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[Zorax]

Carlson then claimed without evidence that the National Security Agency was reading his electronic communications and leaking them “in an attempt to take this show off the air.” The agency felt compelled to deny that Carlson was an intelligence target and said it “has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air.”

The NSA first needs to ascertain someone has intelligence to be a target, they found no real intelligence in fucker charlatan's dossier.

[12yearplan]

Wow, a little background to support the widely held opinion
Carlson is a lying manipulative self-promoting sociopath dickhead
Or and,.. paraphrazin' what he said about Trumpery getting started..

[BOREALIS]

TUCKER CARLSON IS JOINING THE RIGHT-WING PARADE TO “ILLIBERAL” HUNGARY

The Fox News star is hosting his prime-time show and scheduled to speak at a far-right conference in Hungary, where Viktor Orbán’s appeals to Christian nationalism have drawn support from the American right.

BY CALEB ECARMA
AUGUST 3, 2021

Over the past few years, Hungary––led by its nationalistic and authoritarian ruler Viktor Orbán––has become a sort of mecca for the American far right, with conservative pundits .. https://theweek.com/tucker-carlson/1003304/fox-news-tucker-carlson-budapest .. embarking on pilgrimages to the Central European nation.

Tucker Carlson has now joined his peers in traveling to Budapest in support of Orbán’s regime. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/03/hungary-turned-authoritarian-nationalism-so-tucker-carlson-went-hungary/ .. “We’re in Budapest all this week for Tucker Carlson Tonight and a documentary for Tucker Carlson Originals,” the Fox News host tweeted on Monday. That night, Carlson teased his show’s coverage for the coming days. “If you care about Western civilization and democracy and families, and the ferocious assault on all three of those things by the leaders of our global institutions, you should know what is happening here right now,” he said. The Hungarian prime minister also shared a photo of himself and Carlson .. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367260878104850&set=a.347694613394810&type=3 .. posing next to each other with the caption, “Tucker Carlson Today,” which is the name of the news host’s online talk show on Fox Nation.

While in Budapest, Carlson is scheduled to address a far-right conference on Saturday organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), with a speech entitled “The World According to Tucker Carlson,” Talking Points Memo noted.
Over the past couple of years, Orbán’s government has reportedly shelled out considerable sums of money in his effort to build up Hungary as a destination for the global right. In June, The New York Times reported that Orbán used $1.7 billion in government money and assets to fund MCC, an educational foundation dedicated to advancing Orbán’s brand of nationalism. Additionally, OpenSecrets investigative researcher Anna Massoglia reported this week that having Carlson interview Orbán on Fox News was part of a “foreign influence“ operation in which the Hungarian government paid a D.C.–based lobbying firm $265,000 in 2019.


Anna Massoglia
@annalecta
Aug 2
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's Facebook page shows he met
@TuckerCarlson
today in Budapest.

Coordinating an interview on Carlson's Fox News show was a key part of Hungary's 2019 foreign influence ops when Orban's govt paid a DC lobbying & comms firm $265,000 https://crp.org/picf19

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's Facebook page shows he met @TuckerCarlson today in Budapest.

Coordinating an interview on Carlson's Fox News show was a key part of Hungary's 2019 foreign influence ops when Orban's govt paid a DC lobbying & comms firm $265,000 https://t.co/pD7aS7zMxI pic.twitter.com/yMmmZnV1Db

— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) August 2, 2021

Orbán, along with his ruling Fidesz party, has amassed this fawning support among the American right by making appeals to Christian nationalism. For instance, Hungary has a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and even passed a new law in June that, among other things, forbids educators from sharing materials, films, and advertisements portraying LGBTQ+ people with students 18 and under. While Orbán’s regime has promoted the bill as a way to safeguard children from sexual content, critics have accused the Hungarian government of using the law to lump in LGBTQ+ people with pedophiles. In December, the Hungarian government changed its constitution to define a family as a union where “the mother is a woman and the father is a man.” Orbán has spoken favorably about leading an “Illiberal” democracy, and, according to the Associated Press, he’s “hobbled the court system, rewritten the constitution, and given immense power to himself and his party.” Meanwhile, notes the AP, “the country’s media is largely now a factory producing pro-Orbán content.”

Hungary’s reactionary turn has clearly caught the attention of conservative pundits across the Atlantic. In July 2019, Carlson praised Orbán’s government for instituting anti-immigration policies to mitigate the declining birth rates of native-born Hungarians. “Instead of helping the native population to have more children, the Hungarian government, they say, should import a replacement population from the Third World,” Carlson said. “That’s the George Soros solution. But Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has a different idea. Instead of abandoning Hungary’s young people to the hard-edge libertarianism of Soros and the Clinton Foundation, Orbán has decided to affirmatively help Hungarian families grow.”

Rod Dreher, a senior editor for The American Conservative, is a fan of Orbán’s government and now lives in Hungary. “Orbán is not a saint, but a statesman and a politician. He is not a liberal secular globalist, but a conservative Christian nationalist,” wrote Dreher recently in defense of Orbán, while criticizing the U.S. media for “queering Kermit the Frog” and allowing “a pair of gay dads” to appear on Sesame Street. “I know you regular readers must be tired of me writing in defense of Orbán and Hungary, but dammit,” he added, “I have grown fond of this country, and I feel compelled to stand up for it when it is slandered.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/tucker-carlson-right-wing-parade-hungary

[fuagf]

Watch Tucker Carlson TOTALLY misrepresent the temporary CDC non-eviction order. Including a crucial LIE by omission.

"How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance
"‘This is how I’m going to die’: Officers tell Jan. 6 stories" "

Tucker: It's hard to overstate what a momentous change this is

The video was posted to sortagreen on The Jailhouse (JAIL)
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165335283 , by SpotOnTrade.

Carlson omits to say the moratorium on evictions was a Trump initiative.

Trump says he’s ‘stopping evictions.’ Here’s why they’re still happening.
Last week, Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to study the need for a new moratorium but didn’t directly stop evictions.

People gather outside an apartment complex in Mount Rainier, Md., earlier this month to protest the eviction of one of the
tenants. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
By Renae Merle
August 17, 2020 at 10:11 a.m. EDT
Since signing an executive order a week ago, President Trump has repeatedly said that his administration was "stopping evictions” and “protecting people from evictions.” The order would “largely — hopefully, completely” solve a looming crisis among renters at risk of losing their homes, Trump said.
P - But across the country, evictions are continuing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/17/trump-eviction-moratorium/

And Carlson calls it nationalization of private property whereas it is simply a temporary moratorium.

CDC Issues Eviction Moratorium Order in Areas of Substantial and High Transmission
Media Statement
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Contact: Media Relations
[phone]
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky today signed an order determining the evictions of tenants for failure to make rent or housing payments could be detrimental to public health control measures to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This order will expire on October 3, 2021 and applies in United States counties experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels of SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0803-cdc-eviction-order.html

And Carlson whines AOC/Democrats are not calling for banks to do the same on mortgage repayments when banks are already doing it.

Learn about forbearance - https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-housing-assistance/help-for-homeowners/learn-about-forbearance/

I'm assuming there is some relief for landlords in trouble too.

Problems paying your mortgage
How to get help to avoid mortgage default
https://moneysmart.gov.au/home-loans/problems-paying-your-mortgage

All in all Carlson is consistent in his dishonest agenda to misinform the American public in the interests of his supportive efforts to establish a more authoritarian environment in the U.S.A. Consistent in that most every sentence he utters is a distortion of fact, or blatantly untrue.

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Biden administration moves to block evictions in most of U.S. following liberal backlash

The move will run through Oct. 3 and comes after congressional Democrats complained that the White House allowed a CDC eviction moratorium to lapse


Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) hugs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Aug. 3 as they
celebrate with Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) outside the Capitol Building after news that the White House intends to
extend the eviction moratorium. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

By Jeff Stein, Tyler Pager, Seung Min Kim and Tony Romm

August 3, 2021 at 8:25 p.m. EDT

The Biden administration announced a temporary ban on evictions across most of the country on Tuesday, a move that bent to intense pressure from liberal House Democrats but that President Biden acknowledged may not prove constitutional.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a moratorium on evictions .. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-eviction-declaration.html .. for 60 days for U.S. counties with “substantial and high levels of community transmission” of the coronavirus, according to an agency news release. About 90 percent of the country will be covered by the ban as the virus’s delta variant spreads quickly throughout the country, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.

The 19-page order lists criminal penalties including fines and jail time if someone is found to have violated the eviction moratorium.

The Biden administration had previously said it had no legal authority to extend a separate national eviction moratorium that lapsed over the weekend. A statement from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday evening pointed to the emergence of the delta variant and said “it is imperative that public health authorities act quickly to mitigate such an increase of evictions, which could increase the likelihood of new spikes in SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”

[ Are you a renter or landlord impacted by federal or local eviction moratoriums? Tell the Washington Post your story
https://hosted-washpost.submissionplatform.com/sub/hosted/6104169edd9b7f0024feb222 .]

The administration’s move Tuesday capped a sudden and remarkable rift between Biden and his House Democratic allies, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who pushed the administration to act. Late last week, just days before the CDC’s moratorium was set to expire, the White House issued a last-minute call for Congress to pass a law offering new eviction protections. At the time, the White House said it did not have the legal authority to do so on its own.


As of June, over 6 million people were behind on rent. Landlords across the US are still owed about $27.5 billion.
(Monica Rodman, Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post)

House Democrats responded angrily, saying such a measure was impossible to pass through Congress on short notice and pressed Biden officials to extend the moratorium unilaterally. Neither side acted, and the moratorium lapsed.

Pelosi waged a multiday campaign to press the White House to act unilaterally. She spoke on the phone with multiple senior White House officials — including White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, White House aide Steve Ricchetti and the president himself — to urge them to reverse course and extend the ban, according to one person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal conversations.

Rep. Cori Bush (Mo.), who was homeless once, drew immense support from other Democrats by sleeping outside the U.S. Capitol for four consecutive nights in protest of the lapsed moratorium, sending a signal to the White House that the backlash was only growing. The White House had spent weeks trying to corral Democrats behind a big infrastructure package and there were clear signs in recent days that the party was fracturing. So after days of insisting there was nothing the White House could do, the Biden administration announced its new actions on Tuesday.

[ The eviction moratorium has ended. Here's what renters need to know
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/02/faq-eviction-moratorium-ending/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16 .]

In remarks to reporters shortly before the CDC made its announcement, Biden acknowledged that the move was likely to be subject to court challenge and appeared to express doubt about the legality of the move. He even said scholars he consulted felt the measure was probably not constitutional.

“I have been informed [the CDC is] about to make a judgment as to potential other options. Whether that option will pass constitutional measure with this administration, I can’t tell you. I don’t know,” Biden said. “The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster. … But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”

Biden also suggested that announcing a new moratorium, even if it was struck down in court, would help give the administration time to disburse rental assistance to tenants in need. Biden said initially his administration was “under the impression” that states were moving swiftly to distribute the funding, even though tens of billions of dollars remain unspent.

Schumer and Pelosi were briefed by the CDC and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on the new eviction moratorium Tuesday afternoon, according to an official with knowledge of the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to confirm it.

White House officials said as recently as Monday that there was nothing more that could be done legally to extend the eviction moratorium.

“On this particular issue, the president has not only kicked the tires; he has double, triple, quadruple checked,” Gene Sperling, a White House official helping to coordinate the response to the pandemic, told reporters on Monday. “He has asked the CDC to look at whether you could even do targeted eviction moratorium — that just went to the counties that have higher rates — and they, as well, have been unable to find the legal authority for even new, targeted eviction moratoriums.”

While intended to stave off evictions, the measure could also drive thousands of minor landlords to bankruptcy. Patrick Newton, spokesman for the National Association of Realtors, said roughly half of all housing providers are “mom and pop operations” that could be jeopardized by the disappearance of tenant payments.

“Without rental income, they cannot pay their own bills or maintain their properties,” Newton said.

Republicans are expected to oppose the move. Conservatives said the CDC’s order could exacerbate housing shortages by taking funding away from housing developers, which they said would in turn reduce their incentives to build.

“There’s an old expression that the best way to make people starve is to make food free. The best way to make people homeless is to make housing free,” said Casey B. Mulligan, who served as an economic official in President Donald Trump’s White House.

The rift between the White House and House Democrats over the expiration of the eviction moratorium had escalated earlier Tuesday as Pelosi ruled out bringing lawmakers back from their recess to address the issue through new legislation.

On a private call with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and House Democrats, Pelosi said the consensus of the caucus was that the House should not come back from its recess and that lawmakers should focus on urging the Biden administration to extend the moratorium unilaterally, two people familiar with the conversation said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a discussion that was meant to remain private.

Pelosi’s comments sent a clear signal to the White House that Congress was not going to act and that it would be up to the Biden administration to take unilateral action on evictions.

Also on the call, Yellen fielded lawmakers’ questions about delays in disbursing more than $46 billion in emergency rental assistance approved by Congress. Despite the expiration of the moratorium over the weekend, the Treasury Department has struggled to get funding out the door to renters in need — with recent administration estimates suggesting only a fraction of it has been released.

Data from Moody’s has shown more than 6 million Americans are behind on rent, and local housing organizers fear an uptick in eviction proceedings as the moratorium lapses.

[ Evictions are about to restart as tenants wait on billions in unspent rental aid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/30/evictions-moratorium-expire-rental-assistance/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_42 ]

Sperling told reporters on Monday that the administration was pushing state and local officials to enact their own eviction moratoriums, as well as pushing federal agencies such as the Agriculture Department to extend eviction moratoriums where possible. Sperling also announced an “all-agency review” to learn why state and local governments are not getting funding out.

It is not clear how much more the Treasury Department can do to accelerate the distribution of funding.

“States and cities need at least another couple months to get this money out, and there’s no sticks or carrots Treasury can wield to make that happen faster. What we need is time,” said Paul Williams, a housing expert and fellow at the nonprofit Jain Family Institute and the author of an analysis on the current crisis.

The administration had said its hands are tied by an opinion from Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/cdc-eviction-moratorium-supreme-court/2021/06/29/19771b7e-d92d-11eb-8fb8-aea56b785b00_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_48 .. saying any further extension of the moratorium would need congressional approval. But some experts argued the administration should still try to fight for it in court, noting Kavanaugh’s concurrence — written before the delta variant renewed fears about the impact of the coronavirus on renters — also pointed to the need to get rental relief disbursed.

Rachel Lazarus, legal aide attorney in Gwinnett County, Ga., said she hopes extending the moratorium will convince more landlords to work with existing financial aid programs, rather than try to evict tenants and replace them with new ones. She said the order may help thousands of renters stay in their homes in her area alone.

“We were gearing up for a lot of people in desperation saying they don’t have anywhere to go and having very little assistance for them,” Lazarus said. “When I saw this, I was very relieved.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/17/trump-eviction-moratorium/

Bottom lines: Democrats are doing their best to stop the virus killing Americans, while some Republicans do their best to thwart that effort. Also, Dems are doing their utmost to minimize human suffering, in the fairest way possible, while more Republicans play politics in trying to thwart those efforts.