Beltway Insider: Biden/RFMA, JFK, Immigrants, Fentanyl, Fauci Retires, COVID/Vaccine Totals, Jan 6, NYC/Highland Park Shooters

Details: Category: Beltway Insider; Published on Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:56; Written by Janet Walker

President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, this week, requiring all states to recognize same-sex and interracial couples unions across all U.S. states and territories, and repels any previous laws that deny any couple these rights.

The President's job approval rating, according to the website fivethirtyeight.com, for the period ending December 18, 2022 increased by 0.4% to 42.9% of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President and those who disapprove of his effectiveness decreased by 0.6% at 51.8% of those polled who disapprove of his effectiveness. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.

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President Releases JFK Documents

President Biden announced this week the release of more than 13,000 documents relating to the assassination on November 22, 1963, of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas, as he was riding in an open-air motorcade.

"[T]he profound national tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination continues to resonate in American history and in the memories of so many Americans who were alive on that terrible day; meanwhile, the need to protect records concerning the assassination has weakened with the passage of time," the White House said in a memorandum Thursday," CNN.com reported.

All remaining private documents related to the assassination, will be released unless other agencies, become involved, on June 30, 2023. The documents, currently being reviewed are examined for additional clues in the murder of the president as well as any other information that would expose then FBI or CIA operations both home and abroad.

Potentially information may exist on surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr., Bobby Kennedy, or possible motivations for any persons, external or internally, to have wanted the president dead including but not limited to former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who may have felt the late president's sex addiction disgraced the office of the presidency and his removal was necessary to restore reverence to the office.

Southern Border Immigrant Traffic Overwhelming

The southern border crisis has plagued Washington administration long before this one or the last, and before the border wall renewed debate on how to stem the unrelenting flow of illegal immigrants flooding into cities and towns that have sprouted across this dense urban desert.

El Paso, Texas, which even with its large Mexican population remains a city within the United States and has over the last two months seen an exponential increase in illegal apprehensions. In one weekend along, more than 2,000 migrants, mostly from Nicaragua were arriving daily.

"El Paso's predicament, which included 53,000 apprehensions in October alone, is the worst among U.S.-Mexico border towns, although all are bearing the brunt of the raging border crisis. So far in 2022, there have been 2,378,944 migrant encounters along the southern border, according to immigration data," reported The National Review.

While many of these illegals are apprehended, with limited Border Control agents, traffickers with truckloads of illegals with destinations unknown, make it beyond the checkpoints and soon these illegals are spreading into jurisdictions, breaking the backs of states closest to these regions.

California, like Texas is feeling the hardship of the wave of illegal immigrants crossing from the southern border. Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom recently explained should President Biden reverse the Trump Era Title 42 law, which restricts immigrant traffic due to public health emergencies, the flood of immigrant will "break" his state, and governors, from both Republican and democratic led states, are echoing the same adding something needs to be done.

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Without a plan of action, the southern border of the United States will continue to be the illegal gateway to America used not only for those who hope to make it past the legalities and actually build a better life, but for others also, those used by the cartels to flood cities and towns across America, building new inroads to further the illegal drug trade.

"We can't continue to fund all of these sites because of the budgetary pressures now being placed on this state and the offsetting issues that I have to address.… The reality is, unless we're doing what we're doing, people will end up on the streets," Foxnews.com reported.

Fentanyl Mules

These migrants are not only bringing themselves and their families into the U.S. the illegals have also become prey to the cartel's who are looking for cheap mules to transport Fentanyl, a lethal powdery substance, often laced with cocaine, across the border selling the synthetic to Americans who can't seem to get enough of the deadly drug.

Classified as a synthetic opioid, Fentanyl delivers a potency 50 to 100 times greater than that of morphine, which to those chasing the feeling of euphoria, often associated with methamphetamines and Heroin, the thought of regaining the feeling is enough of an incentive and anyone from recreational users to harden addicts awaking the next day creates a belief of invincibility.

"Mexican criminal groups had become experts in producing fentanyl and meth across the border. Now, . . .they were honing their role in retail distribution in the United States, where synthetics had reshaped the geography of drug demand," reported The Washington Post.

There is no demographic curve to pinpoint Fentanyl deaths as overdoses continue to increase in the United States have continued to rise over the last three years when the drug moved into the spotlight, with deaths reported in both rural areas and densely populated urban areas such as New York City where Manhattanites are testing their limits and paying the ultimate price.

The New Face of Drug Users

Warnings of the drug's potency seems to be looked at more like an invitation than a warning with overdose deaths ballooning among professionals and elites, high earners, upwardly mobile with advanced degrees who enjoying the extra bump they receive from the drug will assistance in the need to produce and enable this highly competitive group to rise above the competition.

According to the Wall Street Journal, "the rate of Cocaine usage in New York is higher than the national average of 2%." With the holidays approaching, officials expect a rise in Fentanyl overdoses. Three recent accidental overdoses featured in The New York Times and on the Addiction Center website highlight the fact that picture of the drug user is changing.

"Ross Mtangi was a Wall Street executive who regularly ran five miles through Manhattan, Harvard-educated, and an expecting father. Julia Ghahramani virtually graduated from Columbia Law School in 2020 and was working as a first-year lawyer, days away from a family holiday trip. Amanda Scher was a dedicated social servant, splitting her time between hospital work and virtual counseling, and a doting mother to an elderly rescue dog," reported AddictionCenter.com.

These are just three stories of countless victims who believed a bump would help carry the load, beat the competition, chill, or just beat the blues.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Nation's Top Doc, Retires

Dr. Anthony Fauci, 81, one of the longest acting government employees, has served the nation for 54 years, and for the last 38 as the Director of National Institute of Health, advising through eight presidents on how to combat and treat countless diseases and epidemics, is retiring at the end of the year.

One year ago, in December of 2021, Fauci gave an interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl, which was reprinted in Forbes.com and explained his plans at that time on retiring. "There's no way I'm going to walk away from this until we get this under control. I mean, that's the purpose of what we do. That's – that's our mission in life. In the middle of it, I'm not going to walk away," Fauci said, Forbes.com reported.

Fauci, who became known to the United States population during the height of the coronavirus daily briefings, essentially gained limited rock star status, as he, like a compassionate advisor, spoke facts, and science mixed with genuine empathy for the people, professionals and caregivers around the country who were confronting this deadly disease together, yet very much alone.

Like all diseases which Fauci has tackled during his tenure, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and now the coronavirus, which has marched across the world, a silent lethal enemy, unable to be seen, and initially stopped or even challenged, he likens the virus to war, "You know, we're in a war, Jon. It's kind of like we're halfway through World War II, and you decide, well, I think I've had enough of this. I'm walking away," Forbes.com reported.

Over the course of this past year, the coronavirus has continued to steal victims from life, spreading its deadly germ warfare around the world, and yet, slowly, with the assistance of the vaccines available, of which Dr. Fauci also played a role in developing, the people have risen to fight against the enemy they once feared and take back their lives.

The action of leaving the National Health Institute, and federal service and the people who have come to trust the opinion of the elderly Fauci, lends itself to the conclusion that the coronavirus pandemic, or at least the most explosive and uncontrollable aspect of the pandemic is past.

Earlier this year, he explained, "We don't have 900,000 new infections a day, and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So, if you're [asking] are we out of the pandemic phase in this country? We are," said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases," WebMD reported.

It seems safe to say, that while Covid-19 will always be an unwelcomed member of our society, we, the people, are now in control. And Dr. Fauci, who has remained dedicated to diseases and the nation, even superseding his family, has hung up the white coat and gone fishing.

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Covid, RSV, Flu Create "Tripledemic"

As winter approaches Americans are confronting a renewed rise in the Covid virus as well as two additional severe respiratory virus including RSV (respiratory syncytial virus, and an enhanced flu season.

At a recent White House Press briefing, Dr. Ashish Kumar Jha, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, provided an update. Even while many parts of the nation are experiencing surges in each of these three viruses.

Moving forward toward the holidays, "RSV appears to have peaked and is on its way down. Flu is rising in many parts of the country; with probably the worst flu outbreak we've seen in a decade. And then we talked about COVID, where, clearly, it's on an upswing with increasing number of cases," Dr. Jha said during The White House press briefing.

Vaccine Totals

As of December 18, 2022, in the United States, 931,341,585 vaccines have been distributed, with a 7-day increase of 5,066,150 and 660,400,812 have been administered with a 7-day increase weekly increase of 2,473,523 doses. More than 90% of the population have received the two-dose vaccine. As of December 13, 2022, 13,008,560,983 vaccines doses have been administered worldwide. (Date from the CDC).

Coronavirus Totals

Mandates have been altered or lifted in most urban areas with limited exceptions, and the population is encouraged to maintain personal protective practices. Masks are optional and tolerated. Vaccines and boosters are still considered the most effective agents against contracting the Coronavirus.

For the two-week period ending December 18, 2022, the total of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide reached 647,972,911 people, with a 7-day increase of 4,079,505 with a total worldwide death toll of 6,642,832 deaths, and a 7-day death rate increase of 12,750. (Data from The World Health Organization).

COVID U.S. Totals

Infections rates in the United States are also on the rise. For the 7-day period ending December 18, 2022, the total confirmed cases rose to 99,705,095 people with new confirmed cases increasing by 463,446 with a 7-day average of 66,206 cases per day. The coronavirus has claimed 1,083,279 total deaths, adding 2,807 more deaths over the 7-day period. (Data from the CDC).

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January 6 QAnon Leader Sentenced

QAnon leader, Doug Jensen of Iowa, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riots.

New York Subway Shooter

Suspected New York City subway shooter, Frank Robert James, 62, who has been in custody since the April 12, 2022, shooting on the Manhattan-bound N train, has been charged with nine additional terrorism charges, one for each victim shot during the attack.

James faces up to eleven life sentences and if convicted will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Father of Highland Park Shooter Charged

Robert Crimo, Sr., the father of Highland Park Illinois shooter, Robert Crimo, Jr., was arrested this week on felony reckless endangerment for signing an application in 2019 that allowed his son to purchase weapons that were used in the Fourth of July Highland Park parade which resulted in the murder of seven and the injury of dozens of others.

"Parents and guardians are in the best position to decide whether their teenager should have a weapon. They are the first line of defense. In this case, that system failed when Robert Crimo Jr. sponsored his son," [Eric] Rinehart said Friday. "He knew what he knew, and he signed the form anyway," CNN.com reported.

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