Has The Democrat Party Become A New ‘Church’?

posted by Albin Sadar at American Thinker 

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, after last month’s second assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, one thousand registered voters were asked this simple but weighty question:

While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?

The results should astound everyone.

Over one-fourth of Democrats—28%—responded to the survey with a “yes.” Not only that, the poll also revealed that 14% “were not sure.”

This revelation is unfathomable. Has the horrendous act of murdering a public figure become okay because their political views do not align with one’s own?

After pondering these results, I could not help wondering how many people who responded were also Christian, and more specifically part of the group known as “Evangelicals for Harris”? In other words, are Christians on board with this deadly action?

Does party affiliation now supersede all other allegiances and belief systems? Have the Ten Commandments now been supplanted by what can only be seen as the farthest stretches of evil?

Has the biblical command, “You must not have any other gods before me,” been superseded by the newfound wisdom of modern-day tyrants?

What other decrees from the Democrat party are now considered acceptable by “Evangelicals for Harris” and myriad other Christians?

What about tromping on parental rights in favor of “Honor your mother and father”?

Are these Christians okay with the fact that teachers are no longer given permission to inform parents of what is being taught in school—for example, when children are being counseled to take sex-altering hormones or are scheduled for life-changing surgery? And if you are a parent attempting to learn what is being taught in your child’s classroom, have you discovered instead that school board meetings are off-limits to you?

When children are being mutilated—and not just physically, but with inappropriate sex books and instructions, as well as drag-queen story hours—do Christians give far-left Democrats a pass? Do we need to be reminded of the warning from Jesus:

[B]ut whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matthew 18:6 NASB)

What about the Eighth Commandment’s mandate that “You must not steal”? Is it a stretch to say it also applies to elections?

And: “You must not bear false witness.” Does that still apply across the board, or are only those pronouncements that have been fact-checked by deep-state operatives permissible?

Has the Holy Trinity been replaced by the World Economic Forum as “God the Father”? And if that’s the case, is whoever the WEF installs as the American president, the supposed leader of the Free World, now “God the Son”? And, well, can we say that the all-seeing, all-surveilling FBI is the Holy Ghost? (And when they are too busy entrapping your pro-life grandma, does the CIA take over their Ghostly duties?)

With all that has transpired in the past 3-1/2 years, why are there still so many ordinary citizens and even Bible-believing Christians buffaloed into following all edicts from the Democrat party on high? Can they be that oblivious to the evil that is in plain sight? Or has the constant drumbeat lies being repeating ad nauseam through the Deep State mainstream media bullhorn addled the brains of so many previously wide-awake citizens?

It has been said that a lie travels halfway around the world before the Truth even gets its pants on. And we know that one of the tactics of tyrants is to spew a lie often enough so that it becomes the truth.

This brings us back to the beginning.

In Rasmussen’s “Trump assassination” survey, perhaps we should not be surprised that 28% of hard-core sycophant Democrats believe that America would be better off if Trump were eliminated permanently. They have swallowed hook, line, and sinker the often-told lie that the former president is indeed Hitler 2.0.

And if we have learned anything from history, isn’t it best to eliminate the Hitler threat before it takes over a country? Isn’t that not only a common-sense plan of action but also a Christian imperative? Assassinating an evil villain can certainly be viewed as God-ordained.

So, perhaps it’s not at all ironic that the fascist tyrants who control the Democrat party have labeled their number one rival Hitler. After all, they are seen by many as the overall authority on everything that exists, and when they speak, they speak “Truth” into existence.

But the Bible counters every single machination of the wicked:

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. (Isaiah 5:20 NIV)

What lies ahead?

There is always hope that the average American citizen and those Christians foolish enough to consider voting for a Harris/Walz administration will awaken in time.

Abraham Lincoln observed, “You can fool part of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.”

Maybe in this election season, all those who know the “true Truth” found in the Bible will wake up, rise up out of their pews, and vote the current church of the Democrat Party out of their Washington Sanctuary.

X22, And we Know, and more- Oct 11

 

Kamala’s ‘Charm’ Blitzkrieg Fails Miserably

posted by Derek Hunter at Townhall 

There are some people so incompetent that they could blow a tap-in putt. “Hand me the wedge,” they say as they overlook a 2-inch gap. You can’t help these people, even though they are likely the most in need of saving anyone, because you can’t save people from themselves. This, I suspect, is why the handlers of Kamala Harris have chosen to run the campaign they have. 

Hiding is the only defense against incompetence. The only problem is that no matter where you hide, there you are. A person can escape a lot, themselves is not one of them. 

After two months of hiding not working, as the public notices the Democratic Party’s nominees for president and vice president haven’t really done much talking beyond scripted, vapid stump speeches, the Harris/Walz campaign has decided to launch a “charm offensive.” They decided to let their candidates talk in what can only be described as either uber-friendly or softly-scripted interviews with supporters…and they still did horribly.

You can tell a lot about the amount of faith a campaign has in its candidates by the people they’re willing to talk to. For example, Donald Trump will do pretty anything and to almost anyone, unless they’ve mistreated him in the past. 

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, on the other hand, would need their own family members screened and topics agreed to before they’d sit down for breakfast with them. (In Kamala’s case you might be able to understand it, as news reports indicated her husband allegedly has no problem smacking a woman around if she displeases him.)

Aside from a 3 on a 1 to 10 scale of toughness interview with 60 Minutes, Democrats could not have played it safer than they have. Howard Stern has fully transitioned into everything he mocked in order to become famous in the first place, with whatever testicles he had left actually ascending back into his body, seemingly all the way into his throat. 

Stephen Colbert rivals some of the least funny lairs in the history of humans post-primordial ooze emergence, was chosen to speak to Kamala because from the spacious apartment he’s taken up in the rear end of whatever Democrat his establishment bosses toss his way. His show, which was supposed to be a comedy show, has ditched the traditional structure of set-up and punchline for partisan statements and applause lines. His audience doesn’t laugh, they clap in agreement. 

Were CBS not the network that had to convene “sensitivity meetings” with “news” staff because limp-spined losers got upset that a “father of Jewish children who live in Israel” dared to ask a racist black man with a heaping side dish of anti-Semitism about his latest screed regarding how he thinks Israel shouldn’t exist a couple of moderately tough, wrapped in ass-kissing, questions during an interview on an alleged news program, Colbert might be held to some kind of standards and either told to try comedy or be fired for having murdered David Letterman’s old show. But, as was confirmed again in the vice presidential debate, CBS doesn’t have standards, so he’ll be fine.

Tim Walz, the coked-out Muppet running with Harris, was sent to Jimmy Kimmel, how hosted a fundraiser for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, pretending the former was still mentally competent and “vital” until that lie no longer served the purposes of the DNC. I’d comment on how unfunny Kimmel has become, but he never really was. And that saddest part is he’s actually funnier than he is smart, so he’s the perfect interviewer for Fraudie Murphy. 

Then there is the gaggle of Harpies on The View. It was like ABC News saw what CBS had become and said, “Hold my chardonnay.” 

The View is actually an anomaly. Previously, it had been thought that a collective IQ could not be lower than the sum of its members' points. This show proves it is possible for dumb people to get together and be collectively dumber. It’s a miracle, honestly. 

In real life it is impossible to find 5 people who agree on everything, in the media it’s easy – all you need are attention whores willing to do anything for money. They can’t have any standards, just a desire for attention, an unrivaled laziness and an ability to repeat whatever a producer tells them. They also have to not care that they routinely make complete fools of themselves by getting basic facts and lessons in civics so wrong that a normal person would be humiliated and at least do some basic research on their own to avoid looking like a moron in the future. That might get you fired.

These are the people deemed worthy to speak to the Democratic Party’s nominees. 

While one might find it odd that a person campaigning on the idea that they want to be “President for all Americans” will only speak to people who will completely agree with them while keeping their lips pressed firmly against their ass cheeks as they do it, this is a testament to just how bad and out of touch those nominees are with real Americans. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t run from them. 

Hurricanes Are Not Going Away;

Hurricanes Are Not Going Away; 

We Must Double Down on What’s Making Them More Survivable

Connor O’Keffe for Mises.org

Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Deep South and parts of Appalachia, bringing devastating floods to a region often spared from strong hurricanes. A variety of factors combined to make Helene an especially dangerous storm. First, it formed over the Gulf of Mexico, where waters tend to be warmer than the Atlantic. Second, the globe is currently experiencing a transition to La Niña conditions where unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Pacific bring about all sorts of effects on the weather.

Specifically, as it relates to hurricanes, La Niñas decrease what’s known as vertical wind shear over the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Think of vertical wind shear as the difference in wind between the surface and higher altitudes. The reduced vertical wind shear we’re experiencing right now made it easier for Helene to grow into a large, coherent, vertical structure and for the warm, moist air fueling it to rise undisturbed.

The third factor that made Helene especially dangerous for areas far inland was the fact that it followed closely behind another rainstorm. While far less dramatic than Helene, the first storm dumped a lot of rain on the region that oversaturated the ground. After Helene made landfall, instead of being drained of energy, the wet surface continued to fuel the storm as it moved up through Georgia into the Appalachian mountains.

Finally, the Appalachian mountains themselves drove the storm upward to a higher altitude—which cooled the storm quickly. Colder air cannot hold as much water as warmer air, so the result was even more torrential precipitation in the mountainous western Carolina region.

Together, all these factors combined to bring about a storm that dumpedsix months’ worth of rain on the towns and villages of western North Carolina in a matter of hours. The buildings, roads, and ground itself were unable to handle it. Flash floods and landslides devastated the region and so far 115 are confirmed dead in North Carolina alone, with many more missing.

The death toll across all states stands at 235 but is expected to climb. And with another major storm—Hurricane Milton—expected to hit Florida late Wednesday, we may soon see even more communities devastated by extreme weather.

But because all this destruction is happening with only a few weeks to go before election day, national politicians are clearly focused most on how to use these disasters to benefit politically.

Besides burdensome visits to affected areas, cheap photo ops pretendingto do hands-on work, and staged briefings that are clearly more about optics than substance, the political establishment and its preferred candidate, Kamala Harris, have predictably used the storms to try and terrify us about climate change.

The main talking point that’s being disseminated through establishment-friendly outlets like The New York Times is that Hurricane Helene’s impact on areas far from the coast demonstrates that none of us can “hide from climate change.” That nowhere in the country is safe unless we finally wake up and give the government more control over energy production.

The false assumption that is heavily implied in articles like these and most rhetoric you’ll see from politicians acting concerned about the climate is that dangerous weather can and will go away if we only listen to the establishment-approved experts and fall in line.

A world without dangerous weather is an imaginary ideal. Press even the most ardent climate activists, and they’ll admit as much. The actual claim of most establishment-approved climate scientists is that human activity has generated a marginal increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and that a total elimination of emissions could eventually bring global trends back in line with the natural frequency and intensity of such events.

But a world with marginally better weather would still have hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and all the other maladies we’re so often led to believe only plague us because we burn fossil fuels. So, if we’re serious about tackling the problems caused by dangerous storms and other natural disasters, the solution lies in better adapting to bad weather, not pretending we can eliminate it.

Fortunately, humans are very good at adapting to bad weather. And, while we have been for most of our history, we have become incredibly good at it in the last two hundred years thanks primarily to one thing—the economic growth that resulted from the Industrial Revolution.

Economic growth is not just some metric for measuring business activity. It reflects the creation of the wealth that has allowed humans to not only survive but live comfortably in nearly every region on earth. Thanks to a robust energy industry and modern HVAC systems, there are bustling cities all the way from arid deserts to the frigid taiga. Industrial-grade concrete and steel, along with our lack of reliance on window ventilation, also allow us to build durable buildings that make extreme weather much more survivable. Wealthy areas are even able to adapt well to rapid changes in the climate. For instance, New York City—a coastal city—has been adding land mass as the sea level rises.

This is all to say that the problems often ascribed to climate change are fundamentally problems of poverty.

Fortunately, we already know what solves poverty: market institutions grounded in a private property norm. Unfortunately, those are the very institutions the so-called environmentalist movement has set its sights on.

Most people around the world, including many in our own country, do not yet enjoy the safe, comfortable, stable living conditions I laid out above. And that needs to change. But when disasters like Hurricane Helene ravage areas these people live in, that ought to drive us to recommit to the institutions and practices that have made so many of us safer from natural disasters. Not to follow the siren call to reject those institutions out of some false hope that extreme weather will disappear.

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A Vote For Donald Trump Is A Vote For Normalcy

Trump may be an abnormal politician, but when it comes to delivering actual normalcy, he’s the better choice this November.

Rich Cromwell reporting for The Federalist

In 2020, Joe Biden and the corporate media promised that electing him over Donald Trump would bring a return to normalcy. It was a nice campaign tactic, but Biden brought absolutely no normalcy to the White House. The southern border is in shambles. College students are cheering for terrorists and openly attacking their Jewish classmates. Woke nonsense is still infecting vast swaths of society. The corporate media may downplay those issues, but people tend to trust their own eyes instead of the lies being sold. 

But now Trump and Biden’s running mate are on the ballot again, and the corrupt media and Kamala Harris herself are running with the exact same line: Trump is chaotic, but Harris will bring a “return to normalcy.” Don’t buy it — again.

“Return” is a curious word given that Harris is No. 2 in the current administration. Nonetheless, Kamala Harris, who received zero primary votes and is the current vice president, is attempting to cast herself as the change candidate. And to an extent, she has been able to effectively distance herself from her present job, even as President Biden ties her to it — except when she forgets to distance herself from it, telling the loons on “The View” that there is nothing she would’ve done differently had she been president the past four years. Which is interesting, given that even Kamala agrees we need to move on from the policies of her current administration.

Nevertheless, the election remains close, and I get it. Though I don’t think there’s any need to justify your vote for President Trump to pull a Grover Cleveland, he is a unique candidate. He is not a polished media-created hero. Instead, he is a media-created villain. He speaks at length, sometimes rambling. He doesn’t always stay on message. He definitely doesn’t act like a normal politician. Given that he’s got an “R” next to his name, that means the corporate press has ample fodder for the villain storyline, even if he’s not a villain but a heel. He doesn’t conform himself to the behaviors of normie voters, that is people in the suburbs. 

I also get this, as one of the 69 percent of people who live in the suburbs. While there are exceptions, there aren’t a lot of faces and heels in the suburbs doing battle with one another. The neighbor who votes for the Democrats exclusively will help the neighbor who only votes for Republicans. We’re nice to one another. We’re polite. We don’t live on the internet. As such, Trump, ever the entertainer, doesn’t always come across as someone you’d enjoy a normal conversation with at the HOA meeting. 

Harris, though, seems like someone who would be way too into HOA policies, the type who causes HOAs to have justifiably bad reputations. She’s all about bureaucracy and rules just for the sake of bureaucracy and rules. She theoretically does want to help you improve the value of your home, by increasing demand without increasing supply, which should work great. Beyond that, though, she is not the candidate of suburbia, even if she is a familiar creature in our parts. 

Instead, she is a candidate of the universities, of the crazies. She wants to do some communism. Her campaign claims she is now against electric vehicle mandates, but she cannot explain what exactly made her change her mind. She was the tiebreaking vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which included such mandates. She celebrated that vote in August of this year, a month after Biden announced he was dropping out and during her honeymoon period with voters. Given the honeymoon is over and that she said there are zero changes she’d make to the past four years, it’s unlikely that her conversion is genuine and not politically expedient. 

None of this even gets into one of the current administration’s biggest weaknesses: the chaos on the geopolitical stage. There was the shameful Afghanistan withdrawal. Iran has been coddled. Don’t forget about the Chinese spy balloons or the disastrous Gaza pier debacle or any of the 105 items on this list. As President Biden has said, Harris was involved in all of the administration’s decisions, so those are on her too. 

Trump’s administration, on the other hand, delivered peace. Whereas his unpredictability in front of a microphone may offend normie sensitivities, it makes oppositional leaders nervous. They may talk a big game, but they generally don’t want to die like dogs.

Amid all of these issues, however, voters’ top concern remains the economy once again. In 1992, James Carville famously told Bill Clinton’s campaign team, “It’s the economy, stupid.” His point was that the economy, then in a recession, was the primary issue most voters were concerned with, and therefore it was the biggest opportunity for Clinton, the change candidate, to capitalize on. It proved a successful message. But back then, inflation was only 3 percent. In 2022, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ leadership, it was 8 percent.

Though the corporate media tout that inflation has “cooled” since then, one doesn’t need charts or graphs or fake jobs reports to understand that everything is more expensive. Restaurant trips are fewer than they were when Trump was in office. Store brand purchases at the grocery store are greater than ever. Gas prices remain high. It’s simply a fact that we were better off under Trump than we are now. 

It was once a given that peace and prosperity were normal American virtues, that we’d get along with our neighbors and family, and that neighborhoods and campuses wouldn’t be prone to domestic strife. There was a time when, while we might fight over politics and politicians, those fights didn’t consume our lives. For decades, the corporate press has sought to divide us, with its monomaniacal obsession hitting its nadir with the election of Donald Trump. Yet his administration didn’t bring in fascism or any of the other -isms the media promised would occur. 

Instead, Covid aside, we got four fairly normal years of America, despite the partisan vitriol that has consumed too many of us. When Joe Biden promised to return normalcy to the country, what he really promised was to be a normal politician and continue exploiting that vitriol. Harris is promising to do the same, to say one thing and do another, to make promises she has no intention of keeping, and to keep us divided.

Trump may be an abnormal politician, but when it comes to delivering actual normalcy, he’s the better choice this November. And if you’re a normie, that’s what should matter. 

All America’s Problems are Leftist Problems

All America’s Problems are Leftist Problems

Every solution to our national problems begins with defeating the Left.

by Daniel Greenfield  for 

Frontpage Magazine

The problem with solving problems is that once they are solved, no one needs the solver anymore. The better kinds of problems are recurring problems that ensure customer retention, employing plumbers, locksmiths and police officers, but the best kind are the completely unsolvable problems.

And those are the only kinds of problems that the Left wants to solve.

Given enough human ingenuity and technological development, most problems can concievably be addressed and that is why the Left has to contrive to make them unsolvable by either causing the problem (homelessness), defining it in such a way that it is inherently unsolvable (equity), defining the inappropriate problem while obscuring the actual problem (gun violence) or inventing fake problems (global warming) that can never be solved because they don’t exist in the first place.

Why create unsolvable problems? They’re a virtually infinite source of money and power.

The Left came into being by defining inequality as its signature problem. Since inequality is a factor of human nature and every attempt to solve it involves creating more inequality, it was the perfect unsolvable problem. But the primal leftist error was defining inequality in social and economic terms. Growing technology and social mobility made both social and economic inequality managable even as leftits were building up a full head of steam, toppling governments and setting off revolutions.

(Manageable is a long way from the equity ideal, but it’s all most people actually want from life.)

Eventually, by default, the only ‘unequal’ people left to advocate for were the dysfunctional whose lives could not be improved through their own efforts. Criminals, addicts, the lazy and those with poor impulse control became the last outpost of the working class proliteriat who would not work.

The working class who would not work became the new vanguard of the revolution.  The wealthy student revolutionaries who also didn’t want to work went to war against society on its behalf. Along the way they lost the working class who did want to work and never looked back. The working class who would work became the new bourguese and the enemy of the non-working working class.

The social and economic theories of socialism depended on the idea that there were no individuals, only societies, and that individual dysfunction was really social dysfunction. The worse the individual, the worse the society. Solve the society and the criminals and junkies would become research chemists.   And they would be if only society were not holding back their potential through systemic oppression.

Eventually the worst human beings on earth, serial killers, crackheads and terrorists, came to embody the leftist mission of expopsing their crimes as an expression of society’s seamy underbelly. The more evil the crime, the more it testified to the evils of the society that had brought it about. Those who were guiltiest were the most innocent among us because they had suffered the most at the hands of society. And those who were innocent were evil because their lack of crimes showed their complicity in an oppressive system. If they were truly innocent, they would also be criminals or terrorists.

In this way, good became evil, and evil became good. The problem of making good into evil had been solved long ago in the Garden of Eden, but the problem of turning evil into good was unsolvable on the leftist terms of blaming society while denying individual accountability.

Crime and terrorism became unsolvable problems because no matter how much leftists punished society by freeing criminals and turning countries over to terrorists, things never got any better.

The unsolvable problem that could never be solved went on being unsolved. Endless billions of dollars were thrown at the problem of giving evil everything it wanted so that it would turn into good.

It never worked and evil took over instead. Some leftists had desired this very outcome. Others were too foolish to understand the inevitable outcome of their adopted worldview. Most were happy to have an unsolvable problem whose solving could consume the resources of the entire planet for a billion years without doing anything except making the problem endlessly worse.

The Left’s problems are unsolvable because they are misstated to align with a simple ideological formula which always assumes that all problems are caused by those with power, that power is defined in economic terms and that the solution to those problems is the transfer of power away from those with money to leftists who will use the money to solve all the problems that they caused.

In short, industries are to be broken up and transformed into governmental organizations.

Whether it’s changes in the weather, school shootings or drug addicts lying in the street, the formula demands variations on the same solution. An industry, real estate, firearms manufacturers or oil companies, are scapegoated, followed by demands that the industry be regulated, banned and otherwise subsumed by the government.  None of this has any hope of changing the amount of bums on the street, crazies in schools or the temperature outside, but it does transfer massive amounts of wealth and power from one group to another. And that is all that the Left ever really does.

The one thing that the Left will never do is solve a problem. It however excels at creating them. If there is a problem out there, it will do everything within its power to make it worse by rejecting the obvious root causes and insisting that all the efforts must be directed at its ideological formula which very often has the added side effect of juicing whatever the root cause is. Faced with crime, it insists on freeing criminals, with homelessness, it subsidizes it, with school shootings carried out by suicidal fame-hungry teens, it talks of them endlessly and makes them as famous as they could ever hope to be.

Are terrorists unleashing violence? The only thing to do is throw billions of dollars and enough territory at them so they can build a state. Is there economic inequality? Drive out businesses. Have people lost good work habits? Subsidize them so that they never learn those habits. Is there gun violence? Make sure that only the criminals have guns and have nothing to fear from the police.

And so the unsolvable problems thrive among feudal leftist outposts of urban human misery.

Eventually the problem ceases to be the problem and the Left becomes the problem. The Left claims that it knows the only way to solve all our problems, but it’s the Left that is creating our problems.

And there is no way to solve all of our problems except by defeating the Left.

Obama Gets Honest About Kamala's Big Problem, Shows How Desperate Dems Are

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

How do you know the Democrats are worried and desperate? They're now pulling out the only "big guns" they have left including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. 

Obama was in Pittsburgh for a Black Voters for Harris event. He spoke to about 40 people and he identified a big problem that Kamala Harris faces: that she isn't generating much enthusiasm for her. What's the problem, according to Barack Obama? It's on the "brothas." 

"We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters in our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," Obama said, frowning. 

"Now, I also want to say that seems to be more pronounced with the brothas. So if you don't mind, just for a second, I'm going to speak to y'all for a minute."

Then what he offered was a typical blatant appeal to race, defining why they should vote for Harris not by what she has done or what she would do to help the country, but by she grew up like them and "understands" the same struggles. 

I don't know about you think, but it sounds to me like he's struggling to whip up enthusiasm. 

He sounds pretty nervous to me, and he'd be right to be, given all the signs and polls. It sounds like he knows he can't even be convinced of the people in the room who are already supposed to be the "convinced." The responses on X from many black people were also not receptive to being talked to like that by Obama.

Yes, Harris is struggling with black men. But she's struggling with all men, as even MSNBC has acknowledged. And that's just one demo group. She's also lost people from the far left, union members, Hispanics, even young people 18-29 that you would think would be normally rock solid for Democrats. It's a big change from both Obama and Biden. 

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CNN's Harry Enten Has Very Bad Union News for Harris, Polling Shows How Much Trouble She's In

Even MSNBC Admits That Kamala Has a Big Problem With Male Voters - Their Solution Is Truly Funny

Fresh Panic at Kamala HQ After Just-Released Poll of Latino Voters Shows Big Warning Signs

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They can come up with all manner of excuses but that's the reality and it's showing up in all the polls and it's going to particularly hurt her in places like Pittsburgh and in the other Rust Belt areas. Doesn't sound like she's generating a lot of "joy."

The problem is a simple one. Men and the other people fleeing Harris know they had it better under Trump, they've seen the failure that Kamala has been a big part of, indeed she can't or wouldn't even say what she would do differently. So why should they buy into this again, after how harmful the last few years have been? Why would they be convinced by Obama trying to scold them? 

Biden-Harris Administration Has No Clue How Many Unvetted Aliens It Let In

Biden-Harris Administration Has No Clue How Many Unvetted Aliens It Let In

BY: HELEN RALEIGH

The IG report is the latest evidence that America’s illegal immigration crisis is the direct result of Biden and Harris’ policies.

The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security issued a new report revealing that the Biden-Harris administration has endangered Americans’ safety by intentionally welcoming millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. without properly vetting them. The importance of these findings cannot be ignored, as they directly affect our personal and national security.

The redacted report’s long title is also its conclusion: “CBP, ICE, and TSA Did Not Fully Assess Risks Associated with Releasing Noncitizens without Identification into the United States and Allowing Them to Travel on Domestic Flights.” Among the three agencies, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are entrusted with verifying the identity of noncitizens seeking entry into the United States, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for screening all individuals intending to fly domestically and ensuring the safety of air travel.

The Immigration and Nationality Act prohibits noncitizens without identification from entering the country, and CBP and ICE are supposed to check the identity of migrants and detain those without proper identification, such as an unexpired visa or a valid passport. However, the IG’s investigation found that under the Biden-Harris administration, CBP and ICE have released noncitizens without identification into the U.S. under at least two scenarios.

First, if the noncitizens do not have identification but “indicate they either intend to apply for asylum or express a fear of persecution in their home country, an immigration officer will refer them for a credible fear interview. If asylum officers determine those claims are credible, these noncitizens may be released into the country to await further hearings or reviews of their claims to admission.” 

Second, CBP and ICE agents can “parole noncitizens into the United States temporarily for ‘urgent humanitarian reasons’ or ‘significant public benefit.’” Before releasing illegal migrants into the U.S., CBP and ICE agents typically issue paperwork such as Form I-862 and Form I-220A with information collected from migrants’ legal identifications. However, when illegal migrants do not have legal identification, CBP and ICE immigration officers accept their “self-reported biographical information and use this information to populate the forms.”

Essentially, the Biden–Harris administration has accepted illegal aliens’ word for who they are and uploaded what could be false information on official documents and databases, including the CBP One mobile application. Other government agencies, such as TSA, will later use the CBP- and ICE-generated documents to “screen” illegal migrants. 

TSA requires that all passengers provide a TSA-acceptable form of identification, such as a government-issued driver’s license or passport, before boarding an aircraft in the United States. However, the IG’s report has revealed a concerning practice under the Biden-Harris administration: Illegal migrants without identifications have been allowed to fly around the country. These individuals have been “validated” using the CBP One mobile application and other documents generated by CBP and ICE, which have accepted migrants’ self-reported information. This raises serious questions about the reliability of the vetting process and the potential consequences of such actions on national security. 

When the IG requested data on the number of noncitizens who did not have identification and were released into the United States from 2021 through 2023, neither CBP nor ICE had any idea because their “immigration officers are not required to document whether a noncitizen presented identification in the databases.” Furthermore, both agencies claimed limited resources and legislative constraints have hindered their ability to vet and detain noncitizens without identification. For example, ICE officials declared that “their currently funded detention capacity of approximately 41,500 beds does not allow them to detain every noncitizen without proper and valid identification documents.”

Given the unknown number of noncitizens without identification released into the United States, the IG’s office conducted its own investigation by observing the processing of a small sample of 53 noncitizens at various facilities. It found that “7 of the 53 noncitizens (13 percent) did not have identification.”

This small sample, when extrapolated to the 8 million-plus illegal migrant encounters under the Biden-Harris administration, suggests that more than 1 million of them are without identification. This is not a trivial concern. The potential threat to our personal and national security is significant. As one House report found, “294 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended at the Southwest border between ports of entry since the beginning of FY 2021 — and those are only the individuals Border Patrol agents have caught.”

The IG report concludes:

Under current processes, CBP and ICE cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country. Additionally, TSA cannot ensure its vetting and screening procedures prevent high-risk noncitizens who may pose a threat to the flying public from boarding domestic flights.

Byron York, a well-known political analyst, wrote in the Washington Examiner: “What government official would let so many people who entered the country illegally remain in the U.S. without even knowing who they are? That would be crazy.” Yet that’s exactly what the Biden-Harris administration has done.

Since 2021, the administration has created a vicious cycle. Its open-border policies have led to a record number of illegal border crossings, a situation that has overwhelmed the CBP and ICE, straining these agencies’ resources. This strain has then become the administration’s excuse not to enforce existing border security policies and procedures and let even “unvetted” illegal migrants stay. Of course, illegal migrants interpreted the administration’s lack of enforcement of existing laws as rolling out the welcome mat for more illegal border crossings. The cycle goes on.