By Daniela Gonzalez OK, finally, all hell’s broken loose. I won’t give more details about what exactly happened with the efforts of the guys trying to hold onto their cards castle. They couldn’t keep the gates closed, and the Patriotic Army of Venezuelans was coming their way. This being said, a lot of rumors have been in place. The situation became increasingly tense, but the election process itself was flawless. We all know the result, and even the lefties on the street accepted it. But it was the chief gang who would never accept it. Now, with the consequences. The logical turmoil resulted in all the videos you’ve seen everywhere and registered for posterity on many social media. While writing this, we (the family group) are hunkered down at home and have enough gas, camping stoves with 10 liters of fuel, and even firewood (just in case) to keep cooking for more than a month. No need to risk our integrity heading outside. We’ve been leaving a couple of times to fetch some groceries. The supermarkets are facing a situation: they’re running out of fresh products. Mainly beef (we eat a lot of meat in this family). I will add an important note here. We already lived through something like this before. As medical care personnel, my family was mostly busy, with money most of the time, while the crisis lasted. We do have private practice, too, and with the migration, many vacancies opened. Public hospitals have now a chronic lack of supplies and doctors. For us, this sequence of events couldn’t happen at a “better moment”. My family finances were in their worst shape ever. Our food storage was at a shameful minimum (will make a list of this), our vehicle was disabled, and no pantry. On the other side, the benefits of having a group are huge. My surroundings mean there are no surprises, even if there is an imminent threat. My family is well-guarded and safe. We don’t have small kids at home, which is a relief. We take care of each other and can live in groups of three or more. I knew that staying put was the right approach. We debated a little bit about this, but our resources are meager. We can’t hold it up because we know how fast a food pantry is depleted. In our “trips” that were a survival drill mixed with a little bit of camping and hiking, we learned a lot about this. Why did we decide to stay put? People are randomly detained on the streets in the cities with major turmoils, and they could start doing that in this middle/upper-class subdivision just to collect some bribe money. Which I don’t have, means that any attempt would put me in a very bad position. In the social media groups of the subdivisions, the losing gang threatens their neighbors. Go figure. When someone commanding a gang of guys with guns threatens with a bloodbath, the best you can do is hunker down. No matter where you are, this is good advice. Unless you’re way better armed, trained, and outnumbering the threat, you should hunker down. Even Dr. Azpurua, one of the stronger (and academically prepared) authors acknowledges it: Ahora que USA declaró formalmente a González Urrutia como legítimo presidente de Venezuela, no hay excusa para que su primer acto de gobierno no sea una medida ejecutiva de autorizar a la DEA a materializar las órdenes de captura que hizo Interpol y comenzar a limpiar el… pic.twitter.com/WMhoKdpsCv — Juan Carlos Sosa Azpúrua (@jcsosazpurua) August 2, 2024 Translation: Now that the USA formally declared González Urrutia as the legitimate president of Venezuela, there is no excuse for his first act of government not to be an executive measure to authorize the DEA to carry out the arrest warrants issued by Interpol and begin to clean the national territory. . Until that happens, all Venezuelans must protect themselves from street fire. Oh, and just for the record, the word in the street says this is Wagner’s “operatives.” Así de militarizado luce el centro de Caracas, en las inmediaciones de Miraflores. Maduro teme que vayan a celebrar el cumpleaños de Chávez. pic.twitter.com/iTFuMASqS7 pic.twitter.com/BtetbgNMY9 — ElObservadorBinario (@ObservadBinario) August 2, 2024 Translation: This is how militarized the center of Caracas looks, in the vicinity of Miraflores. Maduro fears that they will celebrate Chávez’s birthday. Already in Caracas. A couple of hours by plane away from the US. No bueno. Other than the emotional aspect being overwhelmingly disappointed, I have managed to keep my balance under control.  It’s out of control here. I was monitoring the news last night. The repressive forces in other cities are completely out of control. For some reason (this has always been one of their preferred lands to keep under control), I haven’t heard or seen any violent activity personally. But as things are going, this could change fast. Too much turbulency and unpredictable moves can start in a blink. This is our most major happening in 70 years and a lot of turmoil is being generated. As far as I can see…the only ones being left alone are the gangsters. What is called “serious” crime in Venezuela? Guys in their early 20s (very few of them make it past 35) armed to the teeth and sniffing substances since they were kids, grew up in the streets, and never had a chance to leave. The reason? One, they have serious firepower. The other one may be related to mutual symbiosis. There is nothing new to dig into. All corporationss have deep ties within all sorts of crimes. It is even hard to write. My eyes are in tears. Not because of the gas, but thinking of the mothers of those dragged to jail because of posting on X.com too openly, being with a sign that says “Edmundo is the winner”…or even being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Right now our bugout plan is not viable: two cars with grown men, women, and supplies will be an easy target for any patrol. This is a mess. In the apartment buildings nearby, snitches got wild, reporting the innocent neighbors only because of celebrating the actual president’s victory. We plan to leave early in the morning if there is a chance. We believe that very soon they will cut the power to go after Maria C. Machado without people knowing it. They can’t afford the risk of everybody filming out in the open how they kidnap and very probably kill her team. You can see now what we are facing: a gang of soul-less murderers. There is a general feeling of danger EVERYWHERE, even if the city and the area are calmed down. A truck making the exhaust explode loudly almost gives a heart attack to the people around. Black pickup trucks without license plates, filled up with masked and armed guys in black uniforms, roam the streets of Caracas and all the major cities. But the most maddening scenario is the regular barrio people still supporting the bus driver gang. They would slit their families or children’s throats before acknowledging the victory of the so-called “right-wing candidate,” as these psychos want to put it. It’s a “scam” for them. They will stomp on any legality and crush anyone opposing their narrative. This is not your standard fanatic who will get mad over a “political” discussion. It is people who will sell you to the illegal armed cops without hesitating just because they hate being defeated within the terms of fair play. Even after the fraud has been exposed over and over and every day it is more and more evident that our president is being acknowledged by more countries, they won’t stop calling the bus driver with the position in the government he already doesn’t have. It is a dictatorship here. Even the major world media outlets are openly expressing this. Now let’s describe the atmosphere. There is what can only be described as a tense calm. The stories around are awful. One of the volunteers signing the acts was an elder lady. Not far from where we live. The responsible team of supposed policemen dragged her out of her home in underwear to “arrest her,” and she suffered a fatal stroke in the cell they threw her into. Now, she leaves behind a grandkid like 12 or 13. It’s doubtful that regular police work this way by accusing people who only signed up an act in an election process. This is a nightmare we never saw coming. Word in social media and the streets is that a foreign intervention is unlikely. However, with the psy-ops labs working 24/7, we can’t confirm nor deny this. The mechanisms are there, but sadly, our two neighboring countries are governed by a part of the same gang: Lula and Petro, and they will block any attempt to send the UN troops. Because that will expose the ugly, nasty truth: they are supporting fraud and war crimes against the Venezuelan people. The presence of Cuban troopers within the Venezuelan Armed Forces is not a secret. Many serious journalists already alerted about this years ago, and that is highly relevant right now. The psychological operation of terrorism is marching on full speed ahead. Lord have mercy. We are not Ukrainians. We were never subject to so much violence and aggression. The corps in the streets kidnapping people are incredibly soulless. We are medical personnel, but we’re not safe, either. In the worst of the demonstrations, we were also attacked for taking care of the wounded. Please support those you may know in our country. Many of our countrymen’s income sources are seriously compromised because they can’t work normally. Even business owners, like restaurants, cafes, and bakeries, are struggling: people don’t eat outside because anything could happen. Thanks for your reading, and as soon as the request for International help (it should come sooner or later) is made public, we rely on you to spread it and liberate the country of those unhinged psychos. About Daniela Daniela Gonzalez is a student of history at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. The post Here’s What It’s Like in Venezuela After the Stolen Election appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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Do you enjoy tasks that make you think really hard? Be honest – you probably don’t. You might do them anyway, but we'd bet it's not always a pleasant experience. A new meta-analysis has looked at many published studies and found that these feelings are not all in your head: exerting mental effort really can feel unpleasant.We humans can be a contrary bunch. According to the 170 studies the authors analyzed, while we may agree to engage in a range of activities that take mental effort – things like learning to use new technology or practicing our technique in a sport – we generally don’t actually enjoy it that much.“Managers often encourage employees, and teachers often encourage students, to exert mental effort. On the surface, this seems to work well: Employees and students do often opt for mentally challenging activities,” explained senior author Dr Erik Bijleveld of Radboud University in a statement. “From this, you may be tempted to conclude that employees and students tend to enjoy thinking hard.”“Our results suggest that this conclusion would be false: In general, people really dislike mental effort.”This had certainly been theorized in the past, but there was a lack of strong data to confirm it. The papers included in the team’s meta-analysis comprised a total of 4,670 participants in a variety of settings, including college students, healthcare workers, and the military. Twenty-seven countries were represented, with participants being asked about 358 different cognitive tasks in total.No matter the task or group of people being studied, greater mental exertion was associated with greater unpleasantness. In psychologist-speak, mental exertion is “aversive”. It turns out that, as a species, we’re really not fans of thinking hard.However, it’s also true that tasks requiring mental effort are often unavoidable, whether it’s your boss giving you an assignment at work or your sports coach laying down a training regime. Can the study authors offer any hope of making these tasks easier to bear?“When people are required to exert substantial mental effort, you need to make sure to support or reward them for their effort,” said Bijleveld. That’s more like it.“For example, why do millions of people play chess? People may learn that exerting mental effort in some specific activities is likely to lead to reward. If the benefits of chess outweigh the costs, people may choose to play chess, and even self-report that they enjoy chess,” Bijleveld continued.The authors suggest that managers, engineers, and teachers should consider this when planning tasks, designing new apps and tech interfaces, or setting schoolwork. It’s fine to ask people to put in some mental effort, but ideally, you should support them and reward them for it too.An intriguing cultural difference also emerged from the data. While people across all localities universally indicated that thinking hard wasn’t fun, this was less pronounced in studies conducted in Asia than in Europe or North America. The team theorized that this was down to a different educational environment – kids in Asia typically spend more time on schoolwork than their counterparts in Europe or North America, so they may develop greater resilience to mental exertion earlier in life.The upshot, according to Bijleveld, is that “when people choose to pursue mentally effortful activities, this should not be taken as an indication that they enjoy mental effort per se.”“Perhaps people choose mentally effortful activities despite the effort, not because of it.”The study is published in the journal Psychological Bulletin.

The world's climate is in crisis, and it is important to monitor potential tipping points: critical thresholds that, when breached, can lead to snowballing and potentially irreversible changes. As part of an attempt to understand how the ocean melts Antarctica’s ice shelves, researchers sent a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) called Ran underneath the Dotson ice shelf in West Antarctica, to map the region using sonar.“We have previously used satellite data and ice cores to observe how glaciers change over time," lead author Anna Wåhlin, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Gothenburg, said in a statement. "By navigating the submersible into the cavity, we were able to get high resolution maps of the ice underside. It's a bit like seeing the back of the moon."During the expedition, which took place in 2022, the ROV traveled over 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) back and forth under the glacier, reaching 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) into a cavity within the ice. “Better models are needed to predict how fast the ice shelves will melt in the future. It is exciting when oceanographers and glaciologists work together, combining remote sensing with oceanographic field data," Wåhlin said. "This is needed to understand the glaciological changes taking place – the driving force is in the ocean."    The team has now published the results of the survey, including some interesting finds. One such find was strange patterns of peaks and valleys at the glacier's base, where underwater currents are slowly eroding it and moving further into the cracks. What was especially odd was that coming out of these rougher-than-expected peaks and valleys were features resembling sand dunes, stretching up to 400 meters (1,300 feet) long. Analyzing the features, the team believes that they are the result of the movement of water on the underside of the glacier due to the Earth's rotation."If you look closely at the shapes they are not symmetrical, they are bent a bit like blue mussels, and the reason for that asymmetry is Earth's rotation," Wåhlin told Live Science. "Water moving on Earth is subject to something called the Coriolis force, which is acting to the left of the direction of motion in the Southern Hemisphere. If we are correct, there is a force balance in the layer closest to the ice where friction is balanced by the Coriolis force."The pattern of water that appears to have created this pattern is known as an Ekman Spiral.A visualization of the features seen by the drone.Image Credit: Filip Stedt / University of Gothenburg, Courtesy of Anna Wåhlin"When surface water molecules move by the force of the wind, they, in turn, drag deeper layers of water molecules below them. Each layer of water molecules is moved by friction from the shallower layer, and each deeper layer moves more slowly than the layer above it, until the movement ceases at a depth of about 100 meters (330 feet)," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains on their website.The deeper water is affected by the Coriolis effect, with plumes spreading asymmetrically according to which hemisphere you are in. In the northern hemisphere, the plume spreads to the right; in the southern hemisphere, to the left. "As a result, each successively deeper layer of water moves more slowly to the right or left, creating a spiral effect. Because the deeper layers of water move more slowly than the shallower layers, they tend to 'twist around' and flow opposite to the surface current," NOAA continues.The team notes that the older "teardrop" shapes had tails more parallel to the flow, as expected using Ekman theory, but adds that more observations are needed.The ROV surfacing after venturing into the depths in 2022.Image Credit: Anna Wåhlin / University of Gothenburg, Courtesy of Anna WåhlinUnfortunately, since this expedition, the submersible has gone missing underneath the Doomsday Glacier. During dives, the submersible does not have constant contact with the researchers operating it. Instead, the AUV follows a pre-programmed route and uses an advanced navigation system to find its way back from underneath the ice to open water. However, after several successful dives underneath the ice, during one trip in January of 2024, Ran failed to appear at the rendezvous point. Despite searches with acoustic equipment, drones, and helicopters, the team has been unable to locate Ran since.“It’s a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, but without even knowing where the haystack is," Wåhlin said in a statement in January. "At this point, Ran’s batteries are dead. All we know is that something unexpected happened under the ice. We suspect it ran into trouble, and then something prevented it from getting out."The team believes this is likely sadly the end for Ran, though they note it is a better end for the submersible than aging and gathering dust in a garage. They now plan on replacing the submersible and continuing its important research.The study is published in the journal Science Advances: Oceanography.

The U.S. Secret Service had no agents stationed in the local police command center when urgent radio dispatches warned of a man with a gun on the roof 130 yards from where former President Donald J. Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, the acting Secret Service director said Aug. 2. "It was so apparent to me that in this incident, in the final 30 seconds, which has been the focus of what happened before the assailant opened fire, there was clearly radio transmissions that may have happened on that local radio net that we did not have," Ronald L. Rowe Jr. said during a Washington, D.C., press briefing. "And so we have to do a better job of co-locating, leveraging that counterpart system, and this is going to drive our operations going forward," Rowe said. The admission appears to answer the urgent question asked by members of Congress and security analysts over the past several weeks: If local police knew about a man with a gun, why didn't Secret Service snipers know? 'We can easily see somebody running around at the ridge of the roof. Why didn’t Secret Service snipers see him?' Officials have cited "siloed" radio communications as a factor in the Secret Service not being up to speed on intelligence gathered by local police. Rowe said a Pennsylvania State Police official was in the Secret Service security room on July 13 but that no Secret Service officials were in the local police command center. "If a state or local [agency] sets up a unified command post, maybe we need to be in that room as well, as opposed to just being in another room and rely on that counterpart system," Rowe said. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) earlier disclosed that radios provided by local law enforcement to the Secret Service for cross-agency communication were never used on July 13. Rowe said the counter-sniper teams at the Butler event communicated via text messages on cell phones — not by radio. Acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr. testifies at a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee July 30 in Washington, D.C.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images "With respect to the counter-snipers, they were using cellular text communications," Rowe said. "At this point moving forward, what I've directed now is that everybody should be using the radio net." Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, shot Trump in the right ear with an AR-15-style rifle just after 6:11 p.m. Crooks got off seven more shots before a law enforcement counter-sniper killed him with a bullet that one expert told Blaze News was fired from 448 yards away. 'You could see him sit up and sling his weapon around and aim it right towards us right before the Secret Service shot him.' Crooks stopped firing after eight shots when a Butler County tactical officer shot at him from ground level behind the bleachers at the fairgrounds, the Washington Post reported. There was a 10-second lull after Crooks' eighth shot — fired almost simultaneously with the Butler SWAT officer's shot. Crooks then tried to reposition himself on the roof. He did not fire again and was killed by a counter-sniper's bullet a few seconds later. Video captured by witness Jon Malis from just west of Building 6 showed Crooks turn and look down at the crowd that was frantically trying to warn police. "All I saw was his face kind of turn and look toward us," Malis told News Nation. "The gentleman in front of me, he had his camera zoomed in. I think he was taking photographs, and he said, 'Hey, he's got a gun, and he's aiming it at us,' something like that. "Then when I looked back later with my video zoomed in," Malis said, "sure enough, you could see him sit up and sling his weapon around and aim it right towards us right before the Secret Service shot him." Only a perfectly timed turn of his head to look at a giant immigration chart on a video screen saved Trump from a gruesome death. Trump's former presidential physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, said if the bullet had struck even one-quarter of an inch closer, Trump would be dead. Jackson has examined Trump at least twice since the shooting. Rowe disclosed that Trump did not have Secret Service counter-sniper protection at any 2024 events prior to the Butler rally. “It was the first time the Secret Service counter-snipers were deployed to support the former president's detail,” Rowe said. The Trump campaign instead received “state and local resources” at prior campaign stops and other events. At the press event, Rowe repeated his contention that Secret Service agents and counter-snipers had no idea Crooks was on the roof with a rifle until he fired a burst of eight shots at Trump and the crowd at 6:11:33 p.m. The federal agency responsible for Trump’s safety did not know that local police had surrounded the American Glass Research Building 6 about two minutes earlier or that bystanders west of the building spotted a man with a rifle belly-crawling up the roof. A law enforcement officer who hoisted himself up to peer above the roof line at 6:11 p.m. saw Crooks aim the rifle at him. That officer fell to the ground, then broadcast on police radio that there was a man with a gun lying in a prone position on the roof. This was 30 seconds before Crooks fired, according to a timeline developed by Johnson's office. “Based on what I know right now, neither the Secret Service counter-sniper teams nor members of the former president's security detail had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR building with a firearm,” Rowe said. “It is my understanding that personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until they heard gunshots.” Rowe’s remarks served to highlight the growing gap between what local law enforcement officials knew in the crucial two minutes before the shooting and what the Secret Service somehow didn’t know. SLUGFEST: Trump vs. ABC Journalist at NAJB Conference | Sen. Ron Johnson | 7/31/2024 www.youtube.com Rowe’s explanation also came against the backdrop of new video captured by shooting victim James Copenhaver from behind Trump’s podium, showing Crooks running across the roof line in the distance. He dropped to one knee and then into a prone shooting position, the video showed. “We can easily see somebody running around at the ridge of the roof, and that’s Crooks,” Johnson said on "Blaze News Tonight." “So the crowd saw him. Why didn’t Secret Service snipers see him?” Rowe backed away from his suggestion made at a July 30 U.S. Senate hearing that local law enforcement officials were at fault for not securing all of the line-of-sight rooftops at the Butler event. “The Secret Service takes full responsibility for the tragic events of July 13,” Rowe said. “This was a mission failure. The sole responsibility of our agency is to make sure our protectees are never put in danger. We fell short of that in Butler. And I'm working to make sure that this failure does not happen again.” 'That building was very close to that outer perimeter, and we should have had more of a presence.' Rowe’s comments are unlikely to assuage the growing concerns and angst in Congress that the Secret Service's historic blunders in Butler came within a quarter-inch of the assassination of the former president and leading 2024 presidential candidate. Local police first classified Crooks as a suspicious person between 4:20 p.m. and 4:26 p.m., when a Beaver County officer finishing his shift saw Crooks sitting at a nearby picnic table and sent a text to his colleagues. A local police sniper took photos of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks at a retaining wall near the building he used as a perch to shoot former President Donald J. Trump on July 13. Photos via US Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) "Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know," the officer texted at 4:27 p.m., according to records released by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). "I'm just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there he's sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit." A counter-sniper positioned in the building behind the one used by Crooks as a shooting perch took two photos of Crooks "lurking around" at 5:14 p.m., according to a timeline released by Johnson's office. A photo of a bicycle Crooks was seen riding onto the grounds was taken at 5:28 p.m. The photos were texted to local counter-snipers at 5:38 p.m. and forwarded to the command center at 5:45 p.m. "So that was 26 minutes before the first shots were fired," Johnson said. "Again, that photo was taken at 5:14, almost an hour before the first shots were fired. "So what happened in that 26 minutes from when the sniper received the photo and his location? What were they doing? Why weren’t they continuously scanning the AGR building?” The security plan for the Butler Farm Show grounds where former President Donald J. Trump was shot July 13. Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from the roof shown at upper right.Beaver County Emergency Services Unit SWAT According to the site security plan, snipers from Butler and Beaver Counties were stationed in the two-story building just north of Building 6 where Crooks fired from. A Washington County counter-sniper was posted southwest of the event stage, hundreds of yards from Building 6. Rowe said there should have been "better coverage" of the roofs in the AGR campus north of the fairgrounds. "For the protectee, we should have had better coverage on that roof line," he said. "We should have had at least some other set of eyes from the Secret Service point of view covering that. That building was very close to that outer perimeter, and we should have had more of a presence." Local law enforcement that supported the Butler event included the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, the Butler Township Police Department, the Allegheny County Bomb Squad, the Washington County SWAT team, and Pennsylvania State Police. The Butler site was an even bigger security risk than previously disclosed, according to U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who served with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq and worked as a counter-sniper for the U.S. State Department. “I laid personally where Thomas Crooks took the shot, and I can tell you from that building you have a vantage point where you can see the shooter at all times," Mills said on Fox News. "We went down to the exact location where President Trump was standing during the incident, and I can tell you, the Kubota manufacturing center about 420-plus yards outside of the perimeter zone was a direct 12 o’clock shot on the president. "Not to mention that there was an entire slew of buildings that was on the opposite side of the stage that also could have snipers from that position," said Mills, who described the Butler event as the "biggest Secret Service and security breach and failure that we have seen in our lifetimes." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The husband of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris committed adultery during his previous marriage to Kerstin Emhoff, and reports indicate that his then-mistress was once the nanny of his two children.On Saturday, Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, confirmed the previous affair in a statement following a bombshell report from the Daily Mail and social media posts from pro-Trump activist Laura Loomer.Citing 'a close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy,' the Daily Mail reported that Naylor became pregnant by Emhoff but 'did not keep the child.'"During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side," Doug Emhoff said in a statement to CNN.Though Emhoff did not name the woman with whom he had an affair, the Daily Mail reported that her name is Najen Naylor and that she once worked as a nanny for Emhoff's two children, Cole and Ella, and as a teacher at the Willows, the elite private school the kids once attended.The affair allegedly occurred around 2009 and reportedly brought Kerstin and Doug's 16-year marriage to an end. What's more, Naylor may have become pregnant as a result of the affair. Citing "a close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy," the Daily Mail reported that Naylor became pregnant by Emhoff but "did not keep the child."Naylor, now 47, did not confirm or deny the affair or the pregnancy but did give the Daily Mail a brief statement: "I’m kind of freaked out right now."Kerstin Emhoff, 57, also released a statement about her previous marriage to Doug Emhoff and his subsequent marriage to Kamala Harris: "Doug and I decided to end our marriage for a variety of reasons, many years ago. He is a great father to our kids, continues to be a great friend to me and I am really proud of the warm and supportive blended family Doug, Kamala, and I have built together."Doug Emhoff and Harris, both 59, married in 2014. Emhoff reportedly told Harris about his previous affair before they wed. The affair was also made known to the Biden team in 2020 when Harris was being vetted as a vice presidential candidate.Brian Fallon, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, declined CNN's request for comment regarding the details of the Daily Mail report. He also declined to give a comment on the issue in general.Since Biden dropped his bid for a second term in office and Harris has become the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee, Doug Emhoff has been stumping across the country for his wife. Harris has made expanding abortion rights a key campaign issue, and Emhoff seems to share her passion for permitting women to kill their unborn children.Months after the Dobbs decision was announced in 2022, returning the abortion issue back to the individual states, Emhoff tweeted: "I remember when @KamalaHarris called to tell me about the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs. The first thing I thought about was my daughter. As a dad and as a husband, I’m going to do everything I can to speak out and help advance reproductive freedom."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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