Category: Politics

President Joe Biden’s job approval continues to crash with a new low of 36.4 percent during the first nine months of his presidency, according to a Zogby poll, after facing a botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and more recently, a supply chain crisis.

Additionally, 61.3 percent of the respondents gave Biden a negative rating when asked about the president’s job performance, and 2.3 percent were unsure of how they felt.

Biden was viewed negatively among all age groups, particularly the younger generation of voters between 18 and 29 years old, who viewed him 63 percent negatively and only 34 percent positively.

The poll revealed that Biden has also lost the support from the majority of Hispanic voters (41 percent positive/59 percent negative) and an overwhelming majority of independent voters (24 percent positive/71 percent negative).

The Zogby poll asked 896 likely voters between October 8 and 10 with a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percent.

In August, Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, resulting in backlash from Republicans in Congress after the death of 13 U.S servicemembers and hundreds of U.S. citizens, Afghan allies, and vulnerable Afghans left in the county controlled by Taliban terrorists.

Biden, along with his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, once touted the “completion” of the operation to evacuate civilians and servicemembers from the Taliban-controlled country but refused to say the exact number of Americans they left behind when asked.

However, the U.S. is also in the middle of a months-long cargo ship crisis, contributing to empty store shelves. Data from the Labor Department revealed that the soaring price of moving goods around the country has been adding to inflation, setting consumer prices skyrocketing.

Meanwhile, Biden’s U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been MIA for nearly two months. It was recently exposed that Buttigieg has been “lying low” while being on “paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.”

Sterling made more as a contractor in one year than he ever made as a Georgia Secretary of State employee

Earlier today National File reported that Gabriel Sterling, originally an employee of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, left his position and was paid just under $200,000 over the course of a year for his role in the management of the 2020 election in Georgia.

Georgia records reveal that Sterling, listed under his full name Robert Gabriel Sterling, was paid around $50,000 per year in 2019 and 2020, meaning his company earned four times his normal salary while managing the controversial election.

As National File reported earlier today, Sterling was often referred to as a Voting System Implementation Manager during and after the 2020 election, but Sterling had not been an official employee of the Secretary of State since July of that year. On July 1, 2020, his company – Sterling Innovative Solutions LLC – was working for the government as an independent contractor, something Sterling says is normal.

However, according to OpenGeorgia.gov, “a gateway for obtaining information and key documents about how the State of Georgia spends tax dollars” with information “from various state agencies” that is “updated annually,” Sterling typically makes around $50,000 per year.

In 2019, Sterling made $44,923.72 and the state paid $1,769.97 worth of his travel expenses, while during the 2020 fiscal year this rose to $52,488.15 plus $4,921.71 of his travel expenses. This would indicate that, as an employee, Sterling was paid around $4,374 per month until July of 2020.

When Sterling’s company Sterling Innovative Solutions LLC’s contract with the Georgia Secretary of State was active, the company made $16,666 per month for a total of $199,992 over the year before taxes. Sterling, who appears to be the sole owner of the company, managed to negotiate a number for his company that was nearly four times better than what he managed to negotiate as an employee.

However, when the contract expired earlier this year, Sterling dutifully returned to a position working for the Georgia Secretary of State. Now, he is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. National File looks forward to reporting Sterling’s 2021 earnings when they are made available.

The contract was originally obtained via an open records request by Debbie Dooley, the co-founder and president of the Atlanta Tea Party, who told National File she believed it was “highly unethical.”

“It’s highly unethical for him to quit his job in order to take this contract, and then to become an employee of the Secretary of State again,” said Dooley. She added that Sterling “wanted to be a contractor because he would get paid a lot more than he would at as an employee.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have both said that the gargantuan $3.5 trillion spending bill they are trying to cajole all of their members into supporting is vitally necessary for the future of America.

In reality, it is a pork-ridden behemoth that will serve primarily as a payoff to key Democrat constituencies so as to buy off their loyalty for years to come.

That includes the garbage “mainstream media” too, apparently.

Tucked inside the bill, which is several thousand pages long (legislation should never be that lengthy and complex) is a provision that would provide more than a billion dollars to media outlets, ostensibly as part of COVID ‘relief.’

The Federalist’s Christopher Jacobs has more frustrating details:

Several weeks ago, I wrote an article asking why the media in general, and Politico in particular, refuse to cover the irregularities in Joe Biden’s taxes. Turns out they have a lot of reasons not to do so. Approximately 1,269,000,000 reasons, in fact.

A relatively unheralded program in the $3.5 trillion Democrat spending spree would provide well more than $1 billion in bailout funds to media organizations. You read that right: With our nation more than $28 trillion in debt, Democrats want to raise taxes to spend more money on their political allies in corporate media.

“It’s enough to prompt the inevitable chicken-and-egg question: Did Democrats propose this bailout because corporate media bury scandals like Joe Biden’s taxes and Hunter Biden’s e-mails, or did the media bury those scandals in the hopes of receiving a bailout?” Jacobs added.

The columnist went on to explain the so-called “welfare for writers” measure is buried near the end of the 2,465-page bill that effectively uses federal tax dollars to subsidize journalism, which would mean even more pro-Democrat big government bias than the outlets currently demonstrate, which is a lot as-is. Imagine our founders’ shock if someone at the Constitutional Convention would have suggested government funding of the ‘free press’ which was designed to be completely free of government regulations and interference so the media could hold the powerful to account.

If your publication is getting handouts from Uncle Sam, those outlets aren’t going to report on Uncle Sam when he violates our rights, breaks our laws or otherwise gets out of hand.

“The program would provide a credit of up to $50,000 annually for each ‘local news journalist’ on staff, subsidizing half of wages in the first year and 30 percent for four years thereafter,” wrote Jacobs.

The measure describes a “local news journalist” as someone who is employed “at least 100 hours” every quarter, “during which time such individual regularly gathers, collects, photographs, records, writes, or reports news or information that concerns local events or other matters of local public interest.”

“That language implies the credits will go primarily towards small-town reporters. Requiring eligible journalists to work only 100 hours per quarter—less than 10 hours per week—suggests lawmakers want to support publications with part-time or freelance correspondents,” Jacobs wrote.

“But it also raises the obvious question about why federal taxpayers need to fund what amounts to someone’s side hustle,” he said, adding that he works about 100 hours per quarter for The Federalist but the publication would never be interested in getting hooked on federal handouts because they would no doubt come with strings attached (such as, you can never, ever, criticize the regime).

Jacobs went on to hypothesize that an outlet with around 700 employees could actually receive more than $37.5 million per year in tax dollars, giving it a large financial incentive to redefine all of its staff, including non-journalists, as “100-hour correspondents” so as to qualify for the graft.

This isn’t just a terrible idea, it’s one that will lead to the official creation of ‘state media’ — not officially owned by the government, but the next best thing. And then watch government abuses soar.

Sources include:

TheFederalist.com

NaturalNews.com

All results from the CDMedia/Georgia Record/Big Data September 24, 2021 poll will be posted here in stages.

Republicans lead Democrats statewide on the Generic Ballot in Georgia ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, according to a new CD Media Georgia Record Big Data Poll. If the elections for the U.S. House of Representatives were held today, voters in the Peach State would back the Republican candidate over the Democratic candidate by roughly 5 points, 43.7% to 38.7%.

Unaffiliated voters backed Republicans by about 3 points, 30.3% to 26.7%, though more than 1 in 3 (34.1%) remain undecided. Nine-percent (8.9%) chose someone else. Third Party voters are leaning toward Republicans by 5 points, 17.5% to 12.8%, with more than half (56.2%) undecided. Fourteen-percent (13.5%) say they would vote for someone else. Combined, Democrats trail Republicans among non-two-party voters by 4 points, 28.0% to 24.3%.

“As we saw in the election for U.S. Senate in Georgia, voters are leaning toward the Republican candidate outside the survey sampling error,” Big Data Poll Director Rich Baris said. “But there are key differences in the voting coalitions that result in Republican candidates for the U.S. House running slightly behind their presumptive nominee, Herschel Walker.”

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