Tag: politics

Hey, America is just an idea held by immigrants, right? How are “borders” even relevant these days? They’re just an arbitrary line on a map, right? They don’t even exist!

Elizabeth Warren has an immigration plan. Here are the highlights:

• Decriminalizes unauthorized immigration and returns to the civil enforcement we had before George Bush began Operation Streamline.
• Eliminates abusive immigration enforcement and keeps law enforcement at arms length from CBP and ICE.
• Reduces and reforms immigrant detention.
• Reforms immigration courts.
• Raises the refugee cap to 125,000 and affirms refugee protections.
• Reforms legal immigration and creates a path to citizenship.

This is a curious plan. As near as I can tell, it recommends no actions to improve border law enforcement in any way. There’s nothing about either a wall or a “virtual wall.” There’s nothing about E-Verify. There’s nothing about “smarter” or “more efficient” enforcement. No one will ever be deported—except, presumably, for serious felons, though Warren doesn’t even say that explicitly. Expedited removal will be ended. The Border Patrol will be reshaped from “top to bottom,” and will focus their efforts on “homeland security efforts like screening cargo, identifying counterfeit goods, and preventing smuggling and trafficking.” The whole thing is very similar to Julian Castro’s plan.

I have previously criticized Republicans who accused liberals of wanting “open borders.” President Trump tweets about this endlessly. But I have to admit that it’s hard to see much daylight between Warren’s plan and de facto open borders.

The Trumpslide cometh.

The Labor Secretary steps down over the outraged response to the 2006 Epstein plea bargain:

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is resigning just days after he defended his role in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Acosta announced that he would leave the administration a week from now as he and President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday.

Trump brought Acosta out to break the news to journalists as he left the White House for Wisconsin, capping off a week rocked by new federal charges against Epstein in New York for trafficking underage girls.

In a more just world, he’d also be prosecuted. Whether there was undue pressure from on high or not, the fact that he doesn’t seem to understand why the deal was so obscenely wrong is deeply troublesome. And I can’t say I’m terribly impressed with President Trump’s response here, although I’ve learned to take his public statements with very large grains of salt.

But his resignation is the right thing to do at the moment, so there is that.

Cerno moves his sights onto the sexual harassers in Congress:

For decades members of Congress would use your taxpayer dollars to buy their way out of bad publicity.

When a member of Congress was accused of sexual harassment, the case went to a secret court known as the Office of Compliance. Hidden from public view, Congress’s Office of Compliance paid out over $17 million for 264 settlements involving misconduct and sexual harassment.

It is time to Unseal the Deals!

If you’ve ever doubted Mike was on the side of the Good, the Beautiful, and the True, recent events should suffice to convince you otherwise. You can back his legal efforts here.

Meanwhile, the worldwide crackdown on deviant child predators continues.

Norwegian police have uncovered yet another network of pedophiles, this one operating with such advanced technology that they went undetected for the past 20 years. Now a gay male Norwegian couple is under arrest and police have seized several million photos and videos of assaults on young boys from around the world.

State broadcaster NRK reported Tuesday evening that the seizure made in the home of the couple now ranks as the largest of its kind in Norway. “I’ve never encountered this sort of volume before, or such professionalism,” Police Lt Fredy Salazar, who leads investigations into electronic crime for the Oslo Police District, told NRK.

Notice that celebrities are involved – of course – and that “their goal was to normalize sex between grown men and young boys”. That’s what “pride” and “gay rights” are all about. That’s what they have always been all about.

7. Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.

If you want to see the rapid dismantling of the European Union, the selection of the “minister of the lack of defense” as the President of the European Commission is an almost ideal choice:

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen is slated to lead the EU’s executive for five years. A model centrist liberal politician with a dubious record of overseeing Germany’s troubled military, she’s facing rough waters to navigate.

The long-serving German defense chief has all of a sudden come to the forefront as a future head of the European Union’s executive branch. That might be a little unexpected, as she was not even on the list of potential candidates until recently. Yet, after marathon debates the European leaders agreed that she would be the best fit for the position previously held by Jean-Claude Juncker.

Von der Leyen is a political veteran and the only person to have held a ministerial position in all four successive governments of Chancellor Angela Merkel since the German leader first came to power back in 2005.

Minister of lack of defense

Yet, her ministerial record is far from flawless. Over the past six years, during which von der Leyen headed the Defense Ministry, Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, have become a steady source of news about planes that can’t fly, tanks that break down, and vessels that are unfit for maritime operations….

Despite the mounting problems within her domain, von der Leyen has consistently supported the idea of an increased German military presence in foreign nations, sending German troops for peacekeeping missions to countries like Somalia, South Sudan and Mali. In 2016, Germany toed the line to join the US-led coalition fighting in Syria and Iraq. In March 2018, she told the German forces stationed in Afghanistan that her ministry does not plan to bring them home anytime soon – just after Berlin decided to ramp up the troop numbers in the war-torn country.

During her tenure as labor minister, von der Leyen lobbied for lower barriers to immigration, arguing that Germany needs a larger workforce. Two years later, at the height of the refugee crisis, she lashed out at the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his restrictive asylum policies by saying that his actions were “not acceptable” and violated “the European rules.”

She is also a strong proponent of deep European integration. In 2011, she said she would like to see the emergence of a “United States of Europe” built on the example of Germany or the US, which are both federal states.

She’s incompetent, imperious, and completely out of touch with the average European. Which suggests that by the end of her term, Italy, Hungary, and at least two other countries will either be out of the EU or in the process of leaving. You know von der Leyen is going to be exceptionally good for the nationalists of Europe when even a strongly pro-EU German newspaper like Bild describes the selection of a German politician to lead the EU as ‘horrifically short-sighted’.

It looks like Creepy Joe is all but done already in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination:

Former Vice President Joe Biden lost one of his top fundraisers after controversial comments regarding his work with past segregationists and his flip-flop on repealing the Hyde Amendment, CNBC has learned.

Tom McInerney, a veteran San Francisco based lawyer, informed Biden’s team on June 20 that he can no longer help him raise campaign cash to compete in the 2020 presidential election. “I had actually let the campaign known I’d pulled back my support of Biden for now,” McInerney told CNBC. “I don’t think he did well last night,” he added, reflecting on Biden’s debate performance on Thursday night.

While McInerney is the first financier to publicly withdraw his support after Biden’s controversial round of comments, the loss is significant because it could be a harbinger of further defections.

“I would imagine I’m not alone,” said McInerney, who was a lead bundler for President Barack Obama in his first run for president. He helped Obama’s campaign raise at least $200,000 throughout that cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Democrats are the party of Diversity. It’s only right that their candidate properly represent all the Diversity and Vibrancy and Inclusivity for which they stand.

On the other hand, President Trump would be much more able to run against the lunatic Democratic program if he couldn’t so readily be accused of following an Israel First program:

President Trump blasted the contestants in the second Democratic presidential debate on Thursday when they all declared their support for health care coverage for undocumented immigrants.

All of the candidates — including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg — raised their hands when asked by an NBC moderator if they would support a health care plan that would cover undocumented immigrants.

“All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare,” Trump wrote on Twitter from Japan, where he is to attend the G20 Summit.

“How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!”

How about it, Mr. President? Israel has a wall. Where is America’s big, beautiful wall? What ever happened to America First? Still, the ineptitude is astonishing.

Moderator: If you can only get one issue through, what would it be?

• Swallwell: Ending gun violence.
• Bennett: Climate change, and the lack of economic mobility.
• Gillibrand: “Family Bill of Rights,” paid-leave plan, universal pre-K, daycare.
• Kamala Harris: Tax cut for middle/working class. DACA. Guns.
• Bernie: “We need a political revolution against the special interests!”
• Biden: Defeat Trump.
• Buttigieg: “Fix our democracy, before it’s too late.”
• Yang: $1,000 Freedom Dividend for every American adult, starting at age 18.
• Hickenlooper: Climate change.
• Williamson: I admire the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

The media doesn’t want to talk about Google being busted for interfering illegally in the US presidential election:

The liberal corporate media has totally ignored the explosive Google exposé by Project Veritas revealing systemic efforts by the tech company to prevent President Trump from getting reelected in 2020.

CNN, WaPo, CNBC, HuffPost, The New York Times, Vox, Vice, Newsweek, Politico, and even The Daily Beast haven’t written a single piece on the devastating evidence presented by a Google whistleblower and undercover footage of a Google executive discussing how to algorithmically manipulate the 2020 presidential election.

Regardless of what one thinks of Project Veritas, the damning information they revealed is extremely relevant and newsworthy, and confirms numerous instances of anti-competitive censorship practices by Google. The media still remained silent even after a member of Congress, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), addressed the bombshell Google exposé on Twitter.

“Google should not be deciding whether content is important or trivial and they most assuredly should not be meddling in our election process. They need their immunity stripped,” he wrote.

My father was investigated for an extended period of time by the Federal Election Commission because he published an impartial and very well-regarded election guide for the 1990 Minnesota elections called People & Politics. I still remember having to walk the gauntlet of the news cameras camping out at the company offices. He was finally cleared of any wrongdoing, but they harassed him for YEARS over that. What Project Veritas has revealed is evidence of a MAJOR series of crimes that have been committed by Google and its employees.

This isn’t a protest vote. This isn’t the European elections. This is an actual vote for a Member of Parliament. The stupid stubbornness of the Remainers in the Conservative Party and their false appeals to the absolute need for EU approval in the name of a deal may end up relegating the party to third-party status.

Predictions based on the latest polls show the Conservatives losing 264 seats, which would mean they wouldn’t even win enough seats in Parliament to give the Brexit Party a majority in a coalition government.

Even left-wing Danes want Denmark to remain Denmark:

Denmark goes to the polls in a general election today, with the centre-left Social Democrats predicted to win after adopting the right wing’s long-standing tough stance on immigration.

Opinion polls put the party, led by Mette Frederiksen, at 27.2 per cent, a comfortable lead of almost 10 percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s ruling Liberal Party, which has been in power for 14 of the last 18 years.

The polls also indicate that the far-right Danish People’s Party, which has informally supported Rasmussen’s minority government, could lose almost half its support, shrinking to 10.7 per cent. For the last two decades the anti-immigrant party has supported successive right-wing governments in exchange for the implementation of their restrictive immigration policies. But as those policies have now been broadly adopted by almost all Danish parties, the Danish People’s Party has lost its unique appeal with voters.

Right and Left are now irrelevant. Immigration and identity are the first and foremost issue because it is an existential crisis. What difference does a difference of opinion on optimal tax rates make to a nonexistent people? A nation can survive communism and socialism and dictatorship, but it cannot survive excessive immigration nor can it long abide rule by foreigners.

As Matteo Salvini has demonstrated, an alliance with left-wing nationalists is the best way to save a nation from destruction by invasion.

This is a hilarious consequence of one of the BBC’s talking heads pushing the false narrative about the recent European elections:

Alastair Campbell was today expelled from Labour after he admitted he had not voted for the party for first time in his life, in disgust at the party’s stance on Europe. Tony Blair’s former spin doctor said he had backed Liberal Democrats at the European elections last Thursday because he wants to stop Brexit.

Hitting back at Corbyn and his leadership he said: ‘To all the Labour staff, MPs, peers and councillors who told me they were not voting Labour fear not; as I believe in loyalty to the tribe, your secrets are safe with me’.

The Labour leadership threw him out of the party over his vote – but Mr Campbell will appeal saying Jeremy Corbyn was never expelled despite spending years voting against Labour in Parliament from the backbenches.

He tweeted: ‘Sad and disappointed to receive email expelling me from @UKLabour – particularly on a day leadership finally seems to be moving to the right place on Brexit, not least thanks to tactical voting by party members, including MPs, councillors and peers who back a people’s vote.

So much for the idea that Remain actually won, or that a vote for Change UK is a vote for Labour.