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Is Joe Biden's admin destroying America? The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 4/18/22 by WALTER784; 257697 views.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-31
For Easter: “The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
White House Prohibits Children from Submitting ‘Overtly Religious’ Art for Easter Egg Roll
AMY FURR
30 Mar 2024
President Joe Biden’s Democrat administration is taking flak for prohibiting children from submitting Easter eggs featuring religious artwork for a contest.
The event, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, is called “Celebrating National Guard Families” but will not allow submissions to feature symbols related to the holiday that Christians celebrate all over the world, the Daily Caller reported Friday.
The 2024 “Call for Youth Art” flyer said:
On behalf of First Lady Jill Biden, The Adjutants General of the National Guard are asking youth from National Guard families across the United States and all U.S. territories to submit artwork inspired by the theme “Celebrating our Military Families”. Children should depict on an egg template (see Art Submission form) a snapshot of their life – a favorite activity, scenery in your state, your military family, a day-in-your life, etc.
Under its restrictions list, the flyer noted, “The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
Social media users shared their thoughts on the Daily Caller’s story regarding the ban, one person writing, “A snapshot of your life excluding part of your life.”
“They’ll ban religion all together as soon as they think they can get away with it,” someone else said, while another person commented, “What does the Biden White House think Easter is all about? The Easter Bunny?”
UPI reported Thursday that the White House is bringing back its “EGGucation” theme for the Easter Egg Roll.
“First lady Jill Biden, a longtime educator, will lead the festivities, which will include a reading nook, picture area, farm field trip, STEAM school and snack area. The Easter Egg Roll is a White House event that dates back to 1878,” the outlet said.
Meanwhile, inflation and supply chain issues in Biden’s America are making the price of the eggs themselves (along with chocolate) rise, Breitbart News noted Friday.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-31
To piss the parents and kids off!!!
Is there any other reason?
Oh yeah... to rename Easter to Trans Day!!!
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From: Showtalk
Apr-1
Is Easter Trans Day or will it fall on the same date every year? So I checked and Trans Day has been 3/31 since 2010. If that is the case why did Biden wait until it landed on Easter for a official declaration?
- Edited April 1, 2024 6:12 pm by Showtalk
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From: WALTER784
Apr-1
Showtalk said...
If that is the case why did Biden wait until it landed on Easter for a official declaration?
To piss the parents and kids off as well as garner support of the LGBTQ community during an election year!
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From: WALTER784
Apr-6
The Great Divorce: 3.7 Million Have Fled Counties That Voted For Biden
I & I Editorial Board
March 25, 2024
If you want to know what the country thinks about President Joe Biden’s agenda, look at how they vote. Not at the ballot box. But with their feet.
Earlier this month, the Census Bureau released data on “net domestic migration.” This tracks where people are moving between counties in the country. Last year, the 10 counties that gained the most through net migration had one thing in common – they were conservative counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.
At the other end of the spectrum, all 10 counties that saw the biggest negative net migration also have one thing in common – they all voted for Biden in 2020. That includes two blue counties located in red states – Miami-Dade County, Florida, (where Biden beat Trump 53%-46%), and Dallas County, Texas, (where Biden got 65% of the vote).
But this is just part of the story. People have been fleeing liberal counties in droves for each of the past three years.
I&I conducted a detailed analysis of the latest Census data, comparing migration trends and the 2020 election outcomes for all 3,144 counties. What we found is that Biden-voting counties lost a net of 3.7 million people (3,670,516 to be exact) to Trump-voting counties from 2020 through 2023. (That’s up by more than a million since we did this same analysis last year.)
In other words, in just the three years after Biden won his election, more than 1% of the population had packed up and moved out of counties that voted for him.
Here are some more details from our research:
Of the 555 counties that voted for Biden, 343 (or 62%) lost population since 2020. Of the 2,589 counties that voted for Trump, 1,726 (or 67%) gained population.
The 11 counties that had the biggest population declines over the past three years all voted for Biden. They lost a net total of 2 million people.
Of the 11 counties with the biggest gains in population, eight voted for Trump in 2020. And the other three (Maricopa County in Arizona, and Williamson and Fort Bend counties in Texas) come with big asterisks.
Maricopa’s population boom is driven by people quitting far-left California counties. (And Biden barely “won” Maricopa, 50%-48%). Biden won Williamson County (which is just north of liberal Austin) by a mere 4,000 votes. And Fort Bend, Texas, is just outside the more liberal Harris County, home to Houston, which Biden took 56%-43% and which has lost more than 88,000 people since 2020.
What’s more, Trump counties saw gains in several states that lost population overall, and Biden counties saw declines in population-gaining states such as Texas and Florida.
In Texas, for example, 15 of the 22 counties that voted for Biden lost population from 2020 to 2023.
In Tennessee, only three counties suffered a negative net migration since Biden took office. All three of those counties voted for Biden (Davidson, Haywood, and Shelby).
In Utah, of the four counties that lost population to migration, three voted for Biden, including Salt Lake County, which had a net loss of 33,299.
In Ohio, the six counties with the biggest losses of population all voted for Biden.
In solidly blue New Jersey, only nine of the state’s 21 counties saw a net gain in population. And six of those nine voted for Trump.
(The complete data set is available here.)
For more on this topic, see:
As Millions Flee Blue States, Red States Need To Remind Them Why
The Results Are In: Red States Won The COVID Fight, Hands Down
The Dis-Unification Of America Continues: I&I/TIPP Poll
America’s U-Haul Revolution
While it should be abundantly clear that millions are abandoning liberal strongholds for more conservative ones, the implications of this mass migration are far from clear.
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From: WALTER784
Apr-6
Over 200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed After Biden Regime Failed to File Required Paperwork
By Jim H?ft
Mar. 25, 2024 8:45 am
A staggering number of over 200,000 illegal immigrants have had their deportation cases dismissed as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly failed to file necessary legal documents in a timely manner.
This information comes from a recent report published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, according to New York Post.
The TRAC report, released on Wednesday and including data through February 2024, highlights a systemic issue where thousands of notices to appear (NTAs) have not been filed with immigration courts ahead of the migrants’ scheduled hearings, rendering the courts unable to proceed with deportation cases and rule on asylum claims.
“These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the report emphasizes, calling out the “almost total lack of transparency” on the part of DHS regarding the reason behind these failures.
NTAs are critical documents in the immigration process, marking the start of formal proceedings after migrants are apprehended for illegally entering the United States.
Illegal immigrants are given a hearing date, which can be years in the future, to make their case for asylum before an immigration judge. However, for these hearings to take place, the NTA must be officially filed with the court—a step that has been notably missed in a large number of cases.
The report sheds light on the significant increase in NTA filing omissions after Joe Biden took office.
In 2020, 6,482 cases were dismissed due to missing NTAs, a figure that rose to 33,802 in 2021 and further surged to 79,592 in 2022. The TRAC report notes a slight decrease to 68,869 dismissals in 2023 and 10,598 so far in 2024.
Compared to the period between 2014 and 2020, when less than 1% of deportation cases were dismissed for lack of NTAs, the first three years of the Biden regime saw an alarming 8.4% dismissal rate for the same reason, according to The Post.
According to TRAC’s findings, DHS only manages to correct the issue for one in four migrants affected by the problem, with nearly 2,000 cases experiencing a second late filing of NTAs.
The report identifies immigration courts in Houston and Miami as having particularly high rates of dismissals due to this issue, exceeding 50% of cases since 2021.
More from the New York Post:
TRAC suggests that the problem may lie in Border Patrol agents and other DHS personnel being given authority to schedule immigration hearings on their own.
“Ten years ago, DHS’s failure to file an NTA before the scheduled first hearing was rare,” the report said. “However, the frequency increased once Border Patrol and other DHS personnel were given access to the Immigration Court’s Interactive Scheduling System (ISS).”
“DHS’s relatively recent access to the Court’s scheduling system created a new administrative problem: DHS employees could schedule Immigration Court hearings sooner than the agency could file the NTA, and this could have negative consequences for both the Immigration Court and the immigrant respondents themselves,” TRAC found. “Indeed, this is what happened.”
“With Immigration Judges staring down 3.5 million pending immigration cases, every wasted hearing is a hearing that could have moved another case forward or resolved it.”
The Syracuse University-based group notes that the DHS mishaps cause headaches for migrants with legitimate asylum claims as well.
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From: WALTER784
Apr-6
Institution vs. Constitution: Examining the disastrous impact COVID mandates had on the US military
Officers and enlisted members of the U.S. military take an oath, not to an institution, but to the Constitution. When the institution errs on the side of power, control, and infringement, American service members must be willing to step up.
Robert A. Green Jr. and W. Dean Lee
Tue Mar 26, 2024 - 9:36 pm EDT
U.S. citizens: Demand Congress investigate soaring excess death rates
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety – Benjamin Franklin
(RealClearDefense) — In early 2020, life around the globe changed when a pandemic erupted out of Wuhan, China. The impacts were significant, with governments electing to shutter economies and restrict freedom of movement in an attempt to keep their populations safe. At the time, little was known about the virus or how to mitigate its health risks. Many individuals were willing to accept these restrictions as temporary measures to help “stop the spread.” As “two weeks” became two years, most of the mitigation measures were ultimately mandated to military personnel, introducing a constitutional crisis between safety and personal liberty. After three years, the time has come for us to take an honest, retrospective assessment of this “black swan” event and the impact, if any, on the constitutional rights of service members.
Within the Department of Defense (DoD), COVID-19 is attributed with causing the deaths of 96 service members.[1] The loss of these service members is unquestionably tragic. Yet, in many ways the American people could look at this relatively low number as a triumph due, in part, to the mandated mitigation measures. After all, with a total of 453,456 documented COVID-19 infections, a survivability rate of 99.9997% should seem like a huge win for DoD leaders who prioritized the health of the Joint Force.[2] However, this survivability rate does not appear to differ significantly from the pre-vaccine survivability rate of the rest of the U.S. military-aged population, with all 25-34 year-olds at 99.9943% and all 35-44 year-olds at 99.984% survivability respectively.[3] With such a minimal return, particularly for military-age persons, the decision to mandate nearly every possible health mitigation was not without risks. Along with the mandated mitigation measures came a legal and constitutional crisis, unprecedented in scope in U.S. military history. If ignored and left unresolved, this constitutional crisis will continue to negatively impact the Joint Force and the future of the nation—long after the COVID-19 pandemic has become a distant memory.
What this article will and will not do
This article will not analyze the COVID-19 health risks, the science behind the various mitigation measures, nor the emerging evidence of post-vaccine injuries.[4] Rather, this article will focus exclusively on the law, the Constitution, and the obligation service members have to the Constitution. It is the concerted opinion of the authors that the United States military – until recently America’s most trusted institution[5] – failed a fundamental ethics test. Yet, this article will not impugn the honor nor question the good-faith efforts of decision makers who fought valiantly to keep subordinates healthy. Regardless of any good intentions, however, this article will demonstrate that institutions within the DoD violated the law in two primary ways in the course of implementing the COVID-19 mandates.
The first of these violations was the denial of informed consent. The DoD explicitly violated specific laws under Title 21, which were designed to protect informed consent rights, as well as the inherent rights to due process under the Fifth Amendment and bodily integrity rights under the Tenth Amendment. Secondly, the DoD violated the free exercise of religion. This was done by unequivocally violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act under Title 42, along with inherent religious freedom rights protected by the First Amendment. After conducting the required legal crosswalk and analyzing these violations, this article will discuss what the implications of these violations are to the Joint Force. Finally, recommendations will be presented for how decision makers can begin the restoration process that will help rebuild trust with service members and the American people.
Informed consent & public health emergencies
Under natural law, the Constitution, Title 21, and the principles established in the Nuremberg Code, human persons may not be forcibly medicated or medically experimented on without consent. This principle, referred to as “informed consent,” applies to all Americans, including service members. This principle, and the rights it protects, cannot be stripped in peacetime or in war. Even during a public health emergency, informed consent is still required, regardless of the severity of that emergency.
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