We have heard repeatedly during this election cycle that Donald Trump is a deep and abiding threat to democracy. That threat supposedly springs from Trump’s belief that he won the 2020 election, as well as his promotion of the specious legal theory that the vice president has the unilateral power to invalidate certified state electoral votes. One can stipulate that Trump has presented no evidence sufficient to support a claim that he lost the 2020 election based on voter fraud; one can further stipulate that Trump’s pressure on Mike Pence to delay election certification was rooted in baseless misinterpretation of the Constitution. In reality, however, the truest threat to American democracy isn’t stubborn unwillingness to concede an election or groundless legal wrangling. It is the continuing attempt to create a series of institutions impervious to public rebuke or electoral accountability, comprised of pseudo-experts who act as “authorities” on a wide range of issues affecting Americans. It is the creation and maintenance of a permanent bureaucracy, organized by the political left and catering to its whims. This was the goal of Woodrow Wilson, who wrote in 1887 that the political sphere — the responsibility of elected officials — had to be circumscribed in favor of expert “administration”: “Administrative questions are not political questions. Although politics sets the tasks for administration, it should not be suffered to manipulate its offices.” The power of the administrative state, Wilson wrote, should be unhampered and discretionary. And that is the goal of the so-called Deep State today. In preparation for Joe Biden’s possible defeat, the Biden administration is promoting new regulations from the Office of Personnel Management to prevent the reclassification of career civil servants as political appointees of at-will workers — effectively giving them taxpayer-funded tenure. The administration has spent the last few months ramming through regulations in an attempt to avoid the consequences of the Congressional Review Act — a piece of legislation that allows Congress to repeal regulations by passing a joint resolution immune to filibuster. The CRA can only be used, however, on regulations filed in the 60 days before a Congressional session adjourns. Hence the rush. All of this is designed to insulate government from the elected branches. And that is good, according to our legacy media and the Democratic Party, because the elected branches may come to be run by Donald Trump. This is why The New York Times ran a piece in March titled, “It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome.” According to the Times, “When we hear ‘deep state,’ instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us.” Those who posit that bureaucrats ensconced in regulatory positions may pursue anti-democratic ends are labeled “conspiracy theorists.” But there is no conspiracy theory necessary when the goal of bureaucratic administration is out in the open and has been for 150 years. Our Constitutional republic was rooted in checks and balances between elected branches, and an unelected judiciary delegated the power merely to interpret law rather than create it. There is no independent fourth branch of government that presides over policy, free from the electorate’s judgment. Yet that is precisely what the Biden administration continues to promote. And that is a threat to American democracy — a threat that has already materialized over the course of decades, turning our government into an elephantine, sclerotic and byzantine architecture shielded from public accountability. According to Democrats, that’s a good thing. At least it protects us from the true “threat to democracy,” an elected Republican president.  COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Democratic Subversion of Democracy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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An all-new series will investigate the veracity behind personal accounts of otherworldly experiences when Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction premieres Wednesday, June 19 at 10PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel and Max. With reports of UAPs (unexplained aerial phenomena) on the rise, UFO experts Mitch Horowitz and Chrissy Newton use scientific data and research to dissect real life encounters with extraterrestrial activity and determine whether or not they can be explained. Posting up at a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, a town infamous for its UFO past, Horowitz and Newton meet with individuals who have experienced strange and unexplainable encounters. After listening to each firsthand account, the duo taps into the latest intelligence, technology and tools to investigate the reported activity. Using recently declassified UFO documents, databases and more, the pair closely analyze the visual and physical evidence to separate fact from fiction. They’ll then render a final verdict on whether each individual experience has a verifiable explanation, or if they believe it to be a real alien encounter. “Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction is a fun and exciting addition to our Wednesday night line-up, taking viewers on an out-of-this-world journey with a big payoff,” said Howard Lee, President of Discovery Networks. “As audiences listen to these intimate encounters, they can judge for themselves what they believe before our experts weigh in with facts. It packs the thrill of the unknown with a hunt for evidence, while satisfying the thirst for knowledge.” In the premiere episode, Mitch Horowitz and Chrissy Newton meet with a farming couple from California who believe they’ve captured video evidence proving the afterlife is real. Then, a geologist believes he may have unearthed the most important piece of evidence to ever come from a UFO crash site – leaving even the experts speechless. Finally, they speak with a mother who is struggling to make sense of a harrowing UFO encounter that she believes caused her neurological damage and left radiation burns on her body. The post New series “Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction” premieres on Discovery appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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In the last few days, an uproar from the liberal media was sparked over the realization that President Joe Biden … is old, and there is no hiding it anymore. The concern comes after a great number of videos depicting Biden’s many public outings, and even more publicly known gaffes and moments of disorientation went viral. Upcoming CNN debate moderator and Inside Politics host Dana Bash, along with national political reporter Daniel Strauss, and senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson, claimed the videos were “fake” on Wednesday, but unfortunately for them, they aren’t. As the rise in AI deepfakes has spread concern over misrepresentation, misleading, or even fake imagery, the progressive media now rides this wave, in hopes that it will cover for Biden’s obvious age and frailty. The truth is that these images are rarely edited, but usually depict Biden’s actions from different angles, usually ones that the media has avoided. The fact of the matter is that the media has been trying to cover for Biden’s fumbles and have run out of excuses.  During the panel, Dana Bash spoke hesitantly on the issue, explaining why she was hesitant to speak on it at all in the case lest she give it any more attention, “Here are videos that are being put out on social media and then amplified on conservative media that in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading of President Biden… So, it's the question that I started this conversation with is how much to talk about it versus how much to just kind of ignore it and we're trying to do both here. What are your thoughts?”     Henderson replied: Listen, the Trump campaign is going to do this and voters are going to see it. They're going to imbibe this and not necessarily know that it's fake. It’s a real problem. You see the Biden team trying to counteract this, but I think the problem is to the Streisand example in fact-checking. Do you amplify it? Right? This thing is fake well, what is this the thing that you're talking about? And then you go see it. So it's a real problem, but I think at the core there is this problem with both of these candidates in terms of age and perceptions. Again, many of these videos deemed“fake” by CNN simply highlight a major issue among voters, and more than age, the problem is capability. Yes, both Trump and Biden are older, that is not the issue, as both are not equally capable. However, Strauss did not see this: I have never seen something like – in any election I've covered the topic of frailty and age being so important and impactful to voters. I mean, you see this with how sensitive the Biden campaign is to any sort of perception that he is too old that he has – not even lost the step, but he has sort of become a little more frail. And how eager the Trump campaign is to amplify that even though both candidates are old they are old but this is, this is the issue that some voters and low information voters really care about. “Sort of a little more frail,” is an understatement and one which really characterizes this issue. In a time where the country looks at the threats of a world filled with terrorism, war, and corruption, demanding an astute leader is no crime.   The transcript is below, click “expand” to read: CNN’s Inside Politics 6/19/2024 12:12:42 PM EST  Run Time: 2 minutes 55 seconds   DANA BASH: I want to make a bit of a turn in our conversation to something that we've been wanting to talk about on the show for a little bit and just to be totally transparent, trying to figure out how to do it. And when I say “it,” it is a lot of memes and what the White House is calling “cheap fakes,” which means that these— there are videos that are being put out on social media and then amplified on conservative media that in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading of President Biden and I don't want to go – I don't want to let a moment go by where I can read a tweet from Barbara Streisand on the show. So, I'm going to do it, she said, “We must stay vigilant to the ongoing and pervasive spread of misinformation. Maybe now more than usual, in the lead up to the presidential election.” And her argument was don't amplify it. It is interesting given the fact that there was a famous case where somebody took a picture of her house in Malibu and she sued to not have that shown and then it turned out that people started looking at the picture more than before. So, it's the question that I started this conversation with is how much to talk about it versus how much to just kind of ignore it and we're trying to do both here. What are your thoughts? DANIEL STRAUSS: I have never seen something like – in any election I've covered the topic of frailty and age being so important and impactful to voters. I mean, you see this with how sensitive the Biden campaign is to any sort of perception that he is too old that he has – not even lost the step, but he has sort of become a little more frail and how eager the Trump campaign is to amplify that even though both candidates are old— BASH: Right. STRAUSS:  — they are old but this is, this is the issue that some voters and low and information voters really care about. BASH: But there's that, which is a reality. You have a 78-year-old and an 82-year-old— KAYLA TAUSCHE: One. BASH: —81-year-old and we have lots of examples of both of them.  NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Yeah.  BASH: Maybe Trump's aren't played as much, but both of them appearing to, to use your words, “lose a step”. That's one thing. The other thing is to take something that actually happened and make it look worse than it is. HENDERSON: And listen, the Trump campaign is going to do this and voters are going to see it. They're going to imbibe this and not necessarily know that it's fake. It’s a real problem. You see the Biden team trying to counteract this, but I think the problem is to the Streisand example, in fact-checking it, do you amplify it? Right? This thing is fake well, what is this the thing that you're talking about? And then you go see it. So, it's a real problem, but I think at the core there is this problem with both of these candidates in terms of age and perceptions. BASH: Okay.

The hosts of "The View" fawned over Dr. Anthony Fauci as he explained he believes he has done nothing to warrant threats of being put in prison for his role in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Fauci is currently on a publicity tour to promote his new book, “On Call,” a memoir about his decades-long career in public health. Host Sara Haines began her question to Fauci by noting COVID is no longer a public health threat, but the tensions about it "have not cooled.""And we saw that on full display during your congressional hearing earlier this month, which we just witnessed, which even became a hot topic on this show, we discussed that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t the only Republican that’s actually calling for your criminal prosecution or imprisonment. How seriously do you take those threats?” Haines asked.'Not only about what I have to face, but about the direction of the country and the social order and our democracy.'“You know, obviously, you always take threats that people make seriously, but I, quite frankly, don’t know what they’re talking about," Fauci answered. "What are the charges, that you saved millions of lives with the vaccine that you helped develop? Or that you got people to do things that were interventions that made them more safe against a deadly pandemic that killed 1.2 million people? So if trying to save people’s lives is a crime, then I am guilty, you know."Host Sunny Hostin then asked Fauci how he feels about the different threats he and his family have faced. Fauci said he is most upset about people who make credible threats against his daughters."You know, three young women, you know, in — in the beginning of their professional life, getting harassed, both for violence and sexually explicit threats, that’s unconscionable. And is that a reflection of who we are in this country or what is that? I just don’t get that, you know," he said.Fauci went on to say that Republicans in Congress wanting to hold him accountable, such as for downplaying the theory COVID-19 came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, is a threat to the public order."And that’s the thing that worries me, not only about what I have to face, but about the direction of the country and the social order and our democracy. It’s ... very threatening, I think.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here! Fauci: ‘If Trying to Save People’s Lives Is a Crime, Then I’m Guilty’ www.youtube.com