Anyone else notice how every crisis lately has been created by government?
Our government is an on-going danger to We The People. On top of millions pouring across the border since Biden became president, we now have this from DHS Office of the Inspector General:
We determined some information used to vet evacuees through U.S. Government databases, such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing. We also determined CBP admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.
We attribute DHS’ challenges to not having: (1) a list of Afghan evacuees who were unable to provide sufficient identification documents; (2) a contingency plan to support similar emergency situations; and (3) standardized policies. As a result, DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.
"On top of millions pouring across the border since Biden became president..."
Can you cite any source that says the US has had "millions" of people first, come into the US, presumedly illegally and second, remained after being apprehended?
I'll grant you that our numbers of encounters at the border are high, a total of about 3 million since Jan 2021. But the numbers available from multiple organizations, including Statista, who you've cited as credible in the past, shows essentially net zero illegal immigration since about 2006/2007.
I don't. Which is what the government is doing. They don't.
The could, but they prefer not letting the public know precisely how badly they are performing, and how lightly they take, their responsibilities to the American people.
All right Dave, I'm not playing this game with you. DHS itself has said the numbers are over 1 million since Biden took office. Go do some damn reading. Research isn't that hard with the internet
Also the stock phrase has been " 8 to 12 million in " for over a decade now. Do you really believe that number has stayed static over the past 20 years?
Finally Dave, your question is about government competence and credibility are good ones. This goes to my point: our government is an incompetent blob of stupidity and failure.
Coulter observes in her heavily annotated work that about 50 million Mexicans, more than a quarter of that nation’s population, has already migrated, either legally and illegally, to America
If I had to guess, I'd put the number of Venezuelans in the US is probably around 3 million... with over 50% "illegal".
The United Nations predicted that by the end of 2019, there would have been over 5 million recorded emigrants during the Venezuelan crisis, over 15% of the population.[24] A late-2018 study by the Brookings Institution suggested that emigration would reach 6 million – approximately 20% of Venezuela's 2017 population – by the end of 2019,[25] with a mid-2019 poll by Consultares 21 estimating that up to 6 million Venezuelans had fled the country by this point;[26] estimates going into 2020 suggested that the number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees was overtaking the 6 million figure,[27] at this time the same number of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, which started years before the recorded Venezuelan crisis and was considered the worst humanitarian disaster in the world at the time.
When asked where'd they'd like to go, MOST Venezuelans said the US.
Silver, really? You think I'd post on immigration without reading? You guys can "think" all you want, but it won't change the numbers.
We are sitting at "net zero" illegal immigration, and have been since during the Obama Admin.
The numbers I tend to rely on as a starting point are CBP numbers, across administrations. And their numbers are pretty static. Then I check both liberal and conservative immigration "think tanks."
All I asked from you was your source which I assumed you had but you called that a game. Which you've done in the past.
Tell me, how is someone to ask a question of something you post, if whenever the question does not agree with your point, it's a "game."
You claimed millions, I cited sources you've used in the past that disagree with your characterization. I assumed you would see Statista as credible, or you wouldn't have cited them on past posts.
Joe... the 50 million figure rings accurate, few sites differ much from that number. But, lumping illegal immigration into the larger pot of total immigration tends to overstate the issue.
Oh, wait, don't tell me. Trump had the real, but CLASSIFIED, immigration numbers at Mar-a-Lago and the raid was to prevent the American people from finding out...
I find it hard to believe millions took Romney's advice and self-deported, but I do believe reports of Mexicans returning to Mexico over the past years when their economy was up.
How many people do you believe are here illegally? 8-12 million?
The judge in Biden v Texas has mandated DHS to provide a monthly immigration report. CIS has tabulated the numbers, and it adds up to a little over one million since the middle of 2021.
Yeah, and I read some jackass Ukrainian government official saying there could end up being some kind of a limited nuclear exchange between the West and Russia.
I don't know where the hell he gets off saying something like that. Ukraine is not worth a nuclear exchange.
There's going to be a (dirty) nuclear exchange alright. Anyone who shells a nuclear power plant with artillery has GOT to be out of their mind, and that seems to be precisely what they are doing.
At the current rate, mid-October would be an advantageous position for battle lines to 'freeze' for the winter. The Ukrainians might even bag another RUSFOR LtGen by that time....
Perhaps the "limited nuclear exchange" is the taking out the nuclear power plant that has promised Germany electricity. I am not sure exactly what happens when a nuclear plant is bombed. but last I read they are having trouble with one that has suffered damage, keeping the water flowing so there is not a melt down. I think Jane Fonda was in a movie about this same topic.
I had heard that all the electrical supply lines into Ukrainian territory had been cut and that the Russians had been rerouting them into Russian controlled/ occupied territories for several months now...
Right. The loan is "forgiven" by the IRS counting it as 10k extra income and taxing the "forgiven" in a higher bracket. Gives 80k more IRS agents something to point their guns at.
https://www.newsweek.com/dem-rep-henry-cuellar-says-migrants-flooding-us-because-they-think-border-open-1637843 https://thetexan.news/south-texas-democrat-says-biden-heeding-immigration-activists-instead-of-border-communities-law-enforcement/ This is no Rightwing conspiracy....border agents are rescuing from rivers, changing diapers, babysitting, ....while cartels get rich bringing illegals in. these links are of DEMOCRAT Cuellar and his dismay at the huge amount of illegals coming in. "net zero" immigration? What PLANET are you living on, Dave?
That the DOJ objects to a Special Master review of the materials seized at Mar-a-Lago is further circumstantial proof that the raid was improper and illegal and likely to expose Government malfeasance.
Plaintiff believes the Government’s objection to the Special Master reviewing documents they deem classified is misplaced. First, the Government’s position incorrectly presumes the outcome — that their separation of these documents is inviolable. Second, their stance wrongly assumes that if a document has a classification marking, it remains classified in perpetuity. Third, the Government continues to ignore the significance of the Presidential Records Act (“PRA”). If any seized document is a Presidential record, Plaintiff has an absolute right of access to it while access by others, including those in the executive branch, has specified limitations. Thus, President Trump (and/or his designee) cannot be denied access to those documents, which in this matter gives legal authorization to the Special Master to engage in first-hand review.
he DOJ-NSD is an agency within the DOJ that views themselves as beyond any apparatus that would conduct oversight. This is the entire reason why the DOJ National Security Division refused to accept any inspector general oversight from formation until 2020. In essence, the DOJ-NSD quantifies everything they do as vital to the interests of national security, and therefore beyond the reach of any outside entity to review or audit their work.
For those who argue of the need for a "Rule of Law" and that we are ALL subjects to it...If the President should be a subject to the Law, why isn't the DOJ NSD?
Just as the FISA court is a star chamber within the judicial branch seemingly omnipotent and without a counterbalancing check on their power, so too is the DOJ-NSD a star chamber within the executive branch. The DOJ-NSD makes determinations and then says, as in the example of the Trump documents, these things are what we say they are – and you have no standing to question us.
Farmer I get the point. Yes the left has been going overboard. Sadly, actual Jews are a mixed bag. They are a product of the enclaves they find themselves in. In actuality despite their rhetoric Ben and Jerry are communists not Jews. When push comes to far left shove they repeat every cliche.
In their own way Trump and Ted Cruz are more Jewish than Bernie. I sat appalled as Mayokas and Garland are nothing more than irresponsible cogs in a machine. To his credit at least Garland does not mention his real name was Garfinkle.
Yes the hysterical push by treasonous flat earth globalists is awful. Everything is upside down. If you dont switch to green energy and eat plants the world is going to die. Population is decreasing largely because of family court. Sending women to college reduces their fertility. Energy costs in Europe are so bad they are postponing shutting down nuclear plants.
We are way too nice to make AOC the face of your electric bill. Just a commercial of her jet setting while you struggle with bills. Or naming a bill after Bernie that reactivates nuclear power plants.
Yes families cant pay for energy and food. We should all worry about killing babies with no restrictions. Take your daughter to work has been replaced by take your kids to drag performances and give them confusing pronouns.
Things are desperate before they die. Even Zuckerberg and Bezos see the winds changing. The fairytales employment at big tech is ending. They are talking about layoffs and reduction of free lunches, gyms and dry cleaning but they will pay to bus you for an abortion.
Meanwhile, the conditions of workers at Amazon resemble high tech slavery. It took Liz Warren and Bernie until after the election to turn on Bezos
So why are Beakerkin and Ben Shapiro different than Ben and Jerry. We were both raised in the actual faith and he still practices it. Ben and Jerry are Marxist pot smoking cliches. While actual Jews face antisemitism which is endemic on the left Bernie serves as the house jew for the Squad.
Nadler is disturbing on many levels in that he knows better but cant tell the truth. There was a photo of congress people kneeling for BLM. Nadler didnt kneel but said it was a back issue. He just should have said the truth. Jews are forbidden to kneel other than in prayer. If the far left cant respect that its their issue.
What's the difference between a communist and a Jew?
Victor David Hanson: In past... there was recognition of factors beyond human control ”the weather; the fickleness of human nature; the role of chance, the irrational, and the inexplicable ”that lent a humility to our efforts and tolerance for unintended consequences. “Wars begin when you will,” Machiavelli reminds us, “but they do not end when you please.” …
..the American public, not the timeless nature of war, has changed. We no longer easily accept human imperfections. We care less about correcting problems than assessing blame ”in postmodern America it is defeat that has a thousand fathers, while the notion of victory is an orphan. We fail to assume that the enemy makes as many mistakes but addresses them less skillfully. We do not acknowledge the role of fate and chance in war, which sometimes upsets our best endeavors. Most importantly we are not fixed on victory as the only acceptable outcome.
What are the causes of this radically different attitude toward military culpability? An affluent, leisured society has adopted a therapeutic and managerial rather than tragic view of human experience” as if war should be controllable through proper counseling or a sound business plan. We take for granted our ability to talk on cell phones to someone in Cameroon or select from 500 cable channels; so too we expect Saddam instantly gone, Jeffersonian democracy up and running reliably, and the Iraqi economy growing like Dubai’s in a few seasons. If not, then someone must be blamed for ignorance, malfeasance, or inhumanity. It is as though we expect contemporary war to be waged in accordance with warranties, law suits, and product recalls, and adjudicated by judges and lawyers in stale courtrooms rather than won or lost by often emotional youth in the filth, confusion, and barbarity of the battlefield
Vietnam’s legacy was to insist that if American aims and conduct were less than perfect, then they could not be good at all.
Without faith... an "ojala" or an "inshallah"... we've all become "communists". If things are less than perfect, then they could not be good at all. Totalitarianism rising...
The FBI and DOJ should know how Court Orders work, right? Then why haven't they acted on the Operation Russian Collusion Crossfire Hurricane Documents,? Anyone know why? They were ordered to produce them in a Federal Court over Two Years Ago!
@ Salvatore, To add to FJ's comments. ...And because they readily use a "Antisemitism" trope, abet through others, to deflect any criticism of their actions or speech.
...and to add to Warren's, it's an attempt to deflect by painting one's self and one's arguments in the appearances of the "universalist/ objective" argumentative position. A "pretense" at being the conceptual "vanishing mediator" that transforms thesis:anti-thesis -> synthesis.
.Or ..what Republican ideologues still haven't learned about MAGA:
A man is believes that he is a kernel of corn, and goes to a psychiatrist who, after several treatments, finally convinces him otherwise. He leaves the office relieved, until he runs into a MAGA chicken on the street. He turns and runs back, terrified of being eaten and asks the psychiatrist what he should do. The psychiatrist replies, “But why are you afraid? You know you aren’t a kernel of corn!” The man replies, “Yes, but does the chicken know?”
...because the neo-capitalist liberals and Never-Trump Republicans might stop believing in the Santa Clause of the American Democracy mythology. It would "scare the Normies".
I don't believe the "Government" is fit to be the "ultimate arbiter" of anything. That's why checks and balances were instilled in the Constitution. -Which have largely been ignored or overridden by the political classes and their sycophants-. History is being overwritten. How can we know where we are going if we don't know where we came from?
I think that the checks and balances got lost in "securing the homeland" and the "leakification" of that information to the corporate news- and info-dependent media organizations that were supposed to be guarding against corruption.
Leaked overly-classified information became a "valuable product" that was traded to favored journalists for anonymity and for turning of a blind eye towards the leaker and his agenda in the media coverage.
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(d) Information that has not previously been disclosed to the public under proper authority may be classified or reclassified after an agency has received a request for it under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2204(c)(1), the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), or the mandatory review provisions of section 3.5 of this order only if such classification meets the requirements of this order and is accomplished on a document-by-document basis with the personal participation or under the direction of the agency head, the deputy agency head, or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4 of this order. The requirements in this paragraph also apply to those situations in which information has been declassified in accordance with a specific date or event determined by an original classification authority in accordance with section 1.5 of this order.
(e) Compilations of items of information that are individually unclassified may be classified if the compiled information reveals an additional association or relationship that:
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You do realize that all the "classified documents" seized at Mar-a-Lago are also protected by attorney-client privilege and will eventually be returned to Trump's legal team by the Special Master?
Well, we'll soon see if there are any Constitutional limits to the powers of the federal government and whether there's still any negative liberty left in out Republic.
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Anyone else notice how every crisis lately has been created by government?
ReplyDeleteOur government is an on-going danger to We The People. On top of millions pouring across the border since Biden became president, we now have this from DHS Office of the Inspector General:
We determined some information used to vet evacuees through U.S. Government databases, such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing. We also determined CBP admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.
We attribute DHS’ challenges to not having: (1) a list of Afghan evacuees who were unable to provide sufficient identification documents; (2) a contingency plan to support similar emergency situations; and (3) standardized policies. As a result, DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.
DHS Encountered Obstacles to Screen, Vet, and Inspect All Evacuees during the Recent Afghanistan Crisis
In the private sector you get what you pay for. In the public sector, you pay and pay and never get what was paid for.
DeleteWell put
DeleteSilver... first thought. You said...
Delete"On top of millions pouring across the border since Biden became president..."
Can you cite any source that says the US has had "millions" of people first, come into the US, presumedly illegally and second, remained after being apprehended?
I'll grant you that our numbers of encounters at the border are high, a total of about 3 million since Jan 2021. But the numbers available from multiple organizations, including Statista, who you've cited as credible in the past, shows essentially net zero illegal immigration since about 2006/2007.
Second, How do you, and others here, determine when to believe government Inspector Generals and find them unbiased and credible?
DeleteThe last few years many here have found them to be partisan hacks when they cited Trump Admin foibles and shortcomings.
How do we objectively know this particular report is also not just "Fake News"?
Immigration statistics in the US have become totally politicized and are now hyper-real. I don't trust a single US government statistic on ANYTHING.
DeleteIMO, these numbers are totally UNDERSTATING illegal migration.
DeleteWell Joe, the numbers on that site, from 2008, essentially track with what I said about illegal immigration, which is what Silver was talking about.
DeleteThe numbers I cited come from a variety of sources, both government and private. Both pro and anti immigration.
That being said, I hear what you are saying.
So how do you objectively determine our level of legal/illegal immigration?
I don't. Which is what the government is doing. They don't.
DeleteThe could, but they prefer not letting the public know precisely how badly they are performing, and how lightly they take, their responsibilities to the American people.
Ann Coulter took a stab once. No one took her seriously.
DeleteAll right Dave, I'm not playing this game with you. DHS itself has said the numbers are over 1 million since Biden took office. Go do some damn reading. Research isn't that hard with the internet
DeleteAlso the stock phrase has been " 8 to 12 million in " for over a decade now. Do you really believe that number has stayed static over the past 20 years?
DeleteFinally Dave, your question is about government competence and credibility are good ones. This goes to my point: our government is an incompetent blob of stupidity and failure.
DeleteCoulter observes in her heavily annotated work that about 50 million Mexicans, more than a quarter of that nation’s population, has already migrated, either legally and illegally, to America
Delete12 million sounds kinda small, since Mexico is but one country.
DeleteIf I had to guess, I'd put the number of Venezuelans in the US is probably around 3 million... with over 50% "illegal".
DeleteThe United Nations predicted that by the end of 2019, there would have been over 5 million recorded emigrants during the Venezuelan crisis, over 15% of the population.[24] A late-2018 study by the Brookings Institution suggested that emigration would reach 6 million – approximately 20% of Venezuela's 2017 population – by the end of 2019,[25] with a mid-2019 poll by Consultares 21 estimating that up to 6 million Venezuelans had fled the country by this point;[26] estimates going into 2020 suggested that the number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees was overtaking the 6 million figure,[27] at this time the same number of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, which started years before the recorded Venezuelan crisis and was considered the worst humanitarian disaster in the world at the time.
When asked where'd they'd like to go, MOST Venezuelans said the US.
Silver, really? You think I'd post on immigration without reading? You guys can "think" all you want, but it won't change the numbers.
DeleteWe are sitting at "net zero" illegal immigration, and have been since during the Obama Admin.
The numbers I tend to rely on as a starting point are CBP numbers, across administrations. And their numbers are pretty static. Then I check both liberal and conservative immigration "think tanks."
All I asked from you was your source which I assumed you had but you called that a game. Which you've done in the past.
Tell me, how is someone to ask a question of something you post, if whenever the question does not agree with your point, it's a "game."
You claimed millions, I cited sources you've used in the past that disagree with your characterization. I assumed you would see Statista as credible, or you wouldn't have cited them on past posts.
And then you say I'm the one playing a game.
Joe... the 50 million figure rings accurate, few sites differ much from that number. But, lumping illegal immigration into the larger pot of total immigration tends to overstate the issue.
DeleteThis is but the tip of the Venezuelan iceberg.
Delete...and I find your comments vis "the numbers" disingenuous. You seem to acknowledge that the numbers are fake, then you ask to see the numbers...
DeleteThis is a hypernormalised argument. The numbers are fake, so the entire argument is fake.
DeleteOh, wait, don't tell me. Trump had the real, but CLASSIFIED, immigration numbers at Mar-a-Lago and the raid was to prevent the American people from finding out...
Delete"Net Zero?" You're kidding... Prove it!
DeleteI find it hard to believe millions took Romney's advice and self-deported, but I do believe reports of Mexicans returning to Mexico over the past years when their economy was up.
How many people do you believe are here illegally? 8-12 million?
@sf- I think he probably want's you to change the subject to something less abstract...
DeleteThe judge in Biden v Texas has mandated DHS to provide a monthly immigration report. CIS has tabulated the numbers, and it adds up to a little over one million since the middle of 2021.
Deletehttps://cis.org/Arthur/Disclosures-Biden-Has-Released-Nearly-105-million-SW-Border-Migrants-US
Look for the Ukraine War's battle lines to freeze in mid-October and remain in place until next Spring.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and I read some jackass Ukrainian government official saying there could end up being some kind of a limited nuclear exchange between the West and Russia.
DeleteI don't know where the hell he gets off saying something like that. Ukraine is not worth a nuclear exchange.
There's going to be a (dirty) nuclear exchange alright. Anyone who shells a nuclear power plant with artillery has GOT to be out of their mind, and that seems to be precisely what they are doing.
DeleteAt the current rate, mid-October would be an advantageous position for battle lines to 'freeze' for the winter. The Ukrainians might even bag another RUSFOR LtGen by that time....
DeletePerhaps it explains the timing of the Ukrainian offensive.
DeletePerhaps the "limited nuclear exchange" is the taking out the nuclear power plant that has promised Germany electricity. I am not sure exactly what happens when a nuclear plant is bombed. but last I read they are having trouble with one that has suffered damage, keeping the water flowing so there is not a melt down.
DeleteI think Jane Fonda was in a movie about this same topic.
I had heard that all the electrical supply lines into Ukrainian territory had been cut and that the Russians had been rerouting them into Russian controlled/ occupied territories for several months now...
DeleteWhat good would the 80% of the Ukrainian economy (industrial) be in the Donbass region without an engine of power to run it?
DeleteWhat good would a deep water port in Crimea be w/o it?
DeleteUnlike most Westerners, the Russians understand "energy".
DeleteIf man wants to progress, he must create new forms of energy of greater and greater densities. --Lazare Carnot
Nuclear energy is the densest currently known.
Nobody is 'paying off other's loans.'
ReplyDeleteRight. The loan is "forgiven" by the IRS counting it as 10k extra income and taxing the "forgiven" in a higher bracket. Gives 80k more IRS agents something to point their guns at.
DeletePrince Hairy is really screwing the pooch!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.newsweek.com/dem-rep-henry-cuellar-says-migrants-flooding-us-because-they-think-border-open-1637843 https://thetexan.news/south-texas-democrat-says-biden-heeding-immigration-activists-instead-of-border-communities-law-enforcement/ This is no Rightwing conspiracy....border agents are rescuing from rivers, changing diapers, babysitting, ....while cartels get rich bringing illegals in. these links are of DEMOCRAT Cuellar and his dismay at the huge amount of illegals coming in. "net zero" immigration? What PLANET are you living on, Dave?
ReplyDeleteOf course they think the border is open because--de facto--it is. Show up and we let you in. Biden is grossly abusing the parole process.
DeleteIncreasing American workers wages would be "inflationary". Gotta keep those "corporate" product & service prices down.
DeleteDave Miller,
ReplyDeleteThe New York Times reports
"Biden Administration Has Admitted One Million Migrants to Await Hearings"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/politics/asylum-biden-administration.html (paywall)
https://cis.org/Arthur/NYT-Admits-Biden-Administration-Has-Admitted-One-Million-Migrants-Await-Hearings
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-biden-us-mexico-border/
This is making a mockery of our laws.
Amen to that!
ReplyDeleteThat the DOJ objects to a Special Master review of the materials seized at Mar-a-Lago is further circumstantial proof that the raid was improper and illegal and likely to expose Government malfeasance.
ReplyDeletePlaintiff believes the Government’s objection to the Special Master reviewing documents they deem classified is misplaced. First, the Government’s position incorrectly presumes the outcome — that their separation of these documents is inviolable. Second, their stance wrongly assumes that if a document has a classification marking, it remains classified in perpetuity. Third, the Government continues to ignore the significance of the Presidential Records Act (“PRA”). If any seized document is a Presidential record, Plaintiff has an absolute right of access to it while access by others, including those in the executive branch, has specified limitations. Thus, President Trump (and/or his designee) cannot be denied access to those documents, which in this matter gives legal authorization to the Special Master to engage in first-hand review.
Deletehe DOJ-NSD is an agency within the DOJ that views themselves as beyond any apparatus that would conduct oversight. This is the entire reason why the DOJ National Security Division refused to accept any inspector general oversight from formation until 2020. In essence, the DOJ-NSD quantifies everything they do as vital to the interests of national security, and therefore beyond the reach of any outside entity to review or audit their work.
DeleteFor those who argue of the need for a "Rule of Law" and that we are ALL subjects to it...If the President should be a subject to the Law, why isn't the DOJ NSD?
...especially with respect to activities performed prior to 2020.
DeleteJust as the FISA court is a star chamber within the judicial branch seemingly omnipotent and without a counterbalancing check on their power, so too is the DOJ-NSD a star chamber within the executive branch. The DOJ-NSD makes determinations and then says, as in the example of the Trump documents, these things are what we say they are – and you have no standing to question us.
DeleteThe country is fed up with this Delusional, Senile, Anti-American, Nazi Like Moron that is leading this Country
ReplyDeleteFarmer I get the point. Yes the left has been going overboard. Sadly, actual Jews are a mixed bag. They are a product of the enclaves they find themselves in. In actuality despite their rhetoric Ben and Jerry are communists not Jews. When push comes to far left shove they repeat every cliche.
ReplyDeleteIn their own way Trump and Ted Cruz are more Jewish than Bernie. I sat appalled as Mayokas and Garland are nothing more than irresponsible cogs in a machine. To his credit at least Garland does not mention his real name was Garfinkle.
Yes the hysterical push by treasonous flat earth globalists is awful. Everything is upside down. If you dont switch to green energy and eat plants the world is going to die. Population is decreasing largely because of family court. Sending women to college reduces their fertility. Energy costs in Europe are so bad they are postponing shutting down nuclear plants.
We are way too nice to make AOC the face of your electric bill. Just a commercial of her jet setting while you struggle with bills. Or naming a bill after Bernie that reactivates nuclear power plants.
Yes families cant pay for energy and food. We should all worry about killing babies with no restrictions. Take your daughter to work has been replaced by take your kids to drag performances and give them confusing pronouns.
Things are desperate before they die. Even Zuckerberg and Bezos see the winds changing. The fairytales employment at big tech is ending. They are talking about layoffs and reduction of free lunches, gyms and dry cleaning but they will pay to bus you for an abortion.
Meanwhile, the conditions of workers at Amazon resemble high tech slavery. It took Liz Warren and Bernie until after the election to turn on Bezos
So why are Beakerkin and Ben Shapiro different than Ben and Jerry.
We were both raised in the actual faith and he still practices it. Ben and Jerry are Marxist pot smoking cliches. While actual Jews face antisemitism which is endemic on the left Bernie serves as the house jew for the Squad.
Nadler is disturbing on many levels in that he knows better but cant tell the truth. There was a photo of congress people kneeling for BLM.
Nadler didnt kneel but said it was a back issue. He just should have said the truth. Jews are forbidden to kneel other than in prayer. If the far left cant respect that its their issue.
What's the difference between a communist and a Jew?
DeleteVictor David Hanson: In past... there was recognition of factors beyond human control ”the weather; the fickleness of human nature; the role of chance, the irrational, and the inexplicable ”that lent a humility to our efforts and tolerance for unintended consequences. “Wars begin when you will,” Machiavelli reminds us, “but they do not end when you please.” …
..the American public, not the timeless nature of war, has changed. We no longer easily accept human imperfections. We care less about correcting problems than assessing blame ”in postmodern America it is defeat that has a thousand fathers, while the notion of victory is an orphan. We fail to assume that the enemy makes as many mistakes but addresses them less skillfully. We do not acknowledge the role of fate and chance in war, which sometimes upsets our best endeavors. Most importantly we are not fixed on victory as the only acceptable outcome.
What are the causes of this radically different attitude toward military culpability? An affluent, leisured society has adopted a therapeutic and managerial rather than tragic view of human experience” as if war should be controllable through proper counseling or a sound business plan. We take for granted our ability to talk on cell phones to someone in Cameroon or select from 500 cable channels; so too we expect Saddam instantly gone, Jeffersonian democracy up and running reliably, and the Iraqi economy growing like Dubai’s in a few seasons. If not, then someone must be blamed for ignorance, malfeasance, or inhumanity. It is as though we expect contemporary war to be waged in accordance with warranties, law suits, and product recalls, and adjudicated by judges and lawyers in stale courtrooms rather than won or lost by often emotional youth in the filth, confusion, and barbarity of the battlefield
Vietnam’s legacy was to insist that if American aims and conduct were less than perfect, then they could not be good at all.
Without faith... an "ojala" or an "inshallah"... we've all become "communists". If things are less than perfect, then they could not be good at all. Totalitarianism rising...
Jews understand tragedy. Communists, do not.
DeleteWhich is why Euripides was the "last" of the great Greek tragedians. In the end, his "heroes" didn't die.
Delete...they lived (but perhaps not happily ever after).
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DeleteThe FBI and DOJ should know how Court Orders work, right? Then why haven't they acted on the Operation Russian Collusion Crossfire Hurricane Documents,?
ReplyDeleteAnyone know why?
They were ordered to produce them in a Federal Court over Two Years Ago!
Faith, and power, are derived from different founts.
ReplyDeleteThere's a "jewishness" of sameness... and a "jewishness" of difference. Only the latter is the one usually considered "anti-semitic".
ReplyDelete@ Salvatore,
ReplyDeleteTo add to FJ's comments.
...And because they readily use a "Antisemitism" trope, abet through others, to deflect any criticism of their actions or speech.
...and to add to Warren's, it's an attempt to deflect by painting one's self and one's arguments in the appearances of the "universalist/ objective" argumentative position. A "pretense" at being the conceptual "vanishing mediator" that transforms thesis:anti-thesis -> synthesis.
ReplyDelete...it's an discursive "hiding of bias'"
ReplyDelete...perhaps "concealment" is the better word.
ReplyDeleteAnyone up for some Neruda?
ReplyDeleteYou'll never de-territorialize "Jewishness". But that doesn't mean that you can't "re-territorialize" it like a dot of yin in the yang. ;P
...and witnessing, thereby, a new conceptual "birth".
ReplyDelete:P
ReplyDelete...one with a more crackling fragrance. ;)
ReplyDelete...like a kernel of MAGA in the heart of the Republican Party.
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ReplyDelete.Or ..what Republican ideologues still haven't learned about MAGA:
A man is believes that he is a kernel of corn, and goes to a psychiatrist who, after several treatments, finally convinces him otherwise. He leaves the office relieved, until he runs into a MAGA chicken on the street. He turns and runs back, terrified of being eaten and asks the psychiatrist what he should do. The psychiatrist replies, “But why are you afraid? You know you aren’t a kernel of corn!” The man replies, “Yes, but does the chicken know?”
:P (to about timestamp 43:15)
ReplyDeleteWhy is censorship making such a big comeback today? Because the chicken (American people) isn't supposed to know...
You're not supposed to see "bureaucrat behind the curtain"... the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents must be suppressed.
...we mustn't be exposed to their "dirty underwear" It would "destroy the Republic".
ReplyDelete...because the neo-capitalist liberals and Never-Trump Republicans might stop believing in the Santa Clause of the American Democracy mythology. It would "scare the Normies".
ReplyDelete...and so Biden must give RIDICULOUS speeches to convince them NOT to look or see him as he really is.
ReplyDeleteGovernment needs to become more "vanishing mediator" and NOT "ultimate arbiter of Truth".
ReplyDeleteAs our representatives in Congress for our corporate overloards might say, "Americans really need more minimum wage jobs in the food services industry. Otherwise, our customers won't have enough money to buy your products."
DeleteTo which we should all collectively reply...
DeleteI don't believe the "Government" is fit to be the "ultimate arbiter" of anything. That's why checks and balances were instilled in the Constitution. -Which have largely been ignored or overridden by the political classes and their sycophants-.
ReplyDeleteHistory is being overwritten. How can we know where we are going if we don't know where we came from?
I think that the checks and balances got lost in "securing the homeland" and the "leakification" of that information to the corporate news- and info-dependent media organizations that were supposed to be guarding against corruption.
DeleteLeaked overly-classified information became a "valuable product" that was traded to favored journalists for anonymity and for turning of a blind eye towards the leaker and his agenda in the media coverage.
DeleteThe media thereby threw a "cloak of Gyges" over the government corruption.
Delete...and the "classification" level of "government secrets" descend to the level of school curriculums. :(
Delete...information being the chief currency of "power" in a democracy.
DeleteAnd then we have the unclassified bureaucratic "Government Secrets".
Delete...and not so hidden or secret political agendas.
DeletePrescribing 1st world solutions to 3rd world problems whilst proscribing all others.
DeleteRemember all those people who said that declassified info could just be "re-classified"?
ReplyDeleteThe President Executive Order 13526
Classified National Security Information
December 29, 2009
Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations.
(a) In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to:
(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;
(3) restrain competition; or
(4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.
(b) Basic scientific research information not clearly related to the national security shall not be classified.
(c) Information may not be reclassified after declassification and release to the public under proper authority unless:
(1) the reclassification is personally approved in writing by the agency head based on a document-by-document determination by the agency that reclassification is required to prevent significant and demonstrable damage to the national security;
(2) the information may be reasonably recovered without bringing undue attention to the information;
(3) the reclassification action is reported promptly to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) and the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office; and
(4) for documents in the physical and legal custody of the National Archives and Records Administration (National Archives) that have been available for public use, the agency head has, after making the determinations required by this paragraph, notified the Archivist of the United States (Archivist), who shall suspend public access pending approval of the reclassification action by the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office. Any such decision by the Director may be appealed by the agency head to the President through the National Security Advisor. Public access shall remain suspended pending a prompt decision on the appeal.
(d) Information that has not previously been disclosed to the public under proper authority may be classified or reclassified after an agency has received a request for it under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2204(c)(1), the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), or the mandatory review provisions of section 3.5 of this order only if such classification meets the requirements of this order and is accomplished on a document-by-document basis with the personal participation or under the direction of the agency head, the deputy agency head, or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4 of this order. The requirements in this paragraph also apply to those situations in which information has been declassified in accordance with a specific date or event determined by an original classification authority in accordance with section 1.5 of this order.
(e) Compilations of items of information that are individually unclassified may be classified if the compiled information reveals an additional association or relationship that:
(1) meets the standards for classification under this order; and
(2) is not otherwise revealed in the individual items of information.
The DoJ certainly doesn't want a Special Master reviewing the seized Mar-a-Lago documents in light of the above...
DeleteMaking more popcorn, and watching the rope feed out.
DeleteHere's some butter for your popcorn...
DeleteYou do realize that all the "classified documents" seized at Mar-a-Lago are also protected by attorney-client privilege and will eventually be returned to Trump's legal team by the Special Master?
Well, we'll soon see if there are any Constitutional limits to the powers of the federal government and whether there's still any negative liberty left in out Republic.
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