Posted on 07/25/2022 6:21:25 AM PDT by george76
Joe Biden considered declaring climate change an “emergency.” Pressured by his party’s leftist flank, which can’t enact climate-change legislation and wants a work-around
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officials continue to abusively extend their powers. Gov. Kathy Hochul has been extending her “emergency” powers monthly since she declared a state of emergency in November
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The order suspended competitive bidding
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This is a big deal. The state spends our money recklessly at the best of times — but with this “emergency” in place, it doesn’t have to answer to us or even pretend to give expensive contracts to anyone but friends.
The family of Charlie Tebele, owner of Digital Gadgets LLC, has donated almost $300,000 to Hochul’s gubernatorial campaign. By great coincidence, surely, the state has paid Digital Gadgets $637 million for at-home COVID-19 test kits. No bidding, no problem. It’s an emergency, you see.
When they’re not grifting, Democrats nationally have been blatantly using these emergency powers for their own policy goals. There’s been a pause on student-loan payments since March 2020.
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Politicians grabbing power isn’t anything new, but keeping Americans in a heightened state of panic to do it is unwise. The pandemic wreaked a lot of havoc on our country, but the virus was secondary to the terrible political decisions we were forced to endure.
A June Pew poll found “public trust in government near historic lows.” Who’s surprised by that? Continuing the state of emergency for COVID, and potentially adding new ones such as for climate, is not the way to rebuild it.
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Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Democrats have internalized that as “Get all your political proposals through by keeping the emergency going as long as possible.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
They have an endless supply of Reichstag Fires — none of them actually real.
A $637 MILLION SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT! All because the fake “emergency” allowed her to suspend competitive bidding.
It’s nice to be friends with the Queen.
We are definitely in the late-times Roman decline period.
What does the constitution say about “emergency powers”?
How about we declare an emergency due to the democrats destroy everything good and wholesome about this country? Maybe they should be banned.
The upcoming elections will indirectly tell what we people think about these things
You’re exactly right. They never even want to solve a problem; they intentionally make it worse.
Covid crap and climate change are both BULLSH!T made up by the NWO elites! ... imho
High intelligence is a blessing and a curse. It makes a Cassandra of you, shouting warnings to ears deafened by denial and outright stupidity.
Well the only focus they have is retaining their power and we see this every day via the media - they aren’t fighting for this country at all - they’re destroying it.
Absolutely!
FJB has only just begun to pay off his crime family’s enormous debt (with an enormous vig) to the Red Chinese government. He will stop doing so only when he is stopped ... forcibly stopped.
The Planet controls the Climate everywhere ever since it invented it over a billion years ago ,LOL
The REAL emergency is at our southern border and yet they think it’s a mere nuisance.
They should all be hanging from lamp posts.
AND, monkeypox.
Don’t post comments like that here, please
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