Not the Bee: Xiden to distribute $30 MILLION in crack pipes for "racial equity"

[midnight rambler]

I woke up this morning and looked around confirming that CLoWn WoRLd is staying on track.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-adminis...racial-equity/

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Sadly true
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...al-equity.html

[Dachsie]

Kim Iversen: FACT CHECKING Crack Pipes For Racial Equality. True Or False?


up to 16:11

9:44 total video runtime

Kim Iverson does good job of finding the FACTS related to this $30 million expenditure.

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Dachsie comment:

The truth is that are a million ways from Sunday to hide payoffs and money laundering within the funds under the spending authority of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funds allocation filters through a myriad of government procedures and rules and agencies. The actual spending of the recipients who are awarded grants from this 30 million is some low level non-profit, and probably also United Nations NGO. There is no enforcement whatsoever of these entities that actually end up receiving the funds, so the money can indeed be spent on a wide variety of items and those expenditures are fraught with contracts and "open bidding" procedures that are ripe for corruption and under-the-table bribes and payoffs.

Also remember NIH and NIAID, read that the Fraudci Commie Covid Cabal, is under the HHS and the whole thing is a big cesspool of corruption.

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Build Crack Better !

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redstate.com: Snopes.com Beclowns Itself Again With Another 'True But False' Fact Check of Biden's Free Crack Pipe Program

Feb 09, 2022 10:30 AM
The stormtroopers in the left’s assault of free speech and diversity of opinion are the so-called “fact-checkers.” These are not-very-bright failed journalists who have congregated in organizations under the “Internation Fact Check Network” (yes, these clowns now have their own trade organization) and exist solely to patrol the internet and make stupid, self-beclowning evaluations of anything that doesn’t follow the progressive narrative...

On Monday, the story broke in several outlets that the Biden Department of Health and Human Services was giving grants to organizations to provide safe, effective, and sanitary crack pipes to drug users (You Can’t Make This Up. Biden’s HHS to Fund Crack Pipes, Needles, and “Harm Reduction” Vending Machines), This had the difficult-to-achieve effect of making the Biden White House look more ridiculous and incompetent than it might be. That is a high bar to get across. So the staff of Snopes sprang into action...

Collectively, these articles gave readers a grossly misleading and reductive presentation of what was a real substance abuse harm reduction grant overseen by the Biden administration in early 2022. We are issuing a rating of “Mostly False.”

It’s important to note that safe smoking kits typically consist of several other items, including: a rubber mouthpieces for glass pipes, in order to prevent burns and cuts; brass screens, in order to filter out potentially harmful contaminants or debris; as well as disinfectant wipes.

None of the articles claimed or even implied that crack pipes were the only thing included in the program...

Snopes managed to ignore this because it would not fit with their role as narrative police, and they seem immune to the irony of them ruling an article “mostly false” for including the same information as the fact check.

A day later even more beclowning:

snopes.com: Did Biden Admin ‘Fund Crack Pipes’ To ‘Advance Racial Equity’?

8 February 2022 Updated 9 February 2022
Claim
In early 2022, the Biden administration endeavored to advance racial equity by distributing crack pipes to drug users.

Rating
Outdated

Context
After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage in February 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits, as part of a substance abuse harm reduction grant program. This newly-stipulated detail was not originally available, meaning the assertions made in a first wave of coverage had become outdated.

[Cebu_4_2]

Wasn't it like 30 years ago the .gov started giving away free syringes to stop the spread of AIDS??

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Or at least that was their excuse to give them away

[Dachsie]

https://beckernews.com/republicans-p...k-pipes-44122/https://beckernews.com/wp-content/up...CT-810x405.jpg

Too bad this part of the forum won't let photos be posted.

Maybe some of our installed U S representatives ought to float a few bills to stop funding of Hunter and the 10 percenter "Big Guy" and the Chi Com takeover our USA Constitutional Republic.


[B]Republicans Propose the HUNTER Act, Which Would Ban the Government from Funding Crack Pipes

February 12, 2022

by Kyle Becker
[/B]n case you missed it, the Biden administration has set aside $30 million in funding for a program that includes ‘safe smoking kits’ with paraphernalia that critics have referred to as ‘crack pipes.’

The mainstream media hath decreed that this is a bastardization of the program’s intent and thus it is sacrosanct to refer to such ‘drug equity’ paraphernalia as ‘crack pipes.’ The Washington Beacon broke the story, as pointed out by Fox News.

“The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department is rolling out a $30 million grant program that will fund the distribution of items, like crack pipes, for smoking illicit substances, according to a new report,” Fox News reported.

“The Washington Free Beacon initially reported on the program, noting that the department would prioritize applicants in ‘underserved communities’ as defined under one of President Biden’s executive orders,” Fox News continued. “An HHS spokesperson reportedly told the Beacon that the grants would fund smoking kits with pipes for users to smoke crystal methamphetamine, crack cocaine and ‘any illicit substances’.”

The grant document refers to Biden’s execut



Iive order 13985: “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”

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Interposition by States

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/201...ation-madison/

From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
In 1836, the expiring James Madison offered “Advice to My Country”:

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions, is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with deadly wiles into Paradise.

Madison’s concern for the future of the union had been piqued by the Nullification Controversy and the growing appeal of states’ rights.

There is a certain irony in Madison’s worries: the states’ rights strain of Jeffersonianism owed much to the actions and public writings four decades earlier of Madison himself. The story of Madison’s career can be seen as that of a creative politician whose very creativity came, at the end of his life, to threaten his foremost achievement. After his death, his intellectual heirs would rend the union asunder; the doctrine of state sovereignty under the federal constitution, which Madison had helped formulate in response to a perceived threat to republicanism, would be used to truncate the union, the extended sphere Madison had been instrumental in creating and in which he had long lodged his fondest hopes.

James Madison’s thinking about federalism prior to 1800 reflected the relative strengths of the federal and state governments at different times. Consistent theory yielded to political imperative; understanding was altered by perspective and experience. Madison had a consistent vision of the ideal polity, but the events of those years elicited the enunciation of doctrines and the support of constitutional interpretations of which, on sober second thought, he disapproved.

James Madison was integrally involved in the conception, drafting, and passage of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. Yet, he had emerged from the Philadelphia Convention eleven years earlier convinced that the old British imperium in imperio had been recreated, concerned that the federal government had not been given enough power vis-a-vis the states. To rectify the situation, he had proposed a constitutional amendment making certain basic freedoms enforceable by the federal judiciary against the states.

This apparent inconsistency need not be viewed as a sign of opportunism. The Virginia Plan and the Virginia Resolutions were both devices Madison hoped would preserve the hard-won gains of the Revolution. He did not want mere union, but a certain type of union; he did not want mere federalism, but federalism which would return control of the republic to those who could be trusted to act continentally. In the context of 1787, this desire led to advocacy of firmer union in the Virginia Plan; in that of 1798, to assertion of states’ rights in the Virginia Resolutions.

Thus, Publius could point to the reservation of rights to the states as a positive feature of the proposed federal edifice: while he would have preferred a more centralized union, Madison believed the union in prospect was superior to the Confederation government. As a statesman, improvement was Madison’s goal; as an heir to the thought of St. Augustine, Madison thought that imperfection was to be expected in any human creation; as a practical politician, he adopted popular arguments with which he did not necessarily agree in order to secure his aim.

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/...revolution.jpgMadison, like his friend Thomas Jefferson, partook of the ambient partisan excess of the 1790s. Because he tended to see the actions of the Federalist administrations in an extremely negative light, his enunciation of Republican values in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and “clarification” in the Report of 1800 were inconsistent with his statements and behavior both before and after the Federalist period. Madison undermined the prospects for long-term durability of his work in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 by acting as he did in 1798-1800.

It was to the “Principles of ’98” that James Madison’s successors in leadership of the Southern interest in federal politics turned until, in the 1960s, the South as an insular political entity was eliminated from American life. Despite what Madison said in his later years, the states’ rights tradition was firmly based on his and Jefferson’s writings in 1798.

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Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, is the author of Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776–1840 and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.

He is also the co-author, with Thomas E. Woods, Jr., of Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama.

His upcoming book, James Madison and the Making of America, will be published by St. Martin’s early in 2011.
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