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
It’s whoever got him elected when he had no accomplishments.
Barack Obama rented out D.C. office space in 2016, he’s still paying the rent there
Obama is definitely running things for the NeoNazis! All this hate…for the American People
He’s out to finish what he couldn’t do in his 8 years! #PrayForAmerica
During his presidency, he began the purge of the military and the establishment of Progressive Democrats throughout the federal bureaucracy. This group of unelected bureaucrats tied Trump up in court during his presidency, so he couldn’t address it. And when Biden came into office, it continued. It’s part of the Democrat’s plan to turn this country into a one-party dictatorship. All those illegal aliens have been let in for a reason, and the reason is to vote for Democrats. And those youthful military age immigrants to fight for their cause.
If Harris wins this election, and particularly if the Democrats retake the House and keep the Senate, then the republic will end, and the Democrat’s master plan will have won out. You will never see another true presidential race, because the Democrats will grant citizenship to the illegals, who vote between 60 and 70% Democrat, in order to keep the largess going. And the importing of Muslims & Illegals using Alejandro Mayorkas and Julian Castro (HUD), started with Obama in 2009 & continues to this day! NO ONE was paying attention to it during his reign!
At the very top of the pyramid, they all carry out orders from Samyaza and Azazel. It’s been this way for thousands of years, and they are the origin of the illuminati and secret societies. Fun fact: George Washington actually warns us about the illuminati. He wrote extensively about this, and if you look up his writings in the Library of Congress, they’re right there for everyone to see. Go to the gov.com site and see for yourself. 1. Uniparty > Rinos. Dems. Never Trumpers 2. Military Industrial Corporate Complex 3. K Street lobbyists – Wallstreet 4. Multinational Corporations 5. Chinese Money Reps 6. UN, WEF, World Bank, Soros, Bill Gates 7.
The Illuminati (/əˌluːmɪˈnɑːti/; plural of Latinilluminatus, ‘enlightened’) is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society’s stated goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. “The order of the day,” they wrote in their general statutes, “is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them.”[1] The Illuminati—along with Freemasonry and other secret societies—were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, with the encouragement of the Catholic Church, in 1784, 1785, 1787 and 1790.[2] During subsequent years, the group was generally vilified by conservative and religious critics who claimed that the Illuminati continued underground and were responsible for the French Revolution.
In subsequent use, “Illuminati” has been used when referring to various organisations which are alleged to be a continuation of the original Bavarian Illuminati (though these links have not been substantiated). These organisations have often been accused of conspiring to control world affairs, by masterminding events and planting agents in governments and corporations, in order to gain political power, influence and to establish a New World Order. Central to some of the more widely known and elaborate conspiracy theories, the Illuminati are depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings and levers of power.
Modern Illuminati
Several present-day fraternal orders founded in 1982 claim to be descended from the original Bavarian Illuminati and openly use the name “Illuminati”. Some of these groups use a variation on the name “The Illuminati Order” in the name of their own organizations,[31] while others, such as Ordo Templi Orientis, have Epopt or Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati as a grade within their organisation’s degree structure. However, there is no evidence that these present-day groups have any real connection to the historic order. They have not amassed significant political power or influence and most, rather than trying to remain secret, promote unsubstantiated links to the Bavarian Illuminati as a means of attracting membership.[22]
The shadow government, also referred to as cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government, is a family of theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resides not only with publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions. According to this belief, the official elected government is subservient to the shadow government, which is the true
Who is the administrator of the FEMA? Administrator Deanne Criswell The Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee maintains oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), and the Office of Health Security (OHS).
Which department oversees FEMA?
The Department of Homeland Security Who is in control of FEMA?
The Secretary of Homeland Security. Alejandro Mayorkas.
President Carter established the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on April 1, 1979. [APRIL FOOLS] The joke was on us.
Who founded DHS? President George W. Bush established DHS by signing the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
On March 1, 2003, 22 agencies unified under a single department. Carter. Bush 1&2. Clinton. Obama.
And Kept the shadow govt[FEMA] going. FEMA lost power on March 1, 2024. Why do you think the cabal is pushing for WW3? They need another National Security Act passed. Because the US financial system is set to collapse by the end of this year or beginning fiscal 2025. That’s the “them, they” Biden always refers to.
It’s quite obvious we don’t have a president operating the White House.
I think it’s a committee of all of the above. And they are not scared of us.
All of the above. It’s a cult and it reminds me of the movie “Rosemary’s Baby”
where the evil people conspire and then it finally gets revealed.
Obama – sort of. He’s upper management but not the “big boss” – I am not sure who that is…
I think Soros is between Obama and the big boss. Does anyone really know?
I believe it’s all of them, but there are other characters I have read about.
There’s a book about the Committee of 300 that is very interesting.
Do a little more reading. Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail is a great start.
I think it’s the unelected bureaucrats that hide in the shadows. Not subject to re-election. They’ve been running America for 28 of the past 32 years. They just CANNOT permit another four long years of Trump.
Well, you just listed the names of the real enemy within! These democrats are owned and have been for years!!!! The Democratic Party changed when George Soros bought them! Soon after, Obama was placed! And, You missed a few, such as Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry!
I think probably all of those you mentioned are in cahoots. No doubt with others as well.
What is interesting, how once back in power… they immediately destroyed Afghanistan without thought!
There was a reason for that!
Was all about them! They actually did, to hide their corruption within Afghanistan! Was not about getting out of Afghanistan as Trump wanted it!
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Who’s Running The World Events It’s biblical. All has been gearing toward a one world order and government to set the stage for Antichrist. All
@realDonaldTrump did mess up their agenda and timing by becoming a praying Christian instead of a phony one. I never was into this conspiracy theory stuff when I heard someone say Soros. I scrolled past or turned it off. But I have seen the reality of him being the source worldwide. He was taught by WHO, I don’t know. But Satan‘s plan and attack went full speed ahead in 1948 when Israel became a nation, the United States declared Israel a nation, and the UN began. All serious precursors to the tribulation, and then the return of Christ.
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873)[1] was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed “the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century” by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,[2] he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.
Follow the money! Top of the food chain, Scott. Who owns these trillion dollar conglomerates? It sounds cliche but it’s the bankers! Making money out of thin air to use against us and buy up all of our real assets!
Soooooo Scary! Ridiculous! AND ALL PLANNED BY Obama BIDEN AND HARRIS TO DESTRUCT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!
How did we ever allow this???? Can you just imagine another 4-years of this?!?!?!?!
Why hasn’t our military gone in and taken the regime out of the White House? They are putting the American people in danger. That is a safety violation. By all means there has to be a law there that the military can do that with if so, that needs to be done as soon as possible.
He’s right and everyone knows it – The American people have been purposefully put in harm’s way thanks to Dems by allowing the invasion of our borders – The Dem Party – the UN – and the NGOs who are facilitating this invasion all need to be held accountable not only for the invasion but for the deaths they have caused – It didn’t have to be this way – All the Dems had to do was keep Trump’s policies in place for us to remain safe.
Seems the Dem mission is to destroy our economy – our Constitution – our traditions and our very way of life.
This is true. It is also true that the %age of Americans who know this is in the 50’s (most likely)%! We should ALL recognize the kind of trouble we are ALL in. This trouble is here to stay no matter what happens. I say to you my fellow brothers and sisters. Brace yourself!!!
This is Kamala Harris’s America.
She will destroy it until there is nothing left to destroy. This is the American Democracy that won’t work. They all have gone completely mad. It’s like a movie called lunatics gone wild. It’s crazy and beyond insane what they are doing!
The people of America are living in danger every day. Innocent victims all at her own hand allowing these people into our country. She will take our 2A like she stole the 1A. Then we will be unable to defend ourselves.
I ask you, who in the hell would ever consider allowing illegals, undocumented illegals or immigrants or just Anyone who is not a citizen of the United States to Vote for anything ever including best dog catcher of the year, period? Create a crisis nationally, then comes the communist, tyrannical solution all cloaked in kindness. Who Who Who!!!
Forensic Analysis shows two distinct different audios circulated from Trump’s Butler Rally of shots being fired.
Live broadcast audio showing 9 shots total fired. FBI returned confiscated cell phones all with 10 shots total fired, and Crooks fired 8 shots. This is total Propaganda. Audio Forensics doesn’t lie, the Government does. Checkout our FFT Fast Fourier Transformation Audio Analysis. https://x.com/FreedomFig95686/status/1829664562762666101
I don’t think the FBI is going to give out that information.
I believe the people who shot the videos can remember the real shot fired.
It’s up to Congress to try. We have it on film that Dave Stewart surrendered his cellphone. Why is it that all the videos taken on the AGR side of the fence have the 10 shot version? Why is it that all the TV broadcast audios show only 9 total shots? I hear 14 shots, not 10, on Dave’s audio.
The Right attacked Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum for being a “Jewish foreigner” and communist during her campaign.
Her grandfather and his brother, emigrants from Lithuania, were both of these things. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo made history as Mexico’s first female president-elect, winning nearly 60 percent of the vote. The writing was on the wall from the beginning. The Mexican right, though, seemed to start out its campaign confident in victory. As the polls stubbornly continued to show Sheinbaum’s tremendous lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, the opposition coalition became obviously desperate.
Increasingly, the campaign by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), National Action Party (PAN), and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) went negative, opting for personal attacks. Sheinbaum’s Jewish heritage was an obvious target, but the tack the Right took is striking: it tried using this fact to show that she was not actually Mexican.
This idea actually predates the electoral campaign, with social media rumors that have spread since at least 2021 alleging that Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico City, was born in Europe and was therefore ineligible for the presidency. But it was presented most explicitly when former right-wing president Vicente Fox, who rode the #Resistance wave to a blip of US relevance early in Donald Trump’s presidency, went so far as to attack her as a “Bulgarian Jew” and a “Jewish foreigner.”
Sheinbaum’s Jewish heritage was an obvious target, but the tack the Right took is striking: they tried using it to show that she was not actually Mexican. Fox himself was only able to become president thanks to a 1990 constitutional reform that removed the requirement that presidents have two Mexican-born parents. Sheinbaum’s closest rival in the race for her party’s nomination, former foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard, is also the grandchild of European immigrants, has two French last names, and actually lived in France from 2015 to 2017. So why is it Sheinbaum who is accused of being a foreigner?
Chone Sheinbaum’s Final Escape
In the meantime, the Jewish left in Mexico was experiencing a steep decline. Communists and Bundists fought bitterly throughout the 1940s, with their movements weakening and Zionism becoming the community’s dominant expression of ethnic activism by the ’50s. The fact that Claudia Sheinbaum today appears to be at least a non-Zionist — she condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza in 2009 and follows Los Otros Judíos, a page run by anti-Zionist Chilean Jews, on Twitter/X — could have something to do with her paternal family’s influence.
The fact that Claudia Sheinbaum today appears to be at least a non-Zionist could have something to do with her paternal family’s influence.
Though back in his party, the waves of repression that Chone Sheinbaum had lived through were not over. Throughout the 1950s, the PCM and other communist parties in Mexico endured a new onslaught by the governments of Miguel Alemán and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, with communists frequently kidnapped, jailed, and purged from labor unions. In 1957, Chone himself became a victim of this violence. At this point a member of the State Committee of the PCM’s Jalisco branch, he was abducted by state agents and interrogated about his own activities and those of his twenty-four-year-old son Carlos, who had been the organizational secretary of the Communist Youth (FJCM) since he was nineteen.
Perhaps inspired by the United States’ 1954 demand that Mexico extradite exiled Guatemalans who had fled their country after the coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the Mexican government attempted to hand him over to the Guatemalan military dictatorship. (There is some irony in the fact that, in October, his granddaughter will take the reins of the state that not only did this to him but that has in recent years deported thousands over the Mexico-Guatemala border.)
Transported to the southern border state of Chiapas, Chone was assigned a guide who would escort him overland to Guatemala and deliver him to the military junta. But again displaying the talent for survival he showed throughout his life, Sheinbaum managed to escape custody on the road and return to the capital of Chiapas. There he was recaptured but managed to get in touch with his wife and a lawyer. Probably given the blatant illegality of his deportation, he was freed, returning to Guadalajara.
Who Is Mexican?
Chone Sheinbaum died in Mexico City in 1989. He had outlived his party: the PCM was officially dissolved in 1981. Its last remnants were integrated into the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in 1987. Even if he was no longer an active militant, Chone would have been well aware of these developments — his granddaughter Claudia was married to one of the PRD’s founders, a fellow student leader.
With a family history like Claudia Sheinbaum’s, one might well wonder why the presidential candidate of a popular left party did not play up her political pedigree. She mentioned her parents’ participation in the 1968 student movement — what stronger way to prove her Mexicanness than to emphasize her generational ties to the nation’s historical left in their entirety?
With a family history like Claudia Sheinbaum’s, one might well wonder why the presidential candidate of a popular left party did not play up her political pedigree. From Sheinbaum and Morena’s point of view, the answer was probably simple: to emphasize her family background — whether in its recent immigrant, Jewish, or communist dimensions — would likely hurt rather than help her.
Anti-communism remains a staple discourse of the Mexican right, and the racial component of national identity that took shape in the 1930s endures. It does not help that the country’s small Jewish community is widely seen as a cloistered and conservative bourgeoisie. In this sense, neglecting to mention the Sheinbaum family’s Jewish-communist history could reflect a realistic reading of what the Mexican electorate finds acceptable in 2024.
But that careful trending also raises questions that echo from the time of Chone Sheinbaum’s militancy in the Mexican Communist Party. For anti-communists, a communist is by definition a foreigner. Unable to see how class struggle is born out of society’s own contradictions, reactionaries since Edmund Burke have hunted for the external agents and outside agitators who must be manipulating the mob. Communists, Jews, and migrants are one and the same in the anti-communist mind, all inherently foreign to the national body.
Today hundreds of thousands of foreigners are traversing Mexico.
In 2023, the International Organization for Migration registered the record-setting figure of more than 782,000 irregular migratory events, up 77% from 2022 and part of a 132 percent increase since 2021. Most of these people are bound for the United States, but like Eastern European Jews in the ’20s, thousands of them will surely settle in Mexico. Historic Afro-Mexican and Asian Mexican communities tend to live in ethnic enclaves — how will national identity handle large numbers of residents who can be spotted as non-Mexican, either nationally or racially, living in places where they were previously invisible?
These questions have increasingly serious stakes.
Real estate speculation and gentrification are rampaging through Mexico City, Oaxaca, and other centers, with working people priced out and often physically thrown out of their homes at the behest of landlords and developers. A few weeks ago, Mexico City woke to find English-language posters in the historic center reading “Gringo go back to your country.
Mexico is for Mexicans, no one else.”
Many self-identified progressives nodded — it was only later that some realized that the same prints were part of a series of posters attacking migrants, Jews, Muslims, abortion, and gays, produced by Mexicans in Defense of the Nation (MDN). Who are they? Their social media shows a neo-Nazi group claiming the mantle of Revolutionary Mexicanist Action (RAM), the Gold Shirt fascists of the ‘30s.
Groups like MDN are marginal in Mexico, but if Morena’s answer to problems as critical as the housing question is half-hearted regulations on Airbnb (and in the absence of a popular movement advancing a strong structural analysis of gentrification), fascists posing as anti gentrification fighters may find more purchase for their ideas — and their answer to the question of who is Mexican is very clear.
In the 1930s, as the state shaped immigration policy to favor foreigners it thought would be most easily assimilable, the Mexican Communist Party actively incorporated “undesirable” foreigners into its ranks. It campaigned against fascist groups like the Pro-Race Committee, whose antisemitism the party recognized as a ploy to channel mass discontent away from capitalists and toward Jewish, Chinese, and Arab workers in Mexico. Can the militant potential of the thousands of migrants in Mexico today be activated by any of the country’s progressive forces? With millions of people on the move across the Global South today, the answer to that question will resonate far beyond Mexico’s borders.body.fm (bxscience.edu)
The Jews that opened the Gates of Toledo
Judaism Islam
During the 7th and 8th centuries Iberia (Spain and Portugal), was a divided kingdom ruled by the Catholic Visigoths, the region was home to a Jewish minority who suffered intolerable persecution under these Christian rulers.
In 558 Ferreol, Bishop of Uzes ordered the Jews of his diocese to convert to Catholicism, those that didn’t abandon their faith were expelled from the region
In 694 Catholic bishops issued a decree that the Jews were traitors and should have their wealth confiscated and face perpetual slavery.
In 654 King Recceswinth of Toledo forbade Jews from keeping the Sabbath, dietary laws, marriage laws and circumcising their young
In 633 the Fourth Council of Toledo even described the Jews, who were allegedly proselytizing their beliefs, as “the Antichrist‟s ministers.”
In 633 the Fourth Council of Toledo declared that all Jews must be baptized.
In the spring of 711, a Muslim army invaded Iberia led by Tariq ibn Ziyad, serving the Arab governor Musa ibn Nusayr, at Guadalete they swiftly defeated Roderick (Luthariq) the Visigoth King and then marched northward to the Visigoth capital of Toledo. Both Latin and Arabic chroniclers record that the Jews of the city “opened the gates of Toledo” to Tariq, who conquered the city. With more cities to take, Tariq left Toledo and entrusted its protection to a garrison of Jewish soldiers, who had risen up against the Catholic Visigoths and opened the gates.
When Tariq’s master, Musa ibn Nusayr, arrived in Iberia with a large Arab force he seized Seville and like Tariq before him, he entrusted the city to its Jewish inhabitants until his return. Had the Jews of Iberia not been the victims of such continuous barbarity from their Christian neighbours it is unlikely they’d have turned on them, but with the Muslim invasion these oppressed people tasted a freedom they hadn’t for centuries.
There is no greater example of Jewish and Muslim coexistence than al-Andalus, the Jews not only fought side by side with their Muslim cousins, but under the caliphates born out of the conquests the Jews lived as a free and protected people who were able reach the highest of positions in this new society.
Warning: some of these pills that I’ll be dropping for the foreseeable future. Will be a hard pill to swallow. Some would like to wait until the movie is over to get all of the Intel in 1 drop. If that is you or any other reason, feel free to ignore these threads.
Executive Order 12148 was an executive order enacted by President Jimmy Carter on July 20, 1979, to transfer and reassign duties to the newly formed agency, known as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), created by Executive Order 12127.
The order combined several federal agencies tasked with emergency preparedness and civil defense spread across the executive departments into a unified entity that was established as an independent agency, free of Cabinet interference, with authority as the lead federal agency in a presidentially-declared disaster.
The agency’s place within the governmental structure was changed on March 1, 2003, when FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate.You also have the Continuity of Govt [COG].
Most particularly 1 and 2. It reads in part: Federal Continuity Directives 1 and 2 1- PURPOSE: This Federal Continuity Directive (FCD) provides direction to the Federal Executive Branch for developing continuity plans and programs. Continuity planning facilitates the performance of executive branch essential functions during all-hazards emergencies or other situations that may disrupt normal operations. 2- COGCON 2: Deployment of 50-75% of Emergency Relocation Group continuity staff to alternate locations. Establish their ability to conduct operations and prepare to perform their organization’s essential functions in the event of a catastrophic emergency. ___________________________
So, who the ‘They? FEMAFEMA is/was in control of our government.
And Biden was just a placeholder. A spokesperson on behalf of FEMA and COG. – Search (bing.com) It’s the reason our country is in the position it is in. Inflation. High energy prices, etc. Because the FEMA position is just to ensure basic governmental functions. Has no clue on how to effectively run a country. Their main job is to further dismantle the country to be taken over. In comes the Trump admin. Now he is just the spokesperson for Military Intelligence[MI]. His job was to provide distraction to FEMA, and the Zionist cabal. Until mil int has completed fully it’s operations[OPS] in taking down this cabal. At the same running the country effectively by bypassing COG ops. Which is precisely why Trump initiated strategic sets of exec orders. It reads in part:
Executive Order 13848 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, Executive Order 13848-Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election, govinfo, (September 12, 2018).
Executive Order 13912-National Emergency Authority To Order the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty. Executive Order 13919— Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The American Presidency Project.Apr 30, 2020. _____________________________ Lastly, Trump signed the National Emergencies act in March 2020.
This effectively and officially gave power of the presidency to FEMA. In which Biden kept continuing it until February of this year 2023.
That order is now over. The Senate voted to end the NE 03.29.23. Thus, FEMA is no longer in control and on paper the U.S. has no leader.
The precautionary executive orders Trump has made officially gave power to the U.S. MILITARY [MI].By Which Trump is that leader by way of the Constitution of 1776.Law of War Manual: – Search (bing.com)
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Tokyo has 14 million people who live there and yet walking through a shopping street in Ginza is safe and there is no crime, no people shooting up drugs, no looting, no homeless and no random migrants trying to eat pets. Public safety is a choice and the West has decided to completely give it up for the sake of “wokeness”. It’s not right, but it’s certainly a choice. It doesn’t have to be the way it is, America. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Busan, South Korea is so safe they have these 24/7/365 photobooth stores all around the city filled with props and toys where you can walk in and take fun photos. And it’s unmanned. People just don’t steal. In any urban area in America, everything would be stolen and there would be people shooting up drugs in the booth. Why can’t we get our public safety to this level in the richest country on earth?
Thanks for pointing out to everyone that Asia is nice, and the US is a shithole,
but Americans, you made your bed, now sleep in it and stay out of Asia.
It looks lovely, but I think it would take about ten years of very specific policies and hard rules to get our cities to look like that. Also, Japan has an average IQ of 106, America has an average IQ of 98. It takes a collective effort and similar thinking to clean up a city.
In JAPAN…. it’s their culture.
Even if Tokyo had fewer policemen, they would behave like they are because it’s ingrained in their culture. US culture for much of urban areas is based on rap music, politics, & victimization mentality and that will take future generations of change to fix
Why? Simple: The Japanese family is stable, loving, smart, productive, respectful, etc.
The positive traits we see in the Japanese family are mocked and ridiculed here in the US. If we could cure the tens of millions of dysfunctional homes in the US would solve pretty much all of our problems. They have 912 murder cases in Japan per year compared to 21,156 murder cases US per year …. Japan doesn’t have a problem with dysfunction compared to the U.S.A.
Add … respect is taught in schools. They don’t teach entitlement.
The entitled folks are everyday Americans: Don’t bother to go to school.
Don’t bother to send their kids to school dressed appropriately.
Don’t bother to clean their own house.
Don’t bother to keep America clean
Woke Entitlement vs. the American Dream:
Why We Must Close the Border and Exercise Our Rights!!!
“Woke” is not about entitlement. It’s about treating people with respect and understanding. It’s about hiring the best person for the job and looking past things we may find disconcerting. Well, apparently we’re all “racist” if we don’t let the whole world in, give them everything they want (for basically free…although some I’m assuming want to work) and we’re just supposed to say F OFF and YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN to our own people, who’ve come legally, and even who’ve gave their sons to war for this country.
What entitles the U.S. oil and gas industries to have the taxpayer funded U.S. Military act as their own private security force?
Securing oil fields, escorting tankers in the mid-east, soldiers’ lives sacrificed,
with no breaks for the American consumer at the pumps!
How the Dems have the AUDACITY to think this flies w/the American People is beyond me – perhaps they “hide” those facts in Freebies for those here, so they don’t look so bad doing it?
America has always been a land of opportunity, drawing immigrants seeking a better life through hard work and determination. Historically, immigrants have come to the United States with dreams of freedom and prosperity, embracing the nation’s values and contributing to its growth. However, today’s immigration landscape has shifted, with some newcomers adopting a mentality of entitlement influenced by woke ideologies. This shift has significant implications for American society. The sense of entitlement among some immigrants undermines the foundational principles of self-reliance and personal responsibility that have long defined the American Dream. Instead of integrating and contributing positively to the nation, this mentality fosters division and places undue strain on public resources. America has the right and responsibility to control its borders and determine who enters the country. This is essential for maintaining national security, economic stability, and social cohesion.
Open borders and unchecked immigration threaten these core aspects of American society. The influx of individuals without proper vetting can lead to increased crime, job displacement for American workers, and a burden on social services. Closing the border and implementing strict immigration policies are necessary steps to preserve the nation’s integrity. This approach ensures that those who enter the country are committed to upholding American values and contributing positively to society. By exercising our right to control immigration, we can protect the American Dream for future generations and maintain the nation’s security and prosperity. Moreover, it’s crucial to address the broader ideological issues at play. The rise of woke ideologies and their influence on immigration policy reflects a deeper cultural divide. These ideologies often promote victimhood and entitlement, undermining the principles of meritocracy and individual responsibility that are the bedrock of American society.
In conclusion, the need to close the border and exercise our rights is not just a matter of policy but a defense of the values that make America great. By taking a firm stand on immigration, we can ensure that the American Dream remains achievable for those who seek it and are willing to work hard for it. This approach will help maintain the nation’s unity, security, and prosperity in the face of growing ideological and demographic challenges. Found this post informative; come back often for more, or don’t miss any by signing up for our free newsletter and receive inspiring stories, posts about Israel, and information relevant to the Jewish community. http://nachamu.com/
How is it possible that an organization uses the word “Shabbat Nachamu” – Search (bing.com) while endorsing hate and xenophobia? Our Jewish people lost our first temple (according to Isaiah) because we treated orphans, widows & strangers terribly, refused to be compassionate to the poor & were unjust.
Please stop with this “woke” bullshit.
It’s been diluted to meaninglessness. People call anything they don’t like “woke”. When I see people using this terminology, I know that they are mindless sheep who have nothing but regurgitated sound bytes circling their smooth brains. I hope we’re prepared to hold these NGOs – Search (bing.com) that are carrying out the U.N.’s planned replacement migration and The Club of Rome’s “emerging New Civilizations scheme’s responsible, including the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Catholic Charities, Red Cross, and much more.
“Creating stronger border enforcement does not relieve us as a country of also meeting our obligation as a humane nation of laws to ensure that migrants who arrive at the border and claim asylum are treated well and have their claims processed quickly and fairly.”
“U.S. leaders must become more strategic and more engaged in helping nations in our hemisphere fight cartel violence and the rise of autocracy. Our border is in crisis because Latin America is. Walls are no solution there.” Welcome to any immigrant who legally applies for entry within. Who is willing to work for a better future for their family. Who remembers and honors their birth country but tries to integrate into American culture.
But don’t come and expect a lifetime of handouts.
Let’s hope the repubs finally begin to understand this and actually pass the laws that protect all people and bring the immigration policy up to accepted standards rather than trying to shut down the border and claim that throwing around the “woke” mentality is the way to go.
That’s all well & good, but we have to remember the kind of people who break laws to get things – total narcissists! That’s why we call them illegal aliens, the legal term. It takes time to be naturalized citizens; vetting/testing are a huge stress, but it’s what’s needed. How long will Earth exist? (msn.com)
They’re NOT immigrants, they’re NOT newcomers, they’re illegal aliens that need to go back home and do it the legal way.
When I think of the word WOKE.
It is an indication of 1) lazy readers 2) the virile reactions of Americans to that one word. * woke = American contraction with …some newcomers adopting a mentality of entitlement influenced by woke ideologies.” Do you think there weren’t “some newcomers” entering the U.S. in the 1920s, with the same mentality? (Or at any other time in history?). 1/
What about the mobs from the last century? (And Italians weren’t the only ones).
Do you think honest, hard-working, tax paying immigrants should be refused the right to own homes? If so, how many of your grandparents and great grandparents would have been rejected?? 2/
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience,” Ronald Reagan …
A corporation will force early retirement or cut benefits or fire you if you become ill.
The American dream has been stolen by the greedy corporations, politicians, and the super rich for a while now. You are delusional if you think a grifting, greedy, lying, fascist, traitorous, raping, felon will improve things.
The so-called American dream belongs to Americans, not those who sneak across the border illegally. And these people are not working and many don’t know English. They are staying in $600 dollar a night hotels, free food, free healthcare, monthly allowance. What the hell are you talking about?
The “American Dream” has died already, the brief “middle class” period after WW2 is over, and capitalism is dead and greedy corporatism – Search (bing.com) is the problem globally. The US empire is the cause of economic migration as well as poverty in the US were millions of people almost homeless right now, with many of them working.
I agree we should have the choice to monitor and look at the background of individuals coming into our country for our and our kids’ safety. But with both parties fighting for supremacy, good laws are being thrown out because the other party wants recognition when safety is key.
Trump won ! MAGA I am Awake not woke…Faith Family and Freedom
Many Liberals will tell you most on welfare are whites isn Red States in the United States.
Don’t be afraid to take a stand and speak your truth.
Paul Krugman is in puzzlement, having observed that Red States get more welfare funding, while Republican voters oppose the welfare state. He portrays Republicans as “Moochers” who are either hypocritical or too stupid to know their own best interest.
But as we know, states do not vote, individuals do.
There is only a paradox if Republican voters receive welfare at above average rates while voting against it. From the Gellman-paradox we know that the low-income voters who drag down the Red States average tend to vote disproportionally for Democrats. Republican voters earn significantly more than Democrats, even though Red states earn less than Blue states.
Krugman reports no individual level data, so let me. The Maxwell Poll has detailed information about welfare use. The data is from 2004-2007. During this period in these polls a plurality of voters supported Democrats. I will graph the two-party vote, more data is at the end.
Hardly surprising, we see that in a two-party split, 60-80% of welfare recipients are Democrats, while full time Workers are evenly divided between parties. You have similar results in this recent NPR-Poll. Among the Long Term Unemployed, 72% of the two-party support goes to Democrats. It appears that once more common sense is right and the impression left by the New York Times wrong.
Indeed, people who live off the government disproportionally support Democrats. Given that Krugman is aware of the Gellman-Paradox, he should have reported the individual level data first instead of wasting everyone’s time with state-level aggregation that we already know is wrong.
Instead he acknowledges that state level data is probably wrong (to get cover), then goes ahead and relies on the wrong method anyway, since it produces the results he wants. The false impression that Republicans use more welfare is already spread around the internet by liberals who still trust Krugman.
Appendix:
Share of Recipients of each program that self-identified as supporters of Republican party in 2004-2007 Maxwell Poll:
Gov. Subsidized Housing 12% Medicaid: 16% Food Stamps: 20% Unemployment Compensation: 21% Welfare or public assistance: 22% Disability benefits from government 25%
Everyone needs to put politics aside and do what is BEST for the country.
Actually solving problems requires Democrats and Republicans to work together, like they did on the recent border bill that Trump told y’all to throw in the trash. You create the problems, then refuse to solve them, then scream about the problems that you refuse to solve.
Vetted immigrants with degrees in critical fields like engineering, medicine, and dentistry bring valuable skills that directly enhance the economy. These individuals fill gaps in the workforce, contribute to innovation, and often create jobs through entrepreneurship. Immigrants with high net worths provide investment, boost economic activity, and help fund new businesses, further benefiting their new countries.
On the other hand, unskilled illegal immigrants who do not speak English often place strain on communities. While it’s true that their presence can create jobs in sectors like law enforcement, jail construction, and even funeral homes, this is not a sustainable or positive way to grow a society. Instead, it creates fear and increases crime rates, which leads to further division and instability.
You demonstrate you know nothing about immigrants.
You just believe the racist propaganda from hateful nasty people like Laura Loomer. The Haitians are valued workers who employers love. They come to work every day. They do their job and do it well. They don’t call in sick. They’re not addicted to drugs. They appreciate getting out of Haiti and away from violence. It is
Immigrants are the only people I see who are doing cleaning, landscaping, picking crops, babysitting, working in laundry facilities, painting buildings and homes, housekeeping in hotels and other jobs that citizens do not want to do. Who did you say was entitled? The key is striking a balance—welcoming immigrants who can enrich society with their skills, investments, and contributions while ensuring proper vetting to avoid negative impacts on communities.
Come into the USA legally. Problem solved.
I know about 80 illegals; & EVERYONE OF THEM sends most of their American dollars (illegally earned) back to their other country & plan to retire there with their families and American retirement. The dollar buys more than their currency. China owns us, but we KEEP PRINTING DOLLAR$.
In total, an estimated 10.9 million undocumented immigrants in the United States paid $96.7 billion to federal, state, and local governments in 2022, according to the think tank’s investigation, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Internal Revenue Service.
1/2- “Close the border” is a meaningless talking point. The borders can’t be closed completely. The US has a trade agreement with Mexico & Canada. The borders have to be open for transportation of goods to & from the US, tourism, etc.
2/2-The borders can’t be closed to people seeking asylum. The right to seek asylum was incorporated into international law after World War II. Congress adopted key provisions of the Refugee Convention into US law when it passed the Refugee Act of 1980.
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Most liberal commentary is ignorant of reality and such philosophy is why the border situation continues to plague us. Let’s identify the issues, create and implement solutions. No one wants people strolling in nor do they want people abused. This is easy stuff for a modern civilization.
If you’re not an Indian, you are an immigrant in America.
Don’t deny others what was given to you whole-heartedly.
You’re Welcome into The United States but Come Legally.
I just don’t see how any red-blooded American in their right mind can vote for an empty headed sleeping her way to the top pole dancing communist over President Trump.
Am I missing something?
COMMR ☭ADE H☭ARRIS supports: -Abolishing ICE -Decriminalizing illegal crossings -Defunding the police -Mandatory gun buybacks (confiscations) -Nationalizing energy -Banning fracking -Banning offshore drilling -Abolishing the filibuster -Supporting the GND -Ending private health insurance -Free healthcare for all including illegals -Mass amnesty for illegals -Ending the death penalty -Abolishing prisons -Ending cash bail -Ending mandatory minimum sentences -Imposing carbon tax -Child gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy
Let’s make a LIST of what American Voters expect from our President, … and see if she is even a “Fit” for America, … perhaps “President of Cuba” would suit her better?
She hasn’t been a “fit’ for America for as long as she’s been V.P. she will definitely not be a fit for President. Our enemies will laugh at us harder than they do with Biden.
She supports Marxism.
People come here to escape the tyranny and lack freedoms she proposes.
Democrats are Well known for using crooked machines, crooked people, crooked techniques but supposedly they’re the party of truth justice and democracy… socialist democracy but democracy. I think they are Underscoring TRUMP By KEEPING her numbers high so their cheating won’t be so obvious. Remember Biden? If you don’t want a repeat please get out & vote TRUMP. Or you can allow Dems to use you again & then ignore you until the next election. Your choice.
Nobody w/a functioning brain stem wants nasty sociopath pathological liar SCAB HOE Kuntmala anywhere near the WH for another 4yrs of chaos, destructions of every kind, breaking laws, cheating in our elections, She doesn’t have a prayer of winning the WH unless the Demonrats cheat again!
She’s not even close to Trump’s numbers. If you recall they said this same exact thing about Killary in 2016! Dumb and Dumber!! GOD & TRUMP 2024!!!
YOU can PROJECT all you want, and you can depress the minds of the voters to infinity, however, YOU WILL NOT overcome the MASSIVE wave
of ANGRY CITIZENS that WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP!!!
DID KAMALA LIE IN THE DEBATE ABOUT U.S FORCES?
How could Dems voters be so blind to Kamala’s arrogant and flagrant lies
..and ABC let this slide
During the debate with Trump, Kamala claimed that no U.S forces were in active combat zones, however U.S Central Command said that U.S forces were in operation in Western Iraq on August 29. 7 U.S. soldiers were injured as more than 200 troops from both the U.S and Iraq, including elite Army Rangers backing up the main assault force, hunted down fighters in bunkers over miles of remote terrain.
Despite Harris’s lack of a national security platform, Democrats are entering a new phase of feverish speculation surrounding who might be tapped to create, and execute, her foreign policy agenda. Meanwhile, over 200 billion was spent on Ukraine & Israel.
President Donald Trump is likely to secure victory in Arizona, thereby gaining 11 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast: • Both candidates show strong financial backing for their campaigns, with no significant advantage for either side. However, despite public appearances, there is a minor indication of a downward trend in financial contributions and donor support for President Trump. • There are indications of a potential health issue concerning President Trump’s digestive system and dietary habits, which may be intentionally kept from public view. It appears that a surgical procedure is likely in the lead-up to November 5. • Astrological signatures suggest a likelihood of up to 20% of the voting machines failing or needing replacement on election day, indicating potential disruptions and delays. • This contest is predicted to be fiercely competitive, and it is highly probable that the final results for Arizona will not be available by the close of day on November 5. Despite the anticipated delay and potential legal challenges, it is expected that President Donald Trump will ultimately prevail over Vice President Kamala Harris. President Trump will need to diligently strive to secure every aspect of this victory. Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast: If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…Contribute to Our Efforts: If you wish to support our work financially, you have the option to make a donation, although it is entirely voluntary. https://donate.stripe.com/eVadTjd7K9bS3hm4gy…
Georgia: Vice President Harris Predicted to Win
Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to secure victory in Georgia, thereby gaining 16 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast: • It appears that Georgia has not fully learned from the 2020 election experiences, which may lead to renewed concerns about the integrity of the vote and electoral procedures. • The Harris campaign is projected to significantly outspend the Trump campaign in Georgia. • Reports of financial impropriety involving election workers may emerge. • This race is not anticipated to be competitive, with Vice President Harris expected to achieve a decisive victory. Therefore, any legal challenges are unlikely to have a substantial impact on the 2024 election. • The projected success of the Harris campaign in Georgia is likely to stem from their effective management of narratives across different demographic groups. • Despite the expected loss, President Trump, though frustrated with the electoral management issues, is likely to remain focused on other states, as he does not appear to be relying on Georgia for his overall victory. Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…Contribute to Our Efforts If you wish to support our work financially, you have the option to make a donation, although it is entirely voluntary. https://donate.stripe.com/eVadTjd7K9bS3hm4gy…
Michigan: Vice President Harris Predicted to Win
Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to secure victory in Michigan, thereby gaining 15 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast: • This race is not expected to be competitive, with Vice President Harris likely securing a decisive victory in Michigan. • She is anticipated to gain substantial support from the Muslim communities in Dearborn, Hamtramck, Detroit, Southgate, and Ann Arbor. • The strong support for Vice President Harris will likely be fueled by civil rights issues, including racial inequality, police reform, voting rights, economic inequality, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice (particularly concerning industrial pollution and access to clean water), housing discrimination, immigration rights, disability rights, and education equity. • Despite some dissatisfaction with the Democratic leadership in Michigan, voters see the Democrats as the favorable choice, especially in light of President Trump’s polarizing presence. There seems to be little chance of a Trump victory in the state. It would be advisable for his campaign to allocate resources to more competitive states. • Any legal challenges following the election results are expected to be unsuccessful, as it is unlikely that a compelling case will be presented, and judges are anticipated to rule decisively against President Trump. • Consequently, a victory for Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan seems imminent, indicating a setback for President Trump in the state.
Nevada: Vice President Harris Predicted to Win
Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to secure victory in Nevada, thereby gaining 6 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast • Vice President Harris is expected to garner support from women, LGBTQ+ communities, and pro-choice advocates due to her stance on gender equality and reproductive rights. Conversely, former President Trump is anticipated to receive widespread backing from male voters. • The Native American population in Nevada should not be overlooked by the Harris campaign, as their votes could prove pivotal. It is noteworthy that President Biden secured the state with a margin of approximately 40,000 votes in the previous election. Although the Native American population in Nevada is relatively small, estimated between 40,000 to 60,000 individuals, their support could help widen the margin between the candidates. • A commitment to easing taxation and regulations on tobacco use and sales could be advantageous for the Harris campaign. Similarly, the Trump campaign could appeal to Native American tribes with a parallel strategy to potentially capture some of Vice President Harris’s voter base. • Nonetheless, projections suggest that Vice President Harris is likely to achieve a decisive victory in Nevada. Any legal challenges from the Trump campaign are expected to be resolved in the courts without significant impact. It seems that the Trump campaign is not heavily reliant on winning Nevada, indicating that a potential loss may not significantly affect their overall strategy. Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…Contribute to Our Efforts If you wish to support our work financially, you have the option to make a donation, although it is entirely voluntary. https://donate.stripe.com/eVadTjd7K9bS3hm4gy…General Consultation You can sum up life in one sentence — life is a very short journey. If you don’t live your life intentionally, it’ll be over before you know it. Ask any question about your life ahead — learn, plan & unlock your life’s best possibilities.
North Carolina: President Trump Predicted to Win
President Donald Trump is likely to secure victory in North Carolina, thereby gaining 16 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast • North Carolina plays a crucial role in President Trump’s path to the presidency. Based on my earlier projections, this state is expected to give President Trump 271 electoral votes, exceeding Vice President Harris’s total of 248 votes. • For Vice President Harris, this result represents a situation of being “so near yet so far.” Although the race will be competitive, President Trump is projected to gain a 3-point advantage, with the final tallies showing approximately 51.5% for Trump and 48.5% for Harris. • North Carolina’s significant environmental challenges present opportunities to strengthen campaign messages. Candidates could focus on addressing issues like the cleanup of the Cape Fear River basin and the management of hog farming waste. Providing practical solutions for these concerns may boost voter enthusiasm. • There is a potential for severe weather in early November. Even though it’s the end of hurricane season, past events, such as Hurricane Eta in November 2020—which did not make landfall in North Carolina—demonstrate the possibility. Such weather could cause delays and interruptions in the vote counting process. Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…Contribute to Our Efforts If you wish to support our work financially, you have the option to make a donation, although it is entirely voluntary. https://donate.stripe.com/eVadTjd7K9bS3hm4gy…
President Trump is likely to secure victory in Pennsylvania, thereby gaining 19 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast: • This upcoming election in Pennsylvania is set to be a formidable and incredibly close contest between President Trump and Vice President Harris. President Trump will need to exert considerable effort (i.e. fight like hell) to secure a victory. • Key support demographics for Vice President Harris include workers from unions, the medical community, and farmers. She is also likely to garner strong support from the Asian-American community. • Broadly, support for President Trump is expected from various working-class groups, including farmers, miners, construction workers, sanitation workers, and general labor sectors. • While there is a strong vocal sentiment in favor of Vice President Harris, there is also an anticipated silent “MAGA” vote for change in Pennsylvania. • The vote counting process is expected to be inconsistent, with no clear statistical pattern and varying batch sizes. Trends may reverse unexpectedly, with shifts in lead candidates. • Additionally, there might be instances of unexpected ballot discoveries of varying quantities (from very small to extremely large), leading to delays in declaring results, possibly requiring multiple counts to determine the winner. • The margin of victory is also expected to be very close, and perhaps close enough to trigger an automatic recount. • Election results might not be available until Friday, or even Saturday or Sunday, of the voting week, necessitating extended hours for electoral workers, with some having to work on their day off to get the job done. • There are likely to be resurfacing allegations about voting machines, potentially including claims of internet connectivity. • Concerns may also arise regarding the authenticity of certain ballots, reminiscent of issues raised in 2020, with some ballots appearing unusually pristine. • Legal challenges are expected to arise, but there is an indication that the renowned Democratic legal representatives may not succeed this time, with most judges ruling in favor of President Trump. • The conduct of the election may be characterized by accusations of unlawful activities (including allegations of theft and cheating) on one side, while the opposing side might be criticized for having a contentious nature, engaging in public disputes, and violating rules and regulations. • There is a possibility that one side may resort to unrest following the results, leading to several arrests. • In summary, this election promises to be intensely contested and highly volatile, truly a firecracker of an election! Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…General Consultation You can sum up life in one sentence — life is a very short journey. If you don’t live your life intentionally, it’ll be over before you know it. Ask any question about your life ahead — learn, plan & unlock your life’s best possibilities.
Wisconsin: President Trump Predicted to Win
President Donald Trump is likely to secure victory in Wisconsin, thereby gaining 10 electoral votes. Key Insights from the Forecast • President Trump is poised for victory in Wisconsin, though it will be a challenging process rather than a straightforward triumph. He is expected to defeat Vice President Harris in a race marked by significant hurdles and mental exertion. • The Harris campaign may emphasize allegations of sexual misconduct and scandals as part of their strategy in Wisconsin; however, this approach is not expected to yield substantial results. • Republican-leaning areas in Wisconsin are likely to strongly support President Trump. Interestingly, some regions that traditionally favor the Democratic Party may also lean toward him. • Although Vice President Harris might take an early lead, President Trump is projected to ultimately clinch the victory. • As additional batches of votes are tallied, Vice President Harris is expected to make significant strides in closing the gap. However, these efforts may not be sufficient to surpass President Trump. Wisconsin appears to be trending toward a Trump victory, with him anticipated to ultimately secure the win. • Despite potential challenges regarding vote counting and ballot integrity, President Trump is advised to accept his victory with grace and avoid engaging in public disputes, recounts, or costly legal challenges. Such actions could risk diminishing his vote count and incur substantial legal fees and potential fines. Assessing the Credibility of our Forecast If you’re interested in evaluating our credibility and past predictions, please visit: https://x.com/vijayjyotishusa/highlights…Contribute to Our Efforts If you wish to support our work financially, you have the option to make a donation, although it is entirely voluntary. https://donate.stripe.com/eVadTjd7K9bS3hm4gy…General Consultation You can sum up life in one sentence — life is a very short journey. If you don’t live your life intentionally, it’ll be over before you know it. Ask any question about your life ahead — learn, plan & unlock your life’s best possibilities.
Final Assessment: President Trump Predicted to Win US Elections 2024
My final assessment indicates that President Donald Trump is on track to win the presidency and become the next President of the United States. He is expected to secure 275 electoral votes, surpassing Vice President Harris’s total of 263 votes.
Election Results Delay and Legal Strategy The upcoming election cycle is anticipated to echo the complexities of the 2020 elections, with results potentially delayed as the counting and certifying processes take time. Clarity on the final winner is not anticipated until states certify their electors by the constitutional deadline of December 11. This could lead to concerns over the potential for manipulation or the discovery of misplaced ballots. Both parties are expected to make accusations and counter-claims, aiming to undermine each other.
This situation is a significant test for the Trump campaign, urging caution in their responses. There is a possibility that _ _ _ _ _ _ misconduct allegations may arise from a member of the Trump Campaign team or a past acquaintance. It would be prudent for President Trump to minimize public comments, allowing lawyers to handle disputes in court rather than addressing them personally in the public media. While it may not align with his usual approach, it is advisable for him to seriously consider this strategy. Legal teams should be fully prepared, as resolution may ultimately be decided through court proceedings.
Key Dates and Events
On December 17, anticipate significant drama as electors meet to cast their votes in their respective states, with the potential for violent attempts to disrupt and delay the process. Further disruptions and protocol deviations are anticipated around January 6, potentially leading to increased tension, public unrest, and delays. Public gatherings, especially in the national capital, should be avoided to prevent violent disruptions. The honorable US Congress is unlikely to complete counting and certifying the election results before the end-of-day on January 9. From a security perspective, President Trump should consider suspending public engagements from January 18 until his transition ceremony on January 20. Considering the challenging circumstances and the inauspicious timing of assuming office, this presidency is likely to be difficult, with the possibility of impeachment proceedings being considered from the outset.
Network Security and Potential Cyber Threats
On November 5 and the ensuing days, there is a significant risk of internet and network disruptions, requiring the honorable U.S. Cyber Command to be highly vigilant against potential UDP Flood Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks may appear to come from multiple locations but are likely originating from specific foreign sources, such as C _ _ _ _ and surprisingly G _ _ _ _ _ _ (cryptic hint for the observant few). The impact of such an attack could be metaphorically comparable to an earthquake, potentially exceeding over 100 million bits per second in network disruption. The main objective of such an event would be to slow the voting and counting process, demoralize the public, and create opportunities to potentially undermine vote integrity.
Preparedness for Disruptive Events and the Importance of Mail-In Voting
There is a possibility that natural disasters, such as severe weather events, could disrupt the voting or counting process. Given these uncertainties, it is strongly recommended to take advantage of mail-in voting while the opportunity remains available. Utilizing mail-in ballots ensures that your vote is counted even if unforeseen circumstances prevent in-person voting. This proactive approach to voting safeguards your participation in the democratic process, regardless of potential disruptions caused by natural events on November 5. There is an indication of a “high-frequency” event. Those who are observant will understand the cryptic hint and implications.
Advisory on Potential Security Risks During the Election Period
There is a potential risk of disruptive incidents, including gun violence or orchestrated false flag events, on November 4 and 5, which could distract from the voting and counting process. This could also be covertly designed to influence voting behavior based on the reactions triggered by the event. Such events might occur at entertainment venues, particularly in nightlife areas associated with LGBTQ+ communities. It is advisable to exercise caution by staying home in the evenings on these dates and limiting interactions to family settings. Taking these precautions can help ensure personal safety during this sensitive time.
Strategic Patriotism and Measured Response
From November to January, patriots face a choice: to channel their emotions effectively or succumb to anger without achieving results. It is crucial for patriots to remember that maintaining composure is essential for achieving success. Acting with anger however risks losing the larger battle. Participation in public demonstrations is highly discouraged, as recent history has shown unfavorable outcomes. Women, in particular, should be cautious of potential violence. Please refrain from participating in any pro-choice public demonstrations for now, as these events could potentially become targets for false flag attacks. This, however, does not mean one should be indifferent. Instead, the focus should be on proactive behavior while remaining calm and strategic. Malicious entities will aim to provoke emotional reactions that could justify forceful responses.
Closing Remarks
Thank you all for your time. I hope I have been of service to you. May your life brim with auspiciousness. God bless the USA and have a happy long weekend!
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Joey Marie Feek (néeMartin, September 9, 1975 – March 4, 2016) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Joey Marie Feek was born Joey Marie Martin in Alexandria, Indiana, to Jack and June Martin. She was the fourth of five children: three sisters (Jody, Julie, Jessie) and one younger brother, Justin, who in 1994 died in a car accident.[4]
Her father, who played guitar, encouraged her to start singing and performing at an early age. [5] She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1998 to pursue a career as an assistant at a horse vet clinic, and established connections with LeAnn Rimes‘ father Wilbur, and Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn.
At a songwriter night, she met songwriter Rory Lee Feek, whom she married in June 2002.[6] She sang backing vocals on Blaine Larsen‘s 2004 album Off to Join the World, which her husband co-produced.[7] Joey was signed to Sony Nashville and recorded an unreleased solo album in 2005 titled Strong Enough to Cry, but due to change in management and restructuring at Sony, the planned major label release for her album was shelved.[8][9] The album, retitled If Not For You, was eventually released by Farmhouse Recordings on April 7, 2017.[10]Joey Feek’s Solo Album ‘If Not for You’ Was Released a Year After Her Death
In 2008, a friend suggested that Joey and Rory try out for Can You Duet, a talent show airing on CMT with the purpose of finding the next great country duo. They made an audition tape and came up with the name “Joey + Rory,” and finished in third place on Can You Duet. The duo were signed to Sugar Hill/Vanguard Records, who released their first three studio albums.[9] The duo released eight albums overall and charted a Top 30 Hot Country Songs hit with “Cheater, Cheater“.[2]
Expecting a baby in early 2014, the couple decided to spend the year at home.[11] Their daughter was born in 2014, and has Down syndrome.[12][13] A few months later in May 2014, Joey was diagnosed with cervical cancer.[14] After surgery and treatment, she was declared cancer free and did not receive any radiation or chemotherapy.[15]
Cancer relapse
In June 2015, after the family had finished filming their movie Josephine,[16] Feek was not feeling well again and sought medical advice.[16] After undergoing further medical testing, it was discovered that the cervical cancer had returned and metastasized to her colon.[17]
In July 2015, Feek underwent a second surgery to remove a 3-inch tumor (recurrence of cervical cancer) that had invaded her colon and surrounding structures. The surgery was long and involved and required the use of intraoperative radiation as there were tumors the surgeon could not get clear margins on.[18]
Still, the medical team was hopeful for Feek’s situation, and she recovered from surgery to continue on to endure an intense round of radiation and chemotherapy in the summer of 2015.[19] While undergoing treatment at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, she would record hymns in their hotel room for the last CD the couple would create together, Hymns That Are Important to Us.[20]
In October 2015, Rory revealed in a blog post that Joey’s cancer was terminal, and they were stopping all treatment as the chemotherapy and radiation she had suffered through for the last few months were not working. The MRI scans revealed that two quarter-sized tumors had already grown back in the same area that they had been blasting daily with chemo and radiation [and] that many more smaller tumors were visible all throughout the abdominal region.
She said that the cancer was aggressively spreading”.[21] There were no more treatment options available and all there was left to do was keep Joey as comfortable as possible for the time she had left.[22]By November 2015, Feek was in hospice care.[23]
In January 2016, her morphine dose needed to keep the cancer pain under control had quadrupled.[24] She was able to celebrate Indiana’s second birthday and Valentine’s Day with her and Rory, see them receive a Grammy nomination for the song “If I Needed You”,[25] and see and hear the final recording the duo would make together.
An album of hymns that she had always wanted to make that debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 when it was released, and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 three weeks after its release.[26][20] She died on March 4, 2016, and Rory held a private funeral on their farm in Tennessee; Joey was buried in the family cemetery on the Feek farm.[27][28] Source Joey Feek – Wikipedia
I was one of Joey and Rory’s loyal fans and his tribute documentary to Joey was beautiful. The tribute documentary to Joey Feek is titled “To Joey, With Love”. This movie tells the story of the incredible Joey Feek and her amazing life. Filmed while battling cancer, Joey along with her family and friends show you that it’s not just physically healthy people who live healthy lives. Take a little time to laugh, smile, and cry with this amazing woman’s journey and the goodbyes of her loving family when she decides to let the Lord lead her home.
Rory’s first solo album “Gentle Man” was released on June 18, 2021.[13] It is the first album recorded since losing his wife and country music collaborator Joey to cancer in 2016. The album includes Feek and Jamie Teachenor’s co-written single “Met Him in a Motel Room” with vocals by Trisha Yearwood.[14][15] Yearwood previously recorded the song for her 2014 album, “PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit.”[16] The album also includes a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin.’”[13]
As a filmmaker and storyteller, Feek wrote, shot much of, and edited his docu-series, This Life I Live,[17] which premiered on RFD-TV in March 2020. Feek created the singer-songwriter show “Muletown In the Round,”[18] the educational series, “The One Room Schoolhouse,”[19] and others with Red King Productions.[20] He also made the feature-length film Finding Josephine (2019),[21] the full-length documentary To Joey, With Love (2016),[22] music videos for the album “Gentle Man,” and dozens of music videos over his career as a musician and songwriter.[23]
As an author, Feek has written two memoirs and several children’s books. His 2017 memoir, “This Life I Live: One Man’s Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever” (HarperCollins) hit top book lists including the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today.[24] Additional books include “Once Upon a Farm” (HarperCollins),[25] “The Cow Said Neigh!” (HarperCollins),[26] “The Day God Made You” (HarperCollins),[27] and “The Little Rooster” (Milk Barn Kids).[28] Source Rory Feek – Wikipedia
In 2016, Rory’s first wife Joey Feek died after a battle with cervical cancer. The duo performed under the name Joey + Rory. She was first diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014, and Rory revealed in the fall of 2015 that they had decided to end treatment.
Eight years ago on Monday (March 4), the world said goodbye to Joey Feek — a.k.a., one-half of country duo Joey + Rory, wife to singer-songwriter and homesteader Rory Feek and mom to then-two-year-old Indiana.
The only thing was – the bride had no idea. Neither did most of the family and friends who came. So it was a big surprise for just about everyone there. …except me.”
Also on Father’s Day 2022 The first thing Indiana did when she woke up this morning was to wish me Happy Father’s Day… she was so excited to share the sweet card and gift she had for me. Sweetest duet ever! What a beautiful little girl and blessing from God!
️ PAPA WHAT IF – rory+indy (youtube.com) And so, the first thing I wanted to do this morning is wish all the Papa’s out there…. a Happy Father’s Day too… and share a sweet little three-minute gift with you from me and Indy.
Congratulations are in order for Rory Feek, who married his 10-year-old daughter Indiana’s teacher, Rebecca — who is also a longtime family friend — in a romantic ceremony on July 14.
The country star opened up about the ceremony on his blog, noting that the duo tied the knot under a “timber-frame pavilion here in Greycliff, Montana,” adding that his daughter played a major role in getting the two married. “We knew marriage was a possibility,” Feek shared in his post, “it wasn’t something that either of us felt like we could seriously talk about. Mostly because up until that time Indiana only saw Rebecca as ‘Miss Rebecca, her schoolteacher and our friend.”
He then recalled Rebecca telling him about a conversation she had with Indiana in March. “I asked Indy, and she told me that she said, ‘Ms. Rebecca, I think you should marry Papa,’” he noted. “Of course, I was happy, but caught off guard and told her that that was something we’d all have to start praying about.”
Rory said that Indy told him and Rebecca: “My Mama’s been gone a long time. And if she marries you, maybe she could be my new mother.” During Rory and Rebecca’s nuptials, the country star surprised his new wife with a song called “I Do.” See the full blog post here.
Indiana — who goes by Indy — Indiana Feek is best known as Family Member who was born on February 17, 2014 is now 10 years old, and of course, she has no real memories of her late mom. But the young girl still commemorated the anniversary of Joey’s death on Monday, spending some time by her mom’s grave on the family’s property.
In the photo, Indy — now looking all grown up with pink cowboy boots and a matching turtleneck sweater — pets a tabby cat as she sits in the grass. Nearby, Joey’s grave marker is adorned with a colorful array of flowers.
As he shared the photo of Indy sitting by her mother’s grave, Feek pointed out another example of how the passage of time has played out in surprising ways over the past eight years.
Feek posted his own reflections on the eight-year anniversary of his wife’s death, marveling in a blog post on everything that has changed — and everything that hasn’t — since he lost Joey. Not long before the eight-year anniversary rolled around, Feek revealed to fans that he’s found love again and is now in a relationship with a teacher named Rebecca.
That’s a profound thought. It reminds me of a quote by Chaim Potok: “We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity…a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. We All Learn Through Our Past Transgression.
That’s a powerful realization. Recognizing that our struggles are temporary can make it easier to face them with resilience and hope. It can also help us appreciate the good moments even more. Do you find that this perspective influences how you handle challenges in your daily life?
It’s like having a guiding light through tough times. Maintaining a positive outlook can make a big difference in how we experience life. Are there any specific practices or activities that help you reinforce this positive mindset?
That’s a fantastic approach! Being around positive, supportive people can have a huge impact on our mindset and overall well-being. It’s like having a built-in support system that helps lift you up when things get tough. Rory & Joey Playlist – Search (bing.com)
When I come to the end of my journey, I travel my last weary mile. Just forget if you can, that I ever frowned And remember only my smile. Forget unkind words I have spoken: Remember some good I have done. Forget that I ever had heartache And remember I’ve had loads of fun. Forget that I’ve stumbled and blundered And sometimes fell by the way. Remember I have fought some hard battles And won, here the close of the day. Then forget to grieve for my going, I would not have you for a day, But in summer just gather some flowers And remember the place where I lay. And come in the shade of the evening When the sun paints the sky in the west Stand for a few moments beside me And remember only my best.
Kamala Harris, 59, flung her head back and appeared to mouth, “Oh, come on” before laughing at Trump, 78, for suggesting that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were “eating the dogs” in the town.
Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with society on racial divide and a Princeton alumnus might only being allowed to remain “on the periphery.” Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
“We gather at this hollowed place because we believe in the American dream. We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the Earth, and if our Earth shall perish from this country. It falls to us to ensure that we do not fall, for a people that cannot stand together cannot stand at all.”
‘When Donald Trump made the outrageous claim immigrants were “eating the dogs”, Harris’s laughter was both spontaneous and strategic. Laughter is a potent tool in hum urology—it signals that the claim is too absurd to be taken seriously, effectively dismissing the speaker without direct confrontation.’
Boross states!!! that she also laughed to amplify just how outlandish Trump was being!!! ‘By laughing, Harris highlighted the ridiculousness of the comment, positioning herself as calm and rational while subtly undermining Trump’s credibility. NOW Her follow-up was, “Talk about extreme” cemented her control of the moment, using humour to dismantle the absurdity without engaging in an argument,’ he says.
Kamala Harris laughing debate
When Trump later said that he would send Harris a MAGA hat, she once again responded with laughter. ‘It diffused the jab,’ said Boross. ‘Unlike a forced or defensive response, her free and spontaneous reaction demonstrated that she didn’t take the comment seriously, subtly undermining its intent to provoke.
By laughing, Harris highlighted the ridiculousness of the comment
‘Laughter here served as a powerful tool to convey that she viewed his remark as trivial, placing herself above the pettiness of the exchange. This spontaneous humour made her appear more confident and unbothered, reinforcing her poise in the face of his attempted in
When Trump claimed that immigrants are eating people’s pets, Harris openly laughed at him — a stark contrast to the grave tone he’d taken. That use of emotional contrast undercut Trump’s argument.
I’ve seen this same technique in court, when lawyers use humor to deflate an ultra-serious (and misleading) claim. Perhaps Harris learned the technique in her time as a prosecutor.
Claims have circulated about Haitian migrants engaging in activities such as eating neighbors’ pets, which have been brought up in city commission meetings and even mentioned in the 2024 presidential campaign. However, these claims have been unsubstantiated and fact-checked.
Updated 11:49 PM EDT, September 10, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday he doesn’t oppose the Temporary Protected Status program under which some 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020, but said the federal government must do more to help impacted communities. His news conference was held just hours before the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald Trump, where the divide over immigration policy was sure to be an issue.
On Monday, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost also drew attention to the crisis when he directed his office to research legal avenues — including filing a lawsuit — to stop the federal government from sending “an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities.”
Thousands of temporary Haitian migrants have landed in the city in recent years, as long standing unrest in their home country has given way to violent gangs ruling the streets. Ohio has already provided additional resources to Springfield to help with education and training for drivers, to pay for more vaccines and health screenings in schools, and to enhance translation services, explained DeWine.
But he’s taking additional action.
“These dramatic surges impact every citizen of the community, every citizen,” he said, noting additional influxes are occurring in Findlay and Lima, Ohio. “Moms who have to wait hours in a waiting room with a sick child, everyone who drives on the streets, and it affects children who go to school in more crowded classrooms.” On Wednesday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol will be dispatched to help local law enforcement with traffic issues that officials say have cropped up due to an increase in Haitians unfamiliar with U.S. traffic laws using the roads. DeWine said he is also earmarking $2.5 million over two years to provide more primary healthcare through the county health department and private healthcare institutions. DeWine’s family operates a charity in Haiti in honor of their late daughter, Becky, who died in a car accident. He said the Haitians who have moved to Ohio are generally hard-working people who love their families and who are seeking to escape the violence in their home country for good jobs in Ohio.
The town has seen its population grow significantly due to immigration, with local officials stating that the Haitian population increased by 15,000 to 20,000 over a four-year period. This rapid growth has strained city resources and led to a housing shortage. The situation has also become a point of political discussion and action, with Ohio Governor Mike DeWine responding to the challenges faced by the community.
A Springfield, Ohio, resident sounded the alarm about the city’s Haitian migrant surge, warning her community is like a “dystopian nightmare” as it struggles to provide basic resources for taxpayers. Springfield resident Diana Daniels joined “Fox & Friends” to describe what life has been like in recent years since thousands of Haitians have been transported to their city, starving it of resources like housing and health care, while also having an impact on public safety.
“It’s like living in a dystopian nightmare,” Daniels told Lawrence Jones on Thursday. “You hope you wake up and it’s 2019 again, and then you realize it’s 2024, and it’s the same thing over and over again, day after day. It’s hard sometimes to get up in the morning and hear residents that I’ve known for years struggle. This is a paycheck-to-paycheck… kind of town… working class.
The citizens that depend on our social services like health care, the Rocking Horse [Community Health Center], going down to the Social Security office for benefits are waiting in line, and they’re not getting the services they need.” “It breaks my heart to see people that I taught and their children experiencing this, so I took it upon myself to make sure that I showed up at every City Commission meeting pleading our case,” she continued.
The situation took center stage Tuesday night when former President Trump referred to Springfield while railing against the Biden-Harris administration’s border and immigration policies.
“If it took something like this to get the spotlight flashed on us, then so be it. We’ve needed help for several years, and maybe we’re going to finally get it. The sad thing is, it’s more of my money being spent on a problem that we did not create.” Thousands of Haitians have arrived in Springfield since the COVID-19 pandemic, and residents have been pointing to an uptick in crime, mayhem and car crashes due to the massive influx of new residents. In a town of 58,000 people, about 20,000 Haitians have arrived, according to city officials.
Residents have pushed back on the influx, sharing outrage at the ongoing surge during recent city council meetings to demand action on the issue. “I see what’s going on in the streets. And I see you guys sitting up there, comfy chairs and suits… I really challenge you guys to get out here and do something,” said Anthony Harris, 28. “These Haitians are running into trash cans. They’re running into buildings.
They’re flipping cars in the middle of the street, and I don’t know how, y’all can be comfortable with this.”
Another resident called out general failures in leadership. “When am I getting my money back?” he asked. According to Daniels, some city leaders have accused residents of racism amid their pleas for help. She has pushed back on those claims, arguing the cultural difference, as opposed to the “color” difference, is really what is at play with the recent strife between both groups.
“Some of those comments are being made by people… that I’ve known for many years, and that’s probably the hardest thing to deal with because the city has always been a close-knit community,” Daniels said. “We have pockets of neighborhoods and what’s happening is a disruption of the smaller neighborhoods, and it has never been a race issue… It’s not about color, it’s about culture.”
Meanwhile, Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Tuesday he’ll be funneling resources to help ease the influx. “As these numbers dramatically pick up, there’s some obligation for the federal government to help local communities who had nothing to do with the decision about people coming in, but now find themselves with a massive number of people,” he said.
DeWine promised a total of $2.5 million over the course of two years for the county health department and other health care centers that have been overwhelmed by the immigrant uptick as well as more resources for law enforcement. Daniels said she and other residents are investigating and pushing for answers on how this situation unfolded and why the migrants were sent to Springfield.
“How did Springfield get the target put on its back for this many Haitians? …
Why did this happen to us? Who was responsible?
How did that happen? And then follow the money.
It’s very difficult with our limited resources to tease that out.”
Fox News’ Hannah Grossman and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
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Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says Vice President Kamala Harris spent the entire debate attacking former President Donald Trump. Whatley also discusses the likelihood that Trump will debate Harris again. #2024election #Republicans #Trump
Look how many numbers are in 2.3 trillion…..13….this amount of missing taxpayer money could have ended world poverty 100 times over!!!
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks, contrary to posts shared online that misrepresent his remarks about missing financial audit trails. The figure had been mentioned by the Department of Defense more than a year earlier.
Posts on Facebook sharing the claim include an image that reads,
Never forget! September 11, 2001 | Facebook September 10 2001. Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to state that the Pentagon was missing more than $2,300,000,000,000 but the next day something happened and everybody forgot.”The posts misrepresent remarks made by Donald Rumsfeld, who was serving at the time as the secretary of defense under former U.S. President George W. Bush, in a speech, opened a new tab on Sept. 10, 2001.
At the 14:15 mark, Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building. Because it’s stored on dozens of different technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”Yes, you’re referring to a
While he did make the remarks the day before 9/11, it was not the first time this amount was brought up.
In his speech on September 10, 2001,
Donald Rumsfeld addressed several critical issues facing the Pentagon:
Bureaucratic Inefficiencies: He emphasized the need to overhaul the Pentagon’s bureaucracy, which he described as wasteful and inefficient.
Financial Management: Rumsfeld highlighted the outdated financial systems, mentioning the inability to track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
Defense Modernization: He stressed the importance of modernizing the military to better address contemporary threats.
Organizational Reform: Rumsfeld called for significant organizational changes to improve the Department of Defense’s overall effectiveness.
These points underscored his broader agenda to transform the Pentagon and improve its operational efficiency.
Is there a particular aspect of his speech that interests you more?An audit report, opens new tab (page 4 of the pdf) released on Feb. 25, 2000, about financial statements for the fiscal year 1999 by the Office of the Inspector General at the United States Department of Defense says, “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”
In a July 2000 statement, opens new tab (page 9) , Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General at the time, also mentioned the $2.3 trillion number saying that the amount was “unsupported by reliable explanatory information and audit trails or were made to invalid general ledger accounts.” The United States Department of Defense did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.
VERDICT
Misleading. The DoD had mentioned this number, which reflects transactions that could not be tracked, more than a year earlier. 2.3 trillion dollars missing and the Pentagon had no idea where this money had gone!Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks.
We all know, and will never forget, where we were when the news hit
I, myself, was home sick from school, waking up not understanding what was happening….
NYC was hit tragically, millions in danger, from around the world
Many people commuting from many neighboring states
Talking to their loved ones along the way
Never realizing that would be the last time when they said “I love you” and “goodbye”
Everyone held their breath when the first plane hit, thinking it was a freak accident
A few moments later, another plane hits the other tower
It had felt like time stopped and everything was frozen
Debris and smoke filled the air, silent screams of confusion and fear were felt as if we all were there
People running to save their lives, others froze who were shocked and surprised
Emergency crews risked their lives, to help wounded people and others in the line
So many hopeless people lost hope, they fought hard but didn’t survive
September 11, 2001 we all will never forget everyone who lost their lives
Never seeing it coming, as two planes collide
Into the Twin Towers in NYC taking so many precious lives….
Things about 9/11 that still don’t make sense.
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The September 11 attacks had a profound impact on the world as we know it. Global security and foreign relations have been greatly affected ever since the four coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out on American soil. Changes in airport security, such as stricter TSA regulations, have become a permanent part of air travel, while unrelated fields, like medical research and domestic policy, have also felt the negative effects over the decades.
This event has been researched and documented from seemingly every possible angle for the past 20-plus years, and yet there are still some parts of the tragedy that remain unknown or debated. Intrigued? Click through this gallery to discover the questions about that fateful day that remain unanswered.
Airport security
Before 9/11, airport security was shockingly lax, allowing hijackers to easily exploit weaknesses. Knives were allowed on flights, no IDs or boarding passes were required, and only basic metal detectors were used, despite previous hijackings that should have prompted stricter regulations.
Security hesitancy
While previous hijackings prompted some changes in security, airports remained hesitant to implement strict measures, fearing they would scare away travelers. Security was designed to be almost invisible, which led to vulnerabilities that the 9/11 attackers exploited.
Early warnings
The CIA was aware that an attack on US soil was imminent months before 9/11. They had intelligence that pointed to a major strike, but their warnings were ignored. A notable warning in August 2001, titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US,” was dismissed by the administration.
Despite the CIA’s efforts, their warnings were not heeded by the Bush administration, possibly due to overconfidence. Officials believed they were adequately handling the situation, while the CIA alerts were treated as background noise.
Miscommunication
The failure to prevent 9/11 was partially due to miscommunication and bureaucratic mismanagement among US intelligence agencies. The CIA and FBI had different focuses and lacked a central coordinating body to share information effectively.
Disjointed intelligence
At the time, the CIA was focused on international threats alone, which left them blind to domestic risks. In the meantime, the FBI lacked the means to assess the danger posed by foreign terrorist groups.
NORAD’s response
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was tasked with defending US airspace, yet it failed to intercept any of the hijacked planes. Many questions have arisen as to how such a highly coordinated attack went undetected by one of the world’s most sophisticated defense systems.
Radical groups
Domestically, law enforcement allowed radical groups to operate within the US largely unchecked before 9/11. Existing laws could have shut down these groups, but prosecutors often considered such cases not worth the effort, leading to growing threats within the country.
Domestic terrorism threats
US intelligence had long known about domestic terrorism risks but failed to address them. Reports dating back decades revealed that the country was ill-prepared to handle such attacks, yet little was done to enact or enforce policies that could prevent such threats.
Flight 93
Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked on 9/11, is known for crashing in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to retake control. Its intended target was likely the US Capitol, though Osama bin Laden had originally preferred to attack the White House.
The actions of Flight 93’s passengers, who stormed the cockpit after learning of the other attacks, have become a symbol of heroism. Their efforts prevented further destruction, though the exact target still remains a matter of investigation and speculation.
Many others have debated whether Flight 93 was deliberately shot down by the US military. The wide debris field and the initial ambiguity surrounding military orders that day have created much speculation about the true nature of the crash.
The health consequences of first responders at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have also been heavily debated. First responders have suffered long-term health issues, including cancer, respiratory diseases, and PTSD.
Cognitive decline
Cognitive decline among 9/11 first responders is becoming increasingly common decades later. Research indicates that many responders, now in their fifties, show brain deterioration typical of individuals much older, including severe cases of dementia.
Toxic dust
A Stony Brook University study from 2014 to 2023 confirmed a correlation between toxic dust exposure at the World Trade Center and the development of dementia among first responders. The study is a starting point for understanding these conditions, but more research is needed.
In the wake of 9/11, American intelligence agencies engaged in torture at Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons, using methods like waterboarding and sleep deprivation. These practices, often ineffective, have left lasting trauma on prisoners and violated international human rights laws.
Ineffectiveness
The torture carried out by US officials post-9/11 did little to provide useful intelligence and instead damaged the country’s reputation. By declaring the prisoners “unlawful enemy combatants,” the Bush administration was able to bypass the Geneva Conventions, sparking global controversy.
Human rights violations
Despite efforts to close Guantanamo Bay, the prison remains open. The use of torture by the CIA has stained the US’ global standing, with human rights organizations still unable to fully receive answers for the abuses that occurred.
Delayed trials
Over two decades after 9/11, key figures accused of orchestrating the attacks have yet to stand trial. Five men charged with planning the attacks have been held since the early 2000s, but their cases have faced numerous legal and logistical delays.
Legal complications
The trial process for 9/11 suspects has been delayed by numerous factors, including the inadmissibility of evidence obtained through torture. President Barack Obama’s attempt to move one trial to federal court was blocked, and military tribunals have proven controversial.
Omar al-Bayoumi
One of the lingering mysteries of 9/11 is the role of Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who helped two hijackers find housing in California. Though evidence suggests he may have known about the attacks, his exact involvement remains unclear.
Ties to Saudi intelligence
Omar al-Bayoumi (Arabic: عمر البيومي, romanized: ʿUmar al-Bayyūmī; born c. 1958) is a Saudi national with alleged links to two of the 9/11 hijackers in the United States. Files of the U.S. FBI, dating to before the attacks, demonstrate that he was a Saudi Arabian intelligence agent. Some believe he was a paid informant, while others (including families of 9/11 victims) have accused the Saudi government of financing the attacks. No official ties have been confirmed.
Transparency
In the decades since 9/11, calls for transparency regarding Saudi Arabia’s potential involvement have grown. Some documents related to the attacks remain heavily redacted, fueling theories that the US government may be protecting its ally from scrutiny.
The delay in declassifying 9/11-related documents has sparked speculation about why the information was hidden in the first place. Some theorize it is to protect Saudi Arabia, a key US ally, though the Saudi government has denied involvement and supports declassification.
Financial transactions
Prior to the 9/11 attacks, there was a surge in financial transactions that some have interpreted as insider trading, speculating that certain individuals may have had foreknowledge of the attacks. Investigations into these financial activities have been inconclusive, but many questions still remain.
One of the most perplexing questions revolves around the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7). Unlike the Twin Towers, it was not directly hit by planes but collapsed hours after the main attacks.
Official explanation
The official explanation for Building 7’s collapse cites fire-induced structural failure, but skeptics question the sudden, symmetrical nature of its collapse, and have compared it to controlled demolitions.
The public perception of safety was drastically changed due to 9/11. To this day, psychologists are still unravelling the unknown impact that the event had on civilians, and how it has shaped a more security-conscious world.
This moving tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks is built where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood. Waterfalls cascade into vast pools, the walls of which are inscribed with the names of those who died in 2001. More than 400 swamp white oaks trees, selected for their resilience, surround the pools, creating a serene place of reflection among the high-rises of New York City.
Attempts to prosecute 9/11 suspects were further stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed jury selection and pretrial hearings. As of 2024, plea deals have fallen through, and the already complicated legal proceedings have been prolonged further.
Fact check: Trump falsely claims Democratic states are passing laws allowing people to execute babies after birth
Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. No state has passed or is passing a law that allows the execution of a baby after it is born. Killing a person after birth is illegal in every state. “Every state explicitly criminalizes infanticide,” Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, said Thursday. “There is no basis for this claim,” Kimberly Mutcherson, a professor at Rutgers Law School, said Thursday.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a CNN request to specify which states Trump was talking about. Mutcherson said: “The falsity of the claim can be seen in the fact that Trump never identifies such a state.”
There was at least one instance, in an interview with NBC last year, in which Trump specified that he was making the claim about the state of New York in addition to unspecified “other places.” But he was wrong then, too: New York did not pass a law allowing babies to be killed after birth, though false social media posts claimed it had.
Similar false claims have circulated about California.
Some of those claims were based on criticism of vague language in an early version of a Democratic state legislator’s 2022 bill that was intended to protect people from being prosecuted over miscarriages, stillbirths and self-managed abortions.
But the vague language was revised before the bill was signed into law.
Months before passage, a Democratic-led legislative committee acknowledged that the early text’s vague use of the phrase “perinatal death” might have inadvertently left open the interpretation that the bill would immunize people from punishment in all cases in which their baby died in the first days of its life, even in cases where the death was caused by acts after the baby was born.
The final bill that was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom clarified that the “perinatal death” immunity is specifically for “perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.” In other words, there is no basis for a claim that California passed a law legalizing post-birth executions.
Even with the illegal use of “smart earrings” during a debate, along with backing from the @abc network and moderators, Kamala Harris was still defeated by Donald Trump. That’s how great President Trump is!
Trump appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who voted in 2022 to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had guaranteed abortion rights around the country. During his current presidential campaign, he has repeatedly made the false claim that all legal scholars had wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and power over abortion policy returned to individual states.
Trump said it again in the Fox News interview: “I say, let the states decide.”
This is — every legal scholar wanted this to be where abortion should be.
Facts First: Trump’s claim that “every legal scholar” wanted Roe overturned and the power to set abortion policy returned to the states is not even close to true. Many legal scholars wanted Roe preserved, as several of them reiterated in April comments to CNN.
“Any claim that all legal scholars wanted Roe overturned is mind-numbingly false,” Mutcherson, who supported the preservation of Roe, said in April.
“Donald Trump’s claim is flatly incorrect,” Maya Manian, an American University law professor who also did not want Roe overturned, said in April.
Trump’s claim is “obviously not” true, said Ziegler, another scholar who did not want Roe overturned. She said in April: “Most legal scholars probably track most Americans, who didn’t want to overturn Roe. … It wasn’t as if legal scholars were somehow outliers.”
Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back against the false claim repeated by former President Donald Trump in their Sept. 10 debate that some states and Democrats supported “post-birth” abortions, or killing babies after they are born.
Killing anyone after birth is illegal. No states have or are considering laws that allow for the killing of a baby after birth.
When asked about her plans around abortion rights during the ABC News Presidential Debate, Harris pointed this out, and supported reinstating protections formerly offered by the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.
“Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion — that is not happening. It’s insulting to the women of America,” Harris said.
She described the fallout of new abortion restrictions enacted by states after the high court’s Dobbs decision left the issue in their hands, including the challenge of women accessing care or having to travel out of state to receive, and doctors fearing providing abortion or miscarriage care for fear of prosecution.
According to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, more than two-thirds of Americans say they will watch all or most of the debate. While many voters have already made up their minds, 14 percent of Americans say the debate will have a great impact on which candidate they choose.
In an odd way, President Trump reminds me of Ed Norton (Honeymooners).
Uncouth and offensive to the “elite” Establishment, but always the first person called when the sewer needs clearing out. We elected him not for his table manners, but because he’ll get the job done.
I think he got a 7 or 8 last night for bringing out the truth, and I did notice they were all three attacking him…it was pretty unfair…I am an independent voter…I will be voting Trump. The man just keeps taking blows and I respect that big time….I have never voted for Dems and won’t again this year because after last night I feel like he’s fighting for me.
Nothing was fair about last night and sadly our country learned nothing about policy from either candidate. It was a waste of time to watch. our country better wake up before we become a socialist country. Mr. Trump is a sincere man who truly loves this country and the people! Glad you came to this side of the wall!!! No PUN intended!!
It was certainly not a debate.
It was an attack on Trump with the grinning jackanapes and ABC leading the charge. After last night’s debate 63% of Americans supported Harris compared to 37% for Trump in a CNN poll. You’ll never see a lion reduced to an ant. He’ll fight tooth and nail to the bitter end. If I had to go to war with anyone to protect me, it would be him!
While presiding over the U.S. Senate as VP she has cast the most tie-breaking votes (33) in history. These votes are not just politically polarizing but show how damaging a Kamala Harris White House would be. See for yourself:
On March 4, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to bring forward the “American Rescue Plan of 2021.” This $1.9 trillion spending bill prolonged supersized unemployment checks, gave “stimulus” checks for hundreds of millions, and provided grants to state and local governments which were used for non-COVID related projects. It was equally panned by both conservative and liberal economists who argued the increased government spending would harm economic stability in the long run by creating significant inflationary pressure. These concerns came true.
On April 21, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to advance the nomination of Colin Kahl for under secretary of defense for policy. Kahl had been opposed by the GOP for his involvement in the failed Iran nuclear deal during the Obama administration. Just months after Kamala Harris cast her vote, Kahl was a key official involved in the day-to-day decisions of the bungled Afghanistan withdrawal which resulted in the death of 13 American servicemembers, and $7 billion worth of military equipment left to the Taliban. Kahl was never fired for this, and later oversaw the D.O.D.’s unsuccessful U.S.–Ukraine policy before resigning in the summer of 2023 to return to his tenured teaching position at Stanford.
On June 22, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to confirm Kiran Ahuja as director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Before her confirmation, Kiran Ahuja oversaw Philanthropy Northwest where she used dark money to promote Critical Race Theory and DEI throughout corporate America. As head of OPM until her resignation this April, Ahuja allowed work backlogs to pile up as more than half of government bureaucrats “teleworked” 3-5 days a week.
On July 21, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. In this position, Abruzzo allowed frivolous litigation against Whole Foods, claiming that workers have a right to pursue “racial justice advocacy” and could not be fired for wearing “Black Lives Matter” masks and pins on their work uniforms. Abruzzo also used her position to upend college sports by authoring a memo paving the way for the 6-21 Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team, which has not had a winning season since 1999, to unionize and be classified as school employees.
On September 30, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to bring forward the nomination of Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Chopra’s confirmation was immediately praised by the most progressive members of the Senate like Elizabeth Warren.
Chopra has used the position to require lenders to collect LGBTQ data of small businesses and is currently being sued by nearly every financial institution in the country for unlawfully bringing arbitrary and capricious enforcement actions outside the CFPB’s authority. On December 8th 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the confirmation of Rachel Rollins for U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Rollins was opposed by both Republican and Democrat Members of the House and Senate because of her unwillingness to prosecute serious crimes as the Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney. As a George Soros-backed “progressive prosecutor,” Rollins, as stated policy, refused to prosecute 15 crimes including trespassing, resisting arrest, and disturbing the peace.
She instead focused her office’s resources to treat the heroic police officers of Boston as criminals. Within a year of Harris casting the deciding vote, Rachel Rollins was investigated and found guilty by the United States Office of Special Counsel of violating the Hatch Act, by abusing her office and power as a prosecutor to influence political elections. She resigned shortly after the findings were made public and had her law license suspended shortly thereafter.
On May 11, 2022, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the confirmation of Alvaro Bedoya to be a Federal Trade Commissioner. Bedoya is an outspoken left-wing activist linked to several Soros-backed dark money organizations which call for the censorship of “misinformation.” Bedoya called ICE “an out-of-control domestic surveillance agency,” shared posts calling individuals in the Trump administration “racist and white supremacist,” and praised AOC as the, “future of progressive politics.”
On August 7, 2022 Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to pass the $1.2 trillion climate spending package sold to the American people as the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Just a year after passage, the typical U.S. family spent $709 more on monthly expenses than they did when Biden took office. That’s because the bill was actually just a slush fund for “green” energy projects that failed to materialize. Implementation of the policy has been an outright disaster. For example, the Washington Post found that the legislation’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging only produced seven stations in two years. Instead of helping the American economy, the bill has been a boon to China. The increased “green” subsidies have resulted in over $1 billion worth of Chinese lithium-ion battery imports per month.
On July 12, 2023, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to bring forward the confirmation of Kalpana Kotagal to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In her career as an attorney specializing in “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Kalpana Kotagal represented the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in suing Aetna to force the company to cover “breast augmentation” surgeries for transgender children. Just months after Kamala Harris sealed her confirmation, the EEOC released a proposed guidance which would allow businesses to be sued for misgendering, using incorrect pronouns, or refusing to let an employee use the bathroom of their “gender identity.”
These are things Trump should bring out if possible in the debate.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks to cast a tie-breaking vote in the senate at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis.
Dec 5 (Reuters) – Kamala Harris on Tuesday set the record for breaking the most ties in the Senate by a U.S. vice president as she cast a vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Loren AliKhan to become the first South Asian woman judge on the federal district court in Washington.
The Senate, narrowly controlled by Biden’s fellow Democrats, confirmed the District of Columbia Court of Appeals judge to a seat on the federal bench in the U.S. capital by a margin of 51-50 after Harris, a former senator from California, cast the tie-breaking vote. As vice president, Harris is also the Senate’s president and breaks ties when they arise.
As they have with many Biden judicial nominees, Republicans opposed AliKhan, citing stances she previously took as a District of Columbia government official. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat, voted with the Republicans, necessitating the Harris tie-breaking vote.
The record Harris broke had stood for almost two centuries. Harris has now cast 33 Senate tie-breaking votes, exceeding the 31 cast by John Calhoun when he was vice president from 1825 to 1832. Calhoun is remembered today as a staunch defender of slavery and an advocate of states’ rights.
Earlier in the day, Harris broke a tie on a procedural vote to allow AliKhan’s nomination to move to a final confirmation vote. With those votes, Biden has now secured confirmation of 161 judicial nominees.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, hailed the role Harris has played in securing passage of major legislation and confirmation of judicial nominees, saying that “without her tie-breaking votes, there would be no American Rescue Plan, no Inflation Reduction Act, and we would not have confirmed many of the excellent judges now presiding on the bench.”
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has introduced several tax-related changes aimed at promoting clean energy and addressing climate change:
Clean Energy Incentives: The IRA provides tax credits for individuals and businesses investing in renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. This includes credits for purchasing electric vehicles and making energy-efficient home improvements.
Corporate Taxes: The act imposes a minimum tax of 15% on corporations with profits exceeding $1 billion. This aims to ensure that large, profitable companies pay a fair share of taxes.
Prescription Drug Costs: The IRA allows Medicare to negotiate prices for certain high-cost prescription drugs, which is expected to lower costs for consumers and reduce federal spending.
IRS Funding: The act allocates additional funding to the IRS to improve tax enforcement and customer service, aiming to close the tax gap and ensure better compliance.
These changes are designed to support environmental goals, ensure fair taxation, and reduce healthcare costs.
Is there a specific tax change you’re curious about?
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) impacts individual income taxes primarily through various incentives and credits aimed at promoting clean energy and energy efficiency. Here are some key points:
Energy-Efficient Home Improvements: Homeowners can receive tax credits for making energy-efficient upgrades, such as installing solar panels, energy-efficient windows, and heat pumps.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Credits: Individuals can benefit from tax credits when purchasing new or used electric vehicles. This aims to make EVs more affordable and encourage their adoption.
Health Insurance Premiums: The IRA extends subsidies for health insurance premiums, which can reduce the overall tax burden for individuals by lowering out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
Prescription Drug Costs: By allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, the IRA indirectly impacts individual finances by potentially lowering prescription drug costs, which can reduce overall healthcare expenses.
These provisions are designed to support environmental goals and make healthcare more affordable, indirectly benefiting individual taxpayers.
Overall, both acts have had positive effects on health insurance affordability and economic recovery, though they have also faced criticism for contributing to inflation.
These investments are crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting sustainable economic growth, and achieving long-term environmental goals.
However, the online poll of 800 independent voters suggested that the 90-minute debate may not have changed many minds. Harris added only two points to her overall support. While 36 percent said they planned to vote for Harris before the debate, the figure was 38 percent after the televised clash. And Trump’s share of the vote moved up from 44 percent to 45 percent, despite Harris and her supporters claiming victory. Bing Videos
So it’s natural for your breathing to get carried along with it.
And it turns out, it probably has.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the MEDICALLY NORMAL respiration rate is 12-24 breaths per minute.
What 24 BPM really means is inhaling for 1.25 seconds and exhaling for 1.25 seconds with no pauses.
Give that a try for 30 seconds and see how that feels.
And you wonder why everyone is so anxious???
It may be normal, but it sure isn’t HEALTHY.
Your breath is like a remote control for your autonomic nervous system.
Which means that the way you breath all day can literally push you into or out of a stress response.
FASTER breathing means more stress, SLOW means less.
So as you’re going about your day, sitting at your desk, going on a walk, even some light exercise, can you notice how quickly you start breathing FAST and try slowing things down just a bit?
Can you accomplish stuff without amping yourself up?
Learning this skill can do wonders for improving resilience to stress in the rest of your life.
There’s no way of opting out of the mind-body connection.
When you’re excited, you usually feel pretty good.
When you’re in a low mood, your breathing is likely to be depressed and held.
Your body is always listening to the mental chatter and responding accordingly— not to punish you, but to actually try to help!
But when the mental stress turns into physical tension and usually your breathing shifts to being held or it speeds up.
And when there is no accompanying physical movement that can be damaging to our physical mental and emotional health over time.
This isn’t about policing your thoughts and never allowing anything negative to cross your mind.
It’s about building an awareness of how your breathing and tension patterns shift throughout the day and learning how to intervene when the physical response to any mental stress, anxiety or frustration is manifesting in ways that are just going to exacerbate that mood or mental pattern.
So knowing that you can’t escape this reality, what are you currently doing throughout your day to actively notice and make some choices about what’s happening in your body based on your thoughts?
If you don’t know the answer, then chances are that it’s not what you’d intentionally CHOOSE.
And asking yourself, this question can be tender as you may imagine that you’re optimizing for what you want, when in reality what you actually do, day-to-day might be so far away from that.
It’s so easy to let the circumstances of life determine our behavior.
But that daily behavior impacts our stories and our nervous systems-and as a result, our health and well-being.
And too frequently, when we aren’t consciously optimize for something, we’re actually optimizing for chaos.
So what is one small step you can implement today to try to better support something you’d actually LIKE yo optimize for?
A timer for 5 minute breathers a few times throughout your workday? Putting your phone in the other room when hanging out with your family?
Make one small intentional choice consistently and watch how it blossoms into the rest of your life.
I’m no parenting expert. I’m not a psychologist and I haven’t read all the books.
But I have found 3 things to be universally true:
1. When we are past our capacity the tiniest things can throw us over the edge. This is true whether you are 3 or 63.
2. It’s a good idea not to put too much value on your feelings when you are in those states as capital T TRUTHS.
3. Witnessing without judgement is a gift we so RARELY give ourselves.
I can ignore my kid, walk away and let her cry it out, I can punish and force her to stop, or I can witness with love.
The same is true for your own inner kid.
And if you haven’t spent much time tuning in, slowing down, listening to your own internal sensations when there is no emergency, it will be very challenging to do so when you are all stirred up.
That’s why embodiment is the proactive practice for real life stress.
It builds capacity.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be still.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be calm.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be….anything really.
You’re breathing all day long, so if you make a conscious choice about HOW you’re breathing, that’s breathwork in my book.
Here’s what happens to A LOT of people:
You sit all day at a computer.
You get tired mentally and perhaps you get anxious or your mood drops as a result.
And so because you can’t think clearly or don’t feel great, you think you should do some breathwork or meditation.
So you sit down to meditate, but sitting still feels impossible.
Quieting your mind feels impossible.
After all…you’ve just been SITTING all day. Your body is probably craving movement!
And so then you feel bad that you can’t focus and the thing that’s supposed to help your mind feel better also feels bad.
But “breathwork” doesn’t have to be still.
What if sometimes it’s active? What if it’s playful? What if it’s in motion? What if it’s a walk? What if it’s rowing? What if it’s stretching? What if it’s any slow repetitive motion that feels good?
And what you’ll find is that by incorporating some kind of moving breathing BEFORE you try to sit still and quiet your mind, you’ll probably have a much more pleasurable experience.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be still.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be calm.
Breathwork doesn’t have to be….anything really.
You’re breathing all day long, so if you make a conscious choice about HOW you’re breathing, that’s breathwork in my book.
Here’s what happens to A LOT of people:
You sit all day at a computer.
You get tired mentally and perhaps you get anxious or your mood drops as a result.
No matter where you are today, close your eyes and take 3 minutes to sit and breathe with me.
This is NOT box breathing, but triangle breathing 🙂
It’s similar to a box, but you cut out the final exhale hold.
Because of this, it should help you downregulate faster, help your heart rate decrease and be quite calming.
inhale: pause: exhale
I did 5:5:5, but the exact number doesn’t matter too much as long as it’s on the slower side.
Experiment with 3:3:3, 4:4:4, and 5:5:5 to see what feels good for you.
Let me know in the comments how it goes and share with someone who might need a breather today.
Consistency is the only way to succeed over time.
And too many of the things you’re doing to:
“Get after it!” “Crush it!” or “Rise & grind!”
are actually PREVENTING you from showing up consistently with focus, energy and dare I say, love.
Does this mean you shouldn’t work hard or sprint sometimes?
Absolutely not.
But pretending you can go after each and every day relentlessly either in your workouts, at work or in business without there eventually being consequences is misunderstanding the physical realities of living in a human body.
AND the things you do in the short-term to try and override these realities (stimulants, fad diets, cold plunges) will eventually stop working for you if your nervous system continues to never get a chance to down regulate.
Remember the tortoise. and the Hare
Most people think it’s all about the event.
Exercise = good stress. Money troubles = bad stress An escape room puzzle = good stress Losing a loved one = bad stress
And while I agree that some things are just inherently not “good” the reality is that the event itself doesn’t actually determine whether the stress leads to positive or negative health outcomes.
Here’s what REALLY makes stress good or bad:
1. The state of the nervous system going into it Your state of arousal, energetic resources, level of groundedness plays a HUGE role in whether you interpret a situation as good or bad, stressful or manageable. When you are well rested and feeling supported, someone can cut you off in traffic and you only find it slightly annoying, whereas when you’re already amped up, bad traffic can ruin your whole day.
2. Your mindset before during & after Your interpretation of whether or not the stress is bad for you or not literally transforms your physiological response to the stress. If you think stress is there to give you energy and focus to deal with a problem, then you will have a challenge response much like exercise (good stress) and if your think stress is a scary, you’ll have a threat response (bad stress.)
3. Your ability to recover from it. Even if you have a HUGE stressor that pops up and you have a HUGE stress response, that doesn’t automatically make it harmful—how long the stress response stays turned on is what matters. If you are able to DOWNREGULATE & recover when the stressor is over, then your health will not be harmed long-term.
Surprising?
Share this with someone who might need a little re-frame on their relationship to stress.
The things we try to avoid the most are usually the things we need the most.
I’ll make this simple:
-High pressure fast paced jobs -Sitting in front of a screen all day -Being productivity focused
are all highly sympathetic, stressful and USE a high amount of energy.
While exercise is incredibly beneficial, and short-term can boost your mood, it also USES a high amount of energy.
So if exercise is your only tool for de-stressing, eventually it will become unsustainable as what you really need is something that REPLENISHES your energy.
And that’s where down regulation practices are so important.
They are required for helping your body get into a mode where it can divert, energetic resources towards cellular restoration, digestion, sleep, immunity, longevity, and reproductive health.
AND if you have an aversion towards quiet, that is a good sign you aren’t getting in those deep rest states frequently enough.
But the good news is, once you learn how to do so frequently and successfully, it will actually GIVE you more energy to do all of the work, productivity, and working out that you crave and love.
So it turns out that doing nothing can actually be the most productive thing you do all day.
If only healing with something as simple as pressing a button.
Scrolling through this app you think it was.
There’s so many promises of RESETS out there, but the truth is that there is no technique, method or breathwork that can instantly reset your nervous system.
Now breathwork CAN quickly shift your nervous system from one state to another in a matter of minutes—which is one reason why it’s amazing!
And it can feel like a reset during your hectic day.
But has that reset your nervous system? No.
Because what does RESET even mean?
Going backwards in time?
Returning to some hypothetical version of yourself that hasn’t experienced what you’ve experienced, or learned what you’ve learned?
That’s not healthy, that’s denial.
Your nervous system is complex and is the way it is because of an interwoven mix of past experiences, learning, sensory data, level of arousal, breathing habits, environmental cues, mindset and more.
Anyone promising they can return you to factory settings is either misinformed, untrustworthy or potentially dangerous.
NOW, can your nervous system change? Adapt? Heal?
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Come learn the skills required to transform your relationship to stress for good in this virtual group class.
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ABSOLUTELY!
But it’s a process.
It requires time, awareness, patience, and consistency.
All things that aren’t sexy sellers.
But it’s the truth.
And if you want to do more than just have an experience, it’s the only way that I know to make meaningful transformation.
Stay safe out there.
What physical sensations are the hallmark of a stress response?
Increase in heart rate Feeling energized Faster or deeper breathing Alert
Now, imagine a game night and you’re playing charades
Or you have to solve a problem right before a meeting
Or you’re playing basketball and it’s game point
Would any of those “stress” physiological responses be helpful?
Absolutely.
I almost wish I could rename the stress response to an activation response because the word stress has such a negative connotation today.
It’s nearly impossible to convince people that this response isn’t good or bad, it just IS.
Now what is helpful/less helpful is your mental interpretation or story about the response. Because that actually can change how it shows up, how your heart reacts, and how long the stress response stays turned on.
The next time you notice yourself getting “stressed” see if there is any reason why your body might be trying to help you with more energy and focus. If so, thank you. Use it.
And when you’re finished, down-regulate and help lower the heat.
Testimonial
I am a lawyer in the financial service industry, Over the years as my role expanded. Then the pandemic hit and caused an uptick in my general life stress. Whitelaw staring at her computer screen felt overwhelmed, so badly she felt like she couldn’t breath. It was 9am and overnight she received 50 emails for her to deal with. Then she got up from her office chair and when she returned there were 20 more.
She couldn’t calm herself and knew she had to find a better way, Jill felt tense all the time as her doctor increased her Lexapro in November of 2021. Which she had me on for many years then added blood pressure medicine — a new condition brought on by stress. I initially felt better than eight months later, the same stress sensations and panicky feelings returned. I reached a low point and couldn’t even handle looking at my emails.
Then in August 2022 her life coach suggested breathwork and a practitioner of the Alexander technique, a gentle movement and posture practice that can calm the nervous system and found Kevin Munhall’s website Habit Disruption. Which talks about mindful controlled breathing that can reduce anxiety, depression and stress. In his office Kevin saw I heard tension that prevented me from getting a full breath.
Hope & Peace At Last
At our first session Kevin taught breathing techniques to help relax the nervous system. Laying on the table he asked for me to breathe through my nose for 3 seconds then out my nose for 3 seconds. Through each progression which got longer and longer, I immediately felt the heaviness lifted as I felt lighter and lighter, as it was so much easier to move. He said in time you will have the power to calm yourself and I felt filled with HOPE. I then practiced everything he taught me to do in our weekly home sessions.
Now if I feel really nervous: I inhale for a count of 4. Then hold it for seven and exhale for an eight count. I feel calmer immediately — sometimes I do box breathing. a cycle of inhaling for a 5 count, holding for a 5 count then exhaling for a 5 count, then holding for a 5 count and then repeating. It works wonders as I feel calmer and more refreshed, energized in a calm way. Today I feel like I have myself back, and feel capable of handling anything that comes my way and I am more willing to take on new challenges.
When we are stressed our fight or flight is activated causing our breathing to become more rapid and shallower. By slowing our breathing down it appears to send signals to the brain that slows our heart rate down. Which reduces the stress hormone cortisol which produces feelings of calm, says Patricia Gerbarg MD., assistant professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and co-author of the healing Power of the Brain. She suggests beginners to connect with Certified Practitioners to learn proper technique and to find one on BREATH-BODY-MIND™ | Evidence-based Integrative Health
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What 24 BPM really means is inhaling for 1.25 seconds and exhaling for 1.25 seconds with no pauses.
Which means that the way you breath all day can literally push you into or out of a stress response.
Remember the tortoise. and the Hare
So if exercise is your only tool for de-stressing, eventually it will become unsustainable as what you really need is something that REPLENISHES your energy.
AND if you have an aversion towards quiet, that is a good sign you aren’t getting in those deep rest states frequently enough.
There’s so many promises of RESETS out there, but the truth is that there is no technique, method or breathwork that can instantly reset your nervous system.
That’s not healthy, that’s denial.