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Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson weighed in on the effort to weaponize tragedy through the politicization of tragedy.

At question was the scrutiny of speech, particularly from the right and how it is blamed for the recent string incidents, including a pipe scare aimed at Democrats and media personalities, and the weekend’s synagogue shooting tragedy in Pittsburgh.

Hanson argued the rules weren’t clear and those that are currently attempting to define them, including the so-called “masters of the universe” of Silicon Valley lack the intellect and/or morality to do so.

“[T]he American people think, ‘Well, wait a minute — I don’t like hate speech or tough speech, but I don’t know what the rules are. It’s not symmetrical. It looks like it’s a left-wing electronic ring of terror. These self-appointed Facebook Robespierre in a nanosecond can guillotine you,” Hanson explained. “People don’t like that. So, we’re saying, ‘What are the rules of speech?’”

“From what you and I and others have seen of Facebook and Twitter and YouTube — the masters of the universe in Silicon lack either the intellect or the morality to tell us what is permissible speech,” he continued. “So, we don’t know who to turn to. There is confusion. Maybe we just go back to the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ and just say let’s treat people the way we would like to be treated.”

“I would tell that to Hillary Clinton,” Hanson added. “When Mitt Romney lost in 2012, he didn’t say, ‘I am not going to be civil until the next election.’ When George Bush quite graciously accepted that he was out of office in 2009, he did not go across the country as Obama is now calling the president of the United States an inveterate liar. So, I think it is asymmetrical, and people understand that. Until the adjudicators know they can’t adjudicate us because they don’t have the moral high ground.”

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Gonna be reeeaaalllly interesting to see how Republicans react to Donald Trump’s midterm pot-stirrer on birthright citizenship. Will they join the president in full-throated support of the same kind of executive authority over established law and the Constitution as they opposed with Barack Obama and DACA? Or do they risk alienating the base by pushing back and insisting on a more constitutional process?

Lindsey Graham ups the ante on his new Trump-channeling persona by cheering his fighting spirit. At the same time, however, Graham offers to split the baby by eclipsing the idea of an EO and channeling it through Congress instead:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said that he will introduce legislation to end birthright citizenship after President Trump suggested he wanted to do so through an executive order.

“Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform — and at the same time — the elimination of birthright citizenship,” Graham said in a string of tweets.

He added that he plans “to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order” from Trump. Congress is out of session until Nov. 13.

It’s worth pointing out that Graham has been in Congress since 1995 — first in the House and since 2003 in the Senate. In that time, Graham has raised birthright citizenship has a pressing issue once, in 2010. In 2013, Graham was among eight senators who joined a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform effort, joining other Republicans such as the late John McCain, Jeff Flake, and Marco Rubio, who got shredded over it in the 2016 primaries. Not only did the reform package fail to address birthright citizenship in any way, it provided a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally without having been born here at all.

So for an “absurd” situation, Graham didn’t seem terribly focused on it until today. Even when Graham did bring up birthright citizenship eight years ago, he acknowledged that it was constitutional and that “three court cases” had upheld it. What was the solution? A constitutional amendment:

“Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake,” explained Graham. “We should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child’s automatically not a citizen.”

Graham signaled his intent to introduce a constitutional amendment to change the existing immigration law as it stands today.

“People come here to have babies,” argued the Republican lawmaker. “They come here to drop a child. It’s called “drop and leave. To have a child in America, they cross the border, they go to the emergency room, have a child, and that child’s automatically an American citizen. That shouldn’t be the case. That attracts people here for all the wrong reasons.”

Eight years later, Graham now thinks that legislation will resolve the problem. It’s certainly more within the constitutional framework to address the issue through legislation, but the “three court cases” — Wong Kim Ark and Plyler being two of them, presumably — would pre-empt the legislative track. Why not propose the constitutional amendment instead? Either Graham has rethought this in some way in the hour or so between Trump’s announcement and his response, or Graham’s trying to redirect the issue onto safer and less volatile ground.

Trump’s VP happened to be doing a live interview with Politico this morning when the broadside went out. Pence denied that Trump was using a “scare tactic” to motivate Republican voters, and declared that the Supreme Court had never addressed the issue of birthright citizenship in relation to illegal immigration (which they actually did in Plyly). However, Pence shrewdly put this into the same categories as other “magnets” for illegal immigration, and said that it should be “reconsidered” as part of broader immigration reform:

“We all cherish the language of the 14th Amendment, but the Supreme Court of the United States has never ruled on whether or not the language of the 14th Amendment subject to the jurisdiction thereof applies specifically to people who are in the country illegally,” Pence said. pic.twitter.com/r2r65vQeT7

— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018

Neither of these amount to an explicit endorsement of an EO, probably because both men understand it wouldn’t work. It might be worthwhile to test the Supreme Court by passing legislation restricting citizenship grants to see whether the court would attempt to graft it to Wong Kim Ark, which would keep the effort in the legislative arena where it belongs. However, Graham had it right eight years ago — without a constitutional amendment, this is going nowhere, except as what Pence denies it to be: a midterm election play for hardcore security voters.

The fake news media and Democratic Party dirty tricks just keep on coming.

A crazy man sent package bombs to prominent Democrats.  Fake news media and the demonic Democratic Party viewed the mentally ill man’s actions as a gift from the gods of liberalism.  They immediately flooded the airwaves with their absurd narrative that Trump was responsible for the package bomber’s behavior because he told the truth about CNN and their fellow fake news liars.  Fake news media and Democrats outrageously said Americans who cheer and applaud Trump at his rallies are also responsible for the package bombs.  Democrats and fake news media demand, “Trump must tone down his rhetoric!”

Folks, Democrats and fake news pull this insidious trick over and over again.  After every tragic shooting, leftists never blame the actual shooter.  Democrats rush to microphones to blame every law-abiding gun-owner in America for the shooting.  Watching a DVD, I hit the “stop” button when Ice Cube delivered the line (lie), “Tell the NRA to stop killing black people.”  That line was an irresponsible leftist lie designed to generate black hatred for the NRA.  The NRA does not kill black people.

Leftists attempt to exploit every incident to further their agenda and demonize everyday traditional-minded Americans.  Outrageously, Democrats and fake news said Christians who spoke out against redefining marriage caused a gunman to massacre homosexuals in an Orlando night club.  Omar Mateen, the shooter, was a Muslim.  Christians lovingly try to lead homosexuals to Jesus.  Muslims routinely execute them.

Leftists pulled this same dirty trick on Brett Kavanaugh.  They said if we did not believe Dr Ford’s evidence-less accusation against Kavanaugh, we support the rape and abuse of women.

Since winning the W.H. in 2016, Trump has been fearlessly exposing fake news media as the lying Democratic Party leftist agenda operatives they truly are.  Leftists have tried every weapon in their take-out-a-Republican arsenal to tame, silence, and destroy Trump.  Nothing has worked.  Trump keeps telling the truth about fake news media and Democrats, educating the American people about leftists’ lies and deceptions.  Trump has made Americans more aware than ever.

So when this package bomber came along, leftists saw a golden opportunity to demand that Trump “tone down his rhetoric,” which is leftists’ code for “stop telling the truth about us.”

Folks, leftists’ arrogance and blatant hypocrisy are off the chain.  These people thrive on encouraging violence against anyone who dares to disagree or oppose their anti-America and anti-Christian agenda.

I hate hearing conservative and Republican TV talking heads falling for leftists’ narrative that Trump must tone down his rhetoric.  How on Earth can anyone logically say Trump truthfully calling CNN fake news is equal to the bold clarion calls for violence, hateful, and divisive language coming out of leftists’ Trump Resistance movement?

Please allow me to recap Democrats’ and fake news media’s hypocrisy.

Democrat Andre Carson said the Tea Party wants to see black people hanging from a tree.  Democrats Obama and Hillary Clinton praise Black Lives Matter to the high heavens.  This racist hate group boldly declared it “open season” on whites and cops.  BLM warned white America to prepare to be “picked off.”  Democrat Maxine Waters called for mob assaults on members of Trump’s administration whenever they are seen in public.  Hillary Clinton told Democrats to keep up their lawless, violent, and crazy behavior until Democrats are back in power.

Here are more examples of leftists’ attempts to generate violence against Trump and his voters who were ignored or supported by fake news media and Democrats.  Snoop Dogg shot Trump in the head in his music video.  Kathy Griffin held a severed bloody head of Trump.  Madonna expressed her desire to blow up the White House.  Neither Democrats nor fake news media denounced these obvious leftist clarion calls to enact violence against our president and his supporters.

The divisive, evil American left is selling its lie that the thousands of grandparents, kids, families and everyday Americans who cheer and wave U.S. flags at Trump rallies are receiving subliminal marching orders to inflict violence on media and Democrats.  Folks, that is pure hogwash – another leftist tactic to silence and eventually criminalize telling the truth.  Americans knowing the truth about various issues scares the heck out of Democrats and leftists.

I pray that President Trump will continue trusting his instincts and being himself.  At a recent rally, Trump asked the audience of thousands if they want him to tone down his rhetoric.  The crowd responded with a loud, passionate “No!”  The American people get it.  They know fake news and Democrats’ “Trump must tone down his rhetoric” narrative is simply another dirty trick to tame, silence, and control Trump – and also silence dissenting voices of all Americans.

Two years ago, my wife Mary and I met with the Conservative Campaign Committee to prepare for the midterm elections.  We studied candidates to decide how best to focus our efforts to keep the GOP in control of Congress.  We’ve been away from our West Virginia home traveling for much of the past two years.  We are currently in Nevada with our Conservative Campaign Committee team, campaigning for Republican senator Dean Heller.

Bottom line, folks: Please do not allow Democrat dirty tricks to take your attention away from getting everyone you know to vote Republican on November 6.

Upon completing this article, my wife Mary yelled to me, “Your Facebook page has been taken down!”  Oh, well.  I trust God.  We must defeat these people on the left.  Everyone who supports Trump’s agenda must vote.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Help Lloyd spread the Truth: http://bit.ly/2kZqmUk

http://LloydMarcus.com

The fake news media and Democratic Party dirty tricks just keep on coming.

A crazy man sent package bombs to prominent Democrats.  Fake news media and the demonic Democratic Party viewed the mentally ill man’s actions as a gift from the gods of liberalism.  They immediately flooded the airwaves with their absurd narrative that Trump was responsible for the package bomber’s behavior because he told the truth about CNN and their fellow fake news liars.  Fake news media and Democrats outrageously said Americans who cheer and applaud Trump at his rallies are also responsible for the package bombs.  Democrats and fake news media demand, “Trump must tone down his rhetoric!”

Folks, Democrats and fake news pull this insidious trick over and over again.  After every tragic shooting, leftists never blame the actual shooter.  Democrats rush to microphones to blame every law-abiding gun-owner in America for the shooting.  Watching a DVD, I hit the “stop” button when Ice Cube delivered the line (lie), “Tell the NRA to stop killing black people.”  That line was an irresponsible leftist lie designed to generate black hatred for the NRA.  The NRA does not kill black people.

Leftists attempt to exploit every incident to further their agenda and demonize everyday traditional-minded Americans.  Outrageously, Democrats and fake news said Christians who spoke out against redefining marriage caused a gunman to massacre homosexuals in an Orlando night club.  Omar Mateen, the shooter, was a Muslim.  Christians lovingly try to lead homosexuals to Jesus.  Muslims routinely execute them.

Leftists pulled this same dirty trick on Brett Kavanaugh.  They said if we did not believe Dr Ford’s evidence-less accusation against Kavanaugh, we support the rape and abuse of women.

Since winning the W.H. in 2016, Trump has been fearlessly exposing fake news media as the lying Democratic Party leftist agenda operatives they truly are.  Leftists have tried every weapon in their take-out-a-Republican arsenal to tame, silence, and destroy Trump.  Nothing has worked.  Trump keeps telling the truth about fake news media and Democrats, educating the American people about leftists’ lies and deceptions.  Trump has made Americans more aware than ever.

So when this package bomber came along, leftists saw a golden opportunity to demand that Trump “tone down his rhetoric,” which is leftists’ code for “stop telling the truth about us.”

Folks, leftists’ arrogance and blatant hypocrisy are off the chain.  These people thrive on encouraging violence against anyone who dares to disagree or oppose their anti-America and anti-Christian agenda.

I hate hearing conservative and Republican TV talking heads falling for leftists’ narrative that Trump must tone down his rhetoric.  How on Earth can anyone logically say Trump truthfully calling CNN fake news is equal to the bold clarion calls for violence, hateful, and divisive language coming out of leftists’ Trump Resistance movement?

Please allow me to recap Democrats’ and fake news media’s hypocrisy.

Democrat Andre Carson said the Tea Party wants to see black people hanging from a tree.  Democrats Obama and Hillary Clinton praise Black Lives Matter to the high heavens.  This racist hate group boldly declared it “open season” on whites and cops.  BLM warned white America to prepare to be “picked off.”  Democrat Maxine Waters called for mob assaults on members of Trump’s administration whenever they are seen in public.  Hillary Clinton told Democrats to keep up their lawless, violent, and crazy behavior until Democrats are back in power.

Here are more examples of leftists’ attempts to generate violence against Trump and his voters who were ignored or supported by fake news media and Democrats.  Snoop Dogg shot Trump in the head in his music video.  Kathy Griffin held a severed bloody head of Trump.  Madonna expressed her desire to blow up the White House.  Neither Democrats nor fake news media denounced these obvious leftist clarion calls to enact violence against our president and his supporters.

The divisive, evil American left is selling its lie that the thousands of grandparents, kids, families and everyday Americans who cheer and wave U.S. flags at Trump rallies are receiving subliminal marching orders to inflict violence on media and Democrats.  Folks, that is pure hogwash – another leftist tactic to silence and eventually criminalize telling the truth.  Americans knowing the truth about various issues scares the heck out of Democrats and leftists.

I pray that President Trump will continue trusting his instincts and being himself.  At a recent rally, Trump asked the audience of thousands if they want him to tone down his rhetoric.  The crowd responded with a loud, passionate “No!”  The American people get it.  They know fake news and Democrats’ “Trump must tone down his rhetoric” narrative is simply another dirty trick to tame, silence, and control Trump – and also silence dissenting voices of all Americans.

Two years ago, my wife Mary and I met with the Conservative Campaign Committee to prepare for the midterm elections.  We studied candidates to decide how best to focus our efforts to keep the GOP in control of Congress.  We’ve been away from our West Virginia home traveling for much of the past two years.  We are currently in Nevada with our Conservative Campaign Committee team, campaigning for Republican senator Dean Heller.

Bottom line, folks: Please do not allow Democrat dirty tricks to take your attention away from getting everyone you know to vote Republican on November 6.

Upon completing this article, my wife Mary yelled to me, “Your Facebook page has been taken down!”  Oh, well.  I trust God.  We must defeat these people on the left.  Everyone who supports Trump’s agenda must vote.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

Help Lloyd spread the Truth: http://bit.ly/2kZqmUk

http://LloydMarcus.com

President Donald Trump told Fox News that he will hold Central American asylum-seekers in detention while they wait for their asylum requests to be considered by immigration judges.

“We’re going to hold them [in detention] until such time their trial takes place,” he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday night. He continued:

We’re going to build tent cities, we’re going to put tents up all over the place … The [migrants] are going to wait [in detention], and if they don’t get asylum, they get out of here.

“We’re not letting them into this country,” he said, suggesting his plan will include all Central American asylum-seekers, not just the migrants in the two approaching caravans of Honduran migrants.

.@POTUS on facilities for asylum seekers: “We’re going to build tent cities. We’re going to put tents up all over the place.” @IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/fL3ALkNbz4

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 30, 2018

Trump is now expected to announce his plan on Wednesday, and likely will also describe the legal authorities which would allow a drastic change from the pro-migration policies embraced by Presidents Geoge W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Democrats, progressives and business groups will oppose his plan to reduce migration, and will likely ask a California judge to block the plan. In turn, Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions will push the Supreme Court to contain the judicial counterattacks on Trump’s defense of the nation’s border and labor market.

Trump said his plan would keep asylum-seeking parents with their children, undermining Democrats’ complaints about “family separation.”

The Trump plan can legally replace the judge-imposed Flores rule which forces officials to release migrants with children before their asylum requests can be processed by officials. The Flores rule releases migrants with children in 20 days, even though the legal process takes roughly 40 days.

Trump’s plan may deter the future flow of migrants towards the border and into the United States. Once the asylum-seeking migrants hare held in detention, “you will have far fewer people come up,” he said.

Trump’s detention plan could break the cartels’ profitable labor-trafficking business because it prevents migrants from getting the U.S. jobs which allow them to pay for the cartels’ fees.

Getting the migrants released is the payday for the cartels. Once released, the migrants typically get the U.S. jobs the need to pay their debts to the cartel labor-traffickers. Moreover, many migrants continue working until they can raise another $10,000 to pay the cartels to smuggle their spouse or a child into the United States.

If Trump’s detention plan ends the current catch-release-and-work process, he will cripple the cartels’ trafficking business, force up wages for blue-collar Americans, and reduce the flow of foreign children into the schools needed by the children of blue-collar Americans.

However, the cutoff of cartel-delivered labor and consumers would reduce the economic benefits enjoyed by U.S. cheap-labor employers, retailers, landlords, and upper-income professionals.

The scale of the cartels’ labor trafficking is huge. In 2014, 400,000 asylum-seekers were given temporary work permits, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Many additional migrants pay the cartels to help them sneak into the United States.

 

Overall, Washington’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees.

 

 

 

 

We were told over and over again that Christine Blasey Ford had “nothing to gain” by her testimony, which is why we should believe her.

Take these quotes from late September during Ford’s testimony accusing then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her more than three decades ago:

Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois: “You had absolutely nothing to gain by bringing these facts to the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

Sen. Kamala Harris, Democrat of California: “I want to thank you, because you clearly have nothing to gain for what you have done.”

It turns out that if you still think she has nothing to gain, your definition of “nothing” may be a lot different than ours.

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That’s at least the takeaway from a piece by journalist Paul Sperry and published on Monday by RealClearInvestigations. Perry found that the aftermath of the Kavanaugh hearings could be awfully profitable for Ford.

“In fact, Ford stands to gain some $1 million and counting from national crowdfunding campaigns launched by friends and other supporters, while she is said to be fielding book offers,” Sperry wrote.

“The potential seven-figure windfall, which she says she intends to cash in on – while still asking donors for more money – has some questioning her motivation for accusing the conservative judge after 35 years of silence, and whether it goes beyond personal or even political justice. Others worry the largesse sets a dangerous precedent: Crowdfunding, which unlike political donations is unregulated, could be routinely used in the future as a bounty for providing political dirt on opponents.”

Ford has insisted that she’ll be using the money for legal fees and security.

“The costs for security, housing, transportation and other related expenses are much higher than we anticipated and they do not show signs of letting up,” a recent statement from Ford on one of the accounts reads.

“Funds received via this account will be used to help us pay for these mounting expenses.”

However, donors will have no idea where that money goes aside from Ford’s word. A spokeswoman for GoFundMe told Sperry that crowdfunding money can be withdrawn at any time for any purpose.

And that had Sperry raising doubts:

“Some question the necessity of the financial assistance given that much of the costs associated with Ford’s testimony — including all of her legal fees plus a polygraph examination — were covered by Democratic attorneys assigned to her by the Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, committee sources say; panel Democrats were allotted half of a $1 million committee fund for transportation, security, investigations and other expenses associated with the tumultuous confirmation process. The Senate Sergeant at Arms and Capitol Police also provided ‘heightened security’ for Ford,” he wrote.

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During her testimony, Ford had said that she was was forced incur security expenses due to threats after she came forward.

“My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats,” Ford said. “My family and I were forced to move out of our home.”

However, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said the committee was “not provided with specifics of any threats against Dr. Ford” and the only minatory message any media outlet received was second-hand information given to The New York Times by a friend of Ford’s.

According to a Twitter post by Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the message stated, “From what I’ve heard, you have 6 months to live, you disgusting slime.”

Sperry also speculated that journalists and pro-Ford demonstrators camped outside her house may have played as much of a part in prompting her relocation as any real security threat, although that kind of thing doesn’t get as much sympathy from liberal donors.

This isn’t to say that Ford is misusing the GoFundMe money. However, although we’re not necessarily entitled to a breakdown into how it’s being used, I certainly would be curious.

And, as for Ford’s potential book deals — well, this is pretty much de rigeur these days. Between James Comey’s self-hagiography and whatever tripe Michael Avenatti ends up cluttering remainder bins with, pretty much every anti-Trump figure feels the need to write some sort of blatantly unnecessary tome for which they’ll receive an insane amount of money.

We don’t begrudge her that. We don’t begrudge her any of this. Nor would we say that it makes her any more or less believable.

But we would question the argument that she had “nothing to gain” from this. She offered no proof beyond her own (oft-contradicted, oft-contradictory) testimony; she nearly destroyed a man professionally when he was nearing the peak of an otherwise blameless and distinguished career; and she walked away with a fortune.

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Almost from the first moment he entered the political realm with the announcement of his presidential candidacy in 2015, Donald Trump has been denounced and smeared by the Democratic Party and their allies

These groups paint Trump as some sort of hateful bigoted racist against minorities, specifically black Americans.

To hear only the liberal media report it, one would assume that the feeling is quite mutual among monolithic black Americans in regards to President Trump — with the rare exception of a Trump-supporting black individual like Kanye West or Candace Owens, isolated and abused with intolerant smears designed to discredit them among other minorities.

But the reality of the situation is that black Americans are not some monolithic group that all think the same way.

An increasing number of black Americans have begun to reject the liberal dogma they’ve been force-fed for years and have, at the very least, become open-minded with regard to Trump, the Republican Party and conservatism in general.

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Such a shift had already been showing up in various polls conducted over the past year, but a new poll just released by Rasmussen is garnering attention as it places black support for Trump at a historic high, little more than one week prior to the incredibly crucial midterm elections.

Trump Approval Today Back at 50%

Black Voter Approval at Record High.https://t.co/mazBCW77nY pic.twitter.com/gQiNHhJmhX

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) October 29, 2018

The Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking poll for Monday, Oct. 29, placed total approval for Trump at 50 percent with 49 percent of respondents registering disapproval of the president.

However, the big news was contained within the breakdown of the total approval and disapproval numbers, as it showed black support for the Republican president at a record high of 40 percent.

Comparatively, the Rasmussen poll showed total approval and disapproval among likely white voters and “others” at 53-47 and 47-52, respectively.

More broadly, that includes an approval/disapproval rating of 50-50 among men and a somewhat surprising 50-48 among women … surprising given the liberal media’s alternate narrative that Trump is a raging misogynist and sexist who hates all women, in addition to being a bigoted racist.

Among likely U.S. voters who are black, some 25 percent “strongly approve” of President Trump while 54 percent “strongly disapprove.” The fact that roughly a quarter of black voters “strongly approve” of a president who is routinely smeared as being a hateful racist is rather significant, but the news gets even better.

Factoring in soft approval with the strong approval, Rasmussen found that about four out of every ten likely black American voters support the president, while nearly six in ten, 58 percent, disapprove of Trump.

Again, in comparison, 37 percent of white voters “strongly approve” of Trump while 41 percent “strongly disapprove,” and the breakdown for others who felt “strongly” was 33 percent approve and 43 percent disapprove.

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To be sure, those overall numbers still place Trump underwater with black Americans in terms of support, but a support level of 40 percent is significantly higher than the 10-15 percent support he earned in the 2016 election.

A support level of 40 percent is also much higher than what the media would have you believe it is now and effectively puts the black vote “in play” going forward, something Democrats most certainly don’t want to see.

As a result of their obsession with identity politics and incessant shouts of racism over the past few decades, Democrats have made the black vote an integral part of their political strategy in election years — so much so that they require upwards of 80-90 percent of the black vote in order to remain competitive nationwide, having ignored or rejected and lost the vote of a substantial portion of the blue-collar white working class.

If anywhere near 40 percent of black voters break ranks with the Democrats in the upcoming elections — both 2018 and 2020 — and vote for Republicans and Trump, that could very well prove devastating to Democrat electoral chances.

This is a “Yuuuugggeee” development that undoubtedly will be ignored or downplayed by Democrats and the liberal media, who will point to other polls historically skewed in their favor to show that black voters don’t support Trump, but we will all see what happens on Election Day. Keep in mind, however, that Rasmussen was one of the most accurate polls in 2016, when virtually all others were decisively wrong

If these numbers put forward by Rasmussen are anywhere close to reality, Democrats can wave goodbye to any sort of political majority for the foreseeable future.

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I occasionally scour Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed for hours on end for reasons I find inexplicable.

The most positive spin I could put on my explanation I could give is that I’m doing research on stories, but that’s not quite it. In fact, I’ve actually written about socialism’s favorite useful idiot considerably less as the New York City Democrat approaches an almost certain election to Congress this November.

Rather, I trace the trend back to my tendency to listen to bands like The Cure, The Smiths and Joy Division during high school — because they allowed me to reinforce my superchargedly pessimistic outlook on life.

At least the works of Robert Smith, Morrissey and Ian Curtis were supposed to do that, however. Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed is supposed to be full of love and energy, a symbol of the fact that these are going to be the young people that are going to take over our nation’s political discourse and lead us to an egalitarian utopia of free college, free health care, open borders and no guns.

That’s cheerless enough if you bother to examine it, but it’s only half the problem. If you want to see the other half, witness this tweet about how it is somehow racist to use the word “caravan” to describe a caravan of migrants seeking to use American asylum law in a way it clearly wasn’t meant to be used:

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These are refugees using legal routes to seek & apply for asylum.

At this point, if you are an outlet adopting the President’s language to describe this as a “caravan,” you‘re playing yourself. And letting him play you. https://t.co/RfUL0d6Owy

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) October 26, 2018

So, to quote the Black Sheep, the choice is yours: You can get with this (adjusting your language and understanding of asylum law to come more in line with that of Ocasio-Cortez) or you can get with that (enforcing our laws as written).

The president, it seems, is getting with that.

“The U.S. military announced Monday that, by the end of the week, it will send 5,200 active duty troops to the southwest border, as well as helicopters and heavy equipment to build new barriers, to meet a request from the Department of Homeland Security to augment resources in anticipation of the arrival of two caravans of migrants currently in Mexico,” ABC News reported Monday.

“The deployment of active duty service members was triggered by President Trump’s remarks last week that he wanted the military to get involved in dealing with the caravan of migrants from Central America.”

The Pentagon is deploying thousands of active-duty troops to beef up security along the US-Mexico border in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants crossing https://t.co/qazuf79jdW pic.twitter.com/qPMKKYw3oW

— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 30, 2018

In a tweet, the president indicated that “Many Gang Members and some very bad people” were among the caravan members. This went by without confirmation from the media, although I’d just like to throw this out there for your perusal:

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One migrant caravan member admits he’s been deported and convicted of attempted murder in the U.S. – he’s planning to reenter and request a pardon for his felony.

pic.twitter.com/jdECzdwWt1

— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) October 30, 2018

Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

This is a small sample size, mind you, but it shows this isn’t just a caravan (oops, sorry, forgot — “refugees using legal routes to seek & apply for asylum”) full of well-meaning people who don’t entirely understand asylum law.

Yes, most of them probably are — although they’re also using this caravan to politicize the somehow-controversial idea we can patrol our own borders. But there are also individuals who shouldn’t be in the country under any circumstance trying to enter under its auspices.

Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of U.S. Northern Command, told a news conference in Washington that the caravan poses a very real threat.

“I think the president has made it clear that border security is national security,” O’Shaughnessy said, according to ABC. “That’s the direction we are given. That’s the direction we are marching to. Our orders are very clear. We are engaged and here to support (Customs and Border Protection). We are going to secure the border.”

He also said that if there were issues, 5,200 troops could just be the beginning, including air support and heavy equipment.

“According to O’Shaughnessy, the active duty troops will help ‘harden’ the border using the Army Corps of Engineers and construction units that will build vehicle barriers and fencing,” ABC reported.

“Like the 2,100 National Guardsmen already deployed in a similar mission, the active duty troops will not carry out law enforcement duties, since that is prohibited by the federal law known as Posse Comitatus.”

“Everything that we are doing is in line with and adherence to Posse Comitatus,” O’Shaughnessy told reporters, according to ABC.

So, it’s legal, and they’re looking to enforce our immigration laws. What say you, liberal twitterati?

Evidence? They’re seeking asylum from situations you’ve never experienced b/c your daddy gave you everything, even your wealth. They carry peace & are ready to truly make America great. Unlike you, they’re willing to take the back-breaking jobs, pay taxes, & contribute to society

— Marco LCR (@MrMarco_LCR97) October 30, 2018

Beyond the whole ridiculous daddy thing, there’s not actually any argument to support that. (I’m sure Marco LCR probably has a computer and/or a mobile phone in part because his mommy and/or daddy was somewhat prosperous while most of these asylum seekers didn’t have that luxury. That’s not an argument for anything, unless you consider privilege-baiting an argument.)

Furthermore, asylum law only protects against a credible fear of persecution based on specific criteria. You don’t just get in because your country is in chaos — you have to show actual threat of persecution.

That point seemed to be lost on a lot of people.

They ARE doing it legally. They’re walking to our port of entry (as is their right) to request asylum. That’s actually how it’s done. Legally. We approve their request or turn them back. We don’t call in the military and have a big freak out.

— GiGi (@Zazochi) October 30, 2018

The media has made it clear that most of these individuals don’t meet the basic criteria for asylum. Oh, and lest we forget, this caravan began in Honduras; general international principles of asylum tend to indicate that individuals ought to apply for it in the first safe country they reach — which, in this case, would have been Guatemala or Mexico. That wasn’t what they planned to do. They planned to come to the United States border for reasons that ought to be prima facie obvious.

So, no, this deployment of 5,200 troops isn’t racist. It isn’t a sop to the base for the midterms. It’s a necessary step to prove we have the will to guard the border.

Let’s face facts: If the individuals in this caravan got into the United States, it wouldn’t make too much of a difference at a practical level — although given some of the elements that have joined the parade, it’s clear that America would likely be a better country with their being left out.

At a theoretical level, what it would do would be weaken the moral precedent to guard the border. If these individuals wanted to get asylum, there are ways to go about it that don’t involve caravans. In fact, many of them don’t even involve America.

What’s clear, therefore, is that asylum isn’t the main issue. Instead, it’s adding more kerosene to the bonfire of internecine enmity we’ve been building in America over these past few years.

That’s why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed is so vital: Not only is it the perfectly bleak social media soundtrack to our times, it’s a way of gaining insight into the views of Democrats who are trying to subvert United States borders — and its sovereignty.

Trump’s views are exactly the opposite. Sending troops to deal with the caravan at the border is the only rational response at this point. If other countries aren’t willing to step up, this is the only way to ensure our borders stay safe.

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Mexico’s immigration authorities issued a warning about individuals in Guatemala who are building Molotov cocktails and other makeshift incendiary devices to be used against federal police officers guarding their southern border. The alert follows an incident where a group of migrants in what’s being dubbed the second caravan threw rocks at officials at the Guatemala-Mexico Border and tried to break through international barriers. Mexican law enforcement confirmed that some of the protesters in the clash carried firearms.

The warning was issued by Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM). The agency claimed it learned of various individuals in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, were building Molotov cocktails with the intent of using them against Mexican border authorities. In a public statement, INM asked the Guatemalan government to intervene, adding the violent actions were those of “criminals and not of a vulnerable migrant population.”

 

The group in Guatemala appears to be part of another caravan of migrants trying to make their way into Mexico and then the United States. As Breitbart News reported, that group clashed violently with authorities at one of the border fences in Guatemala as they tried to make their way into Mexico. Ten police officers sustained various injuries and one Honduran national died, Mexico’s Secretariat of the interior confirmed in a statement.

Due to the violent nature of the protest, authorities in both Mexico and Guatemala are working to identify the individuals who are believed behind the clashes and those preparing the improvised incendiary devices, said Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior Alfredo Navarrete Prida. The official also confirmed that in the most recent clash, some of the suspects carried firearms and Molotov cocktails.

The group in Guatemala is separate from the migrant caravan, which is currently in Mexico and is making its way to the United States. Mexico’s government asked the members of the northern caravan to follow immigration law so they could receive temporary employment, state-funded healthcare, and education. However, the group turned down the offers and is preparing to continue north. From that caravan, 422 migrants requested assistance from Mexican authorities to return home.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.  You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com. 

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.

Tony Aranda and “J.M. Martinez” from the Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.