We have seen several examples over the last year of politicians who have implemented strict COVID-19 protocols violating these protocols, evidently membership has its privileges…
There have been others, but the two most prominent members of the aristocracy to lecture the plebeians on wearing a mask only to violate the protocols themselves are Nancy Pelosi and none other than Joe Biden himself. Last year Michigan Governor Whitmer’s husband felt a little heat after trying to use his position to avoid COVID-19 protocols so he could get his boat in the water without waiting in line like everybody else.
This year Governor Whitmer herself decided to get into the act. According to this story she was seen at a restaurant with more than 6 people at her table and without wearing masks and this is a violation of her COVID-19 mandates. Here is more:
Whitmer and a large group of friends, including her appointed chief operations officer, Tricia Foster, visited the Landshark in East Lansing, violating her restaurant orders in the process, according to a photo one of the attendees posted on Facebook.
The group shot of 13 individuals appeared to violate the governor’s restaurant capacity order issued May 15 on “gathering limitations for entertainment establishments, recreational establishments, and food service establishments”:
Consumption of food or beverages is permitted only in a designated dining area where patrons are seated, groups of patrons are separated by at least 6 feet, no more than 6 patrons are seated together (at a table, booth, or group of fixed seats), and groups of patrons do not intermingle
“Now Whitmer has once again completely disregarded her own rules. Whitmer orders rules she and her staff don’t follow themselves while Michiganders and businesses suffer. Whitmer must end her restrictions immediately.”
The picture was eventually scrubbed from Facebook and reposted without the Governor or her aide but the damage was already done and her hypocrisy exposed. It is time for people in this country who live in States that still have the draconian COVID-19 mandates in place to say enough is enough and to start living again whether or not our exalted rulers want us to or not.
Sunday, May 23rd open thread: ‘This is the Day’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is The The performing “This is the Day” many, many years ago, enjoy:
In a story that sounds eerily similar to the multitude of stories involving pay to play with the Clinton Foundation we are now learning from this story that ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh made a $100,000 donation to the trust fund of Joe Biden’s grandchildren and then sought a little something something in return. Here is more:
Louis Freeh, who directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, made a $100,000 donation to the trust fund of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren in April 2016. In July 2016 and March 2017, Freeh approached Biden’s son Hunter, attempting to do business with Joe Biden, mentioning “some very good and profitable matters” that the former Vice President could “enhance.”
Freeh mentioned his hefty donation to the trust after reaching out to Hunter Biden to arrange business with his father, The New York Post reported. The Post published previously undisclosed emails between Freeh and Hunter Biden that the Post acquired by searching a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“I would be delighted to do future work with you,” Freeh wrote to Hunter Biden in July 2016, three months after he made the donation. “I also spoke to Dad a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options. I believe that working together on these (and other legal) matters would be of value, fun and rewarding.”
The Biden’s obviously paid close attention to the way the Clinton’s operated over the years and have done a fine impression. We are told that one of the biggest reasons people voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump was because they wanted a return to normalcy and from the looks of it that is exactly what we have gotten. I hope everybody is happy…
We knew it was only a matter of time before we reached 1930’s Germany “show me your papers” types of “reform” in the United States in regards to the COVID-19 scare and now it looks like it will be sooner rather than later. Oregon is now going to require “businesses, employers and faith institutions” to set up what amounts to checkpoints at the entrances in order to check papers. Here is more:
“Businesses, employers and faith institutions now have the option to adjust their masking guidance to allow fully vaccinated individuals to no longer wear a mask in their establishments,” OHA’s website said. “Businesses, employers and faith institutions doing so must have a policy in place to check the vaccination status of all individuals before they enter their establishment. Businesses, employers and faith institutions who do not create such policies will maintain the same masking guidance listed below, regardless of an individual’s vaccination status.”
Notice this not only includes walking into a business such as a store, but also to church and to your place of employment.
You know this will not be a temporary measure implemented during this so-called crisis and this is just the beginning, other States will be following suit and this will spread across this once free nation.
Sieg heil!
In an effort to save the world from global warming John Kerry, who has somehow managed to nudge Al Gore away from being the leading political-climatologist, has announced that the Biden administration will be looking at the possibility of charging a fee on imports from counties which are not considered to be climate conscious. Here is more:
U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry says that Washington is looking into the possibility of introducing a fee on imports from countries that don’t tax heavy polluters, but cautioned that such a move could carry risks “downstream.”
Kerry said President Joe Biden had instructed U.S. officials to examine “play it out: what are the consequences, how do you do the pricing, what is the impact.”
“But he wants to make sure we’ve thoroughly vetted it and thought about it as a matter of policy, particularly because our friends are doing so,” Kerry said.
Okay, forgive me if I am wrong but isn’t charging a country a “fee” or perhaps more accurately, a tax, for imports otherwise known as a tariff? And again, forgive me if I am wrong but weren’t the Democrats opposed to Donald Trump when he proposed putting tariffs on China because it would end up hurting the American people? But now they are considering doing the same despite the “downstream” damage (hurting the American people) and you would have to imagine China would have to be considered one of the climate enemies. Frauds and hypocrites…
Joe Biden was giving a commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy today and at one point he stopped for an applause break but unfortunately there was no applause. Joe Biden then called them “dull” and begged them to clap. Here is the video:
Of course you know what the left would be saying about Donald Trump if he was giving a speech to the military and stopped to complain about not getting applause, they would call him a narcissist and a wannabe dictator. Of course this is not the first time Joe Biden has complained about the lack of a reaction in front of the military. Who can forget the time he called them “dumb bastards” for not clapping?
Joe Biden waiving sanctions against Russian pipeline
For four years we heard that Donald Trump was Putin’s puppet. But while Donald Trump actually put tough sanctions on Russia it is none other than Joe Biden who is waiving sanctions so Russia can complete a gas pipeline. Here is more:
The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany, according to two sources briefed on the decision.
The decision indicates the Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline, and it underscores the difficulties President Biden faces in matching actions to rhetoric on a tougher approach to Russia.
The State Department will imminently send its mandatory 90-day report to Congress listing entities involved in Nord Stream 2 that deserve sanctions. Sources familiar with the drafting of the report tell Axios the State Department plans to call for sanctions against a handful of Russian ships.
The State Department will also acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project (Nord Stream 2 AG) and its CEO (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) are engaged in sanctionable activities.
However, the State Department will waive the applications of those sanctions, citing U.S. national interests.
So let me see if I have this straight, Joe Biden is going to waive the sanctions for this pipeline between Russia and Germany because it is in the United State’s national interests and yet he canceled the Keystone Pipeline because it was not.
Sounds to me like somebody is in Putin’s pocket…
Supreme Court rules against warrantless gun seizure
One of the way the Democrats are planning on coming after guns is through mental health so that makes this recent Supreme Court decision very important. The Supreme Court has ruled that warrantless gun seizure is unconstitutional, here is more:
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Monday that Rhode Island police officers acted illegally when they seized a man’s guns without a warrant.
Edward Caniglia sued the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, after police officers located and took his guns while he was in the hospital for a mental health wellness check. He argued that the seizure violated his Fourth Amendment rights, although two federal courts ruled against him.
“The very core of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee is the right of a person to retreat into his or her home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the Court.
The police had argued that they were allowed to seize Caniglia’s guns during the wellness check because of the “community care-taking exception” to the Fourth Amendment. That exception allows police officers to conduct searches for what “may be described as community care-taking functions,” when “there is no claim of criminal liability.”
To me this is a no-brainer and I am very happy to see this was actually a unanimous decision, but it should not have even been an issue in the first place. The police had no business barging into this man’s house and I think the next issue that needs to head to the Supreme Court is the constitutionality of this “community care-taking exception” to the fourth amendment.
CNN contributor: ‘the world today needs a Hitler’
Most of the left has been anti-Semitic for decades but over the last few years they have been much more open and upfront about it, having been emboldened by reasons we can only guess about. So as you can imagine many of them are not all that upset about what is happening in the Middle East over the last week or so. Because of this it should come as no surprise that a CNN contributor used the violence in the Middle East to push his radical political agenda by Tweeting out, in response to the Middle East crisis, that “the world today needs a Hitler.”
Adeel Raja quickly deleted his Tweet but not before a screen shot was captured, which you can see here if you would like to read more about this disgusting Tweet, apparently this is not the first time Adeel Raja has extolled the virtues of Hitler.
On a side note, the irony of the left calling for a Hitler to rise up in the world today after calling Donald Trump Hitler for four years is not lost on me…
After four years of relative calm and peace in the Middle East all hell is breaking loose and I think we all know what the reasons for this are, and I also think the left is not all that upset about it. This might have been a CNN contributor who slipped up but it sounds eerily similar to how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley actually feel as well.
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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