State of Wednesday: THEY MUST GO BACK
Minneapolis is probably not the last example Trump will make
Greetings, Dear Reader,
We’re going to keep this one short today. There’s a lot happening. Trump, Minnesota, the World Economic Forum, Virginia Democrats proposing an end to mandatory minimums for rape, burglary, child pornography.
John Harbaugh is the new head coach of my beloved New York Football Giants. A member of the press asked him how it felt to get Trump’s endorsement. He did a presser. I have hope.
Trump also did a presser. He spent 15 solid minutes in front of the White House press corps holding up pictures of “bad hombres” ICE had nabbed.
“This is just in Minnesota,” he said.
THEY MUST GO BACK
“Relations with Hezbollah, that’s nice,” Trump said, holding up a picture of a criminal illegal alien. “Why do we allow them in our country?”
If you haven’t seen Trump’s presser, you really should.
He stood in front of the press and held up pictures of several perpetrators. “We caught ‘em,” he said, “we caught ‘em.”
The most striking thing about the whole display, at least to me, was the absolute silence in the room. It was so utterly silent, when Trump wasn’t talking, you could hear what audio engineers call “room tone” through the recording microphones. The super low frequency buzz that every room has.
“How many did we get?” he asked someone off-camera.
“Around 10,000,” a female voice replied.
My first thought hearing this was: Just in Minnesota, my gosh.
As if he can intuit where the press will eventually recede in self-defense, Trump reminds them that not only did he win all the majority Hispanic counties along the Texas border, but that the ranks of ICE and CBP are dominated by Hispanic men. Both are true.
And that makes sense, doesn’t it, Dear Reader?
There’s much that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in our time. I would put forth that most of it comes from Democrats. Democrats using suicidal empathy to marshal bored, safe, often unproductive urban women into delusions and self-defeating causes. Why would liberal women want more criminals on the streets? It’s beyond me. It’s also Democrats wielding further delusion on racism, bigotry and the like to consolidate support among minorities.
They interrupted a Christian mass to demand that Christians go out into the streets and protest the removal of criminal illegal aliens. Don Lemon was there. He grilled the pastor who was where pastors should be, in the pulpit, something Lemon probably hasn’t seen in person for decades. What they did was a federal crime, actually, and I hope they get punished for it, Lemon included.
As usual, the people criticizing religion and invoking Jesus’s name have no idea what Christian charity would demand, and that is the removal of illegal aliens on behalf of the local law-abiding community. Doubt me if you want, but look it up. I encourage you.
Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks was, and still is, a reliably left-wing commentator in the age of Trump. She most infamously freaked out on livestream when Trump upset Hillary in 2016. Her target was “white women” who voted for him.
“We’re better than you!” she bellowed through tears.
Six years later she was sexually assaulted in broad daylight while walking her dog, and things changed. Though certainly no less left-wing, she’s since come around to a lot of the prevailing folly in left-wing thinking, particularly when it comes to the law.
Though there are many, as Trump illustrated, it’s not just the violent criminals, or the worst of the worst. They all need to go back. Every last one of them.
The prospect in particular – mass deportations – freaks out the political left and their media allies. They’ve pressed Trump several times on it. They’ve insisted ICE isn’t just targeting violent criminals. And that’s true, they aren’t. If you crossed illegally, you need to go back and do it the right way.
Hell, I’m willing to freak the left out even more and say we should put a serious pause on the right way as well. (Abuse of the H-1B legal immigration program is a net negative for both the immigrants and the native-born population.)
A Center for Immigration Studies analysis – these guys are an anti-immigration think tank – found that both legal and illegal immigration contributed to the shifting of 17 House seats and 17 Electoral College votes. The shift netted Dems +14 seats.
“That Democratic net gain is greater than the respective electoral votes of all but ten states,” Peter Kirsanow of National Review wrote.
Ryan Girdusky, perhaps the most prominent political quant on the right, did an analysis of Minnesota’s numbers recently.
Guess what?
Well, now we’re getting to the heart of the matter, eh?
Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey – who the left famously tried to destroy in 2016 for bankrolling billboards that made fun of Hillary – is seeing the same data we’re all seeing and coming to the same conclusion. None of this, literally none, is about empathy. It’s not about government welfare or racism. It’s not even really about violent crime.
“We cannot let them stay,” he wrote on X.
“Debates regarding illegal immigration often focus on policy issues like welfare, healthcare, crime, economic contribution, etc. That is a distraction.
Democracy is the real issue. Status quo is that any city or state desirous of greater power can declare a suspension of federal law and import millions of illegal aliens for the purpose of inflating their electoral votes and Congressional representation.”
That really is the ballgame, folks. Like most things coming from the political left these days, the reality is inverted. It’s not about welfare or the community. It’s not about empathy. They patently do not care if you are assaulted on the subway. They don’t care if Javier, the peaceful illegal, is getting ruthlessly exploited.
It’s strictly about power.
We must enforce the law. We must reinstill a sense of accountability. Minneapolis is probably not the last example Trump will make.
They all have to go back.
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