Jones asked a nearby state trooper if there was an alternate route to get to the city. “Nobody is getting to Johnson City,” the officer told him around 2 a.m. on Sept. 28.
“My daughter is getting married at 11 o’clock, and I’m going to be there to walk her down the aisle,” he told the state trooper.
Jones had left his home in Boiling Springs, S.C., around 7 p.m. on Sept. 27, for what is normally about a two-hour drive to Johnson City. He said he wasn’t concerned about the hurricane aftermath — which, in hindsight, he regrets.
“We’ve had hurricanes reach up through here before but by the time they get this far inland, they’re generally just rain events,” he said. “We really didn’t heed the warnings like we should have. … I had no idea what lay ahead.”
About 30 minutes into the drive, there was a major traffic problem.
“It just crawled along at a snail’s pace,” said Jones, who was routed off the interstate several times, and got back on when it opened.
“There were closed road after closed road after closed road. I inched my way like this all the way to the state line,” he said. “What would have been an hour and a half drive was seven hours.”
He was routed off the highway for a final time at Exit 43 in Erwin, Tenn., which is where he asked the state trooper for directions. The officer told him back roads were washed out and that there was simply no way of getting there.
Jones wasn’t convinced. He parked his car at the bottom of the exit ramp, grabbed his backpack, shaving kit, underwear, socks and a windbreaker — and started walking. He was about 27 miles away.
“Off I went, with my cellphone light guiding the way,” he said, adding that he did not have cell service for the journey. It seemed daunting, but he gave himself a pep talk.
I’m going to be there if at all humanly possible,” he told himself. “It wasn’t a question of if, it was a question of getting through it and when.” Time was ticking, though. And the roads were full of hazards.
“I came to a section where the road was washed out.
It was starting to get worse,” Jones said. He reached a massive pile of debris — about seven feet high — and when he tried to go around it, he stepped in thick mud that swallowed both his feet and legs up to his knees.
“I couldn’t move,” he said.
A backhoe came by to clean up debris, and Jones said he was not visible to the driver. He realized just how close he was to being hit. “There were some audible prayers at this point,” Jones said.
He kept replaying the same thing over and over in his head: “My daughter is getting married at 11, and I’m going to walk her down the aisle.” It gave him the motivation he needed.
“By the grace of God and a lot of work, I was able to get my right leg out of the muddled puddle, but it sucked my shoe off and I knew I wasn’t going to make it without shoes,” Jones said.
When both legs were freed, he managed to dig his shoe out and proceeded to crawl on his hands and knees over the debris until he made it to solid ground. He then continued with his trek. vice, Jones — who moved about a month ago from Johnson City to Boiling Springs — did not have GPS to guide him.
“I was familiar enough with the area, I knew that I needed to stay on that road,” he said.
As Jones was about to reach a town, a state trooper pulled up and offered him a ride to the Erwin Town Hall, about two miles away. He got right in.
“I thanked him and started walking again,” Jones said, adding that he paused briefly to refuel with an energy drink and power bar he bought at a convenience store.
About 16 miles away from his destination, Jones stepped onto a two-lane highway that leads directly to Johnson City.
He picked up a reflective driveway marker he found on the side of the road and held it during his walk so motorists could see him on the narrow highway.
After another eight miles or so of walking, a white pickup truck pulled over, and the man inside offered Jones a ride. In what seemed like a miracle, Jones knew the man, a welcome coincidence in a city of about 72,500 people.
“It turns out, he was a former co-worker from years gone by,” said Jones, who was happy to have a ride for the final eight-mile stretch. “We had a great time catching up.”
The man dropped Jones off at his home in Johnson City, which he still owns, around 7:30 a.m. — 12 and a half hours after Jones left Boiling Springs. He had walked about 17 miles, and hitched a ride for the other 10 miles.
He took a short nap, washed up and put on an old suit and shoes he had at the house. Then he made his way to his daughter’s wedding — filled with relief and gratitude. Tennessee station WJHL-TV was the first to report the story.
“It all worked out very well,” said Jones, a father of three girls.
When he walked his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Marquez, down the aisle that day, she had no idea about the turbulent voyage her father took to make it there. During the reception, Jones decided to mention his trek in his toast, and present Marquez, 33, and her husband, Daniel Marquez with the driveway marker he felt protected him during his journey.
“I want this to be a remembrance for you to always be a protector of each other,” he said in his toast. Marquez was floored by what her father had endured — but not shocked by his resolve to be there.
“It was not surprising to me at all that he would take those measures,” she said. “It was very on-brand for my dad. He would do whatever it takes, no matter what. I’m so grateful that he was delivered safely.”
Marquez said a few other guests at her 45-person wedding also struggled to get there due to poor driving conditions, but no one’s commute was quite as dramatic as her father’s. Power was out at the church, so they used candles to light up the space during the ceremony.
“Especially knowing how much devastation there is, it’s wonderful to know that there is this much love in the world, and we experienced it this weekend with our wedding,” said Marquez, who, like her father, is an engineer.
“I’ve always looked up to him, and he’s been my rock and my role model.” As Jones said, “he stayed focused on his daughter during his arduous expedition.”
“I just kept putting one foot in front of the other.
I really didn’t have any thoughts of not going,” he said.
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Desperation grows to find hundreds unaccounted for in wake of Helene
President Joe Biden is expected to fly over Asheville, North Carolina, Wednesday, where the damage from Hurricane Helene has so severely narrowed access to the city that the president’s motorcade cannot make it in, the mayor says.
“The only highway into Asheville – of the four highways into Asheville – that’s open:
is the one near our airport, and we can’t shut it down for a motorcade,” Mayor Esther Manheimer said during an interview on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins Monday. The mayor said by flying over the city, Biden will be able to see the magnitude of the damage.
Asheville still does not have power, water or cell phone service in most areas, and residents are in need of basic supplies, she added. The city’s rivers have never been as high as they were in this storm, and the flooding has prompted an unprecedented number of swift water rescues, Manheimer said.
In addition to federal and state help the city is now receiving on an emergency basis, she said the community will need longer term federal assistance to rebuild. More than 1.5 million customers are still without power.
A vehicle drives underneath low-hanging power lines in Elk Park, North Carolina
Power is still out for more than 1.5 million homes and businesses from Florida to West Virginia four days after Helene roared through late last week, according to PowerOutage.us. Georgia and the Carolinas account for most of these outages: 1.3 million total.
Here’s how the outages stand as of 8 a.m. ET:
South Carolina: 612,000+
Georgia: 468,000+
North Carolina: 292,000+
Virginia: 75,000+
Florida: 67,000+
West Virginia: 17,000+
Temperatures from the Southeast through the mid-Atlantic will remain near or just above normal for much of the week as rescue and recovery efforts continue.
High temperatures will be in the 80s from Florida to southern North Carolina Tuesday while 70s will be more common from western North Carolina — where some of the most catastrophic damage is — into Virginia. Overnight lows will dip into the 60s for much of the affected region, with upper 50s possible in western North Carolina and low 70s in Florida’s Big Bend region.
Overnight lows will dip into the 60s for much of the affected region, with upper 50s possible in western North Carolina and low 70s in Florida’s Big Bend region.
Mules trek heavy storm destruction to bring supplies to North Carolina residents
Mules are helping deliver supplies to North Carolina residents devastated by Hurricane Helene, according to Mountain Mule Packer Ranch. In a series of posts to Facebook Monday, the ranch said it is working to coordinate packs of mules to deliver supplies to areas affected by the storm.
Mike Toberer told the AP he decided to bring a dozen of his mules to deliver food, water and diapers to hard-to-reach mountainous areas. The ranchers and mules “headed out” Monday morning, “and will continue to reply as quickly as possible to those in need,” his posts said.
“We are planning to head to Weaverville, NC…but available to go to other areas of need as well,” said the post. “We’ll take our chainsaws, and we’ll push those mules through,” he told the AP, noting each mule can carry about 200 pounds of supplies.
Mountain Mule Packer Ranch is located in Raeford, about 110 miles east of Charlotte and about 245 miles from Weaverville. “We have two fully loaded trucks and 20’ stock trailers heading to” western North Carolina for assistance, according to the post.
“We have been overwhelmed with the amount of support and encouragement received about our efforts to pack supplies in by mule trains to those affected by Hurricane Helene,” a post said.
Supplies collected by the Mountain Mule Packer Ranch to distribute.
Mountain Mule Packer Ranch uses mules to deliver supplies to hurricane-impacted areas.
Mike and the mule team made it to their staging area in Montreat yesterday and have already been helpful to families in need! They will be doing all they can in Black Mountain today. Thankful to Five 11’s Livestock Hauling for offering help in hauling mules so we could bring more supplies up! And appreciate being able to help support Cajun Navy 2016 on their efforts as well!
The team here at the ranch will be shopping for more supplies today, to restock them tomorrow! We appreciate the huge outpouring of requests on how to get supplies to us. Because of the conditions in the mountains and the way the team will be moving around, that is hard to coordinate.
We will bring a trailer to the Food Lion shopping center this afternoon at approximately 4pm if there is anyone in the area that wants to add to the supplies we are bringing! Please let me know if this is something you’d like to do, and we can be there between 4-5pm today to collect what you have!! God bless you all and thank you for keeping prayers lifted up!!
Food Lion 11745 Statesville Blvd
Cleveland, N.C.
People gather at a fire station to access WiFi in Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday.
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Approximately 600 people were still unaccounted for in Asheville, North Carolina, Monday afternoon as the city suffers from washed out roads and bridges, cell service outages and blackouts, the mayor told CNN.
Extensive damage to roads and infrastructure has isolated many remote communities and prevented crews from reaching residents with vital supplies, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer – Search (bing.com) said on “The Source” Monday night.
“There’s still a lot of folks that we need to be able to reach, so that is the priority,” Manheimer told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “But we also are in a situation where we don’t have water and power in most areas, and we do need resources like drinking water and food and other household supplies and personal supplies people might need.”
The devastation wrought by Helene in the city is “catastrophic,” the mayor said. “The pictures don’t do it justice”, President Joe Biden will fly over the city on Wednesday to survey the damage, she added.
What we’re covering here
• Climbing death toll: At least 130 people have died across six states and officials fear the death toll can rise following Hurricane Helene. Many more remain missing, perhaps unable to leave their location or unable to contact family where communications infrastructure is in shreds.
• Power and infrastructure outages: Hundreds of roads remain closed, especially in the Carolinas, hampering the delivery of badly-needed supplies. Some areas are so inaccessible supplies are being delivered by mules and by air and people are hiking hours to try to help loved ones.More than 1.5 million customers remain without power, according to poweroutage.us.
• Resources: For ways to help those left in Helene’s aftermath, visit CNN Impact Your World. Bookmark CNN’s lite site for fast connectivity.
At least 130 dead in the Southeast following Helene, officials say
From CNN’s Amy Simonson
The death toll from Helene continues to rise as authorities across six states slowly access communities that have been isolated by cell service outages and inaccessible roads.
At least 130 deaths have been confirmed so far in the Southeast.
Here is the breakdown of deaths by state, according to CNN’s tally:
Intense rain events like Hurricane Helene are making the idea of a “1-in-100-year flood event” obsolete, according to a 2023 report from the First Street Foundation, a non-profit focused on weather risk research.
The report found half the American population lives in a county where a 1-in-100-year flood is at least twice as likely now as past years, coming once every 50 years, on average, rather than 100.
First Street found parts of Western North Carolina hit by Helene could get a 1-in-100 year flood every 11 to 25 years. Stronger storms could impact all areas of the country. In much of the Northeast, the Ohio River Basin, Northwestern California, the Texas Gulf Coast and the Mountain West, the rainfall depths for a 1-in-100-year event could happen at least every 5 to 10 years.
The streets of Asheville, North Carolina, are seen flooded on Saturday.
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Hurricane Helene will rank among the deadliest hurricanes to strike the mainland United States in the past 50 years – and the death toll, which is already more than 100, will likely continue to climb.
Helene is currently third on the list, already surpassing Hurricane Irma from 2017, which killed 92 in the US, mostly in Florida.
Hurricane Harvey and Superstorm Sandy resulted in between 60-75 fatalities in the US.
Note: This list only includes mainland US hurricanes, so Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is not included.
There could be more tropical trouble coming in the Caribbean and Gulf
From CNN Meteorologists Monica Garrett and Mary Gilbert
Another storm could develop this week in the western Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico, which isn’t what anyone in the US wants to hear in the wake of Helene.
But unlike Helene, this potential storm could have more obstacles in its path to development.
A large and disorganized area of low pressure with showers and storms over the western Caribbean has been given a medium chance of developing into a tropical system in the next seven days, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The exact path and intensity of this potential storm are still uncertain, but it’s a situation worth keeping an eye on, especially for those in the southeastern U.S. who are still recovering from Helene23.
Are you in an area that might be affected by this weather?
Tropical development is possible in the next seven days.
CNN Weather
Environmental conditions could become conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form later this week or this weekend while the system is over the southern Gulf of Mexico or northwestern Caribbean Sea, according to the NHC.
At this point it’s 45 mph winds were already stronger than a tropical depression, so NHC declared the formation of Tropical Storm Helene at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sept. 24 with the center located in the far northwestern Caribbean about 170 miles south-southeast of the western tip of Cuba.
Weather models are hinting at a possible tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico early next week, though it is too early to be certain. Until an area of low pressure forms, any forecast modeling on the potential storm will likely continue to vary widely with its ultimate strength and track. Given this, anyone near the Gulf is advised to monitor the forecast.
Why hurricane are organizing over the northwestern caribbean
Hurricanes often organize over the northwestern Caribbean due to several key factors:
Listen to my command and hold your ground. Fight for honor, fight for the dignity of men, fight for our mothers! Fight for our descendants! Fight for our future
A list purportedly naming dozens of Democrats throughout history who have shot and killed presidents, politicians, and civilians has been circulating online since at least 2012 along with the argument that it should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. Musician Ted Nugent posted one of the most popular iterations in September 2015:
In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
In 1881 a left-wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound.
In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonald’s restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.
In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen , TX.
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US …
In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.
In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.
In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown, CT.
As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard.
Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. *Not one *NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders. *SOLUTION: *
*It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. *Best idea I’ve heard to date!
BlackRock is the manager of the iShares group of exchange-traded funds, and along with The Vanguard Group and State Street, it is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers.[3][4] Its Aladdin software keeps track of investment portfolios for many major financial institutions and its BlackRock Solutions division provides financial risk management services. As of 2023, BlackRock was ranked 229th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.[5]
BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, Robert S. Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater, Ralph Schlosstein, and Keith Anderson[7] to provide institutional clients with asset management services from a risk management perspective.[8] Fink, Kapito, Golub and Novick had worked together at First Boston, where Fink and his team were pioneers in the mortgage-backed securities market in the United States.[9]
During Fink’s tenure, he had lost $90 million as head of First Boston. That experience was the motivation to develop what he and the others considered to be excellent risk management and fiduciary practices. Initially, Fink sought funding (for initial operating capital) from Peter Peterson of The Blackstone Group who believed in Fink’s vision of a firm devoted to risk management.
In August 2020, BlackRock received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a mutual fund business in the country. This made BlackRock the first global asset manager to get consent from the Chinese government to start operations in the country.[44][45]
In November 2021, Blackrock lowered its investment in India while increasing investment in China. The firm maintains a dedicated India Fund, through which it invests in Indian start-ups Byju’s, Paytm, and Pine Labs.[46][47]
On December 28, 2022, it was announced that BlackRock and Volodymyr Zelensky had coordinated a role for the company in the reconstruction of Ukraine.[48][49] This was after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Zelensky met over a video conference in September, 2022.[48]
In June 2023, BlackRock filed an application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a Spot BitcoinExchange-Traded Fund (ETF), and in November 2023 it filed another application for a Spot Ethereum ETF. The spot bitcoin ETF filing and 10 others were approved on January 10, 2024.[52][53] On January 19, 2024, the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) was the first spot bitcoin ETF to reach $1 billion in volume.[54]
In July 2023, the company appointed Amin H. Nasser to its board.[55] Nasser, the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, will fill Blackrock’s board vacancy left by Bader Alsaad in 2024.[56]
In August 2023, BlackRock signed an agreement with New Zealand to establish a NZ$2 billion investment fund for solar, wind, green hydrogen, battery storage, and EV charging projects as part of its goal of reaching 100% renewable energy by 2030.[57][58]
In January 2024, BlackRock announced that it would acquire the investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5 billion.[59][60][61] BlackRock agreed to pay $3 billion in cash and 12 million of its own shares as part of the deal to buy GIP.
In March 2024, BlackRock launched their first tokenized fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on Ethereum, which represents investments in U.S. Treasury bills and repo agreements. The fund secured $245 million in assets in the first week.[62]
In 2020, the non-profit American Economic Liberties Project issued a report highlighting the fact that “the ‘Big Three’ asset management firms – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – manage over $15 trillion in combined global assets under management, an amount equivalent to more than three-quarters of U.S. gross domestic product.”[66] The report called for structural reforms and better regulation of the financial markets. In 2021, BlackRock managed over $10 trillion in assets under management, about 40% of the GDP of the United States (nominal $25.347 trillion in 2022).[67]
To gain understanding of Fink’s actions, we need to go deeper into the spiritual awakening in identity politics that could reshape virtually every institution in America and the West. In “American Awakening,” Joshua Mitchell argues that identity politics is a religious revival seeking salvation by replacing the substance of justice with the supplement of mercy.
Justice is the arduous task of giving to each person what is due to them. Our voluntary institutions in work, politics, and civic associations are predicated on us attempting and generally getting this virtue right. Mercy, Mitchell observes, is the supplement when we don’t. We ask and hope to be granted forgiveness when we fail our neighbor.
Mitchell further observes that we live in two worlds, two economies, the visible and invisible. Both are necessary to the human person.
The visible, tangible economy concerns profit and loss, debt and credit. These accounts must be measured and settled if the work of a modern economy is to go forward. The invisible economy is also part of our existence. Here, we deal with perennial notions of sin, guilt, forgiveness, and mercy.
Accounts in the invisible economy frequently can’t settle. Sins are too great; forgiveness is not sought; and the guilty go unpunished. Biblical religion has provided us the means to understand the enormity of these unmet accounts, and to help us live under their weight. But they remain different worlds, separate economies that we live in.
Identity politics seeks nothing less than to input the invisible economy’s ledger of sin and guilt into the visible economy of profit and loss, debt and credit. But it redesigns the invisible economy by its conception of sin and guilt. There is no original sin, only an original sinner, the heterosexual white male. And there are victims, holy innocents.
The heterosexual white male’s guilt cannot be atoned, he must endlessly bleed and attempt to show his innocence. Mitchell notes this is the most he can do. On him hangs the sins of colonialism, slavery, racism, sexism, bigotry against sexual minorities, and the rank injustice of the capitalist economy.
These sins committed by the transgressor against the innocent are unforgiveable. And this also means that our inheritance, defined and made by the white heterosexual male, is poison and must be replaced. There are only two terms: sinner and innocent.
Thus, identity politics replaces the liberal politics of deliberation, compromise, and building institutions with others and proclaims an illiberal politics that supplants our irredeemable inheritance.
And identity politics must be illiberal politics because it seeks the mercy of the invisible economy in the visible economy, and that latter economy cannot pay what is without cost. As Mitchell observes, if you eliminate the visible economy, you also eliminate justice.
But mercy needs justice. Mercy without justice becomes tyranny. Does Mitchell not give us the needed leverage to understand not only what amounts to the corporatist hijinks of Fink, but the unpayable debts sought by today’s Democratic Party, whose motivations and thought increasingly reflect the mindset of identity politics?
If the visible economy of the capitalist world is bound up with patriarchal white male sin and must be replaced with the mercy of the invisible economy as understood by identitarians, then, Mitchell notes, we can understand “the impossibly expensive Green New Deal and the demand that there be free health insurance, or free college tuition, or socialism—which for the upcoming generation is a proxy, really, for the negation of the “capitalist” world of payment.” And this “produces a citizen who demands everything and thinks he deserves everything.”
Might we also understand Larry Fink’s incessant push to remake global capitalism into a crusade for environmental atonement and diversity and racial equity? When identity politics approaches the environment, Mitchell reasons, it finds nature poisoned, another holy innocent besmirched by the white man’s economy. Accordingly, “the stain of “anthropogenic climate change” must be wiped away, either by dismantling the world white, heterosexual men have built with “unclean” energy or by sustaining that world only with “clean,” green energy.”
Larry Fink’s charge to the “international community” of transnational institutions, corporations, and governments to plan comprehensively for a capitalist net-zero carbon economy by 2050 becomes similarly rational once we grasp the identity politics component that drives it.
Fink proclaims not his virtue; he proclaims his innocence. As a white male capitalist, he is inherently tied to the “unclean” substance—carbon dioxide—and the sins it commits on holy nature. Can it be redeemed under a new order dictated by the invisible economy of identity politics?
Fink’s calling is to make it so.
So limitless are the debts of this economy that even BlackRock must acknowledge the inability of the visible economy to settle the account. BlackRock remains invested in unclean companies. And the protestors in front of BlackRock’s offices accusing them of hypocrisy and backsliding remind them of it. In the old religion, the path to hell was easy, the road to heaven was hard. Something of that remains.
ESG requirements on publicly traded companies are expensive and can lead to competitive disadvantages. Many companies will refuse them or accept them and then shirk. To deal with these sinners will require government orders, and the SEC now attempts to fill the void with proposed rules to mandate disclosure about sustainable business models and diversity metrics on their boards and employees.
Even here, BlackRock and others implore the SEC to go beyond its public company statutory mandate by similarly mandating private companies to comply with ESG disclosure requirements. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, BlackRock’s public comment to the proposed SEC rule stated “we encourage the SEC to explore its existing regulatory authority to mandate climate-related disclosures with respect to large private market issuers” in order “to avoid regulatory arbitrage.” No stone will be left unturned.
What to make, then, of BlackRock’s extensive operations in China, including being invited by the CCP to be the first foreign company to sell mutual fund investments to Chinese investors? BlackRock has poured its clients’ money into Chinese investments.
Of course, BlackRock also has ownership stakes in Chinese companies iFlytech and Hikavision, the former develops AI and voice recognition software while Hikavision manufactures surveillance equipment. Both companies were blacklisted by the United States government for participating in human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. BlackRock is invested in both and increased its holdings in Hikavision after the blacklisting.
Certainly, being a favored company like BlackRock in China’s strong-man economy guarantees a favorable return on investment. But BlackRock still must account for its actions in China under the standards of identity politics. The classic refrain of needing to be inside the system to change it, surely will be voiced. But, ultimately, within the communion of holy innocents, American capitalism, led by the innocence-seeking hands of Fink, must become China’s carbon offset.
Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including:
Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens
De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices
Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation
Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
Ban biological males from competing in women’ s sports
Jim Marrs, in his book Crossfire, presented the theory that Kennedy was trying to rein in the power of the Federal Reserve, and that forces opposed to such action might have played some part in Kennedy’s assassination.[23][24][25] Marrs alleges that the issuance of Executive Order 11110 was an effort by Kennedy to transfer power from the Federal Reserve to the United States Department of the Treasury by replacing Federal Reserve Notes with silver certificates.[24] Author Richard Belzer named the responsible parties in this theory as American “billionaires, power brokers, and bankers … working in tandem with the CIA and other sympathetic agents of the government.”[26]
Critics of the theory note that Executive Order 11110 was a technicality that only delegated existing presidential powers to the Secretary of the Treasury for administrative convenience during a period of transition.[24][25]
BOTTOMLINE: Keep foreign interest out of Government.
Gallup: GOP Overtakes Democrats in Voter Identification for First Time A Gallup poll shows: More Americans now lean Republican over Democrat, with 48% siding with the GOP compared to 45% with Democrats. Voters trust Republicans more on key issues like the economy and immigration, seeing them as better at safeguarding prosperity and security. Just 22% are satisfied with the country’s direction, and President Biden’s approval rating has sunk to 39%. The economic index also paints a grim picture, highlighting widespread pessimism and poor conditions.
The G77 is a United Nations based bloc of developing countries that was formed in 1964.
“Poverty [….] is the greatest global challenge facing the world today, and we attach the highest priority to the eradication of poverty in the United Nations post-2015 development agenda. This must be supported by effective, appropriate means of implementation and strengthened global partnership for development. It entails, among other objectives, the promotion of employment and decent work for all, improvement in access to social services, the eradication of illiteracy and diseases, in addition to integrated, coordinated and coherent national and regional strategies”.
This is the wording of point 43 of the “Declaration of Santa Cruz”, drafted in Bolivia at the G77 Summit of the 133 member countries which comprise the Group of 77 and China. According to this group, inequality is more acute than ever “because of the prevalence of extreme wealth while poverty and hunger continue to exist”.
The deadline to eradicate it would be 2030. By then, we must tackle what is holding us back today, which in the opinion of the Group of 77 and China is, above all, the world financial and economic crisis, continuing food insecurity, the volatility of capital flows and the extreme volatility of commodity prices, energy accessibility and the challenges posed by climate change for developing countries.
In the Declaration, the governments of developing countries are urged to foster sustained and inclusive economic growth, with “the generation of employment as a priority, in particular for the young population, improvement in the provision of universal and affordable access to basic services, the provision of a well-designed social protection system, the empowerment of individuals to seize economic opportunities, and measures to ensure the protection of the environment”.
Hence, there is a need for incorporating sustainable development even more at all levels, integrating economic, social and environmental aspects and acknowledging the links existing between them.
In short, to paraphrase the slogan for the summit, let’s move towards a new world order to live better.
A release from the Foreign Affairs Ministry said that Guyana’s election follows a decision of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) earlier in 2019, to ensure that a regional candidate assumes the chairmanship in 2020 of the largest negotiating group of developing countries in the United Nations.
The release added that during its Chairmanship, which coincides with the United Nations seventy-fifth anniversary and Guyana’s 50th Republic jubilee, Guyana “is committed to endeavour to strengthen multilateralism for the benefit of all developing countries, including by presiding over global sustainable development and climate change negotiations, and efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Organization.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Karen Cummings said Guyana will discharge the important responsibilities of the Chairmanship of the G77 and China with integrity, faithfulness to the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations.
Dr. Cummings also noted her country’s resolve to use the opportunity to further the interests of all developing countries.
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.[1]: 79 The group consists of a diverse set of states with a common South-South ideology.[2] There were 77 founding members of the organization headquartered in Geneva, but it has since expanded to 134 member countries.[1]: 79–80 Uganda holds its chairmanship for 2024, succeeding Cuba.
Regarding environmental matters, the G77’s position is that the developed countries bear historical responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, pointing also to the disparity in per capita emissions between the developing and developed countries.[8]: 53 As a result, the G77 often resists binding commitments to reduce its emissions.[8]: 53 The G77 has been subject to criticism for its lacklustre support, or outright opposition, to pro-environmental initiatives, which the group considers secondary to economic development and poverty eradication initiatives.[6]: 30 In turn, the G77 has criticized the wealthier nations for their insufficient attention to poverty eradication, including at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[6]: 30–31
Members
As of 2023, the group comprises all of the UN member states (along with the UN observer State of Palestine), excluding the following countries:
New Zealand signed the original “Joint Declaration of the Developing Countries” in October 1963 but pulled out of the group before the formation of the G77 in 1964 (it joined the OECD in 1973).
South Korea was a founding member but left the Group after joining the OECD in 1996.
Yugoslavia was a founding member; by the late 1990s, it was still listed on the membership list, but it was noted that it “cannot participate in the activities of G77.” It was removed from the list in late 2003.[citation needed] It had presided over the group from 1985 to 1986.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was the only former Yugoslavian state to be listed as a member on the G77 official website in 2007;[14] it was removed from the member list in February 2020.[15][16]
Cyprus was a founding member[9] but was no longer listed on the official membership list after it acceded to the European Union in 2004.[citation needed] A document from 1975 states that Cyprus is not a member.[12]
Malta was admitted to the Group in 1976 but was no longer listed on the official membership list after it acceded to the European Union in 2004.
Palau joined the Group in 2002 but withdrew in 2004, having decided that it could best pursue its environmental interests through the Alliance of Small Island States.
Romania was classed as a Latin American country for the purposes of the G77, having joined in 1976.[17][18] The G77 was divided into geographical regions, and because there was technically no European area, Romania was placed under the umbrella of Latin America.[19] Romania left the G77 following its accession to the European Union.[20]
China
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members.[21] The Chinese government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has made financial contributions to the Group since 1994, but it does not consider itself to be a member.[22] As a result, official statements of the G77 are delivered in the name of The Group of 77 and China or G77+China.[23]
On census reference dated April 1, 2020, the resident United States population (50 states and Washington, D.C., excluding overseas territories and military members and civilian U.S. citizens living abroad) was projected to be 329.5 million, a 6.7% increase from the 2010 census. I figured that 1,000,000 Americans would have died without a vaccine. And that vaccine would compound the problem.
The quarantine conditions on the Diamond Princess were quite challenging.
Coping with confinement on the Diamond Princess was a significant challenge for many passengers.
Here are some ways they managed:
Staying Connected: Passengers used the internet and social media to stay in touch with family and friends, which helped alleviate feelings of isolation.
Entertainment: The cruise line provided movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment to help pass the time. Some passengers also brought books, puzzles, and games to keep themselves occupied.
Exercise: Although confined to their cabins, many passengers tried to stay active by doing exercises in their rooms. Some even shared their workout routines on social media.
Mental Health Support: The cruise line and health authorities provided mental health support, including counseling services, to help passengers cope with the stress and anxiety of the situation.
Routine: Establishing a daily routine helped many passengers maintain a sense of normalcy. This included regular meal times, exercise, and scheduled activities.
Community: Despite the physical separation, passengers found ways to support each other, such as through online groups and balcony conversations.
It was a difficult experience, but many passengers showed remarkable resilience and creativity in finding ways to cope. Is there anything else you’re curious about?
It was a challenging time for everyone involved.
The crew members on the Diamond Princess faced immense challenges during the quarantine, but they showed remarkable dedication and resilience.
Here are some ways they coped with their responsibilities:
Teamwork: Crew members relied heavily on each other for support, working together to ensure that all passengers received their meals, medical supplies, and other necessities.
Protective Measures: They followed strict hygiene and safety protocols to minimize the risk of infection, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and frequently sanitizing their hands and work areas.
Mental Health Support: Just like the passengers, crew members had access to mental health resources, including counseling services, to help them manage stress and anxiety.
Communication: Regular communication with health authorities and the cruise line management helped crew members stay informed and feel more secure in their roles.
Adaptability: The crew had to adapt quickly to the evolving situation, often taking on new roles and responsibilities to meet the needs of the passengers and ensure their own safety.
Community Spirit: Despite the difficult circumstances, many crew members found strength in their sense of community and purpose, knowing that their efforts were crucial in supporting the passengers.
Their dedication and hard work were vital in managing the crisis on board.
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, several notable outbreaks occurred around the world.
These outbreaks highlighted the global nature of the pandemic and the varying responses by different countries. If you have any specific questions about these outbreaks or others, feel free to ask!
Blood test of those who got the vaccine – Bing Videos The COVID-19 vaccines appear to be causing a global health disaster. There are so many warnings from all around the world. I’ll list just a few in this column. But the U.S. media remains silent.
Japan’s Ministry of Health just announced that “the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines could cause heart-related side effects in younger males.” Health experts in Japan have witnessed skyrocketing rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men and teenagers. And they’ve seen the same nonstop heart issues with middle-aged and older individuals.
All over America, and all over the world, cardiac arrest, heart inflammation and heart attack deaths are exploding. Young athletes are dropping right on the field; star soccer players in Europe are dropping dead in the middle of games; referees, coaches and even fans in the stands are having cardiac emergencies. It’s something no one has ever seen before. It’s an epidemic.
What do all these victims have in common?
They’ve all been vaccinated.
In America, the media is filled with reports of hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units overwhelmed with seriously ill patients. From coast to coast, there are so many sick people lined up that there aren’t enough beds or nurses. Sick patients are lying on gurneys along the hallways. Doctors and medical experts call it a “mystery” why so many Americans are sick. They can’t understand what’s happening.
But I can solve the mystery. I believe that these are COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries overwhelming ERs and ICUs. The very illnesses that are most prevalent in this mysterious health emergency — heart attack deaths, cardiac arrest, strokes, blood clots, multiple organ failure — are all the same COVID-19 vaccine side effects listed in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
What a coincidence.
But it’s not just in the USA. It’s happening everywhere.
In the U.K., the Evening Standard newspaper reports up to 300,000 British citizens are facing sudden heart related illness and cardiac arrest. U.K. medical experts are blaming PPSD — “post-pan demic stress disorder.” Three hundred thousand Brits aren’t dying and crippled from the vaccine. Of course not. They’re all nuts. It’s all in their heads.
These brainwashed Kool-Aid drinkers can’t see what’s right in front of their faces. Or perhaps doctors, scientists and researchers are too afraid of losing their medical licenses, or losing multimillion-dollar government grants, to speak up.
In the case of the media, it’s all about greed. Big Pharma buys a large proportion of the ads on every TV news network in America. Offend Big Pharma with stories of vaccine deaths and injuries, and the media could lose billions of dollars in revenue. Half the newsroom could be fired.
Not to mention stock prices would collapse in these media companies. There go the retirement accounts of Lester Holt, Don Lemon, Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow.
So, the truth is hard to come by.
So, what’s the truth?
All anyone with a shred of credibility, morality and decency have to look at are a few key factors. First, the Food and Drug Administration has reportedly requested 75 years to fully release the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data.
If I told you to “Trust me, I’m selling the world’s best health tonic, but I can’t disclose any of the test results or ingredients for 75 years, until everyone asking is dead, would you trust me? Would you buy what I was selling? Would you inject it into your body?
Second, a federal judge demanded some of that data be released immediately by Pfizer.
Just in the first few pages, detailing results from just the first few weeks of vaccines, Pfizer admits in their own data that their vaccine was linked to fatal outcomes for 1,223 Americans and produced 42,086 reports of adverse effects. Among the most prominent adverse effects were heart attacks and heart problems.
Third, the VAERS system is reporting a number of adverse effects possibly linked to the vaccines — including tens of thousands of hospitalizations, crippling injuries and permanent disabilities. That’s just in America. The EU numbers are even higher.
Now let me let you in on a terrible secret. My insider health care sources are reporting so many victims are filing reports with VAERS that the system is hopelessly overwhelmed and backed up. There may be 20,000 or 40,000 or 60,000 more deaths waiting to be processed into the VAERS system. They tell me the numbers are staggering.
Now you know why hospital ERs and ICUs are overwhelmed with people who are seriously ill. So, my question is, shouldn’t someone have been investigating this escalating health disaster? Shouldn’t someone in the media be reporting on this unimaginable tragedy? Should politicians be protecting us?
One thing I know: Something very bad and very evil is happening.
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One of the largest studies to date on myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination confirms an increased risk with both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in young men, and shows that the risk is higher with the Moderna than with the Pfizer vaccine.
The study also suggests for the first time that in young men 16 to 24 years of age, the risk for myocarditis after vaccination with either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is higher than the risk for myocarditis after COVID-19 infection.
The population-based study involved data on 23.1 million residents across four Scandinavian countries — Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden —74% of whom had received two vaccine doses and 7% of whom had received one dose.
By linking data from high-quality nationwide health registers on COVID-19 vaccination and infection rates and myocarditis diagnosis, the researchers were able to evaluate the risk for myocarditis by vaccine product, vaccination dose number, sex, and age.
The results confirm that the risk for myocarditis after COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is highest in young men 16 to 24 years of age after the second dose.
For men in this age group who received two doses of the same vaccine, data were compatible, with between four and seven excess myocarditis events in 28 days per 100,000 individuals after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and between nine and 28 per 100,000 individuals after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine.
“This is one of the largest studies on this topic to date. The first population studies were in Israel, with 5 million individuals, and looked at just the Pfizer vaccine. We have data on 23 million people from Scandinavia that include both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines,” senior author Rickard Ljung, MD, Swedish Medical Products Agency, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
“We show a clearly higher risk of myocarditis after the Moderna vaccine than after the Pfizer vaccine. This has been suggested before, but our data confirm definitively that the Moderna vaccine has a higher risk of myocarditis than the Pfizer vaccine,” he added.
“In the group at highest risk of myocarditis after COVID vaccination — young men aged 16 to 24 — the Pfizer vaccine shows a five times higher risk of myocarditis versus the unvaccinated cohort, while the Moderna vaccine shows a 15 times higher risk,” Ljung noted.
After seeing these data, the Swedish regulatory authority is no longer recommending use of the Moderna vaccine for people younger than 30 years, Ljung said. Similar recommendations have been made in Norway and Finland.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), myocarditis has been identified as a rare side effect of the mRNA vaccine. This side effect is seen much more often in male teens and young adults, as compared to other ages, and is likely due to an exaggerated immune response. Scientists are actively monitoring reports of myocarditis and continuing to learn more about its relationship to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fortunately, current studies show that post-vaccine-related myocarditis is typically much more mild than classic myocarditis, with symptoms lasting for a shorter amount of time and usually resolving with minimal, if any, medical treatment.
“In classic myocarditis, there are a wide range of presentations, from very mild symptoms to extremely serious, or even fatal, cases,” says Matthew Elias, MD, attending cardiologist in CHOP’s Cardiac Center. “Overall, this does not seem to be happening in post-vaccine myocarditis. In the patients seen at CHOP and at other hospitals, symptoms are generally mild and self-resolving, and heart function is less affected, if affected at all.”
Dr. Elias also notes that patients with post-vaccine myocarditis typically experience a quick recovery, with little to no medical therapy, as opposed to the extensive treatment and possible mechanical support that can be needed in non-vaccine-related myocarditis.
Weighing the risks
As a parent, it’s natural to feel concerned about any vaccine side effect your child may experience. However, it’s important to weigh the risks of side effects against the risks of infection. In the case of COVID-19, children and teens have a much greater chance of being infected with COVID-19 that results in heart issues, including myocarditis, than experiencing myocarditis as a side effect of the vaccine.
“Though children and teens are fortunately less likely to experience significant heart disease as a result of COVID-19, they can absolutely still develop severe illness, including heart failure and more severe forms of myocarditis,” says Dr. Elias, noting that the biggest concern for children with COVID-19 is the development of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but very serious condition in which different parts of the body — including the heart — become inflamed. “Approximately 50% of patients with MIS-C have decreased heart function,” he says.
Recent data provided by the CDC suggests that among 100,000 vaccinated adolescent males, only about four to seven would be expected to develop post-vaccine myocarditis. If this group was not vaccinated, however, more than 5,500 would be likely to become infected with COVID-19 over a period of three months, with infections resulting in 50 hospitalizations, potential MIS-C, myocarditis and possible death. Recent surges in infections would only increase these risks in unvaccinated individuals.
The numbers are clear: in children and teens, the risk of getting COVID-19, and developing severe illness that could seriously impact the heart, are far greater than the risk of experiencing post-vaccine myocarditis.
Long Before the Covid Vaccine
On December 9, 1989, Hank Gathers – Wikipedia collapsed at an LMU home game against UC Santa Barbara.[21] He was found to have an abnormal heartbeat (exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia), and was prescribed a beta blocker, Inderal.[21] However, Gathers felt that the medication adversely affected his play, and his dosage was gradually cut back.[22] Originally prescribed at 240 milligrams per day, his Inderal dosage was cut to 40 mg per day over the next three months.[3]
Gathers returned after sitting out for three weeks and missing two games,[17][23] and he averaged 29.3 minutes and 29.15 points in his 20 games through the remainder of the season.[24] However, he struggled with his play for weeks after returning.[23][25] His play recovered in a nationally televised game against LSU on February 3, 1990, when he scored 48 points along with 13 rebounds while being guarded by future NBA first-round draft picks Stanley Roberts and Shaquille O’Neal in a 148–141 overtime loss.[25] The Lions won seven of their next eight games,[25] and Gathers recorded a career-high 30 rebounds against Saint Mary’s.[17]
On February 26, 1990, as the WCC Tournament neared, Gathers’ medication was reduced one last time from 80 to 40 mg, on the condition that he undergo testing in a couple of days to determine if it was safe and effective at suppressing the arrhythmias. He did not show up for his test that week and avoided calls from his cardiologist’s office.[21][3] On March 2, he had a long talk with the cardiologist, who told him to play and come in for the testing after the tournament concluded.[21][3] It was later suspected Gathers was not taking any dosage on game days.[21] The following day in the WCC tournament quarterfinals in Los Angeles, he recorded 28 points and 11 rebounds in a 121–84 win over Gonzaga.[26]
On Sunday, March 4, Gathers collapsed again with 13:34 left in the first half of the semifinal game against the Portland Pilots. He had just scored a dunk on an alley-oop pass from point guard Terrell Lowery that put the Lions up 25–13.[16][22] Thirteen seconds later while positioned around midcourt in the Lions’ full court press,[26] he collapsed a yard or two away from Pilots point guard Erik Spoelstra.[27]
He attempted to get up, telling the athletic trainers, “I don’t want to lay down!” Shortly after, he stopped breathing.[28] Gathers was pronounced dead at nearby Marina Del Rey Hospital at 6:55 PM PST.[29] He was 23 years old.[21]
Hank Gathers tombstone in Mount Lawn Cemetery in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
The recognition of myocarditis as a rare side effect of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination has sparked a global debate on vaccine safety, especially in the realm of sports. The main proposed mechanisms in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination-associated myocarditis (C-VAM) are based on the activation of the innate- and adaptive immune system against a susceptible immune-genetic background, including recognition of mRNA as an antigen by the immune system, molecular mimicry between SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and cardiac tissue antigens and inflammatory sex-hormone signalling.
The relatively younger age of the athlete population hypothetically constellates an increased risk of C-VAM. A subgroup analysis in individuals under 40 years revealed a low incidence of myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination when compared to positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. No confirmed cases of athletes experiencing cardiac complications after mRNA vaccination have been reported. Most athletes only reported mild side effects after COVID-19 vaccination.
A small but statistically significant decrease in maximal oxygen consumption in recreational athletes occurred after BNT162b2 mRNA booster vaccine administration. The clinical relevance and temporality of which remain to be determined. Many speculative social media reports attribute sudden cardiac arrest/death (SCA/D) in athletes to mRNA vaccination.
Large media outlets have thoroughly debunked these claims. There is currently no evidence to support the claim that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination increases the risk of myocardial sequelae or SCA/D in athletes. However, specific vaccine regimen selection and timing may be appropriate to prevent detrimental performance effects.
CLAIM: Two researchers found that more than 1,500 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest since COVID-19 vaccinations began, compared to a previous average of 29 athletes per year, suggesting the vaccines are causing a dramatic rise in such cardiac issues.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The researchers cited a number from a blog that lists news stories about recent deaths and medical emergencies among people of all ages, from all over the world — some of which were attributed to other causes, such as cancer. The previous figure, meanwhile, is from a 2006 study that specifically reviewed literature for reports of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes under age 35. Comparing the two sources, with different methodologies, is not scientifically sound, experts told The Associated Press.
While cardiac specialists say it’s too soon to know what caused Hamlin’s heart to stop, they’ve offered a rare type of trauma called commotio cordis as among the possible culprits. He was released from the hospital 9 days later and eventually returned to professional football. [5][6] Social media posts and Fox News gave air to a long-circulating and faulty narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are causing a dramatic increase in athlete deaths.
“Cardiologist Peter McCullough and researcher Panagis Polykretis looked into this trend in Europe, European sports leagues. They found that prior to COVID and the COVID-19 vaccines there were roughly 29 cardiac arrests in those European sports leagues per year,” Fox’s Tucker Carlson claimed in a segment “Since the vax campaign began, there have been more than 1,500 total cardiac arrests in those leagues and two-thirds of those were fatal.”
Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough weighs in on Damar Hamlin’s collapse after it ignites conversation about young people and heart issues on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Note: Many don’t know the VAERS system is online and didn’t report their case.
Carlson was in fact referencing a letter, not a rigorous study, that McCullough and Polykretis published in a Scandinavian journal in late 2022. That letter does claim that “1598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, 1101 of which with deadly outcome” between January 2021 and late 2022 — but it simply cites a blog, goodsciencing.com, for that figure.
The blog’s list is a compilation of news reports about recent deaths and medical emergencies, and it includes cases not reported to be spurred by cardiac arrest: Some deaths, for example, were reportedly from cancer. The letter by McCullough and Polykretis goes on to compare the blog’s questionable “1,598” figure of recent incidents to a 2006 study that found 1,101 reports of sudden cardiac death in athletes over a 38-year period, or an average of 29 per year. Some posts shared online also used numbers from the two sources to baselessly claim there has been a “1700% increase” in sudden cardiac deaths among athletes. Source Claims baselessly link COVID vaccines to athlete deaths | AP News
The topic of young athletes’ deaths since COVID-19 has been surrounded by misinformation. Some claims suggest a significant increase in deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines, but these claims have been debunked by experts.
Still not convinced? Below, Dr. Elias addresses the most frequent concerns he hears from patient families, and busts common myths about myocarditis and the COVID-19 vaccine.
Myth: The COVID-19 vaccine will cause a child to develop heart disease.
Fact: “Children are much more likely to develop heart issues after COVID-19 infection than after the vaccine. When children develop myocarditis after COVID-19 infection, it’s typically much more severe than when it occurs post-vaccine.”
Myth: Kids don’t get that sick from COVID-19, so they don’t need the vaccine.
Fact: “While kids are less likely to develop severe illness from COVID-19, they can get COVID-19, they can transmit COVID-19 and they can die from COVID-19. Even if they initially have no symptoms with infection, they can still develop MIS-C, which many families haven’t ever heard of.”
Myth: Children with congenital heart disease are at a higher risk of developing post-vaccine myocarditis.
Fact: “Congenital heart disease is not a risk factor for developing post-vaccine myocarditis. However, it has been identified by the CDC as a risk factor for severe infection for COVID-19.”
Take it from Dr. Elias: vaccines are the best way to end the pandemic, keep our kids healthy and get our lives back to normal. “Families often ask whether I would vaccinate my son,” says Dr. Elias. “As soon as the vaccine for kids ages 5-11 was authorized, we took him right in for his first dose. I’ve met and treated patients with post-vaccine myocarditis, COVID-19 myocarditis, and MIS-C, and I had no hesitation. We’ve waited long enough. It’s time to end the pandemic, and vaccines are the way to do it.”
Blood clot statistics: COVID-19 vaccine
Overview: Although blood clots linked to the COVID vaccine remain extremely rare there appears to be a higher risk in people shortly after the first dose of the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine.
Risk rate: according to government guidance from June 2021, around 10 people develop this condition for every million of AZ vaccine doses given. That’s 0.001%.
Now you know why the Democrats picked the senile Joe Biden for president in 2020, he’s the front man. Since the beginning of his campaign, Biden’s foot has been no stranger to his mouth. The self-described “gaffe machine” is under fire again as Republican leaders promote a recent quote as a confession of wide-scale voter fraud.
She’s fading fast. It’s funny because with the media on their side it would have only taken a couple of weeks of policy interviews to sufficiently carry the news cycle on these issues. But they didn’t even trust Kamala enough to ride the storm in presenting policy (and flip-flopping when necessary) to take a shot at it. She hasn’t earned the right to be President, and it doesn’t look like she is going to give it a shot.
We should be in for a TRUMP landslide on election night.
In my opinion, America has had enough of Donald Trump. However, Trump already has been in the White House AND THINGS WERE BETTER. I’ll take competent but chaotic leadership over completely incompetent leadership any day. Trump’s 4 years were successful. Biden/Harris was a complete disaster. The media’s propaganda can not make up for total incompetence.
Addressing the Republican Party of Texas convention, Gov. Rick Perry said the country erred in 2008 by electing the wrong person as president. “Three and a half years, and nearly 100 rounds of golf into his presidency, Barack Obama has exploded the federal debt, passed a failed, budget-busting stimulus package, socialized health care, and provided guns to Mexican drug cartels,” Perry said June 7, 2012. “Admit it, America — 2008 was our national ‘oops’ moment!”
It’s pretty bad when the Dems have to boot their own sitting POTUS out of the running only to replace him with the likes of Harris. It must have been because he was doing such a stellar job, Right?? And hand delivering Obama his 4th term as POTUS. Trump will be a breath of fresh air compared to the likes of them! TRUMP created chaos by exposing their political corruption. They are in politics for nobody but themselves.
To get rich off the backs of the American middle class. Why do you think they are trying so hard to keep him from getting back in office? Let me guess you think he’s going to cost us our constitutional republic? The Democrats already showed you mess with their money or power and they will do anything to get ya out or keep you from getting back in.
Odds are TRUMP will be your next president. Polls do not matter; over the years they are only accurate around 40-50%…. Personally, I have had enough of Biden’s choices that wrecked the economy. Harris means 4 more years of Biden’s policies and no major change in the economy. Vote with your wallet, I know many are empty under Biden..
They tried to tell us that Biden was as sharp as a tack and that everything we saw and heard were all deepfakes and that we shouldn’t believe our eyes and ears. The media and Harris were all complicit, but Harris even claimed further that he was the best for the job and that people were wrong about Biden.
And then all of the sudden Biden is ousted a week after they failed at assassinating Trump and Harris is anointed and propped up as the princess and the savior of democracy, while at the same time skipping the very process we have called a primary in order to vote in a candidate LOL. Yeah we’ve had enough of the Democrats.
I would think people are sick of being lied to by Democrats. Sorry we are not going to forget the last four years…but really the last eight because they have launched an all-out attack against any and all of their opponents, specifically President Trump through phony impeachment trials, January 6 insurrections, accusations and assination attempts etc.
Trump never created chaos. that came from the left. Look in the mirror and you’ll see who caused the chaos. Everyone who voted for Biden was doing just fine under Trump’s watch. Many of us are ready to take a sigh of relief if he’s elected again. Whereas the left already are planning to throw a fit. Harris is an absolute phony in everything she ever did and an unfortunate product of our times. Middle America…where common sense is still a virtue…will indeed decide this election.
And sadly, the left fringe will not learn a single lesson.
The lesson that the left should be learning is that because the Democrats have captured the left legacy media, they don’t have to tell the truth about anything anymore. They can lie with impunity and nobody will call them on anything. They can even sell the country this puffed up empty suit because they control the propaganda.
Are you all going to fall for this?
All I know is the world wasn’t on fire and on the brink of WW3, and my savings never did better than during the trump years. Anyone that invests for the long haul knows the truth. 2022 killed our stocks. I’m not losing money with this market, but I’m not getting nearly the return I got with Trump. Fact. No one will ever convince me of who to vote for. Just as I’m not going to convince anyone else.
Good grief: Kamala is largely incoherent.
There are videos of her speaking like she’s on something. I am surprised that her campaign has some traction, probably due to the democratic party diehards and a heavily biased leftist media. Kamala has done well avoiding questions about the working and specifics of her economic plan. For the keen-eyed, the plan is largely to tax everything and If you own a SUV or Pickup she will tax you to death.
There is also an earlier video of Kamala chanting with a leftist, woke crowd “down with deportation.. ” we are playing with fire with this candidate. I do not believe the hype on Kamalahaha’s election chances and feel the polls are rigged to continue to keep her within striking distance. Trump might not be the ideal candidate but he is a proven commodity that American people are far more likely to put their trust in over the unknown of Harris’s ideology and where in the world the border goes from here.
We are in for a TRUMP landslide if it is a legitimate election.
Today, this is true for politicians, few if any could run a business much less know what should be done. Trump may be disliked because of what comes out of his mouth. However, few if any in DC have his know how and business acumen. That is why DC hates him as he is not one of them and they want him out of their corrupt loop. Like him or not he definitely beats the typical goofs sauntering through the halls of Congress looking for his/her next meal and fund-raising circus!!!
Harris is not the leader of her campaign.
She is just the latest puppet the Democrat machine is putting out on stage to read the teleprompter. She OBVIOUSLY has no input into what is written in the teleprompter. Her entire campaign is a fraud. That is the disquiet these people feel. They know they are being lied to. They are being sold a bill of goods.
It’s a shame more people don’t realize just how unqualified she is for the job. She flip-flops on so many things it’s almost comical. She’s afraid of reporters and their questions for which she has trouble answering questions and people want her to be president. The only people who support Kamala are the ones who had their eyes closed for the last three years. Their Bidenomics and “progressive” policies have affected all groups, so it is no surprise that traditional supporters are switching sides.
The only reason why Harris is the Dem nominee is because of how easy it would be for the elites to control her. With that ease of control, her incompetence becomes even more obvious, and to the voters who care about actual issues, she is clearly unfit for the job. And for four years Deep State played Biden like a fiddle because he’s a vegetable. Kamela decided if that’s all she had to do was bend down on her knees and listen to whatever they say, she figured she’s already had the experience for all that.
Lots of bots on the Dem payroll that will write nasty comments for them. Harris has no business being in the running for President and Dems should have had an honest primary and maybe they would have gotten a better candidate than Harris. Who did nothing but lie to us for the past 3 1/2 years and is not someone that can be taken seriously. It has nothing to do with her being a woman. It has everything to do with who she is and what her non-policies are.
Harris is little more than a prop for the Democratic Party.
She was purposely installed on the ballot, the general public and as the media have no direct access to her, everything is scripted. If she is allowed to speak on her own, she is a disaster. In a recent interview with Oprah we saw the real Harris, she was talking about her word salad of dreams, aspirations and her middle-class upbringing. Unless you’re comfortable with voting for a puppet as the leader of the free world, then by all means vote for Harris. If not, there’s only one other choice.
Harris is an empty suit puppet who was thrown in by the Dems because they can totally manipulate her. She is, quite literally, without a thought or position. Feckless is my word of choice. Trump, for all his personal flaws, actually governed well and had our country on track before a global pandemic was released by the American communist party. As bad as some think Trump is, she’s a thousand times worse.
Her campaign would be dead if the left propaganda machine media would show the truth. Ever wonder why she is losing the democrat base of minorities. It is because they were shown what life should be like by a republican that had the country’s best interest in mind. Trump was the person that corrected this country and got us back on the right path during his time in the White House.
Unfortunately, the progressive left teamed up with China and Fauci to spread a disease and lock people down. So they could run a successful basement campaign and make unconstitutional changes to the voting system at the last minute even though they violated every state constitution. The election of the incoherent puppet Joey B. was designed to be BHO’s 3rd term as he stated he would do before he left office. Now Kamala will be his 4th if she wins and the left id10t’s are gullible enough to continue voting that way.
You have to ask yourself, do we want an America that respects our deep roots or one that embraces failing communist countries who subjugate people? Do you want a country where politicians feel entitled to your wallet to give to those here illegally or one respecting us as a nation having actual enforced borders?
Do you want a thriving economy where you can afford to maintain your business, purchase goods, fuel your vehicles, enjoy vacations and buy a home? Or do you want to fund people here illegally, transients and thieves, whether they be thugs, or politicians who snatch it away via harmful legislation?
Do you really want to elect politicians who believe in reducing punishment for serious crimes and give your money to release rioters from jails during the upheaval of 2020?
Or do you want politicians to start enforcing laws and implementing legislation to keep us safer from drug dealers, gangs, theft rings, sex traffickers and violent sex offenders, not making them accountable for their crimes? Do we want accountability, or toxic compassion? Do we want healthy, thriving and safe communities where we respect parental rights and foundational education?
Despite the likelihood of another rigged election, this time, loyal Trumpian Patriots will NOT have to turn the other cheek as our Supreme Leader- SUPREMO, has the backing of SCOTUS and knows that he has full immunity. Just like Jesus… turned the other cheek the First Coming… but the Second Coming… He will unleash His wrath… executing great vengeance upon all those who oppose SUPREMO’s accession to the throne… On the Day of Judgment, SUPREMO will sit at the right hand of our Lord and Savior… and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. SUPREMO will be given absolute power- mandate to rule as he sees is in the best interests of Trump Land, formerly the USA.
The more that is spent, the worse it gets, because the money doesn’t go to the homeless, it goes to the hundreds of “charities” that then treat the homeless as sources of revenue.
Elon, this is such a true statement I volunteered in Florida at food pantries. The people were stealing the food off the trucks and putting it in their own cars! Might I add expensive cars, while the people were signing up for a few measly items to survive off that week to feed their families. My friend, now deceased, walked right up to these “Church People” and asked why he would do that! It was amazing to watch them steal the donations from those who needed it!
That’s why they can never help the homeless.If they aren’t needy they’re greedy.
It’s not about the homeless.
The more homeless there are, the more money these organizations get, so their incentive is to increase, not decrease, homelessness! Remember, folks, they’re not replacing white people. They’re replacing Americans. Race is just the tool they use to keep us divided and distracted.
Yet, all over America buildings are being renovated or erected to house ILLEGAL immigrants!!This one in Harlem, that was originally intended as a luxury apartment building, is now being used to shelter ILLEGAL Immigrants!! Residents are outraged.. “This could’ve been used for us!” -Harlem native saysAbsolutely Disgusting!!! I am sure there are many residents in Harlem who would have loved moving into this luxury building. ILLEGAL migrants will now occupy and turn it into a shithole because they are not held accountable for anything. Whatever you incentivize will happen. Illegals created a housing shortage so Americans not only have to pay for housing illegals but we also have to pay more rent, more for hotel rooms and more for houses. I don’t understand how anyone can vote for the woman who wants more illegal immigration.
Will someone, anyone, tell these news reporters that the word is ‘immigrants’, not ‘migrants’?
Migrants ‘migrate’, like caribou! They leave. ‘Immigrants’ are here for the long haul. Be on the lookout, these people residing in these apartments will have a legal address to vote from.
The BORDER WILL NEVER CLOSE WITHOUT TRUMP!!
We’ve heard, for 4 Long Years, “The Border is closed!
The Border is secure!”
NON-STOP LIES AFTER LIE FROM THE LEFT!! ALWAYS MORE LIES!!
ALL housing must be public housing. No person or group should ever be allowed to profit off passive income sources such as real estate. This is why there is a housing crisis in Canada, apparently USA also. Families destroyed…the government is building in Urban AND Rural counties all over the United States of America. 🙁 People need to understand that the inflation reduction act was just a bill to fund this under the guise of infrastructure. This is the infrastructure they voted to fund. In other words, “poverty activists” are actually poverty pimps. Congratulations on a job well done. We voted for our demise.
It would be more effective to address the root of the problem and work on recovering the economy in a socialist downward spiral. Incentives are why we have a massive Illegal immigrant problem.
We give away free food, free housing, free health care and then wonder why we have a migrant problem. Incentives need to end. To what can we attribute the notable prevalence of grifting in the context of Democratic leadership?
Some individuals appear to believe that taxpayer resources are simply available for their benefit. NGO grift at its finest.
It’s always the NGOs. It’s money laundering, plus plausible deniability for those who took your money (the government) but failed to solve the problem, or even move the needle. The NGOs are corruption’s connective tissue.They don’t fail to track, they intentionally don’t. That would show how much money they are stealing from it. Government accountability is at an all time low and will not be fixed until we get people willing to fight the government to expose the criminality that exists at the federal, state, and at the local level.
It doesn’t matter if they spend. The interest is so high now that the debt will pile up even with a balanced budget.
It’s all money laundering. ALL OF IT High speed rail is money laundering High speed internet is money laundering US AID is money laundering US charging stations is money laundering Infrastructure project is money laundering DC is literally stealing from taxpayers.
It’s sickening how charities profit off homelessness instead of solving it. The more they spend, the more they keep the problem alive. They’re cashing in on human misery while doing nothing real to help.
That’s what the Democrats do. They spent so much money there’s no accountability.
Somehow the money is never enough, and the politicians get filthy rich in the process. Newscum said he didn’t have receipts for the monies recv’d via the federal government. I’ll tell you GO ASK HIS FRIENDS they have a lot of it. now that he wants to run in 2028 he’s coming out doing what he’s always done TAKE TAKE TAKE
The NGOs who take most of the money as “administrative fees” and who also, typically, pay their officers exorbitant amounts when they have no basis for it. I was an auditor/fraud examiner and have much experience with these entities. I think the Trump administration should take a hard look at the grants awarded to NGOs, especially for immigration services. Let’s see how deep these tentacles reach. Mneofthestate
Just got the papers served on Friday, and my son and I will be one of those on January 12th. Someone bought our home out from under us, but I am looking into options. My son really wants to stay in the school he is in, but I can’t afford anything because of my disability. I’m not sure what we will do, but I will figure it out. I qualify for a loan, but only, wow, I’m actually calling it “only,” $50k. You can’t buy anything for $50K anymore. Under President Trump, 2.5% interest, I would have had my home secured, but because of Biden/Kamalanomics, the interest rates are too high. Now, there is nothing I can afford. My son’s mother’s family are very wealthy, but they won’t even pay the $100 a month child support because they hate me. My son’s grandfather is a VP at Microsoft and a Democrat. It is sickening.
Exactly – the Homeless Industrial Complex.
California homeless population 2011 – 2022. Their approach doesn’t seem to be working!!!
Since 2019, California has spent about $24 billion on homelessness, but in this five-year period, homelessness increased by about 30,000, to more than 181,000. Put differently, California spent the equivalent of about $160,000 per person (based on the 2019 figure) over the last five years. Recently, politicians used our tax dollar to build a 600K PER UNIT building for non taxpayers- it has cafes, art, music and gym rooms- the tenants never need to work or pay a dime towards their support-Imagine if the government gave even 1% of that 24 billion dollars to the homeless. You could give every one of them more than a million dollars.
Where’s all the money going?
MIGRANT CRIME IS TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY. MIGRANT GANGS HAVE CREATED STRONGHOLDS IN SANCTUARY CITIES WHERE THEY KNOW THEIR SAFE. NOW THEIR TENTACLES ARE STRETCHING OUT TO SMALLER LESS PROTECTED TOWNS – RAPE AND MURDERS. THE MEDIA REFUSES TO REPORT THIS FEARING HARASS LOOKING BÀD.
They could have ended homelessness in California for 1/3 that just giving out a check of $50,000 even impacted healthcare, drug use and crime. Hope real people see the system the self important enrichers have created to steal the future of America.
Fact: Did you know that Rick Scott (R-FL) only won his Senate seat by 10,033 votes?
And he had to spend $64 MILLION of his own wealth to do it.
The first step to truly disarming an individual, or a society, is by taking away their right to free speech. Dr. Phil says often: “When people tell you who they are, also believe them” – Kamala – Walz – Hillary – have all told us who they are, and I believe them. I also believe these Leftists will do a lot of other things we won’t like if they can just confiscate our guns. We can save democracy by censoring speech and jailing our political opponents! 🇺🇲
They’re collecting our posts right now to use against us if they’re successful in stealing the election again, believe that!!
They would gladly see America turn into China if it meant they could retain power.
They don’t care what apocalyptic outcome it might bring. These Democrats are demons… The uni party wants to take away our 1st and second amendment.
It’s long past time to make free speech great again. That’s why Freedom of Speech is the First Amendment. It’s the bedrock and cornerstone of democracy. Remember to make the correct choice at critical moments! ⌛
This becomes the big excuse for Democracy to mute people’s voices, the true voices from people. This is exactly how the British sounded before America declared our freedom.
Free Speech is worth fighting to protect because once you lose it there is no easy way to get it back before it’s too late… Absolutely! Because nothing says freedom like government-controlled speech and prison sentences. Maybe next, they’ll suggest we all live in glass houses to improve transparency!
Like the plot to a dystopian movie, New York will now monitor social media writings, collect data, and use law enforcement to crack down on any expression it deems to be hate speech. They won’t want people to be allowed to think for themselves. Allowing individuals to have their own personal power is too much of a threat. Very concerning.
They always act like any restriction or discipline, or morality is unreasonable. There are restrictions on the first amendment already. Valid ones that the law and the constitution uphold. The anonymous rightwing social media Borg just knows it can’t misinform and propagandize as well if X takes responsibility for the quality of its business and reins in abuse and manipulation and harassment and hate speech.
Censorship won’t save them from what Americans really think.
On Gavin Newsom banning memes in Ca., how exactly does that work?
SO I INCLUDED MANY IN THIS POST JUST FOR YOU FROM OHIO. SO YOU won’t think twice about imprisoning dissent. Biden and your AUNT PIGLOSI already did it… My God, we live in a scary time and it just gets scarier by the week with lying politicians
LIKE YOU AND YOUR BAY AREA SEA HAG AUNT LIVING IN AMERICA.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi have a lot in common as prominent Democrats with strong ties to San Francisco, but are they also related as family members?
If you have a particularly generous view on extended family, then yes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aunt, Barbara Newsom, was once married to Ron Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law.
That means for a while, Gavin Newsom was related to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law by marriage, but the familial relation between the two now-powerful Democrats was even more distant. Not to mention, the marriage tying the two families together ended when Gavin was 10 years old.
When your Karma bites you in the ass, Everything will fall like dominoes.
I am a smart one that means I’m voting for Trump in November.
Believe them. They mean it when they tell on themselves
Kamala: Thinks We must censor the internet. Walz: Misinformation ≠ free speech.
Hillary: Prison for telling the TRUTH.
Statements from Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Hillary Clinton highlight a growing concern about the balance between addressing misinformation and protecting free speech. Their positions suggest a push for increased regulation, which can lead to significant debates about individual rights and government authority.
It’s crucial to critically assess such proposals and their implications for democratic values. Can they be more obvious on what they are afraid of if the people did the opposite of what they are asking for….They are trying to hide the truth about themselves. Democrats are the greatest threat to our Constitutional republic that we have ever faced. SINCE 12/07/1941.
IF you offer people two options – take responsibility, work harder, and we’ll provide you with all the opportunities to lift yourself up, or let us decide for you, who regulates the environment, and guide you to a passive, limited future – many will choose the second option. Same thing is happening in the EU, UK, and Canada… because too many people ask, ‘What’s wrong with regulating harmful things?’
They fail to see the danger in handing over the power to decide what’s right and wrong. Many are willing to surrender some responsibility for their own lives because life is hard, and the struggle is real. The harder life gets (including navigating ourselves in the confusing information battle), the less energy people have to govern themselves.
So they opt to alleviate the burden, not realizing the long-term cost of such choices.
Is the internet not already censored?
Aren’t their legal actions people can take if someone were to lie and create false narratives against someone in normal life? We desire these things in our normal lives but can’t imagine the need for them for social media and information? Didn’t people just flip out because a player knew that they were going to start in a football game beforehand?
But people didn’t know until late that they were scratched and then those people get upset because of the “mis information” … the information they are safeguarding aren’t your opinions, They are more than likely looking at trends in your digital profile and content to ensure no one is a threat to others or the country?
You don’t think this stuff is happening already? What is the issue here?
Question, if Mr. Trump said we should have safeguards in place.
What would people say? Aren’t they arguing against misinformation as well?
Kamala married a JEW Bidens cabinet was 66% JEWISH Bidens kids all married JEWS Hillary’s daughter married a JEW Jews are 0.2% of the planet. How does this make ANY SENSE?
Democrats are pro-censorship and there is no denying that fact.
Gavin Newsom: I’m gonna ban memes
They want to censor thought and make slaves out of us all. Democrats never stopped being the party of slavery. Remember, Kamala’s family owned slaves.
People need to realize the Bible is true – in Revelation it describes a one-world dictatorship where no one can buy or sell unless they have the mark. It is unfolding before our eyes. America is going to fall, everyone needs to prepare themselves for that. But take heart – Jesus Christ has overcome the world. We will win in the end.
It’s Called They Don’t TRUST THESE AMERICA POLITICIANS ANY LONGER
Elon is utilizing it to broadcast the salient facts people should be considering in voting this time. Trump is for Freedom, Prosperity, and Safety. The Harris/Walz team is not. If they were, the last four years would have been very different than they were. She’s had four years to show what she could do, and look where the country is. We saw what Trump could do before he was t-boned by the pandemic. Well, the pandemic is gone now, and we want the Trump system back!
It’s called Freedom to Broadcast what we know.
Kamala’s Past Lies Reveals Why She Shouldn’t be POTUS.
During a June 2019 appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert, Sen. Kamala Harris said that despite her bashing Joe Biden at a recent primary debate, she would support the Democratic candidate, no matter who it was.
“How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?”
Colbert asked. “It was a debate,” Harris said about her fierce attacks on Biden.
You need to add these facts:
1. She moved to Canada at the age of 12.
2. She attended school, including college, in Canada aged 11/12 through 20.
3. She did not spend her “formative” years in the U.S.
4. Her extreme values are Canadian not American.
5. Plus she lived in Canada from 1976 to 1982.
6. Her father is a Marxist.
It’s proven over and over again that She’s a Pathological and Habitual Liar ALSO not very bright, Back in her years actually there was bussing, but it was DEsegregating policy and it was white kids being bussed to other schools to balance the racial makeup of other schools as part of an effort to desegregate schools in Los Angeles.
BUT AT THAT TIME SHE WAS LIVING IN CANADA!
So true. (At least most of it) Although I’d love it if the final statement were correct,
@KamalaHarris was born in Oakland CA which makes her a natural born citizen. It’s the really terrible part of our constitutional laws because anyone can cross our border and have a baby that naturally becomes a citizen.
Larry Elder told the story of her father traveling from the deep south to LA and being so surprised that it wasn’t segregated and realizing that’s where he wanted to live. She lived in an area in Montreal called Westmount Quebec – Second most affluent neighborhood in Canada and her family wasn’t middle class, and she didn’t work McDonald’s employment to help pay for college.
It is obvious that Kamala Harris has appropriated the Black race for the purpose of fooling African Americans ahead of the 2024 election. In other words, she’s playing them all for fools in order to get them to vote for her! She is not “Presidential material,” regardless of race!
And Don’t believe her lies, she wasn’t middle class, she was upper class!
Literally everything out of her mouth is a lie. How can anyone vote for someone with zero credibility!!
A vote for Kamala is a vote to give up all your rights to the government and will dictate to you what you can and can’t do. A totalitarian regime of communism….voting for Kamala Harris is like getting a flat tire and driving around on it and hoping that it’ll fix itself. A vote for Kamala Harris is a snub to every single Founding Father who signed their name on the Declaration of Independence.
End the Kamala chaos by Electing Trump!
And she won’t snuff out Christianity. Almost 2,000 years later the Bible is still the number one seller of all time, and Jesus is alive and well and sitting on the throne. Extremely disturbing once you notice our sorry state is due largely to the death of religion. The sentiment that “A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote against any religious institution” reflects a specific perspective, often rooted in certain political or cultural narratives.
This is also being reflected in behavioral facilities for adolescents. We have now switched to being on a Cali model, with Cali overlords who run it fiscally based. We All Know SOFT GEL SLICK DOWN NEWSCUM MADE CALIFORNIA UNLIVABLE. They have designed it to maximize fiscal gains, not your child’s health. You have 30 days to fix anomalous behavior, which is stupid, impossible and unproductive for serious cases where the help is needed most.
These Democratic policies have placed barcodes on your children, and that is all they are to them!
A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote against religious institutions misrepresenting the Do No Harm Act, which she sponsored.
This legislation clarifies that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act cannot be used to justify discrimination, undermine nondiscrimination laws, or harm others. It protects individual rights, promotes inclusivity, and has support from over 100 civil rights, LGBTQ, health, women’s, labor, and faith organizations. Understanding the Act’s context and intent is crucial, rather than perpetuating misinformation that fuels division.
The basic problem is that people have a right to discriminate, but they don’t have a right not to be discriminated against. Once you create a fake right for some favored groups not to be discriminated against, you destroy real rights for all individuals, including religious.
The media has become a complete waste now that it cannot be counted on to report fairly. It likes its access and influence, and in that way it’s behaving like just another wealthy elite Democratic Party donor. This is not the case. The United States needs a president like Donald Trump who can build relationships with the whole world. Very true,Vote for peace in World 🌎🕊️☮️ vote for change, vote for Trump 💓🤍💙
Thread by @BasedMikeLee on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App 🏮 1. A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote against any religious institution, including schools, universities, hospitals, and charities. The media doesn’t want you to know about the Do No Harm Act. They won’t ask her about it because they know the answer.
🏮 2. This is the truth: Kamala Harris doesn’t believe that religious institutions should be able to live according to their faith. Rather, they must bend the knee to the popular social justice movement of the day.
🏮 3. Not a single mention of the severe threat Kamala Harris presents to religious liberty—including for Latter-day Saints.
🏮 4. There’s an argument to be made that the Do No Harm Act was a (if not THE) centerpiece in Kamala’s short tenure in the Senate. It has among the most cosponsors of any legislation she introduced. Search Bills in Congress – GovTrack.us
🏮 6. I struggle a little to understand why Latter-day Saints would vote for her, in light of her efforts to gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but to each his own.
🏮 7. I struggle far more to understand why the Church’s media operation would go out of its way to help her hide her crusades against religious freedom.
🟥 In conclusion, the claim is factually incorrect if taken to mean that Harris’s policies entirely oppose religious institutions. While the Do No Harm Act might concern some religious groups about potential restrictions, it’s one part of a broader legislative and political context. Harris’s overall stance includes supporting religious freedoms alongside protections from discrimination. Therefore, presenting a vote for Harris as universally against religious institutions oversimplifies her policy positions and the nuanced interplay between religious freedoms and civil rights in legislation. #OPINION | Kamala has been known for years for her weak oratory. When she speaks she has a hard time keeping the thread of the conversation, and she also has a nervous laugh that not only gives her away easily, but also annoys many 🤡
Everyone should have to go live in a blue state. Like Pennsylvania which has been run by Dems for years. I recently visited family outside of Pittsburgh. There is no prosperity, no new homes going in, very few new businesses, very little manufacturing and no growth. Lots of taxes. It is a shell of its former self. Nothing has changed since I was there 10 years ago. It has only gotten worse. Utahns have no clue how well they have it. Choose wisely this November. The Most Prosperous States in America (usnews.com)
Yeah, Their long-term goals are similar to the book “A Brave New World”. It’s going to suck, and it includes them eventually taking the kids.
When Kamala had a 90% turnover from Day 1 in her VP Staff
Because she was always unorganized and changing her mind!
The fate of America depends on removing Democrats from the presidency, Congress and state governments. The entire Democrat party is treasonous, in bed with global oligarchs to drag the U.S. into a global feudalistic/communistic governance.
If it appears that Western nations are all in lockstep:
Descending toward authoritarianism, censorship, suppression of free speech and fascism, that’s because they are. Western governments have been corrupted and subverted by global oligarchs. YES!! For a very long time. That’s why Trump is a threat to the Shadow US government. Progressive old money. Democ-Rats 🐀🐀🐀
I have been preaching this about the Democrats since Obama because every time you hear about something that stupid dumb or idiomatic Democrats involved…..🤡💩🤡💩🤡
The future of America hinges on this election. A Trump victory means defending free speech, securing our borders, making our cities safe again, and bringing sanity back to government spending. It’s about restoring strength, both politically and financially. Just like
@TheTrumpToken and $GREAT represent freedom in the crypto world, Trump represents freedom for the American people. It’s time to secure our future.
It’s a little odd that so much should depend on one event, but it does. The Left has taken us down a dark tangent, and we need to put our nation back on track if we want to continue to enjoy the many things which made America the leader of the Free World.
Many self-destructing people will vote with only their personal hate as a motivation! I pray, for their sake, as well as mine, there aren’t enough of them to succeed!
He needs to shift the conversation into the fact that his campaign and policy is to make the country strong, energy independent, fix the border and help everyone. While Kamala’s only policy is to stop him from doing so .
Climate change, charging stations, the border, and the internet is all a taxpayer funded scam from this pathetic administration and will only get worse under communist Kamala… Sounds like money has been funneled to places other than where it should be going. Complete RIPOFF!Kambala failures: 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 🚫 (≈$457 billion) 𝐄𝐕 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬/𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 🚫 ($5/$2.5 billion) 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 🚫 ($42 billion)
It’s called incompetence by Kamala Harris And misappropriation of public funds. Don’t forget about the 8 charging stations that cost 7.5 billion or the 11 billion, 1600 ft long CA high speed rail that Nancy Pelosi Diane Feinstein stole Grant Money Three Times From. While they waste billions and play politics, Americans are still offline. It’s a total failure of leadership! 3 strikes & she’s out! Don’t get distracted: Kamala is historically extreme (voz.us)
Let’s envision what it would be like if we voted for Harris, leading us into a time of incredible poverty. Imagine a version of America where free speech STOPS and every individual has access to healthcare, education, and yes, Picture more illegals coming through wider open borders, 🟥BREAKING: House Republicans reportedly have enough votes to charge Attorney General Merrick Garland with inherent Contempt of Congress, which would direct the Sergeant at Arms to take him into custody. 🟥 JUST IN: The Trump campaign has DECLINED CNN’s invitation for another debate Good! That’s the right move.
Donald Trump does not need to endure another rigged debate like the one on ABC.
If she wants another debate, it should be on X, with Tucker and Laura moderating.
🟥 I do not understand why the RNC continues to allow left wing propagandists to handle “debates” for them.
Here comes the left saying Trump is afraid even though Kamala denied Fox debates twice. As she’ll only agree to “debates” at places that’ll give her the questions in advance and attack Trump for her. Trump stated very clearly that he won’t do another debate. CNN will spin this as being “scared.” Debate is a waste of time. We KNOW where Trump stands. Better CNN pin Kamala down and hold her feet to the fire. She LIES about everything – like Project 2025! And The liberal media has already exposed themselves as being in the tank for Kamala after ABC turned their “debate” into a 3v1, refusing to hold Kamala accountable for her blatantly false statements, and routinely arguing with Trump. Allowing the hacks at CNN to “moderate” a debate so close to Election Day allows them to directly interfere on behalf of Kamala.
The fact that she is begging for a CNN debate again, signals massive desperation and panic. As, there is no need for another debate, Americans know who the candidates are, we have all witnessed what they can do when in office and how things were when they were in office. I don’t blame them. The only reason Kamala wants another debate is the Party’s internal polling tells a considerably more disturbing story about her support among ordinary people than public polling released by Democrat media.
Trump has nothing to gain and everything to lose by gracing CNN and providing them with ratings they don’t deserve. Frankly, he doesn’t need it. Kamala is the one with the identity problem and it’s starting to sink her and everybody sees it. Even if Trump could get fair moderators, he’s still going to be hamstrung by the fact that Kamala is a woman and if he comes across as aggressive at all, he’ll be seen as bullying her.
Why should DJT commit to a second debate with that lying female dog in a media horse and pony show? ..
The debate on ABC was biased, manipulated and rigged for KH.. a whistleblower came forward with a signed affidavit that it was rigged..
DJT had to debate KH and ABC NEWS.. it was a disgrace to human intelligence..
Trump campaign wisely declines CNN debate invite!
Avoids: – Biased moderation – Unfair questioning – Election interference No more debates on leftist networks! I agree that it’s the right move. Obviously, she and the media know that she didn’t expand her base with the last debate, Dems are also claiming that the lighting on the two candidates was the same during the debate. But it’s easy to see the difference, once it is pointed out.
Therefore, No more making these deceitful MSM networks richer. Trump has stepped out of his comfort zone multiple times for interviews and both debates, time for Kamala to step out of her comfort zone for once. She won’t even do that for interviews and when she did one on Oprah she read off a teleprompter. Besides Voting is ongoing now in many states. He offered her three debates. She only would do the one she could rig on leftist ABC and wanted another on CNN.🚨The Democrats have dropped Biden, but make no mistake about it, Kamala Harris is EVEN MORE radical. 🚨
Of course he declined the invite from CNN and you should. Trump has all the leverage now.
He already did two debates on hostile networks. None of the debates have been held on friendly networks.
There is no benefit in doing a third debate on another hostile network. They will spin it that Trump is a coward. And then Trump should agree to debate her on Fox.
Kamala has been known for years for her weak oratory. When she speaks, she has a hard time keeping a conversation, without that nervous laugh that not only gives her away easily, but also annoys many. Explains why the media is such a propaganda machine for the Democratic Party
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Only 3.4% of journalists are Republicans as of 2022
VP Kamala will Not Certify his Victory on Jan 6, 2025! (rumble.com) Being the Crooked District Attorney she was: Voting Kamala Harris is like throwing the Titanic in reverse to hit the iceberg a second time 🧊 Don’t forget In 2021, Kamala Harris was put in charge of a $42 billion effort to extend internet service to millions of Americans.
Almost four years later, not a single American has been connected.
To make matters worse, in 2020, the Biden-Harris administration secured a commitment from Starlink to provide internet to 640,000 homes and businesses at about $1,300 per location in federal support. Biden always bragged about his accomplishments, but it looks like a lot of them were never done. Money goes to it but nothing is done.
However, in 2023, the government revoked that agreement after Biden authorized federal agencies to investigate Elon Musk. Now, the Biden-Harris administration is spending $100,000 for what originally cost $1,300, seemingly because of their disapproval of Musk exercising his First Amendment rights.
The Biden/Harris administration has been trying to make life & doing business in America difficult for Elon since he bought X. When Trump is elected & we get the D.O.G.E, I expect all of these corrupt politicians will be looking for time in Alcatraz on Day 1.
1965 – 1967 .. 17-year-old Bernie Townsend and a few musician friends formed their first band in their hometown of Oxford in 1965. Like many of their musical peers from the baby-boomer generation they were influenced by the widely differing sounds of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Otis Redding and Bob Dylan and the historic Blues songs that were becoming available then on the old
Chess Records Label – those influences were certainly reflected in that first band as they started out on their journey to become the next Beatles or Rolling Stones.
Within a year that same band was residing in Paris and working as backup musicians for Chuck Berry, Eddie Lee Mattison and Mickey Baker and later opened for The Rolling Stones. This was the Paris of student unrest and social upheaval and it was on Montparnasse that Bernie and his fellow band members met with expatriate American writers and civil rights activists and young American servicemen bound for a place called Vietnam – it was a time that would form a lasting impression on Bernie Townsend and has provided more than one backdrop for his songs.
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1968 – 1970 .. Bernie Townsend was signed as a singer-songwriter to the then new independent label Zeus Records. This was the formative period of his career as a singer-songwriter and though full of promise and great support his output met with limited success and ran its course to a disappointing end to his first foray into the music industry as a solo artist.
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1971 – 1979 .. During the early 70’s Bernie had tuned in to the sounds of The Eagles and Jackson Browne and the Southern sounds of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers and in doing so he started a voyage of discovery into the ‘Americana’ genre that was to provide him with a vehicle for his songs across the spectrum of Country, Blues, Southern Rock, Southern Soul and Tex Mex – from that point onward the catalogue of songs from Bernie Townsend became heavily influenced by those genres and still is today.
Throughout this decade Bernie Townsend gave his services as a vocalist to various touring Country-Rock and Blues bands while continuing to craft his art as a songwriter and it was during this period that he struck up what was to be a life-long friendship with American guitarist Glenn Coleman who was the inspiration for the storyline of Bernie’s recent US hit single “Just Won’t Touch Me Now” – Bernie and Glenn played in 70’s country-rock band ‘Stampede’ and Glenn is now a stable-mate guitarist and singer-songwriter at Gravel Road Records.
In 1977, Bernie was invited to form a band with Blues guitarist Robert Wakeley which featured a raft of songs from Bernie’s growing catalogue, and which caught the attention of Ralph Simon who signed him to a publishing contract with Zomba Music in 1979.
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1980 – 1984 .. Bernie Townsend was signed by Richard Vernon to the legendary Blue Horizon/CN Records label as a singer-songwriter and he recorded two singles, “Another Night” released in 1981 and featured on the late Alexis Korner’s BBC Radio 1 Playlist and “Little By Little” released in 1982 and featured on the BBC Radio Playlist of Bob Harris – this period saw Bernie tour and undertake radio promotion across the US for the first time as a recording artist in his own right.
On the back of the two singles an album was recorded which reflected a track roster of cutting edge songs written by Bernie and his co-writer Richard Sharpey that were inextricably linked to the sounds that were coming out of the southern states at that time. The album was ostensibly recorded for the US market and saw the songs “Hold On”, “If I Could Only” and “Every Bit Of My Heart” receive critical acclaim at the Midem Festival in Cannes and an offer of license from Bearsville Records, however for contractual reasons the product was shelved and remained untitled in a studio library for many years.
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1985 – 1995 .. The frustration felt by Bernie Townsend over this issue lead to the end of a particularly creative period at Blue Horizon/CN Records and saw him put down his pen for an inordinately long period, during which time he found solace in a return to the days of long haul tours and the after hours side of life on the road.
During these intervening years Bernie shared stages, including London’s Wembley Arena and BBC 2 TV, with such diverse artists as Conway Twitty, Steve Young and Desert Rose Band and performed to many thousands of US service personnel at military installations around the world. However, as the years rolled by he felt more and more distanced from the reasons that had inspired him to start his musical journey and so one day he just got off the bus and returned home to his roots as a singer-songwriter.
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1998 – 2011 .. After taking a time-out from the music industry, Bernie renewed his songwriting partnership with long time co-writer Richard Sharpey resulting in a wealth of new songs that saw Rob Gripper the CEO of Fat Cat Records and BBC Presenter Bob Harris become instrumental in getting the career of Bernie Townsend back on course – he became a member of Country-Rock band ‘The Rescue’ and was their singer and songwriter, (with co-writer Richard Sharpey), on their first album, the eponymously titled “The Rescue” and their later album “Forever Young” – The Rescue, which was met with critical acclaim in both the US and the UK and saw The Rescue signed to Nashville record label ARG in 2008.
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2012 .. Bernie Townsend was persuaded, for the first time since the end of his career at Blue Horizon/CN Records, to embark on a solo career and he signed to Gravel Road Records as a singer-songwriter. In turn the Rights were acquired to the previously unreleased album as Gravel Road Records believed that the release of that Work was long overdue, and, in deference to the location of the legendary and long since gone Chipping Norton Recording Studio, Bernie decided to title his first solo album “Made on New Street”.
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2014 .. During September there began a series of events that launched the career of singer-songwriter Bernie Townsend to the wider mainstream audiences within the United States of America. This was kick-started by the release on YouTube of the acclaimed video of the song “Just Won’t Touch Me Now” featured on the album “Made on New Street” – this song was inspired by the experience of a close friend of Bernie’s on his return from the Vietnam War.
The video of “Just Won’t Touch Me Now” – Bernie Townsend (youtube.com) has since been the subject of many thousands of views on YouTube and posts and comments on the Vietnam Veterans of America Facebook Page and has been adopted by VVA Chapters across the United States. In the light of the background to the song and the source of its inspiration, Bernie Townsend donated his share of royalties to the Vietnam Veterans of America in perpetuity.
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2015 .. In April the single “Just Won’t Touch Me Now” was released to US radio and in June 2015, the song peaked at #17 on the Adult Contemporary Top 40 US Radio Chart and at #34 on the AC Hot 100 US Radio Chart and #7 on the AC Western Region US Radio Chart.
In the light of the success of the single “Just Won’t Touch Me Now” on US national radio and the outreach to both the Vietnam Veterans and mainstream America, Bernie Townsend had a 4th September 2015 worldwide release for his four song EP “The Day Before You” on Gravel Road Records.
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2016 .. Bernie Townsend was nominated in the category of “Adult Contemporary Breakthrough Artist of the Year” at the ‘New Music Weekly’ US Radio Awards for his hit song “Just Won’t Touch Me Now”.
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2017 .. Bernie Townsend and Jacob Corr produced the US Adult Contemporary Top 10 Hit singles “Tin Soldiers”, (2017), and “Damaged”, (2018), for singer-songwriter Abigail Scott (http://www.abigailscott.net).
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‘NO GOOD WILL COME’ by BERNIE TOWNSEND featuring ‘No Good Will Come’ and ‘We Are Deplorable’
2019 .. In early January No Good Will Come – Bernie Townsend (youtube.com) was released to American radio nationwide and by 30th April the track had peaked at #6 on the ‘US Adult Contemporary Top 40 Radio Chart’ and #13 on the ‘US Adult Contemporary National Radio Hits Top 40 Chart’ and #28 on the ‘American NMW Main Country Top 50 Radio Chart’ which saw Bernie have his second major American chart success – The track also charted at #5 on the ‘US Indie Top 30’ and at #4 on the ‘AC Western US Region Top 20’ and #30 on the ‘US AC Hot 100’.
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2019 .. On the back of the US radio chart success of the single ‘No Good Will Come’ Gravel Road Records & Music have released a new album also titled NO GOOD WILL COME by Bernie Townsend and comprising an eclectic mix of 14 songs steeped in the ‘Americana’ genre and featuring his US radio Top 40 chart Hits ‘No Good Will Come’ and ‘Just Won’t Touch Me Now’.
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2020 .. Bernie Townsend has been commissioned to record the audio track for the upcoming video for ‘Angel Families of America/P-A-I-N’ – The song is titled No Other Side – Bernie Townsend (youtube.com) and was composed and recorded by Bernie with lyrics written by Angel Mom, Virginia Krieger. The track was recorded and mastered during lockdown in the UK and the video-shoot is now in process in the US with a release scheduled for Summer 2022 – The song ‘No Other Side’ by Bernie Townsend will be released separately as a Single in the US in Spring 2022.
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2022 .. The song No Good Will Come – Album by Bernie Townsend – Apple Music ‘NO OTHER SIDE’ by Bernie Townsend was written and composed by bereaved mother Virginia Krieger and Bernie Townsend – ‘No Other Side’ highlights the struggles of bereaved families left behind as a result of the illicit fentanyl crisis. Revenue from the Video and EP is donated to ‘LOST VOICES OF FENTANYL’ and ‘PARENTS AGAINST ILLICIT NARCOTICS’.
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2023- The re-arrangement and recording of Still in Saigon Bernie Townsend (youtube.com) and longtime friend, Vietnam veteran and guitarist/songwriter Glenn Coleman is a timely project in light of the fact we are at the 50th year since the end of US combat operations in Vietnam.
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2023 .. Bernie Townsend sings out loud and clear to the heartland of America as they carry the working load to the next paycheck while events around them and beyond conspire to block any light there may be at the end of the tunnel.
2024 .. ‘Strangers In Their Own Land’ – Bernie Townsend – Released in Single format prior to inclusion on the album of the same name scheduled for release in 2025. Bernie Townsend sings out loud to the heartland of America, with his songs told through the eyes of the marginalized and forgotten as they carry the working load to the next paycheck while events around them and beyond conspire to block any light at the end of the tunnel – ‘Strangers In Their Own Land’ is a song of the here and now. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, who are called by thy name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Under Kamala Harris: • Rape is up 42%. • Robbery is up 63%. • Assault is up 34%. • Violent crime (excluding simple assault) is up 55%. • Domestic violence is up 32%. • Stranger violence is up 61%. • Violent crime (with a weapon) is up 56%. • Motor vehicle theft is up 42%.
“Years from Now Some of them may look back And ask themselves Whether they’ve made the right choice Whether they’ve made The most of the opportunities they’ve been given Together We have the same mission. Over the course of your life You will find that things are not always fair,
You will find that things happen to you That you do not deserve and that are not always warranted But you have to put your head down and FIGHT FIGHT, FIGHT Never ever, ever give up Don’t give in Don’t back down And never stop doing What you know is right. Nothing worth doing Ever ever ever Came easy And the more righteous your fight The more opposition that you will face.
In your hearts are inscribed the values of service, sacrifice and devotion. Now you must go forth into the world And turn your hopes and dreams into action. America has always been the land of dreams Because America is a nation of true believers. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they pray When the founders wrote the declaration of independence, They invoked our creator four times.
Because in America we don’t worship government. We worship God. It is why our currency proudly declares IN GOD WE TRUST And it’s why we proudly proclaim That we are one nation under God. The story of America Is the story of an adventure That began with deep faith Big dreams and humble beginnings.”
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The Democrats hate this country and will destroy it for their lust of power.
This is what happens when you allow communists to run for office.
They bend and break the rules.
Absolutely. This is why we’re not importing migrants based on skill set and what they can contribute to our country. We’re intentionally only bringing in people who will be reliant on the government. The Democratic Party’s definition of “protecting democracy”,
Those who imagine they will win with a government voted in by illegal immigrants are sadly mistaken. The problem is they’re not bright enough to see the brick wall they’re about to run us all into before they actually hit it. Regardless of the fact it is large enough to consume their entire field of view.
It’s the same mindset that leads to falling for obvious scams online. They illegally took away America’s right to vote for the government they want by importing illegals to vote.
How many want a government where everything you do is illegal.
How many times will we speak or type is illegal?
Elect Trump and send them back! They are political pawns for the democrats…
I think they have other reasons. But this one is probably up there.
We’re being forced to pay for our votes to be replaced by the people replacing them.
We as a country cannot allow this happen!
It’s not the only reason – it’s not even the main reason.
They want to replace us with more “compliant people.”
The main reason is the belief all humans are the same with the desire not to be (seen as) racist. Large parts of the population support immigration, not just politicians, and these are their fundamental reasons.
We lost America on November 3, 2020, and the Dems are not trying to hide this fact anymore … Democrats could care less about Americans or our Government Spending which Trump was trying to right the sinking ship by curtailing Military spending thru World Peace.
The Democrats want full power and a Uni-party Government!
The SAVE Act would allow election officials to be sued for wrongly registering a voter who didn’t provide the required proof of citizenship — for the lawbreaking noncitizen.
The Democrats Want You to Believe:
4. Immigrants have always been invited to come to the land of opportunity. When those immigrants were White, no problem, right? That’s how all these White Americans got here. Now that Brown and Black want to come, it’s a problem for you.
5. The US needs more immigrants to pay into our tax base to help subsidize our aging population. In 1940, there were 42 workers for every retiree. Today, there are only three. That number will go to two in the not-too-distant future. With 65% of We the People Not paying taxes. Who will fund Social Security, Medicare, the military, etc.?
In ReWriting History… Fox News political analyst and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime First Lady, Former New York Senator, and bestselling author. For, as he argues, In Rewriting History, Morris draws on his own long working relationship with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research and candid, nonpartisan analysis, to create a rebuttal to Hillary’s bestselling autobiography, Living History.
Morris documented how Hillary hides her true self behind a “Hillary” brand that is chatty, charming, giggly, and warm—but is far from her true personality. In Rewriting History, Morris pierces the mask to get at the truth behind the distortions and omissions of Hillary’s memoir.
Here we meet the real Hillary, both her good and bad side: she is the manager who makes the trains run on time, but also the paranoid side of her who sees all those who disagree with her as personal enemies; the idealist, but also the “advice addict” easily misled by the guru of the moment.
Morris describes Hillary’s sense of entitlement and warns that it may lead deep into her financial scandal. And he demonstrates how Hillary dodges criticism by pretending that every attack is directed not just at her, but at every working woman in America.
Ultimately, Morris argues, like Bill, the Hillary Clinton of today is marketing a false front, obscuring both her wants and her assets behind her phony facade. Will she, ever see the error of her ruthless ways, and embrace the sincere idealism she professes? Or will she allow the darker evilness of her nature to overcome her, jeopardizing herself and the country in the process?
Upon its release on January 15, 2016 by Paramount Pictures, 13 Hours grossed $69 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million, becoming one of Bay’s lowest-grossing films. It also received mixed reviews from critics, who also praised its performances, action sequences, and dark tone, but criticized the script for historical liberties. Bay’s direction received a mixed response, with many criticizing his emphasis on over-the-top action, but some also noting it as one of his most mature and grounded films. 13 Hours received an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Mixing at the 89th Academy Awards.
In 2012, following the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Benghazi is named one of the most dangerous places in the world. While several countries have pulled their embassies out of Libya in fear of an attack by militants, the U.S. still has a diplomatic compound open in the city. Less than a mile away is a CIA outpost called the Annex, which is protected by a team of private military contractors from Global Response Staff (GRS). New to the detail is Jack Silva, who arrives in Benghazi and is picked up by Tyrone “Rone” Woods, commander of the GRS team and a personal friend of Silva. Arriving at the Annex, Silva is introduced to the rest of the GRS team and the CIA Chief-of-Station, who constantly gives the team strict reminders to never engage the citizens.
The U.S. AmbassadorStevens arrives in Benghazi to maintain diplomatic connections amidst the political and social chaos. Despite warnings, he decides to stay at the Special Mission with limited protection from a pair of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents, Wickland and Ubben, and guards hired from the local February 17th Martyrs Brigade militia, nicknamed “17-Feb”. On the morning of the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Stevens notices suspicious men taking pictures of the compound and notifies his security detail. Back at the Annex, Silva finds out that his wife is pregnant.
That night, a group of militants from Ansar al-Sharia assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards quickly surrender their posts, allowing the attackers easy access to the Special Mission compound. Wickland takes Stevens and Smith, an IT specialist, into the safe room. Unable to breach the safe room, the attackers set the building on fire hoping to burn the men out. Wickland is able to escape but loses both Stevens and Smith.
At the Annex, the GRS team desperately wants to go to the compound to help, but the Chief refuses, fearing that the team’s departure would leave the Annex vulnerable. However, the team dispatches to the compound and meets up with the DS agents. Silva and Woods go into the building to try to find Stevens and Smith, but are only able to find Smith’s body. The DS team from the compound retreats to the Annex; but after Wickland goes in the wrong direction, they are followed back to the Annex. Later, the GRS team also retreats to the Annex.
Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex makes several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli, who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach the Annex perimeter. After repelling the largest attack wave, the Annex receives word from ISR that help is en route.
The Tripoli GRS reinforcements arrive and begin preparing the CIA and DS staff to depart for the airport. The militants launch a mortar attack in which Ubben and Geist are wounded; Geist’s left arm is partially severed and Ubben’s right leg suffers a compound fracture. Woods rushes to aid Geist and is killed by another mortar round. Doherty is also killed when a mortar detonates directly in front of him.
With the GRS team compromised, and the Annex now vulnerable, the remaining GRS operators watch as a convoy of vehicles rolls toward the Annex. Fearing the worst, the operators prepare to make a final stand, until it is revealed that the convoy is an element of the Libya Shield Force militia escorting the GRS reinforcements. They also find out that Stevens was found behind the compound, but was pronounced dead at the hospital.
At the airport, the CIA staff and the wounded Geist board the Air Tripoli plane to Tripoli while the remainder of the GRS team waits for the next plane with the bodies of Stevens, Smith, Woods and Doherty. Closing titles reveal that all of the surviving members of the Annex security team received contractor medals in a private ceremony and have since retired from the GRS team and live with their families.
ILLEGAL immigration (violence criminals) ≠ Legal immigration (doctors and engineers). Also, One day those illegal violent people might break into your home, kick you in the nuts, violate your women and steal your home, legally. Many undocumented are seeking asylum.
They are not illegal. Look it up.
It’s not that we don’t need immigration; it’s about the process of it. They need to be vetted and come through a legal process of becoming a citizen. My parents are immigrants but when they got here, they did not get 9$k cash; free housing and free medical care.
Also when you don’t have a work permit or citizenship to work you don’t pay taxes and that burdens our economy. Hence overspending of gov funds on top of many things! Hence. the hidden tax called inflation… which we pay on everything…Let’s also not forget that it’s absurd to think every single immigrant is voting blue. If I recall correctly, most Cuban immigrants are solidly right wing and many people from Latin America are socially conservative.
Undocumented, illegal immigration does not help you nor America in any way. Not 1 way. In fact, because they are receiving care in many facets… It will impact your finances directly. Don’t drink ANY Kool aid… DYOR
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The suspect, José Antonio Ibarra, is a 26-year-old Venezuelan who had entered the United States illegally.[6] He was arrested by UGA police and has been charged with 10 charges, including felony murder, malice murder, false imprisonment aggravated assault with intent to rape and kidnapping.[7][8][5] He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.[9] The trial is expected to take place on November 18, 2024.[10]
On the morning of February 22, 2024, Riley went for a morning run at University of Georgia (UGA).[17] During her attack, Riley’s phone called 911.[18] Riley was attacked and killed between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., according to the warrants.[19]
At 12:07 p.m.,[17] Riley’s roommate reported her disappearance after she did not return to the UGA police.[18] At 12:38 p.m.,[20] Riley’s body was discovered by UGA police in Oconee Forest Park behind Lake Herrick.[21]
Her death was caused by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, according to Athens-Clarke County Coroner.[2][3][22] UGA police described Riley’s killing as a “crime of opportunity” and reported that the killer appeared to have acted alone.[3][23] There had not been a murder in the university since 1983.[24]
Suspect
The suspect is 26-year-old Venezuelan, José Antonio Ibarra, who had entered the United States illegally in September 2022, crossing the US’s southern border with Mexico near El Paso, Texas.[3][23][6] According to Jeffrey Clark, the chief of UGA police, he lived in an apartment complex about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the wooded area where Riley’s body was found.[8] He had been previously arrested by both federal and state officials in multiple jurisdictions. He had a bench warrant issued for his arrest in December 2023 after failing to appear in court in a shoplifting case in Georgia.[25]
In October 2023, the suspect and his brother, who was reported by authorities to be a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua who temporarily worked at UGA,[26][27][28][29] were arrested by Athens police on theft charges; both were released after reportedly possessing stolen merchandise from a local Walmart.[30][31]
Criminal proceedings
On May 8, 2024, the grand jury of Clarke Countyindicted the suspect with ten charges: three charges of felony murder,[32] malice murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault with intent to rape, hindering a 911 call, concealing the death of another[5] and peeping Tom.[20][1]
He pleaded not guilty to all charges.[9] Bail was denied.[33] The district attorney is seeking the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the suspect.[32] In a court filing, the defense attorneys submitted a motion to move the trial to another county due to the media attention surrounding the case.[34] The jury selection is to begin on November 13, 2024.[35] The trial is expected to take place on November 18, 2024.[10][32]
Reactions
Tributes and national attention
Riley’s funeral was held on March 1, 2024, at the Woodstock City Church.[36] Riley was buried at Enon Cemetery in Woodstock, Georgia.[37] Riley’s killing became a “national political case” during what Forbes‘ Sara Dorn called a “historic surge in border crossings during Biden‘s tenure”.[3][38] Riley’s case drew nationwide interest and media attention.[11][39] A memorial was made for Riley at Lake Herrick.[8]
Her family says they plan to establish a foundation in her honor. Her stepfather said: “She will be missed every day, but we promise to honor her life moving forward in a very big way”.[14] Riley’s family started an online fund to raise money for the foundation, called the “Laken Hope Riley Foundation”.[40][41]
Riley’s parents, Jason Riley and Allyson Phillips, were invited to the State of the Union by Georgia Congressman Mike Collins, but they turned down his invitation.[42]Donald Trump mentioned Riley during his speech for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.[43]
President Joe Biden mentioned the killing of Riley during the 2024 State of the Union address,[44] after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted Riley’s name at the president.[45] Biden was criticized by Democratic members of Congress for referring to Riley’s suspected killer as “an illegal” instead of “undocumented”,[46][47] for which he later expressed regret.[48]
Laken Riley Act
On March 7, 2024, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act in a 251–170 vote, with 37 Democratic members joining all Republican members in voting for the bill. If enacted, the Laken Riley Act would mandate federal detention of migrants who commit burglary or theft and would allow states to file suit against the federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws.[49][12]
Immigrants come here legally, what we have now is not immigration is chaos and more than we can handle, we cannot take in everyone that wants to come here legally, let alone what we have now, This is LEGAL ENTRY BY ILLEGAL ALIENS. The Biden- Harris admin are traitors to the American Citizens, its treason, as outlined in our constitution.
We do have open borders, ask the border patrol and immigrants can and have voted even though it is illegal, why the law needs to close loopholes, illegal immigrants are COSTING taxpayers billions per year. Also upping welfare recipients – isn’t adding money to Social Security or society. Read a book!
1. Biden could have reclosed the border at any time he wanted. But he chose Not to.
2. The same men and women that support trump? The same men and women that this current administration called KKK whipping illegal migrants while on horseback trying their hardest to secure our border?
3. Then why won’t democrats vote for the SAFE act?
4. You assume all “white” people were welcome. Italians, Irish, Polish, etc. were not welcome with open arms. They were funneled into ghettos, factory slave shops, and mining towns and used as disposable labor. And all European immigration was cut off when they weren’t needed.
5. Why would we want to keep that same failing system going? To keep the elite establishment in control? They have proven themselves incapable of running the government properly. I say no to their radical plans to prop up the failed state.
Members of the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, from left, Lindsay Aime, James Fleurijean, Viles Dorsainvil, and Rose-Thamar Joseph, stand for worship at Central Christian Church, on Sunday.
SPRINGFIELD — For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole. This Sunday, they needed that uplifting balm more than ever.
Their community is reeling — confused, frustrated, hurt — from false accusations that they are eating their neighbor’s cats and dogs. The now viral and highly politicized rumors are being fueled by former President Donald Trump, his running mate JD Vance and others, and violent threats against the community are upending daily life in their city.
“Jesus is with us in truth, and the truth is that Haitians are not eating pets and geese in Springfield,” said the Rev. Carl Ruby, preaching at Central Christian Church. He invited community members to join his congregation in prayer and peaceful protest of the false rumors leveled against their Haitian neighbors.
They also demanded an apology.
“It is truth that a retraction of these rumors will help to restore peace in Springfield,” Ruby said. “We respectfully call on all politicians and media figures who are promoting this rumor to help make Springfield great and safe again by speaking the truth about our community.”
Viles Dorsainvil, the leader of Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, accepted Ruby’s invitation to worship together at Central Christian, and was grateful to be relying on his faith.
“It’s important to be here because we’re Christian — despite everything, we worship in good times and bad times,” he said. “I’m relieved that I’m in the presence of God. It’s therapeutic.”
And he had a message for Trump and Vance: “If they have the heart of God, they will think differently and speak differently.”
The rumors, spread on social media and by Trump during Tuesday’s televised presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, have exacerbated fears about division and anti-immigrant sentiment ahead of the election in the mostly white, blue-collar city of about 59,000 where more than 15,000 Haitians now live and work.
Thousands of temporary Haitian migrants have legally landed in Springfield in recent years under the U.S.’s Temporary Protected Status program, as longstanding unrest in their home country has given way to violent gangs ruling the streets.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, has said the federal government needs to do more to help cities like Springfield serve the influx of migrants. On ABC’s “This Week,” DeWine called the Haitians good, hardworking people who are in the U.S. legally, and said the false rumors are a piece of internet garbage.
“There’s no evidence of this at all,” he said during the program.
Despite the governor and local officials debunking the rumors, Vance reiterated the conspiracy theory on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS while blasting Harris on her U.S.-Mexico border policy.
At Central Christian Church, Ruby encouraged his congregation to help hand out thousands of cards around Springfield that had been printed in Creole and English with a message of support for Haitians. It reads” “I’m glad you are here. Christ loves you and so do I.”
As the service ended, Ruby praised parishioners for a beautiful moment amid what he called a storm of chaos. Looking at the Haitian members in the first pew and at the rest of his congregation, he asked them to come together in prayer: “Pray and think what it is to be a Haitian parent sending their child this week to school.”
One of those parents is Mia Perez, 35 an immigration lawyer whose 9-year-old daughter had to evacuate her school twice because of bomb threats to a nearby DMV this week.
“Kids in school are being asked by other kids: ’How does the dog taste? How does the cat taste?” Perez said, describing her daughter’s distress.
“She’s asking, ‘Are we the kind of Haitians who eat this kind of stuff?
Is it true? What’s happening?’”
“This is a conversation that I was not ready to have with my daughter,” Perez said. “I felt disrespected of our culture.”
On Sunday, Perez attended a service at Saint Raphael’s Catholic church, while a Springfield police officer stood guard outside. Attendance by Haitians was lower than usual, and Perez — after talking with others who did attend — said many from their community stayed away out of fears for their safety,
“This is emotional,” she said.
“They made a statement of not being here. Catholic Haitian people have such strong faith — not even hurricanes can keep them away but look at this here today.” Another service was held at The First Haitian Church, located next to the Haitian Community Center.
“They feel the threat. They feel not welcome,” Bernardette Dor, 51, one of the pastors, said after the service. “Even in the school system sometimes, they feel different, not because of their skin color but because they’re Haitian. But the reality is that we’re beautiful and we’re blessed.”
Though she worries about repercussions of the false statements, she said gathering to worship with her community and feeling support from others in Springfield gives her hope.
“We are united. It is time for good to stand for good,” she said. “This time the city of Springfield, Haitian people, asked the Lord to stay together to fight for good … America is a great loving country, and American people care for people – it doesn’t matter if they are Haitian. We’re against lies.”
After the service, some parishioners gathered at Rose Goute Creole restaurant for a traditional Haitian meal of rice and beans, fried plantains and pork. One of them, Jacob Payen, said the restaurant has been transformed in recent days.
“We’ve been outnumbered — we have more non-Haitian guests here at the restaurant who are curious to know the culture and Haitian cuisine,” he said. “We feel that they’re sending a strong message: if they’re here eating with us because they trust us.”
Among those attending the earlier service at Central Christian was Rose-Thamar Joseph, 40, who works at the Haitian Community Center.
“I was praying for peace and protection — for the Haitian community and all of Springfield,” she said. “I just want Springfield to go back to what it was a couple of months ago.”
‘Haitians are not eating pets’: Springfield faith leaders stand with migrants.
Carl Ruby, center, and other church representatives hug members of the Haitian community during a service at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on September 15.
“Jesus said that he is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus is with us in truth. And the truth is that Haitians are not eating pets in Springfield,” said senior pastor Carl Ruby, gripping the pulpit of Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio.
Moments later, the 60-person congregation rose to its feet, applauding the five Haitian community leaders visiting Sunday morning
“We love you,” Ruby said to them. “We are glad you’re here.”
Earlier in the week, the small nondenominational church hadn’t been certain they would be worshipping on Sunday. Bomb threats and the presence of hate groups had the city on edge, but the board voted to meet— and Ruby took the opportunity to appeal to both President Biden and former President Trump.
“I call on our former president, President Trump, out of the goodness of his heart, out of the divine spark of God’s image that lives in every human being, to let people know that he was misinformed about what’s happening in our community, and to ask hate groups who are here to leave,” said Ruby. He also called on President Biden to provide additional resources to support the expanding city, which has seen an influx of as many as 20,000 Haitian migrants in the past decade.
The appeal came after the midwestern city was thrust into the national spotlight during last week’s presidential debate, when former President Trump claimed Haitian migrants are “eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Since then, the debunked pet-eating line has become a “memeified” punchline. But for community members, effects of the remark have been no joke.
On Thursday, two schools, Springfield City Hall and Clark County offices, closed in the wake of bomb threats. On Saturday, two Springfield hospitals closed due to bomb threats, and flyers claiming to be from the Trinity White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—a Kentucky offshoot of the White supremacist group—were reportedly distributed in Springfield.
“Foreigners & Haitians Out,” the flyers read, according to a photo. “Join us and stand against forced immigration.”
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio, which provides legal, interpretation, and case management services in Springfield but does not resettle migrants there, has faced verbal and written attacks, chief executive Tony Stieritz toldAmerica magazine.
“My daughter asked me, what’s going on dad?” said Harold Herard, an engineer and member of the Haitian Community Help & Support Center who visited Ruby’s church on Sunday. “I tried to explain to her the situation, but I don’t want to put her in a situation of feeling fear about school.”
On Sunday, patrons and cashiers at a Dunkin’ Donuts in the south end of the city traded rumors about Haitians being arrested and consuming pets. But later that afternoon, a different narrative unfolded just around the corner, where about 60 Haitians met at First Evangelical Haitian Church of Springfield for a weekly English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course.
Normally, the classes are stretched to find English-speaking conversation partners. But this week, about 30 volunteers—many of them from local churches—participated.
“I am with you in the difficulties,” the Haitian students practiced speaking in English. “Mwen avèk ou nan difikilte yo,” the English-speakers learned to respond in Haitian Creole.
At the end of the event, the English speakers distributed flowers and baked goods, while Haitian leaders thanked them for their solidarity.
“We are in amazement at how so much good is coming out of such difficulty,” said Heidi Earlywine, an English teacher and advocate who co-coordinates the ESOL classes.
Despite the welcoming atmosphere, some Haitian ESOL students voiced concerns about the level of scrutiny they’ve faced in Springfield this week, saying the toxic atmosphere had pushed them to consider relocating out of state.
Viles Dorsainvil, president of Springfield’s Haitian Community Help and Support Center and a former Moravian pastor, said he’s also heard Haitians debating whether to leave Springfield. But he hopes people stay a few more weeks before deciding.
“We have so many good leaders working with us,” said Dorsainvil. “And we do our best in our nonprofit to work through this situation with the community. I think that if we just take our time, we will navigate this together. But the tension is here. The fear is here.”
Once a bustling manufacturing town that produced farm equipment and other machinery, Springfield faced race riots in the early 20th century, and struggled with closing factories and a declining population at the tail end of the century. Then, about a decade ago, the city launched a successful effort to bring in several businesses and companies that created thousands of new jobs. Haitian migrants facing political turmoil and gang violence in their home country began to arrive, filling job shortages and opening churches, shops and cafes.
“First Baptist Church is one part of a larger faith community and group of public service agencies that believe in the tremendous gifts that come along with the increase in population,” said Adam Banks, a Springfield pastor who pointed out the benefit of welcoming skilled Haitian professionals, including educators and health care specialists. “As a city that has seen its population decline for decades, this increase provides a great deal of hope.”
Countering rumors that resettlement organizations have been “bussing in” migrants, Herard said Haitians have arrived organically after hearing about jobs from other Haitians in the area. The vast majority are here legally, many as recipients of Temporary Protected Status due to conditions in Haiti. Springfield’s Haitian population has swelled to between 12,000-20,000 in recent years, city officials estimate.
Some longtime Springfield residents called the “pet-eating” rhetoric a distraction from the very real strains on local health, education, and government resources facing the city. The influx of residents has, according to many business owners, landlords, and city officials, been a boon for the declining city, but it has also come with costs. Schools and hospitals are struggling to keep up with the growing population and the need for translation services and ESOL classes. Housing costs have risen, and the sudden increase in new drivers has prompted safety concerns.
In August 2023, tensions between Haitians and longtime Springfield residents ruptured when 11-year-old Aiden Clark was killed in an accident caused by a Haitian migrant who crashed into a school bus. (Clark’s parents have since asked that their family’s tragedy not be used to stoke hatred or be exploited for political gain.)
City Council meetings were suddenly flooded with concerned residents, and Haitians became the targets of beatings and robberies. First Evangelical Haitian Church of Springfield was reportedly broken into. But the fractures were subsiding when, this summer, Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance cited Springfield as a failure of Biden’s immigration strategy.
“It really kind of quieted down until our local leaders reached out to J.D. Vance for help getting financial assistance,” said Ruby. “And instead of providing financial assistance, he politicized it.”
Herard said Springfield’s Haitian community is most in need of better translation services, as well as mental health support, particularly in the wake of last week’s debate. For now, many of Springfield’s churches are giving support by way of English classes, correcting misinformation, and displaying solidarity. At the end of Central Christian Church’s Sunday service, congregants shuffled to the front of the sanctuary where they took Communion elements and bundles of small fliers intended for distribution.
“Mwen byen kontan ou la. Kris la renmen ou e mwen menm tou,” the fliers said in Haitian Creole.
Translated: “I’m glad you are here. Christ loves you and so do I.” Bing Videos
To Herard, the service was a welcome respite. “It was a tough week,” he said.
“Fear. Confusion. But today, we feel free.” —Religion News Service
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