By Mike Huckabee
May 8, 2022
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Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!
Today's newsletter includes:
- Total War Against the West
- Roe leak reactions
- Democrat Agenda: a series of doomed futile and stupid gestures
- And much more.
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
1. DAILY BIBLE VERSE
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Proverbs 31:26
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2. Total War Against the West
There’s been a lot of speculation about Russia’s May 9th holiday commemorating victory in World War II. There’s been talk that Putin is ramping up attacks in Ukraine to full scale, “total war against the West” mode so that Russians won’t think the nation looks weak on that day. This seems likely since the Kremlin’s chief propagandist categorically denied it.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/russia-war-ukraine-electro-magnetic-pulse-rebekah-koffler
There are also questions about how Russians would view a necessarily-scaled down military parade. Russia loves to show off its massive array of intimidating armaments. But this year, many of them are in Ukraine, and quite a few are spread all over the landscape. Also, the parade might spotlight the credibility gap between Russia’s projection of its all-powerful military and the way it’s struggling in Ukraine, which would undermine Russia’s international image even more.
The latest word is that Putin hopes to scare Europe and the US by filling the parade with military vehicles that can carry nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/doomsday-russia-putin-hopes-deter-west-grandiose-wwii-parade
But just to make sure that the nuclear threat isn’t taken seriously by nations that also have nukes that they could fire back, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson insisted that Russia will not use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. I guess they're just the Russian equivalent of Macy's parade floats.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-says-it-wont-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine
For the latest updates on the invasion of Ukraine, here is a Fox News link:
https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/conflicts/ukraine
3. Roe leak reactions
To sum up this past week, Spencer Brown at Townhall.com recaps some of the left’s most ludicrous and hysterical reactions to the leak of the SCOTUS draft ruling on Roe v. Wade. From their reactions, you’d think it was not only going to ban abortion, but also interracial marriage, contraceptives and owning more than five cats. Their bonkers response is perfectly encapsulated in the title: “Did Democrats Even Read the Leaked SCOTUS Draft?
Personally, I suspect they haven’t read most things they get spitting mad over, from “Huckleberry Finn” to the Constitution. If they think all this lunatic behavior will help them in November, they obviously haven’t yet read a new CNN poll, taken after the SCOTUS leak. It found that while the abortion issue has increased voter enthusiasm among Democrats, it’s increased it even more among Republicans, and “the overall picture for the midterm elections is little changed after this week’s news.” Yes, this is actually from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-midterms-roe-v-wade/index.html
“The share of registered voters who say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this fall rose 6 points between the first survey and the second, but that increase is about even across party lines. Among Democrats, 43% now say they are extremely or very enthusiastic, up 7 points. Among Republicans, it’s 56%, up 9 points. And voters who say overturning Roe would make them 'happy' are nearly twice as enthusiastic about voting this fall as those who say such a ruling would leave them 'angry' (38% extremely enthusiastic among those happy, 20% among those angry).”
The poll also found that while majorities don’t want Roe overturned, and if it is, want a national law allowing abortion, it’s not the primary issue driving most voting decisions. In fact, the Republican edge over Democrats on the generic ballot actually increased since the previous poll to 49-42%.
I also have a feeling the enthusiasm to rush to vote Democrat to protect abortion will also wane as time goes by and people realize just how much of what they’re currently hearing is groundless hysteria completely unhinged from fact. Even Bill Maher is already pointing that out.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-roe-v-wade-abortion-scotus
For the record, longtime Democrat strategist Doug Schoen is also trying to warn the Party that they’re deluding themselves about unfettered abortion being a winning issue, but I doubt they’ll listen to him any more than they do me.
4. Democrat Agenda: a series of doomed futile and stupid gestures
There’s a book and a documentary about the National Lampoon magazine whose title is a quote from the movie “Animal House.” It’s called “A Futile and Stupid Gesture.” If anyone ever writes the history of this era when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi ran Congress, they’ll have to borrow that title because instead of good, compromise legislation to lift all Americans, what we got instead was a series of doomed futile and stupid gestures. Now, brace yourself for yet another one.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/democrats-to-force-vote-on-codifying-roe-v-wade-next-week/
Next week, Senate Democrats plan to force a vote to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law (although as I’ve already told you, that’s not even true. They basically want to make California's abortion law federal law. If they codified Roe, it would ban most abortions past mid-pregnancy, which is what most Americans want, and the Senate Democrats never do what most Americans want.)
This is a futile and stupid gesture because they don’t have 60 votes to overcome the filibuster, and they don’t have 51 votes to kill the filibuster, so they already know it’s not going to pass. But it will give them a chance to waste lots of our time and money waving their arms, pointing fingers, calling names and firing up their base with false accusations and utter nonsense. Still, better they should do that than actually pass any more awful legislation, so have at it.
Incidentally, here’s a look at just how radical and unserious the Democrats’ abortion bill is.
To make it look somewhat like an actual law, they had to take out a lot of loaded PC buzzwords like white supremacy, gender oppression and reproductive justice; and to appease their base, they had to add some word salad about protecting the right to abortion for anyone with the “capacity for pregnancy,” including “transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others.” I assume by “others,” they mean “women,” who (pardon my triggering hate speech) are still the only people who can get pregnant.
I’d suggest that they take a Biology 101 course, but these days, it’s not likely students will learn any facts about the birds and the bees there, except maybe that a male bee can give birth to a bird if it identifies as a female bird. Probably a cuckoo. Here’s an example of the kind of Dr. Frankenstein’s Cookbook that passes for medical textbooks these days. I warn you, once you read this, you won’t be able to unread it.
5. Trump supporters are not mindless followers
The left tries to depict Trump supporters as a mindless cult doing whatever Trump tells them. They can’t seem to comprehend that people voted for Trump because he was saying what they’ve long thought and the elites in DC kept ignoring them, not because Trump was telling them what to think. They’ve previously shown that even strong Trump supporters who attend his rallies will make their disagreements with him known. They’ve done it before when he boasted about the COVID vaccines, and at a rally Friday in Pennsylvania, many in the crowd booed Dr. Oz, the Senate candidate Trump endorsed.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/trump-supporters-boo-heckle-dr-oz-at-pennsylvania-rally/
Todd Starnes has video that should convince anyone that Trump supporters are not mindless followers. They follow Trump when he’s leading where they want America to go, but if he wanders off the trail, they’ll let him know pretty loudly.
6. President Trump suffers court loss
Former President Trump suffered a loss in court when a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed his lawsuit against Twitter for banning him from the platform (and can you guess why Twitter sought to have the case moved to San Francisco? Why, because that’s where they’re headquartered; did you suspect some other reason?) You can read all the legalities at the link.
The judge left Trump an opening to file an amended complaint, but I’m not sure if it would be worth the cost and effort, between Elon Musk buying Twitter and lifting the speech bans and Trump announcing that he has no plans to return anyway, since he now has his own site, Truth Social. My attitude is, “Don’t feed the lawyers, if you can possibly help it.”
7. From Instapundit:
A handy list of news headlines to refute President Biden’s wack-a-doodle claim that MAGA is the most extreme political group in recent history.
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