The government, for the past year, has overstated joblessness by 818,000 jobs. That revision comes on top of the monthly revisions already made. It is probably not a conspiracy to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris look good or they would have waited until after the election, not before early voting, to announce the revision. But it is troubling that the government data was off by so much and equally as troubling that politicians and the press together have lectured Americans that the public did not know what they knew. Last week, former CNN host Don Lemon went to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to interview people on the boardwalk about the election. One man said he made more money under Donald Trump. Lemon proceeded to tell the man he was wrong because “the data” show Americans are doing better now. Lemon behaved like much of the press and so many Democratic politicians. If you tell the press you are worse off now than you were four years ago, the press claim you have been spun into believing lies. But the lie was that the economy and job creation were far better than they were. Americans knew. The experts got it wrong and the press enforced groupthink by the expert class. Where once an American’s lived experience had to be accurately captured by the press, when that experience conflicts with the popular narrative, the narrative must prevail over the truth. The narrative, these days, favors whatever it will take to keep Donald Trump out of office. The narrative is we have won the fight against inflation as a nation. Never mind that salaries are only starting to grow again and prices are still increasing, just not as fast. A 3% increase after a 30% increase is not much of a victory for working Americans. It is everything to the Democrat elite and press. The pattern is consistent. Americans should not believe their eyes or experience. They should believe what they are told. Only when everyone collectively sees the same thing at the same time does it become too inconvenient for the press and politicians to keep lying. Everyone seeing Biden onstage at the CNN debate was just much too much. He had to be discarded. But pay no attention to the same people tossing Biden overboard begging Biden, only a year ago, to replace Harris because of her weaknesses as a candidate This week, Americans are being told the “vibe” has shifted to Harris and the Democrats are back. We are, at best, back to polling in February that had a tied race and key swing states leaning to the Republicans. Pay no attention to Donald Trump historically outperforming his polling by a few percentage points. Pay attention only to the shift to Harris. Pay no attention to Tim Walz’s lies about his family’s use of IVF, his military record, the arrest rates in Minneapolis after the 2020 riots or how long he kept kids out of Minnesota schools. But pay extreme attention to JD Vance going to Yale, just not to how he got there or from whence he came. The elite and press are beclowning themselves. The Bureau of Labor Statistics performs an annual audit of data in August every year looking back over the prior year’s data to make sure its numbers are accurate. Financial institutions have known for some time the numbers would come back and be revised downward substantially after month over month annual revisions downward. Still, the government’s revision was the largest revision in the data since 2009. Reporters lecturing Americans on how well off they are even if they do not feel like it should probably pause a bit and reflect. They will not, of course. They never do. Meanwhile, Republicans have yet another issue that they can put forward to the public. The economy has not been firing on all cylinders. Fewer jobs were created than claimed. And Harris’ first day on the job was 3 1/2 years ago. The message matters. The “vibe” may favor the Democrats. The data favors Republicans. But Republicans must press their advantage.

NBC’s Today couldn’t measure up to the hackery on ABC and CBS Friday morning in recapping the final day of Democratic National Convention, but they still delivered plenty of pathetic lines cheering “moderate” Vice President Kamala Harris’s “impassioned speech framing the election in historic terms...and delivering a searing rebuke of” Donald Trump but hoping to govern from “the center”. “Living history...Kamala Harris makes it official, the first woman of color to reach a major party ticket with an impassioned speech framing the election in historic terms...and delivering a searing rebuke of her rival...This morning, her vision for the future, Donald Trump’s real-time reaction, and where the 2024 race goes from here,” co-host Savannah Guthrie announced in a tease. Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander again led off and, this time, he touted Democrats as having told him “this was an exhilarating week”.  Alexander had his own valentines to hand out: “Kamala Harris in front of an arena bursting with energy, acknowledging her sudden rise to the nomination and saying that she is no stranger to unlikely journeys, hoping this one ends in the Oval Office. Vice President Kamala Harris taking a step toward history...Harris weaving her life story into a vision for the country[.]” While he gushed that she “end[ed] with optimism” and threw a fawning question of “what did it feel like” to her in the hallways under the United Center, Alexander acknowledged Harris was partisan by telling viewers she “spent considerable time criticizing former President Trump.” Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker upped the bias by admitting “a lot of Americans aren’t that familiar with her history...and what her vision is for the future” and then conceding the policy elements of her speech were “largely built on the Biden agenda” and thus “didnt...lay out where she might differ from” him.     Welker then dropped the m-word: “[S]he cast herself very carefully as someone who was moderate, so that could potentially reach out to some of the moderates, independents who are going to be critical in winning this election.” Guthrie agreed, adding she “donn[ed] that aura of a prosecutor that feels comfortable to her” by “us[ing] sometimes legal language in making the case against Donald Trump...and she did seem to move to the center, talking tough on immigration, for example.” Senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson agreed, highlighting “the Democratic strategy, to broaden the number of people that will come into the tent and vote for Kamala Harris.” Alexander returned in the second hour to again sing Harris’s praises and fawn over a New York Times photo of Harris from the view of her grandniece, Amara Ajagu (click “expand”): [Catching Harris in the hallway] was pretty good fortune at the end of this last week. It’s been fun to be with you here in Chicago, Savannah. Kamala Harris in front of this arena was that bursting with energy, acknowledging her sudden rise to the nomination and saying she is no stranger to likely journeys with Democrats saying she will end up in the Oval Office. (....) Harris never explicitly acknowledged the historic nature of her candidacy, but this photograph by The New York Times really spoke volumes. Take a look at this. There is Harris on the stage accepting the party’s nomination. And that is her great niece right in the first row as Harris spoke about the possibility that she could be the first woman of color to serve as this country’s president. To see the relevant NBC transcript from August 23, click here.

The party that constantly wants to fundamentally change America into a facsimile of a socialist European state apparently really loves America, according to the stacked panel of liberals on Friday’s Morning Joe. The MSNBC gaggle seriously suggested that the size of the flags at the Democratic National Convention showed a correlation to their love of America; further insisting that, by the end of the event, patriotism was “fully reclaimed” from Republicans. After playing a couple of minutes of Harris’s speech from Night Four, co-host Joe Scarborough opined that “the convention went better than I've seen it go.” He went on to commend Harris for talking about how great America was, contrasted with how former President Trump described it: And Willie, I must say, again, even in that line, that punch line right before you accept your party's nomination, she talked about the greatness of America. She talked about the very things that Republicans used to talk about, until they started running down America, saying what a horrible country it was. Donald Trump saying what a failed country it was, what a nation in decline it was. She went there, and I thought, Willie, most importantly, the Democratic National Convention went there all week with chants of "USA," with flags waving, with one speaker after another going on and on about how great America was and how this could only happen in the United States of America. Scarborough later cited a comment from reporter Bill Bradley, who compared the 2024 DNC to the 1984 Republican National Convention. “And joy and patriotism were combined in a way -- I heard Bill Bradley say yesterday, joy and patriotism combined in a way that he has not seen since Ronald Reagan in 1984, morning in America we took 49 states,” he touted.     Co-host Willie Geist remarked on how “the flags got bigger as the night went along” and inexplicably tied the size of the flags to how patriotic Democrats supposedly were. “So, everyone had a small flag in their hand to wave for the speech, and then they brought out the big flags for Kamala Harris' speech. Chants of ‘USA,’ patriotism fully reclaimed,” he declared. The gush continued with Geist suggesting the energy in the arena rivaled that of when the Chicago Bulls was winning championships in the ‘90s: This building has seen a lot, Joe and Mika. Michael Jordan won three championships in here. They've had some electric nights. But I would hazard to guess that this was right on par with some of those nights in terms of energy in the building, John Lemire. And you and I were watching. We got sort of the full scope from section 315 up there, looking down at this tableau of a party that has truly been energized. Geist even dared to flash a sense of pride in how the Democratic Party had “transformed from its dread and despair that Joe Biden was too old and that they were going to lose to Donald Trump, and how are we going to deal with this guy for another four years; to a party now, at the end of this week, that truly feels, not in an overconfident way, truly feels it now has the upper hand.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MSNBC’s Morning Joe August 23, 2024 6:03:40 a.m. Eastern (…) JOE SCARBOROUGH: I thought the convention went better than I've seen it go. And Willie, I must say, again, even in that line, that punch line right before you accept your party's nomination, she talked about the greatness of America. She talked about the very things that Republicans used to talk about, until they started running down America, saying what a horrible country it was. Donald Trump saying what a failed country it was, what a nation in decline it was. She went there, and I thought, Willie, most importantly, the Democratic National Convention went there all week with chants of "USA," with flags waving, with one speaker after another going on and on about how great America was and how this could only happen in the United States of America. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. In what Vice President Kamala Harris called in her speech the greatest country on Earth. You're right, Joe, being in this arena last night, the flags got bigger as the night went along. So, everyone had a small flag in their hand to wave for the speech, and then they brought out the big flags for Kamala Harris' speech. Chants of "USA," patriotism fully reclaimed. A focus on the military, on veterans, also, last night. And her speech was -- this building has seen a lot, Joe and Mika. Michael Jordan won three championships in here. They've had some electric nights. But I would hazard to guess that this was right on par with some of those nights in terms of energy in the building, John Lemire. And you and I were watching. We got sort of the full scope from section 315 up there, looking down at this tableau of a party that has truly been energized. And, in some ways, over the last month or so, transformed from its dread and despair that Joe Biden was too old and that they were going to lose to Donald Trump, and how are we going to deal with this guy for another four years; to a party now, at the end of this week, that truly feels, not in an overconfident way, truly feels it now has the upper hand. (…) SCARBOROUGH: And joy and patriotism were combined in a way -- I heard Bill Bradley say yesterday, joy and patriotism combined in a way that he has not seen since Ronald Reagan in 1984, morning in America we took 49 states. (…)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rebuked the Biden-Harris administration for exploiting government power to censor their political opposition. During an announcement speech suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, RFK. Jr. addressed reporters in Arizona and directly cited Big Tech censorship as a main reason for not winning the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2024 election. Mincing no words, he blasted the federal government and the Democratic National Committee for their involvement. “What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates; what alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies,” RFK Jr. said while standing before a podium with two American flags behind him. RFK Jr.: “What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright coerces… pic.twitter.com/pX8uYucHPg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 23, 2024 During his speech, RFK Jr. highlighted the damning consequences of the censorship collusion between Biden officials and social media platforms to censor constitutionally-protected, yet inconvenient free speech. “When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it is an attack on our most sacred right of free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest,” the now-former presidential candidate warned. Expanding on this sentiment, RFK Jr. labeled the Democratic Party as “the party of the war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and Big Money,” referring to the largest corporations that control the pharmaceutical, social media, agriculture and financial industries. The RFK Jr. campaign faced mounting censorship attacks from the largest social media companies in the country as reported in several MRC Free Speech American studies. For instance, in June 2023, a Meta spokesperson cited an "error" as the reason behind the censorship of RFK Jr.'s Instagram account. The account was reinstated several weeks after RFK launched his presidential campaign. According to MRC's CensorTrack Database, RFK Jr. has been censored at least 35 times in one year. Before You Go! Read MRC’s CensorTrack Cases of RFK Jr. Censorship Here! Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen exposed radical leftist Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) price-fixing proposal as a disaster and a distraction. During the Aug. 23 edition of Squawk Box, Kernen interviewed Warren on her legislation purporting to fight “price gouging,” nine days after Vice President Kamala Harris tried to shift blame for high prices by embracing price controls. The 19-minute-long interview turned sour quickly. Kernen wasn’t impressed with Warren’s talking points, contentiously referring to them as “fallacious,” “misleading,” and “sophistry.” Like Harris, Warren worked hard to deflect blame for rising prices and rampant inflation from the wild spending of the Biden administration by conveniently pointing the finger at corporate greed. [WATCH: Joe Kernen Goes After Elizabeth Warren On Price Fixing, Inflation] Kernen refused to be distracted, sarcastically asking Warren if her proposal was not about “diverting the attention away from the real issues that might actually help the middle class.” After presiding over a 19.4% rise in prices, Harris tried to duck responsibility for high grocery costs by proposing price controls as a fix in an Aug. 14 news release. Notably, Harris would tout one of the most expensive and inflationary pieces of legislation produced by the Biden-Harris administration, the bafflingly named “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) only two days after trying to shift blame. The Squawk Box co-host specifically mentioned the IRA as a cause of inflation ignored by Warren. After bashing price fixing as “not the government’s place” and a “fool’s errand,” Kernen accused Warren of deceiving the public: “You’re using it to divert the real cause of inflation over the last four years which was because you had demand after the pandemic, which obviously, you know -- there was a lot, because we reopened, and all of a sudden there's supply chain issues, and the demand is juiced by all the stimulus from the IRA and all the other spending that we did.” Kernen also repeatedly took Warren to task for the tyrannical and absurd nature of her proposal. For example, Kernen pointed out the ridiculousness of imposing restrictions on food prices while grocery store chains operate on 2% profit margins.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will reportedly announce that he will suspend his campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump. An Associated Press report said that Kennedy filed to endorse Trump in a Pennsylvania court just ahead of his announcement from Arizona on Friday. 'We wanted a fair shot. The DNC made that impossible for us.' Kennedy withdrew from the Arizona ballot on Thursday after announcing that he would be making a speech important to the future of this campaign. The decision was made despite the campaign successfully obtaining enough signatures to get on the Arizona ballot, leading many to believe the independent candidate had decided to drop out. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump said that he was willing to consider a position for Kennedy in his administration. Kennedy's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, had also said that they were considering dropping out and endorsing the Trump-Vance ticket. She went on to accuse the Democratic Party of unfairly sabotaging their campaign. “We don’t want to be a spoiler. We wanted to win. We wanted a fair shot. The DNC made that impossible for us,” Shanahan said. “They have banned us, shadow banned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used lawfare against us, sued us in every possible state. They even planted insiders into our campaign to disrupt it and to create actual legal issues for us.”Polls have shown that Kennedy supporters like Trump more than they like Harris, leading many to suspect that if RFK dropped out of the race, it would bolster support for the Republican candidate. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A federal court rekindled hopes this week that the Biden-Harris administration could be held accountable over its efforts to have critics censored during the pandemic, ruling that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children's Health Defense, an organization he leads, have Article III standing to sue. The U.S. Supreme Court let the Democratic administration off the hook in June for its well-documented efforts to shut down critics of its COVID-19 policies and preferred narratives during the pandemic — policies and narratives that have been shown in the years since to have been in many cases unfounded and/or destructive. The court's 6-3 ruling in Murthy v. Biden asserted that the states of Missouri and Louisiana, along with other plaintiffs, lacked standing to sue the Democratic administration. 'There is a substantial risk that he will suffer similar injury in the near future.' Although the plaintiffs in Murthy were ultimately tripped up — a decision Justice Samuel Alito indicated the country might come to regret — theirs had a companion case that still had legs: Kennedy v. Biden. U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana, whose injunction the SCOTUS reversed in Murthy, gave Kennedy the green light Tuesday to run down the Democratic administration in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. "The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants, and there is a substantial risk that he will suffer similar injury in the near future," wrote Doughty. In February, Doughty, a Trump-nominated judge, granted Kennedy an injunction blocking elements of the Biden-Harris administration, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI, from coercing social media companies to engage in suppression or outright censorship of content containing free speech. This injunction was, however, put on hold pending the Supreme Court's Murthy ruling. Following the SCOTUS' June 26 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals kicked the case back to the district court, affording it an opportunity to reconsider Kennedy's standing, admitting also that he may have stronger grounds. 'This means the Biden-Harris Administration may finally be held accountable for its censorship.' With the ball back in his court, Doughty noted that Kennedy was "identified as a member of the so-called 'Disinformation Dozen,' which was made up of twelve individuals that the Government specifically targeted for spreading alleged disinformation regarding COVID-19." The judge indicated that elements of the Biden-Harris administration "specifically targeted" Kennedy. After all, he dared hold "positions contrary to Government positions on COVID-19, including mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine injuries, lockdowns, etc." Doughty wrote: There is ample evidence in the record showing that Kennedy has been directly censored in the past. Not only was he a part of the alleged 'Disinformation Dozen,' which was repeatedly flagged and/or censored at the behest of numerous Defendants, but he was also censored for his anti-vaccine and anti-COVID-19 rhetoric. Therefore, Kennedy has more than satisfied the first element for Article III standing, that is, he suffered an injury-in-fact when he was censored. According to the judge, Kennedy's presidential candidacy and political ambitions put him at further risk for future injury, raising the hypothetical of the FBI working in concert with private and governmental outfits to censor campaign-related information deemed "misinformation." Kim Mack Rosenberg, CHD general counsel, told the defender in a statement, "Judge Terry Doughty carefully and clearly analyzed the law and facts and applied the framework from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Murthy v. Missouri regarding standing." "GREAT NEWS!" Children's Health Defense tweeted. "This means the Biden-Harris Administration may finally be held accountable for its censorship of us via #BigTech." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The United States Secret Service has reportedly placed at least five agents on leave over the recent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.Fox News confirmed that several agents were suspended from service amid an ongoing investigation. Those placed on leave included one member of Trump's personal protective team, the head of the Secret Service's Pittsburgh Field Office, and three other agents with the office. 'It wasn't just an attempt; he was literally shot.'The assassination attempt occurred nearly six weeks ago where the shooter was able to fire off several rounds, resulting in a bullet grazing Trump's ear, the death of one attendee, and injuries to two other supporters in the crowd. Less than two weeks after the shooting, then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle announced her resignation following mounting criticism from Republicans and Democrats about the agency's slow response to the gunfire and failure to properly secure the area ahead of the event. Anthony Guglielmi, U.S. Secret Service chief of communications, told Blaze News, "The U.S. Secret Service is committed to investigating the decisions and actions of personnel related to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.""The U.S. Secret Service's mission assurance review is progressing, and we are examining the processes, procedures and factors that led to this operational failure," Guglielmi continued. "The U.S. Secret Service holds our personnel to the highest professional standards, and any identified and substantiated violations of policy will be investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility for potential disciplinary action," he added. "Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."Guglielmi did not confirm whether any agents were placed on leave.CBS News reported that it is unclear whether the Secret Service members were placed on leave as disciplinary action or for other reasons amid the ongoing investigation.House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) responded to reports that some action was taken against the Secret Service members involved in the planning of the Butler rally."There must be accountability at the Secret Service for its historic failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump," Comer stated. "Holding negligent employees accountable is the first step. I look forward to the Task Force's findings of its investigation. We must ensure the Secret Service does not fail again."Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also responded to the update, stating, "Suspending the Secret Service agents involved in this massive security failure is the least we could do — and it should have happened weeks ago.""We still need real answers about the attempt on President Trump's life and accountability for everyone involved," Hawley added.Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told Fox News, "We're now 41 days removed from" the assassination attempt against Trump."It wasn't just an attempt; he was literally shot," Roy continued. "And it was by the grace of God that it wasn't a life threatening wound."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

It didn’t make national headlines, but the Biden administration recently announced yet another initiative that, despite its good intentions, will have unintended consequences for patients — not to mention taxpayers. This one sees the further expansion of Medicaid to cover liberals’ latest cause du jour.In late July, North Carolina announced it had received approval from Washington for a Medicaid waiver that the state claims will allow it to relieve up to $4 billion in medical debt. The waiver allows hospitals to receive higher Medicaid reimbursements, provided they agree to relieve outstanding medical debt for patients meeting certain income requirements and also agree to provide discounted and charity care under specified parameters going forward.With our nation $35 trillion in debt, Washington cannot keep functioning as an ATM for every welfare expansion that states wish to undertake.Ironically, this government-led “solution” of forgiving debt comes in no small part because of a problem the government helped create in the first place. Like most other states, North Carolina provides paltry Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. The Tar Heel State reimburses for primary care at 78% of what Medicare pays. In obstetrics, the rate is even lower, at just 68% of Medicare rates.North Carolina hospitals, forced to make up for the state’s below-cost rates for Medicaid patients, charge uninsured patients and those with private insurance more, leading to increased medical debt.A second irony comes in the fact that having medical debt forgiven entirely will discourage patients from signing up for health coverage. For instance, the state’s plan requires participating hospitals to “relieve all medical debt deemed uncollectible dating back to January 1, 2014 for any individuals not enrolled in Medicaid with incomes at or below 350% of the federal poverty level,” or $109,200 for a family of four this year.Families earning in the low six figures may not be able to repay their entire hospital bill, but most should be able to contribute something. However, the North Carolina plan will erase their debts entirely. Just as the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan discourages borrowers from repaying their debts, the North Carolina policy would weaken Obamacare. Why should families pay hundreds of dollars monthly for health coverage if they can have their medical debts forgiven later?The North Carolina plan represents but the latest effort to use federal funding designed for health benefits to fund every leftist cause under the sun. Medicaid now pays for housing and food costs in some states. Oregon’s Medicaid program in March began to fund air conditioners and mini fridges as “climate supports.” Yet the Biden administration reversed President Trump’s efforts allowing states to impose work requirements, a common-sense solution that sees Medicaid beneficiaries engaging with their communities to develop valuable job skills.With our nation $35 trillion in debt, Washington cannot keep functioning as an ATM for every welfare expansion that states wish to undertake. As well-intentioned as the North Carolina plan sounds, shifting medical debt from patients to the federal government will not end well for our children and grandchildren, who will spend decades paying the tab.

Copenhagen launched its rewards-based climate credit system for both residents and tourists, allowing them to collect collectivist benefits for walking, biking, and picking up garbage.What seems like an incentive program envisioned by Greta Thunberg, Denmark's "CopenPay" is allegedly an initiative born out of a desire to reduce carbon emissions and "reward climate-friendly actions.""All our choices have an environmental impact, so why not make conscious decisions that benefit us all and be rewarded for them?"According to the CopenPay website, participants can redeem rewards by showing proof of "green actions," like train tickets and bicycles. However, they don't have to show any proof because "CopenPay is built on trust, just as Danish society is the most trusting in the world," the website said, citing Pew Research for the claim.'Our local guide will share insights on how sustainability is a way of living for the locals.'Realistically, the volunteer program lures local residents and tourists into performing minimum-wage tasks without pay and then convinces a local business owner that they are good people and worthy of reward.This obvious precursor to socialism touts "free" offers across Copenhagen as if there isn't actually someone who pays for them, all in the name of climate.Some of the participating attractions are as follows:Ride a bike to the canal for a free coffeeGet a free "vegetarian lunch" by "volunteering" in an urban gardenArrive by foot or bike and receive a reduced-price for a "collective breakfast"Collect trash in a garden area and "earn a free organic meal"Clean the harbor and use a kayak for freeClean the beach and get free lunchPerhaps the most revealing reward in the program is from the bike rental company Donkey Republic. In exchange for a pledge of allegiance, the company offers a free bike ride. "You can get a 45-minute FREE Donkey ride in return for your pledge to sustainable behavior while visiting," the website reads.The city seemingly ran out of participating businesses because several more programs simply offered an opportunity to learn about environmental activism. This includes joining an "eco-conscious group run to explore eco-friendly" city stops.The site says, "Our local guide will share insights on how sustainability is a way of life for the locals. " Of course, there is no real offer there; participants are simply signing up to be indoctrinated while going for a jog.Tourists can also "share [their] thoughts on how to create a greener future" on a "dialogue-based" boat tour. 'We're empowering people to experience more of what Copenhagen offers while placing less burden on our planet.'Coaxing residents and tourists into programs void of monetary exchange is not only cruel, it inherently proves the perils of living under socialism: The government taxes the working class citizens, who in exchange get the pleasure of providing the peasantry with their product for free at the behest of the government. The slave class, who cannot afford to travel by gas-powered vehicle, performs menial tasks that are meant to be taken care of by said government through taxation so that they may eat and be further told how the government is great.In this case, the catalyst is the promise of good vibes and saving the environment. But in true 2024 fashion, the workers do not have to prove that they have actually worked, but the business owner will be forced to provide their reward anyhow.The result is that the government takes your money, provides nothing, and you live in filth.CopenPay said it wishes to "encourage sustainable behaviour and enrich the cultural experience of visitors and residents" while also empowering people through low-wage work."With CopenPay, we’re empowering people to experience more of what Copenhagen offers while placing less burden on our planet. It's about creating meaningful and memorable experiences that are enjoyable and environmentally responsible," the city claimed.The pilot program ran from July 15 to August 11, 2024, and the state is now "evaluating the program" until it returns in 2025.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!