The President's Populist Plea on COVID Relief
He then highlighted a litany of provisions — albeit from the $1.4 trillion omnibus, not the $900 billion COVID relief — that would make any red-blooded American angry. Money for the Egyptian military to buy Russian equipment, for “democracy and gender programs in Pakistan,” for reef fish and Asian carp, for FBI construction projects, and on and on.
Worse, Trump noted, “The bill also allows stimulus checks for the family members of illegal aliens, allowing them to get up to $1,800 each. This is far more than the Americans are given.”
He should have mentioned all the states, many of them blue, that are getting bailouts despite rolling in revenue, all while once again tightening lockdowns.
“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interests, while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it,” the president said. “It wasn’t their fault; it was China’s fault, not their fault.”
“I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump concluded. “I’m also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package.”
“And maybe that administration will be me,” he added, “and we’ll get it done.”
scumbag/liar-Pelosi and her pal Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer immediately jumped on the bandwagon. She declared, “At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!”
scumbag/liar-Schumer added, “We spent months trying to secure $2000 checks but Republicans blocked it. … Maybe Trump can finally make himself useful and get Republicans not to block it again.”
Perhaps Trump’s last-minute demands didn’t happen without the knowledge of key members of Congress. He is, however, known for erratic negotiations, and he’s apparently throwing Republicans under the bus — particularly Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who supported the package and face critical runoffs in two weeks. Ultimately, it’s highly unlikely that Congress will remove a single item; if anything, it will only add spending. So, what’s Trump’s strategy?
Maybe it’s as simple as reminding members of Congress that they’re supposed to represent the American people, and to let the people know that gargantuan and unread bills passed in the dead of night don’t put their interests first. ~The Patriot Post
Racism Injected Into COVID Vaccination Plan
THOMAS GALLATIN After nearly a year of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it has been well established that the people most at risk of dying from the novel virus are the elderly. Thus, it came as quite a surprise when the initial (and now scuttled) plan for administering the newly developed COVID-19 vaccine did not have elderly Americans at the front of the line. Instead, it was healthcare workers. While they arguably have a higher chance of contracting the virus due to the nature of their jobs, they also largely make up a lower-risk population.When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was questioned on the rationale behind the vaccination prioritization, it was exposed that racism — actual racism arising from the Left’s Critical Race Theory logic — played a significant role in the decision.
As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, “The committee openly acknowledged that its initial plan would result in more deaths than ‘vaccinating older adults first.’ But, the panel said, the plan would reduce racial disparities — something they deemed more important than saving lives — because essential workers, unlike adults over 65, are disproportionately black and Hispanic, the two groups that have borne the brunt of the pandemic.”
So it’s okay if grandma dies from COVID before getting the vaccine because, statistically, she’s most likely white and therefore her death serves to “level the playing field.” That’s what Dr. Harald Schmidt, an ethics and health professor at the University of Pennsylvania, essentially implied in a recent New York Times article. “Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
Underscoring this racist mindset was one member of the 11-person committee that helped craft the ethical framework for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That would be “health equity” consultant Dayna Bowen Matthew, who also serves as dean of George Washington University Law School. Matthew perfectly parrots the CRT narrative of “systemic racism,” as she argued that racial inequity “requires us to prioritize by race.” Requires?
The Federalist’s David Marcus insightfully observes, “Nothing, it seems, is more important than protecting the lives of the oldest among us, except for fighting racism. The great irony of course is that the lockdowns themselves have disproportionately destroyed minority-owned businesses. Yet, for the Marxists on the radical left, this doesn’t matter. They don’t fight racism by giving people tools to lift themselves up, they purport to do it by making people dependent on the state.”
And that is really what this is all about — working to garner greater controlling power for the government. Declare a problem where none really exists, i.e. systemic racism, find it in everything from education to vaccines, and then push “solutions” that invariably require more government infringement on Americans’ individual rights and freedoms.
Can’t we just fight a global pandemic with a vaccine that’s quickly distributed to everyone? Not without a political fight. ~The Patriot Post
scumbag/liar-Swalwell Just the Tip of Dems' China Iceberg
“No one that was in that room could walk out and say scumbag/liar-Eric Swalwell should be on the intel committee,” McCarthy argued. “The one answer that I got out of that briefing was there is no way scumbag/liar-Eric Swalwell should continue to serve on the intel committee.”
McCarthy also pointed out the abject hypocrisy displayed by Democrat leadership as it attacks President Donald Trump over the Russia hoax while scumbag/liar-Swalwell was given the green light to oversee the CIA. “And that exact same year when the FBI came to brief the Intel Committee because they were concerned of what they saw, he gets put as the ranking Democrat over the CIA,” McCarthy said. “I do not understand how this has continued this long. … And I would never, never allow him on that committee.”
So, despite likely knowing scumbag/liar-Swalwell’s compromised status, why did scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi still put him on Intel? As Gary Bauer asks, “Does scumbag/liar-Eric Swalwell have something on scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi?” Or maybe the better question is, what does China have on Pelosi? She certainly seems to be quite favorable toward Beijing — to the point of gutting provisions within the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act that withheld funding from the Beijing-backed Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses. As Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) stated, “Communist China is still buying influence on U.S. campuses. Yet Democrats gutted an NDAA amendment that would protect academic freedom and give U.S. colleges control over what Confucius Institutes teach on our soil.”
Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) contends, “Who could be surprised by Speaker scumbag/liar-Pelosi’s refusal to crack down on China’s infiltration of universities? She won’t even crack down on Chinese Communist infiltration of the Democratic Party. Speaker scumbag/liar-Pelosi only cares about national security if it furthers her narrow political interests, and again and again, those interests align with Chairman Xi’s.”
scumbag/liar-Swalwell, scumbag/liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Joe Biden… Just how much of the Democrat Party has been bought by China?
~The Patriot Post
A First-Class First Lady
DOUGLAS ANDREWS Throughout his tenure in office, Donald Trump’s treatment by the mainstream media has been a deep and well-documented disgrace. But even more disgraceful has been its treatment of First Lady Melania Trump, a woman of surpassing class, beauty, intelligence, and grace.Only in America could the daughter of a Slovenian factory worker or a Chicago city pump operator become first lady of the United States. But, sadly, only in America could the unhinged hatred and bigotry of our mainstream press cause two women to be treated so differently.
A 2018 New York Post article noted the double standard between the media’s treatment of Melania Trump and her predecessor as first lady. During Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s eight years in office, Michelle Obama appeared on at least 30 U.S. magazine covers. The actual number is probably much higher. And supermodel Melania Trump, elegant speaker of five languages? As of this article’s publication: 0.
As her White House profile page notes, “[Melania] is the second First Lady born outside of the United States [John Quincy Adams’s wife was the first], and she is the only First Lady to become a naturalized U.S. citizen. … In 1996, Mrs. Trump moved to New York and 10 years later, she proudly became a United States citizen. Mrs. Trump has always been an active member of her community. In 2005, she was Honorary Chairwoman for the Martha Graham Dance Company. That same year, she was awarded Goodwill Ambassador by the American Red Cross — a role she served in for four years. Mrs. Trump served five years as Honorary Chairwoman for the Boys’ Club of New York and was named Woman of the Year in 2006 by the Police Athletic League.”
Her biography goes on and on in this vein, which tells us that she valued service to others long before she became first lady. A brief scroll through her Twitter feed confirms just how fortunate we’ve been to have her in this role. ~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
The Assault on Faith
There are many well-meaning Americans who just want our politics to go back to a simpler time — when we agreed on fundamental issues and could compromise in the middle on minor issues. Some people think scumbag/liar-Joe Biden represents a return to such a time. But that’s not going to happen.
Donald Trump did not cause the divisions in America. Trump was elected by half of America because of the divisions. Our side chose him as a leader who would fight the left. Those divisions won’t go away if Trump leaves public life, which I hope and pray he will not do.
While there are many fundamental issues that most Americans can agree on, it is the left that has come to despise much of what most Americans believe, especially on matters of faith. And the left won’t stop attacking those values.
For example, we reported last week about a document that the Secular Democrats of America sent to the scumbag/liar-Biden transition team. This document calls for an all-out assault on the values most Americans cherish.
It accuses conservative Christians of providing “constant cover for white supremacy.” That charge is utterly absurd, but it shows the left has no intention of compromising since no one could be expected to compromise with “white supremacy.”
It calls on scumbag/liar-Biden to counter “inaccurate and revisionist messaging around our nation’s founding.” In other words, it wants scumbag/liar-Biden to embrace the inaccurate and revisionist messaging of the 1619 Project.
It denounces the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision that defended the religious liberty of private institutions from government intrusion.
It demands the repeal of the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which passed the Senate 97 to 3. Think about that for a second!
It calls on scumbag/liar-Biden to “dismantle” the Religious Liberty Task Force at the Justice Department and the Religious Freedom Division at the Department of Health and Human Services.
It demands that “religious schools be required to teach curricula in accordance with national secular standards.”
It demands that faith-based organizations lose federal tax dollars if they adhere to their religious principles.
It demands that states be forced to repeal “all nonmedical (religious) exemptions to mandatory vaccinations.”
It demands the repeal of restrictions on federally funded fetal-tissue research.
It demands the appointment of an attorney general who will support emergency COVID declarations targeting houses of worship.
It demands that the IRS resume enforcement of the Johnson Amendment and that Congress “pass legislation that would strengthen enforcement of the Johnson Amendment.” In other words, more IRS meddling in churches to further muzzle our pastors.
It demands the appointment of “humanist and nontheist” military chaplains.
It demands the repeal of our national motto, “In God We Trust,” and urges scumbag/liar-Biden to avoid the phrase “Judeo-Christian values.”
This is what we are fighting against, my friends. No matter what happens on January 20, the radical left’s assault on our cherished values will continue.
First Lee, Then Lincoln
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who thinks it’s okay to let babies die if they survive late-term abortions, marshaled his moral authority to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from Congress’s Statutory Hall because Lee fought on the side of the Confederacy.
But if you think about it, Northam actually shares a lot in common with Lee. Both abortion and slavery were built on the evil idea that whole classes of human beings — unborn children and black slaves — were not made in the image of God and were not people protected by our founding documents.
Meanwhile on the Left Coast, a San Francisco high school named after Abraham Lincoln is being stripped of that name.
It wasn’t that long ago when Donald Trump warned that attacks on statues of Robert E. Lee would lead to attacks on Washington and Jefferson. He was right.
The left’s attack on America began with a weak point — the Confederate flag and other symbols of the Confederacy. But it has quickly turned into an attack on the American flag and on all of American history.
The attack on Lee has turned into attacks on Lincoln, whose generals defeated Lee and the Confederacy. The left’s real target was always the Stars and Stripes and a place called America.
Left-Wing Hypocrisy
Last week, Vice President Mike Pence took the COVID vaccine live on national television. Many left-wing commentators mocked him as the guy who presided over 300,000 deaths.
What he really presided over was the production of a vaccine in record time, produced by capitalist companies that will benefit people all over the world!
Incredibly, many of these same commentators also attacked President Trump for not getting the vaccine yet and for failing to set the example for the rest of the country. So Pence is wrong for getting the vaccine and Trump is wrong for not getting it.
President Trump saw this coming. Back in the summer he said, “I’d take it first or I’d take it last. Either way I lose on that one.”
Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who put sick patients in New York’s nursing homes, had the audacity to say that Santa will be very good to him because he’s worked so hard this year!
New Strain, No Worries
The media have been hyperventilating lately about a new strain of COVID-19 emerging in Great Britain that is reportedly far more contagious. Here’s what you need to know:
It’s not new. Experts have been monitoring this mutation for months. It has only now just become the dominant strain in England.
There were similar reports about mutating COVID strains in Houston this summer.
Virus mutations are natural, and there is no evidence that the British mutation is any more serious or more deadly. In fact, the mutation could be good news as it is normal for viruses to become more contagious and less lethal as they run their course.
U.S. experts believe that the COVID vaccines will likely be effective against “any variant” of the virus. ~ThePatriotPost
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