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It's Crazy On Many Levels, But Cook County Has Launched Its 'Free Money' UBI Program

It's Crazy On Many Levels, But Cook County Has Launched Its 'Free Money' UBI Program | ZeroHedge

Among the oblivious are Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle and the rest of her board. Last week she announced the county’s version of what’s often called UBI – universal basic income. Under the program, the county will send monthly payments of $500 to $3,250 to its residents who successfully apply for two years. At $42 million, it’s “the largest publicly-funded guaranteed income initiative in American history,” Preckwinkle says.

UBI programs are sometimes called “free money” programs, as in this column describing 13 similar programs in certain cities around the nation. “Free money” is a fair label because that’s exactly the point – to make cash handouts with no strings attached: no work, disability or training enrollment requirements, no regard for how much the recipient is getting from other assistance program and no real questions other than household income.

Eligibility is open to anybody 18 or older with a household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level – or about $58,000 for a family of three. About 36% of all Cook County residents will therefore be eligible, Preckwinkle says.

This is madness for so many reasons.


ME- Just standard Democrat Free Shit for worthless Democrat voters
On a good note.....the "migrants will flock to Chitown to collect that free money. This program needs to be advertised all over south America, like now.
 
^^^^Answer: My dog's excrement has more intelligence than the average libtard voter. Give them a break, they have a mental disorder.
 
I would say unbelievable, but nothing is anymore. Only in a country ran by liberal communists can ILLEGAL immigrants sue citizens. Oh, I thought you were just coming here for the “American dream”. It’s bad enough everything will be handed to them, now they’re pissy because they’re being moved to another location? Funny, didn’t hear them bitching or threatening to sue that retarded dementia case squatting in the White House when they were being snuck into cities in the dead of night, quietly infiltrating red states to upset the political base.

 
DeSantis’ office hits back after class action suit from migrants, reveals 'consent form' they allegedly signed

The office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday slammed a class action lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard last week, saying the journey was done on a voluntary basis.

The lawsuit, filed in the District of Massachusetts, alleges that DeSantis and others “designed and executed a premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme centered on exploiting this vulnerability for the sole purpose of advancing their own personal, financial and political interests.” […]

(Gov. DeSantis’ spokeswoman Taryn) Fenske provided Fox News with a copy of a consent form – available in English and Spanish – that she said was given to migrants before they boarded.

The form reads: “I agree to hold the benefactor or its designed representatives harmless of all liability arising out of or in any way relating to any injuries and damages that may occur during the agreed transport to locations outside of Texas until the final destination in Massachusetts.” …

DeSantis’ office hits back after class action suit from migrants, reveals 'consent form' they allegedly signed | Fox News
 

My cousin is married to her husbands brother I believe. That chick is bay shit crazy. She lost heavily the last time she ran to Rino Meijer who just got primaried.
And Meijer is our local Cheney.

Sadley, her largest district is a rapidly growing city that is quickly wanting to turn into Detroit.
 
I have some inside information about this putz. NO ONE that works for him, respects much less likes him. He is a complete ass-wipe. So the fact that he is doing this, doesn't surprise me at all....'look at me!' type shit. POS

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Sept 21, 2022
"The Pandemic is over"


Dear Patriots,


Did you hear the good news? Joe Biden has deemed the pandemic OVER.


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1- Confused Biden went off his script, no doubt shocking his handlers, who spent the next day trying to walk back those four words, because many of their mandates use Covid-CCP as their excuse and reason. They are holding over us the use of emergency powers to shut us in our homes again, whenever they want.

Children's Health Defense

Biden Declares 'Pandemic Is Over,' Prompting Calls for End to 'Absurd' Vaccine Mandates, Federal Health Emergency

QUOTE: President Joe Biden's Sept. 18 statement that the COVID-19 pandemic is "over" prompted questions about why his administration hasn't ended the federal public health emergency and how the government or employers can continue to mandate Emergency Use Authorized vaccines.

In an interview aired Sept. 18 on "60 Minutes," President Joe Biden declared the COVID-19 "pandemic is over," in the first such statement by a prominent political figure in the U.S.

Following Biden's "the pandemic is over" declaration on Sunday, COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers on Monday lost more than a combined $9 billion market value in a stock sell-off. The companies' shares dropped as much as 9%.

Following Biden's declaration, Sarah Lovenheim, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the federal public health emergency "remains in effect" and that a 60-day notice would be provided by the agency before it is rescinded.A 60-day period means that the earliest possible date when the emergency declaration would be lifted is in late November — well past the current Oct. 15 expiration date.

Remarking on the "public health emergency" remaining in effect even after Biden declared the pandemic "over," Mary Holland, president and general counsel of Children's Health Defense, told The Defender:

"It is an outrage that Biden has declared the pandemic over and yet federal and state emergencies and COVID-19 vaccine mandates remain. If it's over, it's over! No emergencies, no lockdowns, no mandates, no testing, no masks. Anything else is not only incoherent, it's the essence of tyranny — pointless, cruel restrictions that destroy lives."


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2- The law is that government can NOT get an Emergency Use Authorization during Covid-CCP if there are effective treatments.

Big Pharma and their paid spokesman, Fauci, had to lie to make it appear that there were no effective treatments in order to demand schools closed, businesses shut down and force their untested injections. Doctors all over America were threatened, silenced, fired for prescribing HCQ.

The Gateway Pundit

Dr. Harvey Risch: Biggest Lie of last 29 Months of COVID Pandemic Was Hydroxychloroquine – Hundreds of Thousands Died as a Result

QUOTE: Steve Deace recently interviewed Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Risch's work has been cited nearly 50,000 times in journals and studies. He is also an MD.

Steve Deace asked Dr. Risch what was the biggest lie of the last 29 months of COVID pandemic.

Dr. Risch says it was the lies about hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID 19.

The FDA hid the evidence that HCQ was effective in the early treatment of the disease. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this lie. The CDC-FDA officials promoted the questionable experimental vaccines instead and this helped Big Pharma make billions.

There have now been over 67 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show a 67% improvement in COVID patients.

There have been 362 Hydroxychloroquine studies that show a 64% improvement in patients for COVID-19 patients.

Despite the science, Dr. Fauci and the medical elites have blocked the use of these effective treatments for coronavirus patients.


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3- More evidence of the out-of-control, unlawful, secret Department of Justice.

RealClearPolitics

DOJ Internal Misconduct Shrouded in Veil of Secrecy

QUOTE: Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was busy this week, releasing three separate reports on Monday alone. Each detailed misconduct by a different assistant United States attorney: One finds a federal lawyer trying to use his position to avoid a drunk driving charge; another finds a government attorney getting drunk and physically belligerent at a meeting with foreign officials; the third, and most disturbing, finds an assistant U.S. attorney exposing his genitals "in a public place," and sexually assaulting a "civilian" on a date.

Who were these federal prosecutors? The summary reports don't say. A spokesperson for the Office of the Inspector General told RealClearPolitics that it could not release their names. RCP has filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking for their identities.

The Justice Department doesn't hesitate to publicize the names of those it accuses of wrongdoing. At least when those accused do not work for Justice. Last Friday, for example, the DOJ office of Public Affairs issued a press release announcing that the department had filed a discrimination lawsuit against the owner and managers of a Milwaukee rental property. Though a court has yet to rule against those accused of harassing a gay, disabled tenant, the DOJ press release named them.

Compare that with "Investigative Summary" number 22-104, in which the inspector general determined that an assistant United States attorney was driving under the influence when he (or she) was pulled over by police. The investigation found that the prosecutor had tried to pull rank on the local cops, "referring to the AUSA's title in an attempt to influence local police officers." When that didn't work, the drunk federal lawyer shouted obscenities and kicked the door of the police car.

These were violations of federal ethics regulations according to the IG, who found the assistant U.S. attorney's actions also ran afoul of the standards of conduct required of federal employees, including that they "not engage in criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or other conduct prejudicial to the Government." The AUSA remains unnamed.


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4- It is nothing short of jaw-dropping that these same people are still making up crimes, this time against President Trump.

The Gateway Pundit

Is Andrew Weissmann – "The Michael Avenatti of the Russia Collusion Hoax" – Also Behind the Mar-a-Lago Raid?

QUOTE: Attorney Mike Davis has been all over the corrupt DOJ's raid on Mar-a-Lago. He points out how the raid of President Trump's home was unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful. He also has observed individuals who were behind the Russia Collusion sham freaking out. One of these individuals is Andrew Weissman, the corrupt actor behind the attempted coup of President Trump.

Davis calls Weissmann "The Michael Avenatti of the Russia Collusion Hoax" in the interview below. He notes how much Weissmann is freaking out on social media. This indicates that the Deep State is off its rocker and Weissmann has much vested in the raid.

On his Twitter account, Weissmann retweets fellow knuckleheads like Lawrence Tribe and Norm Eisen and promotes tweets referring to Trump supporters as Nazis.

Just think that this guy was a top dog in the corrupt Justice Department. No wonder Americans know that they will never get a fair trial when the DOJ and FBI are involved after these entities were taken over by individuals like Weissmann.

But the thing that most ties Weissmann to the raid on Mar-a-Lago is the raid itself. The Presidential Records Act lacks any criminal enforcement mechanism. This Act is the crux of the actions taken by President Trump. As Davis shares, the President can declassify the records he wants to declassify. He also can take any documents with him that he chooses after leaving office. This is what President Trump did.

The DOJ basically changed the law to meet their means. This is what makes it look like Weissmann is involved.

Attorney Sidney Powell shared how Weissmann made up a law to indict individuals after the Enron collapse. She pointed out that the Supreme Court overturned Weissmann's interpretation unanimously but it was too late for the tens of thousands of employees at Arthur Andersen who lost their jobs years before the Supreme Court ruling.

You can buy Sidney's excellent book on the Department of Justice at this link.

Learn more about the interview Mark Levin had with Sidney in 2019 about the corrupt Weissmann.


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5- While Merrick Garland and Chris Wray are expending time and resources chasing after mythical violent "white supremacists" the truly violent left is murdering Americans.

A grown man with children felt it was acceptable to chase, run over and kill a teenager because he was a Republican. You won't see this story highlighted on Fake Media.

The Federalist

Man Charged With Killing Teen Echoed Biden's 'Republican Extremism' Rhetoric To Justify His Act

QUOTE: The man charged with fatally hitting and running over a North Dakota teen justified the act by echoing the same "extremism" rhetoric President Joe Biden wielded against Republicans during his most recent address.

Shannon Brandt, 41, mowed down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson early Sunday morning over what helater claimed was a "political argument" over whether "the teen was part of a Republican extremist group." That language strongly resembles the description used by Biden just a few weeks ago to describe Trump and "MAGA Republicans" as being "a threat to the very soul of this country." In that speech, Biden claimed it was Republicans who had "blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence"

Brandt, who also admitted to drinking before the incident, was charged on Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He is being held on a $50,000 bail. If convicted, Brandt could face a minimum of 10 years in prison.

Despite recently claiming that combatting political violence and domestic extremism is a top priority for the agency, the FBI did not immediately respond to The Federalist's questions about whether it plans to investigate the motives for the alleged homicide.

As of Tuesday night, corporate media outlets, which amplified Biden's shaming of MAGA Republicans, had not covered the killing.


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6- With the midterm elections less than 50 days away, it is interesting to think of one possible consequence of the President of United States targeting Republican voters in his ominous "Red Speech" a few weeks ago.

The Epoch Times

GOP Voters 'Virtually Impossible to Poll' After Biden's 'MAGA Republicans' Speech: Top Pollster

QUOTE: Polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden's speech that attacked "MAGA Republicans" earlier this month, according to a top independent pollster. Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote on Sept. 17 that Biden's speech will make it more difficult to survey or even estimate Trump-aligned voters than in prior years.

He was referring to Biden's Sept. 1 speech that targeted "MAGA Republicans" as a threat to U.S. institutions, just weeks after the FBI raided Trump's Florida residence. Speaking in front of a red backdrop and flanked by two Marines, Biden claimed Trump and his supporters "represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."

Describing this new group as "submerged voters," Cahaly wrote that these people "aren't putting stickers on their cars, signs in their yards, posting their opinions, or even answering polls." "At this point, I think it's fair to say that Biden's pursuit of and attacks on 'MAGA Republicans' has created an army of voters who will be virtually impossible to poll (even for us) and more difficult still to estimate," he wrote.



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Amazing how under Brandon's watch the world is on the brink of world war due to weakness of the USA. Weakness of the Bushs and flat out selling out of our country by the Clintons and the leftist handlers of Brandon mean we are in for tough times unseen since the 1st half of the 20th century. :(
 
Here comes the next government over reach. Not only do they want all new cars to have breathalyzers installed, but now they want speed control, also. All if this will be done by gps NTSB wants alcohol detection systems installed in all new cars in US

What about fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana detectors? What about other meds that alter the mind or impair judgment. What about a hate detector or feelings detector. China has been using AI cams to detect lying, deception and emotional status based on facial expression.

They probably want to monitor food type intake and activity levels next for insurance purposes. Just because they the call themselves social progressives don't discount their authoritarian nazism.
 
What about fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana detectors? What about other meds that alter the mind or impair judgment. What about a hate detector or feelings detector. China has been using AI cams to detect lying, deception and emotional status based on facial expression.

They probably want to monitor food type intake and activity levels next for insurance purposes. Just because they the call themselves social progressives don't discount their authoritarian nazism.
If you read the article, the NTSB is basing everything off of 1 accident that happened in California a few years ago when a drunk driver hit a F150 pickup truck with 7 kids and an adult in it and it caught on fire. The cab of a F150 doesn't hold 8 people, even with an extended cab.

What are they gonna do with rental cars? Sorry, but I am not suck-starting any vehicle, especially a rental And the government will not control the speed of my car based off of GPS mapping. Sometimes, you need to punch your vehicle to prevent an accident. Throttling your vehicle back will get a lot of people killed. If they want to do something constructive, why don't they make cars sitting in the hammer lane, doing 5 MPH below the speed limit, automatically get back over in the right hand lane, where they belong. I could get behind that idea.