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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:
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> It's time to vote Democrats out or start killing them.
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The United States will be operating under a falsified state of
emergency through yet another hotly contested election.

It�s been nearly a month since Joe Biden told �60 Minutes� �the
pandemic is over,� but the federal government he ostensibly
controls is still operating under emergency powers originally
declared two and a half years ago. The administration told The
Daily Caller it plans to renew the state of emergency again
before its current expiration on Oct. 13.

The White House and news media have made it plain that the Biden
administration is extending the state of emergency for political
reasons, not due to a legitimate emergency. USA Today noted that
ending the state of emergency would �complicate� government
officials� desire for Americans to take another round of Covid
booster shots, as new disclosures show the government secretly
paid TV entertainers and pressured social media to push its shot
narrative and validate billions in government contracts to
pharmaceutical companies. The alleged �state of emergency� is
also �keeping millions of Americans on Medicaid� under
expansions approved only for �emergency� purposes.

Democrats also want to keep using Covid as an excuse for other
wasteful and inflationary �emergency� federal spending on
agencies that have demonstrated deep corruption. �And Biden�s
controversial decision to wipe out student loan debt for
millions of Americans rests on the Education Department�s
ability to ease hardship in a national emergency,� USA Today
says.

Extending the declaration would also mean the United States will
be operating under a state of emergency through yet another
hotly contested election. The last time that happened, an
estimated 14.8 million mail-in ballots went missing amid
widespread vote chaos. Courts largely refused to provide any
clarity or accountability amid unprecedented charges of mass
illegal voting, election law violations, mismanagement,
irregularities, and confusion that in several swing states
extended past the entire margin of Biden�s claimed victory.

Permanent Changes During �Emergency� Rule
Given a plausible enough excuse and enough government-generated
fear among the populace, in 2020 the majority of local, state,
and federal elected officials rolled over to leftists� clearly
tactical demands for degrading election integrity. The so-called
�emergency� changes to America�s electoral process largely
remain in place today, two years after they resulted in massive
social strife and widespread distrust in American elections.

States turned election days into election seasons, increasing
the ability of targeted get-out-the-vote tactics to affect
election outcomes. Swing districts allowed Democrat activist
machines to run their election systems and operate Democrat get-
out-the-vote operations through public offices. States filled
mailboxes with ballots, millions of which went missing
(Wisconsin, where I haven�t lived for more than a decade, sent
multiple mail-in ballots for me to my previous addresses,
according to my family.)

Mail-in balloting increases ballot error rates to within the
margin of many electoral victories, allowing election officials
to affect election outcomes by rejecting or accepting votes.
Even if every single election official follows every single
procedure and every voter fills out his mail-in ballot as
accurately as a machine can � which aren�t realistic assumptions
� conducting elections this way is a recipe for unrest among
those ultimately declared the losers in elections that hinge on
razor-thin margins. This is why 70 percent of Democrat voters
this year still agreed that Russian interference elected Donald
Trump and a majority of Republicans polled around the same time
say Joe Biden won in 2020 by cheating.

Covid has been a massively successful excuse for Democrats to
seize political power while destroying U.S. infrastructure and
our nation�s social fabric. Given how much Democrats have won in
just two years making sure this crisis didn�t go to waste, why
wouldn�t they keep Americans rolling from one crisis to another,
largely of their own making? What incentives do power-mongers
have to end not just our technical state of emergency, but to
solve any problems whatsoever? Instead, they seem to prefer to
keep amplifying crises, because this gives them constant
pretexts for abnormal and totalitarian measures.

Never-Ending Supply of Manufactured Emergencies
Consider the other national emergencies Biden has exacerbated
while in office. Should Biden lose Covid as an excuse for his
administration�s lawless and barely restrained exercise of
power, he has several other options. One of them would be
turning our nation�s proxy war with Russia over Ukraine into a
hot war between nuclear powers. Now, that may be a legitimate
national emergency, but it wouldn�t be an accidental one.

There�s also the administration�s full-on jettisoning of the
U.S. border to control by international criminal cartels that
profit from drug and human trafficking in the absence of U.S.-
imposed law and order. These cartels, of course, partner with
the real top U.S. adversary, Communist China, in destroying our
people and national resources while U.S. officials appear to be
distracted covering up the Biden family business operations in
Ukraine, which is of no national importance to the United
States. Neither is providing security for Europe that Europe
should provide for itself.

The growth of inflation under Congress�s two-decade refusal to
control its own spending while the United States government
endangers the dollar and nears a sovereign debt crisis to rival
any in world history would be another manufactured emergency
available to use to argue for more control by the same people
driving this country into the ground. We�ve so far had
essentially zero accountability for the use of this technique
during Covid. That�s why we should expect it to continue and
expand.

Past Time for Some Serious Checks and Balances
Like Barack Obama before him and whose administration is
essentially back in the White House right now, Biden has been a
master of executive overreach, which means authoritarianism
restrained only by the desire to keep an increasingly
emasculated people from actually revolting. Remember Obama�s
�pen and phone�? Biden�s are bigger.

His administration is perfecting, for example, the Covid-
developed technique of ruling simply by press release. Multiple
times now, this administration has issued some edict without
issuing an accompanying regulation that civil rights groups can
spend the next 15 years challenging while the regulation is
assumed to be law as soon as it�s issued, with no input at all
from Americans� duly elected representatives called Congress.
This further delays even that modicum of accountability.

Why wouldn�t someone willing to suspend some laws � such as
those requiring individuals to pay their own way through
college, as they promised � also be willing to suspend other
laws? Why wouldn�t someone willing to break some norms, such as
nominating a Supreme Court justice who knows jack squat about
the Constitution, not be willing to break others, such as never
suspending elections?

Why wouldn�t someone willing to lie about what constitutes a
�national emergency� for political gain be willing to do the
same thing in another way? There is no logical endpoint to this
kind of behavior. It could include anything, even something that
sounds crazy like suspending elections over a drummed-up
�national emergency.�

If you think that�s ridiculous, think back three years to what
you�d have said if someone told you that government � including
�freedom-touting� Republican governors! � would ban kids from
going to schools for months, even years, over a virus that was
less risky to them than the seasonal flu. The wild political
effectiveness of inflating the �Covid emergency� beyond all
reason is why pushing society�s limits in previously unthinkable
ways is going to continue until American leaders start actually
standing up for the rule of law and imposing some serious limits
on executive-branch authoritarianism.

Dear Legislatures: Rein in Rogue Officials Already
That means every single �emergency powers� statute in this
country needs to be definitively time-limited, immediately. If
presidents and governors can suspend Americans� rights
indefinitely, with no limiting principle, and courts won�t stop
them, then we have no rights. Rights secured only at the whim of
the executive and after years of delay are not rights at all.

Know what living under unrestrained executive orders is called?
Tyranny. Tyrants do whatever they can get away with. So far,
that�s been working out pretty blooming well for whoever�s
really in charge of Joseph R. Biden. The question is, what else
do they think they can get away with? And what prudent and
credible steps are Republicans planning to stop them?