By Mike Huckabee
January 8, 2021
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Good evening! Today's Evening Edition includes:
- Resignations
- More than meets the eye
- Something to consider
- An inconvenient truth
- Texodus
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
Resignations
By Mike Huckabee
There have been a number of Trump Administration staff resignations in protest of Trump’s handling of Wednesday’s rally that turned violent. They would be leaving in less than two weeks anyway, but they wanted to make a statement. This link has a list of the resignations, the biggest being Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
...and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who criticized Trump’s rhetoric as having an impact on the rioters inside the Capitol.
And for entirely different but obvious reasons, the chief of the Capitol Police has resigned.
More than meets the eye
By Mike Huckabee
Video has emerged showing a number of Trump supporters trying to stop protesters from breaking into the Capitol Wednesday. The video shows one Trump supporter trying to physically restrain someone who was attempting to damage the door, and others booing the protesters and yelling “Stop them,” “Don’t break that window” and “No Antifa, no Antifa.”
Speaking of Antifa, the initial claim that there were no leftist agitators disguised as Trump supporters is coming under question. The New York Post quoted law enforcement authorities as saying they had identified two people known from Antifa demonstrations in New York among the rioters in the Capitol…
…and KUTV in Utah reports that a man who was standing next to Ashli Babbitt and who filmed her fatal shooting has been identified as a far-left protest organizer from Utah who founded a group called “Insurgence USA,” is associated with Black Lives Matter and was arrested last summer for organizing a riot that ended in a shooting. He also has a history of social media posts promoting Antifa and BLM, branding Trump a white nationalist and calling to “burn it all down.” You can see more, including some of those posts, at this link from Katie Pavlich at Townhall.com.
And here's an interesting first-person account of Wednesday’s violence by someone who was on the scene as it was happening and who thinks we do not yet know the full story.
To be clear, this is not an attempt to shift blame. Most of the people involved do appear to have been Trump supporters, but a handful of violent fanatics are not representative of the vast majority of peaceful protesters. The media have lectured that to us for months before suddenly switching positions on Wednesday.
Finally, questions are being rightly raised about the deadly police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. Video from inside the building seems to show that the officer shot Babbitt as she was trying to bust down a door, even though there were other officers right behind her who not only could have peacefully arrested her, but who might have been killed themselves by their fellow officer.
As that article points out, it’s sickening to see leftists who’ve spent the past eight months protesting and rioting against police brutality suddenly turning on a dime and gleefully celebrating police murder because the unarmed protester who was shot was a Trump supporter. One tweeted, “Rightly deserved (to be shot and killed) for trespassing.” Maybe they should pass that message along to the DA in St. Louis who’s trying to imprison Mark and Patricia McCloskey just for showing guns to some leftist protesters who were threatening them while trespassing on their property.
Something to consider
By Mike Huckabee
Here’s something you might want to consider before you get a COVID-19 vaccination. It’s a ramification of the shot that has received almost no publicity, but it could have a serious harmful effect on those who already have it and need convalescent plasma transfusions.
An inconvenient truth
By Mike Huckabee
A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that long after trans athletes start taking female hormones, they still have a physical advantage over athletes who are born female. Hormones can’t alter male advantages such as upper body strength, bone size, heart size and lung capacity.
From the link: “Before hormone use, males who identify as female performed 31% more push-ups and 15% more sit-ups in 1 min and ran 1.5 miles 21% faster than females. During the first two years of hormone use, males who identify as female were able to do 10% more pushups and 6% more sit-ups than females. Following the two-year mark those numbers became ‘fairly equivalent,’ Roberts (the researcher) told NBC. When it comes to running, however, even after two years of taking hormones, males who identify as female were still 12% faster.”
It is not “transphobia,” hate or bigotry to point out the blindingly obvious biological fact that it's not fair to girls to allow males who “identify” as female to compete in their sports, even if they’re on hormones. Arguing otherwise is a perfect example of George Orwell’s rule that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
Texodus
By Mike Huckabee
This is a lengthy but informative and entertaining read by Prof. Michael Lind about what he calls the “Texodus” (tech companies fleeing California for Texas.)
It provides an enlightening history of how Big Tech grew, developed massive political influence, turned from funding both parties to being 100% “progressive” Democrat, and is now fleeing California precisely because it practices the political agenda that they supported. If for no other reason, read it if you’re in a red state and need to start debating how you’re going to keep these new arrivals from “Californicating” your state and ruining it by voting for the same kind of leftist people and policies that fouled the nest they fled.
Important Message from Dan
By Mike Huckabee
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw has a very important message to Republicans who believe that the election was swayed by vote fraud: the Congressional meeting on Wednesday was never going to solve that problem. Election integrity can only be resolved on the state and local levels.
Now is not the time to become demoralized and give up. It’s the time to turn your anger into action and hold your local and state officials accountable for ensuring that voter integrity laws that have been systematically eroded, dismantled, ignored and illegally altered now be reinforced to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. We can’t change the past, but we can make sure that future elections are secure and trustworthy. Make clear to your city and state officials that if they don’t do that, they’d better have new jobs lined up after the next election.
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