[ZeroHedge] Consider the latest two black deaths at the hands of police that the media are trying to turn into new George Floyds in this election year, Dexter Reed, who was killed after opening fire on police during a traffic stop in Chicago…
And Kenneth Knotts, who died after struggling with hospital police during a mental health evaluation in Dallas two years ago (this story hit the news this week because the video footage of the incident was just released).
"Confirmed Miscer" returns to show that both of these men received PPP cash: Knotts for nanotechnology research...
And Reed for "All other support activities for transportation". Not stealth reparations, just simple Covid PPP fraud — and then they got themselves killed by the police. Tweets showing it all can be seen at the link.
HEARTBREAKING: After nearly five years of silence, an ex-SEAL team member describes their experience with Congressman Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) of Texas. Heartbreaking story. WATCH pic.twitter.com/K0Gy2Mjn2Y
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I liked when he did the Man of the People don't drink Bud Light, opened his fridge, and every other premium gourmet ice cream A/B product was in it.
#5
It should probably be illegal to trade on military service as an elected official.
It would be even better if the electorate discouraged it.
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I think a lot of you fuckers who have been posting on Rantburg throughout the years have lost your way. You are as much of the problem as the left extremists.
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I have no opinion on Dan Crenshaw — I don’t live in his district.
But for what it’s worth here is my take on that video: There are five Navy SEALs in Congress as of the 2022 election — sworn in in January 2023 — out of 80 military veterans altogether (there are 17 more vets in the Senate):
Elijah Crane of Arizona (elected 2022)
Reps. Morgan Luttrell of Texas (elected 2022)
Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin (elected 2022)
Dan Crenshaw of Texas (elected 2018)
Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana (elected 2014).
Why did Chief Petty Officer’s brother target Rep. Crenshaw to demand support from instead of Rep. Zinke, also a retired SEAL, but who had four years of experience in Washington at that point instead of being a newbie? The Gallaghers’ desperation was legitimate — it sounds like the team was fill of personnel problems, and it got ugly and political to the point where President Trump felt it necessary to exercise his command authority — but based on the description in the video, Congressman Crenshaw reacted as badly as most people would to being browbeaten by someone who needed a favour.
[FoxNews] A former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and a National Security Council member pleaded guilty on Friday to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A federal judge sentenced Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, to 15 years in prison for working against the U.S. government for decades for communist Cuba in "clandestine intelligence-gathering missions."
"Today’s plea and sentencing brings to an end more than four decades of betrayal and deceit by the defendant," said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the DOJ's National Security Division. "Rocha admitted to acting as an agent of the Cuban government at the same time he held numerous positions of trust in the U.S. government, a staggering betrayal of the American people and an acknowledgment that every oath he took to the United States was a lie."
Prosecutors agreed to dismiss more than a dozen other charges in exchange for his guilty plea, the Associated Press said.
[Gateway] Joe Biden on Friday unilaterally canceled another $7.4 billion in student loan debt in his latest vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2024 election.
"Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more Americans will get their student debt canceled, bringing the total debt relief approved by the Biden-Harris Administration to $153 billion for 4.3 million Americans through various actions," the White House announced on Friday.
"The 277,000 Americans receiving this latest round of debt relief are borrowers enrolled in the SAVE Plan, other borrowers enrolled in Income-Driven Repayment plans, and borrowers receiving Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The Biden-Harris Administration fixed Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) and launched the SAVE Plan last year — the most affordable repayment plan ever. Already 8 million borrowers are enrolled in SAVE, 4.5 million of those borrowers have a monthly payment of $0, and over 1 million additional borrowers have a monthly payment of less than $100. And if borrowers took out low balances of loans, the SAVE Plan puts them on a faster path to debt relief after at least ten years of payments," the White House said.
Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Joe Biden’s student loan relief program so the Department of Education rolled out a workaround forbearance program to cancel $39 billion in student loans by counting non-payments as payments for a period of time.
Only it isn’t your typical forbearance program. Borrowers won’t have to pay back ’missed’ payments or make up the difference of ’reduced’ payments. No interest will accrue on any of the missed payments.
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You are missing who this also appeals to, academia. They're being told the money will still continue to flow for all their useless paper mills and to keep inflating the price.
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You can forgive their debt, illegally and unconstitutionally, but they'll never recover all the time they wasted getting their useless degrees. So I suppose there is some justice.
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Like many jurisdictions that have outlawed asking job applicants about their criminal records, it will quickly become illegal to deny anyone a job just for being a political debt welsher.
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Joe has a similar plan for our national debt.
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[JustTheNews] “When natural disasters strike, they don’t discriminate based on race and sex. Neither should the Department of Agriculture,” request fr federal injunction says.
A group of white farmers in Texas is asking a federal judge to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using race, gender or other “socially disadvantaged” traits to determine who gets disaster and pandemic farm aid and how much, arguing the agency’s current administration of eight emergency funding programs is unconstitutionally discriminatory.
“When natural disasters strike, they don’t discriminate based on race and sex. Neither should the Department of Agriculture,” the group of farmers wrote in a court filing made public Monday.
The farmers, represented the nonprofit legal firm called the Southeastern Legal Foundation, asked a judge to issue an emergency injunction from the U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, to stop any additional awards from being made on the basis of race and gender or other liberal standards.
“Enjoining USDA from using race, sex, or progressive factoring when administering the programs is warranted because Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that: (1) the programs, as currently administered, are unconstitutional; (2) USDA lacks statutory authority to run the programs in their current form; and (3) USDA failed to adequately explain changes in calculating payments when implementing progressive factoring,” the motion stated.
The farmers said the Biden administration has taken roughly $25 billion in disaster and pandemic aid approved by Congress for farmers in eight programs and devised a system to make awards based on race, gender or other “socially disadvantaged” traits. Such decision-making violates the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act.
“The Constitution promises equal treatment to all Americans regardless of their race or sex," the court filing also reads. "It also promises the separation of powers. USDA broke both promises through the disaster and pandemic relief programs challenged here."
The farmers said they can prove that “USDA gives more money to some farmers based on” race, gender or other factors never approved by Congress.
“USDA does this by first defining farmers who are black/African-American, American Indian, Alaskan native, Hispanic, Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, or a woman as ‘socially disadvantaged,’” the court filing said. “Then, it provides farmers who qualify as socially disadvantaged more money for the same loss than those it deems non-underserved, along with other preferential treatment”
The request for an injunction relies in part of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year banning racial preferences in college admissions. It even quoted from the high court’s declaration that “eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”
USDA's program appears to be rooted in an executive order that President Joe Biden signed.
Lawyers for the plaintiff told Just the News they believe they have a strong case to win the injunction while litigating the larger case.
“Disasters don’t discriminate and neither should USDA. In fact, the Constitution prohibits it,” the lawyers said in a statement. “That is why our brave clients – a group of Texas farmers that includes three white men who received significantly less money in disaster relief funds from USDA than if they had been of a different race or sex – filed this case and are asking the court to stop USDA’s blatant discrimination.”
The lawsuit names the USDA and Biden Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The farmers bringing the action include Rusty Strickland, Alan and Amy West and Bryan Baker, all of Texas.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is redesignating and extending a temporary amnesty program to more than 15,000 Ethiopian nationals living in the United States who would otherwise be eligible for deportation.
On Friday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 15,100 Ethiopians in the United States who can secure work permits, hold American jobs, and be shielded from deportation. Cab Drivers United
“Temporary Protected Status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when conditions in their home country prevent their safe return,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement:
That is the situation facing Ethiopians who arrived here on or before April 11 of this year. We are granting them protection through this temporary form of humanitarian relief that the law provides. [Emphasis added]
About 2,300 Ethiopians in the United States can retain their TPS designation and extend it through December 2025, while an additional 12,800 Ethiopians will become eligible for TPS to stay in the U.S. so long as they tell DHS officials they have been in the country since April 11 or before.
In addition, Mayorkas announced so-called “Special Student Relief” for Ethiopians who are in the United States on F-1 student visas, “so that eligible students may request employment authorization, work an increased number of hours while school is in session, and reduce their course load while continuing to maintain F-1 status through the TPS designation period.”
TPS was first created under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) and prevents federal immigration officials from deporting people from countries that are designated as experiencing famine, war, or natural disasters.
Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed into a de facto amnesty program as the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations have continuously renewed the program for a variety of countries.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden has massively ballooned the number of foreign nationals residing in the United States without any immigration status except having TPS. Today, nearly 1.2 million foreign nationals are in the U.S. on TPS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
