Musk Forcing Republicans To Act Like Republicans

December 19th, 2024

This is the time of year when the congressional class usually assrapes the American taxpayer by means of pork-laden “continuing resolutions” that shovel fat stacks of your hard-earned money into the insatiable maw of rich special interests. And they tried to do it again this year, when incoming DOGE head Elon Musk looked at the bill and went “Wait a minute.”

And indeed, it was a pork-laden nightmare.

The continuing resolution, or CR, was meant to kick the government funding deadline down the road by continuing spending at 2024 levels until March and buy more time for Congress to hash out a longer-term budget plan for fiscal year 2025. But it included 1,500 pages worth of policy and funding riders.

With a national debt of $36 trillion and a deficit of $1.8 trillion, conservatives are leery of CRs that don’t cut government spending to begin with, but they’ve argued only a “clean” CR without any riders attached could earn their vote. Others — Democrats and some Republicans — wanted policy and funding riders attached to get something done beyond the status quo.

Here’s a look at all the provisions that prompted Musk and Ramaswamy to step in and insist Republicans kill the CR:
Pay raises for lawmakers

A nearly 4% pay raise would line the pockets of lawmakers if the legislation were to pass: $6,600 extra per year on top of their $174,000 salary.

That salary hasn’t been increased since 2009, but Congress created a program in 2022 allowing members of Congress to expense their food and lodging in Washington, D.C., while conducting official business.

Some members have been pushing for a pay raise for years, arguing that if members aren’t paid more it means that only independently wealthy people will run for Congress. Others are worried about the optics of a pay raise with voters.

Still, others just don’t think lawmakers deserve it.

“The worst part of the CR was the pay raise for members. That money should be earned and right now it is just being taken,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., on X.

Exempting members from ObamaCare

The legislation also includes a provision stipulating that members of Congress do not have to participate in the health care system they wrote into law — the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.

It would allow members to opt out of the program and instead participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The lawmaker mandate was a contentious debate during the passage of ObamaCare in 2009 and 2010, and for years Republicans tried to overturn the health care bill entirely.

While the CR would exempt members from having to buy health care on the ObamaCare exchange, it would still require their staff to participate in it.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., whose job has come under renewed threat due to anger over the CR, has said he started with a “clean” CR plan but needed to add disaster relief for victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the southeastern part of the country.

Some $100 billion for disaster relief was included, but some conservatives argue it should be paid for by cutting funding in other areas.

Rebuilding Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

The CR includes $8 billion for rebuilding the Baltimore area bridge, which collapsed earlier this year. Some conservatives don’t believe the federal government should be on the hook entirely for the bridge.

“Guess what, folks? Even though the Francis Scott Key Bridge is privately owned, insured, and collects tolls, you still have the honor of footing 100% of the bill to have it repaired. Oh, and it will continue to collect tolls once it’s fixed,” Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., wrote on X.

Musk was not amused:

Also, there were novel techniques used to find the pork and drag it blinking into the light:

And when faced with evidence of their free spending pork ways being dragged into the light, Republican congressional leaders quickly backed down and crafted a much smaller bill.

Some on the right have poo-pooed Musk’s venture into the budget process as “ill-informed.”

To which I say: Fuck that.

For more than forty years, Republican in congress have proclaimed their desire for a balanced budget, signing pledges and making campaign promises for same. And for all but three of those years (at the tail end of the dotcom boom when a Gingrich-led stalemate with the Clinton Administration slowed the rate of government growth), they have failed to deliver, even in those years where Republicans held the House, Senate and White House.

For whatever reason, something always seemed to take priority over balancing the budget, be it the war on terror, fear of being blamed for a shutdown, desire for campaign contributions from rich donors, tasty lobbyist favors, or their desire for hooker and blow parties (you make the call). The end result is that the national debt is now $36 trillion and rising, exceeding our GDP.

Enough.

More than enough.

There is no “We’ll get it in the next resolution” or “wait until the next budget.”

Now we’re paying attention, and the crooked lapdogs of the culture of corruption can’t get away with this bullshit any more.

Republican congresscritters can either start acting like Republicans, or else getting primaried is the least nasty thing we’re going to do to them.

After all this, Musk took a victory lap (as well he should):

Now we just need to bring ten times this pressure for the first Trump47 budget.

(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

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Russia Showing Visible Cracks

December 18th, 2024

More than two years into Putin’s three day Special Operation, Russia is starting to show extensive cracks in its facade of normalcy.

  • Would you believe the return of food rationing?

    Russian lawmakers have proposed introducing food ration cards across the entire country in response to rising prices, claiming the idea has a “healthy foundation”, the Moscow Times wrote on Dec. 15.

    Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma’s Committee on Financial Markets, endorsed the idea of reintroducing food vouchers reminiscent of those used in the Soviet Union – the proposal, initially suggested by the Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast governor.

    Aksakov believes the initiative should be expanded nationwide. The Russian official stated that food vouchers would help “support socially vulnerable groups,” though he did not specify a potential monthly allowance for these cards.

    “As of Dec. 9, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development reported annual inflation reaching 9.2%, the highest level since February 2023. However, alternative metrics indicate significantly higher figures,” the publication noted.

    Food ration cards in Kaliningrad Oblast are set to roll out in 2025, targeting pensioners with incomes below the subsistence minimum.

    On Dec. 10, it was reported that the Kremlin had significantly increased military spending amid a catastrophic collapse of the ruble. The Russian government has allocated unprecedented funds for the war against Ukraine.

    For 2025, Russia’s budget includes a 25% increase in military spending, bringing it to 13.49 trillion rubles ($175.37 billion). Military expenditures will account for 32.5% of the budget, an unprecedented level since the Soviet era. By comparison, during the first year of the war against Ukraine, the government spent 17% of its budget on the military. In 2023, this figure rose to 19%, and the 2024 year’s allocation stands at 29.5%.

  • And how is the rest of the Russian economy doing? The parts supporting the war are doing great, but the rest is overheating due to inflation and crumpling under the load of high interest rates.

    • Interest rates are expected to hit 23% this month.
    • Despite the high interest rates, inflation isn’t going down, running at an official rate of 9% (and unofficially much higher).
    • Food staples are up even more, from 12% for bread to 74% for potatoes. Stores are locking up butter to prevent theft.
    • Russian business bankruptcies are up 30%.
    • Russia’s rail system can’t afford preventive maintenance due to higher interest rates.
    • Russia’s current low unemployment is driven by government spending on its war economy, and its not sustainable.
    • The military sector is sucking in more and more manpower, leaving fewer and fewer workers for other sectors of the economy hit by higher labor costs, higher interest rates, and higher inflation.
    • Unequal distribution of the gusher of war economy money is screwing the poor even harder.
    • Even Putin says Russia needs another million workers.
    • “There is a shrinking number of people who can keep Putin’s war machine running.”
  • Speaking of Russia’s illegal war of territorial aggression, just how is that going? Given that Russia now has 63-year old recruits, I’ve got to guess not that well.

  • Also, two Russian oil tankers sank in the Kerch Strait, reportedly because they were river going vessels, and thus not rated for seaborne stresses. That suggests that Russia’s oil transportation capability is in serious trouble.
  • Also in serious trouble: Russia’s arms export industry, thanks to how poorly their arms have performed in Ukraine.

  • Finally, largely (though not entirely) unrelated to the Ukraine quagmire—

    —is the collapse of Assad’s Syria, an important client state for Russia:

    Russia is in a pickle getting its men and equipment home, because it can’t overfly nations hostile to it (most of them), it can’t sail ships home through the Bosporus (Montreux Convention), and it probably can’t get them all the way home up to its Baltic ports because it can’t refuel and resupply at hostile NATO ports (I wonder if a combination of Mediterranean African ports and at-sea resupply could get the job done). Plus Russia has been resupplying its mercenary army supporting Africa’s League of Assholes (Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso) from Syria, and Assad’s fall puts the entire operation in jeopardy.

    • The stresses on Russia are only going to get worse moving forward. For all the talk that Trump is going to bail Russia out, Volodymyr Zelenskyy evidently doesn’t think so. Plus one of Trump’s key negotiating tactics is to threaten whatever the other party holds most dear to force them to agree to a deal. And given Russia’s numerous manifest weaknesses, Trump is going to go into talks with an awful lot of leverage points…

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    The Battle Of The Bulge: 80th Anniversary

    December 17th, 2024

    Eighty years ago, on December 16, 1944, Hitler’s last-ditch effort to stave off defeat in World War II got underway. Using the same trick Germany had used twice before (1914 and 1940), they launched a massive offensive push through the Ardennes that came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. To quote Wikipedia, the source of all vaguely accurate knowledge:

    The Germans’ initial attack involved 410,000 men; just over 1,400 tanks, tank destroyers, and assault guns; 2,600 artillery pieces; 1,600 anti-tank guns; and over 1,000 combat aircraft, as well as large numbers of other armored fighting vehicles (AFVs). These were reinforced a couple of weeks later, bringing the offensive’s total strength to around 450,000 troops, and 1,500 tanks and assault guns. Between 63,222 and 98,000 of these men were killed, missing, wounded in action, or captured. For the Americans, out of a peak of 610,000 troops, 89,000 became casualties out of which some 19,000 were killed. The “Bulge” was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the third deadliest campaign in American history.

    Though well-planned and executed, achieving the element of surprise against outmanned and outgunned American forces, German forces soon bogged down due to harsh weather conditions and fiercer-than-anticipated resistance. In particular, the town of Bastogne, through which all seven main roads in the Ardennes highlands converged, was supposed to fall early in the campaign, paving the way to the Meuse River and the ultimate objective of Antwerp beyond. Instead, American forces held off the Germans just long enough for the 101st Airborne and other forces to mount a perimeter defense around Bastogne.

    Surrounded on all sides, outnumbered 5-1, low on supplies and ill-equipped for cold weather fighting, American forces were asked to surrender. Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe answered with one of the most famous replies in the history of warfare: “NUTS!” American forces would stave off repeated attacks, until a resupply airdrop on the 26th and elements of Patton’s Third Army arrived on the 27th to lift the siege of Bastogne.

    Another hard month of fighting lay ahead (aided by better weather and America’s overwhelming air superiority) until the “bulge” was entirely eradicated, but after Bastogne, Hitler’s last great gamble had failed.

    Here’s the Simple History video overview:

    The Battle of the Bulge produced 21 Medal of Honor winners.

    See also:

  • Five Things Bbout The Battle of the Bulge
  • The Battle of the Bulge: A Helmet Full of Beer
  • Memorial Day: Remembering Henry F. Warner

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    Biden Pardons The Worst People In The World

    December 16th, 2024

    We know that Joe Biden pardoned his crackhead bagman son, but that was just the start of a pardon and commutation spree of just amazingly awful people.

  • For starters, how about the guy who took kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit prisons?

    President Biden on Thursday commuted the prison sentence of Michael Conahan, a former judge who pleaded guilty to sending juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks.

    The 72-year-old judge pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in 2011 and was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for the “Kids-for-Cash” scheme.

    He has been in home confinement in Florida under federal supervision since June 2020, when he requested a “compassionate release” because of the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing he was “in grave danger of not only contracting the virus, but of dying from the virus.”

    Conahan, whose commutation was first reported by the Citizens’ Voice, was one of 1,499 commutations Biden granted this week. Biden, who also issued 49 pardons, far exceeded the previous single-day record for acts of clemency, which was held by former President Barack Obama, who issued 330 acts of clemency in a single day before he left office in 2017.

    “The nearly 1,500 individuals who received commutations today have been serving their sentences at home for at least one year under the COVID-era CARES Act,” the White House said in a statement. “These Americans have been reunited with their families and shown their commitment to rehabilitation by securing employment and advancing their education.”

    Former attorney Robert Powell paid $770,000 to Conahan and former judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. to reward the judges for sending juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers Powell partly owned, oftentimes with sentences that were incongruent with the juveniles’ crimes.

    Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in prison and is scheduled to be released in 2034.

    Powell served an 18-month prison sentence in connection with the scheme after pleading guilty to felony counts of failing to report a felony and being an accessory to a conspiracy. He also agreed to pay the juvenile defendants affected by the scheme more than $6 million in a settlement reached in 2015.

    Real estate developer Robert Mericle paid another $2.1 million to the judges. He served one year in federal prison on charges related to failing to disclose to investigators and a grand jury that he knew the judges were defrauding the government by failing to report the money on their taxes.

    A mother whose son died by suicide while serving time in the juvenile detention under the scheme called Biden’s decision “deeply painful.”

    I bet.

  • Remember the Archer episode where someone is switching out fake chemotherapy drugs for the real stuff? Biden just pardoned a doctor that was actually doing that.

    President Joe Biden granted clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans this week, including to a former doctor convicted of Medicare fraud for providing diluted chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients.

    The commutations, which the White House is lauded as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history,” has drawn significant criticism as some of those on the list have been reported on. According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, several recipients were involved in serious offenses.

    Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for defrauding Medicare and was required to reimburse $8.2 million to her former cancer facility. Sachdeva provided cancer patients with diluted chemotherapy drugs. She also provided them with old needles, which resulted in one patient claiming to have gotten HIV from a needle used by her clinic.

    Snip.

    Other recipients of clemency included Daniel Fillerup, an Alabama physician sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally distributing fentanyl that resulted in a fatal overdose. The Department of Justice said that Fillerup “directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.” Also included was Wendy Hechtman, who was serving 15 years for leading a drug ring linked to a surge in overdose deaths in Nebraska in 2017.

    Opioid drug ring leaders. Sounds like just the sort of fine, upstanding citizens you should issue a pardons to.

    Forget clemency. She’s lucky she still has her kneecaps…

  • Also getting their sentence commuted was Rita Crundwell, who embezzled a little bit of money while she was comptroller of Dixon, Illinois. Namely, $54 million.

    Included in the list of inmates Biden released who had been placed under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic was Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, who was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to nearly 20 years behind bars for stealing nearly $54 million from the town of 15,000 people over two decades.

    Crundwell, now 71, admitted to embezzling from the city of Dixon during her time as comptroller, using the stolen funds to support a lavish lifestyle, which included bankrolling her horse breeding operation, purchasing real estate, and buying more than four dozen vehicles and a luxury motor home.

    Let ye who has never embezzled $54 million in taxpayer money to run a horse-breeding farm cast the first stone. (Hat tip: Dwight.)

  • But wait! Crundwell isn’t the biggest embezzler in Biden’s pardon list. That honor goes to “Eric Bloom, the former CEO of Northbrook-based Sentinel Management Group, Inc., who defrauded hundreds of customers of more than $665 million.”

    Bloom, 59, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2015. At the time, Patch reported Bloom’s case was the largest financial fraud case ever prosecuted in the Federal Court of Chicago. His firm collapsed in 2007. Bloom’s sentence was to end in May 2026 reports Chicago Tribune.

    Bloom was convicted in 2014 of 18 counts of wire fraud and one count of investment adviser fraud after a four-week trial in U.S. District Court. Between January 2003 and August 2007, Bloom fraudulently obtained and retained under management more than $1 billion of customers’ funds.

    Mr. Bloom obviously took the advice to “never steal anything small” to heart.

    One might almost admire the sheer brazen criminality and no-fucks-to-give audacity of Dark Brandon shamelessly pardoning so many big-time crooks, were it not for the distinct possibility that he wasn’t even aware of who he was pardoning, and the same cabal who have been running his White House are the ones who have actually been racking off the bribes for selling presidential indulgences…

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    Library Addition: Signed Easton Press Edition of Trent Lott’s Herding Cats

    December 15th, 2024

    This is a particularly lazy blog post, and I usually save my book geeking for the other blog, but this is a political book addition, so here it is:

    Lott, Trent Herding Cats. Easton Press, 2005. First limited edition hardback, #1,206 of 1,600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with just a tiny bit of the gilt on the “G” in “SIGNED FIRST EDITION” slightly worn away, sans dust jacket, as issued, with certificate of authenticity and card-stock book note laid in.

    Easton Press specializes in leatherbound, gilt-edged editions (og which this is a nice example), some billed as “First Editions,” along with a classic reprint line. Their “first editions” are usually close to simultaneous with the trade editions (in this case ReganBooks); if their political books are anything like their science fiction line, usually the author gets the books slightly before the trade edition, while subscribers get the book slightly after the trade edition’s “laydown date.” They’re attractive productions that look good on the shelf, but they’re generally not “collectable” in the sense that a fair majority of them can usually be had for less than the offering price. I don’t know what the offering price on this was in 2005, but if it’s anything like the science fiction line, probably somewhere between $50-70. This copy I bought for $15 plus shipping off eBay. Bought that cheaply, it’s probably not going to lose any value (though 1,600 is generally too large a “signed limited edition” to be collectable for all but a handful of authors), and I am interested in the subject matter. Ditto for Robert Caro’s Master of the Senate, which I also have.

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    The Case Of The Missing 15,000,000

    December 14th, 2024

    From Russiagate to the uselessness of masks to Hunter Biden’s laptop, the pattern we’ve all come to recognize is Democrat-controlled institutions lying to our face about something, then accusing people of being “conspiracy theorists” when people question the false narrative. Time after time, the “conspiracy theorists” were proven right.

    So let’s hear Townhall’s Larry O’Connor talk about those missing 15,000,000 Biden votes from the 2020 Presidential election.

  • “It appears that upwards to 15 million or more Americans have been abducted.”
  • Then he shows The Chart.

  • “Starting all the way to the left, with Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, and you can see there that Barack Obama just got over about 66 million votes. Then four years later, Hillary Clinton [got] about the same about 66 million votes as Barack Obama did. And then we get to 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Joe Biden got, of course, famously, 82 million votes which is you know the difference of about 15-16 million votes.”
  • “That would be about 15 million votes that we believe disappeared. Because when you come back to this presidential election, you can see that Kamala Harris once again returns to form and gets that same sort of 66 million that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did.”
  • “We saw this drastic drop all of a sudden this year, where the same number of voters in 2012, 2016 and 2024 all voted for a Democrat. But there’s that that outlier Joe Biden.”
  • “They were either abducted by aliens, or they got taken up to heaven by Jesus in The Rapture, or the people suddenly became apathetic about politics, where they rallied to vote in 2020 but now they don’t care.”
  • “They loved Joe Biden so much that they came out of the woodwork by the level of 15 million, but then they don’t like Kamala Harris, so they’re just going to sit it out?”
  • “Or our last option is that they never actually existed in the first place. The people didn’t exist. The ballots certainly existed, but not the people.”

  • “Total votes cast: 2004, 121 million. 2008, big year, Barack Obama caught fire, built a huge momentum behind him, and people got excited about making history. That increased by about 8 million [129 million]. 2012 it went down a bit about two million, two and a half million [126 million]. 2016, we’re back up around the same level. Total votes cast 128 million, which is about the same as it was in 2008.”
  • “You pop down to 2024, again, slight increase about 129 million again, which puts us back to the Barack Obama levels.”
  • “But then it was four years ago. Four years ago you’re looking at total votes cast 155 million. Have we ever seen anything like this before?”
  • “Is there any possible explanation to that? Are we to believe that that many people wanted to vote in 2020, and only 2020, and then this year they just shrugged and said, ‘Ah, forget about it?'”
  • “Are you telling me that with a billion dollars in the bank, Kamala Harris only focusing on seven states, the same seven states, by the way, that Joe Biden focused on four years ago, that they were that inept?”
  • “This is criminal malpractice in the world of politics, that they were that incompetent that with a billion dollars, they couldn’t get out that vote?”
  • “Somebody posted going back to 1984…Bellweather counties in America are seen as counties that [the] way these counties vote generally speaking reflect the way the presidential election will go.” Rather than O’Connor describing the chart, here’s the chart itself:

    That seems…statistically unlikely.

  • “Donald Trump won every single one of those counties except for one. And yet that year (2020), the only year since 1984 the winner of these bellweather counties, which was Donald Trump, did not become the eventual winner of the Electoral College, the only one. And then we go to this last election, and you can see [in] 2024 Donald Trump won 88% of the counties, Kamala Harris won only two of them, and he was eventually the president.”
  • “So 2020 is the outlier. It’s the only year that Joe Biden ends up being the president, the winner of the Electoral College, by only winning 6% of these bellweather counties, just one of them, just one county, and it happened to be in his home state of Delaware.”
  • Roseanne Barr: “They still think Biden got 81 million votes at 4 a.m. Trump’s the most popular candidate of all time. He won three elections, two handily in a row.”
  • “It’s a fair observation. In fact, it’s hard not to reach this conclusion.”
  • “I’m curious as to how anyone is looking at these numbers and not asking this question.”

    • Democrats have been confronted by a whole lot of difficult truths following this election: A majority of Americans dislike their party, people hate wokeness, and Joe Biden was just as senile and corrupt as Republicans have argued all along.

    Now they should face up to the fact that President Lol81million’s 2020 “victory” was due to massive voter fraud.

    Just like all of us said four years ago.

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    How Do You Miss Six Shots From Five Feet Away?

    December 13th, 2024

    The Secret Service agent that engaged the would-be Trump golf course assassin missed six shots despite being five feet away.

    How does that even happen? How can even you even miss from that close?

    I’m an adequate shot (not a Secret Service agent who presumably visits a shooting range every month), but I don’t think I could miss a human target from that range. Even if they were prone, behind a bush, next to a chain link fence.

    I doubt any of my armed friends would miss either

    That’s like the scene from Pulp Fiction:

    Karl Rehn occasionally does some A/B testing for shooters at his range based on site picture, type of sights/red dot/etc. I would like to see him do some testing to see just how much you would need to distract even a semi-competent shooter to start missing a human target from 6 feet away. Mild electric shocks? A tuba solo directly behind them? A bright strobe light? 10 cans of Red Bull?

    I wonder just how much distraction it would take for them to turn into as poor a shooter as this highly trained Secret Service agent.

    I just hope they’re tasking the agent with gobs of range time before they work their next Trump detail…

    (Note: No LinkSwarm today, as I’ve been too busy finishing up my latest book catalog. Maybe Monday…)

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    Diversity != Strength

    December 12th, 2024

    The ritual cliche invoked by the social justice left is that “diversity is strength.” But as the Irish mother in the video notes, importing waves of unassimilated foreigners into local communities doesn’t strengthen them at all.

  • “You have not seen what was coming yet, and I have.”
  • “Where I live is about 85% foreign nationals. I can walk down the street on any given day, walk into the supermarket, and I don’t hear an Irish conversation. I hear foreign people everywhere.”
  • “My child is one of 30 children in her class, and she’s the only Irish child. She came home crying from school a few weeks ago because she doesn’t understand what any of her friends are saying. The children revert back to their own languages when they’re not being taught. She literally cannot understand the conversations around her.”
  • They cancelled Halloween because some foreign children might get offended.
  • “I don’t go for a walk around the park during the day with my child anymore. I have a big dog and I don’t go for a walk by myself anymore. I very rarely leave my house, because where I live is so unsafe.”
  • “That is the reality that you’re facing if you don’t make a stand. And I understand it’s really really hard to, you know, be called names and all of these things. But you have to stand up on behalf of your children and the future of the country.”

    • Immigrants should come to a country to assimilate with it, not to colonize it. As in the US, EU elite have decreed that ordinary citizens of various European countries that the Brussels elite will never interact with must bear the burden of unassimilated immigration due to elite desire for cheap labor and the need to change the composition of the electorate they claim to operate on behalf of.

    Stand up or be washed away.

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    Biden: I’m Going To Force Taxpayers To Pay For Illegal Alien Healthcare. Federal Judge: Like Hell You Will

    December 11th, 2024

    Another day, another defeating for for the lame duck Biden Administration, this one on forcing taxpayers to pay for illegal alien’s ObamaCare.

    A federal judge has blocked a Biden-Harris administration rule that required health insurance coverage for those brought across the border illegally as children.

    Texas and 18 other Republican-led states sued the federal government over the rule, which allowed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to enroll in a federally run health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act.

    DACA is an Obama-era program that delays the deportation of those who arrived in the U.S. illegally as minors.

    The 19 states argued that the Biden rule encourages illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. and forces legal citizens to contribute funds for their health care.

    On Monday, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor agreed with the states and halted the rule, citing federal law that prohibits giving public benefits to those who are not legal citizens.

    Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, whose office spearheaded the lawsuit, called the decision “a big win for the rule of law.”

    “Congress never intended that illegal aliens should receive Obama care benefits,” Kobach posted on X. “Indeed, two laws prohibit them from receiving such benefits.”

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton applauded the decision on social media.

    Just as ObamaCare was a Trojan Horse to enable government takeover of health care, DACA “dreamers” were a Trojan horse to soften American opposition to the Democratic Party’s policy of importing illegal aliens in America. Of course, the Obama holdovers decided they didn’t need popular opinion on their side and just opened the floodgates to every illegal alien gang-banger who could make it across the border.

    One by one, the illegal rules enacted by the Biden Administration to decontrol the border and normalize and subsidize illegal aliens are falling by the wayside. Let’s hope Trump47 kicks that process up into overdrive.

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    Will Democrats Allow Illegal Alien Criminals To Be Deported?

    December 10th, 2024

    The incoming Trump47 administration has made it clear that they intend to start deporting illegal aliens with criminal illegal aliens.

    Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan revealed that ridding the United States of violent criminal organizations like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 is going to be a “major priority” of the incoming Trump administration.

    “So this is going to be a huge operation,” Homan said in a Fox News interview. “I’m looking forward to getting it started. I haven’t started the operation yet, but I have already worked with the Texas governor on the plans and the Texas border czar.”

    Homan also argued that sanctuary cities should allow immigration officials to enter jails and conduct removals of violent criminals already in captivity, rather than waiting until the criminal is released back onto the streets.

    “So let us in the jail,” he said. “It’s safer for everybody and it’s the right thing to do.”

    In addition to meeting with Texas officials, Homan said that he has discussed plans with New York Mayor Eric Adams as well as hundreds of sheriffs across the country.

    “The National Sheriffs Association is ready to go to work with us. So, January 20, game on,” he concluded.

    I think that deporting criminal illegal aliens is a strategy pretty much all sane Americans agree with. Unfortunately, the woke-led Democrats are not sane. The Biden Administration refused to deport illegal alien felons despite the widespread unpopularity of that position, and to social justice warriors, national borders and law and order are both part and parcel of “white supremacy.” Notice how the left raged a law-abiding citizens like Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny daring to defend themselves against murderous criminals.

    The Law and Order issue is one that has bit Democrats on the ass again and again, from the 1988 Presidential race to the 1993 New York City mayoral race to a whole lot of 2024 DA races. Slightly saner Democrats like New York City Mayor Eric Adams have recognized and changed course on illegal alien criminal deportations. But while the radical left, Democrat/Soros-backed soft-on-crime policies are deeply unpopular with the American electorate as a whole, they’re still a key tenant of the poisonous woke ideology that animates the ideological core of the Democratic Party.

    There’s majority approval for deporting illegal aliens, and overwhelming support for deporting criminal illegal aliens. Will Democrats heed the will of the American people, or their woke radical activists?

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