HAMMER: Why Is No One Discussing The Drug Trafficking Aspect Of Our Southern Border Crisis?

The sheer scope of the systemic, all-encompassing sovereignty crisis at our southern border is staggering.

From both a constitutional and a philosophical perspective, the federal government has no more important responsibility to its citizenry than securing the border. Period.

From a national security perspective, it is stupefying to ponder the reality that we are releasing tens of thousands of barely vetted aliens into the interior each month due to a brutal combination of catch-and-release tomfoolery, limited bed space due to the under-funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the erroneously decreed Flores settlement. Indeed, we know from the intrepid reporting of journalist extraordinaire Todd Bensman that the predominantly Central America-fleeing economic migrants have no shortage of dangerous Middle Easterners mixed in among them. Furthermore, we are letting in no shortage of migrants afflicted with deadly diseases.

From an assimilation perspective, the huge number of Central Americans absconding into the nation’s interior due to the de facto amnesty of catch-and-release only exacerbates our increasingly stark crisis of national unity — including but hardly limited to our ability to (literally) all speak a common language.

From a crime perspective, we know that non-citizen aliens commit a disproportionate share of federal crime — 44.2% of it over the course of 2011 – 2016, according to statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. And from a pure common sense perspective, it ought to make sense that vulnerable unaccompanied alien youths showing up at our border would be more susceptible to recruitment by MS-13 and other Central America-originating transnational gangs. In fact, both MS-13 and the cartels operate so fluidly throughout the U.S. due in no small part to the ongoing surfeit of prospective gangsters and drug mules who reach our border and are released into the interior. Consider this harrowing story out of Los Angeles:

But perhaps the singular least discussed aspect of the ongoing crisis at our southern border is that the illegal alien influx there has dramatically metastasized America’s already-dire drug epidemic. An eye-opening report in the Washington Examiner this morning shines a spotlight on the extent to which the border crisis has frozen our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) human assets — redirecting those officials who would normally be in the business of interdicting contraband 50-100 miles inland to deal with apprehension and toddler daycare duty at the border itself. Per the Examiner:

Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitously.

Those seven checkpoints have sat unattended after Border Patrol closed them to move all personnel to the border to assist with apprehending, processing, and caring for the high number of migrant families arriving. …

Officials have also noted upticks in methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures since March. Black said the cost of a pound of meth has been slashed in half since then, from $4,700 when the checkpoints first closed to $2,500 by late June. The price dropped because the market is saturated.

To summarize, then, Border Patrol assets who are normally tasked with interdicting contraband have been, due in no small part to the current under-funding of DHS, redeployed to the border to deal with the sundry maladies transpiring there. As a consequence, drugs trafficked in by the cartels and their terrorist allies (like Hezbollah) are not being seized. There is now a huge, unprecedented glut of deadly narcotics pouring into the nation. Recall that a sugar packet-sized dose of fentanyl can kill a whole room full of people. And now, so much meth is being trafficked into the interior that prices in Las Cruces, New Mexico have been cut by nearly half in just four months! That is simply astonishing.

America’s drug overdose epidemic, while misdiagnosed as an “opioid” epidemic, is really a more general narcotics epidemic that has fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and heroin as its leading contributors. Our under-funded DHS and political unwillingness to stanch the illegal alien influx bleeding at our border is not just resulting in machete-style MS-13 murders in Los Angeles. It is also leading to an unprecedented crisis of drugs so potent that — in the case of fentanyl — they might be reasonably compared to cartel-driven chemical warfare against our inner cities and collective progeny.

This is a huge, huge problem. Drugs are literally destroying countless small towns across the nation. And now our political elites, by ignoring the border crisis as they have, are somehow making the drug epidemic crisis even worse than it already is. It is nothing short of a blemish upon our entire political ruling class.

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‘Unplanned’ Opens Strong in Theaters Across Canada, Despite Being Labelled ‘Hate Propaganda’

Pro-life film Unplanned made it to 56 movie theaters across Canada despite opposition from pro-abortion activists who refer to the film as a “piece of hate propaganda.”

The U.S. film brings to the screen the memoir of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager-turned pro-life activist.

Unplanned opened to $353,510 on its opening weekend at the Canadian box office, noted the Hollywood Reporter, despite controversy and even death threats to independent theater owners.

Many Canadian theaters reported sold-out showings, though abortion activists denounced the film and protested it vehemently.

Joyce Arthur, executive director of the coalition, expressed concern about the safety of Canadian abortion providers due to the screening of the film.

According to CBC, Arthur referred to the film as a “piece of hate propaganda.”

“The film’s vicious falsehoods against providers could incite hatred and violence against them, including here in Canada,” she said. “But the film also aims to challenge abortion rights. That’s a non-starter in Canada, where women and transgender people have a Charter right to abortion based on their rights to bodily autonomy and equality.”

Katie Telford, chief of staff to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, also tweeted on numerous occasions her contempt for the film and pro-life activists.

Telford recommended to her followers an opinion piece by an abortion advocate with the headline, “Unplanned and anti-choice activism, and the lies that they tell.”

When the film opened in Canada last Friday, Planned Parenthood Newfoundland and Labrador decided to sponsor a showing of the film Mean Girls as a “fun alternative” to Unplanned, rather than hold a formal protest to the U.S. movie.

Considering the controversy, Canadian film and television producer Martin Katz, marveled at the movie’s distribution, CBC observed.

“My understanding is that it’s quite terrible, but there are a lot of terrible films that get released,” said Katz. “What I think is drastic is that there’s a lot of great Canadian films that don’t get released, if they do get released, they get released on a screen or five screens or six screens, not [almost] 60 screens.”

The CEO of Cineplex, Canada’s largest cinema chain, ultimately justified screening the film based on the principle of free speech.

“Canada is a country that believes in and rallies behind freedom of expression, but that isn’t always an easy thing to do and it certainly doesn’t always make you popular,” said Ellis Jacob. “In this instance many of us will have to set aside our own personal beliefs and remember that living in a country that censors content, opinions, and points of view because they are different from our own is not a country that any of us want to live in.”

The film’s success led to screenings at Cineplex’s rivals, including Cinema Guzzo in Quebec and Imagine Cinemas, Landmark Cinemas, and some independent houses in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, observed THR.

Unplanned stars Ashley Bratcher in the role of Abby Johnson:

As of July 15, Unplanned‘s North American box office take was at $18.55 million.

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New RNC ad: AOC & the Squad want anarchy, you know

The RNC rolled out a new ad aimed at bolstering Donald Trump’s standing, and it has … not a single frame or mention of Trump at all. Instead, the ad asks viewers to contemplate the alternative, in the alternative’s own words. It focuses on the frosh “Squad” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez most of all, but also her pals Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib — and their incendiary rhetoric. And, the ad strongly implies, the violence that their rhetoric incites (via Twitchy):

Those who immerse themselves in the daily political cycle won’t find anything new in the ad except for the slick packaging. But this ad isn’t meant for insiders; it takes aim at those who are either completely disengaged with politics or only paying scant attention. It’s effective, especially at the end when three of the four refuse to provide a condemnation of Antifa and its violent tactics.

By the way, did Tlaib not get asked the question? Or did she actually respond with a condemnation when asked? Her absence from that montage is intriguing, at the least.

Expect to hear plenty of griping from the Left about the RNC’s attempts to tie political speech from the Squad to Antifa violence. Fifteen years ago, I might have had some sympathy for that complaint, but the same people who will make those complaints now have been declaring for years that conservative speech is violence, while excusing actual violence by their allies as free speech and punishment for it as political.  This is a response in kind, which doesn’t exactly make it correct, but it certainly evens the playing field.

The ad falls short in one respect. The Squad’s ultimate goal isn’t anarchy, just as it isn’t for the anarchists, either. Their ultimate goal is a totalitarian system which they run and impose their agenda on everyone else by force. Anarchy is just a means to that end, a strategy that we have seen play out over and over again for the past century or more.

By the way, expect ads like this to be a Republican genre of 2020 for a couple of reasons. First, Donald Trump isn’t popular enough to conduct a blanket ad campaign focusing solely on him. Second and most importantly, Democrats have become so unhinged that the most effective way to elect Republicans is to amplify what Democrats are actually saying and doing. In this cycle, the cliché “the ads write themselves” might be closer to the truth than ever.

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EXCLUSIVE: High Tech Image Recognition and Other Evidence Proves Representative Omar Lied in Front of the Divorce Court Claiming She Hadn’t Seen Husband Since 2011!

Evidence shows Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar lied about the location of her brother/husband as well as when she last saw him in front of the court.  Omar appears to have married her brother (obviously illegally) to assist him in obtaining citizenship in the US.

We reported in June that Ilhan Omar’s husband, whom she divorced, was actually her brother.  Omar in her divorce decree said that she had not contacted her husband since 2011 and she did not know where he (her brother and husband) was located –

In a 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her husband (brother?) that she hadn’t seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn’t know anyone who could help her contact him.

Hidden code on a website however shows that Ahmed E. Elmi may have actually designed and set up a website for Ilhan Omar’s sister THIS YEAR and is living in Nairobi, Kenya, the same city Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor lives and works in.

Omar’s sister Sahra Noor currently works as the CEO of Grit Partners and the company’s website reveals Omar’s estranged brother-husband created the website and or the Instagram account for Grit Partners.

The hidden source code was first reported by investigative journalist David Steinberg. (screenshot below of hidden code via the Daily Caller)

“There is no reasonable explanation for this code to exist besides Elmi working for Noor [Ilhan Omar’s sister],” David Steinberg said. “And that’s a bombshell: In 2017, Ilhan Omar swore, under penalty of perjury while divorcing Elmi, that she had zero contact with him since 2011 — and no clue how to find him.”

We now have evidence that Omar lied when she stated that she didn’t know where he was at and that she had not seen him since 2011. Ahmadan Elmi (AKA Ahmed Elmi Nur) has now been located in the UK and he is living a gay lifestyle.


Ahmadan Elmi (AKA Ahmed Elmi Nur AKA Ahmed Nur Siad Elmi) is connected to Representative Omar and her family.  Ahmadan Elmi, from the UK matches Ahmadan Nur Siad Elmi, Omar’s brother and husband based on high tech facial recognition from two family pictures.

The scarf between Omar’s husband and brother also is a positive match with the individual in the UK –

In addition, evidence shows that on August 27, 2012, Ahmed Nur Elmi, flew on American Airlines from the UK to Minneapolis.  Ahmed Nur Elmi then took a photo with his wife/sister’s newborn.  Obviously, Representative Omar lied if she claimed that she hadn’t seen her husband since 2011 in her divorce decree –

Finally, per highly sophisticated facial recognition scans of over 35 pictures, it is clear that pictures of Ahmadan Elmi match with pictures of Ahmed Nur Siad Elmi.

Images of “Ahmadan Elmi” matched to within 96% certainty with images of “Ahmed Nur Siad Elmi”.  The overall case against Omar committing immigration and marital fraud is clear.

Based on an extensive high tech review of images and other data presented above, Rep. Omar lied in her divorce decree and and therefore committed crimes in front of the court.

Representative Omar knew where her husband/brother was located, she has seen him since 2011 and he is living a gay lifestyle in the UK.

Hat tip Yaacov Apelbaum

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The ‘Squad’ Won’t Condemn Antifa Terrorism….WHERE Are The Media?

Liberals demanded Trump supporters denounce his "racist" tweets with hashtags like #SilenceEqualsConsent. But when a Canadian reporter asked three members of the radical-left "Squad" if they would condemn Antifa terrorism, they all refused to answer the question. Now does silence equal consent? It’s incredible that the news media refuse to cover a member of Congress refusing to condemn a group that advocates domestic terrorism! 

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Surprise: ‘CBS Evening News’ Puts Aside Nonsense to Cover Border Crisis

After the CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell debuted with two nights of rampant liberal bias on a number of fronts, Wednesday’s installment included a rare reprieve with substantive, snark-free coverage of the illegal immigration crisis at the border (compared to what we usually see from them) and another example of how, even in the liberal media, broken clocks can occasionally be right. 

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The Global Warming Show — how’s it going to end?

Set aside whatever animus you may have for comedy actor Jim Carrey and his current hobby of painting vile anti-Trump cartoons. In 1998, he headlined the dark satire movie “The Truman Show,” where his character Truman Burbank is unwittingly imprisoned from birth as the star in his own TV reality show. Everything Truman believes is real is totally fake – his family, friends, his workplace, the town he lives in, the weather he lives under – all fabricated and controlled by the show’s producer, “Christof” (played by Ed Harris).

Truman is a smart, critical thinker, however, and spots too many glitches in his fake world. A beautiful actress extra wearing a “How’s it going to end?” pin gives him a direct cue about this, but she’s forcibly removed from the set, prompting him to plan an escape to find her. Ultimately, it is the truth of the whole situation she told him which sets him free.

Truman: ”Was nothing real?”
Christof: ”You were real. That’s what made you so good to watch. There is no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. The same lies, the same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear.”

In “The Global Warming Show” being broadcast by the Global Warming industry, the difference is that the Truman Burbanks within it have everything to fear after watching mainstream media reports or seeing Google search results on “climate change” — rising sea levels from a melting Arctic are decimating the starving polar bear population and inundating Miami with floods, while extreme violent weather is ever more frequent. Despite the scripted 97% scientific consensus behind the well-intended imperative to stop this impending calamity, a sinister fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign employs skeptic “liars for hire” scientists to undercut it.

However, when critical thinkers take the effort to go far beyond superficial Google searches and media reports of the issue, they begin spotting all the glitches: skeptic climate scientists tell in mind-blowing levels of detail how the seas aren’t rising nor is the Arctic melting at any noticeable rate; polar bear populations are on the increase; the Miami area suffers from land subsidence; past historical records show as much or more devastating weather events; a show of hands is a logical fallacy which never validates scientific conclusions; and places like the PBS NewsHour never inform their viewers about the science-based analysis from skeptic climate scientists. Even the term “climate change” is a ruse to cover up the plateauing of the average world temperature over the last 15+ years, while Alexander Ocasio-Cortez’s Svengali admits her Green New Deal is nothing more than a plan to gain full control of the private economy. What about sinister industry disinformation efforts? It turns out the “Pulitzer-winning reporter” Al Gore claims discovered leaked memos proving this conspiracy never actually won a Pulitzer; wasn’t the first to quote those memos; and those memos neither prove any such pay-for-performance arrangement exists between skeptic climate scientists and industry executives, nor were they even part of an old public relations campaign that Gore and that ‘reporter’ say they were.

“The Global Warming Show” was never actually about saving the planet, it’s all about dictatorial control over everything … and no doubt it was good for the Al “Christof” Gores in the issue to watch how the fear they created caused money to pour into their wallets. But to accomplish this, they had to fabricate a fake world where no opposition exists.

How’s it going to end? Ultimately, it is the truth found in the reports from skeptic climate scientists that will set us free to know with certainty that there’s nothing to fear after all about this issue, whereupon we can hold the people behind this fake issue and the complicit news media accountable for their lies and deceit.

Russell Cook is the publisher of the Gelbspan Files website, documenting the fraudulent claims that oil and cola industries pay climate skeptics to oppose the global warming doom-sayers. His archive of American Thinker articles can be found here.

Set aside whatever animus you may have for comedy actor Jim Carrey and his current hobby of painting vile anti-Trump cartoons. In 1998, he headlined the dark satire movie “The Truman Show,” where his character Truman Burbank is unwittingly imprisoned from birth as the star in his own TV reality show. Everything Truman believes is real is totally fake – his family, friends, his workplace, the town he lives in, the weather he lives under – all fabricated and controlled by the show’s producer, “Christof” (played by Ed Harris).

Truman is a smart, critical thinker, however, and spots too many glitches in his fake world. A beautiful actress extra wearing a “How’s it going to end?” pin gives him a direct cue about this, but she’s forcibly removed from the set, prompting him to plan an escape to find her. Ultimately, it is the truth of the whole situation she told him which sets him free.

Truman: ”Was nothing real?”
Christof: ”You were real. That’s what made you so good to watch. There is no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. The same lies, the same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear.”

In “The Global Warming Show” being broadcast by the Global Warming industry, the difference is that the Truman Burbanks within it have everything to fear after watching mainstream media reports or seeing Google search results on “climate change” — rising sea levels from a melting Arctic are decimating the starving polar bear population and inundating Miami with floods, while extreme violent weather is ever more frequent. Despite the scripted 97% scientific consensus behind the well-intended imperative to stop this impending calamity, a sinister fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign employs skeptic “liars for hire” scientists to undercut it.

However, when critical thinkers take the effort to go far beyond superficial Google searches and media reports of the issue, they begin spotting all the glitches: skeptic climate scientists tell in mind-blowing levels of detail how the seas aren’t rising nor is the Arctic melting at any noticeable rate; polar bear populations are on the increase; the Miami area suffers from land subsidence; past historical records show as much or more devastating weather events; a show of hands is a logical fallacy which never validates scientific conclusions; and places like the PBS NewsHour never inform their viewers about the science-based analysis from skeptic climate scientists. Even the term “climate change” is a ruse to cover up the plateauing of the average world temperature over the last 15+ years, while Alexander Ocasio-Cortez’s Svengali admits her Green New Deal is nothing more than a plan to gain full control of the private economy. What about sinister industry disinformation efforts? It turns out the “Pulitzer-winning reporter” Al Gore claims discovered leaked memos proving this conspiracy never actually won a Pulitzer; wasn’t the first to quote those memos; and those memos neither prove any such pay-for-performance arrangement exists between skeptic climate scientists and industry executives, nor were they even part of an old public relations campaign that Gore and that ‘reporter’ say they were.

“The Global Warming Show” was never actually about saving the planet, it’s all about dictatorial control over everything … and no doubt it was good for the Al “Christof” Gores in the issue to watch how the fear they created caused money to pour into their wallets. But to accomplish this, they had to fabricate a fake world where no opposition exists.

How’s it going to end? Ultimately, it is the truth found in the reports from skeptic climate scientists that will set us free to know with certainty that there’s nothing to fear after all about this issue, whereupon we can hold the people behind this fake issue and the complicit news media accountable for their lies and deceit.

Russell Cook is the publisher of the Gelbspan Files website, documenting the fraudulent claims that oil and cola industries pay climate skeptics to oppose the global warming doom-sayers. His archive of American Thinker articles can be found here.

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Global warming fanatics keep missing this elephant in the room

Imagine, if you will, that the sun quit radiating energy, completely, for all wavelengths.  How long would it take the world to freeze to the point of being uninhabitable at the surface?

Our planet also has a molten core.  Imagine that this core cools and solidifies at the same time, so the only sources of heat are anthropogenic.  Same question.

I’m not sure how to do the calculations, but I’ll defer to anyone who can.  My expectation is that the SUVs and coal-burning power plants, and whatever else climate change enthusiasts obsess over, wouldn’t slow the rate at which the planet became a frozen chunk of rock and ice, careening on its habitual path as it revolves around the mass of the darkened sun.

Summers are hotter, and winters are cooler.  It is easy but inaccurate to blame that on the Earth’s elliptical orbit, thinking the climate should cool when the planet is farther from the sun, as Mars is farther away and cooler, while Venus is closer and warmer.  But according to this site, that isn’t the case.  They explain it better than I can, but it has to do with the Earth’s axial tilt and the angle at which the hemispheres point toward the sun during the seasons.  When you think the summer temps in many places easily reach 90 in the summer, and go below zero in the winter, you see a hundred-degree variation due to geometry over which human beings have no control.  The amount of influence alleged for SUVs, etc. is only a couple of degrees.  Giving up all our modern conveniences would make not more than a few percentage points of difference.  But then, climate concerns were never about the weather anyway.  Just another excuse to take from the haves and buy votes from the have-nots.

It is also worth noting that there is no scientific basis whatsoever to presuppose that a natural environment should never change and that if it does, it must be man’s fault.  Volcanoes erupt, and the airborne ash results in cooler and rainier weather downwind.  Yes, the Dust Bowl resulted from human behavior, but it was the exception rather than the rule.  I think there are some good reasons for considering how to live with less environmental impact — e.g., use of thorium reactors to provide electricity.  Saving the climate is not one of the reasons, as we don’t have that much influence on the forces that influence it.

I am glad that human beings lack the technology to control the sun’s output.  Some idiot would insist that government is the only entity smart enough and wise enough to determine how much the sun should shine.  There is such an entity, but it isn’t government.  It’s God.

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Imagine, if you will, that the sun quit radiating energy, completely, for all wavelengths.  How long would it take the world to freeze to the point of being uninhabitable at the surface?

Our planet also has a molten core.  Imagine that this core cools and solidifies at the same time, so the only sources of heat are anthropogenic.  Same question.

I’m not sure how to do the calculations, but I’ll defer to anyone who can.  My expectation is that the SUVs and coal-burning power plants, and whatever else climate change enthusiasts obsess over, wouldn’t slow the rate at which the planet became a frozen chunk of rock and ice, careening on its habitual path as it revolves around the mass of the darkened sun.

Summers are hotter, and winters are cooler.  It is easy but inaccurate to blame that on the Earth’s elliptical orbit, thinking the climate should cool when the planet is farther from the sun, as Mars is farther away and cooler, while Venus is closer and warmer.  But according to this site, that isn’t the case.  They explain it better than I can, but it has to do with the Earth’s axial tilt and the angle at which the hemispheres point toward the sun during the seasons.  When you think the summer temps in many places easily reach 90 in the summer, and go below zero in the winter, you see a hundred-degree variation due to geometry over which human beings have no control.  The amount of influence alleged for SUVs, etc. is only a couple of degrees.  Giving up all our modern conveniences would make not more than a few percentage points of difference.  But then, climate concerns were never about the weather anyway.  Just another excuse to take from the haves and buy votes from the have-nots.

It is also worth noting that there is no scientific basis whatsoever to presuppose that a natural environment should never change and that if it does, it must be man’s fault.  Volcanoes erupt, and the airborne ash results in cooler and rainier weather downwind.  Yes, the Dust Bowl resulted from human behavior, but it was the exception rather than the rule.  I think there are some good reasons for considering how to live with less environmental impact — e.g., use of thorium reactors to provide electricity.  Saving the climate is not one of the reasons, as we don’t have that much influence on the forces that influence it.

I am glad that human beings lack the technology to control the sun’s output.  Some idiot would insist that government is the only entity smart enough and wise enough to determine how much the sun should shine.  There is such an entity, but it isn’t government.  It’s God.

Sam can be reached at syounnokis@gmail.com.

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Why Trump called out ‘The Squad’

Last week we learned of a feud brewing within the Democrat Party. The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was accused of ‘singling out’ the ‘squad’ comprised of four progressive congresswomen, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

Ocasio-Cortez, the de facto leader of the ‘squad’ had suggested that it was because they were “women of color.” As Hillary Clinton said ‘You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors.’ Pelosi, who belongs to the party that pioneered the inglorious tradition of branding opponents as bigots, was getting a taste of her own party’s medicine.

There is an old saying that you shouldn’t interrupt while your enemy self-destructs. It, therefore, befuddled many when President Trump tweeted that instead of hating their country, the four congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” In subsequent days, he doubled down, tripled down, and even quadrupled down on his assertions in various forums.

Suddenly the news of the ‘feuding’ Democrats melted into thin air. The media along and their the Democrat allies gleefully carried Trump’s ‘racist’ attacks on the ‘squad’ ad nauseum.  

Does the purpose behind the President’s challenge seem mysterious and perplexing?

Let’s reexamine the feud among the Democrats first. It was reported that Pelosi had learned through internal polling that the ‘squad’ is deeply unpopular in swing states. 22% had a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez while 9% had a favorable view of Omar. Socialism was viewed unfavorably by 69%. What must have disturbed her further is that the publicity-hungry ‘squad’ has become the face of the Democratic party in swing states.

Thus with motives of possible envy of her younger, more energetic colleagues and the urge to restore sanity in her party, Pelosi played her first move in slighting and sidelining the ‘squad’. If successful, she would have managed to deceive voters into thinking that the Democrats still cared for values that mattered to most Americans but at the same time all about ‘inclusivity’ and ‘tolerance’.

If Pelosi was half as shrewd as she thought she was, she would have restricted her criticism to a press conference and moved on. But instead, she led a vote in the House that formally condemned the President’s tweets.

Thus with merely with a series of tweets, President Trump poured a bucket of cold water on Pelosi’s efforts to tiptoe away from the ‘squad’. The Democrats now officially stand with the ‘squad’, who openly propagate socialism, open borders, unfettered abortion, anti-Semitism, radical Islamism, and blatant hatred for their country. Every Democratic Presidential candidate and the eventual nominee will be compelled to stand with the ‘squad’ or be labelled as a bigot.

For years we have heard liberals openly attack their country without any consequence. Here in India the problem is identical — ‘liberals’ use all platforms available to demonize their country. This hate is owing to the frustration that they have lost power. It is essential to be able to objectively criticize one’s country for any development to occur, but there is a huge difference between criticism and rabid loathing.

Very often when liberals are questioned, they term the challenger a bigot. That not only silences the challenger, but all supporters of the challenger and any other potential challengers. Thus we have the likes of John Kasich and Mitt Romney, who do not dare contest any such abhorrent utterances. In fact, they seek validation of liberals by attacking their own. The reason Trump won in 2016 was owing to his fearlessness in taking the fight to the opposition. Luckily for his voters, he hasn’t changed an iota after being elected to office.

The robust economy, the defeat of ISIS in the Middle East, and a focus on curbing illegal immigration will help President Trump get re-elected. But it is this ethical act of challenging blatant immorality on this occasion and several others that is the reason that he has an unbreakable bond with his supporters.

Last week we learned of a feud brewing within the Democrat Party. The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was accused of ‘singling out’ the ‘squad’ comprised of four progressive congresswomen, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

Ocasio-Cortez, the de facto leader of the ‘squad’ had suggested that it was because they were “women of color.” As Hillary Clinton said ‘You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors.’ Pelosi, who belongs to the party that pioneered the inglorious tradition of branding opponents as bigots, was getting a taste of her own party’s medicine.

There is an old saying that you shouldn’t interrupt while your enemy self-destructs. It, therefore, befuddled many when President Trump tweeted that instead of hating their country, the four congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” In subsequent days, he doubled down, tripled down, and even quadrupled down on his assertions in various forums.

Suddenly the news of the ‘feuding’ Democrats melted into thin air. The media along and their the Democrat allies gleefully carried Trump’s ‘racist’ attacks on the ‘squad’ ad nauseum.  

Does the purpose behind the President’s challenge seem mysterious and perplexing?

Let’s reexamine the feud among the Democrats first. It was reported that Pelosi had learned through internal polling that the ‘squad’ is deeply unpopular in swing states. 22% had a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez while 9% had a favorable view of Omar. Socialism was viewed unfavorably by 69%. What must have disturbed her further is that the publicity-hungry ‘squad’ has become the face of the Democratic party in swing states.

Thus with motives of possible envy of her younger, more energetic colleagues and the urge to restore sanity in her party, Pelosi played her first move in slighting and sidelining the ‘squad’. If successful, she would have managed to deceive voters into thinking that the Democrats still cared for values that mattered to most Americans but at the same time all about ‘inclusivity’ and ‘tolerance’.

If Pelosi was half as shrewd as she thought she was, she would have restricted her criticism to a press conference and moved on. But instead, she led a vote in the House that formally condemned the President’s tweets.

Thus with merely with a series of tweets, President Trump poured a bucket of cold water on Pelosi’s efforts to tiptoe away from the ‘squad’. The Democrats now officially stand with the ‘squad’, who openly propagate socialism, open borders, unfettered abortion, anti-Semitism, radical Islamism, and blatant hatred for their country. Every Democratic Presidential candidate and the eventual nominee will be compelled to stand with the ‘squad’ or be labelled as a bigot.

For years we have heard liberals openly attack their country without any consequence. Here in India the problem is identical — ‘liberals’ use all platforms available to demonize their country. This hate is owing to the frustration that they have lost power. It is essential to be able to objectively criticize one’s country for any development to occur, but there is a huge difference between criticism and rabid loathing.

Very often when liberals are questioned, they term the challenger a bigot. That not only silences the challenger, but all supporters of the challenger and any other potential challengers. Thus we have the likes of John Kasich and Mitt Romney, who do not dare contest any such abhorrent utterances. In fact, they seek validation of liberals by attacking their own. The reason Trump won in 2016 was owing to his fearlessness in taking the fight to the opposition. Luckily for his voters, he hasn’t changed an iota after being elected to office.

The robust economy, the defeat of ISIS in the Middle East, and a focus on curbing illegal immigration will help President Trump get re-elected. But it is this ethical act of challenging blatant immorality on this occasion and several others that is the reason that he has an unbreakable bond with his supporters.

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The Left is following Communism’s playbook for revolution

We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the “Third Turning”: an unraveling. The so-called Left is making it happen, too, with conservatives enabling it by conserving yesterday’s liberalism and being those nice guys who finish last.

In Marxist circles, this stage would be called “destabilization” — the second of a four-part process to subvert a society and seize control. The first, third and fourth stages are, respectively, “demoralization,” “crisis” and “normalization.”

The demoralization stage, which essentially is the undermining of a target nation’s morality (the process of radically changing the population’s “values”) was actually “over-fulfilled” in the mid 1980s already, as Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov put it at the time. This process continues and is manifested in the widespread antipathy for sexual propriety, faith and all that is great and good; and in the lust for perversion, socialism, feminism, multiculturalism, “transgenderism” and anti-Americanism in general. We see it in the tearing down of statues, removal of long-present Christian symbols, leftist propaganda and decadence in schools and entertainment, prioritizing of illegal aliens over citizens, revising of American history and impugning of whites; and in attacks on the Constitution, the Founding Fathers and all things traditional.

This destabilization of the American mind and moral compass now has begotten, as it must, societal destabilization. This is reflected in, most obviously, the flooding of our nation with unassimilable foreigners via a purposely porous border. This serves the Cloward-Piven goal of overloading the system to cause breakdown, necessitating replacement of it with, the theory goes, a socialist one.

Of course, this human flood strains schools, hospitals, and services and resources in general. But it’s also used for propaganda purposes, with simple efforts to enforce immigration law — ones pursued by Barack Obama himself — used to demonize ICE agents and the current administration. Vile, divisive lies such as claiming that detention facilities are Nazi-like “concentration camps” lead to hatred, violence, protests and terrorist attacks such as Saturday’s assault on a Tacoma, Washington, ICE facility.    

This is part of the greater destabilization represented by physical attacks on, threats against and censorship of the Left’s political opposition, phenomena now being encouraged by media and facilitated by Big Tech as left-wing politicians and law enforcement turn a blind eye. Why not? This all serves to quash their political opposition.

Should this continue in both duration and increasing severity, we will eventually be brought to the “crisis” state, a relatively short stage in which there’s a revolutionary change of power.

To be clear, I don’t say that those fomenting this are “Marxists.” Doctrinaire Marxism is, well, so yesterday. Leftists epitomize the moral relativism imbuing our age and, as such, worship the Gods of the Shifting Goalposts. Oh, they’re not better than Marxists (they may be worse), but they have made a lateral move in lunacy. Today they’re sort of like the Marquis de Sade meets Stalin and the Stasi. 

Nor are most of our “disruptors” — what Nancy Pelosi called on young people to be (be careful what you wish for, “Racist” Nan) — conscious of the process of which they’re a part or of its implications; like the Kronstadt sailors, they’re useful idiots.

Why, even most politicians — whether Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, Irish Bob (O’Rourke) or someone else — aren’t strikingly bright or knowledgeable and excel in only one area: power lust. In fact, I’m not sure there are too many bent-on-evil corporeal beings anywhere capable of grasping and orchestrating what’s befalling us.

It is tempting to call these miscreants “fascist,” a pejorative they use against the right, but this term is misunderstood. Fascism originated in Italy, with Benito Mussolini being one of its main founders (if not the primary one); Ol’ Bennie went this route, do note, after being expelled from the socialist party for advocating involvement in WWI.

Mussolini defined fascism thus, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” and our leftists certainly embrace that credo. Yet the Italian leader also said, “National unity has no need of the delirium of race.” That’s right:

Authentic fascism had no racial agenda.

Our leftists do, though (as did the Nazis), with their identity-politics “wokeness” and white-privilege blather. So what’s the best way to describe their “ideology,” if ever-shifting, emotion-determined positions can be thus described?

Pure evil.

Yet while their wickedness won’t change, “If something can’t go on, it won’t,” to paraphrase economist Herb Stein. Leftists are orchestrating anarchy, but anarchy is never a permanent state of affairs. The destabilization, including the flood of illegals and tolerated street violence, will eventually be ended — if only by leftists themselves.

For once they achieve the total control they crave, they’ll no longer want anyone upsetting the apple cart because it’ll be their apple cart. This is the last revolutionary stage, normalization. It’s when the useful idiots, promised utopia and once so sure they’d be part of the “in” crowd when power was realized, get squashed like worms.

Below is a video of ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov discussing demoralization in America.

Photo credit: Old White Truck

Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Gab (preferably) or Twitter, or log on to SelwynDuke.com.

We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the “Third Turning”: an unraveling. The so-called Left is making it happen, too, with conservatives enabling it by conserving yesterday’s liberalism and being those nice guys who finish last.

In Marxist circles, this stage would be called “destabilization” — the second of a four-part process to subvert a society and seize control. The first, third and fourth stages are, respectively, “demoralization,” “crisis” and “normalization.”

The demoralization stage, which essentially is the undermining of a target nation’s morality (the process of radically changing the population’s “values”) was actually “over-fulfilled” in the mid 1980s already, as Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov put it at the time. This process continues and is manifested in the widespread antipathy for sexual propriety, faith and all that is great and good; and in the lust for perversion, socialism, feminism, multiculturalism, “transgenderism” and anti-Americanism in general. We see it in the tearing down of statues, removal of long-present Christian symbols, leftist propaganda and decadence in schools and entertainment, prioritizing of illegal aliens over citizens, revising of American history and impugning of whites; and in attacks on the Constitution, the Founding Fathers and all things traditional.

This destabilization of the American mind and moral compass now has begotten, as it must, societal destabilization. This is reflected in, most obviously, the flooding of our nation with unassimilable foreigners via a purposely porous border. This serves the Cloward-Piven goal of overloading the system to cause breakdown, necessitating replacement of it with, the theory goes, a socialist one.

Of course, this human flood strains schools, hospitals, and services and resources in general. But it’s also used for propaganda purposes, with simple efforts to enforce immigration law — ones pursued by Barack Obama himself — used to demonize ICE agents and the current administration. Vile, divisive lies such as claiming that detention facilities are Nazi-like “concentration camps” lead to hatred, violence, protests and terrorist attacks such as Saturday’s assault on a Tacoma, Washington, ICE facility.    

This is part of the greater destabilization represented by physical attacks on, threats against and censorship of the Left’s political opposition, phenomena now being encouraged by media and facilitated by Big Tech as left-wing politicians and law enforcement turn a blind eye. Why not? This all serves to quash their political opposition.

Should this continue in both duration and increasing severity, we will eventually be brought to the “crisis” state, a relatively short stage in which there’s a revolutionary change of power.

To be clear, I don’t say that those fomenting this are “Marxists.” Doctrinaire Marxism is, well, so yesterday. Leftists epitomize the moral relativism imbuing our age and, as such, worship the Gods of the Shifting Goalposts. Oh, they’re not better than Marxists (they may be worse), but they have made a lateral move in lunacy. Today they’re sort of like the Marquis de Sade meets Stalin and the Stasi. 

Nor are most of our “disruptors” — what Nancy Pelosi called on young people to be (be careful what you wish for, “Racist” Nan) — conscious of the process of which they’re a part or of its implications; like the Kronstadt sailors, they’re useful idiots.

Why, even most politicians — whether Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, Irish Bob (O’Rourke) or someone else — aren’t strikingly bright or knowledgeable and excel in only one area: power lust. In fact, I’m not sure there are too many bent-on-evil corporeal beings anywhere capable of grasping and orchestrating what’s befalling us.

It is tempting to call these miscreants “fascist,” a pejorative they use against the right, but this term is misunderstood. Fascism originated in Italy, with Benito Mussolini being one of its main founders (if not the primary one); Ol’ Bennie went this route, do note, after being expelled from the socialist party for advocating involvement in WWI.

Mussolini defined fascism thus, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” and our leftists certainly embrace that credo. Yet the Italian leader also said, “National unity has no need of the delirium of race.” That’s right:

Authentic fascism had no racial agenda.

Our leftists do, though (as did the Nazis), with their identity-politics “wokeness” and white-privilege blather. So what’s the best way to describe their “ideology,” if ever-shifting, emotion-determined positions can be thus described?

Pure evil.

Yet while their wickedness won’t change, “If something can’t go on, it won’t,” to paraphrase economist Herb Stein. Leftists are orchestrating anarchy, but anarchy is never a permanent state of affairs. The destabilization, including the flood of illegals and tolerated street violence, will eventually be ended — if only by leftists themselves.

For once they achieve the total control they crave, they’ll no longer want anyone upsetting the apple cart because it’ll be their apple cart. This is the last revolutionary stage, normalization. It’s when the useful idiots, promised utopia and once so sure they’d be part of the “in” crowd when power was realized, get squashed like worms.

Below is a video of ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov discussing demoralization in America.

Photo credit: Old White Truck

Contact Selwyn Duke, follow him on Gab (preferably) or Twitter, or log on to SelwynDuke.com.

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