Daily Verse | 2 Corinthians 9:7
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Wednesday’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 10-13
Happy Wednesday, Broadsiders! I dream of winning the grasshopper yodeling championship some day.
It’s December 1, 2021 and we’ve only got 40 more days until we can say we’ve survived a quarter of Resident Biden’s first (and only) term. Joey Waffle Cone is perhaps the worst chief executive ever inflicted on the United States of America. He’s a talentless bureaucrat who chases popularity and profit for himself and his family without regard for the actual citizens he allegedly “leads.”
But all is not lost. His approval ratings are in the toilet and he has just suffered several setbacks on one of his signature issues: the vaccine mandates.
In November, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) suspended enforcing Biden’s vaccine mandate on employers with more than 100 employees or face thousands of dollars in fines “after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a stay on the mandate.”
Prior to the suspension of enforcement for the mandate, senior administration officials said OSHA would assist employers in developing their own vaccine and testing standards. Fines for willfully failing to comply with the mandate could reach as much as $14,000 per violation, with the potential for multiple citations per business.
Then, yesterday, Biden’s despotic overreach took a gut punch when two different courts ruled against him.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe, Louisiana, issued the injunction (pdf) to expand a separate order issued on Monday by a Missouri federal court, which applied to just 10 states.
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“If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency,” he wrote. “During a pandemic such as this one, it is even more important to safeguard the separation of powers set forth in our Constitution to avoid erosion of our liberties.”
The second court blocked the administration’s vaccine mandate for federal government contractors and subcontractors.
“This is not a case about whether vaccines are effective. They are,” Van Tatenhove wrote. “Nor is this a case about whether the government, at some level, and in some circumstances, can require citizens to obtain vaccines. It can.”
He said that the question before him was a narrow one: whether or not Biden had the authority to impose vaccines on the employees of federal contractors and subcontractors.
“In all likelihood, the answer to that question is no,” Van Tatenhove wrote.
Even CNN has taken note of the setbacks, writing, “The Biden administration has suffered three major court losses since Monday morning, with orders freezing key federal government Covid-19 vaccine rules in certain parts of the country and, in one case, nationwide.”
Chris Cuomo was unavailable to report on the story.
Perhaps sensing the impending decisions from the courts, the Biden administration announced on Monday that the government won’t suspend or fire federal employees for violating its Covid-19 vaccine mandate until January.
The Biden administration has told government agencies that they can hold off on disciplining workers who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 until after the holidays, saying the mandate was intended to “protect federal workers, not to punish them.”
The White House originally set a Nov. 22 deadline for federal workers to be fully vaccinated or face suspension or dismissal unless they were granted a religious or medical exemption.
See how big-hearted and friendly the government is? It’s for your own good!
If they were smart, they’d follow the example of Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, which “currently has the lowest number of COVID-19 cases per capita in the United States.”
“Our governor actually follows data, and that’s why he’s so successful,” Gimenez, a Republican, argued. “He doesn’t really care what the mainstream media says. He does what he thinks is the right thing, following the data, and more often than not, he’s absolutely right. And when he’s proven right, everyone’s mum…he’s leading our state, and really, the rest of the country should be following our lead here in Florida.”
Exactly.
So much of the masking, social distancing, vax mandates and fear-mongering by our so-called “leaders” is nothing short of a power grab. It may look and feel like, “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help,” but that’s when you need to put your guard up.
Sure, offer vaccinations and new pills. Maybe offer proven treatments that already exist—like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Just don’t demand we take it or lose our jobs. That’s tyrannical.