Shipbuilder Discovers Vessels It Provided to the U.S. Navy May Have Been Intentionally Sabotaged During Production

Is someone trying to sabotage the Navy?

Evidence suggests so as a memo released Tuesday by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Nickolas Guertin to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchett says welds on in-service and in-construction Navy submarines and aircraft carriers were intentionally faulty.

USNI News reported Thursday that Newport News Shipbuilding — a Virginia based company and division of Huntington Ingalls Industries — told the Department of Justice that welds could have been made wrong intentionally.

Newport News Shipbuilding provided a statement to USNI saying they discovered welds that “did not meet our high-quality standards.”

The company, “took immediate action to communicate with our customers and regulators, investigate, determine root cause, bound these matters and insert immediate corrective actions to prevent any recurrence of these issues.”

USNI also confirmed with the Navy they are looking into the problem saying a “thorough evaluation is underway.”

According to USNI, Newport News is only one of two nuclear shipyards in the United States.

How concerning should this information be?

Guertin’s memo characterizes intent rather than sheer negligence as the problem.

If that is the case, its unnerving that some person or persons working closely with one of only two nuclear shipyards is trying to sabotage naval vessels.

In their report, BizPac Review brought another possible explanation to light: DEI.

While we can only speculate, DEI hiring policies in places like the aircraft industry have bred dangerous results in recent months.

As previously stated, Newport News Shipbuilding is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

As the trend goes with companies in 2024, HII’s website has its own DEI page laden with the usual left-wing jargon.

One statement from HII stands out as particularly concerning in light in recent news.

In pursuing, “company sponsored and employee-led opportunities that ensure the many voices are heard and our people thrive,” HII has created, “Executive-led Diversity & Inclusion Councils that guide our diversity and inclusion efforts.”

While this is purely speculation, DEI efforts — that is, the shunning of merit-based hiring in favor of race, ethnicity, and gender-based hiring — don’t lead to top quality work.

Whatever the cause of the Navy’s latest problems, it remains that — a problem that needs fixing.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/shipbuilder-discovers-vessels-provided-u-s-navy-may/?utm_source=%3Futm_source%3Dnewsletter%26utm_medium%3Devening_send

Dangerous MSNBC Wacko Joy Reid Warns Trump’s Victory Would Result in ‘Hitlerian Dictatorship’ (VIDEO)

 MSNBC’s resident wacko Joy Reid has suggested that America is heading towards a repeat of Nazi Germany if Donald Trump prevails in November.

She made the comments two weeks after the second attempted assassination of President Trump. This woman is reckless.

In one of her trademark unhinged rants on her show The ReidOut, Reid bemoaned the fact that voters trust Trump over Harris on the question of immigration as the Biden administration continues to invite the entire world to cross the southern border at the American taxpayers expense.

She explained:

Donald Trump knows he can’t win the election based on the crappy job he did as president or his frankly crazy ideas for another administration, like spiking the cost of everything we buy through tariffs. So instead, he’s going with fear of immigrants.

A majority of voters say they trust Trump more when it comes to dealing with the border. A man who doesn’t know the difference between political asylum and an insane asylum and his plans to deport every immigrant would send our economy into a freefall because fear, whether real or irrational, can be an effective political tactic.

The question now for America is, have we gotten to the point where we would destroy our own economy and walk willingly into a Hitlerian dictatorship because of the fear Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies are perpetuating solely for their own political benefit.

It is not the first time that Reid has compared Trump to Hitler, despite claims her vile rhetoric has led to an environment of political violence where there have already been two assassination attempts against him.

In a TikTok published back in May, Reid said she would vote for then candidate Joe Biden even if she were in a coma to avoid “Hitler” entering the White House.

“Just let me know when you guys are finished figuring it out, Democrats. Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House,” she explained. “If it’s Biden in a coma, I’m going to vote for Biden in a coma. I don’t even really, in particular, like the guy. A lot of his policies? Don’t like them, [but] he’s not Donald Trump, right?”

“Yeah, Hitler, White House, we’re keeping him out,” she continued. “We’re keeping Project 2025 out — that’s all I care about. Up and down the ballot, from the rooter to the tooter, school board all the way up to the White House and everything in between.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/dangerous-msnbc-wacko-joy-reid-warns-trumps-victory/?utm_source=%3Futm_source%3Dnewsletter%26utm_medium%3Devening_send

Biden’s Gestapo DOJ Sues Alabama for Removing Noncitizens on the Voter Rolls

 The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched yet another blatant attack on state sovereignty and election integrity, this time setting its sights on Alabama.

In an outrageous move, the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Alabama for daring to clean up its voter rolls by removing illegal noncitizens from the system ahead of the upcoming general election.

This lawsuit, spearheaded by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), citing so-called “Quiet Period” provisions meant to prevent last-minute adjustments to voter registration lists.

Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State, Wes Allen, initiated a program in August to ensure only eligible citizens remain on the voter rolls, specifically targeting over 3,000 individuals who were flagged with noncitizen identification numbers, according to The Guardian.

According to reports, letters were sent out to noncitizens on Alabama’s voter rolls, informing them that their registration had been flagged as inactive and was under review for removal.

But, predictably, Biden’s DOJ swooped in, claiming that not only noncitizens but also native-born and naturalized U.S. citizens were affected by these letters. The DOJ contends that this action could confuse voters and deter them from participating in the election.

Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, had the audacity to declare that Alabama’s efforts “violate federal law,” and expressed concern about “voter confusion” resulting from the state’s actions. Clarke went on to lecture Alabama about the “sacred right to vote,” while ignoring the blatant irony of her statement—protecting the right to vote should first and foremost mean ensuring that illegal noncitizens aren’t tipping the scales in elections meant for American citizens.

“The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke.

“As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law. Officials across the country should take heed of the National Voter Registration Act’s clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election.”

“The Quiet Period Provision of federal law exists to prevent eligible voters from being removed from the rolls as a result of last-minute, error-prone efforts. The Justice Department will continue to use all the tools it has available to ensure that the voting rights of every eligible voter are protected.”

According to the press release:

Section 8(c)(2) of the NVRA, also known as the Quiet Period Provision, requires states to complete systematic programs aimed at removing the names of ineligible voters from voter registration lists by no later than 90 days before federal elections.

The Quiet Period Provision applies to certain systematic programs carried out by states that are aimed at striking names from voter registration lists based on a perceived failure to meet initial eligibility requirements — including citizenship — at the time of registration.

The Quiet Period is an important protection for voters, because systematic removal programs may be error-ridden, cause voter confusion and remove eligible voters days or weeks before Election Day who may be unable to correct the state’s errors in time to vote or may be dissuaded from voting at all.

States may remove names from official lists of voters in various ways and for various reasons, but they may not carry-on this kind of systematic removal program so close to a federal election.

[…]

The Justice Department seeks injunctive relief that would restore the ability of impacted eligible voters to vote unimpeded on Election Day and would prohibit future Quiet Period violations.

The department also seeks remedial mailings to educate eligible voters concerning the restoration of their rights and adequate training of local officials and poll workers to address confusion and distrust among eligible voters accused of being noncitizens.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/bidens-gestapo-doj-sues-alabama-removing-noncitizens-voter/?utm_source=%3Futm_source%3Dnewsletter%26utm_medium%3Devening_send

Dinesh D'Souza hits it out of the park with new film 'Vindicating Trump'

posted by Monica Showalter at American Thinker 

Dinesh D'Souza's new film, "Vindicating Trump" hits the theatres tonight around the country, and should go a long way towards bringing the real Donald Trump to the public, including Democrats and independents. Go see it.

It's fast-paced, it's full of information, it has humorous moments, and it's a polished production, so it's a good film to see on movie night as the election seasons carries on.

Done as a tightly scripted docu-drama, and quite professionally done at that, given the short time it must have been produced in (I marvel at how quickly they must have gotten this done so smoothly), it starts with the rise of Trump and ends with the events today, but also projects into the election and the post-election, seeking answers about what voters are concerned about, which is fraud.

The storyline begins with the rise of Trump, brashness and all, and intellectually looks into first the calumny dished out against him, then the lawfare, and finally the assassination attempts, and carefully links how these trains of thinking build on one another, which makes the storyline coherent and powerful.

Some of it features actors in scenes re-enacting the chains of events that sought to take down Trump (and the acting is very good, it's a splendid look into the minds of sleazeball political operatives, malevolent politicized government officials, and corrupted media satraps. The DoJ official named "Cliff" is particularly nasty. One of the funniest lines was between a couple of Screwtape-like characters not wanting to dig around in CNN's "trash can" for media promoters). The wokesterly wokesters at the political operative desks are just so comically convincing. The acting here is very engaging, and you find yourself rooting for as well as wanting to throw rotten eggs the antagonists.

But it also features interviews with the actual players, including Trump himself, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump who leads the Republican National Committee, and his lawyer Alina Habba who has been present at all the Trump trials, describing what they saw and felt, and the effect is immersive and engrossing, even if you already know most of the story. 

However, that 'most' is merely that -- there is a lot of new information and reporting within in that is well worth seeing the movie along for, particularly during the last half hour of the video, which if you see it on streaming, you may want to watch again and again. Interviewing a couple of political consultants (they probably should have been named so we could distinguish what was scripted and what was them speaking) they described how every fraud strategy is different in each election, and reveal several shocking details about how easy this fraud is -- from purchasing and printing up ballots, which can be easily done, to getting illegals to cast ballots (and they didn't even get into how this wasn't always necessary, sometimes just generating a ballot for a Democrat operative to get their hands on is all they need) and the failure of electoral officials to match envelopes of ballots with ballots themselves, meaning, throwing in extra ballots through unattended drop boxes makes this kind of cheating a breeze. That some election officials in the counting rooms slip in extra ballots under the table to pad counts is yet another cheating problem they explored.

D'Souza presses Lara Trump about secretaries of state permitting these various kinds of frauds and Lara Trump tried to assure that they were on it -- with lawsuits and observer missions among other techniques -- they seemed to be onto the various cheating methods. But while Republican secretaries of state did seem to be sensitive to voter concerns about cheating and have cleaned dirty voter rolls and performed other confidence-building measures, she did admit that Democrat secretaries of state were notoriously uncooperative and one could only conclude that obviously, it was going to be harder. It was enough to make the viewer nervous, as if the public needs to think harder about how this problem is going to be solved if they steal another one.

The film does emphasize much of Trump's selflessness in running for office and does a fine job of humanizing him. D'Souza brings up an interesting comparison between the old Western movie plots he grew up with and Trump as a sort of Gary Cooper character come to clean up Dodge City. He uses footage from Pale Rider. This brings up the mythic character of Trump, which goes far into explaining why the left so hates him with such crazed passions. The Daily Signal has a nice interview with D'Souza and what he was trying to show in this piece here.

It moves to a humorous scene at the end when the scheming Democrat political operatives in an acted out scene find themselves, like many voters, moving toward Trump, dancing about with a video of Trump at a rally, when they are suddenly discovered by a humorless nonbinary lesbian boss character built like a drill sergeant, who reacts with fury at her discovery of them kidding around. That too tells us a lot about the implacable nature of Trump haters even as Trump draws millions into his orbit.

Go see the movie soon as you can, it's a wonderfully artistic and realistic portrait of Trump and why he's so important that is well worth every viewer's evening out.

X22, And we Know, and more- Sept 28

 

Another Presidential Election, Another Deep State Letter Opposing Trump

The Harris campaign hopes a letter from former national security officials will distract from Trump’s previous success and deflect blame for global instability under the Biden/Harris administration.

by Fred Fleitz for American Greatness

Two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Politico published a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officers falsely claiming that a New York Post story about the infamous Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was organized by Antony Blinken of the Biden campaign and former CIA Director Michael Morell. The CIA cleared it for publication.

Many Americans were outraged over this letter because it represented former intelligence officers, several with high-paid government contracts, misusing their profession to meddle in a U.S. presidential election and mislead the American public.

Undeterred by the considerable blowback generated by the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter, the Harris campaign has organized a similar letter against President Trump in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election that claims he is unfit to be commander-in-chief and endorses Kamala Harris.

This letter, from a group called “National Security Leaders for America,” was signed by over 700 former officials who served with several U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, State Department, and Department of Defense. The letter includes former flag officers, ambassadors, and cabinet members. Several former senior Democratic officials also signed the letter, including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Susan Rice.

The new letter immediately sparked controversy when it was learned that at least nine of its signatories also signed the discredited 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter. The President of National Security Leaders for America, Rear Admiral Michael Smith (Ret.), attempted to defuse this uproar by claiming the 2020 letter was “well-reasoned but ultimately incorrect.”

Although the press claims the new letter was signed by former “senior” national security leaders, the majority are unknown, former low-level government employees. I worked in U.S. government national security jobs for over 25 years and did not recognize most of the names on that letter.

The message of the letter is preposterous. It claims Harris would make an excellent commander-in-chief and cites her “relentless diplomacy with allies around the globe preserved a united front in support of Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression.”

I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember seeing any “relentless diplomacy” by Kamala Harris on anything.

Even worse, the letter makes several ridiculously false accusations, such as accusing Trump of “heaping praise” on Hezbollah and “excoriating” Israel.

And, of course, the letter includes the usual Democratic talking points about Trump being an impulsive leader who threatens democracy.

This letter aims to counter one of Harris’s most significant vulnerabilities: that the world is much more dangerous and unstable today than when President Trump left the White House in January 2021.

The Harris campaign hopes a letter signed by large numbers of former national security officials will distract Americans from Trump’s successful national security record and prevent them from holding her accountable for the global instability caused by the Biden/Harris administration’s atrocious foreign policy. This includes the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre against Israel, Iran’s surging nuclear program, significantly increased tensions and threats from China and other threats.

I doubt most Americans will be fooled by this bait-and-switch. They know U.S. global leadership and deterrence have seriously deteriorated during the Biden/Harris administration. They will not be talked out of this by a letter organized by the Harris campaign signed by hundreds of former Democratic officials and government bureaucrats.

Conservative political commentator Ben Domenech posted a compelling tweetexpressing his anger about this letter:

Domenech makes the most important point about the letter: that it represents a well-organized and entrenched foreign policy establishment—some call this the deep state—that is determined to block the reelection of Donald Trump, who they fear will reverse their failed globalist and interventionist foreign policies and return control of the government to the American people. These former national security bureaucrats are worried there will be a major restructuring of national security agencies under a second Trump administration that will not only eliminate the inefficient and politicized bureaucracies they built over many years but will also terminate the lucrative government consulting contracts that are enriching many of them.

I am with Ben Domenech on this absurd letter by national security bureaucrats and Democratic officials: Americans should vote accordingly.

IDF Blasts U.S.: 'No One Talked About a Ceasefire Until We Fought Back'

 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) criticized those calling for a ceasefire amid the war in Gaza, saying that no one spoke out until Israel began reciprocating the attacks. 

IDF Spokesman Maj. Doron Spielman hit back against frustration it has received from the White House, which has repeatedly encouraged Israel to not retaliate against terrorist groups’, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, attacks. He said the U.S. should be demanding for Hezbollah to pull out of the war, rather than the other way around. Instead, the Biden Administration has criticized Israel for its counterattacks. 

“For an entire year, Hezbollah has been firing rockets, over 9,000 rockets, missiles, and killer drones, and no one talked about a ceasefire,” Spielman said. “Now that Israel’s actually taking the assertion to try to protect its civilians, we’re calling for a ceasefire.”

CNN co-host Jim Sciutto naturally defended the White House’s actions, saying that the Biden Administration is concerned there will be a more significant conflict in the Middle East. 

“Did Israel carry out this attack over U.S. objections?” Sciutto asked. 

Spielman explained that Israel attacked Hezbollah to defend itself and its citizens despite what the United States thought was best. 

“Israel clearly felt that Nasrallah is a major target,” he said. “We work very closely with the United States. They’re our greatest ally, but Israel, at the end of the day, has independence to try to fulfill its military objectives in order to protect its own people.”

However, Sciutto pushed back, claiming that the U.S. has been frustrated by Israel’s relationship with the White House and with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the U.S. invests diplomatic and other capital into the Jewish state. He claimed Netanyahu has not been “returning the favor in terms of getting a ceasefire and hostage release deal across the finish line in Gaza.” 

Spielman stood his ground, saying that Israel has been threatened on seven different fronts and attacked by more than three terrorist groups. He said Israel must fight back and protect its land regardless of what other leaders believe, saying that they are open to a ceasefire, but they won’t stop defending itself from attacks in the meantime. 

This is the hour that Israel will look back and the world will look back and say, who stands by Israel in this hour? And the U.S., I’m not a politician, I’m here on behalf of the Army, has been the greatest friend and has supported Israel and understands our objectives. Regarding a ceasefire, for an entire year, Hezbollah has been firing rockets, over 9,000 rockets, missiles, and killer drones and no one talked about a ceasefire. Now that Israel’s actually taking the assertion to try to protect its civilians, we’re calling for a ceasefire. As we’ve said, and as the Israeli Army says, we’re open for anything as long as Israeli civilians can go back to their home[s] and Hezbollah withdraws behind the Litani. What we know is that, right now, Hezbollah, every one of those rockets and missiles is inside one of their own homes, they’re civilian homes. You’ve seen the pictures. They don’t care about Lebanese civilians. They don’t care about Israeli civilians. And the world, instead of demanding [that Israel have] a ceasefire, should be demanding that Hezbollah pull out. 

This comes after the IDF confirmed that Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a strike on Friday against the group’s headquarters in Lebanon the night before. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/09/28/idf-blasts-us-no-one-talked-about-a-ceasefire-until-we-fought-back-n2645451

Pope Francis criticised by students on visit to Catholic university in Belgium

 

The students questioned why the Catholic church has so few women in top positions and why their intellectual contribution had often been disregarded.

The Pope was read a letter from university professors and students detailing some of the most consequential issues of modern times during his visit to the Catholic university in Leuven.

These included social inequality, social injustice, the climate crisis and the role of women within the Catholic Church - where it was put to the pontiff that there were no women at the top of the church and that their intellectual contribution had been disregarded.

 

 

The pope faced much criticism on his visit to Belgium: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and the LGBTQ+ community in the church.

And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children. Seventeen abuse survivors spent two hours with Francis on Friday evening, telling him of their trauma, shame and pain and demanding reparations from the church.

Through it all, Francis expressed his remorse, begged forgiveness and promised to do everything possible to make sure such abuses never occur again. “This is our shame and humiliation,” he said in his first public remarks on Belgian soil. 

Francis has visited countries with wretched legacies of church wrongdoing before. He made a sweeping apology to Irish abuse survivors in 2018 and travelled to Canada in 2022 to atone for the church-run residential schools that traumatised generations of Indigenous peoples.

But it is hard to think of a single day where the leader of the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church had been subjected to such strong, public criticisms from a country's highest institutional figures — royalty, government and academia — over the church’s crimes and its seemingly tone deaf responses to the demands of today’s Catholics.

Luc Sels, the rector of Leuven Catholic University, the 600th anniversary of which was the official reason for Francis’ trip to Belgium, told the pope that the abuse scandals had so weakened the church’s moral authority that it would do well to reform if it wants to regain its credibility and relevance. 

“Wouldn’t the church be a warmer place if women were given a prominent place, the most prominent place, also in priesthood?” Sells asked the pope.

“Wouldn’t the church in our region gain moral authority if it were not so rigid in its approach to gender and diversity issues? And if it did, like the university does, open its arms more to the LGBTQ+ community?” he asked.

The comments certainly reflected the views of European social progressives. But they also reflected the reform-minded church that Francis has embraced, to a degree, in seeking to make the universal church more relevant and responsive to Catholics today.

The day began with King Philippe welcoming Francis to Laeken Castle, the residence of Belgium’s royal family, and citing the abuse and forced adoption scandals in demanding the church work “incessantly” to atone for the crimes and help victims heal. 

He was followed by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who was also allowed to speak in an exception to typical Vatican protocol. He used the opportunity of a face-to-face public encounter to demand “concrete steps” to come clean with the full extent of the abuse scandal and put victims’ interests over those of the church.

“Victims need to be heard. They need to be at the centre. They have a right to truth. Misdeeds need to be recognised,” he told the pope. “When something goes wrong we cannot accept cover-ups,” he said. “To be able to look into the future, the church needs to come clean on its past.”

It was one of the most pointed welcome speeches ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip, where the genteel dictates of diplomatic protocol usually keep public remarks outrage-free. 

But the tone underscored just how raw the abuse scandal still is in Belgium, where two decades of revelations of abuse and systematic cover-ups have devastated the hierarchy’s credibility and contributed to an overall decline in Catholicism and the influence of the once-powerful church.

Overall, victims welcomed the words from both church and state. Survivor Emmanuel Henckens said that “to an extent they went to the crux of the evil. He said it was no longer possible to look the other way.”

But another abuse survivor, Koen Van Sumere, said it was now essential for the church to provide victims with substantial financial settlements.

“If you want to move toward forgiveness and reconciliation it is not sufficient to only say ‘I am sorry’ but you have to bear the consequences it entails and you should compensate the damages,” Van Sumere said. He said so far what the Belgian church had paid out ”amounted to alms” and that the settlement he received for his abuse didn’t even cover the costs of his therapy.  

The victims, 17 of whom met with Francis at the Vatican residence Friday evening, had penned an open letter to him demanding a universal system of church reparations for their traumas. In a statement after the meeting, the Vatican said Francis would study their requests.

“The pope was able to listen and get close to their suffering, expressed gratitude for their courage, and the feeling of shame for what they suffered as children because of the priests to whom they were entrusted, noting the requests made to him so that he could study them," said a statement from the Vatican spokesman.

Revelations of Belgium’s horrific abuse scandal have dribbled out in bits over a quarter-century, punctuated by a bombshell in 2010 when the country’s longest-serving bishop, Brugge Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, was allowed to resign without punishment after admitting he had sexually abused his nephew for 13 years.  

Francis only defrocked Vangheluwe earlier this year, in a move clearly designed to remove a lingering source of outrage among Belgians before his visit.

In September 2010, the church released a 200-page report that said 507 people had come forward with stories of being molested by priests, including when they were as young as 2. It identified at least 13 suicides by victims and attempts by six more.

Victims and advocates say those findings were just the tip of the iceberg and that the true scope of the scandal is far greater.

In his remarks, Francis insisted that the church was “addressing firmly and decisively” the abuse problem by implementing prevention programs, listening to victims and accompanying them to heal. 

But after the astonishing dressing-down by the prime minister and king, Francis went off-script to express the shame of the church for the scandal and voice his commitment to ending it.

“The church must be ashamed and ask for forgiveness and try to resolve this situation with Christian humility and put all the possibilities in places so that this doesn’t happen again,” Francis said. “But even if it were only one (victim), it is enough to be ashamed.”  

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/28/pope-francis-meets-with-students-at-catholic-university-in-leuven

The Heinous Border Record Kamala Doesn't Want Voters to Know About

posted by Katie Pavlich at Townhall 

Well, folks, she's doing it. Vice President Kamala Harris is finally making a real visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. 

After years of stalling and falsely claiming the border is secure, her visit to Arizona comes as she tries to redefine herself as a "tough on crime prosecutor" who has "taken on transnational gangs and drug cartels." But like everything else about her campaign, it’s all an act, and her record proves it. 

Since 2021, Harris, the Biden Border Czar, has overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in American history. For human traffickers, the past three and a half years have been good for business — raking in $100 million a week and $5 billion per year. 

This, of course, was by design. It was, and still is, a way for Democrats to admit 15 million people into the country, with no plans to ever make them leave, and then use the issue against Republicans in order to solidify permanent Democratic power through mass amnesty. Harris admitted as much during an interview with MSNBC this week. 

“We need a comprehensive plan that includes what we need to do to fortify not only our border, but deal with the fact that we also need to create pathways for people to earn citizenship,” Harris said. 

But Harris’ record and dedication to that permanent power hasn’t come without a devastating, human cost. 

According to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, 300,000 children have been trafficked into the United States and lost by the Biden-Harris administration. 

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed. During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court,” the report states. “As of May 2024, ICE had not served NTAs [notice to appear] on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date.”

These children are abused, sex trafficked and sold into the underground labor market.

“Across the factory, another worker had failed to see Marcos crouched with his left arm deep inside the assembly line and turned it on,” The New York Times reported about a 14-year-old boy from Guatemala. “The belt caught the sleeve of Marcos’s baggy jacket and pulled him across the floor. Hard plastic teeth ripped through his muscles, tearing open his forearm down to the bone. By the time someone heard his screams and shut off the power, his arm was limp, a deep triangular gash running down the length of it.”

Harris’ open border policies have enabled these crimes against the most vulnerable and innocent, resulting in one of the biggest modern day slavery operations in history. 

When children aren’t being trafficked, they’re being killed by fentanyl brought into the country by the cartels. Like 15-year-old Weston Funder, who unknowingly took a laced pill. 

“Weston, like many teenagers, wanted to fit in. During his second semester of his freshman year of high school, at the early age of 15, in a moment of heavy peer pressure, he made a tragic mistake,” his mother, Anne Funder, recently testified. “He took something that a new ‘friend' gave to him. It wasn’t what he was told it was, and instead, it only contained the lethal poison, 'illicit fentanyl.’ On February 27, 2022, our world was shattered. That morning, my husband found Weston lifeless in his room. Weston’s whole future, all of our hopes and dreams for him, were stolen in an instant.”

Dangerous and satanic gangs like Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua have taken over apartment buildings in American towns, intimidating residents and engaging in turf wars. They’re also sexually abusing and killing American children. 

“Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally assaulted and murdered under a bridge by two men in Houston, Texas. According to police, Jocelyn was found dumped in a creek bed bound with rope and nude from the waist down. Her cause of death was later determined to be strangulation. Two illegal aliens from Venezuela, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, both of whom were released by the Biden-Harris Administration earlier this year, have been charged with Jocelyn’s murder,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform reports. 

Every day, another American becomes a victim of illegal alien crime. 

None of this matters to Harris, who suddenly has found the will — with just weeks until the 2024 presidential election — to "care." 

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America’s Military Can’t Endure Another Four Years Of Democrat Rule

Should Kamala Harris win this November, the left-wing reimagining of the U.S. military and the consequences it will reap will get much worse.

Shawn Fleetwood reporting for The Federalist

Nobody understood the concept of “peace through strength” better than President George Washington. During his first annual address to Congress, the former commander-in-chief of the Continental Army spoke of the role a nation’s military plays in maintaining stability, stating, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

Washington’s words became the de facto blueprint for America’s foreign policy in the centuries that followed. What was once a small force of ragtag patriots overtime grew into the strongest military power the world has ever seen. From World War I to the Cold War, the U.S. military became the “big stick” America carried when confronting adversarial powers and deterring conflict throughout the world.

But what happens to America and the global security environment when the former’s greatest security system gets hijacked by Constitution-hating leftists? Unfortunately, it’s a question Americans are getting answers to in real time.

While largely ignored by corporate media, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing late last week about a U.S. Army base designating several pro-life organizations as “terrorist groups.” Yes, you read that correctly. The Army instructed roughly 9,100 soldiers over a seven-year period that Operation Rescue and National Right to Life are entities affiliated with terrorism.

Lt. Gen. Patrick Matlock, the branch’s deputy chief of staff, told lawmakers the briefing materials were pulled after they were exposed, but declined to say whether the individual responsible for their creation has faced any disciplinary actions, according to the Military Times.

While certainly alarming, the incident is but a microcosm of the neo-Marxist ideology wreaking havoc on America’s premiere fighting force that’s worsened under the Biden-Harris administration. Radical leftists occupying positions of power throughout the Pentagon have spent years destroying the meritocratic system that’s made the military great for generations.

Should Kamala Harris succeed in her presidential bid this November, the left-wing reimagining of the U.S. armed forces and the consequences it will reap will get much worse.

The Rise of DEI

It doesn’t take much hypothesizing to determine how a President Harris would approach internal military affairs given her role as Joe Biden’s sidekick.

Shortly after taking power, the Biden-Harris administration got to work in mandating all federal agencies — including the Defense Department — implement so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies throughout their respective workforces. Colloquially known as “DEI,” this offshoot of Marxist orthodoxy dismisses merit in favor of characteristics such as race or sexual orientation.

To help carry out their destructive mission, the Biden-Harris White House has spent the past four years promoting numerous DEI-pushing individuals to the highest-ranking positions in the military. These officials have espoused extreme left-wing views, such as championing punishments for Americans who didn’t get the Covid shot and saying service members would be “naive” to believe that so-called “institutional racism” doesn’t affect the military.

Given this brass of “leadership,” it’s no surprise the military has stepped up its embrace of LGBT radicalism. While the Navy has deployed enlisted drag queens as “digital ambassadors,” the Air Force has wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars flying service members to branch “pride” events. And who could forget the numerous celebrations hosted by America’s military bases commemorating “pride” month?

Service Members Suffer

Being suffocated with neo-Marxist drivel is only part of the suffering endured by today’s U.S. service members, however. The Biden-Harris administration has made it abundantly clear it couldn’t care less about the enlisted Americans willing to sacrifice their lives for their country.

The Democrat duo was more than OK with kicking more than 8,400 service members out of the military for refusing to get an experimental mRNA jab. It didn’t matter to them that these troops were healthy and unlikely to succumb to the virus; or that the shots didn’t stop viral transmission; or that their own agencies secretly acknowledged the shots demonstrated serious risks.

What mattered was making an example of them and letting other service members know that refusal to bow down to left-wing authoritarianism will not be tolerated.

This dismissive attitude toward the well-being of America’s troops was further evident following the administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal that got 13 service members killed. Biden repeatedly looked at his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony, while Harris didn’t even bother to show up to the solemn event.

Neither Democrat has bothered to reach out and console the affected Gold Star families. Nor is any individual known to have been fired or held responsible for the catastrophic pull-out. Biden has, however, pretended these troops’ deaths never happened, while Harris has weaponized their passings to smear Donald Trump.

With this type of grotesque disregard, combined with military leadership’s DEI obsessions, it’s no wonder Biden and Harris’ reign has brought about the worst recruiting crisis in modern U.S. history. Last year, every branch with the exception of the Marine Corps and Space Force missed their recruiting targets.

Without adequate manpower, the military’s ability to operate effectively domestically and internationally is severely limited.

One Last Chance

The fallout from the left’s social experiment on our military cannot be understated. Unlike under Trump, when the U.S. and its military were feared and respected, the Biden-Harris administration has produced an image of weakness to the world — and America’s adversaries are acting on it.

In less than four years, Russia invaded Ukraine; Iran-backed terror groups are launching deadly attacks on U.S. service members and Israel; China has ramped up its aggressive actions toward Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines; and North Korea is firing off missiles like there’s no tomorrow.

No honest person can say that a Harris presidency would deter any of those actions. In fact, it’s safe to assume the global security environment would get exponentially worse and these powers would advance their interests even further. Russian President Vladimir Putin tacitly telegraphed this to be the case by throwing his support behind Harris’ White House bid earlier this month.

A Trump presidency may be Americans’ last chance to restore the U.S. military to the meritocratic fighting force it once was and bring about world peace. Whether voters take that opportunity remains to be seen.