February 12, 2021

Biden considers restricting travel within US for COVID while leaving southern border open

By Andrew Thomas

In an amazing display of cognitive dissonance, the Biden administration proposes imposing limits on the movement of American citizens while encouraging the flood of illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin America.  His actions are allegedly intended to mitigate the spread of the Chinese COVID virus.

Per the Miami Herald:

The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.

Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

https://lockerdome.com/lad/9371484590420070?pubid=ld-8832-1542&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com&rid=&width=610

Early last year, I personally witnessed what happens when every car on I-95 is stopped at the Florida border and non-Florida residents are refused entry.  This was an early panicky reaction to the virus by Florida leaders.  It led to mass disruption, confusion, and a line of cars at least ten miles long stopped dead on the southbound expressway.

The extent of travel restrictions and modes of transportation to potentially be restricted are not defined at this point.  Florida is the primary focus for possible travel lockdowns, as a third of U.S. cases of the U.K. COVID variant have been identified in Florida.

Cases of variants are also surging in California and 34 other states, according to the Herald.

The Democrat logic, at least to me, is indecipherable.  Rather than potentially throw the country into massive chaos, wouldn’t the best course of action to protect America from foreign COVID mutations be to restrict travel from the countries that are importing them?

Apparently, to Biden and the Dems, it is more desirable to limit the freedoms of American citizens.

Andrew Thomas, https://darkangelpolitics.com.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Now, Joe Biden is considering treating Florida like East Berlin and shutting down our border over “coronavirus concerns,” while allowing illegals to pour across the southern border.

Bill Gates is Now America’s Largest Owner of Private Farmland, According to Report

BY BOBBIE JEAN SAWYER

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is now the largest owner of private farmland in the U.S., according to a report by The Land Report. Over the years, Gates, the fourth richest person in the world, has acquired 242,0000 acres of farmland across America.

Biggest Farmland Owner in the U.S.

Gates owns farmland in 18 states. His largest swaths of land are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres). He also has 25,750 acres of transitional land near Phoenix, Arizona, which is being developed as a new suburb.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2322181/trump-impeachment-trial-team-dems-violence-day-four/

‘POLITICAL VENGEANCE’ 

Trump impeachment team plays vids of ‘hypocrite’ Dems ‘urging FIGHT LIKE HELL’ & calling for BLM violence

• Danielle Cinone

• Feb 12 2021, 12:10 ET
• Updated: Feb 12 2021, 19:19 ET

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2322181/trump-impeachment-trial-team-dems-violence-day-four/

day four of Trump’s second impeachment trial:

• Michael Van Der Veen, one of Trump defense lawyers, blamed the Dems for inciting violence, with the help of a “dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric”
• Trump’s defense team played compiled footage of Democrats using the word “fight”
• Defense lawyer David Schoen said his team has “reason to believe the House managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage”
• Impeaching Trump seems unlikely as 67 votes are needed in the Senate, and 17 of those must be from Republicans 
• Bruce Castor urged: “Political hatred has no place in the American justice system and certainly no place in the Congress of the United States”
• Castor insisted “we have a complete lack of evidence for the article presented by the impeachment managers”
• Trump’s defense finished up their case after three hours of presenting

Trump says Murphy ‘threatened’ Ukrainian leader

Washington –  During an often rambling defense Wednesday of his phone call to the president of Ukraine, President Donald Trump accused Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy of threatening the Ukrainian leader.

“Senator Chris Murphy literally threatened the president of Ukraine that if he doesn’t do things right, they won’t have Democrat support in Congress,” Trump said at a press conference in New York.

Trump later said unnamed Democratic senators told President Volodymyr Zelensky “you do this, you do that, or we are not going to give you votes” for U.S. aid.

Murphy denied threatening Zelensky.

“I stand by my belief that the president of the United States should never be allowed to use the Oval Office for personal gain, especially when it includes leveraging away the international credibility of the United States,” Murphy said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.

He also said he was not surprised Trump attacked him on Wednesday since “in a preview” the president’s personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said in a televised interview that Murphy should be impeached.

Murphy and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., traveled to Kiev earlier this month, where they met with Zelensky.

Upon returning to Washington D.C., Murphy and Johnson said the Ukrainian president was concerned about $250 million in stalled U.S. foreign aid.

Sen. Chris Murphy

Murphy, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee as well as the Senate Foreign Relations  Committee, said he told the Zelensky he would do everything he could to get the money released.

He said he also cautioned Zelensky that if the Ukrainian government received requests from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, that would be different from getting a request from someone connected to the Trump campaign, or to White House politics. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, had been pressing Ukraine’s government to conduct an investigation of the role played by former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a Ukrainian gas company that was once under investigation.

“[Zelesnky] wasn’t surprised that I brought it up … his response was pretty simple: that they have no intention of getting involved in an American election,” Murphy said about his meeting with the Ukrainian president.

In the statement released Wednesday, Murphy said “In the meeting Republican Senator Ron Johnson and I had with President Zelensky three weeks ago, I made it clear to him that Ukraine should not become involved in the 2020 election and that his government should communicate with the State Department, not the president’s campaign. I still believe this to be true.”

The White House on Wednesday released a partial transcript of a call Trump had with Zelensky on July 25. According to that document, Trump asked Zelensky to do him a “favor” after the Ukrainian president said he’d like more military aid from the United States. That “favor” was that his government speak with U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Giuliani about an investigation into the Bidens.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that in pressuring Zelensky to investigate a political rival, Trump had violated the U.S. Constitution. On Tuesday, she announced the House would begin an impeachment inquiry of Trump’s actions in the Ukrainian affair and other conduct by the president.

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped her son, an active duty Marine, be there for her swearing-in ceremony — but Pelosi’s office tells Fox News the reason for this was due to COVID-19 restrictions put in place by the House Sergeant at Arms and the congressional Attending Physician.

The race for New York’s 22nd Congressional Race, Tenney’s district, wasn’t decided until this week—after more than three months since the November election and dozens of days in court.

REPUBLICANS WIN THE LAST DISPUTED CONGRESSIONAL RACE FROM NOVEMBER’S ELECTION

Andy Ngo: Antifa/BLM Are Funded, Protected by Media, Politicians, Biden Administration

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/02/11/andy-ngo-antifa-blm-are-funded-protected-by-media-politicians-biden-administration/?fbclid=IwAR0VqXr_OdyphiYuplUZ_j5cxwUkLRQenpVwSUzC8IQgcHu0IU4qktycWgM

House Dem’s gun control bill mandates national registry, licensing, gov’t training and $800 insurance

https://americanmilitarynews.com/page/2/

A gun control bill that would create a national firearm registry, require licensing and psychological evaluations, government training and insurance was quietly introduced by a Democrat lawmaker in the House of Representatives last month.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced the bill, dubbed “Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act,” on Jan. 4, 2021. The legislation’s name honors a Pakistani exchange student who died during a school shooting in Texas in 2018.

Under the proposed bill, gun owners would be required to purchase $800 insurance that protects the person “against liability for losses and damages resulting from the use of any firearm by the person” for one year.

14 State Attorneys General Warn Biden They are Reviewing Legal Options Over Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

FROM THE NY POST – CONSPIRACY

Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

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The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”

“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.

“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.”

DeRosa added: “That played a very large role into this.”

After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context” and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration’s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.

But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the Health Department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25 state Health Department directive that nursing homes admit infected patients, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience it caused them.

SEE ALSO

COVID-19 deaths in NY nursing homes were 50 percent higher than claimed: probe

“So we do apologize,” she said. “I do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans.”

Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) immediately rejected DeRosa’s expression of remorse, according to the recording.

“I don’t have enough time today to explain all the reasons why I don’t give that any credit at all,” said Gottfried, one of the lawmakers who demanded the death-toll data in August.

State Senate Aging Committee Chairwoman Rachel May (D-Syracuse) — who was battered during her re-election bid last year over the issue of nursing-home deaths — also ripped into DeRosa, saying her former opponent had launched another broadside earlier in the day.

“And the issue for me, the biggest issue of all is feeling like I needed to defend — or at least not attack — an administration that was appearing to be covering something up,” she said.

“And in a, in a pandemic, when you want the public to trust the public-health officials, and there is this clear feeling that they’re not coming, being forthcoming with you, that is really hard and it remains difficult.”

Demands for charges, consequences mount over bombshell report Cuomo covered up COVID deaths

The comedy of errors now playing in D.C. is nothing but a sideshow for the corrupt Democrat party. The Deep State has insulated them from prosecution for the past half century. Trump stepped on their feet. They then resorted to stealing the election for President and the two Senate seats in Georgia. Currently they are covering their tracks in what will be called the greatest charade the world has ever seen.

Back in the day, when law enforcement was the responsibility of forthright citizens, this type media circus would never see the curtains go up, let alone offer a view of the stage. Not to say we condone violence here, but a Constitutional issue is at hand. The Supreme Court should jump in. A ruling that a ex-President can’t be impeached will put a stop to the animals conducting this circus. Where are you Gorsuch, where are you Kavanaugh. If you see them in a grocery store your push back, tell them they are not welcome.

They fall in line like bees bringing food to the queen. In this case the head of the head of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, was colonoscopied by Joe Biden. Biden wrapped the colonoscope with razor wire before inserting. So what was the cause of this blood bath Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline which was to carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from Canada to the U.S. The ramifications continue to be felt by the thousands of jobs lost and the immediate loss of 1000 construction workers laying the pipe. In other words Joe Biden gave these thousands of workers the PIPE.

TOP US UNION BOSS RICHARD TRUMKA DISAPPOINTED IN BIDEN’S KEYSTONE XL CANCELLATION IN NEW INTERVIEW

Trumka expressed displeasure with the pipeline project cancellation but also praised Biden as possibly “the best union president we ever had” during an “Axios on HBO” interview that aired on Sunday.

“It suggests that he’s going to get something in return for sitting silent on a matter that is negatively impacting [workers],” Greszler said, referencing union-backed policies like a $15 federal minimum wage and the PRO Act. 

Biden has pledged to create new “high-paying union jobs” through investments in green energy infrastructure projects.

The union guys on the ground no this is not true, that no jobs will be created and if they are, they will not be qualified to do them. In the meantime they will lose their houses, suicides will rise and divorces are inevitable.