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Sec. Mayorkas Demonstrates His Absolute Cowardice in Front of Congress

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Day three of “whip-gate” is upon us despite the fact that we’ve had all the facts concerning the outrage since the moment it started. Border Patrol agents on horseback were doing crowd control and twirling their reins, a taught technique to keep illegal immigrants from getting too close and being harmed by the horses.

Yet, because everything must be turned into a racial issue these days, the media immediately ran with the false narrative that white guys on horses were whipping black guys. “It’s just like slavery,” they screamed from their primetime TV slots.

But while that kind of ridiculous outrage was expected from the low-intellect crowd in the national media, what was far worse was the fact that the White House didn’t come to the defense of the CBP agents involved. Instead, they’ve been playing into the false narrative from the beginning, likely seeing it as a useful distraction from the actual humanitarian disaster at the border they’ve caused.

Today, DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas continued to slander the Border Patrol, this time in front of Congress in what can only be described as a gross spectacle.

This is total cowardice. Those CBP agents report to Mayorkas and were just doing their job. They were following policies overseen by DHS that are in place to actually keep the illegal immigrants safe. For Mayorkas to not forcefully defend his agents by explaining to Congress exactly what happened is just sick stuff. He knows the facts. He knows that crowd control is necessary when you have tens of thousands of people crossing the border illegally at one geographical location.

Further, Mayorkas knows that a rein being twirled is nowhere near the most important issue at the border right now. Yet, this absolute political hack is playing into the media’s narrative precisely because he thinks it will protect him and Joe Biden from their failures. There’s being cynical and then there’s whatever that is.

Those CBP agents aren’t robots. They are people with careers and families. To drag them through the mud while knowing they did nothing wrong is pathological, but nothing about this administration surprises me anymore.

Later, Mayorkas also mentioned “domestic terrorism” because citing non-existent threats to distract from real ones is what the federal government does at this point.

It’s so prominent that most people probably can’t even name the last “domestic terrorist” attack that took a life. And good luck even defining domestic terrorism in this case. It seems to be a label the government applies when convenient, not when factually necessary.

While I don’t doubt there are some crazy people out there, it’s clear that the “threat” posed by them is incredibly overstated to the point of absurdity. Thousands of people a year die in gang-related killings. How about doubling the number of investigations on that front instead of continuing to obsess over so-called “violent extremism” that hardly ever seems to materialize.

But I digress, Mayorkas is unfit. He has no business holding the role he holds, and his betrayal of the law enforcement officials who serve him proves that.

The Buzzsaw Awaits Joe Biden and His Cohorts

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Much of the analysis surrounding Joe Biden’s downfall has centered on national approval ratings. RedState has covered that issue extensively, noting that the president appears to have no support floor. That makes him much more like George W. Bush and less like Donald Trump.

But underneath the national discussion lies the environment that truly matters as we head into 2022, and it’s not looking good for Biden and his cohorts.

Biden faces dismal job approval ratings in several battleground states, including Michigan, Virginia, and Iowa, where the president garnered the lowest score since George W. Bush in 2008 in a survey this week.

Fewer than one-third of Iowans approve of Biden’s job as president at 31%, compared to 62% who disapprove, according to a Sept. 12-15 poll for the Des Moines Register/Mediacom by Selzer & Co. Seven percent said they were unsure.

The Des Moines Register poll is a “gold standard” poll. It’s the one everyone watches during the presidential primaries because it’s always so accurate, and they have Biden down at 31%. Things aren’t any better in Michigan, a state that has a Democrat governor and two Democrat senators. A recent poll has the president at 39% approval there, with those who “feel strongly” about their disapproval doubling those who strongly approve.

Then there’s Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin is making an unexpected comeback in the upcoming race for the governorship against Terry McAullife. As the Examiner points out, Biden won that state by 19 points in 2020. Now, Youngkin, who was left for dead a month ago, has closed to within six points and leads with independents.

That race will be a major barometer for 2022. If Youngkin loses by less than 10 points, that’s a major shift away from Democrats compared to just a year ago. And if the Republican somehow pulls off the upset, it’ll be a ground-shaking victory that sets the stage for an absolute Democrat wipeout next year.

Regardless, all of these state-level data points show an upcoming buzzsaw for leftist dreams. While Biden isn’t personally up for re-election in 2022, if the GOP retakes just the House, it effectively ends his presidency. Further, if they retake the Senate, it ends his ability to add radicals to the judiciary. That would complete the collapse of power.

If I’m making predictions, I think Democrats have passed the point of no return. I can not fathom what event could happen that would turn around the current trajectory. Republicans just have to shut up and let the left continue to implode and they will win the House by default next year. If they show some spine in opposing the Biden agenda, including during this upcoming shutdown and reconciliation fight, I think the Senate will be in play as well. GOP voters are out there. They are just looking for some motivation to really blow things out of the water.

The Biden presidency is in a total freefall, and all of it is completely self-inflicted. History says the first mid-term is almost always a political graveyard for the party in power. Couple that with redistricting and these terrible state-level numbers and things are looking bleak for the Democrats. But I believe the final nail in the coffin is what’s happening at the border. Normal Americans are seeing scenes they’ve never seen before while the White House spends its time lying about CBP agents and whips. The disconnect is too stark, and it will matter.

Why Can't Dr. Anthony Fauci Stop Lying?

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No one has lost more credibility over the last year or so than Dr. Anthony Fauci. Once lauded by the left and right alike (though, some of us saw through him as far back as April 2020), the good doctor is now widely derided as a political hack, and for good reason.

He lied about masks early on, claiming that he did so in order to protect supplies, but it’s his more recent lies that have really exposed his brazen nature. Recently, he told another whopper involving kids and COVID, asserting that we’ve never lost as many kids to the flu as we have the coronavirus. That, as Guy Benson points out with CDC data, is just completely false.

We’ve known since the beginning of the pandemic that children are largely invulnerable to COVID-19. Sure, there are exceptions, but there are exceptions to everything. As Benson points out, we don’t mask kids and keep them out of school for the flu despite the fact that the flu is factually more deadly. That’s because in both cases, serious outcomes for children are incredibly rare. Yet, Fauci can’t just be honest, perhaps because he feels it would undermine his fear-mongering narrative.

The NIAID head did the same thing a few weeks ago in regards to natural immunity. Despite the fact that we have numerous, extensive studies showing natural immunity is stronger than simply being vaccinated, Fauci lied by omission, claiming he wasn’t sure if natural immunity protected against COVID. Of course, he knew. There’s no way he didn’t know unless he’s just an absolute moron who shouldn’t be in his position in the first place. On second thought, perhaps the latter is applicable either way.

So why can’t Fauci stop lying? Some people on the right still seem to want to give him the benefit of the doubt as just misspeaking or being misinformed. Count me out of that number. I believe he’s a partisan hack who can’t help himself. He’s been working overtime to shill for Joe Biden since he was unleashed back in January. And while that was when Fauci dropped the pretext, he’s been a Democrat his entire life and actively worked to undermine the Trump administration. That’s why he can’t stop lying. It’s not any more complicated than that.

Heads Explode Over Florida's New Surgeon General

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Florida has a new surgeon general, and minds are being lost in response. Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Dr. Jospeh Ladapo, a UCLA professor and Harvard Medical graduate to serve in the role. But what has the media and the left at large absolutely freaking out is how Ladapo wants to handle things like mask and vaccine mandates.

Ladapo also had the temerity to suggest that people should try to be…healthy. Yes, I know, it’s truly scandalous stuff.

One of the most ridiculous aspects of the federal government’s response to COVID-19 is the obfuscation of what causes the most people to get sick and die when they contract the virus. Namely, being obese or having other comorbidities that result from an unhealthy lifestyle. Yet, if someone dares to say that one way to fight COVID is for people to take care of themselves, that’s seen as an assault on the sacred vaccine, and we can’t have that.

Further, Ladapo’s view on not forcing masks follows the science. Unfortunately for him, that view runs up against orthodoxy that has made masking a religious rite. It doesn’t matter how many data points show mask mandates don’t work. If you don’t support masking up everyone, including little kids, you must want people to die even though masks almost certainly don’t prevent people from dying. Common sense and facts need not apply to any of these discussions.

Meanwhile, the media have decided that a bunch of know-nothing journalism majors have more knowledge of COVID than a tenured professor who got his medical degree from Harvard.

Notice the continued obsession with going after anyone who dares to push anything but the vaccines. Treatments, healthy living, and strategies to avoid contraction? You can’t even mention those things without drawing the ire of lefty journalists everywhere.

In the end, that kind of short-sightedness is dangerous. The surgeon general of a state exists to promote health across the spectrum, not just baseless COVID hysteria and dogma. Lockdowns have helped cause a spike in childhood obesity that is going to cause far more damage to children than COVID will. Adults have also seen obesity rates rise along with other diseases because of a lack of preventative and elective treatment. A strategy that pushes vaccines but also healthy living and effective treatments is far preferable to the ineffective “vaccine-only” messaging from the federal government and the media.

In short, it is not bad to tell people to get healthy. The top way we could reduce COVID deaths aside from vaccines is to reduce obesity. That’s just a fact, and any government official not willing to say that is not qualified to hold the position they hold.

Border Patrol Union Head Rips Jen Psaki and Busts Another False Narrative About CBP Agents Using 'Whips'

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Because everything must be absurd, we are now on day two of the mainstream media and mainline Democrats, including from the White House, accusing Border Patrol agents of whipping Haitian immigrants from horseback. It doesn’t matter that within five minutes of the picture going viral, it was apparent that there were no whips involved. The racial narrative must go on, no matter how false.

That continued this morning when Jen Psaki doubled down on the lie, again calling the pictures “horrific” and generally throwing the CBP agents involved under the bus. The original accusation also began to morph. Once it became impossible to deny that the “whips” were actually reins, the attacks from the left then focused on the fact that a video showed the reins being twirled toward illegal immigrants, with the insinuation being that the agents were going to use them as weapons.

Now, the head of the Border Patrol union, Brandon Judd, is now speaking out, and not only did he slam Psaki, but he explained exactly what the CBP agents are trained to do and why. This per Just the News.

“There are very few things that will boil my blood as bad as the White House directly coming out and condemning an action before they know what happened,” Judd told Just the News during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “Jen Psaki came out yesterday, and she condemned these actions, when in reality, it is a legitimate law enforcement action. This was meant to protect the illegal aliens.”

Judd explained agents are trained for crowd control by the Homeland Security Department to “twirl the reins” if humans start approaching their horses to keep them away from getting injured, and the reins are never used to strike or harm people.

So there you have it. Even the latest freak-out involving the twirling of reins toward illegal immigrants has a perfectly logical, perfectly justifiable explanation. Horses are dangerous. Anybody that gets too close risks getting kicked or trampled. That’s why CBP agents use long reins as a crowd control device, not to hit people, but to warn them to stay back so they don’t get hurt. In other words, these CBP agents are being viciously attacked for literally trying to make sure these illegal immigrants remain unharmed. It’s insane — but so is everything about our current political moment.

Further, as Judd notes, Psaki and others are simply ignorant and have no business commenting on things they don’t understand. Worse, these political hacks aren’t even attempting to understand. It’d be one thing if Psaki made a mistake, got educated, and corrected it. Instead, she’s pretending to be fully aware of what those agents were doing and what’s happening at the border. Never mind that it’s her boss that caused the humanitarian crisis we are seeing in Del Rio and elsewhere.

What the Biden administration is doing is incredibly destructive. They’re actively undermining the Border Patrol and preventing them from doing even basic enforcement. Crowd control is not a human rights violation, especially when we are talking about people rushing the border.

Yet, the White House is too cowardly to stand for the rule of law and take necessary action to stop the current crisis. Instead, they’d rather go on “news” programs and lie about CBP agents. It’s a total betrayal of trust, and it’s only going to further sink Biden’s standing with the American people.