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The immigration crisis is a socialist problem

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Let’s stipulate (not in any particular order):

  • Most migrants caught up in the “migrant industrial complex”, whether in transit, in camps, or in hotels, are impoverished. They were sold a trip to an American destination by an NGO operating in their home country, and probably gave everything they had to buy it.
  • Socialism in America is unaffordable, not desirable, and non-viable. Nobody beyond a minority of Marxist academics, poorly educated entertainers, and mal-educated politicians, want it.
  • Freedom is a successful premise for survival, growth and stability.
  • Free market capitalism is necessary as the only proven successful motivation for economic prosperity, based on what one does, not who one is, for all classes of people.
  • Returning migrants to their origins would enrich the “migrant industrial complex” of operators with more federal subsidies, and would keep them in business. Continued funding of the “migrant industrial complex” is unaffordable.
  • Large scale migrant deportation is unaffordable, impractical, and harmful to the migrants.
  • Law enforcement, criminal and civil, must be practiced equitably over everyone in America, regardless of citizenship status. No exceptions.
  • Unethical lawfare is expressly against the Judicial Code of Ethics and must be ended.
  • The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are the governing laws of the land. They are supported by Judeo Christian ethics and morality. Religions and political systems repugnant to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence should be discouraged and unprotected by special law.
  • The international border must be closed until the country can assimilate new migrant populations. Assimilation could take decades.
  • The “migrant industrial complex” must be shut down. NGOs and domestic operators must be de-funded immediately.
  • Federal subsidies of all types to migrant populations must be ended.
  • The “American Dream” is a viable motivator for success.
  • English should be the only language taught in American schools.
  • Bi-lingual government services should be un-funded, un-mandated, and should end.

To summarize, Federalism built the “migrant industrial complex”. Federal money cannot fix it.

Only allowing participation in the organic, voluntary, responsible, law-abiding, and free behavior, consonant with the American Dream, governed by the Constitution and the ethics of the Declaration of Independence, unhindered by federal socialism, has the capacity to cure this tragedy.

We can either rely on our intrinsic American strength to operate like it has for centuries of immigration and assimilation, or we can let the socialists continue to fuck it up.

The Migrant Industrial Complex

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I got educated by James O’Keefe’s, “Line In The Sand” yesterday. With his typical investigative approach, he really pulled the covers off the “migrant industrial complex”, enabled and funded by the U.S. government.

In the political season, rhetoric mostly dwelt on gang crime, fentanyl deaths, and sex trafficking – probably because these contexts hit high notes of concern with a minimum of argument. They’re efficient shibboleths that can plug in to any speech, and leave room for more rhetoric on other subjects.

O’Keefe’s exposure of the “migrant industrial complex” shows us the human supply chain elements from origins to destinations, and all the operators engaged in the business who depend on the porous border for their livelihood. Foreign cartels provide links in the chain, but they’re only one set of agents.

There are the NGO operators selling and organizing the migration pipeline to third world customers. Some of these operators have political motivations, others come from various American religions. It stands to reason that some of these groups cooperate with cartels to move their human product. The revenue model for the intake groups appears to come from direct fees and from U.S. government reimbursements per head.

Most interesting is that the pipeline market sells specific destinations. It would also be interesting to see how the different destinations are priced, and what add-on promises are used to up-sell the packages from standard to premium.

After the human products make it through the border, a legion of supply chain operators, including some churches, move their captive market through transportation modes, detention camps, relocation service providers, and destination housing, while providing legal matriculation support, all for direct service fees and government per-head reimbursements.

Massive sums of government money grease the migrant industrial complex. The supply chain operators express a charitable veneer to legitimize and authenticate their various revenue models.

This migrant industrial complex is a national disgrace, built on selling the illusion of the American dream to desperate customers, that traffics in adults and children, for huge money.

I expect the drug revenue model for cartels is dwarfed by the government subsidies.

Closing the border limits the human intake supply and spells the eventual end of the complex. But there are still plenty of revenue opportunities – fees and subsides – for all the domestic operators who still have product.

Exporting these human products back to origins would probably use, and enrich, the same operators currently providing intake, while further impoverishing the human products.

The border provides a root cause to enable the migrant industrial complex, but the rot goes far deeper, and all if it must be cured.

The Clone War

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Indivisible clones are baaack. The electorate spoke loudly and clearly, however, the woke indivisibles didn’t get the memo. In their updated publication [see below] not a sentence was spared from misrepresentation, misunderstanding, propaganda, hyperbolic emotion, false context, and toxic empathy. The layers of their cult onion effectively shielded them from perceiving the 2024 election outcome that sane people witnessed. This is an f’d-up tribe, apparently quite intent on remaining so.
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2 anti-Leftism bits

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Colorado voting machine security compromised

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The numbers between from 2024, 2020, and 2016 don’t track. A million more total votes in 2024 than 2016?
No effing way.
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ELECTION INTEGRITY: Colorado—unlike any other state in the union—saw an unmistakable leftward shift in voting patterns in the most recent elections. The timing, juxtaposed against a broader national trend of rightward-leaning shifts, raises some pertinent questions. Why did Colorado buck the trend so decisively, and at such an unusual time? This is the same Colorado that, under Secretary of State Jena Griswold, experienced a catastrophic breach of election security. Colorado’s voting machine BIOS passwords were posted online for anyone to access months before the election. The breach under Griswold’s watch was unprecedented, and yet it seemingly had no repercussions or impact, at least not officially. But with Colorado being the only state to record a notable shift to the left, can one truly ignore the possible connection? Four full months of exposed BIOS passwords in an environment of deeply polarized and contested elections is not a mere technical error—it is an open door, a flashing invitation for interference, be it from internal actors or foreign opportunists. What are we to conclude when the only state with such an electoral shift is also the state that allowed its voting systems to be compromised with such brazen carelessness? In any honest reckoning, the coincidence demands scrutiny. It challenges our complacency. It should prompt questions about whether Colorado’s machines were tampered with, and whether the state’s voters were served with integrity. The leftward shift that Colorado experienced should not be viewed in isolation from the catastrophic security failures under Griswold. It’s not unreasonable to ask whether these two phenomena—an inexplicable, solitary voting trend and a colossal voting system breach—might be related. What distinguishes Colorado isn’t just the failed competence of those tasked to protect the integrity of elections, but also a refusal to even entertain the notion of accountability. Griswold’s office, in the wake of this catastrophic failure, did nothing to restore trust in the election system. Instead, the officials in charge scrambled to obscure, to evade, and to reassure the public that all was well. It may be impossible to ever fully know what happened within those four months of open access. And perhaps that’s the whole point. Colorado’s convenient leftward shift amid unprecedented voting system vulnerabilities should make every American question just how secure our elections really are—and whether those in charge have any genuine intention of safeguarding them. The lone leftward drift of Colorado isn’t a badge of electoral uniqueness; it is a red flag. It’s a warning of what happens when election integrity becomes an afterthought, and when those responsible refuse to answer for their failures. It is time for paper ballots and one day, in-person voting. h/t

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Michael Shellenberger dissects the woke

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[also see: Eric Kaufmann’s “The Third Awokening”]

also see: ConservativeOpinion.com – The word “narcissist” is among the most overused, but is nevertheless used properly when describing these insufferable people who feel impelled to angrily and self-righteously announce their intention to unfriend people who voted for the other side. Like that’s some kind of threat! What reaction is being sought, exactly? “Oh no, I’ve failed you! But to withhold from me that which is most precious — your approval — is a fate too great to bear! Have mercy on my soul, and restore me to your favor, oh blessed redeemer!” The arrogance of these people! Who do they think they are, the Old Testament God of Social Media, declaring to a fallen world their intention to cast all unrighteous into outer darkness? Like these are comparable consequences? What next, cleanse the land by flood? Who cares about you and your sad act? Unfriend someone if you are that insecure and egotistical. Please! You’ll be doing them a favor. But to broadcast it just proves you to be an attention-whore who wants applause for doing nothing because you have no real contribution to make. God forbid you recognize that maybe you haven’t achieved perfect knowledge and that maybe other people don’t disagree with you because they’re evil or stupid, but because different life experiences cause different perspectives, and that real evil and real stupidity is slandering them because you’re too lazy and feeble-minded and weak to challenge your own assumptions, and too arrogant, and your ego too fragile, to entertain the possibility that they might too have a point.

Concession & Call to arms

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Lots to unpack in this rhetoric – abortion, gun control, subjective ethics, outcome equity, all backed by lawfare and street violence – basically she told us that election results for the republic don’t matter and BTW go f**k yourselves.

Tyranny

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More than 2 millennia have passed since Aristotle considered the tyranny that now engulfs Democrats and Kamala Harris – an analysis that also informed the Founders when they wrote the Constitution.

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674992911

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Chopping off healthy body parts of young children

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The Deep State

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Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Aristotle

"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."

Karl Popper

“A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”