7 Things: Alabama’s electric grid is at risk, Biden’s mental decline seems to be more obvious every day and more …

7. Mobile man arrested after threatening to kill President Biden

• John Andrew Bazor, Jr., a man from Mobile, has been arrested after threatening to kill President Joe Biden. Bazor called the White House on July 10 and said, “I am coming to assassinate the president; I can’t wait to see your faces when I put a bullet in him.”

• A criminal complaint has already been entered by the U.S. Secret Service, which includes Bazor’s alleged statement. According to Secret Service, “Bazor said he did not wish to harm the President, but then contradicted himself and said he did” when they spoke to him.

6. Shelby opposes race-based housing subsidies

• A new plan from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) would create housing subsidies that are race-based through the Special Purpose Credit Programs. Members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, including U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa), wrote a letter to oppose the proposed plan.

• The letter states, “[W]e urge FHFA to reconsider these affirmative action housing subsidy plans for the following reasons: First the plans are manifestly unfair and [should] be unconstitutional. Discrimination on the basis of skin color is simply wrong…Second, the plans risk setting up another generation of minority borrowers for failure. Black and other minority homeowners lost significant wealth as a direct result of lax underwriting by the GSEs before the crisis.”

5. Hunter Biden could be charged soon

• Possible tax violation and other foreign lobbying charges could come against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to recent reports. Delaware U.S. Attorney General David Weiss’ office is continuing to investigate the younger Biden.

• The federal grand jury’s investigation has already concluded, but with investigations currently ongoing, no final decision has been made about charges.

4. Tommy Tuberville looks like he will vote to protect gay marriage

• Surprising pretty much everyone, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) seems prepared to join with Democrats in the U.S. Senate to vote to end the “Defense of Marriage Act” that outlawed gay marriage. The law is currently not in place because of a Supreme Court warning, but the media and their Democrats are fearmongering on the issue by suggesting it is in peril.

• While no one is planning to ban gay marriage, Tuberville’s statements were seen as a surprise. When asked if he would vote against gay marriage, he said, “[N]o need for legislating on gay marriage.” Tuberville’s colleague, Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa), appears to be headed towards a vote against the repeal, with his staff saying, “Senator Shelby believes that marriage is meant to be shared between a man and a woman.”

3. Despite migrant crossings, the border is totally secure, apparently

• Amid the ongoing border crisis, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed during the Aspen Security Forum that “the border is secure.” He added, “We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.”

• Mayorkas went on to say, “I have said to a number of legislators who expressed to me that we need to address the challenge at the border before they pass legislation and I take issue with the math of holding the solution hostage until the problem is resolved.”

2. Joe Biden has cancer or asthma or a plan to fight climate change or dementia

• During a speech at a former coal power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, President Joe Biden was meant to be speaking about a threat he was making to Congress about his willingness to act with executive orders on the issue of climate change as the country sees a heatwave in July. Instead, he announced he had cancer.

• While delivering his remarks he stated, “My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk, and guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening? You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.” His staff immediately walked back the comment, saying he meant he had skin cancer. Strangely, Biden has used this same story before to explain his asthma. He even used his famous, “This is God’s truth”  and “This is not a joke,” which most likely means he is lying.

1. Shortages could impact the electric grid in Alabama

• The Alabama congressional delegation raised concern over supply chain shortages and how it could impact the state’s electrical grid.

• In a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Representatives Jerry Carl (R-Mobile), Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), Barry Moore (R-Mobile), Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Mike Rogers (R-Saks) and Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) state, “[L]abor shortages and competition from other industries for steel have made equipment procurement difficult and as a result, critical grid equipment delivery times have increased 20-fold in the past two years…given that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is forecasted to produce hurricanes and tropical storms above-average strength, and several communities along the Alabama coast have not recovered from Hurricane Sally.” The delegation also express how these delays make potential repairs “impossible.” They also plead for FEMA to help ensure providers in Alabama are prepared.