{"id":1696330,"date":"2022-10-14T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696330"},"modified":"2022-10-16T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:11:32","slug":"unending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Unending &#8220;Emergency Powers&#8221; Enable Authoritarian Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It\u2019s been nearly a month since Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220919173546\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/18\/biden-trump-classified-documents-covid\/10422433002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>\u201c60 Minutes\u201d \u201cthe pandemic is over,\u201d but the federal government he ostensibly controls is still operating under emergency powers originally <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/presidential-actions\/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared <\/a>two and a half years ago. The administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/19\/hhs-covid-19-coronavirus-public-health-emergency-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>The Daily Caller it plans to renew the state of emergency again before its current expiration on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and news media have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/health-news\/biden-cant-end-the-covid-public-health-emergency-%E2%80%94-his-agenda-is-depending-on-it\/ar-AA126BIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made it plain<\/a> that the Biden administration is extending the state of emergency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/enough-backdoor-policymaking-time-end-090158282.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for political reasons<\/a>, not due to a legitimate emergency. USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220919172247\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/19\/pandemic-is-over-biden-comment-complicates-matters\/10425981002\/?gnt-cfr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted <\/a>that ending the state of emergency would \u201ccomplicate\u201d government officials\u2019 desire for Americans to take another round of Covid booster shots, as new disclosures show the government <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/attacked-from-all-sides-but-still\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secretly paid TV entertainers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nclalegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Joint-Statement-on-Discovery-Disputes-Combined.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressured social media<\/a> to push its shot narrative and validate billions in government contracts to pharmaceutical companies. The alleged \u201cstate of emergency\u201d is also \u201ckeeping millions of Americans on Medicaid\u201d under expansions approved only for \u201cemergency\u201d purposes. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/17\/joe-biden-public-health-emergency-covid-coronavirus-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">want <\/a>to keep using Covid as an excuse for other wasteful and inflationary \u201cemergency\u201d federal spending on agencies that have demonstrated deep corruption. \u201cAnd Biden\u2019s controversial decision to wipe out student loan debt for millions of Americans rests on the Education Department\u2019s ability to ease hardship in a national emergency,\u201d USA Today says. <\/p>\n<p>Extending the declaration would also mean the United States will be operating under a state of emergency through yet another hotly contested election. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.hillsdale.edu\/News-and-Events\/News\/Mollie-Hemingway-Outlines-Rigged%E2%80%9D-2020-Election-at\/\">last time that happened<\/a>, an estimated 14.8 million mail-in ballots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/08\/19\/15-million-votes-in-2020-election-not-accounted-for-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went missing<\/a> amid widespread vote chaos. Courts largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/judges-trump-election-lawsuits\/2020\/12\/12\/e3a57224-3a72-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused <\/a>to provide any clarity or accountability amid unprecedented charges of mass <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/09\/27\/arizona-2020-vote-audit-finds-potentially-election-shifting-numbers-of-illegal-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal voting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/03\/wisconsin-special-counsel-finds-widespread-election-fraud-in-2020-nursing-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election law violations<\/a>, mismanagement, irregularities, and confusion that in several swing states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/08\/19\/15-million-votes-in-2020-election-not-accounted-for-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended past<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/09\/new-evidence-indicates-enough-illegal-votes-in-georgia-to-tip-2020-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire margin<\/a> of Biden\u2019s claimed victory.<\/p>\n<p> Permanent Changes During \u2018Emergency\u2019 Rule <\/p>\n<p>Given a plausible enough excuse and enough government-generated fear among the populace, in 2020 the majority of local, state, and federal elected officials rolled over to leftists\u2019 clearly tactical demands for degrading election integrity. The so-called \u201cemergency\u201d changes to America\u2019s electoral process largely remain in place today, two years after they resulted in massive social strife and widespread distrust in American elections.<\/p>\n<p>States turned election days into election seasons, increasing the ability of targeted get-out-the-vote tactics to affect election outcomes. Swing districts allowed Democrat activist machines to run their election systems and operate Democrat get-out-the-vote operations through public offices. States filled mailboxes with ballots, millions of which went missing (Wisconsin, where I haven\u2019t lived for more than a decade, sent multiple mail-in ballots for me to my previous addresses, according to my family.) <\/p>\n<p>Mail-in balloting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/03\/were-insecure-voting-processes-this-years-insurance-policy-for-democrats\/\">increases <\/a>ballot error rates to within the margin of many electoral victories, allowing election officials to affect election outcomes by rejecting or accepting votes. Even if every single election official follows every single procedure and every voter fills out his mail-in ballot as accurately as a machine can \u2014 which aren\u2019t realistic assumptions \u2014 conducting elections this way is a recipe for unrest among those ultimately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly a month since Joe Biden told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d \u201cthe pandemic is over,\u201d but the federal government he ostensibly controls is still operating under emergency powers originally declared two and a half years ago. The administration told The Daily Caller it plans to renew the state of emergency again before its current expiration &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}