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Will the Democrats Survive this Year’s Election?
By Mark C. Ross
Corporate Media on Housing Crisis: Don’t Mention Mass Migration
US citizens competing for housing with illegals.
by Andrew Moran | Jun 10, 2024 |
For years, there has been a debate surrounding the mass migration cost to US taxpayers. In January, the Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement projected that federal and state governments have spent nearly $151 billion on illegal aliens in the past year, be it welfare payments or incarcerating migrants. With the US economy facing a barrage of miniature fires, experts are determining how much mass migration affects kitchen table issues, such as the housing crisis or the US labor market.
The reality is that the inconvenient truth is not something the mainstream media desires to hear or report to the masses.
Mass Migration and Housing Affordability
The American Dream of homeownership is fading, and finding an apartment to rent that does not consume more than 30% of your earnings is like discovering a four-leaf clover. Last year, only 16% of home listings were classed as “affordable” due to a paucity of supply and strengthening demand, forcing intense competition in the housing market. With more people flooding the southern border, US citizens are fighting for single-family homes and two-bedroom apartments against individuals who have illegally entered the country.
Economists, market watchers, and even the Federal Reserve have noticed this trend occurring in both the United States and across the globe.
In a May interview with The Telegraph, Minneapolis Fed head Neel Kashkari conceded that a “dramatic increase in immigration” has put tremendous pressure on the housing sector, particularly after years of underbuilding. He told the UK newspaper:
“We under-built after the great financial crisis, we under-built homes in the US for more than a decade. So there’s a shortage of homes.
“And then you have an increased demand for housing after Covid. More people are working from home. It seems like that increased demand for housing for the existing population. And then we have a big surge in immigration in the last few years. They obviously need a place to live.
“All of these factors could be propping up demand for housing.”
Indeed, industry estimates suggest the country will need as many as six million new housing units to restore some semblance of affordability. So far, the data indicating whether the US is close to achieving these numbers are mixed. As a result, tight inventories will persist for the foreseeable future – the input costs to build new housing have surged 30% in the last three years – and $400,000 homes at a 5% to 6% mortgage rate will be the norm.
Goldman Sachs noted last year that the post-crisis recovery in immigration, which has supported population growth, has also lifted housing demand and limited declines in home prices. Experts at Bloomberg Economics explained in April that “housing shortages and associated cost-of-living strains are a common thread” in advanced economies that have witnessed per-capita recessions.
But while mass migration has impacted affordable housing, it has also worsened major urban centers’ shelter situations. From New York City to Chicago, the immense increase in the numbers of illegal aliens has applied additional pressure on systems that are already stretched to the limit. These cities have tens of thousands of homeless people and are now experiencing an influx of migrants.
Ultimately, US households and the homeless are competing for roofs and shelters with illegals.
Illegals Inflating Employment Data?
Liberty Nation has reported on the divergence between US- and foreign-born workers in the monthly jobs data. While there have been enormous fluctuations in the non-farm payrolls report, it can be concluded that foreigners have enjoyed impressive employment growth, outpacing US citizens. This has captured the attention of other groups, including the Center for Immigration Studies, which stated, “There were still 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans working in the fourth quarter of 2023 than in the fourth quarter of 2019, before Covid. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019.”
It has been repeatedly purported that undocumented migrants will do the work that Americans do not want. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated earlier this year that illegal immigrants are necessary to pick vegetables and keep them from rotting. Other economists and organizations admit that the influx of migrants has helped keep inflation in check, prevented prices from rising further, and allowed the US labor market to flourish since the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
Will the Open-Border Policy Backfire?
The United States is stuck in the middle of a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, a housing affordability crisis and a cooling labor market could foster resentment among the populace, backfiring on politicians endorsing open borders. Conversely, federal and state governments need more bodies to fund entitlements, plug gaping budget deficits, and generate more votes at the ballot box. The extent to which mass migration is harming the typical American family is not reported on in detail by the left-wing big-box because they are still pretending there is no illegal immigration crisis.
https://www.libertynation.com/corporate-media-on-housing-crisis-dont-mention-mass-migration/
California Businesses Continue to Flee Progressive Policies
The Golden State is losing its luster.
by James Fite | Jun 10, 2024
Folks have been heading west to California in search of their fortunes since John Sutter and James W. Marshall first found gold in 1849. People have dreamed of striking it rich ever since, whether in an actual gold mine, or, in more recent history, either in Hollywood or Silicon Valley. Perhaps that’s why West Coast politicians seem so oblivious to the disastrous effects of their regulations. But nothing lasts forever, and for the business owners on the wrong end of those progressive policies, the Golden State is losing its luster.
Celebrity chef Andrew Gruel is just the latest to fold under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s anti-business regime. The Food Network judge recently announced he would keep one of his restaurants – and one only – in California. The rest, he’ll franchise out in other states. “I will not open another business in California until they actually fix things on a go-forward basis,” Gruel said.
Far From the First – And Probably Not the Last
A new law went into effect in April that raises the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour. It applies to any restaurant that has at least 60 locations nationwide, with the exception of those that make and sell their own bread. There’s an interesting story behind that odd carve out: Gavin Newsom fought for this caveat in the final form of the minimum wage increase, and Greg Flynn, an old friend and mega-donor for the governor, owns two dozen Panera Bread restaurants in California. But the so-called Paneragate scandal is another story.
Fast-food restaurants across the state began laying off workers and closing locations weeks – months, in some cases – before the law went into effect. Michael Ojeda, a 29-year-old delivery driver who had worked at Pizza Hut for nearly a decade, told The Wall Street Journal that he was given notice in December 2023 that his last day would be in February. Multiple Pizza Hut franchises dropped their delivery services entirely, and more than a thousand delivery drivers have lost their jobs because of it. Southern California Pizza Co. alone cut 841 positions in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernadino, Riverside, and Ventura counties.
Brian Horn, who owns two Vitality Bowls restaurants in San Jose, said he has cut his crews from four workers per store to two. “I’m definitely not going to hire anymore,” he said. Rubio’s Coastal Grill is now closing 48 locations across California due to the “rising cost of doing business in the state.” Other locations in nearby states, however, remain open. And of course they would – there’s no requirement to pay those restaurant workers a wage that would have been considered exceptional even for many factory jobs not that long ago. Mod Pizza and Fosters Freeze both closed locations, as well. Larger chains, like Chipotle, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Chick-fil-A, are keeping workers, but making up the difference by raising menu prices.
From California Dream to Fiscal Nightmare
From closing locations and cutting crews to raising prices and reducing products and services, California businesses are reacting precisely as anyone with a basic understanding of economics knew they would. Most folks go into business to make money – so, of course, companies seek to stop the loss of profit. It’s a tale as old as time: When the cost of doing business increases, it’s the customers or the employees – or both – who pay for it in the end.
Every minimum wage increase is accompanied by sharp price inflation within a matter of a few months. A gallon of milk doesn’t appear in the grocery store magically. Someone had to milk a cow. Someone else cared for and fed that cow, and other folks along the way processed the milk, packaged it (never mind the manufacturing of the container itself), loaded it onto a truck, and then drove it to the store, where yet more employees who have to be paid no less than the minimum wage unloaded the truck, stocked the shelves, and then ring it up at the check-out line.
In 2000, the California minimum wage was $5.75 an hour. Outside of fast food, it’s $11 an hour now. The average price of milk was $2.78 per gallon back in 2000, but it was $4.36 in 2023. Bread went from an average of $1.50 a loaf to $4.03 – $5.08 if you’re unlucky enough to be shopping in Los Angeles. Now, apply a similar price conversion to every single item you buy. Is it any wonder the bigger numbers on today’s paychecks feel like less money than back then? There may be more dollars each payday, but the loss of buying power has far outstripped the raises.
And then, of course, there’s all the people who got the “raise to $0 an hour.” It doesn’t matter much what the minimum wage is to the unemployed. And those who can’t find work either end up homeless or wards of the state on tax-funded “welfare.” As Liberty Nation’s Kelli Ballard reported, California had the nation’s highest unemployment rate – 5.3% – back in February, months before the $20 minimum wage took effect. The state also went from nearly a $100 billion surplus just a couple of years ago (though much of that was federal COVID relief funds) to a $38 billion deficit this year. One shudders to think what those numbers will be in February 2025.
Businesses have been fleeing California to more corporate-friendly climes for several years thanks to the progressive (read: oppressive) taxes and other business regulations – but each time the state squeezes tighter, more companies squish out, either packing up and moving or closing down entirely.
https://www.libertynation.com/california-businesses-continue-to-flee-progressive-policies/
The 2024 Presidential Campaign Revives the Hillary Playbook
It’s back to the future.
by Tim Donner | Jun 10, 2024 |
By now, we have gotten used to this – Hillary Clinton inserting her foot firmly in her mouth. This time, she compared a potential victory by Donald Trump and his deplorable supporters in November to a Nazi triumph in World War II: “Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. This November, all we have to do is vote,” the 2016 presidential loser declared on her X account.
Hillary just keeps embarrassing herself, and on the world stage, no less. It brings back into vivid view her own dismal, joyless presidential campaign eight years ago – and how it appears increasingly relevant to the current campaign. Like Joe Biden calling Trump supporters semi-fascists, Clinton felt so entitled and so certain of vanquishing Donald Trump that she casually insulted half the country as not just deplorable, but worse, irredeemable. It still stands as arguably the biggest mistake in American political history.
Hillary was positive she would finally receive her just reward and glide into the first female presidency, knowing that if there were trouble, a friendly corporate media would simply help her close the deal in creating the specter of a hellish, dystopian landscape in the event of the unthinkable, a Trump victory. In her mind, even a shocking, widespread electoral spasm would not prevent her from winning. But of course, it did.
The more you consider the campaign now being conducted by Joe Biden, the more it appears like a back-to-the-future replay of 2016. The president seems to be reading from Clinton’s playbook: scaring the bejesus out of the voters while vilifying his despised opponent, Donald Trump – all the while hoping Trump’s defeat of Hillary was a black swan event, unrepeatable once the voters realize just how destructive Donald Trump really is. In 2020, they ran against Trump’s record and effectively pinned the blame on him for COVID-related death and destruction. This time, with Biden on the ropes and ready for a standing eight count, they are forced to resort to the same failed strategy of 2016.
But there is one thing very different this time around. Trump took the Democrats by surprise in his first run at the White House. They did not take the bombastic billionaire seriously until it was too late, and they were then forced to concoct scandals – think Russia collusion, et al. – to take him down before ultimately relying on the chaos surrounding the pandemic to liberalize voting laws and push basement-bound Joe Biden across the finish line. But now, like eight years ago but unlike four years ago, the pandemic is not an issue, there is no act of God so substantially favoring the Democrats, and Biden no longer has the advantage of having no record. The president has a record, alright, but he has so little confidence in running on it that he has been reduced to trance-channeling the most famous loser in American political history.
Another difference is the capacity of Biden to communicate any sort of coherent message. Hillary may have conducted a sub-par campaign, but she could at least sound lucid, raise a crowd, and appear energetic. Not so the current president. Worse still, Biden will only get older, and his condition won’t get any better.
As a result, most informed observers agree that going scorched earth is the only strategy Biden has left. His argument is the same as the one Hillary laid out in her infamous deplorables speech: “I am all that stands between you and the apocalypse.” His argument is fortified, he believes, by his newfound ability to add the cherished label of “convicted felon” to the political lexicon. The 46th president is hoping against hope that the one element voters cannot seem to accept about him will not be decisive.
The Single Disqualifying Factor in a Presidential Race
Indeed, Trump’s conviction does not change the one fact that stands between Joe Biden and a second term, and it has nothing to do with his unpopular policies. More than four out of five, 86%, of respondents in a recent ABC News poll believe Biden is “too old” to serve another four years. This does not even account for the likely prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris ultimately rising to commander-in-chief when Biden runs entirely out of gas.
New banner Memo - From the Desk of Senior Political Analyst Tim Donner 1The word ‘too’ in “too old” implies disqualification. In other words, respondents are not just saying “his age is a factor,” or “his age of 81 is more worrying than Trump at 77,” or that his age/condition/appearance is a liability to be weighed against his assets. It means these voters have all but disqualified Joe Biden. Add all the usual caveats – things can change, Biden could rise, Trump could fall or blow it from here – but even if voter attitudes undergo a seismic shift on all the issues where Biden is well underwater, he is still going to present as, in the famous words of US attorney Robert Hur, an elderly man with a poor memory. Fun at the Thanksgiving table, perhaps, but not, according to Hur’s pivotal assessment among many others, up to continuing as the leader of the free world.
If an editor at Liberty Nation says a story is “too long,” for example, that doesn’t mean it will be accepted anyway. It means it will not be published in its present form. But, while any story can be truncated in any number of ways to make it ready for publication, there is absolutely nothing Joe Biden can do to fix the problem of his age and cognitive condition. Instead, outside of pure partisans and Trump-haters, his ability to actually perform his job is a factor nothing else is likely to outweigh. Evidently, this has Biden feeling trapped, and only a teardown of Donald Trump will allow him to escape.
Hillary Biden or Joe Clinton?
Another similarity in character to Mrs. Clinton is Biden’s inability to sustain a proper decision. Exhibit A is that on October 8, this president offered up a full-throated defense of Israel, but soon took to appeasing the pro-Hamas radicals, leaving both sides utterly dissatisfied, as evidenced by a massive anti-Israel protest demonizing Biden outside the White House over the weekend. It’s not unlike Hillary, who even when she does the right thing, cannot sustain it. After properly conceding to Trump on the morning after Election Day in 2016, she later reversed field and called him “an illegitimate president,” among other pejoratives, adding that “he knows” he stole the election. So we can be all but certain that will also happen again in the event of another Trump victory eight years later – and the irony of Democrats whining ex-post-facto about an illegitimate election, the same charge they have repeatedly leveled against Trump, will hardly be lost on the citizenry.
But there is another part of history that Biden might fear to replicate. In 1980 as now, another very unpopular president, Jimmy Carter, hung close to challenger Ronald Reagan for most of the campaign by depicting him as a risky, reckless extremist (see, it didn’t start with Trump). But in the final days leading up to the election, as voters focused on what another four years of the same would look like, the dam burst, with undecided and independent voters breaking heavily for Reagan, leading him to a 45-state sweep. At that point, Carter was 56 years old. Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term.
Unlike Reagan, Trump is already a known quantity as a former chief executive of the United States, dampening much of the most extreme rhetoric about his intentions. With Biden’s age and condition serving as disqualifying factors in the minds of so many, it seems the Democrats’ only path to victory this time is to claim Trump will do all the apocalyptic things Hillary warned he would do – but didn’t – the first time around, promising that he really means it this time. As both Trump and Biden said following the verdict heard ‘round the world in a Manhattan courtroom, the true judgment on the Biden presidency, and his Hillary-style, scorched-earth strategy that has vaulted Trump into the lead, will come on November 5.
https://www.libertynation.com/the-2024-presidential-campaign-revives-the-hillary-playbook/
If Wishes Were Fishes — a Teachable Intermezzo
“Together we can finish the job.” — “Joe Biden”
James Howard Kunstler
Jun 10, 2024
This is the most significant reality of the world picture now: the wishes of the manager class are going in one direction while the actual dynamics of economy and politics go in the opposite direction. The managers wish for their management of systems to become as centralized and top-down as possible; but the very systems they manage are breaking down and seeking to reorganize at smaller scale, distributed locally. The tension entailed is explosive.
Forgive me for reiterating a basic principle driving this moment in history: everything organized at the gigantic scale is steaming toward failure: big governments, giant companies, the huge capital investment firms, global shipping, energy production, chain retailing, mass motoring, big electricity, big medicine, big education, big anything. They are all fixing to fail while our politicians and economists make plans based on consolidating them into one super-gigantic mega-system that will run flawlessly on computer tech magic.
The failures of each giant system will only amplify and ramify the failures in all the other systems. Take that as axiomatic. For instance, the fantastic failures in higher education now on display, largely due to the Marxian defeat of excellence, will implant a generation of incompetents in all hierarchies of management. That will result in an insidious matrix of bad decision-making. The Pareto 80-20 principle will ensure that 80-percent of all institutional energy will focus on propping up failing institutions with bad decisions that add up to broken business models (while 20-percent goes into actually carrying-out the bad decisions as policy). That explains how Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation spent $7.5-billion to build seven electric car charging stations.
Similarly, if you have an urgent medical problem, the 80-percent of administrative clerks in your primary care doctor’s overgrown practice (with an assist from the health insurance company cohorts they must coordinate with) will actually manage to delay your treatment as long as possible, with a fair chance of disallowing it altogether. And if you happen to get treatment, there’s also an excellent chance you will be misdiagnosed and subjected to iatrogenic injury.
The 80-20 principle explains the stupendous mismanagement of the Covid-19 event, especially the “marketing” of mRNA vaccines as miracle remedies that turned out to be the opposite of beneficial. The result of that chain of bad decision-making will ensure that any widespread health crisis arising from the long-term effects of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines will destroy the hospital system. (It is already underway.) You can extrapolate that grandiose failure of competence to the World Health Organization and its efforts to orchestrate a new pandemic crisis.
You might have noticed that it is increasingly difficult to get replacement parts for any machine, most particularly cars. That’s a symptom of failure in several integrated systems that are breaking down now: the manufacture of products in distant lands, price disorder in the container-ship business, the collapse of the US trucking system (and with it, the just-in-time inventory model), and the inability of auto dealers to find competent mechanics (while the sinking middle class can no longer afford to buy the cars they sell under the most liberal financing schemes). Expect all that to intensify.
You’ll see similar dysfunction in the system that delivers food to the people of our country. Even as currently operating, with the supermarkets amply stocked, the triumph of poor decision-making has led to 80-percent of the products sold being some form of processed corn syrup and GMO grains marketed as “fun” snack-foods that have destroyed the health of a great many citizens (and overwhelmed the medical system with chronic illness). The breakdown of the US food system is now proceeding with idiotic policy from our government (actually every government in Western Civ is doing it) undermining farm operations, and most especially small farms, with egregious regulation. The pretext for this is the delusional hysteria over “climate change.” It gives the managers something to manage badly.
The large-scale farmers are also affected, of course, but their business model is already broken in other ways, mainly the gigantic cost of their “inputs” — fuel, fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, and borrowed money to get the crop in. Political and economic management has arranged matters so that, in theory, the failed small farmers will be consolidated into the giant farms (which are also failing), but you can see how that’s going to work out. Before long, allfarms will be unable to produce and, after a period of food shortage, perhaps famine, you will see the emergent reorganization of farming at the small scale minus the dead-weight of government regulation.
The dead weight will be gone because government will have destroyed its own legitimacy by making so many bad decisions that led to ramified systems failure of the kind described above. Government will also be starved operationally by the failure of its funding system (taxation) as its economists and their managerial counterparts in finance destroy our money via their remorseless attempts to create fake capital by main force (Modern Monetary Theory).
The upshot of all this is that actual dynamics in human affairs matter more than the grandiose wishes of mega-managers. They can wish for maximum control of everything all they want, but history is taking the world in another direction. Our broken systems for food, medicine, education, commerce will self-reorganize after a period of uncomfortable disorder, perhaps even epic disaster. I hope you see how this works.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/if-wishes-were-fishes-a-teachable?publication_id=2076970&post_id=145497799&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Biden’s DOJ comes for a doctor who revealed a hospital’s secret program ‘transing’ children
By Andrea Widburg
The media's latest talking point: That the Trump record was 'worse than inflation'
By Jack Hellner
Elon Musk’s Supreme Court petition is a window into how a leftist 'justice' system works
By Janice Edgar-West
Just when you thought the “swamp” judicial system could sink no lower, an Elon Musk-X petition to the Supreme Court reminds us about Jack Smith’s and a leftist judge’s complete disrespect for Americans’ constitutional freedom from intrusive government searches.
The information emerges in X Corp.’s petition for a writ of certiorari relating to a court order arising from a search warrant that special counsel, Mr. Jack Smith (yes, that one), served on X demanding data and records from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The problem from X’s viewpoint was an unusual attachment included with the warrant: A nondisclosure order blocking Twitter/X from disclosing to former President Trump the fact that the government had seized his records.
Imagine this scenario: You’re planning a trip, and because of several burglaries in your neighborhood, you ask your neighbor to store your important personal documents in his locked filing cabinet. While you’re gone, a court official armed with a search warrant goes to your neighbor to demand that he hand over copies of your documents.
The twist is that the official also demands, through a non-disclosure order that carries with it the threat of prosecution, that your neighbor may not reveal to you that the court has seized copies of all your documents. Sometime later, that same official indicts you. Only then do you learn that the documents you entrusted to your neighbor were seized and are being used as evidence against you.
Are you OK with this?
Well, neither is the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. One of the primary purposes of the Fourth Amendment is to curb unlimited prosecutorial warrants. X Corp also isn’t okay with it. Last week, X Corp petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a trial court order that allowed government prosecutors to include an enforceable non-disclosure order as part of a search warrant.
However, the government’s bad behavior isn’t limited to the non-disclosure agreement. When X originally challenged Smith’s order, arguing that it violated both X’s and President Trump’s First Amendment rights, as well as Trump’s executive/presidential privileges, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell was having none of it. What’s really amazing is her stated reason for refusing X’s petition:
X challenged the order, arguing it violated its First Amendment rights and noting that President Trump might have reason to claim executive privilege, or presidential privilege. The company wanted to alert the former president so he could assert the privilege, but U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against it, claiming during a hearing that the only reason X was issuing the challenge was “because the CEO wants to cozy up with the former president.” (Emphasis added.)
Amazingly, a majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had no problem with this novel and unconstitutional legal judgment, upholding the lower court’s strange ruling.
The four dissenting Appeals Justices disagreed, saying,
“[W]e should not have endorsed this gambit.” [snip] “Rather than follow established precedent, for the first time in American history, a court allowed access to presidential communications before any scrutiny of executive privilege, Circuit Judge Neomi Rao wrote in a dissent.
Let’s hope that sanity prevails and that the highest court in the land restores justice by reining in these out-of-control Judicial Officers.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/elon_musk_s_supreme_court_petition_is_a_window_into_how_a_leftist_justice_system_works.html
The Clooney Shakedown of Biden gets worse: Biden caves to Clooney on the ICC
By Monica Showalter
The new Minutemen buy guns
By Mike McDaniel
Manufacturing electric vehicle reality
By Mike McDaniel
Must watch: Leftist can’t explain Trump ‘crimes’
By D. Parker
Biden’s border executive order is a joke
By Warren Beatty
If you vote for Joe Biden ...
By Eric Utter
If, in a fair and free election (snort, giggle), the American people return Joe Biden to the White House, they will have voted themselves into shackles, elected to eliminate their freedoms and liberty, and chosen to live as cattle on the government’s ranch … an act perhaps without precedent in human history.
If you vote for the current president who is trying to destroy a former president for far lesser offenses than he himself has committed, you are a hypocrite. If you vote for the man who is currently attempting to imprison his political opponent, perhaps for life, for the sin of standing in the way of his continued power, you are an ignorant fool. If you vote for the man who has labeled nearly half of your countrymen “domestic terrorists,” you are a cad of the highest order. If you vote for the man who is clearly beholden to at least one -- likely more than one -- of America’s enemies, each with totalitarian governments, you cannot claim to be a patriot or defender of democracy.
If you vote for the man who clearly—and in so many ways-- favors illegal immigrants over American citizens, and those who break the law over those who abide by it, you are voting for chaos, pain, and societal destruction.
Someone once asked, “What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?” To which the cheeky reply is, “I don’t know, and I don’t care.”
The pertinent question for likely Biden voters as we near the 2024 presidential election would be: “What is the difference between ignorance and insanity?”
The answer in this case would be: “Nothing, in terms of the consequences.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/if_you_vote_for_joe_biden.html
MSNBC analyst urges the military to act to stop Trump's election
By Eric Utter
Hillbilly Xenophobes for Trump
By Shawn A. Means
A Daring Rescue and a Surprise from the Ninth Circuit
By Clarice Feldman
In a daring feat masterfully executed, the Israeli Defense Force rescued four of the hostages in Gaza. Most touching of all was the rescue of Noa Argamani, whose mother is dying of brain cancer, who had prayed she’d be reunited with her daughter before she died. The hostages had been held by private citizens in two separate apartments 200 feet apart within the central market of Nuseirat in Gaza and the rescuers had to stage a difficult simultaneous operation to free them. They operated under heavy fire from Hamas and local citizens. One IDF soldier, Arnon Zamora, was killed in the rescue and a significant number (who can trust reports from Hamas?) of those who attacked the rescuers and hostages were killed.
Lieutenant Colonel Arnon Zamora, may he rest in peace, led the team in breaching the building where three hostages were held (Noa was held in another building about 200 meters away). Zamora was injured during the confrontation with the terrorists and later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
The hostages were held by Hamas guards in homes of Arab families (Hamas paid the families to hold the hostages -- indicating there are no innocent bystanders).
The IDF entered Nuseirat in trucks and civilian vehicles with Gazan license plates.
Many terrorists from Nuseirat fired upon the IDF, including anti-tank missile fire, resulting in a firefight where many Palestinians were killed.
The confrontation occurred near Nuseirat's market.
The rescue vehicle was hit, caught fire, and became stuck.
Forces from Brigade 98: Paratroopers, Kfir, Givati Brigade, Golani Reconnaissance Battalion, and Shayetet 13 attacked Nuseirat from multiple directions under heavy bombardment from the Air Force, helicopter fire, Navy ship fire, and artillery fire, successfully bringing the hostages to a waiting helicopter landing zone.
The terrorists fired several anti-tank missiles at the helicopters in an attempt to shoot them down -- unsuccessfully (the firing was carried out by activists of the Popular Front who claim they hit the helicopter).
Noa Argamani told her family: 'There was knocking on the door -- 'It's the IDF, we've come to rescue you.'
In the video: Initial moments of the rescue bombardments.
In the second video: The street destroyed by the IDF to rescue the hostages."
Via
@orfialkov
Through the wonders of the internet and the open sourcing of X you can see some scenes of the battle to save the hostages. Here’s first footage of the rescued hostages being helicoptered out to Israel. Over 100 hostages still remain, though their fate remains unknown. Among them are five Americans, about whom the administration remains silent.
The response from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority leaders shows how idiotic U.S. policy is. The Palestinian Authority:
In response to Israel rescuing 4 hostages in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority President, who pays terrorists for slaying Jews, announced his anger [Ed: and sought an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council]. This is who Biden wants to put in charge of Gaza. The Jordanian government is calling on Israel to immediately ceasefire. Look -- they’re not hiding who or what they are. Only the Democrats pretend they’re something else.
Hamas: “We will not surrender”: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh the fat billionaire living in comfort in Qatar fumes after Israel frees hostages.
The AP and CNN keep reporting the Hamas handouts as if true. Indeed, one CNN chyron referred to this as a “release” of the hostages.
CNN just devoted a substantial video segment to Palestinian civilians killed or injured in the rescue of the 4 Israeli hostages and never once mentioned that the civilians were the ones holding the hostages, that the civilians were ones who took them hostage in the first place, that the civilians were the ones firing at IDF during the rescue, that the civilians are the ones who kept the hostages in the center of a populous area in order to purposefully use civilians as human shields. The Palestinians orchestrated the very conditions that created the casualties; they reaped what they sowed.
In a rare act of integrity, the AP concedes the Hamas claims of genocide are bunk.
Benny Gantz, doubtless with the urgings of Blinken and Biden, was to announce his departure from the war cabinet and continue his efforts against Benjamin Netanyahu. He has now abandoned that plan.
The EU’s Josep Borrell outrageously characterized the rescue as “another civilian massacre,” and outside the White House, the pro-Hamas crowd battled with police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. No National Guard in sight.
Taking a step away from this exciting rescue, we notice that the scarf lady Deborah Birx, who admits to manipulating the data to persuade then-President Trump to announce a lockdown, is now CEO of a pharmaceutical company working on Bird Flu vaccine. She and WHO are drumming up scares about the Bird Flu and its effects on food production and human life. Interestingly, the one report of human infection seems utter fabrication. The purported victim was an overweight, ill prisoner, and the Mexican Health Secretary denies WHO’s claim that citizen died of bird flu. He was a 59-year-old man who had diabetes, hypertension, and no contact with poultry.
And if the Deep State has plans to force us to take unproven “vaccines” again the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals just rendered an opinion that should make such draconian, unconstitutional efforts much harder to pass judicial muster. Health Freedom Defense Fund, et al v. Alberto Carvalho, et el, Case No. 22-55908 (9th Cir.).
Brant Hadaway
@BrantHadaway
My client, @theHFDF, has won another huge victory, this time in the 9th Circuit! This was a case that I prosecuted in Central District of California challenging @LASchools mandatory COVID vaccination mandate for all school employees. A majority panel of the 9th Circuit held that, first, the case was not mooted by another attempt by @LASchools to manipulate a court's jurisdiction and, second, because the district court misapplied the SCOTUS's 1905 decision in Jacobson v. Mass. For the first time, as far as I am aware, a circuit court has explicitly drawn limits on Jacobson -- a decision to which nearly every court in country genuflected when considering challenges to COVID mandates. The majority's ruling holds that Jacobson only applied to measures to prevent the spread of disease, and that we had credibly pled that the COVID vaccines were not designed or intended to prevent disease spread, but were only designed to reduce the severity of illness in infected persons. Therefore, the majority held that Jacobson does not apply. [emphasis supplied.]
In a concurring opinion, Judge Collins wrote that measures to protect an individual from getting sick, as opposed to preventing disease spread, fell under a separate line of authority for the proposition that each person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment. That was exactly our theory of the case. Now we will see what happens on remand!
Facts have long established that the Covid vaccine did not prevent the spread of Covid, and the CDC’s redefinition of “vaccine” was surely designed to fool people into thinking otherwise.
Julie Hamill emphasizes the nub of the ruling:
Jacobson held that mandatory vaccinations were rationally related to “preventing the spread” of smallpox. (citation). Jacobson, however, did not involve a claim in which the compelled vaccine was “designed to reduce symptoms in the infected vaccine recipient rather than to prevent transmission and infection.” (citation). The district court thus erred in holding that Jacobson extends beyond its public health rationale -- government’s power to mandate prophylactic measures aimed at preventing the recipient from spreading disease to others -- to also govern “forced medical treatment” for the recipient’s benefit."[/quote[]
All told, it was a wonderful ending to the week.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/a_daring_rescue_and_a_surprise_from_the_ninth_circuit.html
Trump Talks Politics With Dr. Phil, and Hillary Is Still Mad
Heartlanders honored D-Day – but they didn’t pull their punches with Biden.
by Sarah Cowgill | Jun 9, 2024 |
Flyover folks used President Joe Biden as a verbal punching bag for a little therapeutic relief on D-Day. But there were bright spots as well this week in the weird world of American politics: Dr. Phil asked the serious questions of former President Donald Trump. Oh, and guess who is still mad and tilting at windmills? Hillary Clinton.
And How’s That Working for You?
Dr. Phil has interviewed a lot of folks over the years, and he appears to know what makes those people tick. In his usual drawl and cadence, the Texan recently sat down with former President Donald Trump to talk about the recent trial and 34 felony convictions. The good doctor also blasted Judge Merchan for “muzzling” the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee throughout the trial.
Crankiness out in the open, Dr. Phil went down the pathway of how opponents use children as pawns. Trump jumped on board and went after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), explaining how the California Congressman suggested his son, Donald Trump Jr., would “go to jail” in a very public manner for his involvement in the 2016 Russian collusion that leftists still seem to think was real.
“How do you deal with that as a father?” asked Dr. Phil. “Because I’ve had that happen to me. I mean, you met my son Jordan. My other son, Jay. I’ve had stories about them, and it infuriates me.”
Trump went with insults: “I call him watermelon head! He’s got the thinnest neck I’ve ever seen. How does it hold up that head? He’s got a neck that’s about a size six.” Dr. Phil had to stifle a smirk and a snort to keep the seriousness of the skit on track. Now he knows how Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman felt when Tim Conway was around.
In Illinois, Kim Faber Felton admitted, “I call him (Schiff) worse names, none I can put on here.”
Trump Lives Rent Free with Hillary
Hillary Clinton cannot let go of losing to Donald Trump. In a very incendiary post on X, the two-time presidential loser posted: “Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. This November, all we have to do is vote.”
Clinton’s timing wasn’t great, and the backlash was immediate. “What an enormously stupid and vile comment,” Ben Shapiro replied, “Trump is not Hitler. And voting is not storming a beach under a hail of machine-gun fire to free millions from the tyranny of the Nazis.”
Commenting has now been disabled, leading the rest of us to imagine a myriad of hurtful words towards Mrs. Clinton. Stacy Clayton in Memphis, clearly not a fan, had her say: “Election denier original…but never did this Marxist Democrat get held accountable.” Ouch. In Colorado Springs, Toby Norton strategized, “We can all ignore the most corrupt woman in US political history, and maybe she’ll finally go away for good.”
All in all, Hillary’s post brought up questions about her own past. Or as Norma Mas Kulina in Montgomery, TX, says: “Careful. Lots of skeletons in her closet since early 80’s.”
But the last words belong to Lynne Meyer. “She needs to just go away. Having in-laws who were imprisoned in concentration camps, this comment is truly disgusting.” Meyer continued, “Comparing anyone to Hitler is just wrong.”
As Draft Dodgers Go
President Joe Biden’s campaign dropped a scathing digital ad on D-Day that highlights three veterans calling number 45 a draft dodger. What the ad failed to mention is that Joe Biden was also a draft dodger. Where Trump claimed bone spurs, Biden claimed asthma.
Heartlanders caught the irony and went a bit nutso on social media. Patricia Jean Fields Kessler in Tennessee was blunt: “He never served.”
“Really?” Wondered one man in Findlay, OH, George Karambellas. “Just before cannibals ate his Uncle Bosey, he defeated the Chinese at Normandy.”
According to Selective Service Records, Biden racked up five student draft deferments and then, following a medical exam, received a 1-Y classification – just like Trump. Those pesky records. But Biden was undeterred and jauntily went to Normandy, France, to commemorate D-Day.
Ron Delicath in Indianapolis, who followed Biden traipsing around France through news clips, called into question the president’s current state of health. “He was trying to sit down in an invisible chair yesterday,” Delicath explained. “Jill had to put her hand over her mouth and tell him to stop, that there was no chair there.”
Biden delivered speeches; the most irritating was at Pointe du Hoc. Jay McGuire in the Buckeye State listened for a bit and then begged off, writing: “He’s the worst speaker I’ve ever heard. Mumbles, hollers, lose track of words/thoughts.”
But heartlanders saw through Biden butchering what was once a stirring speech in 1984 at Pointe du Hoc to commemorate the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Mr. Biden’s speech writer must have done some research and not only found Number 40’s speech but also lifted a good bit of his remarks nearly word for word. That did not go unnoticed, and Gayle Sollenberger in Johnson City, TN, also made the connection: “He’ll never live up to President Reagan’s touching and heartfelt speech there.” Reagan is truly missed.
https://www.libertynation.com/trump-talks-politics-with-dr-phil-and-hillary-is-still-mad/
Oh Very Young What Will You Be Voting This Time?
Nothing lasts forever.
by Leesa K. Donner | Jun 9, 2024
Once upon a time, a pensive young man wrote a song that captured the essence of a generation still reeling from war and Watergate. It was 1974 and unequivocally not a very good year when this British musician challenged his generation to recognize the fleeting passage of youth and search for its legacy:
“Oh very young, what will you leave us this time
You’re only dancin’ on this earth for a short while
And though your dreams may toss and turn you now
They will vanish away like your daddy’s best jeans
Denim blue, faded up to the sky
And though you want them to last forever
You know they never will …”
Employing a unique blend of folk, rock, and pop, Cat Stevens’ tender and yearning words connected with his peers, and “Oh Very Young” soared to the top of the charts. How is it that these lyrics remain relevant fifty years later? Perhaps it is because the desires of the heart linger. Thankfully, the wide lapels and bell bottoms have faded from view, but in many ways, Millennials and Zoomers aren’t all that different from their predecessors: There is still a need to search for one’s identity, figure out one’s place in the world, and wrestle with the desire for significance.
With so many existential questions swirling inside those youthful, full-head-of-hair craniums, it’s no wonder the political gentry is having trouble figuring out how these young people will vote. Worse still, those working to persuade this quixotic group to vote must draw young people to support their man. Why? Because in the last two elections, they have proven to be a crucial demographic that could sink or catapult their candidate to victory. So, what do we know about young American voters leading up to Election 2024?
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
President Joe Biden’s campaign is not resonating with young voters: How do we know this? Because poll after poll keeps telling us this is so. It’s also written on the anxious faces of Democratic strategists. Don’t take our word for it. Here it is from the left-leaning website Vox: “Just about every national poll seems to show that Biden is underperforming with young people compared to his 2020 results as well as polls at the same point in the 2020 cycle.” ‘Nuff said.
Young voters tend to vote in higher numbers for third-party candidates. A long-held political industry standard comes down to this simple maxim – younger voters lean left, and older voters lean right. But now it appears there’s a political shift occurring in the youth demographic. More than ever, young people are eschewing the standard “D” or “R” labels and self-identifying as independents.
As a result, the Trump campaign has enjoyed a rise in popularity among today’s youth, but they still need a more significant piece of the pie. Both prominent party candidates must strategize how to appeal to more voters under 30 because Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West are already baked into this election. This is why most polls show a close race between Biden and Trump until independent candidates are factored in. Former President Trump invariably comes out ahead in these 5-way race matchups – something that is not lost on the Biden Campaign.
Young people vote their self-interest just like older voters: Today’s voting youth are very issue oriented. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), “53% [of young voters] cite the cost of living/inflation” as their chief concern. Nothing comes a close second. Next are “jobs that pay a living wage,” which polls at 28%. Do we notice a trend here? As the agin’ ragin’ Cajun, James Carville once opined, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
But there’s a new twist: The rise of the independent youth voter also coincides with a change in demographics. In the 21st century, the younger population includes fewer whites and more Hispanics than ever before. Thus, a drop in support for Mr. Biden among non-white groups may be coming from an overlap in his dwindling popularity with young people.
GOP: Careful What You Ask For
Getting young people to vote used to take a lot of arm-twisting. That has changed in the last two election cycles, and inquiring minds might want to know that it wasn’t because of the weather or their particular enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump. The bump in the youth vote can be directly tied to mail-in voting. For the stressed-out, incredibly busy college student or tradesmen, a ballot mailed home makes voting extremely accessible. The Center for Information and Research on Civil Learning and Engagement conducted extensive research on this topic, and they found the following occurred in the 2020 election:
“On average, youth voter turnout was highest (57%) and had the largest increases over 2016, in states that automatically mailed ballots to voters. Conversely, states with the most restrictive vote-by-mail laws had the lowest youth turnout: an average of 42%.”
Massive mail-in balloting took place because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It stands to reason that if Trump gains ground with the young voters while the GOP pushes against mail-in ballots, they will be working at cross purposes. This is likely why the national Republican Party has been urging its supporters to “bank” their vote. That’s a step in the right direction.
Circling Back to the Future
One could postulate that never before has the youth vote garnered such political power. Voting in greater numbers but not beholden to any party puts them at least within view of the cat-bird seat. All five presidential candidates need to take this voting bloc seriously. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has shown remarkable strength in this demographic, which is why the big party apparatchiks cannot simply dismiss him. Late in 2023 a New York Times/Siena poll showed Kennedy beating both Trump and Biden with Gen Z voters. It was a crystalizing moment for the mainstream party candidates.
So what will the very young leave us this time?
The naivete of youth is long past for Cat Stevens, who is now 75. He changed his name to Yusuf Islam after he posed this question to his generation. “Oh Very Young” was one of the last songs he wrote before exiting the big stage for what he hoped would be a quiet, spiritual existence. Although he tried to leave public life, fame and fortune, as well as tragedy and triumph, followed him into the next century. His music has transcended several generations, selling 100 million records and two billion streams. But perhaps more significantly young people will have a tangible way to answer Stevens’ poignant question with their vote in 2024 because this decision will leave a lasting legacy.
https://www.libertynation.com/oh-very-young-what-will-you-be-voting-this-time/
Sunday's Energy Absurdity: New Zealand Runs Smack Into Blackout Reality, Resumes Drilling for Oil
David Blackmon
Jun 09, 2024
It turns out that the superstitious zeal to cut plant food out of the atmosphere drops considerably among the climate cultists in New Zealand when they’re faced with the prospect of freezing in the dark. Who knew?
The Telegraph reports that New Zealand’s authoritarian leftist government is about to approve a lifting of the ban for drilling for oil and gas after the country’s power grid, overloaded with weather-dependent generation like wind and solar, has proved unable to handle the winter load.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
The country’s coalition government is preparing to invite energy companies to resume exploration in the three major offshore fields that supply most of its gas.
It comes after National Grid operator Transpower was last month forced to warn families to limit their electricity usage to avoid a shutdown during a cold snap.
The decision to reverse the ban, made by resources minister Shane Jones, will be a setback for green activists and likely to be regarded as a blow for Labour after Ed Miliband has repeatedly pledged to halt new drilling for oil and gas in UK waters.
New Zealand was on Saturday night expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea.
However, New Zealand’s change of course has been cheered by industry leaders. John Carnegie, chief executive of trade body Energy Resources Aotearoa, said: “We welcome a return to sensible, pragmatic policy settings that fairly manage the upstream oil and gas sector to the benefit of all New Zealanders.
“New Zealand faces an energy shortage which threatens our electricity system and the competitiveness of our exporters.
“We now urgently need to attract further investment in exploration and production to keep the lights on, our houses warm and business humming.”
[End]
For those unfamiliar, the ban was introduced by the brutish Klaus Schwab acolyte Jacinda Ardern, who as the country’s Prime Minister treated New Zealanders to an array of the most repressive COVID measures on earth, including sending those who refused to take the vax to what were basically concentration camps.
With Ms. Ardern no longer clinging to power, it appears some measure of common sense is returning to the country’s government. Not even the professional climate scolds want to freeze to death in the dark, it seems.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/sundays-energy-absurdity-new-zealand?publication_id=712558&post_id=145465940&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
As Prosecution Rests, Hunter Biden Asks If This Is A Good Time To Go Out Back Behind The Dumpsters For A Minute For No Particular Reason
WILMINGTON, DE — As the prosecution in the Hunter Biden trial rests its case, several reports from within the courtroom indicate that the defendant Hunter Biden has just asked the judge if this might be a good time for him to just kinda sidle out back behind the court dumpsters for, say, just a minute or two no real reason in particular.
According to eyewitnesses in the trial, Hunter Biden had been sweating, drumming his fingers on the table, rubbing glazed eyes, and tapping his foot increasingly faster and faster before leaning over to his lawyers and whispering to them for a minute as the prosecution finished its statements. Abbe Lowell, head defense counsel for Biden, then stood up and addressed the judge.
"Your Honor, my client would like to be excused for a minute, please," Lowell declared as Hunter displayed signs of panic and started drooling and making poof-poof noises with his mouth behind him. "What? No, no reason at all. He just…wants to…stretch his legs? Or something? Like, if this is a good time, is he really needed in the courtroom?"
Upon receiving the judge's permission, Hunter casually and politely waved aside a bailiff's offer to accompany him outside, then darted out behind a dumpster. Small white puffs of smoke were later seen rising from that general vicinity.
At publishing time, Hunter had reentered the courtroom looking much more comfortable but just a little bit disoriented.
https://babylonbee.com/news/as-prosecution-rests-hunter-biden-ask-if-this-is-a-good-time-to-go-out-back-behind-the-dumpsters-for-a-minute-for-no-particular-reason
Biden Admin Hires NASCAR Pit Crew To Rapidly Change Biden’s Diaper Without Anyone Noticing
WASHINGTON, DC — In a little-publicized move, the Biden Administration recently recruited a former NASCAR pit crew to make lightning-fast changes to the President's diaper whenever he soils his pants.
The scheme was first revealed after NASCAR crew leaders began to be bombarded with ads seeking a "Race Car Pit Crew That Can Also Change Diapers." The ads specified that the crew would have to be able to change a diaper within 3.4 seconds, or "fast enough that nobody can notice it."
"We initially responded to the ads and were asked to come try out," said Brandon Keyes, rear changer for the Josh Biggles Racing Pit Crew. "Then I found out that my job as Rear Changer was about to get a whole lot harder. We finished in about 4.3 seconds, which was a good switch, but then they told us that we weren't diverse enough, and asked if we'd be okay with adding a transwoman of color as our front-changer. I'd rather just stick with the cars."
While most pit crew teams allegedly decided to stay with their jobs at NASCAR, one unique team decided to step up to the challenge. Members of the team have reportedly been called to diaper-changing duty almost continuously for the last 23 hours and are collapsing from exhaustion and permanent nose damage.
At publishing time, the White House was allegedly pushing ads for a pilot to help feed Biden by telling him "here comes the airplane."
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-admin-hires-nascar-pit-crew-to-rapidly-change-bidens-diaper-without-anyone-noticing
At This Point Nation Just Happy Pageant Winner Is An Actual Woman
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Despite the attention drawn on social media regarding the plus-sized winner of the National American Miss Alabama competition, at this point, the nation was reportedly just happy the pageant winner was actually a woman.
The crowning of Sara Milliken as National Miss Alabama 2024 caused quite a stir online, with some praising the win as a significant step forward in the area of body positivity and others simply expressing relief that at least this pageant winner wasn't a male.
"I'm just glad this one really is a woman," said lifelong pageant fan Brandi Lake. "I guess some people might take issue with the fact that someone who is plus-sized and likely not in the best health would be crowned the winner over so many other seemingly deserving contestants, but… you know, here in 2024, we just need to be glad the winner doesn't have man parts."
The sentiment was shared by other pageant enthusiasts online. "I guess it's like a moral victory in some respects," said one commenter. "Though it might be a stretch to see this contestant as the winner of a beauty pageant in a conventional sense, we need to celebrate the fact that she's not a dude. Is it shocking to see someone like her winning the crown? Sure. But she's actually a she, so that at least counts for something."
At publishing time, pageant fans across the country agreed that not having a wiener should likely now be viewed as the most important criterion in women's beauty pageants.
https://babylonbee.com/news/at-this-point-nation-just-happy-pageant-winner-is-an-actual-woman
Americans don’t care about Trump charges, they care about surviving what Biden has done to them
Bidenflation means Americans can't afford groceries, childcare or a house. That's why they prefer Trump
By Newt Gingrich Creators Syndicate
Published June 9, 2024 8:00am EDT
Democratic analysts don’t seem to understand why the all-out legal assault on former President Donald Trump isn’t working. It’s because they keep talking among themselves and not with the American people.
The American people don’t live and work in the New York-Washington political-media-government bubble. If reporters and analysts listened to Americans, as we do at America's New Majority Project, they would learn how decisive the choice between President Joe Biden or former President Trump is. They would also see how difficult, if not impossible, it will be for Biden to get easily re-elected.
The propaganda media is trying to focus the election on what it sees as Trump’s flaws. The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are trying to focus the election on what they see as the threat Trump represents.
But the 2024 election is ultimately going to come down to a simple question: Can the American people afford four more years of Biden’s policies and principles?
Trump’s problems all involve his own alleged behavior and activities. Even the totally phony legal attacks remain locked into a Trump-centered issue. No American is hurt by the things Trump has supposedly done. Indeed, few Americans pay any attention to the outlandish, manipulated legal attacks on Trump.
Most Americans see the case against Trump as political lawfare. If anything, they are offended by the left’s assault on the rule of law and the Constitution. This is why the conviction in the so-called hush money trial led to an enormous surge of contributions to Trump’s campaign.
Far from running away from Trump, the American people found themselves running to defend him. They saw him as a champion being persecuted unfairly and took the conviction as a direct warning of what could happen to them.
By contrast, Biden’s problems all impact everyday Americans. Bidenflation continues to drive already high prices higher. Childcare costs increased 4.1% in the last year. Young parents are having to take on third and fourth jobs just to break even on costs.
Grocery prices are forcing Americans to make tough decisions about how to feed their families. Young people can’t afford to buy houses – which is more than offsetting any good will Biden might have generated by (illegally) waiving student loan repayments.
Biden’s policies are causing millions of Americans real pain.
Biden’s open border policy allows Venezuelan criminals to go to New York City and murder policemen. Biden’s open border policy allows fentanyl and other drugs to flood our country and poison our communities. When more than 100,000 Americans a year are dying from drug overdoses, it is hard worry about how Trump valued his apartment or paid his attorney.
The average American can’t afford groceries, gasoline or the electricity bill thanks to Bidenflation. Democrats want Americans to focus on these legal attacks. But Americans are focused on their own survival in the terrible economy President Biden and Democrats created.
For the elite establishment Democrats, this is all still about politics. For the American people, it’s about survival.
Economically, Biden’s destructive policies make life more expensive. Culturally, people are sick of radical dictates which denigrate religious liberty and seek to indoctrinate children against the will of their parents. Finally, as a matter of safety, Americans realize that Biden does not have the knowledge, ability, or wits to defend our nation against our adversaries.
The 2024 election isn’t about what the establishment media thinks. It’s about America’s survival.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/americans-dont-care-about-trump-charges-care-about-surviving-what-biden-has-done-them
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https://gettr.com/post/p36qe3n9718
Taking the hush money trial to the Supreme Court
By Richard Morse
Death fears of the Democrats
By James Lewis
Should Garland be charged with lying to Congress?
By Jack Hellner
California Sleazin': Gavin Newsom's state illegally billed federal government for illegals' health care costs -audit
By Monica Showalter
Trump supporters unfurl a massive ‘law and order’ flag in NYC… and get arrested
By Olivia Murray
New York City has effectively turned into Gotham City where criminality reigns supreme, so let’s go through what you can and cannot do in the Big Apple.
You can illegally trespass into this country, take money that you didn’t earn for hotel rooms, food, and spending money, take advantage of taxpayer-funded services like public school and county health services, then march for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the streets, causing traffic chaos and preventing the New Yorkers paying your way from going where they need to go:
They chant “ abolish ICE” pic.twitter.com/1svUbAsLzG
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) June 6, 2024
But, you cannot unfurl a flag in support of President Trump and a fair justice system, because political protests in the roadway are a big deal when you do it like this:
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple Trump Supporters have been outside Trump Tower after unfurling a massive thing blue line trump flag°°📌#Manhattan | #NewYork
The New York police are on the scene after arresting at least three Trump supporters outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, New… pic.twitter.com/NzmZBGksJ7
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 6, 2024
You can illegally trespass into this nation, squat in a property that doesn’t belong to you with illegally-possessed firearms and tons of drugs, and expect to be immediately released without bail; but you cannot be an immigrant black man who discovers the fun of gunsmithing and begins to legally build firearms during the government-forced Covid-19 lockdowns (See my blog on the case of Dexter Taylor here.)
You can shoplift from businesses, and peddle the stolen goods on the sidewalk right outside the store from which you just stole, but you cannot sell cigarettes on which you haven’t paid enough taxes. Remember Eric Garner?
You can take “hush money” payments and sign an NDA, then renege on the legal agreement with no consequences, but you cannot settle a bill with your lawyer if it’s been incorrectly labeled, even though the statute of limitations has passed.
You can attack cops unprovoked and again, expect immediate release, just as long as you’re a Venezuelan thug who is in New York illegally; but you cannot fight back against cops who come to arrest you for protesting buses delivering countless new migrants to your neighborhood, to take over the school facilities for which you pay.
You can violate the First Amendment and unconstitutionally place a gag order on a defendant, but you cannot claim to have the right to self-defense, protected by the Second Amendment, because as a judge will tell you, the Second Amendment “doesn’t exist” in certain courtrooms. (Again, see my Dexter Taylor blog.)
You can tell wildly unbelievable stories about sexual escapades in high-end department stores with absolutely zero proof to support your tale, but you cannot accuse the person spinning those erotic literature yarns of being a liar, or you’ll be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars.
You can engage in business activities that are genuinely fraudulent, but you cannot be a stellar bank customer and pay back a loan in full with interest, without having cheated anyone.
You can commit perjury and still be considered a star witness, but you cannot attempt to defend yourself before the public.
What else did I miss?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/trump_supporters_unfurl_a_massive_law_and_order_flag_in_nyc_and_get_arrested.html
No more than spectators?
By Tom Hoffman
The Biden deep fakery of Merrick Garland
By Mike McDaniel
Minnesota Gov. Walz bans police training for 'excited delirium'
By Eric Utter
A New Era for the DoJ
By Frank Friday
The Evidence Is In: Progressivism Is a Mental Illness
By Todd Gregory, Erik Gregory
Prices Are Never Going Down
By Kevin Cochrane