The Wickedness of Joe Biden and His Enablers

Undermining the system—attempting to 

disenfranchise the American people—is wicked.

by Daniel Oliver for American Greatness

Bill Kristol has announced he thinks Joe Biden shouldn’t run for a second term. 

Here is Kristol in July 2020: “A lot of people who want to get rid of Trump would be reassured that Biden is a capable person, he is not senile, he is not, you know, going to be captured by AOC two months into his presidency and stuff, so I think it is a reassurance thing for Biden.” Right. You know.

And here he is again in October 2020:

I think from my point of view, it’s been easier also to support the Democrats this year, because Joe Biden is the nominee. The center did hold in the Democratic Party, something the conservatives now are busy denying that’s the case. They’re pretending that the nominee is Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or AOC or something, even after Biden defeated the wall. There’s also a sign [that the conservatives] are not accepting [the] good news, which is [that] it looks like we might get a centrist democratic administration which could restore some stability and some sensible governance to the country. And that’s a good thing.

In fairness to Kristol and the other Democrats who supported Biden, one might say that they could not have known how bad Biden would be, how left-wing crazy he would be. But it was perfectly apparent that he was senile and that he was—how to put it delicately?—not bright, and certainly not honest. 

Biden’s election was facilitated by an utterly corrupt media, which worked tirelessly to suppress the reality that Biden was not capable of discharging the duties of the presidency, and that the Hunter Biden laptop clearly indicated that he and his son were very likely corrupt.

It was also clear that the Democratic Party was lurching left. For months, party leaders had disgracefully supported the George Floyd riots, which left two-dozen people murdered, scores of police injured, and did an estimated $2 billion in property damage. It would have taken some fortitude to stop the party from moving all the way over to cloud cuckoo land. 

Who among the Democrats possessed such fortitude? What force in the party could Kristol possibly have had in mind who would moderate Sanders, Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the other crazies? An aging Joe Biden? Anyone who actually thought that shouldn’t be invited on talk shows to discuss American politics. 

Let’s face it: the Biden record has been awful. He botched the Afghanistan withdrawal; he has mismanaged the economy, pushing inflation to Jimmy Carter levels; he has promoted senseless green policies that have driven up gas prices to levels not seen in decades; he has refused to enforce immigration laws, and has flown illegals around the country in the middle of the night to unsuspecting communities; he sold petroleum from the reserve to the Chinese; he promoted unrestrained abortion like China and North Korea; he has consigned black children to public school hellholes—all of these policies have driven his approval record among the American people to historic lows. 

Biden is incompetent and really always has been. And the crowd that put him in office knew that during the campaign. And yet—and yet—they were willing to foist this incompetent old man on the country! If that isn’t wicked, what is?

And the most Bill Kristol can offer is that he thinks Biden shouldn’t run again in 2024? Please!

Meanwhile, a correspondent writes that “it’s a bit rich for someone who voted for Trump twice to call those who voted for Biden ‘wicked.’” But why? What’s the reasoning behind that? 

What did Donald Trump do that was half as objectionable? Or remotely as wicked as this corrupt old “president” and his corrupt handlers?

Has there ever been anything more wicked than the Democrats’ three-year Russia collusion hoax attempt to remove the duly elected Donald Trump from office? Surely that retires the wickedness cup.

Policy disputes are one thing. There will always be policy disputes. But undermining the system—attempting to disenfranchise the American people—is different. That’s what Democrats tried to do while Trump was president. And it’s what they’re still trying to do by importing into the country millions of illegal, illiterate immigrants, who, they assume, will vote for the party of welfare.

Is that really what Bill Kristol wants? That’s wicked!

X22, And we Know, and more- July 31

 

Bold prediction: Before August ends, I'll finally have new Hetty content to overhype about. 🤞 Here's tonight's news:

Trump Stays in the Picture

There is a certain anxiety evident in current anti-Trump imprecations, 

made more understandable when one looks at the polls.

by Roger Kimball for American Greatness

For some time now, Michael Anton has been saying that the Establishment—Democrats tout court, of course, but also large swaths of the testosterone-challenged GOP—are dead set against allowing Donald Trump to run for president again. It’s been obvious from its beginnings that the January 6 committee—an illegally constituted kangaroo court—was interested in one thing and one thing only: eliminating Trump and his followers from the metabolism of American political life. The fact that its public face is Liz Cheney, a soon-to-be cashiered anti-Trump RINO, underscores Anton’s point, or part of it. 

It’s not just the Democrats who cannot countenance Trump. It is the entire certified political class, what Anton calls the bureaucratic “uniparty” that runs the government and maintains the Overton Window that determines what is and what is not acceptable in the political life of the country. Donald Trump is not in the picture frame. 

Another data point: just Friday, the New York Times gleefully reported that Fox News—Fox!—had also cut the former president loose. Apparently, he hasn’t appeared on the network since April. The Times noted that other mouthpieces of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire—the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, for example—had published opinion pieces harshly critical of Trump and pointedly announcing that he was unfit to run for president. 

There is a certain anxiety evident in all these anti-Trump imprecations, a fact that that is made more understandable when one looks at the polls. The unhappy fact—unhappy, anyway, if you are dead set against Donald Trump being president—is that Trump is by far the most vital Republican candidate. The Republican consensus is repeating the mantra “DeSantis, DeSantis, DeSantis.” Nothing wrong with that: Ron DeSantis is a good guy, Trump without the mean tweets and other baggage that CNN dislikes. Were he the GOP candidate, I would support him avidly. 

But will he be? As Newsmax reports, Trump is “crushing all potential opponents in a Republican primary,” including DeSantis. A recent Harvard-Harris poll has Trump hoovering up 56 percent of the vote in a field of seven GOP rivals. DeSantis clocks in with 16 percent. The last time I checked, 56 was a considerably bigger number than 16.

Anton’s point is that the regime is prepared to move heaven and earth to stop Trump. They would prefer to stop him from running at all. If they can’t do that, they will go to any length necessary to prevent him from winning. And if that doesn’t succeed, they will prevent him from being seated as the next president. 

As I say, Anton has been singing this tune for some time now, and I have been privileged to hear some of his cadenzas on the subject. He has now gathered the various leitmotifs together into a single robust essay that was published to wide notice last week in the lively new website Compact. Titled “They Can’t Let him Back In,” Anton’s essay reads like a playbook lifted from a John Le Carré novel. If the January 6 committee fails in its appointed task to destroy Trump, Anton forecasts, there are a host of contingencies ready and waiting to complete the job. 

Anton lists six or seven likely responses to a Trump candidacy, each more disturbing than the next. But what is perhaps most disturbing is his observation that this huge salient is not, or at least not primarily, about Donald Trump. At the end of the day, Anton observes, “Anti-Trump hysteria . . . is not about Trump.”

The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.

And what is that? Why, it’s what everyone says they want but few actually do: democracy, self-determination, the recovery of sovereignty by the people from the self-engorging bureaucracy that wrested power from the hands of the people decades ago. 

The burden of Anton’s essays is twofold: first, to explain why the regime believes that “under no circumstances” can Trump be allowed near the levers of power again and, second, how it intends to prevent that unacceptable thing from happening. As a coda, Anton points out that, should the impossible happen and should Donald Trump somehow, over Liz Cheney’s most strenuous objections, actually win the presidency and be en route to taking office, the reaction would be (in the words of a George Soros-linked entity) “a street fight, not a legal battle.” And then? A conflagration would erupt that would make “make their reaction to Jan. 6 look like a marshmallow roast.” 

I think all this is likely. But what I do not know, and what Anton does not speculate about, is what happens then. He is quite right that the regime has mastered the supreme rhetorical trope of blaming conservatives for fraudulent or near-fraudulent behavior that it itself perpetrates. They do the bad things. It is still our fault. “They get to engage in shenanigans that make elections look fishy; we get blamed for saying they look fishy.” Nice work if you can get it! 

But they can get it. All the time. It’s their stock in trade. That is the amazing thing. “When we point out that, hey, something looks off there, the response is invariably: How dare you sow doubt about the election! You are undermining confidence in Our Democracy™. Not their shenanigans, but our doubts undermine confidence.”

Exactly. But what about our side? Anton has reviewed the likely order of battle for the regime. What about us deplorables? Do we just roll over and take it? We always have. After the deeply flawed 2020 election was called for the Man in the Basement, there was abundant grumbling. There was even the jamboree at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. 

Liz Cheney hops up and down telling us that was an “insurrection.” We all know—even Cheney knows—it was not an insurrection. It was a spontaneous protest whose chief structure seems to have been supplied by various para-government operatives, informants, organizers, and plants. For his part, Donald Trump urged the crowd headed to the Capitol to make make their views known “peacefully and patriotically.” Determined to make the case that Trump was inciting a riot or worse, the Jan 6 committee omitted that bit from its video of the event. But the mass of citizens understands that Trump was not guilty of trying spark an “insurrection” to “overturn the election.”

The big question remains, however, what happens next time? Trump enjoys the support of tens of millions of people. How many read the New York Timesor watch CNN? One way of framing the question I have no answer for is this: Is there a line in the sand that, if crossed by the regime, would galvanize the deplorables into open revolt? What if, the next time a presidential election was curated by George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Democratic National Committee, a few million of them began acting like Black Lives Matter protestors during the summer of 2020? What then? 

The Same Media & Financial Voices Denying the Current Recession, are The Same Voices Who Proclaimed Trump’s Tariffs Would Destroy Economy

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..

Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later…. Despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them saying Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation, it just wasn’t happening!

Overall year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate.  The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent.   [See Below]  The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.

A couple of important points.  First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America-First MAGAnomic initiative.  Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.

Which brings us to the second important point.  Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation, 0.5 percent.  That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:

(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)

For the previous twenty years food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand.   The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.

President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process.  As farm products were less exported the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle.  Food prices dropped and our pantry costs were lowered.

The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year.   These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.

The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July, 2019, when Amazon held its two-day, blowout Prime Day sale. (link)

Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle-class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits.   Likely that’s because blue-collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong.  Yes, MAGAnomics was working.

Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?

Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:

[Table 1 – BLS report link]

This was a really interesting dynamic that no-one in the professional punditry would dare explain.

Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products.  [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.]  However, when the EU and China respond by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.

Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper.   Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere.   All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.

This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.

This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.

Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:

[…]  Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.

[…]  Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.

[Page #4 – BLS Report, pdf] – BLS press release

Serial Liar Adam Schiff Desperately Wants to Take the Speaker's Gavel From Serial Liar Nancy Pelosi

Mike Miller reporting for RedState 

While much of the political news out of Washington, D.C., these days is focused on the upcoming midterm elections and speculation about the 2024 presidential election (along with the never-ending disaster of the Biden presidency, of course), there’s another campaign going on, which is undoubtedly filled with more behind-the-scenes intrigue than anything else on Capitol Hill — the replacement of Nancy Pelosi.

A shadow campaign to lead House Democrats next year has been underway for months, as reported by The Washington Post in January, as speculation continues to grow over whether 82-year-old — and like Biden, mentally unfit —Pelosi will finally honor her word and step down as House Speaker.

While talk continues within the bowels of the Democrat Party [pun intended] about a “next-generation” leader who might energize the Democrat base — New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, for example — California serial liar Adam “Russia! Russia! Russia!” Schiff’s eleventh-hour push in recent weeks has taken Democrats by surprise, as reported by The Washington Post, raising questions about whether the Democrat caucus wants to mirror the diversity of its party’s base. (Hence, the interest in Jeffries.)

Man, how awesome would that be? Serial liar Adam Schiff replacing serial liar Nancy Pelosi as the supreme potentate of the Democrat Party?

Anyway, how can one accurately describe Adam Schiff, whose stage-4 Trump Derangement Syndrome affliction remains a sight to behold? Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw comes to mind, only in the following sense.

Years ago, during one of Bradshaw’s many appearances on The Tonight Show, then-host Jay Leno jokingly asked him, “Terry, you’re such a nice guy, why can’t you stay married?” Bradshaw replied, a twinkle in his eye, “Jay — I just can’t not not [sic] lie!” In Adam Schiff’s case, he just can’t not not lie about Donald Trump and all things “Russia! Rusia! Russia!” — from the baseless 2016 election Russia “collusion” hoax to tip the election to Trump, to the “Russian plot” behind the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Yet incredulously, Schiff appears to be neither embarrassed nor remorseful by any of it. 

Here’s more, via WaPo:

Schiff, who gained attention investigating Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election before leading the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, is exploring a bid to lead the House Democratic caucus if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) retires after the midterm elections, according to more than a dozen House members and top aides who have spoken directly with the congressman.

This account of Schiff’s recent efforts is based on interviews with eight lawmakers and 18 staff members and lobbyists familiar with leadership dynamics, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

If he can amass enough interest in his candidacy, Schiff would upend a race that was considered largely set, challenging a variety of Democrats gunning for the top spot, including possibly Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who has positioned himself among members as Pelosi’s heir apparent and represents a new generation of Democrats.

Schiff’s overtures, which began in earnest earlier this year, have focused on consolidating support among his home base, the expansive California delegation, according to members of that group. And though he has not made an explicit ask for endorsements, he is gauging members’ interest and planting the seed that leading the caucus is his goal.

Setting aside Schiff’s grandiose ego and awe-inspiring image of himself, is this guy crazy [rhetorical question] or simply drunk with self-aggrandizement? In addition to his (lying) obsession with all things Trump and Russia, his pattern continues. Prior to the first Democrat Jan. 6 Committee farce, Schiff in June claimed a “great deal” of new evidence existed about the Capitol riot and Trump’s involvement.

One question: Where’s the beef?

Where is all of that damning new evidence? As with all things Adam Schiff, it doesn’t exist. And if did, Schiff for Brains™ would’ve been all over it like a duck on a June bug, months ago.

The Search for the Supreme Court Leaker Is Narrowing

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

What is the status of the internal investigation into who leaked the draft opinion of the Dobbs case?

Chief Justice John Roberts opened an internal investigation into who leaked the opinion, calling it “appalling” and an attack on the integrity of the Court that would not succeed. “To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” the chief justice said in a rare public statement. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”

Marshal Gail Curley, a former U.S. Army colonel with a long legal history in the military, is conducting the investigation.

But since then, we haven’t heard anything official, and it’s been almost three months. The Court was not commenting on the matter when asked by Fox News. They’re not even saying if any other law enforcement has been called in on the matter.

Now, Fox News has some more information about the matter. They have multiple sources saying that of the 70 people who were thought to have had access to the opinion, the investigation has now narrowed down the potential suspects.

About three dozen or so law clerks were asked to turn over their cellphones and sign affidavits, presumably saying they didn’t leak the opinion. It’s not clear if all the clerks complied. Since they generally only have a year term, most of those who would have been there during the leak may have moved on to other jobs so they can no longer have their job held over their heads to have them comply with the investigation. Getting anything from them in the future may be difficult with just an internal investigation, and it’s not clear if there is any other investigation going on apart from the internal investigation.

Curley has also asked permanent court staff to turn over their phones and electronic devices, as well. But there’s only so much that Curley can do. She doesn’t have subpoena power or any real investigative force behind her actions.

Since the leak, the Supreme Court justices have faced protests at their homes and have been under constant threat. One leftist action organization even offered bounties for tattling when someone spots a justice, so the radicals can rush to wherever they are and harass them. Pro-life care centers have been firebombed, and churches vandalized, by radicals.

The question of who it is and what “side” the person is on has been a question of great interest, with people on both sides of the aisle convinced that it’s the other side–although the conventional wisdom is that it’s a person on the left.

Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog also has offered a theory. Observing that the Politico story was written by Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward, a legal-affairs reporter and national-security reporter, respectively, he speculates that the only logical reason for Ward to have a byline on the SCOTUS story is that the leaker went to him. Dan has pointed out that before working for Politico, Ward was a reporter at Vox, a far-left news outlet, perhaps more reason to be comfortable in the assumption that the leak indeed came from the left.

There still appear to be leaks on-going, as someone leaked to CNN (if one can believe CNN) about Chief Justice John Roberts supposedly wanting to convince people to save Roe.

So, they obviously need to figure out where the leaks are coming from, if they hope to preserve the integrity of the Court–or this may happen again.

Tom Cotton Says Leak About Pelosi's Taiwan Trip Came 'Straight From the White House'

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

We reported how China had threatened the U.S. and Taiwan on the phone call that Chinese President Xi Jinping had with Joe Biden, saying the U.S. was “playing with fire” and would get “burnt” if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went to Taiwan. Biden’s response? A milquetoast reply that didn’t blast them for the threat.

So after showing that weakness, then a CCP media propagandist threatened that China would blow Pelosi’s plane out of the sky if she went with a military escort. The response of the White House? White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she refused to comment, saying whether or not Pelosi was going was “a hypothetical.” It was a pathetic response, not blasting the Chinese for threatening the Speaker of the House.

Pelosi hasn’t revealed her formal plans yet for her Asia trip; although she was supposed to go to Taiwan in June, but came down with COVID.

But Sen.Tom Cotton (R-AR) revealed something that is just despicable, if true, particularly in light of the threats from China — he said that his understanding was the White House leaked Pelosi’s plans to visit Taiwan.

“Well the word I’ve heard in Congress is that the leak of Nancy Pelosi’s trip came straight from the White House, the pressure came from Joe Biden who doesn’t want her to take this trip because he’s once again kowtowing to Beijing,” Cotton explained to Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel. “But Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden shouldn’t be worried about China’s aggressiveness, they should be making China worry about our aggressiveness,” he noted. “For decades, American lawmakers have been traveling to Taiwan — of both parties — and that should continue now, especially after it became public,” Cotton urged.

Cotton added that he saw Speaker Pelosi earlier in the week and “told her it was absolutely essential that she go forward with this trip, no matter what Joe Biden says.”

Cotton said that they could not allow China to threaten us over a member of Congress visiting Taiwan.

“We cannot back down in the face of these Chinese threats,” Cotton reiterated, saying if Biden “prevents Nancy Pelosi or any other member of Congress from traveling to Taiwan, it will create a major foreign policy crisis — imagine what it will signal to the Chinese Communists if they think they can threaten us into merely not traveling to Taiwan,” Cotton warned. “It might in fact incite them and tempt them to go for the jugular in Taiwan.”

Add that to the White House’s pathetic response to the threats, particularly the one against Pelosi, and one has to ask if Biden is compromised. If Biden is leaking to prevent her from going, so as not to anger China, he is compromised and we are in deep trouble. This is why the investigation into Hunter’s foreign connections is so important. If China can threaten the Speaker of the House and prevent her from going, they will think they can walk all over us and invade Taiwan. That’s where Biden is leading us–just like his weakness may have made Russia believe they could invade Ukraine.

 

Article by General Mick McGuire in Townhall

No Sovereignty Without Border Security

 

There are three very clear, very distinct and incontrovertible truths in America when it comes to immigration and border control.  They are truths that we should not marginalize or forget, but that we should keep at the top of mind moving forward.

The first truth is that America is a country of immigrants.  We are a nation that was founded by tough and resilient people who broke from their colonial overseers on principle and who forged a great, diverse, and strongly-bonded nation with successive generations of immigrants coming to our shores from all around the world.  All of what is great that America has achieved and what America still offers – from a philosophy of freedom, to world-changing inventions, to science and engineering – would not be without immigrants.

The second truth is that America is a country that now – due to a devastating combination of ill-conceived policy and reckless messaging – is reeling from a border security crisis of unconscionable heights.  It is a real crisis with daily ramifications that is imperiling the lives and livelihoods of American citizens across the country.  It is causing the exploitation of the desperate and vulnerable and filling the coffers of brutal criminals and thugs.

And the third truth – related to the first and second – is that no country has real sovereignty without borders.  This is a plain fact that unfortunately gets lost in the back-and-forth discussions about American border security and immigration policy.  And while all of the humanitarian and economic arguments can be made for having flexible approaches to immigration – the fact is that no country has sovereignty without tight, consistent and uniform border security.  Most importantly, this issue of sovereignty is not just academic – it is an important reason for why immigrants come to America, and decide to be full-fledged citizens of our country.

What Americans of all political stripes in the southwest border-states know is that our current crisis has essentially been ignored by the powers in Washington DC…ignored until the topic becomes too hot for comfort and they’re forced to at least make it look like they’re doing something constructive.  The fact that it is a real crisis is perhaps part of the reason the Biden Administration has just quietly worked to complete some more border wall sections here in our home State of Arizona.  But for citizens who call Arizona home, and who see the deleterious effects of unchecked immigration, narcotics trafficking, transnational crime and vicious human exploitation, this seems like a cynical ploy, and it is too little too late.     

It is for these reasons why I have called for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas to be impeached for what is a clear dereliction of his duties as the primary official in charge of maintaining a secure border and for administering a just and humane immigration policy.  It is also for these reasons why I intend to tackle this issue head-on, with full-force and experience should I be elected to the U.S.Senate. 

Perhaps the most frustrating and unfortunate aspect of our current calamity at the border is that much of this could have been stopped.  It didn’t have to spiral into the massive problem it has become.  It could have been addressed early on with commitment to the rule of law, strong support for our federal law enforcement agencies charged with protecting our borders, and without the destructive pandering to activist groups with political and economic agendas that run counter to the wishes and desires of a majority of the Nation.  It shouldn’t be a red versus blue or liberal versus conservative issue.  The fact is that when criminal organizations exploit a weak border in order to push poisonous narcotics or to sell the vulnerable into slavery, they do so without one single thought about American politics.  A porous border, with backwards enforcement policies is a detriment to all Americans.

As Arizonans go to the polls on Tuesday, August 2nd and cast a vote for the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Arizona, please keep these things in mind.  Think of America as a strong Nation with an imperative need for fair but firm legal immigration policies and what we can accomplish if this is the standard we adhere to.  Think of America as a Nation where the rule of law is still important, vital to sovereignty and democracy, and how we must emphasize this truth moving ahead.  

And finally, think of the accountability, courage and experienced leadership that we desperately need in Washington DC – to ensure that American communities, composed of patriots from all backgrounds and walks of life, are safe, sound and secure again.

https://townhall.com/campaign-voices/generalmickmcguire/2022/07/31/no-sovereignty-without-border-security-n2611037 

 

 

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