The Marxists's Plan . . . Allowing thousands of illegal immigrants to flood across our southern borders is okay because Democrat Party leaders care so much about helping the poor and downtrodden of the world. With these poor immigrants we get MS-13 gang members, tons of illegal drugs, and enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the country. There’s sex trafficking, kids in cages, and over 90,000 deaths to drug overdoses last year. Thousands of small businesses are closing because workers are paid more to stay home than to work. Raise taxes, raise gas prices, raise the cost of utilities — it’s all good because the rich will just pay more. Let's each our kids to judge others by the color of their skin, not the content of their character. Let’s continue to divide people into tribes and get them to turn on each other. Let’s demoralize our troops, causing them to wonder if their buddy is a racist or not. The Marxists' end goal is the complete collapse of America and turning this nation into just one more socialist/Marxist hell hole. Patriot Post

 

 

 

Biden’s ‘Competition’ Executive Order Realizes a Central Planner’s Dream . . . President Joe Biden on July 9 issued an executive order, purportedly to promote competition. The order, though, is yet another far-left directive to promote federal government intervention in the economy, pushing policies that may not even be authorized by Congress and that could trample on states’ rights.  It punishes economic success and presumes that when a business gets big, its size is inherently harmful. The order would have federal bureaucrats centrally plan the economy and arrogantly assumes they know how industries should be structured. It would empower bureaucrats to further micromanage how businesses operate and serve their customers, such as by trying to dictate airline and shipping practices, meddling with private railroad contracts and threatening the railroads’ property rights, and making it much more difficult for firms across the economy to grow through mergers and acquisitions. The Biden edict claims to promote competition, yet it actually suppresses it and hinders innovation. Daily Signal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texas’ Abbott says Biden, Dems must stop ‘misinformation’ spread on voting bill . . .  Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Republican, took to Twitter late Tuesday to blame President Biden for willfully spreading "misinformation" about the state GOP’s sweeping elections overhaul bill. Biden, who was in Old City, Philadelphia, on Tuesday rebuked the bill in no uncertain terms. He said proponents of the election security measures are engaging in "21st century Jim Crow assault." Biden’s remarks came a day after Texas Democrats decamped for Washington in an effort to deny their GOP-controlled Legislature the necessary quorum to pass a bill placing new restrictions on voting in the state. Fox News

 

More money, more problems: Cheney and Kinzinger feel Trump effect . . . Exile in the House GOP is proving extremely lucrative for Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Cheney and Kinzinger are the most prominent anti-Trump voices among congressional Republicans, casting two of the 10 House GOP votes to impeach the former president and — unlike the other eight — sparing no opportunity in the months since to rebuke a party that has tethered itself to his image. That’s left them in a precarious position as they seek reelection back home and alienated them from the rest of their party in D.C. Politico

 

MSNBC anchor sounds alarm on potential 'red wave' in 2022 . . . MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle offered a dire warning to Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.  "We are more than a year out from the midterms and Democrats are already facing an uphill climb," Ruhle began a segment on Tuesday. "President Biden just met with Eric Adams, New York City's Democratic nominee for mayor after he ran a tough-on-crime campaign. It comes as cities across the country are grappling with a serious surge in violent crime." She continued, "Now Republicans, like former President Trump are seizing on that and trying to tie Democrats and their ‘defund the police’ messaging to heading into next claiming that messaging is the reason for the spike in crime. It's very bad news for Democrats with a razor-thin House majority and a tie in the Senate." Fox News

 

Chinese money launderers team up with Mexican cartels to profit billions from US fentanyl crisis . . . Chinese money launderers and fentanyl-makers have gone into business with Mexican drug cartels, teaming up to make billions of dollars a year trafficking the powerful opioid that is killing thousands of people in the United States. The fentanyl boom facilitated by China represents a third wave of the opioid epidemic, following first an increase in the abuse of prescription painkillers around the turn of the century and then a rise in heroin use. But the fentanyl phase is different in that it involves an international operation of people in multiple countries working together to produce and transport the drugs and then secretly shuttle the profits across U.S. borders. Authorities have long been aware that China and Mexico have teamed up to produce and profit in this endeavor, but in recent years, Chinese businesses have stepped up not to only facilitate the making of fentanyl but also the laundering of profits out of the U.S. Washington Times

 

Iranian Intelligence Officer Charged in Plot to Kidnap US Journalist in New York . . . Federal authorities on Tuesday charged an Iranian intelligence officer and three alleged members of an Iranian intelligence network with plotting to kidnap an American journalist from New York. According to an indictment filed in Manhattan federal court, the kidnapping ploy was part of a broader effort to lure three people from Canada and a person from the United Kingdom to Iran. The New York journalist is not identified in the indictment but is described as a Brooklyn resident, journalist, and human rights activist, who drew attention to Iran’s human rights abuses. The four defendants charged in the kidnapping plot “monitored and planned to kidnap a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin who has been critical of the regime’s autocracy, and to forcibly take their intended victim to Iran, where the victim’s fate would have been uncertain at best,” said U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss. Epoch Times

 

 

U.S. Covid-19 Case Counts Have Doubled in Recent Weeks . . . New Covid-19 cases are on the rise in a number of states across the U.S., worrying health officials and epidemiologists as many Americans remain unvaccinated and the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads. The U.S. is averaging more than 23,000 new cases a day, double the seven-day average of around 11,300 cases three weeks ago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. On 17 of the past 18 days, the seven-day case average was higher than the 14-day average, also suggesting cases have been rising nationally. Wall Street Journal

 

Why home buyers should reconsider buying investment properties for Airbnb . . . Think twice before buying a home as an investment property in the post-pandemic real estate market. That’s what real estate and personal finance experts are advising, considering home price offerings are surging up to 50% over the asking price amid ongoing bidding wars in the competitive market. And with such low inventory and high demand, some home buyers are even waiving inspection contingencies. "Buying a home at the top of the market is bad enough. At least you'll live in it – hopefully for many years -- before you sell at a profit. But if you buy an investment property for top dollar, you risk bottoming out," Howard Dvorkin, a New Jersey-based Certified Public Accountant and chairman of Debt.com, told FOX Business. "You're assuming the red-hot market to buy property will also stay a red-hot market to rent a property. That's a painful amount of risk. Fox Business

 

 

Jan. 6 inmates endure ‘human rights violations on a daily basis,’ bail motion alleges . . . Alleged Capitol rioter and 43-year-old veteran, Dominic Pezzola is now incarcerated in D.C. jail for 150 days. He has been effectively shut out of his own defense in violation of constitutional guarantees specifically for defendants. Pezzola has "literally been in his cell for 22 or 23 hours a day," claim his attorneys. "It is impossible to have a free-flowing conversation" with their client in these "open cages where there is no confidentiality [and] everyone can hear the conversations[,] including prison guards." D.C. jail evidence-review policies also have "the potential to invade attorney-client privilege" and the practical effect of punishing inmates, by putting them in "restrictive housing" for two weeks at a time. Alleging "human rights violations on a daily basis" against January 6 inmates, who are not part of the general jail population, the motion claims "dozens" of them share the same unsanitary nail clippers, exercise is limited at best, access to showers is "nearly nonexistent," and religious services and haircuts are banned. Just the News

 

 

Former Trump adviser's GETTR social media platform reaches 1M users days after launch . . . Former Donald Trump senior adviser Jason Miller’s new social media platform "GETTR" has attracted more than 1.4 million users in the week since its launch, as it seeks to carve out a space in the social media industry. Miller told FOX Business  in an interview this week, "It's the fastest-ever social media platform to reach 1 million users . . ." Miller said that prominent Republicans like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and more have joined the platform, along with other popular conservative voices like Charlie Kirk, Monica Crowley, Rogan O’Handley and more. Fox Business

 

A Humpback Whale Scooped Up A Lobster Diver And Spat Him Out . . . A commercial lobster diver says he escaped relatively unscathed after nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, in a biblical-sounding encounter that whale experts describe as rare but plausible. Michael Packard, 56, said in local interviews and on social media that he was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Mass., on Friday morning when the whale suddenly scooped him up. "I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out," Packard later wrote on Facebook. "I am very bruised up but have no broken bones." The Cape Cod Times reports that Packard was pulled out of the water by his crewman and rushed back to shore, where he was transported to Cape Cod Hospital. He walked — albeit with a limp — out of the hospital that afternoon. NPR