1. "Open borders are good, because the poor people!"
2. "We can't possibly control the border, it's too complicated!"
3. "We tried to pass border-control legislation, but Republicans won't cooperate!"
4. "Trump is trying to keep the border open until the election to make us look bad!"
5. "ICE are fascist Gestapo agents of the fraudulently elected Nazi named Orange Hitler!"
Surely this strategy is winning hearts and minds, because they're going all in with both feet. But the Dems shouldn't abandon hope just yet; all is not lost. If you're a Dem in a blue stronghold, and if you have a house pet that might qualify as an adult [3 years of age for dogs or cats], be sure to register your pet for mail-in voting before the midterm primaries!
Biden badly erred (an understatement) by treating the rapidly deteriorating situation along the Texas-Mexico Border as just a humanitarian crisis, especially after 15,000 (mostly Haitians) massed in Ciudad Acuna in 2021- just across the river from Del Rio, Texas (whose population is about 35,000). Predictably, the migrants eventually rushed the Border Patrol and poured into the US. Even after that fiasco, he did not change course - which is, frankly, bonkers.
That is indeed the understatement of the century, particularly about the party which continues to insist that voter ID laws are racist, even though requiring ID for all other interactions with the govt is apparently not racist.
It's also a remarkable coincidence that nearly every other western liberal democracy in the world has been running the same open-borders experiment for a few decades now, with predictably disastrous results. So why, with all the voluminous evidence of the catastrophic damage open borders do to high-trust societies, was Biden so keen to repeat the experiment here?
I see three serious challenges confronting America that are in my mind emblematic of "uniparty" collusion by political elites against their own citizens:
1. The fact that Mayorkas, the man who undoubtedly has all the answers on Biden's border policy, has yet to be subpoenaed to testify before Congress.
2. The fact that Qatar spends enough money to influence both parties [with a minor caveat that Israel had to get Trump's permission to bomb the Hamas compound in Doha, but I still don't like Trump's business arrangements with Qatar].
3. The Epstein's files, which neither party seems enthusiastic to release.
I'm hoping that Trump and Elon Musk are not part of the globalist elite which harbor nothing but contempt for the masses of humanity. I don't think they are, but it's not entirely clear at this point. I think the tipping point will be whether or not the Trump administration tries to push through universal ID and eliminate cash, as the leftists in the former Commonwealth nations are attempting to do. I'm hoping conservatives, who have more personal experience with being debanked for unpopular opinions or political associations, will do the right thing.
The irony of this particular moment in history is that the left, which has been braying from the rooftops that Trump is a dictator, are doing everything they can think of to create plausible justification for a dictator to suspend constitutional norms. So there are few options for the libertarians among us nowadays. We kind of have to choose between progressive and conservative dominance. I'm comfortable with the latter, but it could easily go too far. I didn't end up on the right because I wanted to be; I ended up here because all of my old friends treated me as a traitor because I chose to vote differently. On the flipside, I haven't met any Republicans who would call me deplorable because I voted for Obama in 2008; so here we are.
The thing that bugs me, despite so many studies that discount voter fraud as a real problem, is that I have yet to hear Dems explain why they are so adamant about mail-in voting, while also being so hostile to voter ID laws, which makes no sense at all.
I can relate! I liked the '90s quite well too. Nobody knew we'd be reliving the '60s and '70s today, but not the fun parts; the bad parts our parents wanted to forget...
The Democrat playbook over the past two years:
1. "Open borders are good, because the poor people!"
2. "We can't possibly control the border, it's too complicated!"
3. "We tried to pass border-control legislation, but Republicans won't cooperate!"
4. "Trump is trying to keep the border open until the election to make us look bad!"
5. "ICE are fascist Gestapo agents of the fraudulently elected Nazi named Orange Hitler!"
Surely this strategy is winning hearts and minds, because they're going all in with both feet. But the Dems shouldn't abandon hope just yet; all is not lost. If you're a Dem in a blue stronghold, and if you have a house pet that might qualify as an adult [3 years of age for dogs or cats], be sure to register your pet for mail-in voting before the midterm primaries!
Biden badly erred (an understatement) by treating the rapidly deteriorating situation along the Texas-Mexico Border as just a humanitarian crisis, especially after 15,000 (mostly Haitians) massed in Ciudad Acuna in 2021- just across the river from Del Rio, Texas (whose population is about 35,000). Predictably, the migrants eventually rushed the Border Patrol and poured into the US. Even after that fiasco, he did not change course - which is, frankly, bonkers.
That is indeed the understatement of the century, particularly about the party which continues to insist that voter ID laws are racist, even though requiring ID for all other interactions with the govt is apparently not racist.
It's also a remarkable coincidence that nearly every other western liberal democracy in the world has been running the same open-borders experiment for a few decades now, with predictably disastrous results. So why, with all the voluminous evidence of the catastrophic damage open borders do to high-trust societies, was Biden so keen to repeat the experiment here?
I see three serious challenges confronting America that are in my mind emblematic of "uniparty" collusion by political elites against their own citizens:
1. The fact that Mayorkas, the man who undoubtedly has all the answers on Biden's border policy, has yet to be subpoenaed to testify before Congress.
2. The fact that Qatar spends enough money to influence both parties [with a minor caveat that Israel had to get Trump's permission to bomb the Hamas compound in Doha, but I still don't like Trump's business arrangements with Qatar].
3. The Epstein's files, which neither party seems enthusiastic to release.
I'm hoping that Trump and Elon Musk are not part of the globalist elite which harbor nothing but contempt for the masses of humanity. I don't think they are, but it's not entirely clear at this point. I think the tipping point will be whether or not the Trump administration tries to push through universal ID and eliminate cash, as the leftists in the former Commonwealth nations are attempting to do. I'm hoping conservatives, who have more personal experience with being debanked for unpopular opinions or political associations, will do the right thing.
The irony of this particular moment in history is that the left, which has been braying from the rooftops that Trump is a dictator, are doing everything they can think of to create plausible justification for a dictator to suspend constitutional norms. So there are few options for the libertarians among us nowadays. We kind of have to choose between progressive and conservative dominance. I'm comfortable with the latter, but it could easily go too far. I didn't end up on the right because I wanted to be; I ended up here because all of my old friends treated me as a traitor because I chose to vote differently. On the flipside, I haven't met any Republicans who would call me deplorable because I voted for Obama in 2008; so here we are.
That’s scary and kind of funny.
The thing that bugs me, despite so many studies that discount voter fraud as a real problem, is that I have yet to hear Dems explain why they are so adamant about mail-in voting, while also being so hostile to voter ID laws, which makes no sense at all.
Surely, you are joking about registering your pet for mail in voting?
Yes, that was a joke based on this news item:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yuV1xLq4E
Nancy Nancy Nancy, crazy Nancy
Let’s go back to 1980.
I don't recall what happened in 1980.
Those were the good days. Born in the 70’s raised in the 80’s!
I can relate! I liked the '90s quite well too. Nobody knew we'd be reliving the '60s and '70s today, but not the fun parts; the bad parts our parents wanted to forget...
I know. It was crazy times the 90’s were good I was a young mother and was always concerned for my sons.
Did they turn out alright?
You’re surely joking about registering your pet for mail voting, right?