Democrats Play the Long Game on Immigration
It’s not hard to imagine what the teeming masses of Central American immigrants are thinking today as they struggle toward our southern border or wallow in makeshift detention facilities: Now he tells us.
We’re referring to socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s disingenuous comments yesterday — comments that he should’ve made two months ago and repeated regularly since then: “I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over. Don’t leave your town or city or community.”
Uh-huh, quite clearly. Setting aside the fact that no one believes a Democrat when he tells minorities to refrain from crossing our southern border, where was socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s moral clarity in the days just after he took office? Had he provided better leadership then, these young and ambitious people wouldn’t have fled their home countries and thereby further depleted Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador of their already dwindling human capital. As Fox News’s Tucker Carlson put it, “In the name of solving an international crisis, they are as usual making it much worse.”
If only socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden had been as resolute in protecting our southern border as he is about, say, ensuring that the U.S. military provides free sex-change surgery to its “transgender” warriors, or ensuring that biological males can compete athletically against our daughters, we wouldn’t be facing the crisis we are now. And it is a crisis, regardless of how manfully the president’s team of dissemblers tries to tell us it’s merely “a challenge.”
A challenge. That was the phrase used by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas earlier this month when he denied that there was a crisis and instead tried to shift the blame to the Orange Guy. “It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established,” he said. “What we are seeing now at the order is the immediate result of the dismantlement of the system and the time that it takes to rebuild it virtually from scratch.”
Got that? It was the “cruelty” of the Trump administration that kept our borders secure, cracked down on the coyotes and the human traffickers, and removed the incentive for making the perilous trek northward in the hopes of illegally entering our country.
But Mayorkas and his fellow Democrats changed all that. “We are not saying, Don’t come,‘” he said. “We are saying, 'Don’t come now.’ Because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process for them as quickly as possible.”
“A safe and orderly process” for what? Return from whence they came?
Remind us again what the role of the Department of Homeland Security is: to secure the homeland, or to invite a sustained invasion all along our southern border? Based on Mayorkas’s obvious affinity for illegal immigration, has there ever been a man less qualified for this role?
As Ken Cuccinelli, Mayorkas’s predecessor at Homeland Security, put it, “The ‘ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden effect’ is in full swing, with literally thousands of illegal aliens entering the country daily — with no COVID-19 checks, no social distancing in facilities and not enough facilities to handle the children in particular. But many of the newcomers were sure to wear their Biden t-shirts to the border.”
And it’s not just an influx of traditional migrants we’re talking about. Were it only about cheap labor, we might better understand the desire of these new elites to attract more maids, gardeners, nannies, dish washers, and pool cleaners. But as The Washington Times reports, House Republicans warned during a Monday border trip that migrants from Yemen, Iran, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere have been caught among the much larger numbers of Haitians, Central Americans, and others. “Individuals that they have on the watch list for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border,” said New York Representative John Katko, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee. So the terrorists have taken notice of our easier-going border posture.
Clearly, then, what we have here is more than a challenge. Maybe it’s an emergency, given that the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration this past weekend dispatched FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to the border to help care for the thousands of unaccompanied migrant teenagers and children who’ve already made the trek.
Whatever name we give it, the American people are growing ever more concerned. According to a new Rasmussen poll, 73% of likely voters are concerned about what’s happening on the border, and the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration’s amnesty plan is disfavored by a 51-45 margin.
“Today, they’re coming in,” said Donald Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo. “You take a look. They’re coming in from all foreign countries. I see they’re coming in from Yemen. They’re coming in from the Middle East. They’re coming in from everywhere,” he said. “They’re dropping them off, and they’re pouring into our country. It’s a disgrace. They’re going to destroy our country if they don’t do something about it.”
For the Democrats, this is a self-inflicted wound. Donald Trump’s border policy was working. But they abandoned it just as they’ve resisted all Republican efforts to strengthen our borders in recent years. Why? Democrats, more than anything, crave power. They want to grow the size of government, they want to buy your allegiance by giving you “free” stuff, and they want a greater say in how you live your life. So every decision they make, every policy they promote, must be viewed through the prism of power.
Here, it’s a question of numbers. When Democrats see brown people, they see future Democrat voters. And they see a way to offset and even overwhelm the yawning fertility deficit they face compared to Republicans and conservatives.
Democrats are hell-bent on winning elections and maintaining power. And their border malfeasance is a powerful means to that end.
~The Patriot Post
Senate Filibuster on the Dems' Chopping Block
socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, the former longtime senator from Delaware before becoming Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s vice president, weighed in Tuesday on the Senate filibuster, which Democrats are seeking to eliminate. Using the Democrats’ favorite rhetorical blame-game tactic, wherein they ridiculously assert that Republicans are “undermining democracy” when they resist the radical leftist agenda, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden pulled out the “back in the good old days” trope. He claimed that since the manner by which the filibuster is currently applied has changed (no more marathon speaking sessions required), we might as well throw the whole thing out. “It’s getting to the point where, you know, democracy is having a hard time functioning,” he said. Nothing says “unity” like blatant partisanship.
Actually, it appears that the only one really having a hard time functioning is socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden himself, as he has gone over 50 days without holding a press conference, but we digress.
President Unity obviously wants an end to the filibuster, which serves as a roadblock to the Democrats’ radical agenda — an agenda that includes packing the Supreme Court, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, as well as other Liberty-robbing bills such as HR 1, the Green New Deal, and extreme gun restriction.
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats, who just a few years ago were praising the filibuster while warning against its removal, are now decrying it as what scumbag/liar-Dick Durban ridiculously called a “weapon of mass destruction.”
The Illinois senator sang a different tune in April 2017, when he warned against ending the filibuster: “I can tell you that would be the end of the Senate as it was originally devised and created going back to our Founding Fathers. We have to acknowledge our respect for the minority, and that is what the Senate tries to do in its composition and in its procedure.”
Yet on Monday, scumbag/liar-Durbin said, “The filibuster is still making a mockery of American democracy. The filibuster is still being misused by some senators to block legislation urgently needed and supported by a strong majority of the American people. … It’s not the guarantor of democracy. It has become the death grip of democracy.” Talk about an about-face.
Clearly, Democrats want to remove any roadblocks to the implementation of their radical leftist agenda, even when it means completely rejecting the standards they once touted. The increase of this pressure campaign is clearly directed at getting two particular Democrat senators, Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), to give up their resistance to eliminating the filibuster.
However, given the Senate’s 50-50 split, Republicans would not be left without a potential trump card even if Democrats succeed in getting Manchin and Sinema to cave. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that he would indeed use it if the Democrats move forward with their scheme. “Some Democratic senators seem to imagine this would be a tidy trade-off. If they could just break the rules on a razor-thin majority, sure, it might damage the institution, but then nothing would stand between them and their entire agenda. A new era of fast-track policymaking,” McConnell observed in a Senate floor speech. But, he then warned, “Let me say this very clearly for all 99 of my colleagues: Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like. None of us have served one minute in a Senate that was completely drained of comity and consent.”
McConnell explained that all Republicans would withdraw from the Senate, preventing a physical quorum for controversial votes, which require the presence of at least 51 senators. And lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris doesn’t count, as she is not a senator. Such action would essentially shut down the Senate. The Wall Street Journal editorial board observes, “A quorum without unanimous consent is 51 Senators, and there are only 50 Democrats. If Republicans kept their nerve in opposition, Democrats couldn’t confirm nominees or vote on legislation. The scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden agenda couldn’t move any more than if there were a filibuster.” And what motive would Republican senators have to provide a quorum when all Democrats would do is run roughshod over any of their objections as they jammed through their radical partisan agenda via simple-majority votes?
It’s not Republicans who are “making a mockery of American democracy.” It’s the Democrats who desire to force their radical leftist agenda onto the American people. To do it, they’re willing to destroy the very checks and balances in our governmental institutions that were expressly designed to protect the American people from the type of governmental tyranny the Democrats want to impose. ~The Patriot Post
Wow, COVID Relief Is a Sham, and socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden's Trying to Sell It
Democrats are the great diverters. Crisis on the southern border? Go on a national “help is here” tour celebrating your $1.9 trillion boondoggle!
That’s the strategy for President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and President-in-Waiting lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris, who have embarked on a nationwide tour to sell their snake oil. They’ve wrapped up $1.9 trillion of nearly all NON-coronavirus spending, deceptively called it the “American Rescue Plan,” and are now trying to convince Americans that it’s good for them. That’s even while some Democrats are cheering it as what National Review’s Dan McLaughlin calls “the biggest progressive remaking of America since the Great Society.”
Democrats want the act to sell itself, but they know this two-faced approach is becoming known. Two weeks ago, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden explained why they need a full effort at public relations: Back in 2009, after having passed the “stimulus” to “rescue” America from another Democrat-created crisis, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was too humble.
We apologize for the coffee you just spewed on your keyboard.
“He didn’t want to take, as he said, a ‘victory lap,’” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden recounted. “And we paid a price for it, ironically, for that humility.”
Spare us the historical nonsense. The real reason socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris are going all Shamwow is that popularity of the 2009 boondoggle tanked when people figured out what was actually in the bill. That and the rest of the Democrats’ radical agenda in 2009 and 2010. The Tea Party was born, and Republicans swept Democrats out of the House in the 2010 midterms. Clearly, Team socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden/ lowlife/liar-Harris doesn’t want a replay of that fiasco, even if Democrats are … replaying that fiasco with their increasingly radical agenda.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden benefits from the fact that millions of Americans are seeing their IRS deposits show up already this week. But will people be quite as thankful when Democrats come back later and demand massive tax increases to “pay for” another spending spree on infrastructure and a pared down Green New Deal that then tanks the economy again? Will they not see the blatantly political nature of hundreds of billions of dollars spent to unnecessarily bail out out loyal blue states?
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris will be amping up their huckster skills to fool as many people as they can, largely because the Democrats’ majorities are so small. The House is only 222-213, while the Senate is deadlocked at 50-50 with Harris as the tiebreaker. Both are a far cry from the majorities Democrats had in 2009. And they’re hardly majorities worthy of a true legislative mandate, much less for an agenda that so radically departs from bipartisan consensus or that quaint little document we call our Constitution. ~The Patriot Post
Democrats Now Party of Leftist Elites, GOP of Working Class
In the aftermath of the 2020 elections, a growing body of evidence indicates America is in the midst of a generational political realignment.
Famed Democrat political analyst James Carville, following Democrat sweeps in the 2008 elections, wrote a book titled 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. Pundits and talkingheads gleefully predicted the collapse of the Republican Party, claiming “demography is destiny” and noting the white percentage of the electorate was shrinking while the non-white percentage, which overwhelmingly tended to vote Democrat, was increasing.
Yet in 2010, Republicans won a historic number of races and retook the House, and in 2014 they retook the Senate.
Over the last decade, Democrats have made a conscious decision to abandon the white, working class vote, choosing instead to assemble a coalition of black, Hispanic, LGBT, and liberal white, college-educated voters.
In the process, the Democrat Party has plowed right through the political center line, not only without hitting the brakes, but with their gas pedal slammed through the floor and the steering wheel pointing to economic socialism and cultural Marxism.
Today, the Democrat Party is full-blown radical, openly embracing socialism (or is it fascism?), nationalized healthcare, higher taxes, globalism, the economically destructive Green New Deal, and the small business-crushing $15/hour minimum wage. Democrats are canceling Dr. Seuss while pushing Drag Queen Story Hour, canceling Aunt Jemima while glorifying the pornographic Cardi B, and unapologetically attacking traditional American values, principles, and religion — “Most Religious President” socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden notwithstanding.
For decades the Democrats have successfully sold themselves as the party of the “little guy.”
Yet Barack scumbag/liar-nObama raked in more Wall Street cash than any candidate in U.S. history and then filled his Cabinet with executives and lobbyists (more than 70) from the likes of Goldman Sachs.
Since then, the federal government has grown at an exponential rate, and federal employees have grown quite fat at the taxpayer trough.
It’s no coincidence five of the top six richest counties in America, and 11 of the top 20, are located in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, inhabited by members of the ever-growing, handsomely paid federal bureaucracy. Nor is it coincidence these wealthy counties vote overwhelmingly Democrat. In Loudon County, Virginia, the median household income of $117,876 is nearly double the national average of $68,703.
In fact, according to recent data from the Census Bureau, a staggering 26 of the 27 richest congressional districts in America are represented by Democrats, and these districts are overwhelmingly white.
In 1980 and 1984, Republican Ronald Reagan won landslide victories with the help of the “Reagan Democrats,” the largely white, working class voters of the industrial Midwest who saw Democrats shipping their jobs overseas.
Fast-forward four decades or so and we are seeing a similar phenomenon, except the shift is not just with working class white voters but with black and Hispanic voters as well.
While “woke” white liberals — college educated and affluent — dominate the leadership of the Democrat Party, they seem oblivious to the fact that their relentless attacks on religion, their uncompromising support for abortion on demand (even until birth), their cheering for the thugs and criminals who are burning down American cities (including black and Hispanic businesses) in the name of “social justice,” their refusal to enforce immigration law even as waves of illegal aliens, sex traffickers, drug cartels, and common criminals swarm over the border and bring crime to American communities, and their hatred of fundamental American values are turning away members of the very coalition on whose backs they rode to power.
This is especially true when it comes to the religion that is under constant assault by Democrats. According to a recent Pew survey, the number of blacks (75%) and Hispanics (59%) who said that religion is “very important” in their lives was significantly higher than for whites (49%).
One can’t help but wonder how black and Hispanic voters, who say religion is very important in their lives, react to Democrat leaders who now call them intolerant, homophobic, judgmental bigots. One can’t help but wonder what they think as they watch the Democrat Party they overwhelmingly supported for decades openly declare war on the traditional family and religion.
Actually, we know.
Despite President Donald Trump being ceaselessly portrayed by Democrats as racist, bigoted, and anti-LGBT, he actually expanded his percentage of black, Hispanic, and even LGBT voters.
That may be because they watched as President Trump spent four years defending religious liberty, cutting taxes, slashing regulations, and renegotiating trade deals, which led to record low black and Hispanic unemployment and a dramatic rise in their family incomes.
Now, socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and the Democrats are increasing regulations, scheming to hike taxes, and sacrificing American jobs and income to the altar of globalism while attacking religion.
Meanwhile, Republicans are working to reopen the state economies and the public schools from the Democrat lockdowns, provide relief for working class families, raise wages, protect energy sector jobs, and stop Democrats from shipping jobs to China while catering to corporate behemoths like Amazon.
In other words, the Democrats are now owned lock, stock, and barrel by the “woke,” predominantly white, rich elitists, and the Republican Party is opening its arms to religious, hard-working Americans of every color or creed. It is becoming a more God-fearing, America-loving, working class party.
As it should be. ~The Patriot Post
Reader Comments
Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.
Re: “Dems Are Pushing an Anti-Gun Agenda”
“The U.S. District Court for DC recently ruled in Price v. Barr that the U.S. government cannot tax a right granted under the Constitution. This case was in regards to a permit required by the U.S. Park Service for Mr. Price to shoot a short film within one of the National Parks. The court held that ‘film’ is an expression of free speech, and requiring a permit to express that First Amendment right was illegal. It seems that any requirement for a concealed carry permit, or other restrictions on being able to keep and bear arms, would be subject to a similar ruling in that it would an illegal form of taxation. No permit needed to enjoy 1A rights = no permit needed for 2A rights.” —Montana
Re: “It’s Time for a Cancel Culture Bash-Fest”
“Cancellation is what the left does to conservatives. What is happening to the leftist elite is a purge. It starts with a denunciation, followed by more witnesses and a public trial. Then a troika of authorities (Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times) render a verdict and sentence. The leftist cadre needs to be reminded that the progressive vanguard may purge it at any time, by virtue of historical necessity.” —New Mexico
Re: “The States Will Have to Save Women’s Sports”
“Perhaps the best thing to do would be to create a separate category — transgenders — to go along with men’s and women’s sports. There may be even enough participants to staff one league across the nation. Title IX could be amended (maybe make a Title IX and a half) to cover the situation. While men ‘transitioning’ seems to be dominating women’s sports, we certainly don’t see women ‘transitioning’ making any headway in men’s sports. Now if they were to compete with one another, I wonder what the results would be.” —Washington
Re: “Woke Pentagon Declares War on Tucker Carlson”
“If military leaders cannot assure our national security while adopting POTUS policies, they must oppose and jeopardize their career. That is their oath. If they are fired for opposing bad policy, they can be proud for their integrity. A career loss hurts less than a lost soldier. For military leaders, complaining is never a tactic and compliance may not be an option. Their options include only: shut up and march, put up and fight, or get out and … write a book?” —Missouri
Re: “$27 Million for George Floyd’s Family Isn’t Justice”
“Without a doubt the most intelligent and truthful article I have read on this subject! Thank you, Nate Jackson, for having the insight and the courage to write it, and to call it out for what it is: Reparations. Taxpayer money should not go to reparations.” —Connecticut
~The Patriot Post
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