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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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In this undated photo, provided by NY Governor's Press Office on Saturday March 27, 2021, is the new "Excelsior Pass" app, a digital pass that people can download to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. (NY Governor's Press Office via AP, File)

Social credits, digital passports and other coming totalitarian evils

China's social credit system where individuals cannot move about freely without showing their green, government-approved checkmarks will come to America's lands on the wings of fear, on the hope for safety and security, on the promises of government to provide safety and security.

December 16, 2022
Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. According to a filing posted late Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock during the week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. Musk has sold nearly $23 billion worth of Tesla stock since April, with much of the money likely going to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Elon Musk better get lots of armed guards

Elon Musk better get some good armed security, but fast. When leftists get angry, things get broken -- things like store windows, private properties, police vehicles, people's bones.

December 16, 2022
A man walks in front of the Bank of England, at the financial district in London, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) ** FILE **

Digital currency’s beastly mark is coming on fast

Make way for the brave new world of digital currency, where governments can track citizens' expenditures, movements and activities, as well as control individuals' access to their own money.

December 13, 2022
The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Twitter shadow banning — wink, wink — a real thing after all

The latest in a string of intriguing files released by Twitter's Elon Musk via two journalists shows that "shadow banning" was real, it was targeted and it was frequent, and that conservatives were the ones normally caught in the crossfire. Well, well, well. Sunshine shines at last

December 9, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center left, and other members of Congress, signs the H.R. 8404, the Respect For Marriage Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Homosexuality is still a sin

The courts, Congress, the LGBTQ community, politicians and activists from all walks of life can call same-sex marriage a legal thing, an acceptable thing, a real thing. But God in the Bible still calls homosexuality a sin. And that's what it remains.

December 8, 2022
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Great Reset coming fast and furious for the farmers, for food

Thousands of farmers in the Netherlands are facing a government mandate to close their farms or, come next year, lose their farms -- why? This is the latest globalist takeover of individual rights using environmentalism as the reason.

December 8, 2022
FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany on March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Elon Musk, the great Twitter Disruptor-In-Chief

Elon Musk, in just a few short weeks as chief of Twitter, has cleared house of key officials who've been outed for shutting down voices on the platform that countered the leftist view. He's doing for Twitter what Donald Trump did for America vs. the deep state.

December 7, 2022
FILE - Syringes and colorful bandages are prepared as children from local schools prepare to get COVID-19 vaccines in Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday Dec. 13, 2021. A review by federal health officials finds that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and effective for children under 5, the only group not currently eligible for vaccination. The review issued Sunday, June 12, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration is a key step toward a decision on vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, perhaps as soon as June 21. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

Pfizer, BioNTech now siccing experimental COVID shots on babies

Pfizer asked the FDA -- again, under an emergency use authorization -- to OK a new COVID-19-tied experimental shot, err, oops, vaccine for, get this, little kids, ages 6 months through 4 years old. Get 'em while they're young! That's the slogan of street dealers, too.

December 5, 2022
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Democrats using anti-Semitism as political bullet

The White House just announced it will be hosting an event this week for Jewish leaders to gather and discuss recent acts and rhetoric of anti-Semitic nature. That's a shrouded way of announcing the next leftist tactic to target and take down Donald Trump.

December 5, 2022
Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, participates in a panel during the One Planet Summit in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

BlackRock gets a much-needed face slap

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rocked headlines with an announced intent to pull $2 billion of investments with BlackRock over the firm's Environment, Social and Governance, or ESG, standards. The woke firm run by woke CEO Larry Fink is finally facing some much-needed fire.

December 2, 2022
Germany's Dominik Schwaiger races during a men's World Cup downhill training run Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)

World Cup? China Cup is more like it

The 22nd FIFA World Cup has a total of 16 official sponsors and partners -- and six of them are Chinese companies. This maybe isn't so much a World Cup as it is a China Cup.

December 1, 2022
Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Radicals seek to slice carbon footprint of surgeries

It's not enough that radical environmentalists have gone after planes, trains, automobiles, the military and meat. Now they're entering hospital operating rooms, calling out the places where the sickly go to heal and be healed as cesspools of pollution.

December 1, 2022
A Disney cast member displays a Mickey Mouse pin on his shirt at The Center, an LGBTQ support organization, while participating in an employee walkout of Walt Disney World, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) ** FILE **

Leftists’ disgusting lust for pedophilia

Leftists, in all their wicked, evil, ungodly and psychologically malfunctioned glory, will continue to push the barriers and norms until the point pedophilia is regarded as just another fun sexual preference. It's a fight the righteous can never quit.

December 1, 2022
Workers in protective suits stand guard at a barricade as others prepare for their duties in a locked down neighborhood as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. China is expanding lockdowns, including in a central city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as its number of COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s COVID-19 lockdowns are America’s warning

Protests have erupted in China over President Xi Jinping's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policies. Take note, America. From the mouths of America's own lockdown-loving elites -- a warning: As China is, so could the United States go. Lockdowns on freedoms could certainly reoccur here.

November 29, 2022
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Musk will be as hated by leftists as Trump

Elon Musk just called out the AP for "misinformation" after the news outlet posted a tweet conflating fact with opinion, with the apparent intent of convincing readers of the dangers the platform's new atmosphere of free speech is bringing to the world. Now the left hates him.

November 25, 2022
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The president and the first lady are celebrating the Thanksgiving at Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Joe Biden mulls third reelection of President Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden is said to be spending this holiday season in deep thought about another run for the Senate, err, make that another run as President Kamala Harris' sidekick, err, oops, make that a third term in the White House. Or something, something, Ah, the hope of the DNC.

November 25, 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a leaders' meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Biden snores as China marches to global dominance

A recent headline said this: "China, Saudi Arabia Announce Massive Strategic Partnership Energy Agreement" -- showing the alarming speed at which the CCP is spreading its tentacles of influence around the world. China marches. America, under a feckless administration, snores.

November 24, 2022