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That portion of America's population that preps for disaster often in the past has been limited to handsful of people with electric generators in their garages and basements full of dry and canned foods stacked on shelves.
In other words, a relatively small number.
But it's growing, and the younger populations are leading the way.
That's according to a survey by Finder.com that was profiled in Fox News.
The results reveal that in 2019, only 20% of Americans reported making a disaster-related purchase over the previous year. The most recent year found 29% doing that, with 39% of Millennials and 40% of Gen Zers "reported spending money on disaster prepping in the last 12 months."
Those numbers had spiked during COVID when 45% confirmed such purchases, and among Millennials it was 58% and Gen Zers was 59%.
While the later numbers were down, Fox explained, "Younger Americans appear to be the ones preparing the most for a disaster scenario ahead of 2024, with everything from global pandemics to the upcoming presidential election on their minds."
"In my work, I see young people worried about a repeat of a COVID-type event and the types of disruption it can bring to daily life," explained Chad Huddleston, of Southern Illinois University, in a visit with Fox News Digital.
And Drew Miller, chief of Fortitude Collapse Preparedness, added, "Our people have known for a long time that when there's an electric grid failure or a real pandemic… that people won't go to work, there won't be food, and they'll starve if you don't have preparations."
Patrick McCall, of McCall Risk Group, explained to Fox, "The number of sites I think that were selling these [emergency preparedness] things or the number of places that were offering this type of stuff on the Internet was very scarce [in 2017]. Then we got into COVID, which created its own dilemmas and own kind of prepping in a different bit of craziness, as I would call it."
Several experts suggested concerns over the 2024 presidential election could be a motivating factor.
Miller cited concerns over a "possible civil war" following the election. Democrats, in fact, repeatedly have claimed that democracy will be dead if President Donald Trump is victorious, despite the fact the policies and actions of Democrat candidate Joe Biden, the incumbent, have repeatedly undermined democracy through his agenda to censor ordinary Americans, and impose punishment for thought crimes.
It's also partly because national and international politics are "more chaotic," according to Brekke Wagoner, who runs the Sustainable Prepping social media channel.
"I think for the first time, a lot of Millennials and Gen Zers are realizing how fragile our systems are. We've grown up in a time in which technology has meant we've had grocery stores that were always stocked and you can get anything from Amazon in 24 hours. Then all of a sudden the pandemic and some uncertainties in our national and international politics has made us rethink how all of these systems are not as stable as we assumed," Wagoner said.
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Deadspin, the publication that slammed a young Kansas City Chiefs fan as racist for wearing a headdress – he is Native American – and "blackface" – he had painted his face Chiefs colors of black and red – finally is getting around to a "correction."
A report at Outkick explained, "Deadspin finally updated its story that originally falsely accused a young Chiefs fan of wearing blackface at an NFL event. Sometime Thursday, the outlet added an editor's note to Carron J. Phillips’ hit piece."
That note claimed Deadspin's "opinion piece" was based "upon the available photo" showing "what appeared to be black face paint."
"Unfortunately the article drew attention to the fan, though our intended focus was on the NFL and its checkered history on race, an issue which our writer has covered extensively for Deadspin," it said.
"We regret any suggestion that we were attacking the fan. To that end, our story was updated on Dec. 7 to remove any photos, tweets, links, or otherwise identifying information about the fan. We have also revised the headline to better reflect the substance of the story."
The Outkick report explained the article was changed several ways, including to remove "the opening line that said the fan 'hated black people and Native Americans.'"
The action follows warnings from the fan's parents, Shannon and Raul Armenta, that they could sue over the injury.
"This week, the family hired Clare Locke LLP to demand a retraction with the following letter," the report said.
The report charged, "The lawsuit obviously frightened Deadspin and Phillips. They had several chances to correct the article before the family had to take legal action but didn’t."
Earlier, Phillips had "doubled down on his accusation," the report said. And it pointed out that the images "available" of the fan showed the black and red painting, so "the editor’s note that reads 'based upon the available photo, what appeared to be black face paint' is inaccurate."
The Gateway Pundit had pointed out earlier that what was used in the original report was a "deceptive photo."
Phillips had claimed, "It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people and the native americans at the same time."
That report confirmed, "It turns out Holden Armenta is Native American."
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The federal government's "Censorship Industrial Complex" is being hit with a new lawsuit that challenges it for being "one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history."
A report at The Federalist explains it is working with the Daily Wire and the state of Texas on the legal case.
The case, in U.S. District Court, alleges the U.S. State Department has funded and backed censorship efforts "aimed at bankrupting media outlets with conservative views," according to a report at Twitchy.
The federal bureaucracy, under Joe Biden, is accused of "violating the U.S. Constitution by funding technology to silence Americans who question government claims.
The Federalist explained the lawsuit is to stop government censorship activities "even beyond the dramatic discoveries in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, Murthy v. Missouri (also known as Missouri v. Biden)."
In that case, WND has reported, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty said the feds were playing the Orwellian role of a "Ministry of Truth," that fictional entity in "1984" that was tasked with spreading lies.
That case is now pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. It charges the program set up by the Biden administration worked like this: Since the government cannot directly censor speech, Biden's bureaucrats would work with various sympathetic foundations or other organizations. Biden's officials would tell the foundations what they wanted tech and social media corporations to censor, and those organizations then would lobby the companies to do that.
In the case, attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana sued the Biden administration over its communications with social media companies concerning the censorship of various ideas. They charged that the indirect route to censorship was equally a violation of the First Amendment.
Doughty agreed and ordered government agencies to stop, but the Biden administration, wanting to keep the censorship plan alive, appealed.
The new case accuses federal officials of unlawfully helping suppress conservative-leaning speech on major social media platforms, such as Meta's Facebook, Alphabet's YouTube, and X, formerly Twitter.
The new challenge to Democrats' demands to silence viewpoints with which they disagree charges the State Department "is illegally using a counterterrorism center intended to fight foreign 'disinformation' instead to stop American citizens from speaking and listening to information government officials dislike," the report says.
Additional investigations also have confirmed that government counterterrorism resources and tactics were being used to shape American public opinion and policy.
The Federalist said, "Through grants and product development assistance to private entities including the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and NewsGuard, the lawsuit alleges, the State Department 'is actively intervening in the news-media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress the speech of a segment of the American press.'"
The case builds on the evidence provided by the "Twitter Files" revelations, a series of reports that found federal agencies were working to push literally all social media monopolies to hide and punish tens of millions of conservative posts.
Biden's Department of Justice even now is trying to jail an American citizen for posting election jokes on social media.
The report continued, "The Fifth Circuit refrained from stopping the State Department’s participation in the 'vast censorship enterprise' that Murthy v. Missouri uncovered because, the court said, it hadn’t seen enough evidence of that agency’s involvement. This new lawsuit from Texas, The Federalist, and The Daily Wire provides such evidence."
It charges that the State's "Globel Engagement Center" actually is "the lead in coordinating the government’s efforts to silence speech.”
The lawsuit accuses the State and its officials of evaluating more than 365 tools "for scrubbing the internet of disfavored information."
The most effective then are given to "favored media outlets, academics and government agencies" and Silicon Valley tech companies.
They are purported to be "fact-checking technologies, media literacy tools, media intelligence platforms, social network mapping, and machine learning/artificial intelligence technology."
A key strategy is that used by NewsGuard, which claims to "rate" the reliability of news organizations, a system that then deprives "leftists' media competitors" of ad dollars by falsely claiming they distribute "disinformation" and are "unreliable."
The report said companies including YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Best Buy, Exxon Mobil, Kellogg, MasterCard, and Verizon have fallen for the false statements.
The report charged, "All of the outlets on GDI’s 'least risky' list have helped spread some of the government’s biggest disinformation operations in the last decade. Those include the Russia collusion hoax and Hunter Biden laptop stories, which influenced national elections in favor of Democrats. The 10 'least risky' outlets have also widely published notable misinformation such as claims that Covid vaccines prevent disease transmission, the Covington student insult hoax, and evidence-free claims that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a serial gang rapist."
The case is in the U.S. federal court for the Eastern District of Texas.
It seeks a ruling that the State Department's actions be declared illegal and to permanently bar it from developing, promoting, or encouraging others to use technology to de-amplify, shadow ban, or restrict "the lawful speech of the American press and Americans."
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The evidence of Joe Biden's involvement in the business deals run by his son, Hunter, just continues to add up.
Congress right now is investigating what the Biden family's operations included, and has found dozens of shell company bank accounts that took in tens of millions of dollars from foreign nationals including Russians and Chinese in recent years.
At the same time, the family apparently provided no product or service for those millions – except for access to Joe Biden and his influence as a vice president, then former vice president, and now president.
Joe Biden is even on video at one point boasting about how he forced Ukraine to fire a prosecutor that was investigating corruption at Burisma, a gas company that was, at the time, paying Hunter Biden $1 million a year to be on its board.
In that situation, there's also an FBI document claiming that a Burisma official paid Joe and Hunter $5 million bribes, apparently to get rid of that prosecutor. Joe Biden, in fact, did get him fired.
Joe Biden has said many times that he never had any discussions with Hunter about business dealings, didn't participate and wasn't even aware of them.
House investigators putting together all the evidence for a potential impeachment trial of Joe Biden say there's a lot of evidence he was lying.
And now more has surfaced, with Slay News documenting that Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden's business associates "hundreds" of times while vice president.
"Bombshell new records released by the House Ways & Means Committee have revealed that Joe Biden used email aliases to speak with his son’s business associates hundreds of times while in office as [Barack] Obama’s vice president," the report charged.
The committee has obtained metadata from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, and those details show Joe Biden "used alias email accounts 327 times during a nine-year period from 2010 to 2019 to discuss shady foreign business deals," the report said.
He was talking with Hunter and one of Hunter's key business associates, Eric Schwerin, among others, the report said.
It said most of the conversations happened while Joe Biden was vice president, and his family was involved in a plan to set up dozens of shell company bank accounts. Those accounts, House investigators say, later were used to collect tens of millions of dollars of payments to the Biden family from individuals in China, Russia and other locations.
The committee releasing the details said 54 were “exclusively” between Joe Biden and Schwerin, who was described as "the architect of the Biden family’s shell companies."
The income allegedly was to purchase influence with Joe Biden, as the family apparently provided no other service or product for the millions.
House Oversight Committee chief Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., earlier confirmed the existence of the email alias schemes by Biden.
Many of the emails between Joe Biden and Schwerin were grouped around Biden's visit to Ukraine, about the time Hunter Biden was on the Burisma board.
The report explained, "Hunter Biden joined the board of the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings in April 2014. Biden has acknowledged that when he was vice president he successfully pressured the Ukrainian government to fire Ukraine’s top prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings for corruption and fraud."
While Joe Biden claims he ordered the firing of the prosecutor because he was corrupt, a U.S. State Department investigation at the time found no such evidence.
"Investigators even praised Shokin for making sufficient progress in implementing anti-corruption reforms," the report said.
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chair of the Ways & Means Committee said, "Vice President Biden appears to have treated Air Force Two like a corporate jet, traveling to Ukraine and Mexico to advance Hunter Biden’s business interests.
"Evidence from today’s documents show right around the time of international trips like those to Ukraine, Joe Biden was emailing his son and his son’s business partner from private email accounts using aliases while vice president."
While Joe Biden had claimed for years he never spoke to his son about business, when evidence started appearing that story was changed to that he was "never in business" with Hunter.
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Leftists rioted violently all across the U.S. during 2020, following the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
But the riots, which decimated large districts of hundreds of towns and cities with billions in damages, and were in fact, extremely violent despite legacy reporters calling them "mostly peaceful" while standing in front of a burning city block, are now more than riots.
They are a "tactic," according to Christopher F. Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
In a column there, he explained those riots have been resurrected by extremists in support of Hamas' terror attack in October in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were butchered.
Those riots, on and off campus alike, reveal "a disturbing truth: the left-wing rioting following George Floyd’s death in 2020 was not an anomaly, but a tactic that activists can repurpose for any cause," he explained.
And, he noted, the presidential race of 2024 is approaching.
"Conservative leaders must prepare for that prospect. To prevent 2020 from repeating itself in 2024, conservatives need to consider what might spark a riot, how it can be prevented, and how to understand and manage the politics of rioting.
"First, what could generate a riot season? Left-wing agitation has some familiar causes: a police-involved death of a black person; an international conflict; an economic crisis. But another threat looms. Former president Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, faces multiple criminal indictments. Trump may well be convicted and imprisoned, likely yielding explosive consequences, including possible violence from both sides of the ideological divide," he warned.
The protest industry already is well-established and well-funded, he noted.
"Protest NGOs, media entities, research centers, black-bloc (Antifa) networks, and bail funds are all finely tuned to mobilize mass movements. The Left carefully manages its licit and illicit factions: progressive political leaders tacitly delegate the dirty work to anarchist and racialist factions, which can change costumes—for example, from a BLM mask to a Palestinian keffiyeh—at any moment," he charged.
Officials in GOP states should start preparing, he said, by having law enforcement set up task forces to monitor violence-prone organizations, to infiltrate them and to disrupt their destructive plans.
Arrest and prosecute offenders, he said.
To disrupt an individual squad often is to disrupt a network, he said.
Penalties for rioting need to be upped and National Guard units need training in anti-riot tactics, he said.
That was proven effective in Florida in 2020, he pointed out, with the state's "zero tolerance" practice for violence holding down the looting and destruction found in other states.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in fact, built on that agenda when a hurricane hit this year, with his slogan, "You loot, we shoot."
But those involved in preventing such crime need to be alert, as "the Left has mastered the tactic of baiting law enforcement into a reaction, framing any response as 'authoritarian' and using the national media to shift public opinion," he explained.
Also, an "air war" involving airwaves can be launched.
"Whether by choice or necessity, political leaders can enact a policy of containment, leaving the mayhem in certain neighborhoods for local authorities to handle, while waging a battle for public opinion in the media and blaming the political Left for the violence and destruction," he said.
"How might the politics of a riot season unfold next year?" he speculated. "Civil disorder has often benefited the challenger in recent presidential elections. Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 following major riots, just as Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020 after similar unrest. Bill Clinton also won as a challenger in 1992, a year that saw the Los Angeles riots. Voters react against disorder, which they lay at the feet of whoever occupies the highest office. If a Trump-Biden rematch takes place in 2024 and violence breaks out, voters might well blame Biden, just as they blamed Trump in 2020."
Conservatives, he said, should organize plans to deter violence, and then adopt rhetorical strategies to condemn the cause of the riots.
"The time to prepare is now."
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A Catholic school in Michigan is asking an appeals court for help in stopping a takeover of the institution by leftist politicians who want it to promote their sex ideologies.
It is the St. Joseph Parish, in a lawsuit against Attorney General Dana Nessel and other state officials, that is asking the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to "protect its ability to guide its church and school community" without following the political and ideological demands of state officials.
At issue is a new state demand that makes it illegal for St. Joseph "to hire staff who agree to uphold its religious beliefs and bars it from maintaining a church and school environment that reflects its faith," according to a report from Becket, a specialized legal team that fights for Americans' religious rights.
The lawsuit had been dismissed earlier by a lower court, so St. Joseph is asking the appellate judges to reinstate the action, and let "St. Joseph run its parish and school activities consistent with its Catholic beliefs about human sexuality and marriage."
"For over a century, St. Joseph has existed to serve its local community and help its parish and school grow deeper in the faith," said William Haun, senior counsel at Becket. "St. Joseph must have the freedom to foster an environment that is faithful to its Catholic identity to continue that mission."
Becket reported St. Joseph Catholic Church has since 1857 served the local Catholic community of St. Johns, Michigan.
It started its school in 1924 to give Catholic families "a Catholic education rooted in the teachings of the church."
Like most religious schools, it hires teachers and staff to support and advance Catholic beliefs.
And it asks them to be practicing Catholics and to uphold the faith.
It also treats children as boys and girls and provides separate locker rooms and bathrooms, which in today's world is an offense to the transgender ideology that Joe Biden has been promoting from the White House.
However, the state changed its civil rights law specifically to provide special protections for "sexual orientation and gender identity" and deliberately left out any protections for religious organizations.
That led Nessel to describe Michigan residents of faith as "bigots."
The state has admitted that its agenda penalizes the Catholic school just for exercising its religion. It has ordered the school to ask for state permission if it wants to live by its faith.
"Constitutional rights don’t come with permission slips. Michigan cannot tell St. Joseph and every other religious organization in the state that they are breaking the law by staying true to their religious beliefs," said Haun. "We are asking the court to step in and ensure that religious groups across the state can live out their faith and not be sued simply because they open their doors to everyone."
The appellate court filing explains the state's goal was to "penalize religious objectors who could not endorse same-sex marriage or gender transitions."
The fact that the district court failed to recognize and act on the state's violation of St. Joseph's constitutional rights is a reversible error, the filing charges.
"St. Joseph is engaged in core religious exercise: worshipping and handing on the faith," the filing explains. The document notes that the Constitution allows the school to "uphold its Catholic identity."
The state adopted a novel "reinterpretation" of the law and then prosecuted those religious individuals and organizations that failed to follow that leftist ideology, the filing explains.
Nessel officially attacked those of faith, saying they are not religious heroes, but "bigots."
When the law was considered in the legislature, state Sen. Jeremy Moss said the government must prevent "religion" from discriminating "against someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity."
That ideology conflicts with recent Supreme Court precedent on the same issue.
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Joe Biden's demands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in the U.S. military hold a very dark meaning, even darker than the concept that quotas have to be established and filled for the latest group claiming an alternative sexual lifestyle choice.
It means he's "intent on destroying our military by dividing us further," according to a member of Congress who discussed the leftist ideology with The Washington Stand.
It is Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., who said the Democrats' social agenda for soldiers and sailors is "doing nothing but divide us in the military, dividing our nation."
It was in an interview with "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" that he condemned Biden's demands that the armed forces indoctrinate soldiers in Biden's chosen leftist belief system.
Already, the Department of Defense under Biden has called for $114.7 million to teach "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility" to the nation's fighting forces.
And the DoD wants to push those values and objectives until they are embedded in the ranks.
"The budget request in the pending National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) shows the budget dedicated to teaching the race-based ideology in the U.S. military increasing from $68 million in 2022 to $86.5 million in the last fiscal year," the report said.
The Washington Stand noted that Democrats already had been accused of turning the military into a social engineering experiment and now claim it's all to make the ranks a "safe space."
Their Fiscal Year 2024 demand states, "The Department is committed to building a safe environment to serve. This includes fully embracing a diversity of backgrounds, experience, and thought to build unity within the DoD."
The Biden goals, reflected by the administration's own statements, include making the military a channel for inclusion and diversity.
Those ideologies, the DoD claims, are the foundation of "warfighting and national security," the Biden administration claims.
"This administration and the Obama administration before them are intent on destroying our military by dividing us further," Alford explained in his interview with Perkins.
The scheme is for Congress to keep the leftist agenda alive for the military even though Republicans have offered "amendment after amendment" to dispense with the social engineering.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, also has complained about Biden's social agenda for soldiers and airmen, telling Perkins House Republicans have a plan that removes those components from U.S. military priorities.
The report said, "Both congressmen emphasized the fact that divisive left-wing ideology that reduces all transactions to 'power' based on race, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity corrodes military unit cohesion and retards readiness."
"The Biden admin’s focus on progressivism over warfighting continues to exacerbate the military recruiting crisis and calls into question our level of military preparedness," explained Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
"Does Joe Biden want the military to be a lethal fighting force or a clown show?" asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R_Ga.
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Noted historian and Hillsdale College professor Victor Davis Hanson is issuing a warning to the United States, that the Democrats essentially will do anything they see necessary to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Hanson has a long list of credits, including his position as the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, as a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
A report at The Gateway Pundit summarized his comments with: "The essence of Hanson’s message is a reminder of how far the left went to stop Trump last time and that people should be prepared for them to do anything this time."
The report said, "It’s an ominous warning but it’s important to think ahead and be mentally prepared for anything, because that’s what is on the table."
His comments include: "They look at Trump as a vampire and they put a stake in his heart but they’re afraid that that stake could come out any time. That he’s undying and they’re afraid of him. They are terrified of him."
He explained, "They are terrified of him because they think he’s smarter this time and he has just cause to really get angry because of what they did to him. They can write all of The Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker clever, glib little essays about 'Donald Trump is a threat to democracy,' and their little Molly Ball in Time Magazine essays how clever and brilliant they were with their cabals and conspiracies to get rid of him.
"But deep down inside they know that if the right ever did that to Barack Obama or Joe Biden, they could have really made something out of the fact that Barack Obama had a hot mic expose where he told the president of Russia, 'You tell Vladimir that I will be flexible on missile defense.' That’s the security of the United States of America. 'If he gives me space in my last election.' Putin did do that. That’s an impeachable offense if a phone call to Ukraine is. So they understand that, the right could have done that to them, and they understand now the right probably will do that to them for their own survival, and they are scared."
Hanson noted, "They’re saying that if a MAGA candidate wins, and they win the House and Senate, they’re cooked because they’re going to get special prosecutors and go after the Biden family like they’ve never gone after anybody."
He turned blunt, "You're never going to see anything like what they're going to do in 2024."
And he charged that Democrats simply cannot run on their record, so their only pitch to Americans is a "hate-Trump" ideology.
He cited that, under Democrats, election laws were changed, including absentee and voter ID laws.
And they demanded to "pack" the Supreme Court.
And they threatened to destroy the Senate filibuster.
Further, he said, they refuse to close the southern border, even though "anybody in his right mind would close that border right now."
And there are prosecutors who have "destroyed" major cities.
And Biden has "begged" Saudis and Venezuelans and Russians to pump more oil when America has so much, "nobody in their right mind would do that."
And the catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan.
And mass printing of money. And inflation.
"They know that they can't take that record to the American people."
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The mouthpieces for Joe Biden's White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Andrew Bates, were told they were not allowed to slam Republicans as "MAGA" members, but then did so anyway, according to a new report.
The Daily Mail explains the independent Office of Special Counsel said the two participated in actions "contrary" to official guidance on federal law when they used the "MAGA" moniker to slam Republicans.
It is the Hatch Act that prohibits federal employees from promoting a political ideology while being paid by taxpayers.
The violation happened only after Jean-Pierre already was warned against violating the law that is intended to prevent federal employees from using their positions to influence elections.
It was the OSC that told government officials last summer that "MAGA" and other related terms were "off-limits" because they were being seen as campaign-related slogans.
Jean-Pierre then, after, was found to be in violation of the law with her use of that term, the report said.
A White House official claimed the Democrats running the administration "take the law seriously," and Jean-Pierre often cites the law when she refuses to answer questions about Biden that may be considered campaign-related.
But both Jean-Pierre and Bates used the word "MAGA" repeatedly to demonize Republicans.
"The complaint against the duo was filed by a conservative watchdog group called Protect the Public's Trust, which is run by former Trump administration official Michael Chamberlain," the report explained.
He told NBC News, "Apparently, nobody takes the Hatch Act very seriously, at least nobody that matters. Ms. Jean-Pierre cites it frequently to avoid tough questions, but when she and her deputy received the initial warning from OSC, they doubled down."
A report at NBC confirmed Jean-Pierre and the White House had been warned about using the "MAGA" term, and continued to do it.
The OSC had delivered guidance over the summer that determined the descriptive were off-limits after Jean-Pierre blasted "mega MAGA Republicans" heading into the 2022 election.
Later, she continued using the term, with her condemnation of a "hardcore MAGA" budget, while Bates went after "MAGA tax welfare."
The OSC, however, announced no punishment for the apparently willful violations, saying only it would watch for future infractions.
"According to a review by NBC News, Bates used the 'MAGA' acronym — referring to 'MAGAnomics' — as recently as Monday in a memo about Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, days after Trump said he was 'seriously looking at alternatives,'" the report said.
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Joe Biden's history of verbal gaffes, misstatements and just plain lies dates back a generation or more.
He dropped out of one of his multiple presidential campaigns years ago because he plagiarized in a speech.
But he's taken his verbal antics to a whole new level now: He's boasting that his "Marine" has the code "to blow up the world."
The stunning comment came during Biden's visit Wednesday to Colorado to promote his green ideology.
At a tour of the CS Wind facility, which makes wind towers, near Pueblo, he abruptly blurted it out.
"Look, my Marine has a code to blow up the world … that doesn't … this is not nuclear weapons, is it?"
According to The Gateway Pundit, "The workers giving Biden the tour awkwardly laughed as he told them about the code to blow up the world."
In fact, the president always is accompanied by a military officer carrying what sometimes is called the nuclear "football," which would allow him to confirm his identity and give orders should the nation be facing a nuclear attack.
It was installed as a practice for every president after President John F. Kennedy wondered, "What would I say to the Joint War Room to launch an immediate nuclear strike?" and "How would the person who received my instructions verify them?"
The report did note that Biden successfully navigated the steps to get off his jet, steps that have proven problematic for him multiple times.