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Excerpt from lidblog.com

If you are like more than half of America, you are finding it harder to pay your bills. For most of us, that is because our annual incomes are no longer adequate to pay our bills. And the soaring amount it takes to be in the middle-class is one reason we are falling behind.

According to the website GOBankingRates.com , Americans are really falling behind during the Biden junta.

In fact, the amount that Americans need to be considered middle-class has risen a whopping 42 percent since 2012 (during the middle of the Obama term).

The minimum average amount to be middle-class in the U.S. is now $50,099 annually. Of course, that does not mean $50K is middle class in every part of the nation. The site notes that in Mississippi that income level is $35,323, yet in Maryland it is $65,641.

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Excerpt from dailycaller.com

President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday it is false that his administration is restricting consumer choice in the automobile market, but his administration recently finalized a rule that will force electric vehicles (EVs) to make up a much larger share of overall auto sales over the next decade.

Biden made the remark during a Tuesday speech about his administration’s decision to significantly bolster tariffs against Chinese products including steel, semiconductor chips and EV batteries. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule in March that requires manufacturers to make EVs constitute between 35% and 56% of new cars sold in 2032, according to CNN.

“Americans, I want to make this clear, notwithstanding what the other guy is saying, can buy any kind of car they want, whether it’s gas, electric or hybrid,” Biden said, referencing former President Donald Trump. “But we’re never going to allow China to unfairly control the market for these cars, period.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

Donald Trump warned in a recent video that the left is trying to bring back Covid lockdowns and mandates ahead of the 2024 election. “The left-wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back Covid lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fear-mongering about the new variants that are coming. Gee whiz, you know what else is coming? An election,” Trump said.

“They want to restart the Covid hysteria so they can justify more lockdowns, more censorship, more illegal drop boxes, more mail-in ballots and trillions of dollars in payoffs to their political allies heading into the 2024 election. Does that sound familiar? These are bad people. These are sick people we’re dealing with.”

Trump issued a message to “every Covid tyrant” who wishes to re-implement these measures and “take away our freedom.”

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

The Republican National Committee (RNC) appears to have little to no on-the-ground operations in key battleground states despite former President Donald Trump narrowly leading President Joe Biden, local GOP and conservative group leaders tell The Federalist. They expressed optimism, however, that the RNC will step up its efforts and suggested it’s “typical” for the RNC not to have its ground game going until about now.

Grassroots organizations are targeting key states such as Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Texas to improve “election processes at the administrative level well before Election Day,” director Josh Findlay of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Elections Protection Project told The Federalist.

Findlay touted the groups’ “huge successes” throughout battleground states with regard to drop box security, absentee ballot procedures, observer access and absentee processing centers. But despite all the work being done on the ground to elect Republicans, the RNC doesn’t seem too involved – though grassroots leaders are hopeful that won’t be the case for long.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

As panic continues to fester within the Biden campaign, the president and his handlers are trying a new tactic: Lifting Donald Trump’s policies.

Pale, senile, and not ready, Joe Biden took to the podium in the Rose Garden on Tuesday to talk tariffs. Of course, as we’ll get to, the possible need for them is the result of yet another terrible policy instituted by the president. No one is better at shooting themselves in the foot than Biden.

Biden claims he’ll impose a 100% tariff on EVs made in China.

He does not mention China barely relies on the U.S. for its EV sales (thanks to President Trump’s Section 301 tariffs) and will simply manufacture vehicles in Mexico, then ship them into the U.S. pic.twitter.com/A0q97tgaUT

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 14, 2024

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Excerpt from pjmedia.com

Donald Trump has called the various cases brought against him by the Biden Justice Department and by left-wing district attorneys “election interference,” and on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre inadvertently appeared to confirm that he is correct….

A reporter decided to ask about this during Tuesday’s White House press briefing.

“Was it appropriate for Speaker Johnson to show up at the trial with the former president today?” the reporter asked.

“So look, I’m — I can’t speak to — don’t want to comment, obviously, as this is related to the 2024 elections,” Jean-Pierre said. “And I can’t speak to the Speaker’s schedule. That is something for him to decide on. And let’s not forget, this is also connected to an independent judicial process. So, going to be really mindful. And he makes his choices on what he does, you know, with — with his business. That is his choice to be made.”

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Excerpt from warroom.org

In 2022, Axios heralded the arrival of a monumental legal battle: the prosecution of President Trump by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the leadership of Jay Bratt, the head of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

However, Independent journalist and reporter Julie Kelly notes a tangible friction between the judiciary and the DOJ, with Bratt leading the charge in this contentious legal struggle.

Bratt, esteemed by the corporate media for his powerful handling of national security and espionage cases, was tasked with spearheading the investigation into potential Trump violations. However, amidst this high-stakes legal drama, independent journalist Julie Kelly presents a starkly different narrative of Bratt, shedding light on alleged discrepancies and malpractices in the DOJ’s handling of the case.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Ohio Sen. J. D. Vance reminded the public on Monday that the judge overseeing the Manhattan lawfare case against former President Donald Trump has a daughter who is a Democrat political operative. It’s an entirely true statement, yet it’s one Trump is prohibited from making himself thanks to a gag order from partisan Judge Juan Merchan — which is why congressional Republicans must show up daily to serve as a voice for the former president and 2024 front-runner.

“The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative. The judge inside, his daughter is making millions of dollars running against Donald Trump, raising money for Donald Trump’s political opponents,” Vance said outside the courthouse. Notably, Judge Merchan himself donated to Biden’s campaign.

Vance’s comments echoed those of Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who joined Trump last week when pornographer Stormy Daniels took the stand. Scott also noted that the daughter of the judge overseeing the case “is a political operative and raises money for Democrats.”

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Excerpt from townhall.com

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is no longer welcome in about 20 percent of her state after two Native American tribes banned her from their reservations after remarks that tribal leaders benefitted from the drug cartels, according to CBS News. While unclear if this will be politically damaging, it’s another headache for the governor, who has experienced a whirlwind of bad press over her controversial memoir, where she details how she dragged the family dog, Cricket, to a hole and shot it to death.

CBS News added that observers feel that Noem stoking the tensions with tribal leaders could be a way to divert attention from the killing of Cricket. It wouldn’t be the first time the Noem administration has had problems with the tribes; from supporting the Keystone Pipeline, along with establishing COVID checkpoints during the pandemic to prevent unsolicited entries into the reservations, also rubbed tribal leaders the wrong way (via CBS News):

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels.

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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com

Abortion is all the Democrats have to run on this year. With a beleaguered economy, an unsecure border and rising crime, Joe Biden’s track record is pretty bleak.

So Democrats are hoping that they can rally liberals to the polls by trashing Donald trump on abortion. Even with Trump’s new states’ rights abortion stance, liberals think they can get enough angry leftists to the polls to  overcome Biden’s deficit on the most important political issues to most Americans.

One of these liberal groups is launching a $25 million campaign to bash Trump for appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe.

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Excerpt from www.newsbusters.org

One feature of wall-to-wall coverage on leftwing cable is that it is unscripted. And on unscripted, not-as-tightly-produced television where you have to fill multiple hours of “analysis” of a single event, such as on this occasion, the trial of former President Donald Trump in New York City, people’s real opinions sometimes just fall out.

Such an occasion happens here, during MSNBC’s Maddow block. Watch as former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki- fresh off of smearing Gold Star parents, now smears the entire State of Alabama as “crazy” (click “expand”):

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Excerpt from townhall.com

Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of some of the pro-Hamas protesters demonstrating on college campuses across the U.S. did not sit well with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).

Last Thursday, Clinton said the students who have been demonstrating on college and university campuses “don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history in many areas of the world, including in our own country.”

The Maryland Democrat, who has been critical of how the Biden administration has handled Israel’s war against Hamas, disagreed with Clinton’s assessment.

“I thought, Margaret, that Secretary Clinton’s comments, in that regard, were quite dismissive of students’ concerns about the awful humanitarian crisis and high civilian death toll in Gaza,” he said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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Excerpt from www.thecollegefix.com

Allege school officials have ‘militarized’ campus, ‘brutally punished’ student protesters

First it was Columbia University students — now “hundreds” of the school’s faculty and staff are planning to go on strike unless officers from the New York Police Department vacate the campus.

The strike will be limited, however; the Columbia Spectator reports the potential strikers still will “do work that directly serves students.”

This means professors won’t “withhold grades, recommendation letters, or other ‘student-serving’ work.”

Those planning to strike said in a Friday press release that the NYPD “has created an unsafe work environment,” most especially for members of minority communities “who are disproportionately profiled by police.”

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

A District of Columbia judge who let an 18-year-old shooter go out on bail earlier this month was found to be engaging in progressive activism on social media.

Lloyd U. Nolan, Jr., who serves in the D.C. Superior Court as a magistrate judge, released Amonte Moody and put him under house arrest despite vehement opposition from prosecutors, according to reporting from Fox News and WUSA-TV.

The accused, a black male, allegedly opened fire from an AR-15 at 2:19 a.m. on April 22 near the intersection of 17th Street and Independence Avenue, SE, according to WUSA.

 

 

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

After months of telling the global public that the current bird flu outbreak, which has infected animals across the planet and has been discovered in 20% of grocery store milk, was no threat to humans – scientists, medical professionals and health organizations are now singing a very different – and terrifying – tune.

According to an article in The Guardian over the weekend, the threat level to humans appears to be much higher than we were led to believe. According to virologist Professor Paul Digard, who has been studying the current outbreak:

“Flu is constantly evolving, and it is clear that a couple of years ago, the current strain of bird flu changed to become supercharged,” says Digard. “Now that it seems to be fairly widespread in the cow population in the US, that’s a much more direct route where it could transmit to people and gain the adaptations it needs to go pandemic.”