White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged questions from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Monday about whether former President Barack Obama was sending the wrong message to Americans by hosting a large <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-to-hold-birthday-party-for-himself-with-nearly-700-people-while-some-panic-over-pandemic">birthday party</a> for himself while the White House is currently warning about a surge in COVID-19 cases from the Delta variant.
&#8220;Well, I would certainly refer you to the team who is working for my former boss to give you more specifics of what the protocols are in place,&#8221; Psaki initially responded. &#8220;But I would note first, that former President Obama has been a huge advocate of individuals getting vaccinated. What CDC has provided guidance on is for indoor settings in high or substantial high zones of COVID cases. This event, according to all the public reporting is outdoors, and in a moderate zone, but in addition, there is testing requirements and other steps they&#8217;re taking, which I&#8217;m sure they can outline for you in more detail.&#8221;
When asked by Doocy if the event could become a &#8220;super spreader&#8221; event and whether he was sending a bad message to the country, Psaki responded: &#8220;The guidance is about what steps people can take when they&#8217;re in public settings, indoor setting, specifically was the new guidance to keep themselves and other safe. In terms of what protocols they are taking, I would refer you to them, and I&#8217;m sure they can give you more details.&#8221;
&#8220;We certainly advise everyone to follow public health guidelines, which I know the former president who is a huge advocate of getting vaccinated, of following the guidance of public health experts, would certainly advocate for himself as well,&#8221; she added.
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Doocy also asked about Obama throwing a massive birthday party and whether he&#39;s &quot;setting the right example of how dangerous Covid is,&quot; which led Psaki to defend it because &quot;Obama has been a huge advocate of individuals being vaccinated,&quot; there will be testing, and it&#39;s outside <a href="https://t.co/jGb11keCW7">pic.twitter.com/jGb11keCW7</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1422283697420648449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS REPORTER: Is President Obama setting the wrong example about how serious COVID-19 is by hosting a big birthday party with hundreds of people this week?
JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, I would certainly refer you to the team who is working for my former boss to give you more specifics of what the protocols are in place. But I would note first, that former President Obama has been a huge advocate of individuals getting vaccinated. What CDC has provided guidance on is for indoor settings in high or substantial high zones of COVID cases. This event, according to all the public reporting is outdoors, and in a moderate zone, but in addition, there is testing requirements and other steps they&#8217;re taking, which I&#8217;m sure they can outline for you in more detail.
DOOCY: But is there any concern just because as you&#8217;ve said here, and you&#8217;ve had people saying over the last couple of days, vaccinated people can still spread this delta variant around. So is there concern that this President Obama birthday party might become a super spreader of that?
PSAKI: Well, I think Peter, the guidance is about what steps people can take when they&#8217;re in public settings, indoor setting, specifically was the new guidance to keep themselves and other safe. In terms of what protocols they are taking, I would refer you to them, and I&#8217;m sure they can give you more details.
DOOCY: So people who are watching this at home and they see well, President Obama can have a party with several hundred people, should they think that it is okay for them to have a party with several hundred people now?
PSAKI: Well, we certainly advise everyone to follow public health guidelines, which I know the former president who is a huge advocate of getting vaccinated, of following the guidance of public health experts, would certainly advocate for himself as well.</blockquote>
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Psaki Dodges Whether Obama Setting Bad Example By Hosting Massive Birthday Party Amid Pandemic Surge

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during Monday&#8217;s press briefing that the administration was not going to take anything off the table in terms of what public health officials may recommend for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;On Friday, the President was asked whether Americans should expect more guidelines coming out because of COVID, because of the Delta variant, and he said, &#8216;in all probability,'&#8221; a reporter said. &#8220;So, what&#8217;s on the table?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not, obviously, the President is keeping the option open of making sure that he is, that the CDC and our public health officials can make recommendations on what&#8217;s needed to keep the American people safe,&#8221; Psaki responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not in a position to preview that or to get ahead of any decisions they may make. What I can reiterate, though, is and you heard Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins reiterate this weekend, we&#8217;ve been clear, we&#8217;re not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020. We&#8217;re not going back to the economy shutting down. We&#8217;ve made too much progress. Too many people are vaccinated, there&#8217;s been too much progress on the economic front.&#8221;
She added, &#8220;But again, he has said from the beginning that we are going to be guided by the science, guided by our public health experts, and we&#8217;re not going to take options off the table of what they may recommend.&#8221;
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Psaki: “We’ve been clear we’re not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020 &#8230; but again, [Biden] has said from the beginning that we are going to be guided by the science.” <a href="https://t.co/4TEkTmOlv7">pic.twitter.com/4TEkTmOlv7</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1422283712910217222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The American Medical Association (AMA) faced intense backlash late last week and over the weekend after calling for sex to be removed as a legal definition on the public part of birth certificates.
The backlash came in response to a tweet from WebMD that highlighted the call from the AMA.
WebMD&#8217;s <a href="https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210616/remove-sex-from-public-birth-certificates-ama-says?ecd=soc_tw_210731_cons_news_genderbirthcertificate">report</a> claimed:
<blockquote>Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for school or sports, adopt, get married, or request personal records.
A person&#8217;s sex designation at birth would still be submitted to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth for medical, public health, and statistical use only, report authors note.</blockquote>
Some of the most notable responses to the far-left call from the AMA included:
Jonathan Kay, editor at Quillette: &#8220;Thanks for making it more difficult to argue down vaccine skeptics. Every time I say &#8216;trust medical science,&#8217; they can just point to this clown show.&#8221;
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Thanks for making it more difficult to argue down vaccine skeptics. Every time I say &quot;trust medical science,&quot; they can just point to this clown show <a href="https://t.co/sgAB8mLyJZ">https://t.co/sgAB8mLyJZ</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1421981856497537030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Christina Sommers, author: &#8220;Another once-trusted institution has lost its mind.&#8221;
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Another once-trusted institution has lost its mind. <a href="https://t.co/p3wMqosnjq">https://t.co/p3wMqosnjq</a>
&mdash; Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) <a href="https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1421630709245095940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rita Panahi, political commentator: &#8220;Nothing will undermine public trust in health advice more than activist medics.&#8221;
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Nothing will undermine public trust in health advice more than activist medics. <a href="https://t.co/HVwGdZEmYI">https://t.co/HVwGdZEmYI</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1421579266970382338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.: &#8220;This is literally the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Stop the madness!&#8221;
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This is literally the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Stop the madness! <a href="https://t.co/tgTpwicKCy">https://t.co/tgTpwicKCy</a>
&mdash; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1421577269794021376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Julie Gunlock, political commentator: &#8220;It’s important to know that medical associations shifted to activist organizations years ago. This is very dangerous.&#8221;
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It’s important to know that medical associations shifted to activist organizations years ago. This is very dangerous. <a href="https://t.co/hgVjgXD62Y">https://t.co/hgVjgXD62Y</a>
&mdash; Julie Gunlock (@JGunlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/JGunlock/status/1421561261683351558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA officer: &#8220;Good news for men under 25: Call your auto insurance company and demand a lower premium because you’re no longer male.&#8221;
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Good news for men under 25:
Call your auto insurance company and demand a lower premium because you’re no longer male. <a href="https://t.co/8ggPM3QIoA">https://t.co/8ggPM3QIoA</a>
&mdash; BDW (@BryanDeanWright) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1421615255931691014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Tim Pool, podcaster: &#8220;Certain medications affect men and women differently.&#8221;
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Certain medications affect men and women differently <a href="https://t.co/s7TyaN3nRe">https://t.co/s7TyaN3nRe</a>
&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1421542392264634368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee: &#8220;The lunatics are running the asylum.&#8221;
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The lunatics are running the asylum. <a href="https://t.co/7MdOaNMIbT">https://t.co/7MdOaNMIbT</a>
&mdash; Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1421537763489468419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Allie Beth Stuckey, political commentator: &#8220;Literal nonsense. Gender identity is a made-up concept with no scientific or medical substance.&#8221;
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&quot;Assigning sex using binary variables in the public portion of the birth certificate fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity.” Literal nonsense. Gender identity is a made-up concept with no scientific or medical substance. <a href="https://t.co/NyjlEqeOZ0">https://t.co/NyjlEqeOZ0</a>
&mdash; Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1421533806671040513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Vivek Ramaswamy, author: &#8220;This sounds crazy to me. There’s a difference between stopping transgender discrimination and wantonly promoting transgenderism. Now we’re doing the latter under the guise of the former.&#8221;
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This sounds crazy to me. There’s a difference between stopping transgender discrimination and wantonly promoting transgenderism.
Now we’re doing the latter under the guise of the former. <a href="https://t.co/TaP82DmgQM">https://t.co/TaP82DmgQM</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1421820529535815685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Kurt Schlichter, author and columnist: &#8220;Remember this when they tell you to trust experts.&#8221;
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Remember this when they tell you to trust experts <a href="https://t.co/vn5LzXQEqH">https://t.co/vn5LzXQEqH</a>
&mdash; Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href="https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1421520611445202944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Nate Fischer, investor: &#8220;We are still in the early stages of a total collapse in trust in our credentialing institutions. It remains to be seen whether this results in epistemological chaos or a broad renaissance. I suspect we will see both.&#8221;
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We are still in the early stages of a total collapse in trust in our credentialing institutions.
It remains to be seen whether this results in epistemological chaos or a broad renaissance. I suspect we will see both. <a href="https://t.co/yfetPbFo4b">https://t.co/yfetPbFo4b</a>
&mdash; Nate Fischer (@NateAFischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateAFischer/status/1421501540997738506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Omri Ceren, national security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): &#8220;The near-total politicization of science on behalf of fringe progressive fantasticism happened really fast, all things considered.&#8221;
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The near-total politicization of science on behalf of fringe progressive fantasticism happened really fast, all things considered. <a href="https://t.co/7iqexM28bw">https://t.co/7iqexM28bw</a>
&mdash; Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1421485835971710980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Geoffrey Miller, psychology professor: “How to say ‘We prioritize woke ideology over science and health’ without saying ‘We prioritize woke ideology over science and health.’”
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How to say &#39;We prioritize woke ideology over science and health&#39; without saying &#39;We prioritize woke ideology over science and health&#39; <a href="https://t.co/jJNMFrATET">https://t.co/jJNMFrATET</a>
&mdash; Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) <a href="https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1421500718347739137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sohrab Ahmari, editor at The New York Post: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t enough. The AMA should create an entire research division devoted to debunking the socially constructed myth of chromosomes. Call it the Lysenko Department.&#8221;
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This isn&#39;t enough. The AMA should create an entire research division devoted to debunking the socially constructed myth of chromosomes.
Call it the Lysenko Department. <a href="https://t.co/GfbRn6auES">https://t.co/GfbRn6auES</a>
&mdash; Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) <a href="https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1421519736496660481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rachel Moran, feminist: &#8220;To benefit who? And in the service of what? Who gains if biological reality is erased from birth certificates, &amp; who loses? And what is gained &amp; lost? This is the most serious assault on women’s dignity &amp; autonomy I have ever seen in my life.&#8221;
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To benefit who? And in the service of what? Who gains if biological reality is erased from birth certificates, &amp; who loses? And what is gained &amp; lost? This is the most serious assault on women’s dignity &amp; autonomy I have ever seen in my life. <a href="https://twitter.com/AmerMedicalAssn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AmerMedicalAssn</a> <a href="https://t.co/F5lRn3zQfM">https://t.co/F5lRn3zQfM</a>
&mdash; Rachel Moran (@RachelRMoran) <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelRMoran/status/1421518699429773316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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T.J. Moe, former University of Missouri football player: &#8220;The reason we have to continue to deal with the woke scold losers at every turn is because when they say things like this, we don’t absolutely laugh them into oblivion like they deserve. These people are insane and should be treated as such.&#8221;
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The reason we have to continue to deal with the woke scold losers at every turn is because when they say things like this, we don’t absolutely laugh them into oblivion like they deserve. These people are insane and should be treated as such. <a href="https://t.co/yu0NtdGWb5">https://t.co/yu0NtdGWb5</a>
&mdash; T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJMoe28/status/1421531706004234242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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American Medical Association Blasted After Calling For Removing Sex From Birth Certificates

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South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem faced backlash over the weekend after she essentially told residents of her state that if they did not want to be mandated by their employer to take a vaccine, they could find another job in the state.
&#8220;Workers whose employers are mandating a vaccine for continued employment have the power to say no,&#8221; Noem wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility, and doesn’t force mandates on their employees.&#8221;
Noem&#8217;s tweet comes after she faced scorn from conservatives over the way that she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-kristi-noem-passes-on-south-dakota-womens-sports-bill-issues-executive-orders-instead">handled</a> protecting girls from having to compete against biological males in sports. Noem also angered many conservatives over a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/politics/kristi-noem-cpac-south-dakota-governor-covid-mandate/index.html">shot</a> that she seemingly took at Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis last month during CPAC.
The following are some of the responses Noem received over her tweet:
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Argus_Joe/status/1421486180223365126">Joe Sneve</a>, reporter: &#8220;Don’t like your employer’s vaccine rules? Noem says: Find a new job.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1421600593286737927">Jesse Kelly</a>, media personality: &#8220;1. Red states must use their power to shield people from The System. As we’ve lost every other cultural institution, states are quite literally ALL we have left to protect us. 2. Kristi Noem has the political instincts of a gerbil.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1421597881211912192">Harmeet Dhillon</a>, attorney: &#8220;The state also has the power to make vaccination status a protected employment category. That would be the bold move.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1421570327499345922">Mike Cernovich</a>, media personality: &#8220;You’re a coward and failure. Grifters who are awestruck by z-list &#8216;talent&#8217; will tell you otherwise. You are a joke.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/RpwWilliams/status/1421569691487719428">Ryan Williams</a>, Claremont Institute: &#8220;Another disappointing Noem cave.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1421620742706376706">Ezra Levant</a>, publisher of Rebel News: &#8220;That&#8217;s your advice? Who&#8217;s the lobbyist in your ear this time?&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/JessieJaneDuff/status/1421842007887024128">Jessie Jane Duff</a>, political commentator: &#8220;@GovRonDeSantis is decisive for his state and ignores the left&#8217;s attacks. Kristi is trying to have it both ways and placate everyone so she becomes a political Gumby. Her attitude people can just find a new job is obtuse. Kristi is having her Marrie Antoinette moment.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1421618935078825984">Will Chamberlain</a>: &#8220;You’re the Governor of your state. If you don’t intend to protect your citizens, resign, and let someone else do the job.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1421809216449392641">Steve Deace</a>, political commentator: &#8220;Noem has now failed two major tests — protecting femininity from Rainbow Jihad and protecting workers from corporate fascism. What do these two issues have in common? She sided with business interests over individual freedoms. True liberty opposes tyranny regardless of sector.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1421632304091369477">John Cardillo</a>, political commentator: &#8220;We dodged a massive bullet with Kristi Noem. Thankfully she outed herself as another Chamber of Commerce cuck early enough in the game.&#8221;</li>
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) faced intense backlash over the weekend after failing to extend a pandemic-related eviction moratorium, which has now resulted in millions of Americans facing eviction.
&#8220;A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year expired Saturday after President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration extended the original date by a month,&#8221; USA Today reported. &#8220;The Supreme Court voted to not end the eviction program and let it expire on July 31. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion in June that &#8216;those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution&#8217; of the funds that Congress appropriated to provide rental assistance to those in need due to the pandemic.&#8221;
Congress, which is completely controlled by the Democrats, failed to pass new legislation to extend the moratorium. Even far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) admitted during a CNN interview on Sunday that Democrats could not in good faith blame the Republican Party for failing to extend the eviction moratorium.
“And we have to really just call a spade a spade,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-on-failing-to-extend-eviction-moratorium-we-cannot-in-good-faith-blame-the-republican-party">said</a>. &#8220;We cannot in good faith blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have a majority.”
Pelosi spent the weekend shifting who she was trying to blame for the debacle. Pelosi started by blaming the Republican Party and ended by blaming Biden&#8217;s CDC.
&#8220;Ensuring every American has a roof overhead is a value that unites the Democratic Party. That&#8217;s why I led a relentless campaign to extend the CDC eviction moratorium,&#8221; Pelosi claimed on Saturday. &#8220;In an act of pure cruelty, Republicans blocked this measure — leaving children and families out on the streets.&#8221;
&#8220;The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium,&#8221; she falsely claimed on Sunday. &#8220;As they double down on masks, why wouldn&#8217;t they extend the moratorium in light of [the] delta variant?&#8221;
Pelosi faced backlash from across the political spectrum over the disaster, which comes after she had spent valuable congressional time continuing to rehash the January 6 riot.
Some of the responses that Pelosi&#8217;s remarks generated included:
Leftist Aaron Huertas: &#8220;A handful of conservative Democrats were *not* united on this and progressive members are happy to discuss that publicly, so this argument will definitely not work. Yeesh.&#8221;
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A handful of conservative Democrats were *not* united on this and progressive members are happy to discuss that publicly, so this argument will definitely not work. Yeesh. <a href="https://t.co/UyGRo3Bh7J">https://t.co/UyGRo3Bh7J</a>
&mdash; Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronhuertas/status/1421846040806842375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Leftist Peter Daou: &#8220;PELOSI, TRANSLATED: We control the White House, Senate, and House, and we&#8217;re powerless. Now let the evictions proceed as I get back to my insider trading&#8230;&#8221;
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PELOSI, TRANSLATED:
We control the White House, Senate, and House, and we&#39;re powerless. Now let the evictions proceed as I get back to my insider trading&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/o5zydOzxkN">https://t.co/o5zydOzxkN</a>
&mdash; Peter Daou (@peterdaou) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1421818034805743629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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People for Bernie: &#8220;If only there was a way to have a vote on the floor of the house that Republicans can&#8217;t block 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 wonder who has the power to do that!!!!&#8221;
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If only there was a way to have a vote on the floor of the house that Republicans can&#39;t block 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 wonder who has the power to do that!!!!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtendTheMoratorium?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtendTheMoratorium</a> <a href="https://t.co/VTirlHZujn">https://t.co/VTirlHZujn</a>
&mdash; People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1421683715697041416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Political candidate Samuel Williams: &#8220;Did you say that it was Republicans fault just yesterday. Make up you mind or is your memory as bad as Joe&#8217;s?&#8221;
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Did you say that it was Republicans fault just yesterday. Make up you mind or is your memory as bad as Joe&#39;s? <a href="https://t.co/vC888MYnHc">https://t.co/vC888MYnHc</a>
&mdash; Samuel Williams (@votesamuelwill1) <a href="https://twitter.com/votesamuelwill1/status/1421942552656220163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): &#8220;Speaking of doubling down…this isn’t even spin…it is a lie. The Supreme Court ruled (in June) that the CDC exceeded its authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium and that congressional authorization was necessary.&#8221;
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Speaking of doubling down…this isn’t even spin…it is a lie. The Supreme Court ruled (in June) that the CDC exceeded its authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium and that congressional authorization was necessary. <a href="https://t.co/cFG0Se1ypl">https://t.co/cFG0Se1ypl</a>
&mdash; Congressman Kelly Armstrong (@RepArmstrongND) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepArmstrongND/status/1421952118492127234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Other notable responses included:
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You&#39;d think Blackrock could draft a better tweet for Pelosi to send out <a href="https://t.co/nUBj7wIhOL">https://t.co/nUBj7wIhOL</a>
&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1421934496673370114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Wherein the Speaker of the House, second in line of succession, proves she hasn&#39;t a clue that the Supreme Court already definitely ruled on this. <a href="https://t.co/fyvImp6VmR">https://t.co/fyvImp6VmR</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1421935783460679690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This is misinformation. <a href="https://t.co/a5mIXVNFRo">https://t.co/a5mIXVNFRo</a>
&mdash; Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) <a href="https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1421939065927122949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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More than tired of politicians posturing as powerless spectators instead of even attempting to take action, especially when they&#39;re the third most powerful politician in the country. <a href="https://t.co/5WC6wfl6Mq">https://t.co/5WC6wfl6Mq</a> <a href="https://t.co/iJZkm1EnCb">pic.twitter.com/iJZkm1EnCb</a>
&mdash; Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) <a href="https://twitter.com/LavenderNRed/status/1421946208822702083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dems gave Trump&#39;s CDC zero credit for extended it before the election and now they&#39;re begging Biden&#39;s CDC to do the same. <a href="https://t.co/rqE4qJdXzV">https://t.co/rqE4qJdXzV</a>
&mdash; Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1421946435390615554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Speaker of the House urging an executive branch agency to openly defy the Supreme Court. Remarkable. <a href="https://t.co/6Os8SxEDBV">https://t.co/6Os8SxEDBV</a>
&mdash; Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href="https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1421945616410812419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi Slammed While Blaming Others For End Of Eviction Moratorium: ‘Is Your Memory As Bad As Joe’s?’

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Nancy Pelosi

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) admitted during a CNN interview on Sunday that Democrats could not in good faith blame the Republican Party for failing to extend the eviction moratorium because Democrats control the entire federal government.
&#8220;So, you have been warning that this eviction deadline was coming for weeks,&#8221; CNN anchor Jake Tapper said. &#8220;Democrats control the House. You guys control the Senate. You guys control the White House. Nothing aggressive was done by leadership until just a couple days ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Who&#8217;s to blame here?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;First of all, you are absolutely correct, in that the House and House leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium. And there were many and there was, frankly, a handful of conservative Democrats in the House that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;And we have to really just call a spade a spade. We cannot in good faith blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have a majority.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, there is something to be said for the fact that this court order came down on the White House a month ago, and the White House waited until the day before the House adjourned to release a statement asking on Congress to extend the moratorium,&#8221; AOC continued. &#8220;This came after weeks. I sit on the Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over housing. We had the housing secretary there, asking about the administration stance. We asked the Biden administration about their stance. And they were not being really forthright about that advocacy and that request until the day before the House adjourned.&#8221;
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The House had the opportunity to extend the eviction moratorium. But, there were a handful of conservative Democrats who chose to leave rather than keep families in their homes. 
We cannot in good faith blame Republicans when House Democrats have a majority. <a href="https://t.co/VBvOgZyIDY">pic.twitter.com/VBvOgZyIDY</a>
&mdash; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1421877545616789504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED VIA <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2021-08-01/segment/01">CNN</a>:
<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: And welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION. I&#8217;m Jake Tapper.
A rally at the Capitol overnight, progressive lawmakers demanding that the House come back in session, some even spending the whole night on the steps in solidarity with those who may soon find themselves without a roof over their heads, after the federal ban on rental evictions expired at midnight without a vote to extend it.
Congress has passed, already, billions of dollars to help renters during the pandemic, but only a sliver of that money has actually been distributed, leaving both tenants and also some landlords in desperate straits.
Joining us live now to discuss, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who was at the rally last night.
Good to see you in person.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): Of course.
TAPPER: Yeah.
So, you have been warning that this eviction deadline was coming for weeks.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Mm-hmm. Yes.
TAPPER: Democrats control the House. You guys control the Senate. You guys control the White House. Nothing aggressive was done by leadership until just a couple days ago.
Who&#8217;s to blame here?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, I think there&#8217;s a couple of issues here.
First of all, you are absolutely correct, in that the House and House leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium. And there were many and there was, frankly, a handful of conservative Democrats in the House that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote.
And we have to really just call a spade a spade. We cannot in good faith blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have a majority.
Now, there is something to be said for the fact that this court order came down on the White House a month ago, and the White House waited until the day before the House adjourned to release a statement asking on Congress to extend the moratorium.
This came after weeks. I sit on the Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over housing. We had the housing secretary there, asking about the administration’s stance. We asked the Biden administration about their stance. And they were not being really forthright about that advocacy and that request until the day before the House adjourned.
And so the House was put into a &#8212; I believe, a needlessly difficult situation. And it&#8217;s not just me saying that. Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters has made that very clear as well.
And so there&#8217;s a couple of contributing factors here. We have governors who are also not getting this emergency rental assistance out in time, which is forcing this extension, what we would like, an extension of the moratorium.
The fact of the matter is, is that the problem is here. The House should reconvene and call this vote and extend the moratorium. There&#8217;s about 11 million people that are behind on their rent, at risk of eviction. That&#8217;s one out of every six renters in the United States.
TAPPER: Congress is out of town for the next seven weeks. Speaker Pelosi made it clear in a letter to Democrats last night she&#8217;s not calling the House back. The Senate&#8217;s here, because they have got the infrastructure bill. What&#8217;s your &#8212; and you heard Manchin say that he thinks that the moratorium should be extended, so that these tens of billions of dollars can get out the door? What&#8217;s your response?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, listen, the House adjourned technically for seven weeks, but I want to be very clear that, due to the ongoing negotiations with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we were given very specific instructions that we are set to adjourn for seven weeks, but every member of the House of Representatives is currently on a 24-hour callback notice, in anticipation of that bipartisan infrastructure bill.
So, we all have left town with plans to come back within 24 hours if necessary. And I believe that the expiration of the eviction moratorium and having 11 million Americans, one out of every six renters, at risk of being kicked out of their homes, is worth coming back and triggering that 24-hour notice.
We cannot leave town without doing our job.
TAPPER: Can you explain to the American people why it is that these tens of billions of dollars that Congress has already passed to help renters &#8212; and, also, we shouldn&#8217;t depict &#8212; and you&#8217;re not &#8212; but landlords, some of them are small business people. They need the money, too, so they can survive.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Absolutely.
TAPPER: These are not all just Jared Kushner slumlord types, right?
And so this money is there. What&#8217;s the holdup? Why can&#8217;t it get out the door?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, this money was handed over by Congress and the federal government to states and local municipalities to dole out.
And what that means, then, is that each individual governor is responsible for establishing these programs. I think that, in some states, governors and state administrations might be slow-walking this process to get it out, in other states, the administrative burden of setting it up.
But there are states and municipalities that have been getting it right. And we&#8217;re at a point where, frankly, those state governments need to get it together. But we cannot kick people out of their homes when our end of the bargain has not been fulfilled.
Out of the $46 billion that has been allocated, only $3 billion has gone out to help renters and small mom-and-pop landlords.
TAPPER: No, it&#8217;s crazy.
You just heard Joe Manchin a few moments ago talk about the reconciliation bill. That&#8217;s the bigger budget package, $3.5 trillion. He said he can&#8217;t give any guarantee that it would pass the Senate. What was your response to that?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, listen, this deal &#8212; these deals on infrastructure that have gone out are not just bipartisan, but they are also bicameral.
And it was very &#8212; it was made very clear&#8230;
TAPPER: That means House and Senate.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yes, that means House and Senate.
And so it was made very clear at the beginning of this process that this bipartisan deal, if it even survives the Senate, the only chance that it has at passing the House is if the House passes the Senate bill and if the Senate passes the House bill, which is largely in reconciliation.
And so we can&#8217;t just have one body driving the entire legislative agenda for the country, and, frankly, 20 senators within that one body. And so we need a reconciliation bill if this bipartisan bill is going to get &#8212; if we want this bipartisan bill to pass.
TAPPER: Now, I know the infrastructure deal that they&#8217;re talking about &#8212; and Manchin said they&#8217;re going to introduce it today, they&#8217;re going to bring out the language &#8212; is obviously a lot smaller than you wanted, a lot smaller than a lot of your fellow progressives wanted.
It still does include things that you like, including funding for electric vehicle charging stations, public transit, clean water systems, broadband, more.
When it comes before the House, as it looks like will happen, will you vote for it?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: It has to &#8212; we have to hold onto the &#8212; we have to hold onto that bargain.
If there is not a reconciliation bill in the House, and if the Senate does not pass the reconciliation bill, we will uphold our end of the bargain and not pass the bipartisan bill until we get all of these investments in.
And I want to be clear that the investments in the bipartisan bill are not all candy land. There are some of these &#8212; quote, unquote &#8212; &#8220;pay- fors&#8221; that are very alarming that we need to see the language on. For example, some of the language around privatizing public infrastructure, putting toll roads, leasing public infrastructure to private entities, are very concerning and should be concerning to every American.
So, we really need to see that language and see what&#8217;s put in there until it reaches &#8212; when it reaches the House. Bipartisan doesn&#8217;t always mean that it&#8217;s in the interests of the public good, frankly. Sometimes, there&#8217;s a lot of corporate lobbyist giveaways in some of these bills.
TAPPER: OK.
So, when it comes to the infrastructure package, you disagree with your fellow Democrat Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, who told Politico &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;Strike while the iron is hot. If you get a deal, and if it&#8217;s significant money, don&#8217;t let it sit. It does not age well.&#8221;
You disagree?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, we have a deal. And the deal is reconciliation for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
TAPPER: OK. Yes, you have made your point.
You have called out Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for saying she does not support the budget reconciliation package, $3.5 trillion, for all sorts of priorities.
You wrote &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;Good luck tanking your own party&#8217;s investment on child care, climate action, and infrastructure, while presuming you’ll survive a 3 vote House margin.&#8221;
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yes, I mean, that&#8217;s the thing.
This is a deal. And we have a tight margin in the Senate. I respect that we have to get Senator Sinema and Manchin&#8217;s vote on reconciliation. They should also respect that there&#8217;s a very tight House margin, and that we have to be able to uphold our end of the bargain as well. And House progressives are also part of that majority.
And&#8230;
TAPPER: How many House progressives do you think are with you on this?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I believe, a very large amount of the Progressive Caucus. The total amount is about 90.
I am not the whip of the Progressive Caucus. But what I can tell you is that it&#8217;s certainly more than three. And it is in the double digits, absolutely.
TAPPER: Enough to prevent it from passing.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: More than enough.
TAPPER: President Biden and other administration officials have signaled that they believe that Democrats can out-organize Republicans, even though Republicans are passing all these measures that, generally speaking, make it more difficult to vote.
And, generally speaking, a lot of the impetus for this is the big lie that the election was stolen. You&#8217;re an organizer, former organizer. Is that a realistic strategy, what President Biden is saying, that Democrats can out-organize Republicans on this?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: No.
I appreciate the White House&#8217;s optimism, but I believe that it verges on naivete, because what we have here, first of all, is, we &#8212; it already took unprecedented historic organizing to overcome the voter suppression efforts in 2020. And we barely squeaked through on the majorities and the White House election that we have.
But, beyond that, even if we are successful in &#8212; quote, unquote &#8212; &#8220;out-organizing voter suppression,&#8221; which is a ridiculous premise on its face, Republicans are already laying the groundwork in installing state level attorney generals and beyond to overturn the results of any state election that they, frankly, do not like in states where they have taken power.
And so, even if you are successful in out-organizing, they won&#8217;t even &#8212; they&#8217;re laying the groundwork to not even certify the results of the election. They&#8217;re holding essentially dress rehearsals in states like Arizona in order to do that.
And I think we should be extremely alarmed. And it will &#8212; we are setting it up to happen unless we pass very strong voter provisions against gerrymandering, voter protection rights, not just [in] H.R.4, but we need the retroactive provisions in H.R.1.
TAPPER: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, thank you so much for being here.
Good to see you.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Of course. Thank you. Absolutely.</blockquote>
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Campaigns With Ohio Congressional Candidate Nina Turner

AOC On Failing To Extend Eviction Moratorium: ‘We Cannot In Good Faith Blame The Republican Party’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed an executive order late this week that allows parents to make the choice of whether they want to have their children wear masks in school, which comes in response to the Biden administration making new recommendations through the CDC about wearing masks in school.
&#8220;Today, Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 21-175, in response to several Florida school boards considering or implementing mask mandates in their schools after the Biden Administration issued unscientific and inconsistent recommendations that school-aged children wear masks,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/07/30/governor-desantis-issues-an-executive-order-ensuring-parents-freedom-to-choose/">said</a> in a statement on Friday. &#8220;The Florida Department of Health will enter rulemaking in collaboration with the Florida Department of Education to protect parents’ freedom to choose whether their children wear masks.&#8221;
DeSantis said at a press conference where he signed the executive order that “the federal government has no right to tell parents that in order for their kids to attend school in person, they must be forced to wear a mask all day, every day.&#8221;
&#8220;Many Florida schoolchildren have suffered under forced masking policies, and it is prudent to protect the ability of parents to make decisions regarding the wearing of masks by their children,&#8221; DeSantis added.
The <a href="https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Executive-Order-21-175.pdf">executive order</a> ensures that local school boards &#8220;do not violate Floridians&#8217; constitutional freedoms,&#8221; &#8220;do not violate parents&#8217; right under Florida law to make health care decisions for their minor children,&#8221; and makes sure that &#8220;children with disabilities or health conditions who would be harmed by certain protocols such as face masking requirements&#8221; are protected.
DeSantis hosted a roundtable on masks earlier this week with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University; H. Cody Meissner, MD, pediatrician and the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease and Professor of Pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine; Mark McDonald, MD; and Dr. David Withun.
“I think our fear is that seeing some of those rumblings, that there be an attempt from the federal level or even some of these organizations to try to push for mandatory masking of school children,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/2021/07/27/florida-gov-desantis-crusades-against-mask-mandates-in-private-round-table/">said</a>. “It should not be mandated. I know our legislature feels strongly about it, such that if you started to see a push from the feds or some of these local school districts, I know they’re interested in coming in, even in a special session to be able to provide protections for parents and kids who just want to breathe freely and don’t want to be suffering under these masks during the school year.”
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Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis Debate in Tampa

DeSantis Signs Executive Order Giving Parents Power To Choose Whether To Mask Their Kids At School

Face Masks

Ron DeSantis

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) got Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D), one of the Texas Democrats who fled the state to prevent the state&#8217;s legislature from doing its job, to admit during a House hearing this week that government-issued IDs are essentially needed in order to be a functioning member of society as an adult.
The following is a partial transcript of rapid fire questions that Mace asked Thompson during an Oversight Committee hearing this week:
<blockquote>MACE: Do y&#8217;all need IDs to buy alcohol when you&#8217;re purchasing at the store?
THOMPSON: Yes, to be sure that you are capable of doing that.
MACE: Right. Do you need an ID in Texas to buy cigarettes?
THOMPSON: You can&#8217;t buy them unless you&#8217;re at least 21.
MACE: But do you have to show an ID to buy cigarettes?
THOMPSON: You do have to show an ID.
MACE: Do you need an ID when you&#8217;re getting a job and trying to get on payroll in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID to go to the pharmacy and get a prescription in Texas?
THOMPSON: It depends on the prescription.
MACE: But do you need an ID for some prescriptions in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes, you do. Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID to get social security services in Texas?
THOMPSON: You do. 
MACE: Do you need an ID to rent an apartment in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID if you&#8217;re gonna buy a house and finance it via a mortgage in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID in Texas if you&#8217;re gonna board an aircraft and fly commercial?
THOMPSON: Yes. 
MACE: Did you fly commercial or fly a private jet on the way to D.C.?
THOMPSON: A chartered plane. 
MACE: Do you have to show an ID when you fly on a private charter jet?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: I wouldn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve never flown on one. So, did you need an ID to get into the building here today?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID in Texas to open a bank account?
THOMPSON: Yes. </blockquote>
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<blockquote>REP. NANCY MACE (R-SC): And I want to thank Miss Thompson. I was a state lawmaker for three years before I came to Congress. I represent the 1st Congressional District of South Carolina, and South Carolina has had its own history, very bad history, with black South Carolinians, black and brown and African Americans. I recently took a vote to move statues like Supreme Court Justice Taney, removing his bust out of the Capitol rotunda because he wrote the Dred Scott opinion, the one that said that black and brown and African Americans could not become citizens of the United States of America. I voted to move, you know, someone like Wade Hampton, who encouraged the murder of over 150 black South Carolinians during his run for governor. So, I appreciate your comments about the 60s. I was not around then. But I&#8217;ve watched and read a lot of the history and seen the videos and seen the moments of violence against black America. So I applaud your work on that. My understanding is you were elected in 1972 in Texas, is that correct? 
TEXAS STATE REP. SENFRONIA THOMPSON (D): It is correct. 
MACE: Right. And I applaud you for making history, I would imagine, in Texas and being a strong voice for black men and black women. Coming from South Carolina, we&#8217;ve got voter ID, and I&#8217;m assuming Texas is the same way. Do y&#8217;all need IDs to buy alcohol when you&#8217;re purchasing at the store? 
THOMPSON: Yes, to be sure that you are capable of doing that.
MACE: Right. Do you need an ID in Texas to buy cigarettes?
THOMPSON: You can&#8217;t buy them unless you&#8217;re at least 21.
MACE: But do you have to show an ID to buy cigarettes?
THOMPSON: You do have to show an ID.
MACE: Do you need an ID when you&#8217;re getting a job and trying to get on payroll in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID to go to the pharmacy and get a prescription in Texas? 
THOMPSON: It depends on the prescription. 
MACE: But do you need an ID for some prescriptions in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes, you do. Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID to get social security services in Texas?
THOMPSON: You do. 
MACE: Do you need an ID to rent an apartment in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID if you&#8217;re gonna buy a house and finance it via a mortgage in Texas?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID in Texas if you&#8217;re gonna board an aircraft and fly commercial?
THOMPSON: Yes. 
MACE: Did you fly commercial or fly a private jet on the way to D.C.?
THOMPSON: A chartered plane. 
MACE: Do you have to show an ID when you fly on a private charter jet?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: I wouldn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve never flown on one. So, did you need an ID to get in the building here today?
THOMPSON: Yes.
MACE: Do you need an ID to Texas to open a bank account?
THOMPSON: Yes. 
MACE: …to cash you&#8217;re check if you&#8217;re working. Do you know, Representative Thompson, how many, what percentage of blacks in Texas, black and brown African Americans are registered to vote?
THOMPSON: Oh, a huge percentage. Uh&#8211;
MACE: 70%. Do you know what percentage of African Americans, black and brown Texans, have voted on average or in the last election?
THOMPSON: [About] 64%.
MACE: Correct. Do you know how many whites are registered to vote in Texas?
THOMPSON: Far more than African Americans. 
MACE: 72%. You have 70% of blacks in Texas who are registered to vote; you have 72% of whites in Texas who are registered to vote. Do you know the percentage of whites who turned out to vote in recent elections?
THOMPSON: I want to say over 50-something percent.
MACE: 65%. Do you know what percentage of Hispanics are registered to vote in Texas?
THOMPSON: No, I do not.
MACE: 63%. Do you know what percentage of Hispanics voted in the last election?
THOMPSON: I think it was over 40%.
MACE: 53%. Hispanics are not voting in as high a number as blacks and whites in Texas. Do you know the percentage of Democrats who support voter ID?
THOMPSON: Would you repeat your question?
MACE: Do you know the percentage of Democrats who support voter ID in this country?
THOMPSON: I do not, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a whole lot.
MACE: 72%. Do you know the number of black and brown and African Americans in this country who support voter ID?
THOMPSON: No.
MACE: 75%. Do you know the number of Hispanics that support voter ID in this country?
THOMPSON: No.
MACE: 81%. Do you know where the state of Texas is ranked with black voter turnout in this country?
THOMPSON: With black voter turnout?
MACE: Do you know where Texas is ranked?
THOMPSON: Oh, 44%.
MACE: The latest numbers that I read this morning was that Texas is ranked 10th.</blockquote>
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House Votes

WATCH: Nancy Mace Gets Texas Democrat Who Fled State To Admit IDs Are Needed For Adult Life

Nancy Mace

Voter ID

HBO host Bill Maher slammed &#8220;woke&#8221; culture and people who were complaining about cultural appropriation at the Olympics, saying that the toxic ideology was something that belonged in Stalin&#8217;s Russia.
Top lines from Maher&#8217;s segment on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; included:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;The director of the opening ceremony was fired hours before the event because they found out there was a Holocaust joke at a comedy routine he did decades ago. &#8230; Why do we allow the people who just want to b***h to always win? Days before that firing, the opening ceremonies musical director, musical director, was also forced out because someone dug up an interview with him from 1994 where he admitted to bullying classmates as a child. As a child. Remember when your teacher used to try and scare you by saying this is going to go on your permanent record? Yeah, no longer an empty threat now.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;And the creative director of the entire shebang of the whole Olympics got s**t canned because he once made a fat joke in a private conversation. This is called a purge. It&#8217;s a mentality that belongs in Stalin&#8217;s Russia. How bad does this atmosphere we are living in have to get before the people who say, &#8216;cancel culture is overblown,&#8217; admit that is, in fact, an insanity that is swallowing up the world.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;And that is not a conservative position, my friends. My politics have not changed but I am reacting to politics that have and this is yet another example of how the woke invert. The very thing that used to make liberals liberals. Snitches and b***hes, that&#8217;s not being liberal. The Associated Press is a real news organization, yeah? So why am I reading this headline, &#8216;Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots?&#8217; Yeah, the Olympics added surfing this year, good, surfers deserve to be recognized as athletes. I&#8217;m sorry, what I meant to say is no, that&#8217;s cultural appropriation. &#8230; I must say of all the violations of the woke penal code, cultural appropriation just might be the dumbest of all. First of all, there are 25,000 islands in the Pacific. How do we know a Hawaiian was the first to stand on a board in the water? It seems like something anyone in any ocean would eventually get around to. And if you&#8217;re a surfer, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re black, white, or in between you all taste the same to sharks.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;This new idea that each culture must remain in its own separate silo is not better, and it&#8217;s not progress. And in fact, it&#8217;s messing with one of the few ideas that still really does make this melting pot called America great. Not everything is about oppression, stealing natural resources from indigenous people.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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How bad does this atmosphere we&#39;re living in have to get before the people who say cancel culture is overblown admit that it is in fact an insanity that is swallowing up the world? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WokeOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WokeOlympics</a> <a href="https://t.co/P9rJNs6nrs">pic.twitter.com/P9rJNs6nrs</a>
&mdash; Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1421335013446938625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>BILL MAHER, HBO HOST: And finally new rule, please don&#8217;t make the Olympics into the Oscars. Oh, what&#8217;s that? They they did already? Yeah. You know, back in April when the Oscars aired, I commented in this space that the theme of that evening was, we dare you to be entertained lest your mind waver for a few hours from thinking about the sad things and bad people in the world. Well, thank God we found some of those bad people in the Olympics now and not a moment too soon. [Audience claps] No, that was sarcasm. The director of the opening ceremony was fired hours before the event because they found out there was a Holocaust joke at a comedy routine he did decades ago. Well, you know, context is everything. Obviously it didn&#8217;t strike people as beyond the pale at the time, young people have to stop flattering themselves that they&#8217;re Nostradamus and would have foreseen had they&#8217;d been around then everything that&#8217;s unacceptable now, and for further context, Mel Brooks wrote one of the most successful musicals of all time around the song Springtime For Hitler.
Why do we allow the people who just want to b***h to always win? Days before that firing, the opening ceremonies musical director, musical director, was also forced out because someone dug up an interview with him from 1994 where he admitted to bullying classmates as a child. As a child. Remember when your teacher used to try and scare you by saying this is going to go on your permanent record? Yeah, no longer an empty threat now.
And the creative director of the entire shebang of the whole Olympics got s**t canned because he once made a fat joke in a private conversation. This is called a purge. It&#8217;s a mentality that belongs in Stalin&#8217;s Russia. How bad does this atmosphere we are living in have to get before the people who say, &#8216;cancel culture is overblown,&#8217; admit that is, in fact, an insanity that is swallowing up the world.
And that is not a conservative position, my friends. My politics have not changed but I am reacting to politics that have and this is yet another example of how the woke invert. The very thing that used to make liberals liberals. Snitches and b***hes, that&#8217;s not being liberal. The Associated Press is a real news organization, yeah? So why am I reading this headline, &#8216;Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots?&#8217; Yeah, the Olympics added surfing this year, good, surfers deserve to be recognized as athletes. I&#8217;m sorry, what I meant to say is no, that&#8217;s cultural appropriation. The AP says that for Hawaiians, probably all two of them, including surfing in the Olympics is an extension of the racial indignity seared into the history of the game and their homeland when white outsiders took over their spiritual art form, or just people having fun in the ocean.
I must say of all the violations of the woke penal code, cultural appropriation just might be the dumbest of all. First of all, there are 25,000 islands in the Pacific. How do we know a Hawaiian was the first to stand on a board in the water? It seems like something anyone in any ocean would eventually get around to. And if you&#8217;re a surfer, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re black, white, or in between you all taste the same to sharks.
But, let&#8217;s say a Hawaiian did invent surfing, should he or she have kept it to themselves? Most of human history is a horror story. But the good parts are about different groups coming together and sharing. It&#8217;s sort of the whole point of the Olympics, which itself comes from Greece, where wrestling was invented as a way for completely heterosexual men to get to know each other. Badminton has roots in India. Tennis comes from France. Skiing from Scandinavia and Taekwondo from Korea. Judo was appropriated from the far east and skateboarding from the far out. What is this new rule that the first thing to do, that the first to do something, are the only ones who get to have it? Jewish peoples, but most of their history wandering, but when they see other people milling around, they don&#8217;t say, can you not? That&#8217;s sort of our thing.
You know, change is not synonymous with progress. Nowhere doesn&#8217;t automatically mean better. This new idea that each culture must remain in its own separate silo is not better, and it&#8217;s not progress. And in fact, it&#8217;s messing with one of the few ideas that still really does make this melting pot called America great. Not everything is about oppression, stealing natural resources from indigenous people. Yes, of course. That is exploitation. But I swear not one Beach Boys song resulted in any Hawaiian having less waves to surf.
Not one African record buyer stopped purchasing local music after Paul Simon made Graceland. But lots of white buyers in America were turned on to and then bought African music. And today, Korean boy bands make western style music. You don&#8217;t get to number one singing this. And that&#8217;s the great thing about cultural mixing. It makes things better for everyone. BTS can be a hit in America and I can get [inaudible]. Isn&#8217;t that better than everyone walling itself off from outsiders? I thought walls were supposed to be bad.
But we&#8217;re living now in a world where straight actors are told they can&#8217;t play gay roles, and white novelists aren&#8217;t allowed to imagine what it would be like to be a Mexican immigrant. Even though trying to inhabit the life of someone else is almost the very definition of empathy, the bedrock of liberalism. And by the way, if anyone deserves to bitch about stealing in the Olympics, it&#8217;s the horses in the equestrian events, who have to watch humans get medals for everything. They do.</blockquote>
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6th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HAITI RISING Gala Benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization

Maher Torches ‘Woke’ Culture: ‘This Is Called A Purge. It’s A Mentality That Belongs In Stalin’s Russia.’

Bill Maher

Cancel Culture

Woke Culture

Admiral Brett Giroir, former assistant health secretary under President Trump, sounded the alarm during a Fox News interview on Thursday, saying that the Delta variant of COVID-19 really is different and that it is so extremely contagious that those who have not had COVID-19 already or who are unvaccinated are going to eventually become infected with the Delta variant.
&#8220;I do want to make one thing clear again, and it&#8217;s the most important public health message,&#8221; Giroir said. &#8220;In the middle of all this confusion and misinformation, one thing remains clear. If you are vaccinated, you are at least 95 percent protected against serious consequences, hospitalizations, and death.&#8221;
&#8220;And let me tell you, if you have not been vaccinated, and you have not had COVID before, you will get the Delta variant. This is so infectious that you will get it. If you have had COVID before, we don&#8217;t know exactly, but it&#8217;s looking like prior immunity is not so good against Delta,&#8221; Giroir continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m really concerned that the evidence is mounting that even natural immunity will not protect you against Delta. So, get the vaccine. It&#8217;s the way to save your life to keep you out of the hospital. And that&#8217;s the number one reason we need to get it.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s &#8212; anyone who&#8217;s not vaccinated and who did not have COVID previously, the Delta variant is so contagious that you&#8217;re going to get it. It is just a matter of time,&#8221; Giroir continued. &#8220;If you have prior immunity &#8212; if you have prior immunity, you do have some protection, but more and more data are telling us that that protection is not so good against Delta. Remember, you can get the flu every year. It&#8217;s not because your immunity isn&#8217;t good. It&#8217;s because the flu changes. And Delta is really a new strain that is different than everything we have seen. So, I am real concerned that natural immunity, although real, is not going to be sufficient against Delta.&#8221;
&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t have natural immunity, and you&#8217;re not vaccinated, you&#8217;re going to get Delta,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;So, prevent it by getting your vaccine.&#8221;
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LISTEN: &quot;If you have not been vaccinated, and you have not had covid before, you will get the Delta variant&quot;-<a href="https://twitter.com/DrGiroir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrGiroir</a> highlights the importance of vaccination <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaReports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaReports</a> <a href="https://t.co/xFo6NppoWT">pic.twitter.com/xFo6NppoWT</a>
&mdash; America Reports (@AmericaRpts) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericaRpts/status/1420799906953015296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>JOHN ROBERTS, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right, Sandra, let&#8217;s bring in Admiral Brett Giroir. He&#8217;s a former assistant HHS secretary and testing czar under President Trump.
Admiral, good to see you today.
SANDRA SMITH, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Hey, Admiral.
ROBERTS: Let&#8217;s get you, first of all, to weigh in on what the president is expected to announce this afternoon. That is either a vaccine or testing mandate for federal workers.
A good thing or a bad thing?
ADM. BRETT GIROIR, FORMER U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH: I think it&#8217;s a reasonable thing for the federal government to mandate for its employees what most of the private sector, like Facebook and Netflix and Morgan Stanley, are doing for their employees.
And it is reasonable to give a choice. Vaccination is absolutely better, and it&#8217;s the best choice. But if you don&#8217;t get vaccinated, get tested every week. That will reduce the risk of spreading it.
And, look, I know that the vast numbers of federal employees are &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;working from home,&#8221; even senior public health officials. I personally am for anything that gets them back to work, so we can put this pandemic to the end.
SMITH: Admiral, people are so frustrated with this changing mask guidance, first told by President Biden himself, if you&#8217;re vaccinated, you no longer have to wear a mask. Now it seems to be that that is changing.
And there are &#8212; is great concern we have heard from doctors that that will be a disincentive for those who haven&#8217;t been vaccinated yet to not go get vaccinated, if they think they still have to wear a mask.
Where do your concerns lie this afternoon with all these changes?
GIROIR: Well, my major concern is, we had an incredibly important policy announcement by the CDC to recommend mask-wearing even for those who are vaccinated, but they have supplied zero data, no transparency, no information upon which we can have a debate.
SMITH: Why do you think that is? Why is that?
GIROIR: Because I don&#8217;t &#8212; I think they don&#8217;t really have the data or the data are weak.
Dr. Walensky said, in rare circumstances, a vaccinated person may transmit. Well, if it&#8217;s 1 percent, 0.1 percent, 0.01 percent, there&#8217;s no reason for the mask recommendations. But we don&#8217;t know because they won&#8217;t tell us.
We need to know the information, so we can have an intelligent, science-based debate. And I hope they do it as soon as possible, today. Should have been done two days ago.
ROBERTS: Admiral, the CDC is suggesting that at least some of that data will be released publicly tomorrow. There is a citation in the brief about the mask mandates that refers to a study in India.
In the CDC brief, it says: &#8220;Studies from India with vaccines not authorized for use in the United States have noted relatively high viral loads and larger cluster sizes associated with infections with Delta, regardless of vaccination status. These early data suggest that breakthrough Delta infections are transmissible. Unpublished data are consistent with this.&#8221;
Decode that for us. What does that mean?
GIROIR: It means that what happened with India with a vaccine that&#8217;s not even legal here and is not published, combined with some data that we don&#8217;t know about, it &#8212; there is no decoding.
I mean, this is not evidence. This is just speculation.
But I do want to make one thing clear again, and it&#8217;s the most important public health message. In the middle of all this confusion and misinformation, one thing remains clear. If you are vaccinated, you are at least 95 percent protected against serious consequences, hospitalizations, and death.
And no matter what is going on surfacing in misinformation, that is the reason we want everyone to get vaccinated. And that is true for Delta and every single variant.
SMITH: Admiral, for that reason, Dr. Marty Makary, who joined us on this program yesterday, said that the focus shouldn&#8217;t be on masks. It should be on vaccines, and it should be getting more Americans vaccinated.
He also brought up the full FDA approval, which has not yet happened. There&#8217;s a lot of red tape involved, as we know. It takes time for that to happen. But there is &#8212; there is &#8212; there are people who have not gotten the vaccination yet, and they will tell you, because there&#8217;s not a full FDA approval.
Do you question why that is not being expedited?
GIROIR: So, I think it&#8217;s just a matter of time. And I think it will be expedited. I am hopeful that the FDA would put full approval within the next couple of months or the next few weeks.
But, remember, for everyone that&#8217;s doubting, there have been over four billion vaccine doses given worldwide, hundreds of millions of doses in the United States with authorized vaccines. And the side effects of the vaccines pale in comparison to what you will get if you get COVID infection.
And let me tell you, if you have not been vaccinated, and you have not had COVID before, you will get the Delta variant. This is so infectious that you will get it. If you have had COVID before, we don&#8217;t know exactly, but it&#8217;s looking like prior immunity is not so good against Delta.
And I&#8217;m really concerned that the evidence is mounting that even natural immunity will not protect you against Delta. So, get the vaccine. It&#8217;s the way to save your life to keep you out of the hospital. And that&#8217;s the number one reason we need to get it.
ROBERTS: So, we have a couple of developments.
Washington, D.C., is going to return to mask mandates as of Saturday, and now news out of Israel that people over the age of 60 will be getting a booster shot of the vaccine. Pfizer came out with some data that suggested that, if you get a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, that could confer potentially 100 times more resistance, in the interim &#8212; it&#8217;s at least four or five times for older people &#8212; resistance to the Delta variant.
Is that an enticement to get a third dose of this vaccine at some point? And what do you think of what&#8217;s happening in Israel?
GIROIR: So, the jury is still out right now.
We do know that the third dose will raise the levels in the blood. What we don&#8217;t know is if you actually need those raised levels. The current data do show that vaccine immunity does wane after a period of time, but you&#8217;re still protected against hospitalizations and death. So, the jury is out.
Personally, we know that the breakthrough infections that land you into the hospital are much more common in those over 65 and those who are immunosuppressed. So, I am supportive in those groups right now to get a third dose of the vaccine, because those are the ones who are really having the breakthrough deaths and hospitalizations.
SMITH: Admiral, I want to go back to what you just said a moment ago, because that&#8217;s &#8212; that&#8217;s a big statement.
You&#8217;re saying that anyone who is not vaccinated right now in this country, you believe that they will contract the Delta variant, considering how contagious it is? Can you add to that?
GIROIR: Anyone who&#8217;s &#8212; anyone who&#8217;s not vaccinated and who did not have COVID previously, the Delta variant is so contagious that you&#8217;re going to get it. It is just a matter of time.
ROBERTS: Wow.
GIROIR: If you have prior immunity &#8212; if you have prior immunity, you do have some protection, but more and more data are telling us that that protection is not so good against Delta.
Remember, you can get the flu every year. It&#8217;s not because your immunity isn&#8217;t good. It&#8217;s because the flu changes. And Delta is really a new strain that is different than everything we have seen. So, I am real concerned that natural immunity, although real, is not going to be sufficient against Delta.
And if you don&#8217;t have natural immunity, and you&#8217;re not vaccinated, you&#8217;re going to get Delta.
ROBERTS: Wow.
GIROIR: So, prevent it by getting your vaccine.
ROBERTS: Well, that is an eye-opener, to be sure.
Admiral Brett Giroir, good to talk to you today. Thanks for helping kick us off. Appreciate it.
SMITH: Thank you, Admiral.
GIROIR: Thank you.
ROBERTS: Wow.
Sandra, if ever there was an enticement to get the vaccine, I think the admiral just laid it out there.
SMITH: That seems like just a dire warning and goes back to his original statement: The vaccine works. Get it.
But you also wonder what the admiral and all these other doctors may suggest how you cut through the politics of this moment. So many have put suggestions out there, having President &#8212; former President Trump do a PSA with Biden, or the Biden administration acknowledge that this was originally the Trump vaccine.
There&#8217;s so many suggestions that are out there. How do you cut through the political noise to get us out of this pandemic, John?
ROBERTS: Well, I think the admiral just said it right there, that, if you&#8217;re not vaccinated, you are more than likely going to get the Delta strain.
SMITH: That&#8217;s a big&#8230;
ROBERTS: And, you know, you don&#8217;t have to call people stupid or call them drunk drivers or call them criminals. You just say, this is what&#8217;s going to happen if you don&#8217;t do this.
So, that, I think was a very valuable public service message.
SMITH: Absolutely.</blockquote>
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Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America

Top Ex-Trump Official Warns: Delta Variant Really Is Different, The Unvaccinated Are ‘Going To Get It’

Coronavirus

President Joe Biden snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Thursday after Doocy asked about Biden&#8217;s previous remarks from May that fully-vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks.
&#8220;Mr. President, you said, if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask,&#8221; Doocy said.
After initially denying that he had said that, Biden acknowledged that he did, in fact, state that, saying, &#8220;In May, that&#8217;s true.&#8221;
&#8220;That [was] true at the time because I thought there were people who were going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;And what happened was, a new variant came along, they didn&#8217;t get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and people, more people were getting sick. That&#8217;s the difference.&#8221;
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Doocy vs. Biden 🔥
Doocy: You said if you were fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Biden: I didn&#39;t say that. Doocy: You did.
(&#8230;.)
Doocy: In May, you made it sound like the vaccine was the ticket to lose the mask forever. Biden: That was true at the time. <a href="https://t.co/0ITF0GZZqM">pic.twitter.com/0ITF0GZZqM</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1420854096760823811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS REPORTER: Mr. President, you said, if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: No, I didn&#8217;t say that.
DOOCY: You did&#8211;
BIDEN: I said if you&#8217;re fully vaccinated in an area where we do not have, but let me clarify&#8211;
DOOCY: In May, you made it sound like&#8211;
BIDEN: In May, that&#8217;s true.
DOOCY: &#8211;[inaudible] mask forever.
BIDEN: That [was] true at the time because I thought there were people who were going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference. And what happened was, a new variant came along, they didn&#8217;t get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and people, more people were getting sick. That&#8217;s the difference.</blockquote>
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President Biden Delivers Remarks On Nation’s Vaccination Efforts

Biden On Past Statement About Vaccinated Not Needing Masks: Was ‘True At The Time’

The Biden administration faced backlash on Thursday afternoon over remarks that Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made in response to a question about whether the administration was open to returning to lockdowns and school closures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
“So, if you’re listening to the scientists, if scientists come to you at some point down the line and say, ‘It is our opinion that there should be shutdowns and there should be school closures,’ you would do that?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked.
“Well, we listen to, like I said, we listen to the CDC and the expert[s] and their guidance … you know, the CDC is a body that is very well respected,” Jean-Pierre responded. “And again, we follow their guidance.”
The remarks sparked instant backlash online with elected members of Congress openly calling on Americans to not comply.
&#8220;If the CDC, Biden, or any local leader recommends another lockdown, don’t comply,&#8221; Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tweeted. &#8220;Businesses. Schools. Restaurants. No one should comply.&#8221;
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If the CDC, Biden, or any local leader recommends another lockdown, don’t comply. Businesses. Schools. Restaurants. No one should comply. <a href="https://t.co/OP9K1cSJo6">https://t.co/OP9K1cSJo6</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1420842561007230977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sean Parnell, a Republican who is running for U.S. Senate out of Pennsylvania, echoed Crenshaw&#8217;s sentiment, writing on Twitter: &#8220;If they try this again no one should comply. Lockdowns don’t work. They never have worked. And they won’t work in the future. This is what denying the science truly looks like.&#8221;
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If they try this again no one should comply. Lockdowns don’t work. They never have worked. And they won’t work in the future. This is what denying the science truly looks like. <a href="https://t.co/Rzhrec1S1S">https://t.co/Rzhrec1S1S</a>
&mdash; Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1420846420601544704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Other notable responses include:
Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN): &#8220;Today, the Biden Administration indicated that they are open to more lockdowns. This is absurd. It&#8217;s time we pass legislation, like my Stop Shutdowns Now Act, to ensure that tyrannical leaders cannot unilaterally implement more disastrous economic shutdowns.&#8221;
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Today, the Biden Administration indicated that they are open to more lockdowns. This is absurd. 
It&#39;s time we pass legislation, like my Stop Shutdowns Now Act, to ensure that tyrannical leaders cannot unilaterally implement more disastrous economic shutdowns. <a href="https://t.co/qJJPP0OYBF">https://t.co/qJJPP0OYBF</a>
&mdash; Pete Stauber (@RepPeteStauber) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepPeteStauber/status/1420850836805148675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr.: &#8220;These people are insane!!!&#8221;
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These people are insane!!! <a href="https://t.co/u2Z0zBgyua">https://t.co/u2Z0zBgyua</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1420831773127286793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dave Rubin: &#8220;I would once again like to congratulate my Very Smart liberal friends for voting for this. Your bravery is unmatched.&#8221;
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I would once again like to congratulate my Very Smart liberal friends for voting for this. Your bravery is unmatched. <a href="https://t.co/6dLlgkU8Mk">https://t.co/6dLlgkU8Mk</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1420847895075377154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX): &#8220;First it’s the return of masks for the fully vaccinated, now the Biden Administration admits they will once again consider school closures and lockdowns. All while @POTUS and @VP allow illegal immigrants with COVID-19 to pour across our southern border every day.&#8221;
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First it’s the return of masks for the fully vaccinated, now the Biden Administration admits they will once again consider school closures and lockdowns. All while <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> allow illegal immigrants with COVID-19 to pour across our southern border every day. <a href="https://t.co/mjXRuH71ib">https://t.co/mjXRuH71ib</a>
&mdash; Rep. Roger Williams (@RepRWilliams) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRWilliams/status/1420852619204075532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Steve Krakauer: &#8220;Even going by the CDC’s new guidance, which they have yet to present the actual science about, why would a room full of ONLY vaccinated people begin the week unmasked and end the week masked? Who are they protecting?&#8221;
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Even going by the CDC’s new guidance, which they have yet to present the actual science about, why would a room full of ONLY vaccinated people begin the week unmasked and end the week masked? Who are they protecting? <a href="https://t.co/FMDaDM0Hgw">https://t.co/FMDaDM0Hgw</a>
&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1420830396804067328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL): &#8220;The Biden Admin wants to lock down Americans yet allows a record number of migrants to flow through the border unscreened. Total hypocrisy.&#8221;
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The Biden Admin wants to lock down Americans yet allows a record number of migrants to flow through the border unscreened. Total hypocrisy. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FL26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FL26</a> <a href="https://t.co/NBKTSpnuB0">https://t.co/NBKTSpnuB0</a>
&mdash; Carlos A. Gimenez (@CarlosGimenezFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlosGimenezFL/status/1420828506066493441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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