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-Great Cultural Revolution
Census: Biden Grows Foreign-Born Population to Highest Level Ever
[Breitbart] Under President Joe Biden, the foreign-born population of the United States has grown to its highest level ever recorded, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.

Over the last year, the Biden administration added two million new foreign-born residents to the U.S. population — illegal aliens and legal immigrants on green cards and visas — serving as a boon for Biden’s billionaire donors in the financial industry who are some of the biggest beneficiaries of mass immigration and an ever-growing populace.

According to Steven Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies, who analyzed the latest Census Bureau data, the foreign-born population hit nearly 47 million this year, which is the largest ever recorded by the agency’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement survey.

Since 1970, the nation’s foreign-born population has quintupled and since 1980, it has tripled in size. In 1990, the foreign-born population was just half of what it is today — with 1-in-7 U.S. residents having been born outside of the country.

“The foreign-born share of the U.S. population is approaching the record highs reached in 1910 (14.7 percent) and 1890 (14.8 percent),” Camarota writes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Once you destroy your history you can't learn from those before you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hunter Biden cries poverty! President's son is demanding his support payments to four-year-old love child with Lunden Roberts be LOWERED due to a 'substantial material change' to his income
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Hunter Biden is seeking to lower his child support payments for four-year-old love child Navy Joan
    ...the fourth of his five children...
    who he fathered with Lunden Roberts

  • He filed a motion to adjust child support Monday, citing 'a substantial material change' in his 'financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income'
    ...no one more deserved to lose income, since it’s all nefariously sourced...
  • Hunter has never met the young girl who lives with her mother in Arkansas

  • An insider tells DailyMail.com, 'Not being part of your child's life is one thing, but not supporting her financially as he should is quite another'

  • Hunter was just living in a $20,000-per-month Malibu home with his wife Melissa and son Beau, but has recently moved out
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Give 10% of Hunter's share of the $2+ billion Chinese bribe investment fund for the Little Girl.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/15/2022 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Hunter was just living in a $20,000-per-month Malibu home

Was he neighbours with aca Joe?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/15/2022 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Or does Joe live in tenochtitlan, I forget.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/15/2022 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I've had a substantial hit to my income also, they never seemed to give a shit about that in court. I hope to live long enough to see the bastards get the anti aircraft treatment that KIm whatever uses.
Posted by: Chris || 09/15/2022 2:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, he can ask 10% dad to pony up the money. Anyways great time for the mom's players to force discovery. Sit back and heat the popcorn!
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 09/15/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  ...the fourth of his five children.

Who should endure a lifetime of close monitoring, for the safety of mankind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2022 6:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Wait. Shouldn't he have to back that petition up with, you know, documentation?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/15/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#8  "My art isn't selling"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/15/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: badanov || 09/15/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#10  I can understand why Hunter goes through a whole lot of money in a short period of time causing spontaneous brokeness no matter how much the CCP pays him. What I don't understand is why Joe needs a lot of cash. Drive him through Dairy Queen once a day and get him 11 sets of child panties to wear on his head at a weekend garage sale and he should be all set. That is cheap stuff. He could retire to my neighborhood - maybe the next town over; we have standards.
Send the kid the presidential salary. It's not like Joe is earning it. The national railways are shutting down, but Joe will probably be playing with his Lionel set in his Delaware basement this weekend.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/15/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
3 Planeloads of Migrants Arrive at Martha's Vineyard Airport - 1 from San Antonio, 2 from Florida
Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals are available to everyone, on both sides of the aisle.
Planeload of Venezuelan Migrants Arrives at Martha's Vineyard Airport

[Vinyard Gazette] A plane carrying approximately 48 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia landed unexpectedly at Martha’s Vineyard Airport Wednesday afternoon. Island officials and emergency management representatives were gathering to deal with the situation.

"We’re immigrants," said Eliase, who said he was from Venezuela. "We came here because of the situation in our country, for the economy, for work, for lots of things. I came here walking. We went through 10 different countries until we got to Texas. There a refugee association put us in a plane and told us there would be work and housing here. I feel good, despite everything. We spent four days in Texas so it’s good to be here."

Sen. Julian Cyr said the plane originated in San Antonio, Tex.,
...the largest majority-Hispanic city in America, with a twice re-elected Progressive-Independent mayor, so it’s interesting that they, too, are gleefully forwarding these people to smugly self-righteous, Democrat destinations further on...
and appeared to be part of a larger campaign to divert migrants from border states.

"Just like the reverse freedom rides in the 1960s, this endeavor is a cruel ruse that is manipulating families who are seeking a better life," Senator Cyr said. "No one should be capitalizing on the difficult circumstances that these families are in and contorting that for the purposes of a "gotcha" moment."

The passengers were taken to Martha's Vineyard Community Services before being relocated to the cafeteria at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where they were given water bottles and fruit cups. Children were playing with chalk on the sidewalk outside.

Courtesy of Skidmark:
Ron DeSantis sends two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard
Because all the Kewl Kids are doing it now.
[FoxNews] Florida governor sends migrants to Martha's Vineyard as part of program 'to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations'

A video provided to Fox News Digital shows the migrants deboarding the planes at Martha’s Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts.

"Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," the governor’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, told Fox News Digital.

"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden administration’s open border policies," she said.

"As you may know, in this past legislative session the Florida legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of illegal immigrants from this state consistent with federal law," she added.

The office of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker responded to an after-hours email from Fox News Digital, saying it was aware of the situation and that the arrivals were provided short-term shelter.

"The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Vineyard," Terry MacCormack, Baker's press secretary, wrote. "At this time, short-term shelter services are being provided by local officials, and the Administration will continue to support those efforts."

Fox News Digital reported in April that Florida’s budget since approved by the state legislature included $12 million for the Florida Department of Transportation to remove illegal immigrants from the state and relocate them.

Martha's Vineyard is famously known as a playground of rich progressives, including former President Barack Obama, who bought a multimillion-dollar house there in 2019.

DeSantis, a Republican, proposed Delaware or Martha’s Vineyard as a destination for such migrants, but his office explained at the time that they could also be sent "to other 'progressive' states whose governors endorse blatant violations of federal immigration law."

"It is not the responsibility of Floridians to subsidize aliens to reside in our state unlawfully; we did not consent to Biden’s open-borders agenda," the governor’s office said at the time.

In November, DeSantis said dozens of migrant flights landed in Florida at the behest of the Biden administration, and he threatened at that time to send them to Delaware on buses.

Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, began sending thousands of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., in April as the migrant crisis overwhelmed border states. In August, buses from Texas started heading to New York City and Chicago. Arizona has also sent buses to Washington.

Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals
"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
"Never go outside the expertise of your people."
"Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
"A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
"Keep the pressure on."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. "
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
"If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
"The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:





#5  The idea that communists believe in the equal distribution of suffering to all is proved to be false.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/15/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  More planes. Faster, please.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/15/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Massachusetts Dems react after DeSantis transports migrants into ritzy Martha's Vineyard: 'Evil and inhumane'

But Breakfast Tacos? Civic Duty? Who We Are?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2022 15:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Skidmark it seems all Harris does is observe her navel so being housed in the Naval Oseratory is very fitting.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/15/2022 16:26 Comments || Top||

#9  -comes back from Ace's-
Oh
oh oh oh oh

Understand why I've been finding the anti-Christian stuff today.

OK, NPC update was this morning for the noon 'News' releases.

Favorite went something like,
Christians don't believe science in science books
Christians don't believe history in history books
Its no wonder they don't practice what they read in The Bible

Before anyone gets all pissy about this lame meme of attack, the left can't meme. They mean the Heinz 57 genders of I fucking Love Science! Covid experts, their History begins two years ago, but The Bible, know it back and forth and because History is 2 years old forget their Fred Phelps Literally Follows the Bible stuff.

That's the line? These people walked out of abject poverty a quarter of the Western Continents and when they arrive in Texas, it is absolutely inhuman to put them on a bus and send them to the most affluent places on Earth. That is some Chewbacca Defense.

Tards.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||

#10  "We are a nation built on the values of The Bible! Values you, you....Christians don't know anything about! You need to do better Governor Cruise!"

LOLGF'd
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||

#11  The open border is a ploy for cheap workers... Big business is being driven out of China so they need cheap unskilled workers in the USA. This will put our bl..k and ment..ly challenged works back on the dole.
Posted by: Clatle Hupusing1113 || 09/15/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||

#12  "The island is home to the Obamas, Spike Lee, David Letterman, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Mike Nichols, and Diane Sawyer. "
Posted by: Papa Cooky || 09/15/2022 18:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Oprah is gonna buy them all new cars!
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/15/2022 20:03 Comments || Top||

#14  I don't remember hearing anything from those people when Biden flew "migrants" to all parts of Red states in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/15/2022 21:00 Comments || Top||

#15  I don't remember hearing anything from those people when Biden flew "migrants" to all parts of Red states in the middle of the night.

That wazs human trafficking. This is different and so must be stopped.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/15/2022 22:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
Late night strongarm by Biden leads to Railroad union agreement
[PJMedia] Labor headaches are the last thing any president needs — especially when it involves critical transportation infrastructure like railroads in an election year. So, on Wednesday, the eve of a potentially politically and economically ruinous rail strike, Joe Biden asked the two sides to meet in Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh’s office for negotiations.

Harry Truman reportedly tried this method of persuasion during the steel strike of 1949 by locking the negotiators for both sides in a room and not letting them out until they made a deal.

As it was, the two sides were making little progress until Biden called into the meeting around 9 p.m. After that, it was all downhill as a tentative labor agreement was reached a few hours later.

CNBC:

“The tentative agreement reached tonight is an important win for our economy and the American people,” Biden said in a statement. “It is a win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that America’s families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years.”

The White House had been in talks with railroad workers’ unions and companies for several months, but negotiations were hung up over unpaid sick time.

Once Biden got involved, the writing was on the wall. And not surprisingly, the unions made out like bandits.

The new contracts provide rail employees a 24% wage increase during the five-year period from 2020 through 2024, including an immediate average payouts of $11,000 upon ratification, according to the Association of American Railroads. All tentative agreements are subject to ratification by the unions’ membership.

It appears the union got the sugar while the companies probably got the vinegar. “Nice company ya got there, pal. Be a shame if the SEC got interested in your books.”

Biden, who has called himself the most union-friendly president in history and pilloried companies for raking in “excessive” profits, praised a deal that he said would give workers “better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs.”

Jacking up transportation costs in the middle of an inflationary period will probably mean the Fed’s inflation-fighting rate increases won’t mean squat. Biden may have solved his immediate political problem but what’s inflation going to look like a year from now? Presidential intrusions into the labor-management dynamic always end up being good for the union and not so good for the average consumer.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2022 09:51 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sweet deal for the unions. Expect transport costs to skyrocket in a stagflation economy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  C'mon, man. You don't expect me to believe that Joe had the strong arm...especially late at night.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/15/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  This may be wrong but I read that the tentative agreement included the RRs giving workers UNPAIDED sick leave as a concession.

Unions still have to vote on it. I'm not sure if I was a union guy I would consider this much of a concession since most unions get paid sick leave.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/15/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Key words here , "tentative agreement". Friday is the day.
Posted by: Dale || 09/15/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#5  GDP Now measured by the Atlanta Fed is only +0.5 as of a few days ago

If there were a RR strike, even if only a few days, this would have guaranteed a GDP for 3Q that would be solidly negative - and that would have likely cost the Dems a half dozen House and one or two Senate seats.

The 3Q GDP might still be negative, even with a settlement, but only by a bit less than 1%.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/15/2022 15:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Lord Garth they already have unpaid sick leave.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/15/2022 16:24 Comments || Top||

#7  What do the RR workers make per hour?

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/15/2022 20:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Speaking of late night, many many cars pulling into the Dallas FBI Deep State Office parking lots. Something big about to go down. Probably more raids on President Trumps voters.
Posted by: Sloluse Slutle9788 || 09/15/2022 20:43 Comments || Top||

#9  What do the RR workers make per hour?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021 median pay for railroad workers was $64,150 per year/$30.84 per hour. Required education is a high school diploma.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/15/2022 22:31 Comments || Top||

#10  I heard BNSF stands for Better Not Start A Family....
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/15/2022 22:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California Governor GavinNewsom says he has signed a bill into law requiring transparency of social media companies
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Based on the composition of the California legislature, I think we can rule out the possibility that this bill will be helpful or effective.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/15/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Congratulations Komrades, you have now been joined with the State to keep up appearances. Like Well, and you shall live.

Silicon Valley was the place to be..
liberal employees and policies.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||



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