A Republican lawmaker wants to prohibit the U.S. Department of Defense from using taxpayer funds for drag queen shows and other adult cabaret performances.
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced legislation to stop the department from using taxpayer funds or taxpayer-funded facilities to host such performances. The bill comes after the U.S. Navy said it had one of its sailors, a drag performer and social media influencer, serve as a Digital Ambassador for military recruitment.
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“Our military’s mission is clear: to provide the military forces needed to deter and win wars and to protect the security of our country and our allies,” Daines said in a statement. “Allowing the [Department of Defense] to become a branch of far-Left helping to promote their radical gender ideology by hosting and promoting drag queen performances is a threat to our national security and gross misuse of taxpayer funds. This must be stopped immediately.”
The bill would prohibit the use of any funds or facilities from being used to host, advertise or support adult cabaret performances. It defines “adult cabaret performance” as “a performance that features topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dances, strippers, or male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to prurient interest.”
“The [Department of Defense] needs to get their priorities straight. Congress shouldn’t have to enact legislation telling them to use their taxpayer funding on military equipment instead of adult cabarets; that’s common sense,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, said in a statement.
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U.S. Sens Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Ted Budd, R-NC, are cosponsors.
Earlier this month, 14 Republican U.S. Senators sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro seeking more information about the Navy’s Digital Ambassador Pilot Program. They asked for information about the program, including how much has been spent on it. They also sought data regarding the impact of the Navy’s Digital Ambassador Program and if the Navy paid influencers. The Senators further asked about the Navy’s use of TikTok, an app owned and operated by ByteDance Limited, a private company based in Beijing, China. President Joe Biden signed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act in December 2022.
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Mayorkas Stops Briefing to Correct Reporter April Ryan After She Tries to Revive False ‘Whipping’ Story About Haitian Migrants
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas actually halted a press conference briefly to correct reporter April Ryan after she tried to revive – twice – a false story about Border Patrol agents ‘whipping’ Haitian illegal immigrants.
Ryan, a reporter for The Grio and contributor to CNN, obviously felt comfortable enough in her environment, surrounded by journalists who likewise often lie about stories and a Homeland Security chief who actually helped spread this fake news story in particular.
“The southern border is not just Mexicans, it is Haitians, it’s Africans, as we — as we’ve seen, particularly with that issue with the Haitians being whipped with the reins on the horses,” she said before Mayorkas interjected.
“Well, let me just correct you right there, because actually, the investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur,” he replied.
Ryan then doubled down.
“I’m sorry, I saw it differently,” she said, an odd defense for something that she never actually saw at all, unless she was privy to video no one else was allowed to see.
“They were whipped with something from the horse — reins from a horse. I — I — maybe the video or the picture was fixed, but what I saw was totally different,” she continued.
“I’m gonna leave you as corrected,” Mayorkas shot back.Mayorkas corrects April Ryan when she brings up the “Haitians being whipped with the reins of the horses,” noting “the investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur.”
Ryan: “Maybe either the video or the picture was fixed but what I saw was totally different.” pic.twitter.com/sPLPRLMXAx
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 11, 2023RELATED: Squad Member Ayanna Pressley Shredded After Trying To Revive Border Agents ‘Whipping’ Haitian Migrants Story
Haitian Migrants Weren’t Whipped
How bad does a lie have to be for a perpetual liar like Alejandro Mayorkas to say, ‘Ya know, this is so blatant that even I have to correct the record’?
The Haitian migrants being whipped story never happened. It was a media lie from the start, spread by a Democrat communications strategist who had no idea how horses and/or reins work, and who was willing to share an image from a dubious angle.
The truth, however, was quickly revealed.What’s unfathomable is the stupidity involved in thinking you’d get away with lying.
Hey @TwitterSupport – You need to pull this tweet and ban this clown.
He’s spreading a ‘big lie.’
Here’s the alternate angle… pic.twitter.com/70BzKUGT7B
— Rusty (@rustyweiss74) September 21, 2021The agents were eventually cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, as it was revealed they were using split reins to control their horses – not “whipping migrants.”
What is truly wild here is that Mayorkas helped spread the initial media lie.
Fox News reported that an email sent to Mayorkas and other DHS officials included an article complete with highlighted sections that indicate the actual photographer behind the image insisted there was no whipping involved.NEW: Email reveals DHS Secretary Mayorkas was alerted by DHS’ top public affairs official that the “whipping” narrative behind horseback BP photos wasn’t true, but at a WH press conference 2.5 hours later, he didn’t refute that narrative, instead calling the images “horrifying”. pic.twitter.com/Qyfy2NBkNo
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) October 12, 2022Mayorkas condemned the Border Patrol agents anyway at a press conference hours later.
“Our nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are,” Mayorkas said nearly three hours after the email was sent. “We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”
Too bad somebody at that particular press conference didn’t stop him and ‘leave him corrected.’“In the midst of meeting these challenges, we, our entire nation, saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are, who we aspire to be, or the integrity and values of our truly heroic personnel,” DHS Secretary Mayorkas says. pic.twitter.com/nAhawZK47C
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 24, 2021RELATED: Biden Sec. Mayorkas Was Told Border Patrol Hadn’t ‘Whipped’ Haitian Migrants Before Press Conference Demonizing Agents
They’ll Just Keep Trying and Trying to Lie
On a side note – April Ryan’s mask in the press briefing is completely for show. Look at any clip of her in the past year on YouTube and you will find the only place she wears the mask is during White House press briefings. It’s hilarious.
Ryan’s attempt to revive the story about Haitian migrants being whipped is yet another example of how the left lies initially to create a media firestorm, waits as it takes months to correct the record, then simply repeats the lie casually over the ensuing years because there are simply too many low-information people out there who won’t bother to check the facts on the matter.
It’s a formula that has worked time and again for them. President Biden just did the same thing when he once again tried to push the Charlottesville ‘fine people’ hoax – a story so thoroughly debunked it’s ridiculous.*yawn* Ah, the ol’ “fine people” hoax again.
Been debunked countless times. I wonder if any of the “fact-checkers” working feverishly to analyze Trump’s CNN town hall will correct this lie.
Here’s your chance @CommunityNotes.
— Rusty (@rustyweiss74) May 11, 2023Why do they do it? Because they know that if they simply continue to lie there will be enough people out there who will believe it because the truth is so far in the rearview mirror.
Ryan continued to shamelessly lie about the ‘whipping’ story, tripling down on the claim on Twitter, earning herself a Community Notes fact-check.Maybe its just me but! pic.twitter.com/mfgkxc5i3f
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) May 11, 2023Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin hammered Ryan for trying her best to keep the false story alive.
“It’s just you,” he said. “Pushing a completely false, debunked narrative after a lengthy investigation. Debunked even by the photographer who took these photos.”It’s just you. Pushing a completely false, debunked narrative after a lengthy investigation. Debunked even by the photographer who took these photos. Those are split reins used to control the horse. Nobody was whipped. https://t.co/fELAiX2vvW
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 11, 2023To be fair, that’s the sole purpose of legacy media in America today. To push false, debunked narratives like the good little propaganda machine they are.
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GOP Candidate Wants to Raise Voting Age to 25 – And It’s a Great Idea
By Dr. Derek Ellerman
Poor Vivek Ramaswamy is, at least for the moment, one of those unfortunate victims of time and circumstance.
In any other era, I would consider the long-shot Republican presidential candidate to at least be interesting enough to follow, maybe even support.
Yesterday, Ramaswamy dropped another good idea that does have my full attention: He wants to amend the Constitution to raise the voting age from 18 to 25.
Yes, Yes, and Hell Yes.The Constitution does not expressly *guarantee* universal voting. This is intentional: we live in a Constitutional republic, not a direct democracy. The 14th Amendment specifically distinguishes the immunities of citizenship from the privileges of citizenship. Voting is a… pic.twitter.com/tx4nbZHGv5
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) May 12, 2023RELATED: Don Lemon Gets Mauled by Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Claim That ‘Black People Don’t Enjoy Freedoms in This Country’
Raise The Voting Age
Ordinarily, I’m a proponent of just one single age of majority. I’m not necessarily hung up on exactly what age that is, but it should be uniform.
If someone is a legal adult, they should have all the rights and responsibilities of an adult; buying cigarettes, buying alcohol, buying a firearm, full legal responsibility, being able to rent a car, join the military, etc.
These days, there’s a dizzying amount of proposals all over the country to raise this or that minimum age requirement for this or that activity. If someone is an adult at 18, why would they need to wait another three years to purchase a handgun?
I think most rational people view it as not only ludicrous, but plainly immoral to tell an 18-year-old they have to suit up and go fire a 155mm howitzer at strangers in some far-off land, but they can’t buy a little pistol or drink a beer.
Nobody, anywhere, should have to move on to the next life without a sip of the sweet nectar.
But I’m on a little bit of a rant here. Vivek Ramaswamy’s proposal, which he unveiled during a campaign stop in Iowa, would do two things. Raise the voting age to 25, but also allow people 18-25 to vote if they either do six months in the military or as a first responder or if they pass the citizenship test.
Ramaswamy described his reasoning thusly: “I think it is a problem that young people don’t vote enough in this country. But if you make it something that you actually have to earn, you value it even more. It’s human nature and psychology.”
Fair, and true, as far as it goes.
I’m fully two-thirds in favor of this proposal and I’ll tell you why.The youngest guy in the audience tonight had a reaction to my proposed constitutional amendment that requires 18-year-olds to pass a civics test or else to meet a national service requirement. Pretty inspiring. pic.twitter.com/gkNUb8WQ3O
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) May 12, 2023RELATED: Newest GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Says He’d Repeal Affirmative Action ‘Without Apology’
Young People Are Dumb
Of Ramaswamy’s proposal, I would only nix the “national service” requirement part. Not because it’s necessarily a bad idea or that it wouldn’t have a positive impact on citizenship a la Starship Troopers, but because we probably don’t want a sudden bubble of millions of new government employees with nothing to do.
Idle hands, and all.As for raising the voting age, other than my own internal cognitive dissonance at backtracking on everything I just said about one uniform age of majority, it’s a must.
You only need one reason, too. Look at public school test scores.
American kids can’t even read. Let’s just stop right there. We could go down the whole laundry list – they can’t do math, they aren’t taught and therefore know next to nothing about history, etc – but we don’t need to.
Let’s just agree that we don’t need to go farther.
In a democracy, every voter counts as much as any other. It doesn’t matter if the kid in the booth next to you can’t read. He still has the same amount of power. He can still vote for wanton criminality, theft, disastrous foreign adventurism, etc.
That is the entire problem with democracy. People with no skin in the game still get a say. Malicious actors get the same say as you. Oh, you spent hours researching where your Congressman stands on IMF debt restructuring? That dumb kid got an instruction on who to vote for from a professor.
You work 60 hours a week only to have half your paycheck stolen for Ukraine’s border or cellphones for illegal aliens? That dumb kid didn’t work for a minute, and he just voted to increase spending to Ukraine. Doesn’t matter that he couldn’t tell you what continent it’s on to save his immortal soul. That vote counts as much as yours.
Maybe you can see where I’m going with this. Democracy is stupid. Very, very stupid. Unless there are guardrails.
Now don’t worry, the Earth will be a burnt crisp falling into the sun before I ever get my way about democracy. But the above still makes the case that, so long as people are exercising such an enormous amount of power – and power, my friends, is force – we should at least make attempts to ensure voters have a bare minimum of knowledge and life experience to make such heady decisions.
I don’t have enough space here, but my final argument is just two words: Gen Z.
The Constitution was already amended to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. It can be amended again.
And when schools start teaching kids things besides drag queen story hour, we can think about an amendment to lower it back to 18.
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Florida Labor-Reform Measures Cut Government Unions Down To Size
By Rusty Brown for RealClearWire
After engaging with Florida lawmakers for several years, the Freedom Foundation played a key role in helping the state pass the country’s most muscular labor-reform bill since Wisconsin’s Act 10 in 2011.
In the interim, several states have adopted portions of the Wisconsin model. Then the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME invalidated most government-employee membership forms and spurred new legislative opportunities. In response to Janus, many states have approved legislation codifying what a valid union membership form must include to be recognized legally.
A state with a large number of government-union members, Florida has forged its own path – one likely to be emulated. Florida’s new union law opens the door to push back against the stranglehold that Big Labor has on state policy and on government employees.
The new law prevents government agencies from deducting union dues directly from their employees’ paychecks, thus forcing unions to do their own accounting. Also, consistent with Janus, Florida will now require language on union-membership forms reminding workers that they don’t have to join if they don’t choose to, and that they can’t be discriminated against based on their decision.
Both provisions take effect July 1.
Related: Claiming ‘Democracy Under Attack,’ Biden Makes It Harder to Oust Unions
Other provisions won’t take effect until October 1. They are more complicated to implement, since they require agency rulemaking and a substantial overhaul of the Florida Public Employee Relations Commission (PERC).
The most sweeping change is a provision triggering automatic recertification elections for unions with low membership.
Public-sector unions must already file an application for recertification annually with PERC. Going forward, that application must specify the number of employees represented – and the number actually paying dues. If the latter number drops below 60 percent, an election is automatically scheduled, in which the employees in that bargaining unit will be asked to decide the union’s fate.
In addition, the membership numbers reported in the application must be verified by an independent CPA. This financial audit expands beyond simply verifying membership; unions are now required annually to file audited financial statements listing all receipts and expenditures.
Supporters of the provision getting state agencies out of the dues-collection business note that the previous arrangement created the false impression that dues payments were authorized or endorsed by the government.
The more than 200,000 Florida government employees currently having dues deducted straight out of their paychecks will see their wages increased.
The recertification and financial audits, however, are the real meat of the legislation.
Related: Union Deletes Document After Report Shows Taxpayer-Funded Collusion With Biden Administration
Florida’s public-sector unions will have to create a new model in which employees are educated about their options and persuaded to join, rather than being bullied to join. The union monopoly no longer exists: instead of collecting dues from every public employee, unions will be supported only by those whose loyalty they’ve actually earned.
Under the new law, Florida employees can hold their unions accountable for the quality of representation being provided. And if they’re not satisfied, the union’s days will be numbered. Just like how things work in the real world of the marketplace.
Having worked hard to see the new reforms adopted, the Freedom Foundation is committed now to making sure they are enforced.
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Invasion Begins: Video Purportedly Shows Illegal Aliens Opening DHS Packets With Smartphones, Some Court Dates Not Until 2035
Title 42, the Trump-era pandemic public health restrictions that became a key tool in turning back illegal aliens at the border, has officially come to an end.
And with that end, officials have warned they expect up to 13,000 migrants to attempt to enter the country each day henceforth. If that number holds, you may see close to 5 million illegal aliens overrunning the border in the next year.
Video and images emerging from the border so far are disturbing.
Independent journalist Tayler Hansen released a clip on social media purportedly showing some illegal immigrants opening up packets from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which include government-issued smartphones and directives to appear at a court date set many years in the future.Brownsville, TX: Migrants open their DHS packets and use their government issued cell phones after being processed and receiving court dates.
Some migrants have shown me that their court dates are as far out as 2027.@TPostMillennial pic.twitter.com/Num7HnHagi
— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) May 12, 2023Hansen also included photographs of forms showing court dates in both 2026 and 2027.
Multiple migrants within the same group received court dates for 2026 and 2027.@TPostMillennial pic.twitter.com/bB5mOKlkLj
— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) May 12, 2023RELATED: Biden Surrenders to Invasion: Feds Will Release Illegal Aliens With No Court Date or Ability to Track Them
Illegal Immigrants Court Dates As Far Out as 2035!
Rebecca Brannon, another independent journalist, also posted images of illegal immigrants using smartphones and reviewing directives to attend court dates as far out as four years from now.
She also noted that some of the illegal aliens she spoke to weren’t simply from South America, but also “Chinese nationals.”
“After a brief initial processing, migrants are given papers for a notice to appear – most court dates I’ve seen are dated in 2027 – FOUR YEARS from now,” Brannon wrote.
“Some are also given new phones and a bus ticket to a state where they’ve provided an address of a sponsor or family already here in the country.”After a brief initial processing, migrants are given papers for a notice to appear – most court dates I’ve seen are dated in 2027 – FOUR YEARS from now.
Some are also given new phones and a bus ticket to a state where they’ve provided an address of a sponsor or family already… pic.twitter.com/HtrZyX7PFH
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 11, 2023Those receiving court dates for 2027 may have been the lucky ones. The New York Post is reporting that others actually received hearings as early as August of this year or even 2025.
However, there were those illegal immigrants who had court dates set as late as 2032 and 2035 in Chicago and Florida.
DHS expects those who don’t have enough respect for the immigration laws of a sovereign nation to appear back in court 12 years from now? Are you kidding?Migrants sleeping on the streets of border town Brownsville, Texas – charging phones and eating McDonalds as hundreds of others are continued to be released into the country.
Title 42 expires in less than 6 hours. pic.twitter.com/wxMOPoOpTo
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 11, 2023RELATED: Psaki Admits Biden Administration Is Handing Out Smartphones To Illegal Immigrants
We Should Be Thankful for President Biden
I suppose those of us who are fans of law, order, and legal immigration should be thrilled that the illegal aliens in these videos and reports got summoned to a court date at all.
The Political Insider reported Thursday that the Biden administration had formulated a memo for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) directing them to release illegal immigrants into the United States with no court dates or ability to track them.Unacceptable!
Biden admin plans to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them.
Instead of enforcing U.S. immigration laws, Biden is enabling mass catch and release.
America is a nation of laws. This must end. https://t.co/ruogHkR5PS
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 11, 2023However, a federal judge later that day blocked the administration from implementing the policy of releasing illegal aliens into the United States without a court date by issuing a temporary restraining order.
The smartphones are a tepid indication that DHS is seeking to have the illegal immigrants self-report.
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted to the program’s existence in 2022 and insisted it was a successful means to allow authorities to “track” and “check in with them.”Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked the White House about reports of migrants receiving smart phones from the Biden admin — Jen Psaki explains how technology is used at the border pic.twitter.com/GznvFJLDmt
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 6, 2022Hmm … I wonder if they might simply ditch the smartphones or maybe even just get a new one. I mean, some of them only have an entire decade to do so!
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Poll: Majority of Americans Want Spending Cuts Included in Debt Ceiling Deal
A large majority of voters say that President Joe Biden should compromise with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to cut government spending as part of a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, according to a new poll commissioned by America’s New Majority Project.
In a national survey of 2,000 people conducted by McLaughlin and Associates over a four-day period beginning on May 4, nearly 61% of voters polled agreed with the statement that “House Republicans have done their jobs and passed a responsible debt ceiling increase, now President Biden and Senate Democrats must do their job and negotiate a compromise.
RELATED: $8 Billion in U.S. Funds May Have Gone to the Taliban
The GOP-led House passed the “Limit, Save, Grow Act” last month that raises the debt ceiling to avoid default but cuts $4.5 trillion in federal spending. U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that if the debt ceiling is not raised, the country could begin defaulting on its debt by June 1.
A large majority of those surveyed rejected Biden’s call for a “clean” debt ceiling increase with no compromises on government spending. Voters want a check on government spending, with 64% branding the administration’s plan as a “dirty” debt ceiling increase because it would ultimately mean even greater debt and spending while weakening Social Security and Medicare.
“Americans want Congress to cut federal spending and they want Republicans and Democrats to compromise to get things done,” said Joe DeSantis, chief strategy officer at Gingrich 360. America’s New Majority Project is a project of Gingich 360. “Biden and the Democrats find themselves on the wrong side of public opinion on both issues.”
RELATED: Biden Sending Another $1 Billion of Your Money to Other Countries – This Time to Fight Climate Change
Given the choice between a GOP candidate who will only vote for a debt ceiling increase if it also cuts government spending and a Democratic candidate who will only vote for a debt ceiling increase if it does not cut government spending, voters in the poll selected the GOP candidate by a 49-35 margin, with Republicans gaining ground among independents, Gen X, Democrat and women voters.
In addition, more than six out of every 10 respondents (62%), including a majority of all parties, ethnicities, genders and age groups, support spending cuts to get the deficit under control even if it means more adjustments for them and their families.
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‘Kill a White Guy’ – Police Reveal Racial Motive in Killing of New Orleans-Area Handyman
Louisiana – Kenner police this week revealed a racial motive in the killing of a 66-year-old handyman.
Two black male suspects, Tahj Matthews, 23 and Maurice Holmes, 25, admitted to their role in killing Lawrence Herr while he was repairing a mailbox last month.
One of the suspects told police he “just wanted to kill a white guy.”
Matthews and Holmes were both charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting on April 10.
According to reports, the suspects gunned down Lawrence Herr while he was repairing a mailbox on Kenner’s Georgetown Place.
Both suspects are being held in the Jefferson Parish Correction Center, according to WVUE.
Police are weighing possible hate crime charges.
WVUE reported:
Police said one of the two suspects has admitted to his role in the crime, explaining they just wanted to go out and “kill a white guy.”
Tahj Matthews, 23, and Maurice Holmes, 25, have been booked with first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Herr. The 66-year-old handyman also known as “Peanut” was gunned down April 10, seemingly without warning, while repairing a mailbox on Kenner’s Georgetown Place.
“We have not found any relation between the victim and the suspects,” Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said Tuesday (May 9). “In fact, the victim’s back was to the suspects when the shots were fired.”
At a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Jefferson Parish’s magistrate court, Kenner Police detective Nicolas Engler testified that Matthews and Holmes were captured on surveillance video taken at a Clemson Drive apartment complex just two hours before the killing.
More on this story from WVUE FOX 8 New Orleans:Authorities investigating a New Orleans-area murder of a 66-year-old white man by two black suspects now believe there was a racial component. Police in Kenner, La. say one of the suspects admitted to just wanting to “kill a white guy.” https://t.co/CPDa0qgaTq
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 12, 2023The post ‘Kill a White Guy’ – Police Reveal Racial Motive in Killing of New Orleans-Area Handyman appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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HUGE: O’Keefe Media Group – Citizen Journalist Says Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela Told Her How to Abuse ERIC Voter Registration System to VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES (VIDEO)
A citizen journalist with O’Keefe Media Group(OMG) has come forward after having an exchange with Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela at the secret invite-only “Summit on American Democracy” from May 8-9.
Valenzuela reportedly told the woman exactly how she could abuse the ERIC voter registration system to fraudulently vote multiple times in different states.
This event in Washington, DC, was hosted by partisan hack David Becker and his Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) organization. David Becker is also the far-left operative who founded the ERIC system used in over 30 states, including Arizona, with 35m voter records.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates ran away from conservative journalist Laura Loomer’s questions about his election corruption and participation in this far-left election conference on Monday.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on the left-wing voter registration drive, disguised as voter roll clean-up, and how it can be abused.
As Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit reported, “The ERIC database is comprehensive and would be one of the most coveted by bad actors looking to influence an election.”
Originally funded by the Soros Open Society, it is now responsible for cleaning the voter rolls in a majority of states, plus D.C. A top election official from each member State is appointed a seat on the ERIC Board or as an Officer, all unpaid positions.
Additionally, ERIC does NOT want to know who is voting illegally. Their rules explain that “Under no circumstances shall the members transmit any record indicating an individual is a non-citizen of the U.S.,” as stated in Exhibit A, 2b. If ERIC hears no evil, then they see no evil.
This is the first time an elections official has admitted that the system can be abused and illegal voters can go undetected.
This could help explain The Gateway Pundit’s previous reporting on whistleblower testimony that voters with out-of-state driver’s licenses were allowed to vote in the Maricopa County 2022 election, which was stolen from Trump-Endorsed candidates. Multiple women, both Democrats, at one Maricopa County voting location were not registered to vote; however, the inspector overseeing that location “called the hotline, and she spoke to someone at the hotline, and then suddenly, she was registered and able to vote a regular ballot,” according to another poll worker.
It is unclear whether they voted in multiple states, but this new report from an OMG citizen journalist further reveals that election officials may be in on the scheme. Maricopa County did not respond to The Gateway Pundit’s request for comment.
Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh are still carrying out lawsuits against their fraudulent elections.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier on a conference for oral argument in Kari Lake’s lawsuit where Maricopa County Attorney Joseph La Rue admitted to the inaccuracy of Maricopa County’s signature verification.
O’Keefe Media Group Communications Director RC Maxwell previously told The Gateway Pundit that OMG’s mission “is to get hundreds, maybe even thousands of people who are willing to do this because what we’ve seen is that people are willing to do this.”
“The vision is to enlist a citizen journalism army,” Maxwell continued.
Become a citizen journalist with OMG here.
Watch the video below from an OMG citizen journalist.
Citizen Journalist: I had an opportunity to visit the Hilton and Spy Museum for the election integrity conference. And I happened to sit down by Reynaldo or Rey Valenzuela. He’s the director at the election integrity in Maricopa County, Arizona. I asked him, if you were to do it, how would you do it? And he says, “Oh, I’ll tell you what I would do. Everybody’s got the ERIC system except some states. So, what I would do is I would move from an ERIC state to a non Eric state. It’d never find me, you’d never match up, and you’d never be eliminated for your two votes. Otherwise, when you have your name in one state that’s not an ERIC state and your name in an ERIC state, well, it just so happens that you can vote twice.” And so, I was hoping to capture that information on my phone. I actually looked at my phone to make sure that I was recording and oh my goodness, you have to check it like every 15/20 minutes, make sure it’s running. My equipment didn’t quite make it because I have a million photos on my phone. It just didn’t happen.
OMG reporter: And then you went back in, and how many more subjects did you engage with?
Citizen Journalist: Three more subjects and we just, you know, kicked up a conversation. I think Bill Gates was there. A couple other individuals that’s running the conference.
OMG reporter: what motivated you to want to become a citizen journalist and come out here and volunteer with OMG?
Citizen Journalist: For the last five years, I have been nothing but a truth warrior. And I’m a Tucker Carlson fan. I’m a James O’Keefe fan. And it’s like exposing the truth and being able to uncover what’s really going on. And you get to the source and you try to figure out, you know, what’s up? I’m a patriot, and I love my country and I’m gonna do everything I can to save it.Citizen Journalist Describes Experience with Maricopa Election Official Who Reportedly Advised Her on Voting Twice pic.twitter.com/UW3QtRLX0x
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Stephen Miller, AFL, and Texas AG Ken Paxton File Emergency Legal Action to Shut Down Biden’s Plan to Open Border and Flood America with Millions of Illegals
Stephen Miller and American First Legal joined with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several states to shut down Joe Biden’s plan to flood America with millions of illegal aliens and erase our nation’s border.
Stephen posted this earlier.Urgent message from AFL President @StephenM on our emergency lawsuit with TX against Biden’s DHS, following the termination of Title 42. https://t.co/NGI8xPiaPy pic.twitter.com/dP4E3UG0zz
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) May 12, 2023Joe Biden ended Title 42 migration restrictions on Thursday and opened up the US southern border to the world.
Over 5 million illegal aliens have entered the US during Joe Biden’s first two years in office. Over 10 million are expected with the elimination of title 42.
A nation without a border is not a nation.
America First Legal reported:
Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a supplemental lawsuit with the state of Texas, and in partnership with a coalition of states, against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for illegally authorizing an unlawful policy that will allow hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to be released into the United States. This brazen policy is in direct violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
The policy, called “Parole with Conditions,” allows aliens at the border to enter the United States virtually consequence-free. Under the policy, aliens receive a document requesting them to come back to DHS at some point in the future to be processed for immigration court proceedings. However, they almost never suffer any consequences if they ignore the request. The Parole with Conditions policy is a shameless violation of federal immigration law, which requires that aliens who cross the border illegally be processed right away for immigration court proceedings and that they be detained until their immigration court proceedings have concluded.
Parole with Conditions will cause irreparable harm to the United States. Costs for public education, law enforcement, incarceration, unreimbursed health care, and other public services for such illegal aliens will skyrocket – burdening the State of Texas, and every other State. Once paroled, these illegal aliens are released into the United States without restrictions as to where they may go and without monitoring or other safeguards to track their whereabouts. Even worse, federal regulations give paroled aliens the eventual right to receive public benefits such as welfare payments, food stamps, and Medicaid.
President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security continues to break the law in order to propel its destructive immigration agenda. Unauthorized mass immigration has severe implications for the American public – every state has become a border state.
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MUST READ: The Anatomy of a Boondoggle – The Green New Deal vs. Family Farms
Guest post by former Congressman Steve King
President Benjamin Harrison signed the Indian Appropriations Act in 1889 and on April 22, at high noon, a gunshot triggered the race for 2 million acres of land. The Oklahoma Land Rush was on! One hundred and thirty fours years later, on August 16, 2022, President Biden unleashed a beast when he signed the inaptly monikered amendment to Biden’s Build Back Better bill—the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—and the CO2 rush for taxpayer gold was on!
Like most moments of high drama triggered by parchment and pen; the origins, motives, dynamics, and players are behind the curtains pulling the levers and manipulating the machinery of government. The beast we battle is the Green New Deal, the progeny of the European Green Deal, nurtured and likely conceived in Davos, Switzerland, at Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF). There the infamous enemy of a lawful civil society, George Soros, is regularly front and center.
Rubbing elbows between Schwab and Soros, we find Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the largest investment firm in the world, controlling over ten trillion dollars of global investments. Fink is also on the Board of Trustees of the WEF, on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Tsinghua University…in Beijing. Carbon indexes, Cap-and-trade and CO2 credits are always on this globalist’s tool belt,“I believe the decarbonizing of the global economy is going to create the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime.”. Larry Fink’s BlackRock provides the investment capital driving the 1300 mile Heartland Greenway CO2 Carbon Capture Use and Sequestration (CCUS) Project.
Bruce Rastetter, CEO of Summit Carbon Solutions, is the other major player in the race for hundreds of billions of We the People’s tax dollars. His proposal is to build 2000 miles of high pressure CO2 pipeline. Summit would then pump its CO2 into deep wells near the oil fields by Bismarck, North Dakota. BlackRock’s destination for the liquid CO2 would be deep wells near the oil fields south of Springfield, IL.
Summit proposes to collect 12 million metric tons of CO2 from 32 ethanol plants in five states. BlackRock would collect 15 million metric tons from 21 ethanol plants https://heartlandgreenway.com/. A third and shorter pipeline system is proposed by Wolf, a Canadian company. The Wolf proposal is for 280 miles of high pressure CO2 pipeline collecting 12.6 million metric tons of CO2. Their destination for deposit would be near that of BlackRock’s.
On a hot summer day in 1988, Dr. James Hansen’s testimony before Congress predicted serious impact for all the biology of a warming planet. Hansen’s testimony is credited in the United States with launching the Global Warming movement—now Climate Change. His dire predictions mobilized governments, academics, and Global Warming entrepreneurs. Just a year earlier, the World Economic Forum (WEF) was born out of it’s environmentally focused roots in the European Management Forum. Climate crisis science, politics, economics and untold billions of dollars have been hurled about the planet ever since. The WEF demonstrated their ability to foster a first world movement to reset the earth’s thermostat.
Larry Fink, keeper of BlackRock’s $10 trillion, has been churning the waters at the WEF, internationally, and in the United States. When the entire European Union, the Global Elites, the WEF, the President of the United States and the Democrat majorities in Congress are all marching in sync and chanting in cadence, that is the sound of a massive transfer of wealth. And in this case, it’s all sunk money. George Soros and Larry Fink own the Democrat Party when it comes to the Green New Deal and Klaus Schwab has their back and the playbook.
Summit CEO Bruce Rastetter, former Iowa ethanol mogul and current Brazilian ethanol mogul, smelled the public dollars in advance of the triggering IRA legislation. He put into place a broad and complex scheme to control all the potential barriers to his proposed 2,000 miles of CO2 high-pressure pipeline.
Rastetter is betting on having the leverage to “put the fix in.” To know that the governors and the governments of five states will usher you through the brambles and lift you over the hurdles is a demonstration of a reach of influence here-to-for unequaled in the upper Midwest. Rastetter made sure he had every base covered. Former Iowa Governor and current USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s lawyer son, Jess, is, not by coincidence, the general counsel for Summit. Former Governor Terry Branstad is the senior policy advisor for Rastetter. The faces of the Summit team are the very faces of a Branstad political campaign.
How much money does it take to mobilize the moguls of Davos and Brazil into full-court presses over six states with a myriad of statutory, regulatory and constitutional barriers?
Having spoken with the policymakers in each legislative arena, it is clear. None of the policy players have a handle on the magnitude of public coffer treasures that are about to be poured out over the outstretched hands of Fink and Rastetter. This pair of moguls never mention the money they will make, so let’s do a little math with their published numbers and include the Wolf numbers, too.The 45Q credit pays $ 85 per metric ton of CO2 sequestered. The three projects published on their websites their CO2 sequestration projections. Their projections total 39.6 million tons x $85Ton = $ 3.366 billion dollars a year. The 45Z credit which is the “clean fuel production credit” is directed toward each qualifying plant and pays up to $ 1.00 per gallon of ethanol produced. Actual ethanol production will be less but, projected ethanol production is calculated by plant capacity, using a ratio of 360 galMtTn CO2. Ethanol plant capacity is 14.256 billion gallons = dollarsyear at $ 1.00 per gallon with Summit negotiators reportedly claiming 60% of the 45Z credit. The projected annual outlay from the federal government just to the two moguls is $ 8.127 billion with Wolf picking up the remaining $ 3.793 billion. The total share for all the ethanol plants, contracting with the three CO2 pipeline companies, is projected to be $ 5.702 billion. The total annual projected reckoning for the American Taxpayer for these three projects is $17.622 billion per year.
The above paragraph contains the data and calculations the public has been asking for from the CO2 pipeline companies. The numbers are stunning. Worse yet is the calculated and relentless trampling of the Constitutional property rights of the owners of the best farmland in the world. Rastetter and Fink are using complicit state governments and the courts to help facilitate eminent domain. The 5th Amendment to our U.S. Constitution reads “…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” It was inconceivable for the Framers of our Constitution that private property would be taken for private use and private profit by the consent of complicit state governments.
There were Iowa legislators who kept their oath to the Constitution and we are grateful for them. It was clear by March of 2022 the fix was in. It wasn’t hard to predict. For two back-to-back sessions, the Iowa Legislature willfully and intentionally slow-walked every piece of legislation that might have protected the property rights of those in the path of Rastetter and Fink. Two legislative sessions ended with the adjournment, “sine die”, without a single piece of property rights protection legislation receiving serious consideration in the Iowa Senate.
The Senate did find the time and interest to confirm two of Governor Reynold’s hand-picked appointments to the Utilities Board. These two, unvetted fast tracked appointments, are now vested with the power under Iowa law to confer eminent domain authority. They would insist they will get up to speed, read and listen to both sides, and make an unbiased objective decision. We already know their decision. The rest is a charade orchestrated by the “Puppeteer of the Prairie” and the “Wizard of Davos” who plan to bulldoze their way through farms and property rights in five states.
Congressman Steve King (ret)
Iowa District #4
2003-2021
Chairman; Operations and Oversight SubCommittee of House Agriculture Committee
Chairman; Constitution SubCommittee of House Judiciary
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