufficient capacity to safely hold and process all individuals seeking to enter the United States during the global pandemic if the U.S. Government were restricted in its ability to implement the CDC order [Suspending the Right to Introduce Certain Persons from Countries where a Quarantinable Communicable Disease Exists],” he said.
“During this period and given the unique public health danger posed by the ongoing pandemic, implementation of the CDC Order is critical to preventing overcrowding and the spread of infection within DHS facilities,” Shahoulian concludes.
Biden has come under intense pressure for months from his own party and supporters of liberal immigration policies to lift Title 42, reports NYT.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said on Monday it would sue the Biden administration to lift Title 42.
Lead ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said, “It is now clear that there is no immediate plan to do that,” adding “The administration made repeated public statements that it just needed some time to build back the asylum system the Trump administration depleted. We gave them seven months. Time is up.”
BACKGROUND:
The Trump administration implemented Title 42 over a year ago.
The Biden admin has departed from Trump’s policy in that it has not applied to migrant children arriving alone at the southern border, notes NYT.
Biden stepped up enforcement at the southern border over the weekend, sending more officers.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
Social media reacts to mail-in ballots being used for the California gubernatorial recall election.
QUICK FACTS:
California voters will be able to cast their votes during the upcoming special election using ballot drop boxes installed by the LA County Registrar for last November’s Election Day.
“All registered voters will receive a vote by mail ballot,” according to Spectrum News 1 News.
“Voters will have two questions on the ballot: 1) Shall Gavin Newsom be recalled (removed) from the office of Governor? 2) Candidates to succeed Gavin Newsom as Governor if he is recalled (followed by a list of candidates to select from).”
Mailing begins on August 16.
Yes, you can use a ballot drop box to vote in September's gubernatorial recall election https://t.co/L0hq4IYkuL
In May 2020, Gov. Newsom signed an executive order sending every registered voter in California a mail-in ballot for November’s presidential election, which “immediately [raised] concerns from Republicans that it could lead to fraud and abuse,” according to Fox News.
“To mail out millions of ballots to voter rolls have proven to contain alarming errors throughout the state is not a task that these Democrats can adequately manage or safely execute,” Jessica Millan Patterson, chairman of the California Republican Party, said in a statement.
“Mail ballots, they cheat,” Trump said the month prior. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases.”
In February of this year, the California State Legislature passed a bill “that would require all active registered voters get a ballot in the mail ahead of the election even if they didn’t ask for one,” reports KTLA 5.
Newsom will be facing conservative favorite, talk show host Larry Elder.
But online voices have been quick to point out the connection between California’s decision to use mail-in ballots and 2020 election fraud claims.
For example, the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit has revealed significant discrepancies among tens of thousands of mail-in ballots used in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
American Faith reported how Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan informed Arizona Senate leaders during an audit hearing that election auditors could not account for more than 74,000 mail-in ballots which had been counted during the election but without the county having any record of sending the ballots out.
“We have 74,000 mail-in ballots where there’s no clear record of them being sent,” said Logan.
See reactions to California’s decision to use mail-in ballots for its recall election on social media below.
Midterm/2022/Gavin Newsom’s recall election variant. Need election integrity everywhere. Cali already said they’re sending out mail in ballots because of delta.. which is obviously significant in how they cheated last year.. skinless GOP can’t let it happen again. Government is
— Doc Rock(That/Dude)🦅🇺🇸🇮🇪🇨🇿✝️ (@billyr09) August 4, 2021
Newsom is going to rig the recall election…explains his recent move to make CA a mail in ballot state.
