The term that I use now to describe the Democrats and these Marxists and Islamis is authoritarian Democrats.

Other words, they'll go through the voting process as long as they win, but if they don't win, they'll try and sabotage a Trump or Republicans.

They don't really care about the electorate except if it gives them power.

They don't really care about the well being of the average person unless they can persuade them to support them.

You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

Good Thursday morning.

It's nice to have you with us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a couple of major stories for you this morning.

This one is a story I hope I never have to talk about again, but it needs to be on your radar screen.

The CDC has now issued a travel warning over a viral outbreak in China that is spread by mosquito bites.

It is very eerie how close it is to the initial warnings we got with COVID nineteen.

I'll have that story for you in just a moment.

Also, it is ratcheting up in Texas as Democrats refuse to come back to work now.

It's involving the state Supreme Court, the governor, and the governor of Illinois.

I also talk with Mark Levin, the Great One, about his new book on power and how it relates to everything that's going on in Texas.

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It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

Story number one.

There is a major story that needs to be on your radar, and it's one that concerns now China yet again, and the CDC issuing a travel warning over a viral outbreak in China that is spread by mosquito bites.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a Level two travel notice.

This is much like what we witness with the coronavirus for a province in China due to a quote major outbreak, the agency is recommending travelers practice enhance precautions.

As of August to six, if you believe the numbers coming out of China, over seven thousand confirmed cases of chikungunya have been reported, with the outbreak spreading to Hong Kong and other provinces.

Now, what is this disease?

Well, symptoms typically appear, they say three to seven days after a mosquito bite, and while most recover within a week.

There are major problems that can happen because of this mosquito born viral disease characterize as being major issues with fever, severe joint pain, severe headaches, muscle aches, joint swelling, and a rash.

There is also a concern over death.

Even though it's being categorized as rare infants, they're very concerned about older adults and people with certain health conditions will also face high risk of severe symptoms and possibly death.

Yet again, another concern of the similarities we're talking about here because of what happened last time when it came out of China.

Now in twenty twenty five, this strand has affected approximately two hundred and forty thousand people across sixteen countries, resulting, they say, in around ninety deaths.

Chinese authorities have mobilized intense containment strategies, including drones to locate standing water, insecticide spraying, even targeting individuals before entering buildings, deployment of mosquito eating fish, fines or penalties for stagnant water accumulation, and hospital isolation under mosquito netting.

Here is more from Fox News Channel about the seat putting out the warning for Americans.

Tonight, a viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the CDC to issue a travel warning.

More than seven thousand cases of this disease have been reported so far.

State Department correspondent Jillian Turner has details tonight from the State Department.

Even Jillian Good Evening Brett.

The CDC, as you mentioned, is warning Americans traveling to China about chikungunya.

It is a virus that spreads to humans through infected mosquito bites.

It can cause severe illness, with symptoms that mimic pretty closely dangay fever and ecavirus, mostly found in Africa.

Here's what the CDC says about it.

They say most people in fact to get better within a week.

However, some can have severe joint pain for months two years.

Other symptoms include severe fever and fatigue.

The outbreak now is in the Chinese province goang Dong.

It's near Hong Kong, with more than seven thousand cases reported so far, prompting some pretty dramatic measures to contain the spread, like mandatory insect repellent blasts for people entering the area.

Mandatory property checks for stagnant water, which attracts mosquitos and when found is now punishable by fines or even arrests.

If you happen to get this, they're quarantining you in hospitals with mosquito netting and not letting you out for a week.

These are the kind of draconian responses we saw with COVID.

We're seeing it again.

The CDC says Americans traveling to eight other countries are also at elevated risk of exposure to the virus, even if there is no current outbreak there.

People at risk for more severe cases of chicungunya include newborns, seniors sixty five years and up, as well as people with diabetes or heart disease.

Now, the good news is that, unlike COVID, deaths from this disease are exceedingly rare.

You can also protect yourself by getting vaccinated against it, or by preventing mosquito bites in the first place through all the usual mechanisms insect repellent netting, wearing long sleeves, and staying in air condition.

You listen to this warning and there's a couple of points here that need to be made clear Number one, there's no specific treatment for this, so management focuses on symptom relief, rest, hydration, over the counterpane relief, and vaccines, as they mentioned, are available in the US and recommended for travelers that are going to the outbreak regions.

But then the question also comes up, and this is why I want it on your radar screen.

Why are they treating this in China very much the same way they treated COVID And are they telling us the truth now?

They're saying to minimize the risk of exposure, the CDC advises the use of insect repellent, wearing long sleeved shirts and long pants, staying in screened or air conditioned accommodation.

They also have a warning for pregnant travelers, especially near delivery.

They're encouraged now to quote reconsidered travel as infection neer childbirth can pass to newborns.

Vaccination should be discussed with the healthcare provider.

The CDC is also saying, so this is a story that I hope I don't have to talk about again with you, But when you're dealing with China and what they're doing right now, you have to wonder, what are.

They hiding Now story number two.

I want to move on to another major story, and it deals with what's happening in Texas.

The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has now filed a lawsuit to start the removal for dereliction of duty, derelict Democrats and saying you're not showing up for work.

You fled the state to block redistricting bill, and now we're going to hold you accountable for exactly that.

Governor Abbott filing the lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process for the removal of House Democratic Caucus Chairman Wu and others.

The chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block acorum in protest to the GOP's efforts to carry out their duty of congressional seat redistricting.

Today I took emergency action, the governor said, to begin the removal from office of derelic Democrat Texas House members he refuses show up for special session.

Governor Abbot writing this, saying quote, I filed the suit directly with the Texas Supreme Court too quickly make clear the authority I have to bring the lawsuit for removal of legislators from their office now.

On Sunday, Abbot ordered the House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum to return to work, or he would take action to vacate their legislative seats and appoint replacements.

This truancy ends now, Governor Abbot said in a Sunday night statement.

The derelic Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the House reconvens at three pm on Monday, August fourth.

The Governor said he will invoke the Texas Attorney general opinion to remove the absent Democrats from their elected office.

The governor stated, quote In that opinion, the Attorney General considered whether Texas law allows for a determination that a legislator has vacated office if they intentionally break quorum.

The Attorney General concluded that whether a specific legislator abandoned his or her office such that a vacancy occurred will be a fact question for a court quote unquote.

Sunday afternoon, Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop the state legislature from moving forward on plans to redistrict Texas congressional districts.

Democratic Caucus Chairman wo a Democrat from Houston, said the governor is using an intentionally racist map to steal the voices of millions of black and Latino Texans, all to execute a corrupt political deal.

The derelict Texas House members ignored the governor's order and did not return to the capital insert Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a notice with the Texas Supreme Court in support of the governor's lawsuit, saying this Texas is taking every available avenue to force runaway Democrats to return to Texas and hold them accountable for breaking quorum.

That's what the Attorney General Ken Paxon said in the statement, saying, quote, under the Texas Constitution in Texas law, the Office of the Attorney General has the legal authority to bring these cases against the renegade House members.

I have alerted the Texas Supreme Court that I will be making additional filings on Friday if the Democrats continued to abandon their legislative duties.

Abbott also wrote a letter to the Texas Supreme Court about his action of filing directly with the state's top course bypassing the district and Appellate Court.

System, the governor side section twenty two of the Texas Constitution and court precedent for those actions.

And that's where we go to.

Late Tuesday night, the Supreme Court requests the response from the respondent, Chairman Wu, the Democrat no later than Friday, August eighth, at five pm.

The case number for the emergency petition is twenty five dash ero six seven four.

Translation.

It's getting very real now for Democrats that there is a chance if they do not come back to Texas, they can lose their jobs.

Texas Tribune reporter, by the way, posting comments from Chairman Wu in response to the governor's latest action to remove him and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote, I took an oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda.

Denying the governor at quorum was not an abandonment in my office.

It was a fulfillment of my oath.

That is the latest from the Democrats.

He said, I took that oath to the constitution, not the political agenda, and he's hoping the American people will go along with him.

One person, by the way, that definitely is going along with him is the governor of Illinois.

Trying to turn this into his own political moment.

JB.

Pritzker firing back at Trump's threat to arrest runaway Texas Democrats, saying, bring it on.

He's more than happy to fight Donald Trump.

And here's the governor, in his own words.

Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody in Illinois.

Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and anybody who's here in Illinois.

And so whether it's federal agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas, if you haven't broken federal law, you know, you're basically unwelcome.

And there's no way that they can be that our state legislators here, the Texas state legislators can be arrested.

So there's the governor of Illinois saying, Hey, I stand up for illegal immigrants that are in my state and protect them all the time.

Why do not go ahead and protect some hardcore liberal Democrats from Texas as well?

Now, Governor of Texas, Craig Abbott, he has a very simple response to JD.

Pritzker and anybody else that's criticizing him.

He says, it's all about doing your job, and that's what the Democrats have abandoned.

So the Democrats when they return, they're going to be accountable for certain legal biolaces, but so for violations of Texas House rules, and so it's going to be a bad day for them.

And the sooner they get back, maybe the lesser the consequences.

But the longer they stay, the greater the consequences.

The greater the consequences.

So now here we are at the Texas Supreme Court, and there's a very good chance that the governors got this one right and Democrats may lose their jobs over all of this, refusing to come back to the state that they said they were representing and instead hanging out in Chicago.

I also sat down and had a very interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, a mentor, Mark Levin.

He has a new book out called On Power, a book that I hope all of you will buy, and I asked him about what was happening in Texas and how his book relates to what we're witnessing.

I want you to take a listen to what Mark Levin, the Great One, had to say speaking of power.

I want to get your take on what Democrats have just decided to do in Texas flee this.

They have run to other states that are basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism.

You've got the governor of Illinois saying, come on over, will, how's you will love on you?

YadA YadA, YadA, and they say, this is what power now looks like to the left, how dangerous is that?

Well, this jerry mandering is all you're talking about pretty much.

Yeah, yeah, it's very dangerous.

But let's point out I have a whole chapter on language, and they're proving the point in the chapter and all lot of people read it themselves.

But take a look at this.

The twenty twenty census they quote unquote mathematical errors which resulted in Democrats having five more seats than they should have had, and the census admits it made a mistake.

So let's start at that baseline.

Then you look at Massachusetts.

They don't have a single Republican member of the House of Representatives.

Then you look at Maryland.

They have one Republican out of eight in the state of Maryland.

Then you look at California fifty two seats, forty three Democrats and nine Republicans.

Then you look at Illinois, fourteen Democrats and three Republicans, and I could go on and on and on.

So this party, the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism, it embraces the Islamis against the Israelis, it embraces propaganda of the worst sort.

Again, I discussed this in the chapter in the book.

And their purpose is what they corrupt the public debate, so people don't even know what to debate.

They come up with slogans and repetition, which is a big deal for them, like any other authoritarians do.

So people get in their minds that it's the Republicans.

They are trying to steal the midterm elections.

They have a media behind them, and so so many people who don't focus on this day in and day out have no idea what's actually going on except the drum beat that they hear over and over and over again.

So it is very dangerous what these people are doing.

But it has to be countered.

We can't just wring our hands about it.

What was me?

What was me?

And the way we counter it is again we go to the core of this book and rather than making superficial arguments, we say they want to grab power.

This is why they want to go rabbit, and the book explains why and how they do it and how to respond to it.

I hope all of you, by the way, will grab Marklevin's new book On Power, as explois the nature of power, its historical uses, and its impact on liberty.

The book argues that while power can be used for oppression, it is also essential for a thriving society when it's structured with checks and balances.

The laugh, by the way, has bastardized power, and well, now we're witnessing it in real time with the Democrats in Texas, and this is exactly why I hope all of you will grab Marklevin's new book on Power.

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