[NYP] Minouche Shafik certainly ought to go as president of Columbia, along with all her peers across academia who’ve utterly bungled their "tentifada" occupations, but America’s campus rot runs far deeper.
Note the CCNY staff who pulled a sympathy sickout after City College had its encampment cleared, and the Columbia and NYU profs who formed human chains in defense of the students (and outsiders) grossly violating the schools’ rules.
And, as Charlie Gasparino flags, the way elite colleges have taken vast overseas donations in tacit exchange for shaping their faculties and curricula in opposition to Israel (and America).
Heck, notice that Pritzkers serve on the boards of both Columbia and Harvard — even as the Pritzker family foundation funds multiple groups supporting the "pro-Palestinian protests."
Mayor Adams is certainly right to stress the role of "outside agitators" in fanning the campus flames, but plenty of "agitators" are deep on the inside, too.
[Market Ticker] "... You can look at this however you'd like, but there is an underlying and very-seriously negative problem in here that nobody wants to acknowledge: If we do not address not only the rate but the balance of who's having kids and what they're inculcating in those kids we're screwed, and we do not have years or decades to do it either.
Simply put, only the productive children -- that is, those who grow up and then produce more than they consume can keep a society going. Some percentage of children are never going to be productive and for those who are unproductive simply due to bad luck it's not their fault nor that of their parents -- fortune just is that way, and a just society doesn't treat them like a deformed puppy and cull them."
But you cannot make up for the lack of said productive children in your society by throwing open the borders and inviting "everyone" in. Those who come here with their first act as a criminal one are demonstrably unfit right up front to fit into a social order that has "law-abiding" as any part of its requirement. Oh sure, some will change their minds but their general mental position, which is "screw the law, I want mine" is not one you can permit on a mass-basis if you want to have a society at all.
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It also doesn't make sense to warehouse millions at great expense who contribute nothing but remain a threat to social commerce and the productive members of society. It's only possible in a very rich society to fund this avoidance.
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All part of the plan. Bathhouse Barry’s 3rd term going better than planned. If Slow Joe can last until the convention, he will nominate Barry as his running mate. Joe then resigns leaving Barry in the left seat. Don’t believe there is an amendment prohibiting him from being VP. I’ll leave it up the the Constitutional scholars here at the Burg to comment.
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12th amendment: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Since Oblahblah already served two terms, he's maxed out and ineligible IIUC
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Don’t believe there is an amendment prohibiting him from being VP.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
So technically there isn't, but I doubt the courts will allow this as if the president croaks the previous president that hit the term limit will be back in the seat.
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I get the impression that he doesn’t want to work that hard anymore. Being the grey eminence behind the scenes — a word in this one’s ear or that one’s at a private gathering seems more his speed, and the presidency was only a step to this final, pleasurable status.
Une éminence grise, or greasy eminence as the Frenchish people say. Some of us had the impression Barack was not much interested in working hard when he was the Prez first go-round.
[TK] Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth is concerned about the risk of "developing a warrior caste" as, stubbornly, the majority of military recruits come from military or veteran families. In a recent hearing in front of the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary Wormuth warned of the possibility that the Army would become "more and more distant" from the population it swears to defend. Secretary Wormuth insisted "that’s something you want to guard against," but did not manage to give a reason why.
The military must exist based on hierarchical values that are—justifiably—unknown to a democratic society built on liberalism. Service in the military requires a life of sacrifice and order that runs counter to a civilian American upbringing. Adultery, for example, is against military law; you must seek approval to go on vacation; and you will lose your job if you gain too much weight. Such limitations on personal freedom are presumably objectionable to many Americans, and to society writ large. The military requires different lifestyles of its members, so we should be grateful that a caste of veterans’ descendants stand ready to serve.
In his 1957 book The Soldier and the State, Samuel P. Huntington defined the proper balance between a democratic society and a military that must exist based on contrary principles. Huntington paints a compelling picture of an American military forged between 1860 and 1940 that was built, not on "citizen soldiers," but on professional officers who saw themselves as set apart, or you could say "distant," from the society they existed to defend. William T. Sherman disdained any political involvement from officers, even to the point where he did not vote.
Having never served in uniform herself, Secretary Wormuth has spent decades cycling back and forth between bureaucratic outposts and think tank roles. She has evidently spent little time considering the military as a profession. Civilian leadership is necessary to promote trust in military leaders to manage training, tactics, and policies that make the fighting force lethal, so Secretary Wormuth need not have worn the uniform.
But her inability to comprehend the role of the military profession in society is a common but dangerous failure among defense leaders in both Democratic and Republican administrations. The military does not exist to reflect or mirror society, but to fight bloody wars on behalf of the nation. The culture and values required for this grave responsibility are, thankfully, not something one finds in most of the American population. We have a "military caste" that bears the burden of American warfighting. Public policy should embrace this reality, not wish it were not so.
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Those from the military who may aspire to high political office are too often removed or destroyed. They understand the realities and consequences of war and insist on victory. They can easily become a control problem and impede the Military Industrial Complex hunger for Forever Wars.
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^^ Plus they're just 'icky' because they know how to use assault rifles.
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They have achieved a geo-political understanding and knowledge of foreign regions and peoples that oftentimes conflicts with ruling aristocracy goals and objectives.
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They have no problems with Praetorian Guards. They have big problems with armed people, the populous or the uniformed, who hold the Constitution to be worth defending to the last full measure of devotion.
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You could always renew the draft but be prepared for resistance and civil unrest in the case of unpopular wars like Vietnam. I believe that's how Lyndon Johnson lost his job. I hate to bring up Switzerland but, IIUC, they have universal conscription but never get into any wars. Nobody ever attacks them because getting up those mountains where the entire populace is shooting down at you might be too tough. The population goes along with it because they trust their leaders not to get them involved in foreign adventures where they have nothing at stake. That's a bit more than we can say.
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^ we use to have a small standing army only expanded during wars. Even after WWII we demobilized only to reinstitute the peacetime draft in 1948. The justification was the Soviet threat. When the Wall came down, that mission was over and we should have drastically downsized the active component and drawn back to our own interests. Instead the MIC supported by the general officer corps resisted it to support playing the world's policeman. Something that fed right into the old Russian paranoia.
[AmericanThinker] Increasing numbers of worried Americans have been wondering over the last few years whether progressive Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have succeeded in creating a police state in America. From the Russia Hoax to the revelations of the Twitter Files release, to the coordinated attempts to quash scandalous and true Biden family stories, to the blatant display of dual justice, they’ve seen that the cabal of one political party, with its power bases in the government and the sycophant media, has succeeded in limiting or destroying political opponents while eliminating individual rights. Just how bad is it? Has that cabal suspended our American Constitution and Bill of Rights and created an authoritarian alternative? Are we there yet?
In his piece “Shock and Awe on the Campaign Trail,” Roger Kimball outlines the numerous and egregious illegalities and irregularities taking place in the legal assault on candidate Trump and asks, “Why are people not up in arms over these revelations?” Similarly, in his interview with Mike Davis, who founded the “Article III Project,” Steve Bannon says, “I don’t know why people are not more on fire with the ridiculousness, the obvious lawfare, which is working, because Trump is not on the campaign trail.”
These are important questions as we look at the nearly countless unprecedented actions involved in some 91 counts of alleged wrongdoing in federal and local indictments filed against the leading presidential candidate. From the eye-popping civil suit verdicts overseen by judges with serious conflicts of interest to attempts to keep Trump off the ballot in several states, to charges related to classified document handling, to the most recent gag order, these efforts have flown in the face of precedent, due process, and equal protection at nearly every turn. They have already achieved much of what they were intended to do: Greatly hamstring (draining time and financial resources) the leading threat to Democrat party/government power.
But why haven’t we seen more overt objection to this travesty, such as more poster-carrying, angry citizens outside of the Trump trial courtrooms, on campuses, at congressional hearings, and in the streets? Part of the answer to this question has to do with the intended target for the shock and awe. It isn’t Donald Trump. As Trump has correctly observed, he is just in the way. No, the primary targets of the shock and awe are people like you and me. And the left may well have hit their mark.
Could it be that the average non-leftist citizen now feels both powerless and terrified to object to any of these injustices? They see the brutal treatment meted out to President Trump, his associates, and his legal team, on the one hand, versus the reverence for a president whose family has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign sources and for violent protesters who have magically escaped jail time, or of crack-using, tax-dodging Biden family members.
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Maybe they all are hoping their vote will still count.
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Lawfare is definitely part of what is going wrong. Illegal intelligence gathering on US citizens is another part. An unequal justice system completes the trifecta.
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Leftist lawfare and a corrupted deepstate have done great harm to our system of governance.
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Lawfare gained ground when judges decided to play social engineering rather than stick to the law. Reform will start when the judiciary tell litigants to take their issue to the voters not their branch of government.
[Breitbart] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices should be “abolished” within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence community, Cliff Sims, who served as the deputy director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday, adding that he was surprised to see the DEI office in the CIA headquarters and by the “politicization” inside the intelligence community.
When asked the first time that Sims entered the CIA headquarters building and saw DEI and transgender-positive posters on the walls, an encounter that is described in his upcoming book, The Darkness Has Not Overcome, Sims revealed he was “shocked” by the “politicization of the intelligence community.”
“I was really shocked the first time that I walked in and I saw the presence of the DEI office, the politicization of the intelligence community in pushing the woke social agenda. And, one of the things I realized very quickly is that among a lot of my colleagues in the intelligence community, there’s a lot of really good people there, people trying to do the right thing, trying to protect the country that they eat, sleep, and breathe American national security and protect the U.S. interests and the American people,” Sims explained.
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DEI is just another CIA operation to accelerate the corruption and destruction of American Institutions. That is what should shock people; not a poster on the wall.
[Federalist] Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s "toxic masculinity," "men without work," "the end of men," the longhouse, or the need for men to "clean their rooms." Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:
As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and 54 percent of doctoral degrees. And because they are overrepresented in professions, such as human resource management (73 percent) and compliance officers (57 percent), that determine workplace behavioral norms, they have an outsized influence on professional culture, which itself has an outsized influence on American culture more generally.
The bureaucracy that controls Western life is feminized, the longhouse argument goes; implying that women have won. But is that true? Is it "winning" for women to wield power at the expense of their sexual counterparts, the other half of humanity, without which there is no humanity? Are women happier ostensibly being in charge? It seems obvious the answer to that is a resounding no.
Our society offers very few generally accepted successful strategies for helping both men and women achieve happiness through maturity. The women might look better on their resumes, but they’re also a skyrocketing majority of antidepressant and other pharmaceutical users. And it sure doesn’t satisfy women that they can kick tail in the office if their apartments are filled with cats, houseplants, and vacation pictures because the available men aren’t working toward family-sustaining salaries or interested in trying to lead even one slightly fractious and anxious woman on the quintessential life adventure of growing a family.
While our culture may not offer either men or women good counsel about how to create a fulfilling life, author and life coach Suzanne Venker does. A longtime Federalist writer, Suzanne has expanded her writing career into coaching so she can get right in the trenches with women. Venker’s latest book out in March from Post Hill Press, How to Build a Better Life, distills her countercultural, practical, and effective life advice for women into eight digestible chapters.
Her overarching theme is simple: To be happy, women have to do just about the opposite of what secularized Western culture tells them. This theme builds on other how-to books Suzanne has written, including The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage, which I buy for friends’ wedding showers.
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As far as I know, there is only one longitudinal study of female happiness 1974 - 2009. Conducted by the Univerity of Pennsylvania for the National Bureau of Economic Research. It shows women getting progressively (pun intended) unhappier as time went on. Here's the link:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969.
NATURALLY there is no explanation of why women are getting more unhappy all the time. Naturally.
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Trying to be like men and hate them too ain't too good for mental health.
[BBC] A mysterious Roman artefact dug up in Lincolnshire has left experts baffled as to what it is. Found during an amateur archaeological dig in Norton Disney - where Walt Disney's ancestors hailed from - the 12-sided object has prompted fantastical suggestions as to its use.
It has been likened to a dog treat dispenser, a spaghetti measure and even a measuring gauge for slingshot.
Here, architectural historian and broadcaster Dr Jonathan Foyle offers his take on some of the suggestions put forward by BBC website users, and his own theory as to the object's purpose.
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Here's two movies where writers seem to have spent a good deal of time doing their research. In Ben Hur with Charleston Heston, fiery missiles were used in a naval encounter when (probably the military commander of Judea) was escorting Heston back to Rome to be hung (he was a citizen). And these could probably be fairly effecting within fifty yards. Reloading might take over a minute, so having more than one catapult with a metal pouch and chains might really help.
In Gladiator with Russel Crowe, dense forest is the Britain's preferred point for contact in the first big battle, probably because (as in the the film) fiery missiles were more likely to crash into trees or fall apart in the air or on the ground to be particularly effective. The artifact might be a good weapon to use to hold a missile together, especially for a cleanup stage when you've finally got a good line on a hometown in dense forest (typically following the Iron Age model, a bit of a hill, good embankment, rings of timber poles – these are fairly ubiquitous in Kent and Surrey where the Romans first came ashore), and constructed of timber and thatch buildings.
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I think they represent military survey tools for quickly setting distance markers or ranges. From a consistently fixed point like hand-held you can look through the various openings and gauge when a known-sized object like a Legionary Standard is just inside the field of view. This would allow for rapid establishment of marching camps or range markers for artillery. This is practical and very Roman to have high quality materials devoted to military expediency in the field.
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Didn't want to be awake, that's on me. Apologies.
Part of a battery is interesting, would explain the extra surface area. Depends on what it is made of.
We play a game out here when somebody clears an area and finds relics from dust bowl era, "What is this tool?"
To me it looks practical. If it is robust, it looks like a good way to size and check straightness of staffs of wood. If really robust, even a way to take bark off. I wouldn't see it, in that sense, to constantly resize a staff into a smaller diameter.
If a bit more dainty, if you will, I could see it as an artist's die for terra cotta. A d12 doesn't really 'roll' like a cube or cylinder would. The off-stepping pattern on a sheet of clay to be fired might make a good snap-apart finished product.
As far as using it like a spindle, there are more efficient ways of doing things. Not that I'd presume to be smarter in the engineering of the times of a people who accomplished so much.
And, of course, not to be the wet blanket, it could be a hoax.
But to take a page from the Malta Knights, weave soaked thatch or cloth around the knobs, fill it with pitch or peat or sorts, and a fuse, and you have a nice incendiary round or grenade.
A range scope is interesting too. My question about if the facing sides are the same sized circles(?). Obviously there are different sizes.
[RealClearDefense] Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging missiles at shipping in the Red Sea. The difference is simply geography. The Israelis simply have to cross fencing and concrete barriers to directly confront their attackers, the Palestinians of Hamas.
If U.S. wanted to launch such a large scale punitive operation against the Houthis, it would have to be done from the sea with a large scale amphibious assault. An amphibious assault of this scale, requiring sea borne tanks, assault engineers and bridging capabilities that have been divested by the U.S. Marine Corps. Instead, the Marine Corps is building a defensive force built around anti-ship missiles designed primarily to contain the Chinese Navy.
This defensive force is a stark departure from former Marine Corps Commandant Al Gray’s vision to modernize the Marine Corps for future wars.
Back in the 1980s, General Gray had a vision for what he called Over the Horizon (OTH) operations using tilt rotor aircraft, long range helicopters, more capable long-range amphibious vehicles, and air cushioned landing craft. Gray realized that advanced defensive weapons would make traditional linear amphibious operations launched just offshore problematical, but OTH would enable landing in column in places that the enemy did not expect. Gray had the Marine Corps experiment with these capabilities. Throughout the nineties, numerous war games and field experiments took place to explore the physical and intellectual challenges. OTH gradually evolved into Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS) and a whole new philosophy of littoral campaigning.
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Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting
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My parents were children during the war. Mom is just a baby (born 38). Older dad (born 34). And they remembered that time differently. And they told it differently. Dad, grandmother (his mother) and little brother remained in Stalino (Donetsk). We didn't have time to leave. Dad's brother was like his grandfather's Greek breed. He was curly, black-haired, black-eyed.
And he looked very much like a Jewish child. Therefore, he spent most of the occupation in the cellar. First alone, then he had a “cellmate”. Little Jewish girl. Her mother worked with her grandmother at school before the war. And then the Germans hanged her. And the grandmother hid her friend’s five-year-old daughter with her son. It was very dangerous, but she couldn’t do it any other way.
There were informers everywhere, you couldn’t erase a word from the song. The grandmother was invited to the commandant’s office and interrogated with passion about her husband. She cried and said that she had had no news since the beginning of the war. And it was true. Grandfather went to the front immediately.
But he was a communist and an officer, so they reported on my grandmother. Thank God she wasn't "punished". They offered to work for the benefit of great Germany as a cleaner in the commandant's office. And she agreed. And she worked. No one knew that the quiet cleaning lady listened carefully to everything that was said around her (she knew a little language).
And she raked out all the papers from the trash cans. All this was sent to the underground. Dad was still just a kid. 7-8 years old. And always hungry. He had to make sure that the children in the cellar did not make noise while their mother was not at home. Together with his friend, an equally small boy, they once discovered that one of the boards with which the windows of the basement were boarded up was not holding tightly.
The boys knew that the Germans stored food in this basement. And they climbed in there several times just to eat and take something with them. And one time they were unlucky, they were discovered by a security guard. Dad's friend somehow managed to escape. And the German beat my dad badly. My back was in tatters. How much did a thin and exhausted 7-year-old boy need? He somehow crawled home and fell unconscious.
His grandmother miraculously came out. And dad’s back remained straight as a board all his life. He couldn’t bend over; he had to sit down. And I was sick all my life when the weather changed. And the children sat safely in the cellar until ours returned. And after the war, relatives of the Jewish girl Sonya were found. These are the memories.
From comments on the same thread by Elena Savinova
My great-aunt lived in the Kirovograd region. I myself visited there only as a child and heard her story about the war.
The Nazis didn’t touch their village: because it was to feed them. And then one day a fascist wandered into her house.
One.
Well, he started all sorts of obscenities. In the courtyard. The grandmother grabbed a pitchfork and rammed the reptile to an abandoned well. Well, they managed to knock him over there.
She was wildly scared. People came to look for him more than once. And they covered the entire village. Well, they looked for her.
And their yard is huge, with a large garden and buildings. So there were no witnesses to her action.
They didn't find him. But the family was afraid for a long time.
Grandmother lived with two little girls: Vera and Nadezhda.
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[RIA] The onslaught of the Red Army at the beginning of 1945 made it possible for Anglo-American troops to easily invade Germany, which contributed to the final defeat of Nazism - this was admitted after the war by Adolf Hitler's former personal adjutant Otto Günsche in a statement to the Soviet government. A copy of the document was published by the Russian FSB.
Günsche, along with other close associates of Hitler, was arrested in May 1945 by the Soviet military counterintelligence Smersh and taken to Moscow. He gave a number of testimonies about the events that took place at the headquarters of Hitler's command. The FSB Directorate for the Ivanovo Region has declassified documents from the Günsche investigation case.
[AmericanThinker] Seventy years ago in 1954, immigration authorities created a mass deportation program in the face of out-of-control intrusions at our southern border. Then, like now, the gravity of the problem called for a dramatic policy response. Unlike now, the federal government rapidly responded, creating a system of roaming "deportation parties" concentrated on border-area factories and farms, netting tens of thousands of illegals in its first few days. The model, which would establish Border Patrol and ICE as we know them today, would later be dubbed, "Operation Wetback."
Intensely reviled by the globalist Left even to this day, the program is recurringly attacked in mainstream outlets and scholarly journals as yet another blot on America’s trail-of-tears history. As something of an immigration scholar myself, one of the better examples of academic treatment I’ve come across is a 2006 paper from UCLA African-American Studies professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández. As she shows, Operation Wetback offers plenty of guidance on how to deal with the current border invasion, especially in reclaiming deportations and border control as essential to both receiving and source countries alike.
No doubt surprisingly to some, Prof. Hernández writes in the piece that "cross-border research [into the program] transforms the typically nation-bound and time-bound narrative of Operation Wetback into an unexpected story of evolving binational efforts at migration control" -- that is, "binational" efforts between the U.S. and Mexico such as "collaborative deportations, coordinated raids, and shared surveillance." Few would know or at least admit that Operation Wetback was indeed a "binational effort" and essentially co-created by the Mexican government; such is the degree of disinformation and slanted revisionism of the program. As Hernández recounts in her piece, due to Mexican agribusiness facing upward wage pressure from what had grown into a mass outflow of domestic laborers by the mid-1940s, Mexican officials met with State and Justice department officials and successfully negotiated for things like an increase in U.S. Border Patrol officers on the border.
Capturing the sentiment on the other side of the border at the time, Hernández writes: "Mexican newspapers, politicians, and activists all tried to convince [would-be illegals] to stay in Mexico... remind[ing] them of their duty to participate in the economic development of Mexico by working south of the border." So patriotic, nationally-minded, and focused on curbing the exodus, Mexican officials "attempted to directly interrupt illegal labor migration to the United States" (think of their simple refusal to deport U.S.-bound migrants today) while some in government even called for "turning intransigents among them into ’forced labor’ within Mexico." (Emphasis mine).
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The economics and politics of illegal immigration have radically changed on both sides of the border. The biggest obstacle to fixing things if Biden is defeated will be corporate ownership of GOP Senators and Cogressmen.
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Temporarily move all those new IRS agents over to the BP.
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It'd be easy to get rid of them. No need for box cars rolling toward the border filled with deportees. Just don't let them work. You know, the idea of tamper proof Social Security cards and a database of valid cards. No welfare, health care or education either. The fact that we don't have any such system is proof that both parties want illegal immigration in defiance of what the people want and the dangers posed by an open border.
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^ Yes, it will also stop when nobody votes for "Chamber of Communism" repubs.
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[NYPOST] Behold the "frat boys" unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting "USA, USA, USA," and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.
God Forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which only has itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
The latest ABC-IPSOS poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That that was entirely down to Trump’s huge 12-point advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young Tik Tok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!
Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It’s sexual reparations that nobody had a say in.
There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.
So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity ...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep... or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.
During the pandemic they were given the name “Karen” as they marched around in masks enforcing petty rules or flew into aggressive rages during minor parking lot encounters.
When accountability occasionally finds them, they are flabbergasted beyond belief, while the rest of the world quietly revels in their comeuppance.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the avatar of the entitled female.
The White House press secretary is simply horrible at her job. She’s not on top of her material and never provides a coherent answer to reporters’ questions.
But instead of showing a little humility and upping her game she does interviews boasting about how awesome she is at “the hardest job in the White House . . . I’m an historic figure and I walk in history every day.”hen men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...every time you hear the phrase 
...always the voice of sweet reason...
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
