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August 31, 2021
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Good evening!

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff! Topics include:

  • Bible Verse of the Day - Psalm 62:1
  • The fight against terrorism lives on
  • Imagine if this had been Trump
  • CORRECTION: Jonathan Turley has some objections
  • "Education" Department
  • Sturgis rally update
  • COVID around the world
  • Celebrities join the fight to save Gavin Newsom

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

62 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

Psalms 62:1

The fight against terrorism lives on

By Mike Huckabee

The FBI believes that Imran Ali Rasheed, who shot a Lyft driver to death in Garland, Texas, before being shot when he launched an assault in a police station, was inspired by foreign terrorists or terrorism propaganda. It’s a potential warning that we may not still be in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean that the fight against terrorism is over. It’s just shifting battlegrounds.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2021/08/31/what-could-have-inspired-him-fbi-believes-texas-lyft-murderer-was-inspired-by-foreign-terrorists-n1474474

Imagine if this had been Trump

By Mike Huckabee

In one of those “Imagine if this had been Trump” moments, President Biden referred to a black senior adviser as “boy.”

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/30/biden-calls-black-advisor-boy-in-incredibly-odd-exchange-n435384

But as the commentator at Redstate.com notes, this might not have been intended as racist. It was part of such a jumble of uh’s and word salad that it might have just been one of those episodes that some seniors who are losing their mental capabilities experience, where they struggle for words and blurt out offensive things without realizing it. That’s not a comforting alternative explanation.


CORRECTION: Jonathan Turley has some objections

By Mike Huckabee

Correction: We had some leftover text from a previous post in yesterday's story, that we have removed from the version below.  

Law professor Jonathan Turley has some objections to the puff piece NBC interview with Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, in which he boasted of being a hero who was just doing his job, and who saved countless lives by gunning down unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/569827-justified-shooting-or-fair-game-shooter-of-ashlii-babbitt-makes-shocking

Turley points out that Byrd's own words discredit the two “investigations” (DOJ and Capitol Police) that cleared him of any wrongdoing. By his own admission, he couldn’t see her hands and didn’t know her intentions, but he perceived her as a threat so he killed her. Turley says that under this standard, police could have gunned down hundreds of unarmed protesters, not only at the Capitol but at all the BLM protests across America. He also asserts that the real heroes who “did their job” were all the other cops who showed restraint and didn’t use lethal force on unarmed protesters.

America cannot survive having a two-tiered justice system where people are prosecuted or let go, or even shot to death, based on their political affiliations. As Instapundit website master Glenn Reynolds, himself a law professor, observed, “In the eyes of the establishment — including those silent ‘law professors and experts’ — she deserved to die because she was a Trump supporter. It’s all about that.”


"Education" Department

By Mike Huckabee

I already put quotation marks in “Justice” Department, and I guess I’ll now have to start writing “Education” Department the same way. That’s because the Biden “Education” Department seems to consist of ideologues who never learned how to read. Evidence: the “Education” Department has opened civil rights investigations into five states for banning mask mandates in schools, claiming they discriminate against kids with disabilities or medical issues, preventing them from attending school in person because it would put them at risk.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/education-department-investigating-five-states-banning-school-mask-mandates/

As the Legal Insurrection blog points out, in every single state, there is no ban on students wearing masks if they think it will make them safer. The laws just bar schools from forcing kids to wear masks if they don’t want to. If you think masks work, and you believe you need one, then wear one. Nobody will stop you. Some schools even encourage wearing masks, they just don’t force you. And many parents are opposed not because they’re dumb conspiracy theorists or want to spread disease, but because they doubt the effectiveness of masks and think their negative side effects, such as giving kids headaches from breathing too much CO2 or transmitting germs to their faces, are more dangerous to kids than COVID.

By the way, according to the most recent study by Canada’s University of Waterloo, the blue masks most people wear are only about 10% effective at stopping COVID transmission. The other 90% of your protection comes from wishful thinking.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914969/Popular-blue-surgical-face-masks-NOT-stop-people-infected-COVID-19.html


Sturgis rally update

By Mike Huckabee

Remember how liberal news outlets ignored Obama’s big birthday bash but slammed the Sturgis motorcycle rally as a “superspreader” event? Well, it’s been over three weeks, more than enough time for any COVID cases caught at Sturgis to be noted. Out of nearly 4,000 newly-diagnosed cases in South Dakota, only 39 have been attributed to the rally. Also, the average number of COVID cases in the US is 276 per 100,000 people over 10 days. In South Dakota, the number is 156, well below the national average.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ari-j-kaufman/2021/08/30/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-wasnt-a-superspreader-event-when-does-gov-noem-get-her-apology-from-the-media-n1474193

There are only two explanations: either the media were attacking the Sturgis rally attendees out of political bias, or the virus mistook the Sturgis rally for a BLM protest and didn’t infect anybody there.


COVID around the world

By Mike Huckabee

Many Americans are looking with envy at the radical COVID lockdowns in Australia that have practically turned it back into a penal colony and dreaming of ways to abuse power to force people to get vaccinated. There was even word that the White House was pondering an unconstitutional ban on interstate travel if you didn’t “show your (vaccination) papers.” They make no exceptions for people who have medical issues that make vaccination more dangerous than COVID, or for those who have already had the disease and have natural immunity.

Well, I know that here in Biden’s America, facts don’t matter, but in case anyone still cares, the latest large-scale study from Israel found that vaccinated people had a 27 times higher risk of symptomatic infection than people who’d already had it and recovered. There were no deaths among either group.

https://fee.org/articles/harvard-epidemiologist-says-the-case-for-covid-vaccine-passports-was-just-demolished/

This is one of 15 academic studies so far showing the effectiveness of natural immunity. It’s still less risky to get vaccinated than to get the disease, but this should spell an end to calls to force everyone to get vaccinated, even if they’ve already had COVID. But it won’t, because “SCIENCE!”

Celebrities join the fight to save Gavin Newsom

By Mike Huckabee

Barbra Streisand, John Legend, Rob Reiner, Steven Spielberg and a number of other liberal celebrities and Hollywood executives are donating big bucks and campaigning frantically to save uber-left Governor Gavin Newsom from being recalled and replaced.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/hollywood-mobilizes-to-protect-gavin-newsom-amid-recall-reports

It isn’t surprising that they see no reason to recall him (some denounce the recall as a right-wing conspiracy, despite it garnering the support of millions of citizens.) After all, they have money, gated mansions and armed security to insulate them from the devastating effects of Newsom’s lockdowns, assaults on freedom, high taxes, skyrocketing crime, riots, and epidemic homelessness and illegal immigration.

But I’ll do them a favor and pass along their message to my readers in California:

I want you to know that the same out-of-touch celebrities who spent 2020 telling you that it was vital for America’s interests to replace Donald Trump with Joe Biden are now telling you that it’s vital for California’s interests not to replace Gavin Newsom. Please reflect on their track record of political wisdom before you mark your ballots. Thank you.

Related: The Babylon Bee perfectly satirizes the left’s hysterical attempts to discredit Larry Elder:

https://babylonbee.com/news/scandal-as-newsom-campaign-produces-old-yearbook-photos-showing-larry-elder-in-blackface

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  • William Fuhrer

    08/31/2021 11:35 PM

    If it wasn't for the RINOS the political advantage would make the impeachment attempts at worse a coup or an insurgency based on lies and at best PELOSI'S FOLLIES

  • Paul Kern

    08/31/2021 11:03 PM

    Well the high drama continues and will unless the people wake up. This is how Marxists keep in control. While continuing to destroy all they live in their gated mansions. Instead of black they will have white servants.
    I pray for the Marine who threw his career away for the right reasons. Will the DOD send their KGB henchman to eliminate him? Like Lenin did to Trotsky when he fled to Mexico City.
    If Gavin not recalled Californians will have sealed their doom.
    I wonder when Afghanistan 3.0 will commence now that the CCP is going over our hardware gifts to them?

  • Gary Stilwell

    08/31/2021 11:01 PM

    re: Turley--Babbit--
    This man is a murderer--period!!!!--he knew absolutely nothing of this person's past/present or future(if he did-we have a really big problem)
    She was a protester, of course, but unarmed--NO indication of any "weapons". Are we to accept the crazy defense that this woman, draped in the American flag, was somehow, in your wildest dreams, to be a threat to an armed DC police Officer??? was this "man" so scared that he had to shoot this woman(read "woman"--a sex that absolutely demands you exercise restraint in any confrontation-be it in a family disagreement or on the battlefield)--I am not sure whether this person could even be called a "man"

    Let's go back a few months here--we have a convicted criminal, a known drug addict, a man who tried to kill a pregnant woman, and who tried to pass counterfeit $. He was summarily arrested(and resisted such arrest). The perp died in the process of being detained- due to drug inducted paranoia, alcohol induced delusions, and covid induced complications. The arresting officers were then charged and convicted of "killing" this individual, after the felon was elevated to some sort of sainthood for dying by his own chosen lifestyle in the arresting scenario. The Law Enforcement officers invovled were doing their jobs-it was their job description--
    This 'so-called' man was supposed to be doing his job also--he did not, either panicked, or intentionally shot this woman in cold blood.--either way, the guy is guilty of murder
    He, and the defenders of his actions need to be thrown in the slammer for a few hundred years

  • Anne Eagle

    08/31/2021 10:49 PM

    Gov Mike, could you please find out and inform your readers whether or not these dozens of texts we get, always asking for $$, every day are legitimate . Many times the same message will come from different phone numbers. How do we recognize a scam? In Biden's economy very few of us have much $$ to spare, and we want to support causes and candidates we believe in ----not scammers. Any advice would be greatly appreciated .

  • Sharon Faulkner

    08/31/2021 10:22 PM

    Mike
    First of all it was not Americans or our military that caused this disaster in Afghanistan.
    It was Biden and his bunch of clowns.
    Americans are doing their best to try to pull the government's weight and help our former Afghan allies and Christians.
    But I must say people who think that this is the end of the United States I have a simple suggestion : Get a grip.
    We have lost Wars before and we have endured far worse than this.
    Remember the Civil War ? The southerners endured a terrible War and a humiliating defeat did that end them? No. The South they said will rise again and by dinghy it did too.
    We have endured Civil War , two world wars , Dust Bowl, depression and economic crash. We have also seen civil disorder in our streets more than once.
    Did any of that bring the United States down ? Hell no!!
    I am sorry what happened in Afghanistan and I hope we can make it right but this is not the first time the Democrats have betrayed allies. Remember Potsdam and Yalta when the brave people of Eastern Europe were sold out to Stalin? How about when the Democrats cut off Aid to South Vietnam and were responsible for The Killing Fields?
    We also retreated from Korea leaving people of the North to suffer under inter generational dictators.
    Remember what Jimmy Carter said doing the Iran hostage crisis when one of their silly old clerics said they would drive us to our knees. He said , beware Americans know what to do down there. America is not finished not by those diaper headed old weirdos in nightgowns and not by the Cowardly fascist blue Reich.

  • Judy Kilmartin

    08/31/2021 09:50 PM

    Dear Governor,
    Hi. Thank you again for your Editions. They help me get through my day. The Bible verses remind me God is in control. His word is truth and Democrats may try, but they cannot rewrite Scripture. So thank you.
    My son had mentioned the Larry Elder story on the Bee earlier today. So glad you included it so I did not have to search it up. They are amazing.
    I had a thought about President Biden calling the young man ‘boy’. I think Biden had known him a while and sees him as a kid. I know a lot of prejudice is hidden and often comes out of Biden’s mouth. I really think this was a term of endearment and not racially motivated. I am trying to not overreact when people speak the way the left does. It does not help.
    Thank you.
    Judy

  • Anita Mule

    08/31/2021 09:33 PM

    You say that people were turned away from the airports, but someone close to the situation ( I forget his name) says that many people were not able to reach the airport and didn't say anything about people being turned away. My second comment is this: a liberal friend of mine was fond of saying about Trump's administration, "None of this is normal". If this is normal, she can have it.