Newsom Will Oppose Giving Home Down Payments To Illegals Only As Long As Kamala Needs Votes
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s true strategy is not to become moderate but to appear moderate — at least until the election.Kibbe: Tim Walz's COVID authoritarianism killed George Floyd
Matt Kibbe and his wife had lived safely and peacefully on Capitol Hill for over 20 years when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Then everything changed.
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Upon the numerous declarations of mayors and governors ordering civilians to quarantine themselves at home, Kibbe “headed straight out to buy thick plywood to board [his] windows and new security bars to reinforce [his] doors.”
Obviously such “draconian precautions” would do nothing to keep the virus out, so what was he so afraid of?
“Riots, looting, and violence,” he says, which indeed ravaged the country during the early stages of the pandemic.
“George Floyd lost his job at Conga Latin Bistro when Governor Tim Walz locked down the Minnesota economy, prohibiting bars and restaurants from serving customers.”
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Just a few weeks later, Floyd was killed, and the chaos that would torch cities across the nation began.
“Unchecked power can take away your livelihood. Unchecked power can kill,” Kibbe says, making the point that George Floyd’s blood isn’t just on the hands of a cop but also on those of Tim Walz whose shutting down of the economy laid the groundwork for Floyd’s death.
It’s been four years, and the government has yet to answer for the egregious crimes it committed in the name of COVID-19. But stagnating the economy is just one of the atrocities it must answer for. There are also the matters of unconstitutional censorship, vaccine coercion, mask mandates, and gain-of-function research that demand answers.
Kibbe has been on a mission since the outbreak to expose COVID lies and solve its long list of mysteries. In his docuseries “The Coverup,” he takes you along with him as he meets with some of the true experts who were silenced during the pandemic for their refusal to comply with the approved narrative — people like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and an author of the Great Barrington Declaration. He also meets with Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the only senator who’s remained relentless in his pursuit of answers — especially when it comes to COVID’s number-one wolf in sheep’s clothing: Anthony Fauci.
If you haven’t already, check out episode 1 (available for free on YouTube) before watching episode 2 on BlazeTV. If you aren’t already a subscriber to BlazeTV+ join today and get $30 off your first year of BlazeTV+ with code FAUCILIED.
NJ gym owner who defied COVID lockdowns WINS legal battle; ALL CHARGES DROPPED
When New Jersey gym owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti defied the Garden State’s COVID-19 regulations by keeping their gym open, the pair were ordered to pay around $165,000 in fines for violating public health emergency rules.
After an almost four-year legal battle, Smith has been cleared of more than 80 charges.
These charges were “thrown at us really to scare us into shutting down,” Smith tells Sara Gonzales. “When that didn’t work, Governor Murphy took those municipal charges as well as a health department shutdown order and went before a judge in New Jersey.”
Murphy asked for a court order to close Smith’s business, which Smith explains is “where a lot of the really tangible, very scary punishments came in.”
“We were being fined $15,497.76 per day for every day that we were in operation. The state took upwards of $200,000 from our bank account,” he explains.
“We had one member arrested, my former co-partner and I were arrested, we had our doors forcibly locked by the sheriff’s department.”
When Smith refused to comply and opened the doors, the sheriff’s department came to lock them again. So they took the doors off the hinges and stayed inside to protest for over a month.
“They arrested us, they held us in criminal and civil contempt at court, so there was a five-year prison sentence hanging over our head at one point from this court order,” he tells Gonzales, who says “it’s making my blood boil all over again just listening to you.”
While it’s been a rough journey for Smith, he’s finally free of those looming charges.
“They were just writing these, they were firing off the hip. They didn’t expect people to push back, and they just panicked. And you know, these people are not used to people wagging a finger in their face and saying no, so they never wanted to touch these cases because nobody wants to put their name on it, because they know it’s unconstitutional,” Smith explains.
“The judge finally had enough, she said, ‘I can’t put these gentlemen through this any longer,’ and you know, she was very clear that this was going to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the state can’t revisit these charges.”
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Since Biden Inherited The Trump Boom, The Whole Economy’s Gone Bust
Now that the easy-growth environment of the post-Covid era is well behind us, Biden — and the country — face a terrible economic reckoning.Dr. Phil shares a warning about the 'next pandemic' — and he wants you to be prepared: 'Who's got the plan?'
Dr. Phil McGraw is warning Americans to begin thinking about the "next pandemic."
On his show this week, Dr. Phil hosted guests who explained the problems associated with pandemic lockdowns. One guest, a teacher, detailed the extensive learning loss and behavioral challenges in schools today. Another guest told the story of her business being classified "non-essential" during the pandemic, leading to her arrest after she defied authorities.
The lessons that Americans should learn from the COVID pandemic are clear, according to Dr. Phil: We need a better plan for next time.
"My concern is when the next pandemic turns the corner, who's got the plan then? What was learned from this? Because you don't hear anybody talking about it, do you?" Dr. Phil said. "I want to force people to say, 'we need to get ready for when this happens again.' And I'm not some conspiracy theorist saying they're coming to get us and lock us up.
"But I'm saying we need to think about whether we're going to rely on science, and how we're going to react when the government comes in and starts telling us what we can and can't do," he continued.
"I think we need less government," Dr. Phil declared. "I think if they would step back, we tend to have a way to work these things out."
Dr. Phil Delivers Stunning Message to the COVID “Experts” Who Got it Wrong
The floodgates are opening.
“You hear people say, ‘Well, we did the best we could with what we knew.’ No, they did not. They knew better. And if they didn’t know better, they damn well should have… pic.twitter.com/PC3guMmiRD
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A common argument that lockdown apologists deploy today is to claim the so-called experts made the best possible decisions at the time with the information they had in the midst of the pandemic.
But Dr. Phil thinks that's hogwash.
"No, they did not. They knew better, and if they didn’t know better, they damn well should have known better. That's what they're paid to do," he exclaimed.
Dr. Phil has been speaking about the collateral damage from pandemic lockdowns for months. In February, he went viral after battling the liberal hosts on "The View" about the irreversible damage the lockdowns imposed on children.
"[Schoolchildren] suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID. And that's not an opinion — that's a fact," Dr. Phil told them, triggering a loud applause from the crowd.
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New York Times admits the truth about COVID school closures and the long-term harms of fear-based decision-making
The New York Times is admitting to the extensive, long-term damage of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on schoolchildren and their learning.
Four years after politicians shut down schools, the New York Times published a new analysis on Monday admitting there is "broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts" that school closures significantly harmed children despite not stopping the spread of COVID-19.
Relying on the most recent data about pandemic learning loss, the Times drew several conclusions about why school closures were bad policy.
First, the Times found that students who were kept out of school longer — relegated to remote or hybrid "learning" — fell behind further academically than students who returned to the classroom earlier. Those academic losses have been near-impossible to overcome.
From the Times:
The most recent test scores, from spring 2023, show that students, overall, are not caught up from their pandemic losses, with larger gaps remaining among students that lost the most ground to begin with. Students in districts that were remote or hybrid the longest — at least 90 percent of the 2020-21 school year — still had almost double the ground to make up compared with students in districts that allowed students back for most of the year.
Second, the so-called "newspaper of record" found that students in lower socio-economic situations experienced steeper learning losses than students from more affluent backgrounds.
"That is notable because poor districts were also more likely to stay remote for longer," the Times reported, explaining that the country's largest poor school districts are located in Democrat-controlled cities that used heavy-handed approaches to the pandemic.
Third, the Times found that short-term school closures did not exempt students from learning loss — and other significant problems.
"Many schools are seeing more anxiety and behavioral outbursts among students. And chronic absenteeism from school has surged across demographic groups," the Times reported. "These are signs, experts say, that even short-term closures, and the pandemic more broadly, had lasting effects on the culture of education."
The kicker is that politicians subjected students to these harms despite a clear lack of evidence proving that school closures slowed the spread of COVID-19.
Unfortunately, the Times only danced around the correct retrospective conclusion about school lockdowns.
"Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year," the newspaper stated.
Given the data presented in the article, what that really means is: Republican-controlled states generally handled the pandemic correctly by limiting closures, while Democrat-controlled states — influenced by the "experts," teachers unions, and corporate media — dropped the ball.
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WATCH: Dr. Phil SILENCES Whoopi Goldberg over COVID protocols
Whoopi Goldberg and the other lefties on “The View” are quick to talk over and belittle anyone who disagrees with their shared liberal ideology.
However, when Dr. Phil was invited on the show, he was not about to be silenced. In fact, he was the one who did the silencing.
Rick Burgess and Bill "Bubba" Bussey play a clip of Dr. Phil stating straight facts about how COVID protocols were damaging to schoolchildren.
“The agencies that shut down the schools for two years … [took] away the support system for these children,” he boldly stated, adding that “when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers.”
Well, Whoopi didn’t like that.
“They were trying to save kids’ lives. Remember we know a lot of folks who died during this,” she fired back.
“Not schoolchildren,” he retorted.
“Maybe we're lucky they didn't because we kept them out of the places that they could be sick.”
“Are you saying no schoolchildren died of COVID?” asked Ana Navarro, who looked deeply offended.
“I’m saying it was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID, and that's not an opinion. That's a fact,” Dr. Phil concluded, but before Whoopi or Ana could respond, the audience erupted into applause.
“You’ve got to love his bravery,” says Rick, acknowledging that it’s unlikely Dr. Phil will be invited back on “The View” any time soon.
To see the footage of Dr. Phil shutting down “The View’s” panel of lefties, watch the clip below.
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Audience erupts in applause when Dr. Phil schools 'The View' hosts about COVID lockdowns and schoolchildren: 'That's a fact'
Dr. Phil McGraw educated the hosts of "The View" on Monday about the harm COVID lockdowns brought on school children and teenagers.
While discussing his forthcoming book, Dr. Phil connected the advent of the smartphone to high levels of "depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality" among children and teenagers because users "stopped living their lives and starting watching people live their lives."
Those problems were exacerbated by COVID lockdowns, Dr. Phil explained, pointing out that the same government agencies that track these problems among American youth were the "same agencies" that "shut down the schools for two years."
"Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down?" he asked. "And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch, and referrals dropped 50 to 60%."
Sunny Hostin was the first co-host to interject and defend the lockdowns. She was quickly followed by Whoopi Goldberg.
"There was also a pandemic going on, and they were trying to save their lives," Hostin told Dr. Phil.
"They were trying to save kids' lives," Goldberg defended.
"Not school children," Dr. Phil shot back.
Ana Navarro then took her chance at Dr. Phil, asking a question that prompted a reality check from Dr. Phil.
"Are you saying no school children died of COVID?" Navarro asked.
"I'm saying it was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group," Dr. Phil responded. "And they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID. And that's not an opinion — that's a fact."
The audience loudly applauded Dr. Phil's answer.
Dr. Phil is right.
Young people, especially teenagers and children, were the least likely to die from COVID-19.
But that didn't stop politicians and bureaucrats from shutting down schools. Now, nearly everyone agrees the lockdown policies are responsible for widespread learning loss, a deficit for which the "experts" have yet to find a solution.
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