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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden Regime; Calls on Admin to Reinstate Trump’s Successful Border Policy
Former Democratic lawmaker and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has slammed the Biden regime for its catastrophic handling of the ongoing crisis along the US-Mexico border, calling on the administration to immediately reinstate Trump’s effective border policies.
Gabbard, a left-wing populist who Hillary Clinton attempted to smear as a “Russian asset” during the 2016 presidential primaries, took to Twitter to express her deep discontent with the Biden regime’s mismanagement of the United States’ southern border, which prominent figures like Tucker Carlson insist is being mishandled on purpose to accelerate the demographic shift of the country.
“The Biden/Harris open-door policy has been a disaster,” the former lawmaker from Hawaii wrote. “It needs to end now. The main beneficiaries of open borders are gangs, cartels, and human traffickers. The Trump policy of having people wait on the other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated.”
Biden’s Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70,000 To $700,000?
Joe Biden didn’t just announce a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on companies employing 100 or more people, he plans to enforce it.
On Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill, passed it out of the Budget Committee, and sent it to the House floor.
Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.
The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations—almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden’s announced mandate.
The Biden Administration has already started implementing its vaccine mandate enforcement blueprint:
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set precedent this summer and published an emergency Covid-19 rule in the Federal Register taking jurisdiction over and providing justification for Covid-19 being a workplace hazard for healthcare employment.
- Early in September, Biden announced his 100-or-more employee Covid-19 vaccine mandate and tasked OSHA with drafting an enforcement rule to...
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7 Takeaways as Milley, Austin, McKenzie Testify on Afghanistan, China Phone Calls
In some cases, the answers were surprising. In other cases, the answers were surprising only in hearing top U.S. military leaders state publicly what already was suspected.
The Senate Armed Services Committee got some answers Tuesday from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command.
Most questions from senators focused on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, but they also wanted to know about Milley’s now infamous calls to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, while Donald Trump was still president.
Austin, Milley, and McKenzie are set to testify Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee.
Here are seven big takeaways from their appearance at the Senate hearing.
1. Military to Biden: Leave 2,500 Troops
Milley and McKenzie each said they had backed keeping 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan and feared less than that would risk that country’s falling into chaos.
Milley said he wouldn’t disclose what he advised Biden, but then appeared to do so immediately afterward.
“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation,” Milley said. “And I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.”
McKenzie affirmed the same, but said he also would not share his confidential conversation with President Joe Biden.
“I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time,” McKenzie said during questioning from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the committee’s ranking member.
“Those were my personal views,” he said. “I also have a view that a withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., inquired whether either of the generals advised Biden on the hasty Afghan exit.
“If all this is true, Gen. Milley, why haven’t you resigned?” Cotton asked.
Milley answered that he was devoted to civilian control of the military.
“Resigning is a really serious thing. It’s a political act, if I’m resigning in protest,” Milley said. “My job is to provide advice. … That’s what the law is. The president doesn’t have to agree with that advice.”
Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2019, added:
It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken. My dad didn’t get a choice to resign at Iwo Jima. And those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get the choice to resign. And I’m not going to turn my back on them.
Abbey Gate is the entrance to the Kabul airport where the terrorist bombing occurred June 29, killing 13 American service members.
2. What Generals Say When Asked if Biden Lied?
Biden said in an Aug. 19 interview with ABC News that he didn’t “recall” anyone making a recommendation to him about leaving a troop contingency behind in Afghanistan, which the U.S. and coalition forces invaded in late 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House official, asked Biden: “Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.”
Biden responded: “No, they didn’t. It was split. That wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.”
Stephanopoulos gave him another chance in the interview.
Biden answered: “No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out, in a time frame, all troops. They didn’t argue against that.”
Stephanopoulos, as if aware otherwise, asked yet again.
“So your military advisers did not tell you we should just keep 2,500 troops? It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that.”
Biden held firm.
“No. No one said that to me that I can recall,” the president answered.
Biden’s credibility has come under question on numerous points regarding the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan.
Cotton asked Austin, a retired four-star Army general, whether Biden was telling the truth.
“I know the president to be an honest and forthright man,” Austin replied.
After Cotton asked for a direct answer, the secretary said, using passive voice: “Their input was received by the president, for sure.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, later pushed the generals on Biden’s statement.
“He’s not telling the truth to the American people,” Sullivan said. “The president said none of his military advisers told him that he should keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Milley, that was a false statement by the president of the United States, was it not?”
Milley first wavered.
“I didn’t even see the statement, to tell you the truth,” Milley said.
After being pressed, he said: “I’m not going to categorize a statement of the president of the United States.”
Sullivan asked McKenzie: “Remember, you do not have to cover for the president when he’s not telling the truth. Was that a false statement or not?”
McKenzie also didn’t answer directly.
“I’ve given you my opinion on the matter,” McKenzie said. “I’ve given you my judgment.”
Sullivan said, “I think we all know it was a false statement.”
Notably, neither the defense secretary nor the two generals said Biden made a true statement.
Biden said in an Aug. 19 interview with ABC News that he didn’t “recall” anyone making a recommendation to him about leaving a troop contingency behind in Afghanistan, which the U.S. and coalition forces invaded in late 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House official, asked Biden: “Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.”
Biden responded: “No, they didn’t. It was split. That wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.”
Stephanopoulos gave him another chance in the interview.
Biden answered: “No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out, in a time frame, all troops. They didn’t argue against that.”
Stephanopoulos, as if aware otherwise, asked yet again.
“So your military advisers did not tell you we should just keep 2,500 troops? It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that.”
Biden held firm.
“No. No one said that to me that I can recall,” the president answered.
Biden’s credibility has come under question on numerous points regarding the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan.
Cotton asked Austin, a retired four-star Army general, whether Biden was telling the truth.
“I know the president to be an honest and forthright man,” Austin replied.
After Cotton asked for a direct answer, the secretary said, using passive voice: “Their input was received by the president, for sure.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, later pushed the generals on Biden’s statement.
“He’s not telling the truth to the American people,” Sullivan said. “The president said none of his military advisers told him that he should keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Milley, that was a false statement by the president of the United States, was it not?”
Milley first wavered.
“I didn’t even see the statement, to tell you the truth,” Milley said.
After being pressed, he said: “I’m not going to categorize a statement of the president of the United States.”
Sullivan asked McKenzie: “Remember, you do not have to cover for the president when he’s not telling the truth. Was that a false statement or not?”
McKenzie also didn’t answer directly.
“I’ve given you my opinion on the matter,” McKenzie said. “I’ve given you my judgment.”
Sullivan said, “I think we all know it was a false statement.”
Notably, neither the defense secretary nor the two generals said Biden made a true statement.
3. About Those China Phone Calls
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1491
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
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If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
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