Author: J.P. Knowles

President-elect Joe Biden has announced that a huge stimulus package proposal is in the works. But it will be no easy feat combating the coronavirus and rebuild an economy that has been torn down by the worst pandemic to strike the globe in over 100 years.

So taking on such a major endeavor will cost more than just a pretty penny. 

The president, in an address to the nation from his hometown of Wilmington, Del., is expected to spell out his plans to speed up the nation’s COVID vaccination program, boost coronavirus testing capacity to help reopen businesses and schools, provide for $1,400 stimulus checks for Americans and federal funds for state and local governments to use to avoid laying off police officers, fire fighters and other first responders, as well as teachers and health workers.

But the price tag will be high. On Wednesday senior officials from the incoming Biden administration put the overall tab at $1.9 trillion. 

Officials said the package includes “sending $1,400 per-person checks to households across America, providing direct housing and nutrition assistance, expanding access to safe and reliable childcare and affordable healthcare, increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance, and giving families with kids and childless workers an emergency boost this year.”

Another $440 billion would be targeted to support communities and businesses that are struggling amid the pandemic “by providing support for the hardest-hit small businesses, especially small businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color, and protecting the jobs of the first responders, transit workers, and other essential workers we depend on,” a senior official said.

An additional $400 billion would be aimed at directly combating the coronavirus.

Among many other things, Biden’s plan would also widen unemployment insurance benefits “so American workers can pay their bills” and the minimum wage would be pushed up to at least $15 per hour.

The events on January 6th caused President Trump to be put in a permanent Twitter time out. After posting some tweets that day the social media platform claims his remarks are what caused the riots that shook the Capitol so they deleted his account for good.

President Trump wasn’t the only one to be silenced in the media, many other conservatives have been censored on several major platforms. Now, according to some leaked recordings of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it appears that this trend isn’t slowing down any time soon.

The right-wing guerilla news outlet Project Veritas released a clip on Thursday given to them by a purported Twitter “insider whistleblower” who secretly recorded remarks by Dorsey to staff.

“You should always feel free to express yourself in whatever format manifestation feels right,” Dorsey said in the clip. 

Dorsey, who recently addressed the controversy over his company’s decision to permanently suspend the president, told staff in a virtual meeting that Twitter will do a “full retro” that will “take some time,” but drew focus to the platform’s former most high-profile account. 

“We know we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration,” Dorsey said. “So, the focus is certainly on this account and how it ties to real-world violence. But also, we need to think much longer-term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”

BREAKING: @Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO @jack Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship

“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now but this is going to be MUCH BIGGER than just one account & it’s going to go on for much longer…"#ExposeTwitter pic.twitter.com/QhyyUTHlM9

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 14, 2021

Dorsey then referenced actions taken against QAnon conspiracy theorists as part of a recent purge of Twitter accounts, telling staff it’s part of a “much broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on.”

“You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day,” Dorsey later said. “And our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that. And that is our focus.”

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe teased Thursday that more leaks from Twitter may come, saying “we’ve had over a dozen people reach out to us this week with video evidence inside Twitter.”

“Stay tuned,” O’Keefe told viewers. “They may be private companies, but they have more power than all three branches of government.”

A spokesperson for Twitter offered an explanation for the video saying, “The remarks shown in the video were delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are nearly the same words Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks.”

Democrats are on a mission to eradicate anyone and everyone who has ever been associated with President Trump. If you ever shared a park bench with Donald Trump, they would use it as an excuse to throw you out of Washington.

Now, GOP Representative Madison Cawthorn is under fire from Democratic leaders who are calling for his immediate expulsion claiming that he incited the “insurrection” on the United States Capitol.

State Democrats from Cawthorn’s 11th District wrote a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday, asking for an investigation into the Republican congressman. They claim there was an ethics violation for “violent language” on his Twitter feed during the unrest last week at the Capitol, The Mountaineer reported.

“Mr. Cawthorn needs to be held accountable for his seditious behavior and for consequences resulting from said behavior,” the letter to Pelosi read. “We will not tolerate misinformation, conspiracy theories, and lies from our Representatives.”

The letter – signed by the 11th District Democratic Party Chair Kathy Sinclair, along with four other party officials – asked that if the two-thirds vote needed for his expulsion could not be met, that the Speaker censure Cawthorn instead.

Pelosi could not be reached by Fox News for a comment.

But a petition for Change.org has garnered over 27,000 signatures and has demanded Cawthorn’s resignation, pointing to a speech he gave in December advising pro-Trump supporters to “lightly threaten” congressman who refused to condemn the Presidential Election as fraudulent.

“Call your congressman and feel free, you can lightly threaten them and say, you know what, if you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you, everybody’s coming after you,” Cawthorn said, first reported the Charlotte Observer.

Here's a video of Congressman Madison Cawthorn telling a rally of young people to call their representatives to "lightly threaten" them and say they are "coming after them" pic.twitter.com/WOBeppCR6c

— Andrew Rose Gregory (@arosegregory) January 12, 2021

Cawthron could not be immediately reached for comment, but he is not the only Republican facing threats of censure, following the Capitol attacks.

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., faced calls for censure earlier this week, after he became the first House Republican to openly claim the election was fraudulent. 

Democratic Representative Cori Bush also filed a resolution the day of the attack calling for all House members who incited violence by supporting claims of election fraud to be investigated and removed. It is unclear what Pelosi will do to satisfy these expulsion and censure demands.

CNN anchor Don Lemon has made a career out of bashing President Trump and all of his supporters. Earlier this month he refused the idea of respecting Trump voters because they “believe b*llsh*t.” And in August he accused them of having “cognitive dissonance” in order for them to follow such a “bad person.”

During his segment on Thursday, he threw a blanket over every Trump supporter and argued that anyone who voted for him was a neo-Nazi or a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

“If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the Capitol and potentially take the lives of lawmakers … You voted on that side, and the people in Washington are continuing to vote on that side,” Lemon explained to his colleague Chris Cuomo. 

CNN's @DonLemon: If you voted for Trump, you're with the Klan & the Capitol Hill rioters pic.twitter.com/xDi7zQwt9O

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 14, 2021

Lemon remained unapologetic Thursay night.

“I truly believe that, 100%,” Lemon told Cuomo. “They are allowed to their own opinion. It doesn’t mean that they’re right, but they’re allowed to their own opinion and I believe what I said last night.”

After Cuomo suggested that not all Trump voters associate themselves with the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol building, Lemon continued to argue that they’re ultimately one and the same.  

CNN's Don Lemon doubles down on his smear of all 74 million voters. Suggesting that they all are racist and are in league with the Klan.
"You vote for people who have common interests. If someone has a common interest, people who vote like you have a common interest as you." pic.twitter.com/XRPDd1WKUB

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 15, 2021

“Those people voted the way you voted and who you voted for, I’m just saying,” Lemon dismissed Cuomo’s tepid defense of Trump voters. “It puts you in the same crowd … You vote for people who have common interests. If someone has a common interest, people who vote like you have a common interest as you. That’s just how it is … That’s how political affiliation works.”

Well if that’s true then does every person who voted for Biden like to sniff and touch children inappropriately? But it’s unlikely that Lemon or anyone at CNN would ever go there.

Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, was proud to announce that over 26,000 people in the city have received the coronavirus vaccine but warned that doses are on track to run out very soon.

“To make this work,” de Blasio explained during a press conference, “we’re going to need the help of the federal government, the state government, and the manufactures to keep getting us the vaccine. At the rate we’re going, we’re going to be out in less than two weeks.”

The city is heading toward its goal of 175,000 vaccinations in a week and has plans to launch a “mega” vaccination site at Citi Field by the end of January.

“Freedom to vaccinate is what allowed us to do this, and we’re now going to take full advantage of this freedom and reach New Yorkers in every part of the five boroughs,” said the mayor. “We want the freedom to vaccinate delivery workers. We want the freedom to vaccinate folks who work in bodegas and delis. They’re there on the front lines.”

“We’re asking the state to help us clarify the rules,” he added, “so we can reach all kinds of delivery workers, deli workers, bodega workers and keep everyone safe.”

De Blasio became frustrated with the vaccine eligibility rules put in place by New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Starting Monday, NYS will begin scheduling vaccinations for the next group of people (Phase 1b):

-People age 75+
-Education workers
-First responders (police, fire)
-Public transit workers
-Public safety workers

Sites will include pharmacies, drs' offices, Javits Center & more.

— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 8, 2021

Friday, Cuomo announced that his state would start brodening eligibility for the vaccine to seniors over 75-years-old. The governor’s decision came after de Blasio pleaded with him to loosen regulations after his plan to vaccinate the New York Police Department was denied.

The original New York guidelines stated the first wave of vaccines were to be distributed to front line hospital workers, EMS workers, urgent care providers, residents and staff at nursing homes, and a few other select groups considered to be high-risk.

At the beginning of the week, the United States had already distributed over 25.4 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, but only 8.9 million have been administered. President Trump is asking that the second batch of doses that were being reserved for those who already had the first dose be distributed to people 65 and older, as well as those at high risk for severe illness.

Since the mainstream media has become obsessed with blasting President Trump’s every move, it’s become harder to pay attention to issues that really matter. For example, last week Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted to lying to Americans about the coronavirus and what needed to be done before the nation could fully recover.

For most of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci and other scientists in the public health establishment have been pushing the narrative that 60-70% of Americans would need to receive the COVID vaccine in order for the country to reach herd immunity and make the coronavirus a thing of the past.

But, recently, while speaking with The New York Times, Fauci admitted that number is actually much higher, perhaps even around the 75-90% mark. He claimed that he withheld the truth because the country wasn’t ready to hear it. Fauci said he now feels he has the freedom to “nudge this up a bit” without damaging the country’s morale.

So Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, flat out lied to the American people to manipulate their behavior.

In times like these with so much sickness and death and violence, the American people deserve the truth and accountability. When elected officials make bad decisions they must answer to the people but when public health officials with lifetimes of experience within this country’s institutions impede the truth and make bad decisions they deny the American people the right to decide for themselves.

Accountability is, after all, a central principle of representative government and is the only way to guarantee that what is being enforced by our trusted lawmakers is equal to the values of the people who elected them.

Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal was apart of the group of lawmakers who had to shelter in place as a mob of pro-Trump protesters stormed the Capitol was recently diagnosed with the coronavirus. She slammed Republicans hiding alongside her who refused to wear their masks but some video has surfaced of Jayapal not wearing a mask during the chaos.

“I just received a positive COVID-19 test result after being locked down in a secured room at the Capitol where several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one,” said Jayapal.

The Washington Rep. is just one of several members of Congress who has tested positive since sheltering with many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle during the attack. Images from the day show several GOP lawmakers not wearing masks as members of Congress huddled together while hiding from the mob. Because of the situation, Brian Monahan, the House attending physician, suggested that everyone involved gets tested for the virus.

But a video floating around the internet shows Jayapal hiding in the House gallery within close proximity to other lawmakers while not wearing a mask herself for the entire two-minute duration of the video. While Jayapal can be seen holding a type of gas mask referred to as an “escape pod,” at no point during the video did she put it on.

This u? https://t.co/ZJgH5JB8wc pic.twitter.com/YLJi2fVqoz

— Peter Condyles (@PeterTC123) January 12, 2021

Jayapal described the moment during the chaos she could be seen holding the mask, “You see that was a gas mask that some people actually put their gas masks on immediately, as they were really afraid for what was happening.

It’s unknown whether Jayapal ever put the escape pod on or how long she went without any kind of face-covering during the entire ordeal.

Author Dave Rubin warned that if the Big Tech censorship of President Trump and conservatives needs to be addressed immediately or soon the entire country will be silenced.

“So when Joe Biden or Kamala Harris says they want healing, well, it’ll be pretty easy for the country to heal when there’s no political opposition,” Rubin told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday. “That’s really where we’re at, at the moment.”

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris demanded Twitter suspend the President’s account all the way back in 2019 during a CNN primary debate.

At the time she said, “He and his account should be taken down,” which is exactly what happened just days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are set to take office.

According to Rubin, the political establishment has joined forces with Big Tech which is causing “massive issues.”

“We all got on these websites 20 years ago,” said Rubin, “we didn’t know what we were doing and suddenly we found out, hey, we’re the product and we need to revisit this.”

This is in contrast to former President Barack Obama’s campaign being praised for its strong digital game, but when Trump won it was described as “nefarious” and an “illegitimate election.”

To this Rubin said, “You can’t say it’s an illegitimate election now, but Nancy Pelosi still has tweets saying that Trump’s election was illegitimate…”

With just a week left remaining in President Trump’s term, the House of Representatives is heading toward an impeachment vote for the second time in less than a year. The reason being fellow lawmakers’ outrage in the president’s role in the attack of the Capitol last week.

This week the House will take two major steps toward impeaching Trump, making him the only president in history to be impeached twice.

First, the house will vote on a resolution from Representative Jamie Raskin calling on the Vice President to invoke the 25th Amendment to have Trump removed from office, meaning that the president will be declared “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

Vice President Mike Pence is not expected to oblige, and if he doesn’t the Democrats will then move forward with the second impeachment of the president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined the plan on Monday saying, The House will next take up the Raskin legislation in regular order to call upon the Vice President to activate the 25th Amendment to remove the President. We are further calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours after passage.”

“As our next step,” she continued, “we will move forward with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor. The President’s threat to America is urgent, and so too will be our action.”

Representative David Cicilline announced on Monday that Democrats have obtained the votes necessary to impeach President Trump for “Incitement of Insurrection.”

The article of impeachment claims that “President Trump endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the Democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government. He therefore betrayed his trust as president, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”

Shunning anyone who was associated with President Trump is not going to help heal this nation.

Independent Women’s Forum analyst Kelsy Bolar told “Fox & Friends,” “This is just the latest example of cancel culture and the great purge that we’re seeing come from the left and never-Trump Republicans.”

Bolar claims that Joe Biden was elected as president on the idea that he would bring unity and a sense of normalcy to our country but the “dangerous cancel culture” could flush it all down the drain.

“This dangerous cancel culture, which wants to ban any American who had the audacity to support President Trump or work in his administration from being able to do something as basic as have a new job,” said Bolar.

Bolar is referring to Forbes warning companies not to employee officials previously associated with Donald Trump.

In the op-ed, the magazine’s chief content officer, Randall Lane, sent a warning to companies considering hiring Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, Kellyanne Conway, former senior counselor to the president, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House deputy press secretary, and any other White House official who worked for the Trump administration.

“Let it be known to the business world,” Lane wrote, “Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”

Bolar is accusing the media, Big Tech, and corporate America of being in on canceling anyone who was associated with President Trump. She says it is a “very dangerous and concerning trend and it will not unite the country.”

“It is going to divide us and, of course, there is a huge double standard to talk about here where this is coming from the same media that peddled the idea that the 2016 election was hijacked from the Russians,” she added.

Bolar pointed to a tweet from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claiming that the 2016 election was hijacked and no actions were taken.

“They don’t hold themselves accountable,” she argued, “but yet they want to turn around and tell us that anyone who worked in the Trump administration does not deserve to have a job.”