Trump March 25 rally ~ links UPDATED

Reposted from yesterday with updates:

Newsweek’s Ewan Palmer has the announcement of Donald Trump’s rally tomorrow, and the report casts the rally in as negative a light as possible.  What a surprise:

Donald Trump has come under fire over his upcoming rally in Waco, Texas, with the former president facing a number of potential headaches as he attempts to kick-start his 2024 campaign.

Trump will appear at his first major public 2024 rally in the Lone Star state on Saturday, March 25, while facing a potential historic indictment in New York as part of an investigation into alleged hush money paid to Stormy Daniels.

Trump's team announced the Waco rally on March 17, one day before the former president claimed on social media that he would be arrested under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's probe and called for his supporters to protest. . . .

Read the full report here.  The rally is scheduled to begin at 5pm Central Time (6 pm Eastern Time). This blog will confirm times and update tomorrow afternoon with links to Rumble and livestreams. 

UPDATE Mar-25 at 12:25pm:  Right Side Broadcast Network RSBN is streaming all day. Click here. 

UPDATE Mar-25 at 4:40pm: Rumble livestream is here.

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Trump rally in Texas on Saturday March 25 6pm UPDATED

 

Newsweek’s Ewan Palmer has the announcement of Donald Trump’s rally tomorrow, and the report casts the rally in as negative a light as possible.  What a surprise:

Donald Trump has come under fire over his upcoming rally in Waco, Texas, with the former president facing a number of potential headaches as he attempts to kick-start his 2024 campaign.

Trump will appear at his first major public 2024 rally in the Lone Star state on Saturday, March 25, while facing a potential historic indictment in New York as part of an investigation into alleged hush money paid to Stormy Daniels.

Trump's team announced the Waco rally on March 17, one day before the former president claimed on social media that he would be arrested under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's probe and called for his supporters to protest. . . .

Read the full report here.  The rally is scheduled to begin at 5pm Central Time (6 pm Eastern Time). This blog will confirm times and update tomorrow afternoon with links to Rumble and livestreams. 

UPDATE Mar-25 at 12:25pm:  Right Side Broadcast Network RSBN is streaming all day. Click here. 

UPDATE Mar-25 at 4:40pm: Rumble livestream is here.

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Exemptions to the vaccine mandate!

 

Are the vaccine mandates about public health or politics?  That’s an easy one.  Here’s the report from Darragh Roche at Newsweek:

President Joe Biden's new vaccine mandates for federal employees don't apply to members of Congress or those who work for Congress or the federal court system.

Biden issued two executive orders on Thursday requiring vaccination against COVID for federal workers and contractors who work for the federal government. He also asked the Department of Labor to issue an emergency order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis.

However, Biden's order on federal workers applies to employees of the executive branch. The House of Representatives and the Senate belong to the separate legislative branch, and the courts to the judicial branch of the federal government.

Read the rest here.

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Nigel Farage: Every state is now a border state

Since my husband is a naturalized US citizen – and he played by all the rules to earn his American citizenship -- this article by Nigel Farage caught my attention.  Forget that it’s Newsweek;  the full article is here.  Here’s the start:

On my tour of America over the last few weeks, I have inevitably spent a certain amount of time watching cable TV in hotel rooms. A recurring story that has cropped up on the news is the border crisis. Many of the images I've seen showed large groups of immigrants being rounded up. Others, which were even more distressing, depicted young children who have simply been abandoned.

The total number of people who have come into the U.S. illegally so far this year is unknown. Some estimates claim it is as high as 700,000. Many—perhaps most—voters agree that it is at an unsustainable level. Yet given the Biden administration's reluctance to return any of these people to their home nation, the upshot is that every state is now a border state.

It is fascinating to compare Joe Biden's handling of this situation with the approach of one of his Democratic predecessors, Bill Clinton. When Clinton delivered his State of the Union address in 1995, he received a standing ovation from Congress for his comments on illegal immigration, in which he repeatedly referred to those who were in the country illegally as "illegal aliens" or "criminal aliens." Clinton would not get away with uttering these words today, in the "new" America.

Although every commentator continues to describe this situation as a "crisis," I would suggest the time has come to call it an emergency. And yet as a political issue, doing so could prove to be electoral dynamite in the midterm elections of 2022. For those people who have done the right thing and entered America legally, the idea that those who came illegally—or those who have been trafficked—will soon have to have the same rights as them is an insult. It is for this reason that I believe this situation offers much hope to Republican candidates, especially when it comes to appealing to Latino voters.

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I decided that I would visit the border following a speaking event in Phoenix. What I discovered there is far more sinister and dangerous than anything that I could find on cable TV.

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There is no getting away from the fact that this is a criminal enterprise from start to finish, and all American voters need to be told this truth. 

FTA: “For those people who have done the right thing and entered America legally, the idea that those who came illegally—or those who have been trafficked—will soon have to have the same rights as them is an insult.”  Yup.

Full article is here.

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COVID-19 lockdowns are the “biggest public health mistake”

 

Meme via Patriot Post

This report is from Matthew Impalli at Newsweek:

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, recently said that COVID-19 lockdowns are the "biggest public health mistake we've ever made...The harm to people is catastrophic."

Several U.S. states have started to ease their COVID-19 restrictions over the past few weeks.

Bhattacharya, who made the comments during an interview with the Daily Clout, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, a petition that calls for the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, claiming that they are "producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."

As of Monday, the Great Barrington Declaration has received signatures from over 13,000 medical and public health scientists, more than 41,000 medical practitioners and at least 754,399 "concerned citizens."

During the interview last month, Bhattacharya said that the declaration comes from "two basic facts."

"One is that people who are older have a much higher risk from dying from COVID than people who are younger...and that's a really important fact because we know who his most vulnerable, it's people that are older. So the first plank of the Great Barrington Declaration: let's protect the vulnerable," Bhattacharya said. "The other idea is that the lockdowns themselves impose great harm on people. Lockdowns are not a natural normal way to live."

He continued, "it's also not very equal. People who are poor face much more hardship from the lockdowns than people who are rich."

More of the report is here.  

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Gov. John Kasich: who knew?

A.F. Branco cartoon via Powerlineblog

S. Noble at the Independent Sentinel reports:

Governor Kasich showed his true colors in a tweet, fully rejecting the President’s agenda. Kasich is a globalist and he’s with Hillary. He is opposed to Trump’s concept of America First because he wants to have his Kumbaya moment in history with the leftists of the world.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) criticized President Trump over his rebuke of “globalism” during remarks at the United Nations, while stealing a slogan from Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Kasich warned Trump that his policy of “America First” could result in “America Alone.” He added that the U.S. and other nations are “Stronger Together,” a nod to Clinton’s campaign slogan.

Forget sovereignty, forget borders, and let’s lead from behind. If anyone ever doubted Kasich’s loyalties lie with the left, doubt no more.

Read more here. And as of last winter, Gov. Kasich didn't rule out a 2020 run for the Presidency? 

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Healthcare in 2018

cartoon by Jake Fuller via caymancompass.com

Residents in Geneva, New York have been promoting single-payer (i.e., government-run) healthcare as better than healthcare provided by the private sector:

Those supporting an effort to get universal health care in New York — including members of a fledgling organization in Geneva — hope to convince state legislators of the need through the stories of their constituents.

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The goal is to gather information with these surveys to help lobby lawmakers to support the New York Health Act, which would provide comprehensive, universal health coverage to all state residents, and which would replace private insurance coverage.

Coverage would be funded through a graduated tax on payroll and non-payroll taxable income, based on ability to pay. 

These people should be careful what they wish for. Even with the Obamacare mandate eliminated, repealing the entire Obamacare bill remains a legislative priority for President Trump. It should be a priority for McConnell and Ryan, because this is what government-run healthcare looks like (posted at Hannity.com on Jan-03-18):

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service announced this week that it was canceling all “routine operations” until February, saying all “non-emergency” procedures will be delayed after a flu-outbreak left hospitals overcrowded and under-funded.

According to the Telegraph, the nation’s government-run health services axed over 50,000 operations in every hospital in the UK following claims by doctors that patients were being treated as if they were in “third world countries.”

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The chaos comes as prominent Democrats and liberal legislators like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders advocate for a similar, single-payer healthcare system in the United States. Left-wing advocates often point to Canada and the United Kingdom as an “ideal” vision for the future of America’s health industry.

The NHS is closing clinics, cancelling surgeries, the hospitals are overcrowded, they are even “running out of corridor space,” and there are ambulances lined up outside. 

At present, the Senate does not have enough GOP votes to repeal Obamacare (see here). The elimination of the mandate was a good start, but just a start. I still think that if the exemption from Obamacare currently enjoyed by members of Congress were eliminated, they'd find a way to get the job done.

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Today was Refuse Fascism Day

 photo credit: popglitz.com

Cleveland was one of the 20 cities or so hosting a national protest against Donald Trump. It was announced on several websites for today at Pubic Square at 1pm. I could not find anything at cleveland.com or tv sites. I did find a Twitchy thread here, with photos from a few locations. And the LA Daily News reported on the LA event: 

LOS ANGELES >> A protest against President Donald Trump drew a group of counter-demonstrators in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 4, with the two groups kept apart by police.

The group Refuse Fascism started the demonstration at Pershing Square at 1 p.m. as part of an organized across the United States.

One anti-Trump protester was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department for repeated attempts to broach the makeshift barricades set up to keep the groups separated.

The event got off to a slow start. Dee Cole, 46, of Lancaster said she was disappointed with what she saw as a low turnout. “Not a lot of people must be watching the news,” she said.

Randy Dixon, 57, watched the protesters setting up on 5th Street near Hill and pronounced it a waste of time. As he saw it, the rally, with about 150-200 people gathered by 1 p.m., would not have an impact.

“I think it’s crazy. It’s useless. It’s not going to get Trump out of office,” Dixon said. “He’s here for the duration unless they find something illegal about him.”

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The group Refuse Fascism planned the demonstration as part of an organized effort in various cities around the U.S.

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But wait, there’s more to come. A “Scream at the Sky” protest (literally titled "Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election," according to Newsweek) is scheduled for next Wednesday, Nov. 8.  

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