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The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime in Washington repeatedly has attacked people of faith in America, a nation founded on the morals of the Judeo-Christian community.
They've described conservative Catholic groups, parents concerned about radical leftist indoctrination in public schools and pro-life adherents as possible terrorists. They've sent grandmothers to prison for opposing abortion with their actions.
They've tried to force all doctors, including those with moral objections to killing unborn children, into the nation's massive abortion industry. They want taxpayers to fund the industry of death, where the intention is that one of every two patients ends up dead.
Religious objections to taking an experimental COVID vax? You're fired! Same if you don't abide by the extremist LGBT ideology that men can suddenly become women, just by saying so.
And worse.
Now a report cites recent anti-Christian comments from Harris as offering the potential for long term, and negative, effects for the Democratic Party.
CatholicVote charged, "Kamala Harris exposes her vile hatred toward Christians once again by ridiculing a rallygoer for invoking the name of God."
And U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., warned, "Two-thirds of America is Christian. One fourth of America is Catholic. Kamala has made it clear that she DOES NOT want YOUR vote."
WND reported on Harris' comments, and then JD Vance's response.
His comments came after the scandal when someone at a Harris rally shouted "Jesus is Lord" and she told him he was at the wrong rally.
JD Vance's response wasn't the same.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk posted Vance's comment online:
Vance was commenting on the times that Harris is discounted or disregarded, even belittled, faith.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Jesus is King," and he responded, "That's right. Jesus is King."
Harris' attack on Christians was stunning:
Now a report at Just the News explains Harris "had already sent a bad vibe" to Catholics with her rejection of an invitation to the Al Smith Dinner, a fundraiser held by the Catholic Cardinal in New York.
Donald Trump showed up and cracked jokes for half an hour.
The report also cited an incident in which Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer mocked the Catholic eucharist by appearing to use a Doritos chip as the sacramental wafer.
"It is not just distasteful or 'strange;' it is an all-too-familiar example of an elected official mocking religious persons and their practices," explained the head of the Michigan Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Presidential son Eric Trump told a rally, "Well ladies and gentleman, you are at the right rally. Could you believe that comment? Somebody went out and says 'Jesus is King' and what did Kamala say? 'You're at the wrong rally.'":
And Ben Carson, formerly the chief of Housing and Urban Development, quoted from a Bible verse that states, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
"She didn't have time to think about what she was going to say," Carson told the crowd, Just the News reported. "She just said what is in her heart. So maybe she is the one who doesn't belong."
It's the latest in a long line of anti-faith statements from Democrats. Barack Obama once accused Americans of clinging to "guns and religion," and two-time Democrat White House campaign loser Hillary Clinton said conservatives were "deplorables."
The report from Just the News noted, "The faith community has taken note. … The episode has boiled to the top of political conversation at a time when the Democrat Party that once welcomed Catholics to its fold under John F. Kennedy and courted black ministers for decades with the likes of Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton now finds itself having openly and repeatedly offending members of America's faith community."
It continued, "The tenor of Harris' and Whitmer's condescension towards people of faith is amplified by their bad timing. They both came within the last month of a razor-close presidential election … ."
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Howard Kurtz, the former Washington Post media writer who left CNN to join Fox News in 2013, is blasting "60 Minutes" as "blatantly unethical" for its "pathetic response" to allegations the network deceptively edited its recent interview with Kamala Harris to help the vice president sound better.
CBS News released a statement Sunday night, indicating: "Former President Donald Trump is accusing '60 Minutes' of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false."
"'60 Minutes' gave an excerpt of our interview to 'Face the Nation' that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on '60 Minutes' was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment."
Appearing on Fox News Monday afternoon, Kurtz hammered the network's claim.
"This is a pathetic response by '60 Minutes' after a week of silence," Kurtz told Martha MacCallum.
"It basically says, 'Yeah, we did it. So what?' They talk about making Kamala Harris sound more succinct, in other words, making her look better by switching up the answers as you just saw. You can't have a different part of an answer to the same question."
"It's blatantly unethical, and if someone on my staff did that, they'd be looking for a new job," he continued.
"The simplest thing would be to post a transcript. And if they thought this would exonerate them, they would post the transcript. I think they're hiding something, and they're afraid to do that."
MacCallum noted: "I think you're right about that because so often '60 Minutes' will say go to '60 Minutes Extra' and you can see the entire thing, but they didn't do that."
"Absolutely not and they're refusing to do it," Kurtz replied, "and it's impossible to imagine that if it helped their case we wouldn't have seen this transcript days ago."
MacCallum wondered: "And one of the issues with the vice president and the way she speaks is what people refer to as 'word salad.' So by extracting that part, you are also taking away from some of the editorial interest in her response, no?"
Kurtz answered: "Yeah. I mean I'm almost speechless because '60 Minutes,' you know, 50 years was sort of the gold standard of news-magazine reporting, and they've really created this mess for themselves, and this statement doesn't make it any better."
"When I talked to former President Trump over the weekend, he says, you know, he wants CBS off the air, he wants to yank the license. I don't necessarily agree with that. You'd be making an awful lot of people pay a price with nothing to do with '60 Minutes.' But at the same time, CBS' damage control here is just making it more damaging."
The Trump War Room says there's "a simple way" to clear up the matter, and that is to "release the full, unedited transcript" of Bill Whitaker's interview with Harris.
Trump himself has hammered CBS for its deceptive editing, calling it "the single greatest scandal, in my opinion, in broadcast history."
"'60 Minutes' and CBS interviewed Kamala, and she's incompetent. She gave them the dumbest answer anyone's ever heard. So they took that answer out, the whole answer they threw out, and they took another answer that she gave to a totally different question and inserted it. And supposedly, they did this a number of times. And they got caught. '60 Minutes' and CBS should lose their license for that."
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A longtime Christian ministry that sparked a large negative reaction when it adopted an outside organization's LGBT "training" scheme for its staff members only two years ago has decided to drop that programming, instead setting up its own advice for workers dealing with LGBT-identifying individuals.
It is Cru, formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, which was involved in a scandal for adopting the use of curriculum from Compassionate and Faithful, a product that relies heavily on podcaster Preston Sprinkle.
Sprinkle has chosen to follow several beliefs that are controversial for Christian organizations, including supporting "pronoun hospitality" and "teachings that same-sex attraction is not sinful unless acted upon," according to a report from World.
The report noted Keith Johnson, who is the group's chief of theological education and development, confirmed to staff during a meeting leaked on a podcast that the plan is to integrate "our LGBT+ equipping into existing developmental venues."
He said, "Going forward, we think it's increasingly important for us to speak in our own theological voice," so the use of "external communicators" will be reduced.
The organization was criticized for his decision two years ago to move into the outside curriculum when both current and former staff members, as well as prominent evangelical authors and speakers including Rosaria Butterfield, Christopher Yuan and Allie Beth Stuckey, objected.
The charge was that the lessons fell short of biblical teachings including standards for sexuality, gender and God's design for men and women.
Cru simply declined to respond to concerns, and, in fact fired employees who raised concerns outside of channels the company allowed.
The details come from a meeting recording that was released Oct. 2 on author Jon Harris' podcast.
Johnson told World the Compassionate and Faithful materials were used to provide clarity, but, World confirmed, "For some staff, the ministry's mandatory rollout of the curriculum did the opposite."
The report cited longtime staff members Uriah and Marissa Mundell, who were fired for objecting to the teachings.
Johnson said, "What divides us from many of our critics at the end of the day, isn't our view of sexuality and gender. It's our vision for cultural engagement."
Harris pointed out, however, there remain many questions about the direction being adopted.
"For Cru staff who are entering … what's that going to look like? Is it going to be the same kind of teaching … it's just more hidden?"
The World report itself noted Cru has "criticized the Mundells for being public, yet Cru is a public ministry supported by donors. Cru leadership has chosen, and is choosing, to be evasive and not disclose what is happening while expecting us to donate money."
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Like thousands of others, Jessica Sheffield, a former United States Navy lieutenant commander, was forcibly separated from the service in 2022 for refusing the COVID jab.
When Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated the COVID-19 shot in August 2021, Sheffield was concerned not just with the experimental vaccine's safety, but with the legality of such an order. After careful consideration, she decided to take her oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution seriously, telling WorldNetDaily: "I was absolutely going to do the right thing no matter what, and in this situation, it meant that I was not going to follow this unlawful order."
"I was vocal to my commander, chief of staff, and the command doc in private," she said, "about not taking the 'vaccine,' because it was experimental, thereby, it was also unlawful. The command doc, in a one-on-one meeting with me, wouldn't even put his words behind the order, claiming it was 'coming from higher up,' which was especially alarming," she said.
Sheffield brought to the attention of Navy Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher the reality that many members of the command – all holding security clearances – were "lying out of fear," which she considered a violation of their oath. For this, she was called "disgruntled" and accused of "stirring up trouble."
Through the experience, she learned a lot about some of the Navy's current leadership, she told WND: "They basically showed me that they're willing to lie for money, or worse, they don't see a forced experimental injection that was actively injuring sailors as unlawful. They put their own selfish needs ahead of standing up for what was right."
The most concerning issue, Sheffield added, was that "\many in leadership seemed to truly believe the order was lawful, and still do."
After meeting with a Navy chaplain to consider requesting a religious accommodation, she learned, "You had to agree that the order was lawful to get the exemption." For Sheffield, "that defeated the purpose of getting an exemption, considering it was an unlawful, experimental injection that was being offered in the first place."
So rather than being separated on May 25, 2022, for disobeying an unlawful order, Sheffield fought to have her DD-214 discharge papers state "COVID Injection Refusal" as the reason for her separation. "The official separation code still shows 'Unacceptable Behavior,' which I protested, but remain somewhat satisfied I was at least able to get the note including the COVID-injection refusal," she told WND.
After the January 2023 rescission of the shot mandate, Sheffield submitted a request to the Board for Correction of Naval Records, or BCNR, on March 5, 2023 to be reinstated. Her reinstatement request also asked for the Department of Defense to admit to the unlawfulness of the 2021 mandate, acknowledge that retaliatory actions were taken against her, and cleanse any blemishes from her performance record. Unfortunately, her reinstatement would never occur.
After waiting a year, Sheffield said the BCNR altered her official record to state that she had voluntarily resigned, which was untrue. "They had also deleted all COVID-related retaliatory documents from my official record, and claimed that is what I had asked them to do," she said.
"I contacted my congressman and, through him, demanded they stop deleting evidence and return my record to its unaltered state since they refused to reinstate me and acknowledge the unlawfulness of the order."
Confessing she was "terrified" to discover a letter the Navy wrote to U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., Sheffield said "they lied about the nature of my initial BCNR request, claiming I had only asked them to delete COVID-related detrimental FITREPS (fitness reports), and called my assertions of their behavior 'disingenuous.'" She fears "they're quietly doing the same for everyone who was kicked out for COVID jab refusal, under the guise of 'cleansing' records of bad behavior."
Sheffield submitted a second request to the Board for Correction of Naval Records on May 5 of this year: "I asked that my record remain untouched as evidence for an eventual reconciliation of this injustice," she explained. "My re-submitted BCNR states that if they refuse to admit to the unlawfulness of the COVID injection order and restore my commission, my record must remain untampered until things can be reconciled."
"The jab requirement was nothing less than a purge of all those willing to uphold their oath and protect their sailors and others from the unlawful order, and the proof is now bare for all to see," Sheffield told WND. "After almost a year of deliberation, I now have 15 pages on official letterhead of the BCNR doubling down on the assertion that the jab order was lawful and that I was right to be removed." That, in addition to altering her paperwork, told her "they were trying to cover up the entire experience, as if it had never happened."
"With this ongoing BCNR trouble, it feels like the DOD as we used to know it is effectively gone," Sheffield lamented. For her, it's "just a mercenary force now, one whose loyalty lies with keeping their paycheck, rather than upholding the sacred oath undertaken for the protection of the United States of America and its founding Constitution."
Like thousands of other service members and veterans who desire the same, she questions whether there will there ever be accountability for the wrongs committed against her and the countless sailors who were failed by their leaders, with the implementation and enforcement of the COVID-19 shot and its many negative repercussions.
Nearly 38,000 have signed a petition to support 231 service members and veterans who signed on to the Declaration of Military Accountability to "hold accountable military leaders who failed to follow the law when their leadership and moral courage was most desperately needed." What's more, they have pledged "to recall from retirement the military leaders who broke the law and will convene courts-martial for the crimes they committed."
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Southeast Asian leaders were urged by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Thursday to come up with stricter code of conduct when dealing with the South China Sea, specifically, the increasing aggression from China.
The remarks came at the 27th annual ASEAN-China summit, which is the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, a union of 10 states in Asia including the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, and Cambodia.
Marcos accused Beijing of harassment and intimidation, and noted there would have to be significant progress between all parties if tensions are to be reduced, according to Reuters.
"There should be more urgency in the pace of the negotiations of the ASEAN-China code of conduct… It is regrettable that the overall situation in the South China Sea remains tense and unchanged. We continue to be subjected to harassment and intimidation," Marcos reportedly told the meeting.
A maritime code of conduct was agreed upon in 2002, but progress has been slow and plans for its implementation did not begin until 2017, according to Reuters. Some member states are concerned about the code of conduct not being legally binding or enforceable.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang said during the meeting "external forces frequently interfere" to bring confrontation into Asia.
"At the same time we must also realize that our development is facing some unstable and uncertain factors. In particular, external forces frequently interfere and even try to introduce bloc confrontation and geopolitical conflicts into Asia," Li said.
Li then asked how Asia should deal with this interference, while continuing to move forward.
"When we understand that amity and good neighborliness are invaluable to a country, we will be better able to promote understanding through dialogue and promote harmony with friendliness and kindness when we deal with differences, disputes, and conflicts between countries," Li said.
The Philippines and China have been consistently involved in incidents on the South China Sea, with China claiming almost the entire area as its own, including the Sabina Shoal in the Spratly Islands which is within the Philippines exclusive economic zone.
Chinese Coast Guard vessels have become increasingly aggressive and confrontational, ramming Philippine Coast Guard ships, attacking Filipino crew members with batons and bladed weapons, in some cases causing severe damage to both Philippine ships and its crew.
However, the Philippines is an ally of the U.S. and has been since 1951 after the two nations signed a defense treaty. If the aggression towards the Philippines continues to escalate, the U.S. could eventually end up in a war with China.
China is accusing the Philippines of encroaching on its sovereign territory, using old maps to justify China's claim to almost the entirety of the South China Sea, which is shared by ASEAN members Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei. China has deployed ships deep into the exclusive economic zones of all four members.
When asked about Marcos' comments noting member states should not "turn a blind eye to the aggressive, coercive, and illegal actions" of an "external power," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said maritime issues should be settled through dialogue.
"With the joint effort of China and ASEAN countries, the situation in the South China Sea is generally stable. China remains committed to settling maritime differences with countries concerned through dialogue and consultation on the basis of respecting historical facts and international law," Mao said.
Mao added, however, that China will not tolerate any encroachment on territory it sees as belonging to China.
"China firmly opposes any infringement activities and provocations, and firmly safeguards its own territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests. China will continue to work with ASEAN countries to fully and effectively implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, actively advance the consultations of the code of conduct in the South China Sea, and jointly make the South China Sea a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation," Mao said.
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A vice president's husband and a vice presidential candidate walk into a coffee shop…
(Stop me if you've heard this one.)
And they leave without paying, leaving a daughter to explain to the cashier that "someone" is coming.
A report at the Gateway Pundit said it happened when, "Kamala Harris's multi-millionaire husband Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz walked away from a cashier at a coffee shop in Phoenix without paying."
"After the two left, Tim Walz's young daughter, Hope, scrambled to get a staffer's credit card," the report said. "Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff walked into Otro Cafe like they owned the place."
Walz reportedly ordered an iced tea and Emhoff ordered a coffee, got their drinks, and walked away.
"Thank you so much and someone will be up here to pay. He's coming," Walz's daughter said pointing at a staffer, the report explained.
They didn't leave a tip, the report said.
Social media's conclusion? "Trump would have paid everyone's bill and tipped like a boss." With the explanation, "Wow! Stiffing that poor shop. Trump pays for everybody and tips big. This is the difference between a stand-up guy like Trump and elitists who think they should get everything for free just because of who they are. PATHETIC."
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A federal judge has delivered a stunning blow to a teacher's agenda to teach very young students that they could be transgender.
The lessons were delivered by a first-grade teacher, Megan Williams, in the Mt. Lebanon School District in Pennsylvania.
Without notifying parents she pushed the kids into a non-curricular lesson about transgenderism, and shockingly informed them that their parents guessed about their being male or female when they were born – and their parents could have been wrong.
The court decided for the three mothers who brought the case, Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn and Gretchen Melton, and awarded them nominal damages for the constitutional rights violations by the teacher and district.
"A teacher instructing first-graders and reading books to show that their parents' beliefs about their children's gender identity may be wrong directly repudiates parental authority," the court wrote in its opinion. "The heart of parental authority on matters of the greatest importance within their own family is undermined when a teacher tells first-graders their parents may be wrong about whether the student is a boy or a girl."
The court noted the school refused even to provide parents notification, or opt-out options, for the extremist ideology that the teacher was presenting and in doing so violated the U.S. Constitution.
The judge found, "In elementary school, it is constitutionally impermissible for a school to provide teachers with the unbridled discretion to determine to teach about a noncurricular topic—transgender identity—and not to provide notice and opt out rights based on parents' moral and religious beliefs about transgender instruction, while providing notice and opt out rights for other sensitive secular and religious topics."
Vincent Wagner, a lawyer for ADF, which has fought this type of dispute over and over, said, "Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children. School districts violate that right by leaving parents out of key decisions about their own children. The school district here failed to notify these parents about instruction their young elementary schoolers would receive on the sensitive topic of gender identity.
"Worse, it instructed these kids that their parents might be wrong about whether they were boys or girls—striking at the heart of parents' role in forming their children's identity. Parents' fundamental, constitutional right to make decisions about how to raise their children includes the right to the information they need to make those decisions."
Wagner added, "Without notice and a real chance to opt their children out of instruction like this, parents can't exercise their constitutional rights. We are grateful the district court protected the rights of parents to receive information and be able to make good decisions for their children."
The judge explained, "This case is about the extent of constitutional rights of parents of young children in a public elementary school to notice and the ability to opt their young children out of noncurricular instruction on transgender topics. A first-grade teacher, without providing notice or opt outs, decided to observe Transgender Awareness Day by reading noncurricular books and presenting noncurricular gender identity topics to her students. During that classroom presentation, the teacher told her students 'parents make a guess about their children's – when children are born, parents make a guess whether they're a boy or a girl. Sometimes parents are wrong.'"
The judge noted the children's "confusion" after the teacher's indoctrination.
The transgender agenda, in fact, has been a primary goal of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, as they have promoted transgenderism in multiple ways and through multiple programs, sometimes simply re-writing various rules for the federal government in order to promote the belief, unscientific though it may be, that boys can become girls and vice versa.
The facts are that a percentage of children experience an uncertainty about their sexual identity and bodies while growing up, called gender dysphoria. Also fact is that, if left alone, a huge majority of those children resolve themselves comfortably in their physical sex after time.
The judge pointed out the obvious: "Here, the parents assert the teacher, by reading noncurricular books and instructing their young children, without notice or the ability to opt out, that parents make guesses about their children's gender at birth and may be wrong violates their constitutional rights. How to resolve whether the teacher's beliefs or the parents' beliefs are correct would be beyond the ability of most first graders."
He disposed of a long list of motions in the case and found against the district and Williams, awarding the parents "nominal damages of $1.00" on multiple counts.
Further, his ruling outlined actions for the future: "Absent a compelling governmental interest, parents have a constitutional right to reasonable and realistic advance notice and the ability to opt their elementary-age children out of noncurricular instruction on transgender topics and to not have requirements for notice and opting out for those topics that are more stringent than those for other sensitive topics."
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Colorado's anti-family ideologues – those in governmental positions from which they have been trying to dictate residents' faith beliefs – are costing the state $1.5 million.
That's the settlement amount reached for the lawyers who defended Lori Smith's religious rights – and won at the Supreme Court where the justices again scolded the state for its anti-Christian bigotry, policies orchestrated under a homosexual Gov. Jared Polis.
A report from Complete Colorado explains the legal fees were awarded to Smith's lawyers for their victory over the state.
Smith, a web designer, had been ordered by the state to violate her Christian beliefs and promote same-sex weddings if she was going to do any business regarding weddings in the state.
She challenged the religious dictate in court and ultimately won at the Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 in her favor, finding that the First Amendment protected her Christian beliefs from the anti-Christian mandates espoused by the discriminatory Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.
The report explained, "That law prohibits businesses open to the public from discriminating against members of protected classes, which includes sexual orientation. However, Smith successfully argued that since her Christian beliefs say marriage is only between one man and one woman, the state could not force her to use her creative skills to produce websites for same-sex weddings, which she successfully argued amounts to government-compelled speech."
The report said state officials refused to comment on the massive costs of pursuing their anti-faith agenda.
Smith was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
"Our clients Lorie Smith and her design studio, 303 Creative, prevailed at the US Supreme Court and achieved a landmark victory — a victory that helps to protect all Americans' freedom of speech from government censorship and coercion," ADF lawyer Bryan Neihart has explained.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion in the case, stating, "The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands."
The leftists on the court claimed they wanted the right for government to dictate the beliefs of Christians in order to promote LGBT ideologies.
It was the second such catastrophic loss for Colorado at the Supreme Court on the same topic.
Earlier Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips won a similar war with the state, which tried to force him to repudiate his Christian faith and promote same-sex weddings, a case during which the Supreme Court also scolded Colorado for its "intolerance" for Christianity.
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It's hard enough to prepare for the catastrophic results of something like Hurricane Helene, which destroyed towns, homes, bridges, roads – and lives and families.
But that task turns into, literally, the impossible when there's corruption, gross mismanagement, and politics present.
And it's becoming more and more evident that the help for southeastern states, specifically the hardest-hit regions of North Carolina, is being corrupted by near-insurmountable failings.
Already, WND has reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent billions of dollars providing benefits to illegal aliens, and now has confirmed it lacks resources for the ordinary needs of the nation's hurricane season.
Kamala Harris, according to many victims, insulted them with an offer of $750 for the most pressing needs. Joe Biden said in a comment – that was interpreted not to his benefit – the government had given all it had to the victims.
Now there's more.
BREAKING: FEMA whistleblowers have come forward alleging that the agency misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene, withheld pre-disaster aid, and that first responders and service members have been waiting in hotels without deployment orders. pic.twitter.com/uf0XrspRTz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024
A report at the Gateway Pundit explains multiple whistleblowers already have come forward with complaints about FEMA.
"According to a letter from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), whistleblowers allege that FEMA withheld critical pre-disaster funds and failed to issue deployment orders to first responders, leaving Americans stranded in the wake of the storm," the report said.
It described Gaetz' letter as a "bombshell" to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for his agency's "failure to release necessary funds and provide clear orders has left 'hundreds if not thousands' of service members and first responders in limbo, as they sit idle in hotels while the southeastern U.S. suffers the devastating effects of Helene."
The report charged that FEMA's credibility is crumbling under "mounting evidence of gross mismanagement."
It was Mayorkas who confessed FEMA "does not have enough funds to make it through the hurricane season."
Whistleblowers, the report charged, have accused the agency of diverting tax funds to illegal immigrants – and "using taxpayer dollars to cover the costs of border enforcement failures," so that no funding is left for Americans hit by catastrophic conditions.
"The Gateway Pundit previously reported that over $1 billion, which should have been used for American disaster relief, has instead been redirected into resettling illegal immigrants through programs like the 'Shelter and Services Program,'" the report said.
Gaetz turned blunt:
"Yesterday, you stated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is a part of your department, 'does not have enough funds to make it through the hurricane] season.' This news comes after FEMA has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on migrants due to Border Czar Kamala Harris' open border instead of prioritizing funding for Americans impacted by disasters."
Then he warned that whistleblowers have documented mismanagement, wasted taxes, misappropriate funds and other problems.
Further, FEMA workers for days have been "employees deployed, on the clock, awaiting orders in hotels."
In fact, Elon Musk on social media said he'd heard from a SpaceX engineer helping with rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina.
That source said the feds actively were blocking help.
"Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We've deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives. The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough."
The Gateway Punit noted there even was confirmation, from the left, of the politics influencing help efforts.
"Obama-Harris whisperer David Axelrod, host of the 'Axe Files' podcast, said the quiet part out loud as the Biden Regime blocks ongoing rescue operations in North Carolina. Axelrod said Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina are mainly Trump voters who will find it hard to vote in the 2024 election," the report explained.
In between laughing at the false claim that JD Vance was wearing eyeliner at the VP debate, Obama-Harris whisperer David Axelrod said on his podcast that Hurricane Helene's victims are mainly Trump voters who will find it hard to vote. Affected Democrats from Asheville are… https://t.co/yIqJWvuomh
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) October 4, 2024
"David Axelrod said affected Democrats from Asheville are 'upscale liberal voters, and they're probably going to figure out a way to vote. I'm not sure a bunch of these folks who had their homes and lives destroyed elsewhere, in western North Carolina, in the mountains, there are going to be as easy to wrangle for the Trump campaign,'" Axelrod said.
Fox News host Jesse Watters blasted the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime for failing the hurricane victims.
"Over 200 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene and the thousands of victims impacted have been disgracefully left behind. The Biden administration has blocked ongoing rescue operations and North Carolina is living in the dark ages because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate Elon Musk. FEMA is now out of money, because Joe Biden and Kamala spent over a billion dollars of FEMA cash on migrants. Illegals got luxury hotel rooms, but Kamala's just tossing Helene victims $750 and heading back on the campaign trail. This must not meet her standard for giving extra resources – she only wants to do that based on equity," he said.
Meanwhile, FEMA said the "help" it would offer would extend to "non-citizens."
Non-citizens are eligible for @FEMA disaster assistance. pic.twitter.com/KywcAe2alM
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) October 4, 2024
The Gateway Pundit commented: "As Americans suffer through the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and communities in North Carolina continue to search for over 200 missing loved ones lost in flooding, there is a glimmer of hope for non-citizens. If you are one of the millions of non-citizens that the Biden-Harris regime granted asylum to, you may qualify for FEMA aid."
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Imagine this. You're blessed to live in the freest, most powerful nation on earth, where citizens actually get to choose their leaders and their nation's future direction.
A uniquely historic election is just weeks away, and your two choices for leader – and your nation's future – couldn't possibly be more different.
One leader candidate promises to halt the ongoing, full-scale foreign invasion of your country, which the current leaders have not only allowed, but invited and enabled. Incredibly, over 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world have walked unimpeded into your homeland, including countless terrorists, drug-dealers, sex traffickers of women and children, violent gangs, mental patients and criminals, powerfully fueling your nation's current twin epidemics of violent crime and drug-overdose deaths. Recent official government statistics reveal the "undocumented migrants" invading your country include over 13,000 convicted murderers.
Promising to definitively end the current ruling regime's suicidal immigration policies, this leader candidate commits to finally securing the border with both a physical wall and maximum law-enforcement presence – while implementing the largest mass deportation of illegal aliens in the nation's history.
This same candidate also promises – based on decades of executive-level negotiating experience, personal strength and sound policies – to regain the lost respect of world leaders, both friend and foe, thereby serving as a powerful force not just for preserving your nation's peace and security, but world peace as well. This candidate likewise promises to restore your nation's ailing economy and reverse the most devastating inflation in 40 years, which is rapidly impoverishing tens of millions of citizens.
Remarkably, there's very little doubt this particular candidate can make good on all of these life-saving promises, having actually accomplished virtually all of them while serving as the nation's president just a few years ago.
Now, what about the other candidate?
The opposing presidential hopeful has actually been at the pinnacle of power for almost the last four years, occupying your country's second highest leadership position. As such, this person has been instrumental in formulating and implementing the very policies now crippling your nation – including, for example, being specifically designated as "border czar." And yet, instead of protecting your nation, this leader has perversely acted to enable the never-ending invasion, and indeed intends to transform massive numbers of illegals into voting members of the nation's electorate, while supporting them financially with your tax dollars.
And yet, a strange blindness pervades the nation.
For although your uniquely free country was founded on the traditional cultural, economic and constitutional values espoused by the first candidate, something like half of the voting population is mysteriously inclined to choose the other. Yet many respected analysts and historians claim that, if elevated from vice president to president, this latter candidate would destroy the country, perhaps permanently. They fear this person's irrational, self-destructive policies, coupled with radical-left political beliefs and excruciating weakness and unseriousness on a highly volatile world stage dominated by dictators and psychopaths, could well bring about a nuclear World War III.
The question then is why? Why is there any doubt as to who is the more worthy candidate?
It's almost as though the nation is caught up in a dystopian science-fiction plot reminiscent of Orwell's "1984," where clearly nonsensical dogmas, including "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery" and "Ignorance is strength," not to mention "2+2=5," become mandatory, must-believe "truths" of the ruling socialist regime.
Does that seem like an exaggerated comparison?
Cutting through today's 2+2=5 narrative
Consider that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats' 2024 presidential candidate, is now claiming, in public speeches, in televised and online ads and even in September's ABC-moderated debate, that Donald Trump opposes policing the southern border, while she has worked diligently to secure the border.
This is every bit as eye-rollingly untrue and insane as "2+2=5."
It's time for Americans everywhere to wake up from the media-propagated nightmare in which they have been living for the last four years. 2+2=4. Not 5.
Donald Trump – despite continual attacks and daily media defamation, two failed impeachment attempts and never-ending hoaxes (remember "Russian collusion!") – led the country well. He protected the border, revitalized the nation's military, kept the U.S. out of any new wars, made America energy-independent, cut taxes, got the economy roaring with a super-low 1.4% inflation rate and gasoline under $2 per gallon. Groceries, housing and other core necessities were within the reach of most Americans. Real wages were rising, and Trump ushered in the lowest unemployment rates in decades, including the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded. He nominated, and saw confirmed, three Supreme Court justices who honor the U.S. Constitution, as well as 234 similarly right-thinking federal judges. He maintained peace in the Middle East, both via the Abraham Accords and by withholding funds from the Mideast's prime terrorism sponsor, Iran. Indeed, Trump restrained not only Iran, but China and Russia from attacking neighboring countries.
In stark contrast, Kamala Harris, as vice president of the United States, working in the west wing of the White House, has been formulating and implementing her and President Joe Biden's policies full-bore since January 2021. In every area of life and policy, with virtually no exceptions, she has made America a worse, poorer, angrier, more violent, more conflicted and much more dangerous and unhappy place to live, work and raise a family.
She and Biden did this largely by pursuing policies opposite to Trump's: Whereas Trump built hundreds of miles of border wall, Biden and Harris threw the border wide open, allowing the shocking invasion that is now devastating America. Whereas Trump denied money to Iran, Biden-Harris released a total of $16 billion to the radical Islamic theocracy, which promptly funded Hamas' appalling terror war on Israel starting on Oct. 7, 2023. Whereas Trump made America a net exporter of oil for the first time in 75 years, Biden-Harris shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on their very first day in office. It's the same in almost every other area of domestic and foreign policy.
All of this is a matter of objective fact and not really debatable by honest and informed people. It's self-evident … like 2+2=4.
Unfortunately, the purveyors of America's "2+2=5" gospel – that is, the major news media, who daily violate their sacred responsibility to report truthfully on crucial issues and events – have been extolling and covering up for Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, while simultaneously lying about and attacking Trump and his VP pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, at every turn.
But even a complicit news establishment cannot hide truth forever.
For the problem with Kamala Harris is not really her notorious cackling, or her undecipherable "word salads," or even the fact that she is extraordinarily unlikable and mean. Indeed, more than 90% of Harris' White House staffers quit in the first three years, according to the Washington Post, which interviewed 18 current and former Harris staffers, who describe working conditions in her office with phrases ranging from "uncomfortable" to "soul-destroying."
Going a little deeper, the problem with Harris is not, ultimately, even her astonishing 180-degree reversals on major policy positions on issues crucial to the well-being and survival of the nation – from fracking, to gun confiscation, to socialized medicine, to defunding the police, to building a border wall and much more. These whiplash-inducing total reversals are manifestations of something deeper still.
The real and ultimate issue with Harris, and with Walz – beyond even their neo-Marxist political ideology, their lust for power and today's totally corrupt Democratic Party politics – is whether they and their agendas are serving good or evil, freedom or slavery, life or death, God or Satan. Stay with me here.
Consider: When a presidential and vice-presidential candidate are enthusiastically advocating surgical amputation of the healthy breasts and/or genitals of countless confused, emotionally distraught children too young to drive a car or purchase cigarettes, procedures known to multiply the rate of adolescent suicide seven-fold;
When they conspire to enable these horrendous surgeries even when the children's own parents desperately object to it (as governor, Walz signed a bill last year turning Minnesota into a "sanctuary state" for mutilating child sex-change surgeries, effectively eliminating the need for parental consent);
When these leaders are enthusiastic cheerleaders for crushing, dismembering limb-by-limb and then ripping beautiful, pain-feeling human infants out of their mothers' wombs (that's the most common late abortion method, "Dilation and Evacuation" or D&E, but others are equally gruesome), right up to the time of delivery – which is identical to the heinous crime of infanticide, literally the murder of babies;
When leaders intentionally promote the all-out foreign invasion of America, including the sex-trafficking of untold thousands of helpless children at the hands of cartels and pedophiles;
When leaders deliberately create runaway inflation by wildly irresponsible levels of government spending, which is identical to raiding the bank accounts of every family in America and stealing (on average) $28,000 from each, you are – as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently affirmed – no longer talking about "your father's Democratic Party."
You're talking about very deep delusion. You're talking about genuine madness. You're talking about desecration and destruction of all that is good, decent and sacred.
In a word, you're talking about EVIL.
And yet … apparently half the country thinks Kamala Harris is exciting and "joyful" and caring and fresh. They revel in the fact that she'd be the "first woman president ever!" And that she's even a "woman of color!" How cool is that!
They've simultaneously been convinced by the most shamefully dishonest and corrupt news establishment in American history that Donald Trump is another Adolf Hitler – or at the very least, a racist-fascist-insurrectionist-dictator who insists there are "very fine" Nazis, and that he is, as Joe Biden calls Trump, "the greatest threat to our democracy." No wonder he is the target of repeated assassination attempts.
Now here's a news flash for you: Just as most establishment media entities have become nothing more than professional propagandists and politically motivated liars who exist to defame and destroy Donald Trump, so are they likewise disingenuous about Kamala Harris. That's right: The entire media love affair with Kamala Harris is pretend. They know she's awful.
Here's a small sampling of what the same left-leaning "mainstream media" now worshiping Harris were saying about her just a few months ago … when they assumed Joe Biden would be the Democrats' 2024 presidential candidate:
TIME MAGAZINE: "Biden Owes the Country a New Vice President" (Jan. 30, 2024)
THE HILL: "Democrats have a Kamala Harris problem" (Feb. 11, 2024)
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: "Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris" (Sept. 13, 2023)
The truth is, almost nobody in the Washington, D.C. government-media complex actually likes Kamala Harris or believes she possesses the character, competency or gravitas to be president of the United States. But they loathe – or to put it much more precisely, they FEAR – Donald J. Trump because of the mortal threat he represents to the entrenched, corrupt and hopelessly power-addicted permanent governing class in Washington, D.C.
At such a critical time, tens of millions of decent, clear-thinking Americans are praying, voting (or planning on voting), volunteering for and donating to election-integrity efforts, and talking to others about what they consider to be hands-down the most important election in American history.
Here is one more significant thing you can do to help turn the tide toward victory:
"KAMALA'S AMERICA" lays out – not just with words and photos, but with dozens of astonishing video clips – just who and what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz really are. All the major issues – from the illegal-alien invasion to the failing economy to the candidates' unbelievably sordid, corrupt and politically radical pasts, to radioactive issues like today's wild transgender recruitment of children, unrestricted abortion, climate change madness and Soviet-style censorship, on which they take the most perverse and authoritarian positions imaginable – are powerfully exposed.
In addition to actual truth-honoring professional journalists, a rarity these days, you'll also hear from Victor Davis Hanson, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann and many other expert analysts who come together to paint a truly mind-boggling picture of exactly what "KAMALA'S AMERICA" will look like if Harris becomes president.
IMPORTANT: Once you've downloaded "KAMALA'S AMERICA" for free, please share the same link widely – with your friends, relatives and colleagues – including those who see things differently from you and may be inclined to vote for Harris and Walz. People who are lifelong Democrats, or don't like Donald Trump for one reason or another, but who are woefully ignorant of the catastrophe that will befall America should the Democratic ticket prevail on Nov. 5 – these are people who also need to see "KAMALA'S AMERICA."