By Mike Huckabee
July 27, 2021
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Good morning!
Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!
Today's newsletter includes:
- Bible Verse of the Day - Numbers 25:12
- Time to follow President Trump's lead and speak out
- New Podcasts
- RIP, Legendary Comic Jackie Mason
- This Is Your Brain On Liberalism
- America The Beautiful
- Uncomfortable Subject
- Nobody Is Immune
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Numbers 25:12
Time to follow President Trump's lead and speak out
By Mike Huckabee
I’m seeing some encouraging signs of life on the right, with more conservatives fighting back against the left’s assumption that they get to play Big Brother and determine the limits of OUR conversation. As long as we stick to facts --- not facts as determined by leftist “fact”-checkers but real, verifiable information --- it’s time to fly over the target and bomb away. Especially, we need the courage to ask questions and demand real answers. That’s true most of all when it comes to the 2020 election.
Former President Trump is right out in front on this and sets a great example. He DOES NOT CARE what the left says about him, and this weekend, he spoke out in Phoenix at Turning Point USA about cancel culture and the need to speak up about the election. Self-censoring is exactly what the left wants us to do. Regardless of what we’ve able to determine thus far about the security of Dominion Voting Systems, there’s much that leftists did to turn the 2020 election into a legal and logistical --- and unverifiable --- mess, and much they continue to do to keep us from looking at it.
“Just so you understand, you know, we talk about cancel culture,” Trump began. The biggest thing that they want canceled, is they don’t want you talking about the election that just took place. Because they say, ‘Holy sh**, they caught us! [wild applause] They caught us. [even wilder applause] THEY CAUGHT US. And you know, we’ve seen it: the scandal, the likes of which we’ve never had. But the only way you get away with the scandal, is if they don’t talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it.”
But Trump said –- and he’s right –- that they won’t be able to avoid it. They talk in general about banning speech, “but what they don’t want...is anything having to do with the 2020 election.”
Another fighter who refuses to be cowed is attorney Sidney Powell, best known for representing another deeply wronged individual, Michael Flynn. We don’t see much of Powell on TV right now because of legal saber-rattling by Dominion Voting Systems, which is acting on the theory that the best defense is a big, blustery offense. But that’s okay; the legal stuff will work itself out, and it might actually be better for Powell to fly mostly under the radar right now.
Readers have asked what she’s up to, though, and I’m happy to be able to answer that question, at least partially. Powell happens to be in the news this very day, concerning a desperately important matter: the treatment of those who “breached” the Capitol Building and are still being held without bail.
Last Thursday, conservative radio host Pete Santilli announced on his show that Powell will be involved in helping the January 6 detainees, who are called “political prisoners” by many (who have a point). Another attorney on the team, Cynthia Hughes, made the same claim on Steve Bannon’s show. “She [Powell] is really, really, really gonna get behind us,” Hughes said.
The announcement essentially coincided with the release of a letter from a member of the Proud Boys on the three-month anniversary of being locked up. I will not in any way defend the Proud Boys, who are labeled as by the media as being neo-facist and leaning in to white supremacy. But even if they are as evil and they have been reported to be, its members are still protected by the Constitution and are innocent until proven guilty and are guaranteed due process and not subject to unreasonable “search and seizure.” I’ll leave it up to you to determine if the treatment of this person is reasonable. It’s bad enough that he and others are being held without bail, but his description of the conditions he faces is shocking. “My body feels as if it’s aged so much,” he writes, as he can’t work out and suffers a lot of back pain. He sleeps on a thin mattress on a piece of steel welded to the wall. He gets very little protein to eat –- there’s some kind of soy-based “gelatin dog food looking stuff” –- and feels himself weakening, saying he can hardly walk.
Also, there is no privacy, ever, he says; even going to the bathroom is in full view. He has one small window in the cell, but it’s sandblasted to be opaque, so he can never see the outdoors.
If you break any rule, he says,, they put you in a brightly lit, freezing room, naked. Now he has panic attacks, “so bad I black out.”
He knows he’s not a white supremacist, he says, because he’s there with guys who really ARE white supremacists. In fact, they tell him they hate that the Proud Boys are being called white supremacists. “They all say I’m too nice,” he writes, “and nothing like the media makes me out to be.” And, in an ironic twist, the black guys he’s met there say that if the Proud Boys as a group are like him, they want to join!
He says he spends most of his time alone, reading the Bible and other Christian books. “The plus side to this [is] God was able to get ahold of me in this place,” he writes. “In the end I just pray people see the truth. I had nothing to do with that day. I never planned what happened. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The man’s name is Joe Biggs. (In fact, he signed his letter “Joe Biggs, political prisoner.”) He’s a retired Army staff sergeant, a two-time Purple Heart recipient, and described by another of the Proud Boys as a “war hero” who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s also an online personality. If you know the story, Biggs is the man who simply walked in, took a few selfies to document his peaceful protest of what he believes was a stolen election, asked a security guard if he could use the restroom and was directed to it, used the restroom, and walked out.
He’s been in a cell in Florida’s Seminole County Jail for three months. If the report of what he did is accurate, and I’ve seen nothing to the contrary, this man shouldn’t even have been detained, let alone held without bail. The left has gone so far that we can’t even recognize our country. This is why we can’t be silent any longer.
Mark Tapscott in THE EPOCH TIMES has a story about four GOP members of Congress –- Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louis Gohmert of Texas, Paul Gosar of Arizona, and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Ggeorgia –- taking this issue to the door of the “Justice” Department Tuesday. They have questions for law enforcement authorities about what they knew and when, and why Congress wasn’t told. They also have “unanswered questions relating to the treatment of January 6 prisoners.”
For several months, they’ve received no response from Attorney General Merrick Garland. (The only bright spot about having this political hack as attorney general is that I get to thank my lucky stars he didn’t get on the Supreme Court.) His failure to provide answers is why they’re headed to the DOJ in person. Texas Rep. Gohmert, in a statement, compared what has been done to these detainees to what is done in “tyrannical third-world countries, not the United States.”
So, at least some Republicans have a spine. It’s time to join them, and speak out in every way we can.
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New Podcasts
By Mike Huckabee
EPISODE 69: On a new bonus episode of "The People's Podcast," Michelle Easton joins Governor Huckabee for a conversation about raising children to be patriotic conservatives with strong values and deep faith, as she describes in her new book, "How to Raise a Conservative Daughter."
EPISODE 68: Governor Huckabee breaks down the Texas Democrats’ DC break-in and shares a message about why he got the COVID-19 vaccine. Then he catches up with Clay Travis about Nashville, football, the Olympics, and everything in between.
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RIP, Legendary Comic Jackie Mason
By Pat Reeder
We are all very sad to have to report that comedian Jackie Mason died Sunday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at 93, with his wife Jyll and a few friends by his side.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/iconic-borscht-belt-comic-jackie-mason-dead-at-93
Before becoming one of America’s greatest and most distinctive comic voices, Mason was a rabbi. Friends say his concern for people stayed with him all his life; and wherever he went, whether on the street or trying to eat dinner, he would always stop to talk to strangers who approached him and listen to their problems.
Mason was one of the last practitioners of the classic Borscht Belt style of very Jewish comedy, which went out of favor with the rise of comics who did social commentary or talked about their personal lives. But with his unique delivery and sharp wit, he continued to make people fall down laughing decades after most of the Catskills resorts had closed.
His career had its ups and downs (a couple of the downs were his feud with Frank Sinatra – he believed a beating by a mob thug was done at Frank’s behest – and a banning from the Ed Sullivan show when Sullivan mistakenly thought he’d made a one-finger gesture.) But in the 1980s, he combined the best of his well-honed one-liners with his commentary on current events into the one-man Broadway show, “The World According to Me,” which was a smash hit. It won him Tony and Emmy Awards and set the template for several more such shows to follow.
One of those one-liners from the 1960s is still remarkably topical: questioning why rioters would burn down their own neighborhoods, he said, “With Jews, every fire shows a profit!”
In his later years, he became increasingly more outspoken about his conservative political views, which of course led liberal critics to pan him as having lost his sense of humor (laughing at themselves was never their strong suit.) It is true that he became more likely to express serious outrage at what was happening in the US and to Israel, but then, who can blame him?
If you’d like to hear some of the best of Jackie Mason, stream the CD of “The World According to Me” on Amazon Prime and check out some of his TV appearances on YouTube, like this...
Or be like me and hunt through thrift stores and garage sales for the 1962 LP, “I’m the Greatest Comedian in the World, Only Nobody Knows It Yet.”
And be sure to check out this interview he gave to the Governor on “Huckabee” in 2019.
This Is Your Brain On Liberalism
By Mike Huckabee
With illegal immigrants now pouring across the border and bringing a new surge of COVID cases with them, a report by Senate Republicans finds that President Biden’s efforts to shut down the building of the border wall have so far cost taxpayers as much as $2 billion.
That cost continues to increase by about $3 million a day, to guard all the steel, concrete and other materials that are sitting in the desert, not being used to finish the wall. The wall was originally put “on hold” for 60 days to “study” the issue. That deadline passed 120 days ago, and still no report. The wall remains unfinished as illegal migrants flow in and tax money flows out.
You can tell the Democrats are back in charge: the government is spending billions of your tax dollars to do absolutely nothing in a way that somehow makes the problem far worse.
America The Beautiful
God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Haleakala National Park, visit its website here.
Uncomfortable Subject
By Mike Huckabee
This is an uncomfortable subject, and I don’t like making diagnoses of people from afar. But it’s such a hot topic (and one the foreign press, at least, is willing to cover) that I can’t completely ignore it. So here are some links to the latest news on President Biden’s increasingly erratic behavior and incoherent statements, and I apologize for the first one.
Nobody Is Immune
By Mike Huckabee
Former California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, 80, was in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland on Monday when someone shoved her in the back in broad daylight, stole her cell phone and fled in a waiting car. Fortunately, she was not seriously injured. But it does show that nobody is immune from the crime waves in Democrat-run cities that are soft on crime and hostile to policing, even powerful Democrats, if they venture outside their gated communities or away from their armed bodyguards.
Not that liberals will ever learn that lesson, seeing as how CNN and MSNBC failed even to mention the stunning attack on Boxer on their evening newscasts.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-msnbc-barbara-boxer
To be fair, CNN’s “New Day” finally mentioned the story on Tuesday, but with their ratings, I’m still not sure that anyone saw it.
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