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In one of their final acts in office, Sinema and Manchin nuke a Biden pick for the National Labor Relations Board in a big loss for organized labor.
1:57 PM · Dec 11, 2024. //

Well, payback is rarely kind, and Sinema and Manchin just delivered a well-deserved helping of it. Voters rejected the Democratic Party labor agenda in November. Giving McFerran another five-year term would have been a slap in the face to the American people who do not want unions being given special carveouts at a cost to everyone else.

Consider this another example of Democrats overplaying their hand. They don't know how to do anything in moderation, and in their lust for power, they gave up two formerly solid votes (when it comes to confirmations) to appease the far-left. Those chickens have come home to roost. I don't know where Sinema and Manchin go from here now that they are leaving office, but their preservation of the filibuster and rejection of the Democrat status-quo has done the country a great service.

Trump campaign lawyer Jim Troupis, who helped guide the alternate electors plan, spoke publicly for the first time as AG files more charges.

The day before the contentious 2020 election, Jim Troupis ranked among the most respected attorneys in Wisconsin. Two years after he represented President Donald Trump in his Badger State election challenges, Troupis says he couldn’t find a lawyer to write his estate plan. A lot of the friends he worked with over his distinguished legal career disappeared faster than a lawsuit against a prosecutor.

“Nothing had changed, I had simply represented Donald Trump,” Troupis told conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna Tuesday afternoon. “This has been unbelievably painful for me and my family.”

The pain got worse Tuesday as Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a highly partisan Democrat with higher political ambitions, announced more criminal charges against Troupis, fellow Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and Trump campaign official Michael Roman. The three men are caught up in Kaul’s politically driven electors prosecution, a last-ditch effort to try to lock up allies of President-elect Trump and send a message that the left’s scorched earth lawfare campaign is far from over.

Unsurprisingly, Welker frames her response with a lie: "The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, "All persons born in the United States are citizens."

The actual quote is:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

While there has been widespread acquiescence to an interpretation that says a child born to an illegal is a citizen, there is nothing in our law that says that and a great deal that says just the opposite. Read this excellent essay on why birthright citizenship is not a constitutional right.

I don't know if executive action will be sufficient to change our direction because it will be open to reversal by any future president. I think the clearest course of action would be a legal case that results in "y'all can do that if you want to, but there is no constitutional reason to support birthright citizenship.". https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/birthright-citizenship-fundamental-misunderstanding-the-14th-amendment. //

Trump may find that the same obstacle that prevented a solution for Dreamers early in his first term remains. The Democrats don't care about solving the Dreamer issue. But they care very much about keeping it alive so they can demagogue it to fight immigration reform and raise cash from their donor base; see The Democrats Don't Want a DACA Deal, They Want a DACA Issue. Trump has a lot more bargaining potential with this issue than with birthright citizenship. DACA has been ruled illegal by a federal judge. That has stopped any processing of the 80,000+ applications now in the pipeline. The decision has been appealed and will be heard by the Fifth Circuit. //

However, if the Democrats refuse to cooperate, Trump will face an uphill battle in crafting a successor to DACA that can pass the House only on GOP votes. Then he will be confronted with a choice of ignoring the law, like Obama and Biden, or deporting tens of thousands of people to countries where they are foreigners. I can even see the Democrats opting to force this choice. //

The border wall and tougher policing are just one part of the equation. For any kind of long-term border security, we must ensure that cretins like Joe Biden have their ability to make up policy on the fly limited. We must act to withdraw the incentives that attract millions of people to the US. One of those incentives is the knowledge that by having a kid on American soil, the parents can probably avoid deportation. And we must also act with mercy toward those, like the Dreamers, who were left stateless by the actions of their parents. At the same time, we need to make sure that any program to accommodate DACA registrants has a final date attached, and it doesn't become just another way of beating the system. //

NightTwister
an hour ago
While I've stated before that I think Dreamers may need a different solution, they must be the last ones dealt with, and even then, any that have shown a hatred of their new country must be excluded. If they hate it here, they can leave.

Those who have committed crimes here are gone first. Then those who committed crimes in their home country. Change laws and practices to force self-deportation. Then find and deport the remainder. THEN we can worry about the Dreamers. Under no circumstances can they be first.

Democrats and their media allies have never played nice. They do not have the moral high ground. These are the exact reasons why Trump plays hardball and it is the primary reason why he has endeared himself to a good chunk of the Republican base.

If Democrats think the answer to Trump playing hardball is to take it up another notch, they are going to be sorely disappointed at how spectacularly they will fail, something they should have learned on Election Day but sadly haven't.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the pair of "partisan Democrat district judges" after they announced plans to "unretire" after "the American people voted to fire Democrats last month."

"Looking to history, only two judges have ever unretired after a presidential election. One Democrat in 2004 and one Republican in 2009. But now, in just a matter of weeks, Democrats have already met that all-time record. It's hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship," McConnell said in remarks delivered on the Senate floor.

Nate Silver
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I discussed here how I voted for Harris despite feeling like Democrats indulged in a lot of bad behavior that voters were rational to publish. After the White House lying about the Hunter pardon I'm not sure how much more I can tolerate.
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SBSQ #15: Democrats have a "fool me twice" problem
7:58 PM · Dec 1, 2024

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Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours.
8:03 PM · Dec 1, 2024

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But please stop thinking of yourself as a defender of "democracy" or norms or the rule of law if you're defending this. You're just a garden-variety partisan dressing yourself up in sheep's clothing. And voters are smart enough to see this even if you aren't.
10:02 PM · Dec 1, 2024. //

DaveM
9 hours ago
"I discussed here how I voted for Harris despite feeling like Democrats indulged in a lot of bad behavior that voters were rational to publish. After the White House lying about the Hunter pardon I'm not sure how much more I can tolerate."

Given that you voted for Harris knowing the truth... spare us your whining. You had a chance to do sonething about it- and didn't. //

GBenton
8 hours ago edited
Nice cope, Nate.

Guess what, if you voted for Kamala you are the partisan hack you now accuse others of being.

You think this meaningless pardon is the Rubicon crossing moment?

Lol, silly con artist. Even if you ignore that Biden stole the 2020 election and lied about the Very Fine People hoax and Hunters laptop, on day one of his pResidency he opened the border and ended the Keystone pipeline and Anwar and more, setting up the inflation and illegals to cause mayhem, not to mention his illegal mandates and fascist speeches demonizing more than half the country and illegal student loan scams.

The time any moral sane person should have left the Democrat crime syndicate was then, or at least when he tried to throw Trump in jail by any means necessary or when he got Americans and Afghan allies killed in the withdrawal.

The fking pardon was the red line for you not the alleged 20m in pay to play Hunter collected for the Big Guy or lying about his dementia for 4 years?

GFY, Nate. Not fooling anyone. You're not a pollster and you're not an honest broker, either. You're a lying partisan hack who wants to rebrand for self preservation and opportunism. //

GBenton anon-dhms
an hour ago
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback. I do try to pull zero punches, for better or worse, lol.

One of the things I rail against are liars like Nate Silver - especially if their scam is they pretend to be reasonable and credible. Rassmussen broke down the stats on the polls and Nate was demonstrably skewed left and clearly was dishonest when he said it was too close to call. The data never showed Kamala in the lead and he's not a real pollster. His model is a subjective scam like that Keys idiot.

The theatrics around Kavanaugh's confirmation were Democrats trying to play the long game, but they overplayed their hand so severely that the sympathy built up for the embattled nominee. Sure, the narrative survived in too many people, but anyone remotely paying attention found themselves disgusted by the Democrats, effectively giving Republicans and Kavanaugh the PR victory.

But while Kavanaugh was and still is technically a threat to the left, Trump's incoming cabinet is one built for one purpose, and that's deconstructing the deep state and exposing the corruption within the government so it can be reduced and its power decreased. The Democrat Party, whose entire concern is maintaining that power and influence, considers this a nightmare scenario. This is a code red situation for them.

As such, I see the Democrats going absolutely overboard in ways that make the Kavanaugh hearing look like an elementary school stage production. The fearmongering they will resort to will be such that future generations will want to study it.

There is no way that the Democrats will want their deepest secrets uncovered, and they will do what they always have done in order to avert losing even an ounce of their power: they will resort to lies, drama, and fear. Schumer's letter confirms this for me, as it sets the tone for the Democrats being "the adults in the room," and as such, any overblown accusations they resort to will be taken with some form of belief by onlookers.

But this won't work this time around. The Kavanaugh hearings came at a time when voter's fatigue with Democrats hadn't reached its height and the orange man effectively passed off as "bad." Now, Democrats are going into these hearings with the public actually behind Trump, and excited about this nominees. Democrats are going to be fighting an uphill battle in both Washington and the public square.

There's a seismic shift in New York politics. It may be because of the Democratic Party's continual dragging of their Overton Window to the left of Fidel Castro. It may be because of the anointment of Kamala Harris as the Democrat's catastrophic 2024 presidential candidate. It may be due to any number of things, but the fact is this: Democrat voter registration in the Empire State is dropping, and that doesn't bode well for Democrats there or nationwide.

VDH, an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator, explained to British journalist Piers Morgan on his "Piers Morgan Uncensored" podcast how Trump was able to take away voters from the Democrat Party and "middle America," and soundly defeat Harris and her stubborn adherence to identity politics (emphasis, mine).

He was able, for the first time in my lifetime, to replace racial tribalism with class solidarity ... and that’s what they do not want to confront. In other words, he said to people, 'If you're a Mexican-American truck driver, if you're a black electrician, if you're a poor white carpenter, you have more in common with each other than you do with your elites on the bicoastal, domain.' //

And that's what they do not want to confront, because that's the keystone of the Democratic Party. Victim, victimization, victimizers oppressor, oppressed. And they have this kind of Marxist binary. And people don't buy into it, and especially minorities don't buy it. //

GBenton Chelan Jim
11 hours ago
Yes, the degree to which they tried to destroy him is the degree to which he is an existential threat. Their entire success was based on a lie. And he did the ONE thing that threatened to tear it all down: tell the truth. The amazing thing is it took their demonization of him and his refusal to go away that eventually proved his point: they are the threat to democracy.

He said that all along but it took the past 10 years to show it in real time and finally enough people got red pilled.

The right/left paradigm has been turned upside down. It's really not that meaningful. The Uniparty divided us along party lines and kept themselves in power. Trump took a populist approach and is forming a coalition based on what we agree about rather than where we disagree.

The obstacle is that the nation is still highly divided and the Machine won't die easily. The Uniparty knows how to gum up the works.

BUT sunlight disinfects. The thing they can't survive is exposure. Since Trump cannot afford to let them rise back to power or we're all screwed, he has to expose their secrets. In doing so, he'll further vindicate his case and more people will reject the Democrat party as they wake up to decades of lies.

Politics as usual is over. It's not about retribution, it's about exposing why nothing has made sense for decades and how the two parties kept us losing rights and the Overton Window shifted to the brink of our destruction.

He can't be a dictator and wipe away everything in his way, they know that. BUT he can utterly destroy their ability to lie to the people and build a coaltion they cannot defeat in fair elections. //

GBenton sb2
9 hours ago edited
That is the challenge, for sure. But if you look at the collapse in rating of Hollywood and TV and corporations that go woke, the left is weaker than they appear. X.com has 10x the reach as the MSM.

I think Trump won bigger than it appeared. States with no voter ID cheated, as always, and most fo the counties in this country moved right. If they couldn't cheat in the high population center cities, what would they really have?

We're about to find out. This is an information war right now and not a shooting war, thankfully.

And their exposed flank is all their dirty secrets and lies.

My assumption is that Trump will hit that flank with disclosure of who and what they really are and simultaneously secure our elections and deport illegals so they can no longer stay in power illegitimately.

And they have almost no defense against that attack because it's all true and they are criminals.

You know what I think will be the exposures that sink a whole lot of them all at once?

Espstein and Diddy. Americans might argue over policy or unions or whatever, but no one will tolerate pedophiles. Plus the cartels and human trafficking and drugs. How many in the Elite are tied up in one or more of those things?

The depravity of the left will be its undoing.

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This is heartbreaking. A 10-year-old boy was rescued by Texas State Troopers after he crossed the border on Thanksgiving Day. He was abandoned by smugglers in the middle of nowhere.

Where is @AOC and her little sullen, puppy dog eye photo-ops for this little boy?

9:54 AM · Nov 29, 2024.

Democrats owe this boy an apology.

"They left me alone," he tells authorities through a quivering voice.

Not only was he abandoned by the smugglers, but he's been abandoned by the very party that, for years, pretended to champion the cause of children brought to the United States illegally. There has not been one Democrat politician who has commented on this video as of yet. Not one person who previously cried their little crocodile tears over fake stories of 'kids in cages' spoke up in support of this poor, young child. //

It's odd how there was also radio silence from the 'but the children' Democrats earlier this week, when a two-year-old girl from El Salvador was found alone at the US border in Maverick County, Texas.

This child was clutching a piece of paper with a name and phone number, telling police she was there to find her parents, who reportedly already live in the United States.

She was among a group of over 200 illegal immigrants, including 60 unaccompanied minors, detained after crossing the border. //

Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, himself grew emotional when discussing the two-year-old found alone at the border.

“That is an example of what I’ve been saying for the last few years, that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime,” Homan told the New York Post.

He added,

“People always ask, ‘Why do you get so emotional when you’re on Fox News, why do you get so emotional when you’re testifying to Congress and start yelling?’ It’s because I’ve seen more tragedies in 34 years than I can stomach. I’ve held dying children and I’ve helped dead children."

Nobody on the left helped. Nobody has even said a word. //

OrneryCoot
3 hours ago
I want the Democrats that let this happen or championed it to have to wander with only a piece of paper and the clothes on their backs throughout the wilderness in that area with no guide, and certainly no help from Border Patrol, who they despise and want to dismantle. Maybe the ones that made it out alive could knock sense into the rest of their ilk. Inclusion and equity, you know?

Ironically, one lesson from this election is the danger of both the press and pundits in becoming increasingly out of touch with most of the country. The shock expressed by many is due to a lack of exposure to opposing views — not the need for further ideological isolation.

That cathartic effort is evident in many subscribers who are now boycotting the Washington Post and MSNBC. MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin appears to support such efforts. Rubin is an avowed Marxist. Groucho Marxist, that is. Marx famously said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” -- Jonathan Turley //

Jorge Bonilla @BonillaJL
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.@ScottJenningsKY: But isn't the issue that the left has gotten so used to controlling almost all institutional information distribution arms in this country that when one little piece of it, whether it's @X or MSNBC or anything else gets taken away, the panic is so outrageous?

8:59 AM · Nov 26, 2024

Republicans should celebrate their wins, but they shouldn’t get too comfortable. The voters who flipped to the GOP in 2024 weren’t signing a lifelong contract; they were making a statement. If Republicans want to keep these gains, they’ll need to deliver. That means focusing on policies that help working families and avoiding the same trap Democrats fell into—listening to the loudest voices instead of the largest groups. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
19 minutes ago
Democrat’s policies drove minorities to finally challenge the narrative they had for decades. If Trump’s presidency improves their lives that narrative will be shattered.

If Republicans after Trump continue to show minorities their lives are better under Republicans they’ll know it isn’t just Trump. If we make that transition the Dems become the new Whigs.

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One day’s notice, no severance—the DNC fights for workers, just not their own.

Full statement below:
5:11 AM · Nov 18, 2024

This was apparently not your typical post-election culling of temporary staff; this seems to have hit people considered permanent staff, some of whom have worked at the DNC for a decade.

“We’ve heard for four years how Republicans were a threat to democracy, they were going to overturn democracy. But really what is happening is that the election deniers, the people who are trying to thwart the rule of law, trying to thwart what a state constitution allows when it comes to elections, are the Democrats,” the Republican congresswoman said.

A convicted felon said he was paying the legal fees of Matt Gaetz’s accuser and controlling her. //

Among the many powerful figures in Washington, D.C. opposed to the Gaetz nomination are some who are attempting to thwart it by releasing a report from the House Ethics Committee that will attempt to tie Gaetz to salacious allegations involving child sex trafficking.

The report comes years after DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters as part of a coordinated effort to thwart his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general. //

Yet even the DOJ was unwilling to exploit Greenberg’s unsubstantiated claims — apart from leaking them to the press to hurt Gaetz’s reputation. They announced their closure of the investigation in 2022. //

The DOJ decided that the people making the accusations against Gaetz had such massive credibility problems that they could in no way charge him with any crimes. All the House Ethics Committee has done is revive those same accusations from the same unreliable witnesses.

Pelosi won't go away because her ego won't let her. She's sociopathic in her pursuit of power and prestige, and while the press has long lauded her as a historic figure, reality tells a different story. Despite doing everything she could to take down the Republican Party, she ended up being the Speaker who lost the gavel twice. Worse, she helped usher Donald Trump into office twice.

She desperately wants to save her legacy, but pushing Biden out to defeat the bad orange man was likely her last chance at redemption. It's all downhill from here whether she wants to accept it or not, and if she doesn't, the civil war in the Democratic Party will only get worse. //

Hank Reardon
9 hours ago
Bonchie's last two paragraphs nail it. What else can be said about a Speaker who passed the lead to Jeffries so that she wouldn't be photographed handing the gavel to Kevin McCarthy? The woman is ill with hatred.

Ifill's conduct during the interview was so outrageous, an unlikely voice has now spoken out—a former Biden WH aide, Michael LaRosa, who was First Lady Jill Biden's press secretary. //

This st has to stop. Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization like this are a big part of the reason we got our aes kicked.

The answer to extremism is not more extremism. Voices like this on the left are turning the Democratic Party into a joke. We've got to knock it off and get serious guests who are going to diagnose politics, not make it worse. Name calling, vilifying, and defaming nominees you oppose, even if there is very good reason to oppose them, represents everything the Democratic Party should be RUNNING away from.

Let's fight back with a strategy and tactics .... not pointless, defamatory, and juvenile invective. We need to get serious people opining about policy and politics, not one-upping each other or competing for who can make the most provocative insult about a Trump nominee you oppose. //

NavyVet
3 hours ago
"The answer to extremism is not more extremism."
For at least 40 years now, I have been the victim of anti-white discrimination. That has been bad enough, but with "DEI", it just got extreme.

To oppose DEI is to oppose extremism, not engage in it. DEI denigrates everyone. It denigrates minorities by stating they need favoritism to succeed, which they don't, and it denigrates white people because it declares anti-white racism open season. It is divisive, hateful bigotry and extreme racism.

Hare dare you divisive leftist hate-pushers pretend you are anything less than the extremists you project on people of common sense. That's right, common sense: the voters showed it when they rejected you.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: That's right, that's right, and listen, it's not even to deny the fact that these ads were effective in certain areas. What I think people are paying too much attention to is the first half of that ad, which says, that said, "Kamala Harris is for they/them." Everyone is focusing on that. They're not focusing on the second half of that ad where he said, "Donald Trump is for you."

OCASIO-CORTEZ: And Democrats very often, in their messaging, they speak in this, in terms and in concepts, and not in the second person. "I care about you," and political races are not about one candidate vs. another candidate. Too often, it gets pigeonholed like that. It is a race about who cares about you more.

Is it too cliche to use the term "cope" to describe the above? Because that's cope. The idea that those Trump ads were not effective because they accurately described the Democrat position on transgenderism is nonsense. Sure, there is some truth to the idea that the now-president-elect successfully convinced voters he cared about them, but the juxtaposition with Harris' views on transgenderism in those ads was the entire reason that argument worked. Would an ad simply saying "I care about you" have been as effective? Of course, not.

Democrats won't want to admit the obvious, though, because that would mean admitting their obsession with transgenderism is actually the problem. This isn't a messaging issue for them. Speaking in the "second person," as Ocasio-Cortez says, won't suddenly make boys playing girl's sports acceptable to most Americans. Nor will it make "gender-affirming care" for minors popular.

In other words, Democrats have a position issue. Until they change those positions, which will in turn change how they talk about them, they will continue to lose support among normal Americans. Ocasio-Cortez and others who want to gloss over that are doing their party no good. On the contrary, they are inadvertently telling us exactly why they lost.

The same types of angry diversions that consumed Democrats over the past eight years could easily undo Republican governance. //

The lesson comes in the form of a quote from an individual whose political resurrection closely resembles that of Donald Trump, former President Richard Nixon:

Always give your best; never get discouraged; never be petty. Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

On Thursday, Enten did another deep dive into the numbers, looking beyond the areas Trump won to big blue cities like San Francisco and Chicago that he lost but where he still gained significant ground, finding some pretty staggering double-digit percentage increases across the board, with the driving forces behind them in those cities being illegal immigration and crime: //

penseroso
5 hours ago edited
Trump beat Harris 64 - 36 in Staten Island. That puts Staten Island between Tennessee and South Dakota in terms of percentage. Not all of us in New York City are crazy liberals.... //

OrneryCoot
5 hours ago
This is striking fear into Democrat leaders like nothing else. They are losing minorities who, heaven forbid, don't vote based on their skin color or ethnicity but rather on their priorities. If this continues, the Democrats will have to change their entire platform to be viable. The Republican party needs to look hard at this data as well, to see what drove their successes and keep it going. If the Democrats can no longer rely on the 'demographics is destiny' plank of their party ideals, they are going to spend a very long time wandering in the wilderness. Let's hope that they do, and get lost while they are there. //

Cynical Optimist
4 hours ago
I contend that the Trump popular vote win was far greater than the numbers indicate because the Trump agenda was more popular than it translated in vote totals. If we were to add to the popular vote number all of the people who hate Trump because of who he is but who would have voted for someone else who had his same policy prescriptions and agenda, it would have been an epic landslide. A lot of people voted for Harris just because of Trump's personality, a lot of people voted against Trump in spite of being sick of the crime and millions of illegals and the homelessness in our cities and the Biden foreign policy boondoggles. They didn't vote for Harris because they believed she would fix anything, they voted against the guy they believed was a criminal and a monster on a personal level, people influenced by a ten-year-long media propaganda and attack campaign against a leader the likes of which the world has never seen. Some of them are lifelong Republicans.

So did Trump - or more accurately, conservatism - actually get 90 million votes of support instead of 75? 100?