Sabotaging Trump: Abolishing Migrant Restrictions

 Debra J. Saunders   A parting attempt to obstruct the incoming president’s promises of a crackdown on illegal immigration.

"Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams showed he understands what is at stake when he said  on Late Night With Seth Meyers that Biden’s “biggest unforced error” was the border.“To tell people it’s not a problem, it’s insulting,” Williams added"

"If you think of Joe Biden as a nice old man who was kicked to the curb, consider his administration’s jaw-dropping efforts to sabotage Donald Trump. The president-elect plans to actually enforce federal immigration law starting Jan. 20, when Trump takes the oath of office. As the New York Post reported Thursday, Team Biden “is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the U.S. illegally — a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations,” according to sources.

"For some time now, New York has been ground zero — with horror stories to show for it. On Wednesday, a New York prosecutor was robbed by a Venezuelan migrant with a Big Apple rap sheet and suspected ties to Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. He also was charged with masturbating in front of her. “He arrived here in New York in June and has managed to get arrested seven times since June, and at one point was smiling, and is smiling now, and I observed him laughing during the proceeding,” Judge Janet McDonnell noted during the hearing, according to the Post.

"Be it noted, New York is a sanctuary city. So it should be no surprise that more than 210,000 migrants have landed in the Big Apple since 2022. The city has been unable to house all the newcomers, so many are sleeping on the streets. In August, the New York Times reported, the city housed people in more than 100 hotels, with 16,000 hotel rooms serving as shelters.

"Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has the right idea. He declared Tren de Aragua a “terrorist organization.” So which state looks better to transnational gangs?

"The crisis was inevitable. On his first day as president, Biden ordered a 100-day pause on deportations and gave the green light to illegal crossings when he halted Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program — with little thought of the impact on American citizens, native and foreign-born.

Another Massive Group of Illegals Head Toward U.S. Border to Get In Before Trump Takes Over

  Warner Todd Huston; The Lid 

"And once in the US, liberal mayors here will proclaim they will re-enact Tiananmen Square by standing in the way of deporting these people. TD"

"Another massive caravan of criminal illegals has gathered in Southern Mexico and are heading to the U.S. border in hopes of sneaking into the U.S. before Trump takes office in January.

"Independent journalist Auden Cabello has reported on the story developing in Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. She noted that it is the sixth caravan of thousands of illegals that has departed from the area and headed to the U.S. since the anti-American Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was elected in Mexico this year.

"One thing Sheinbaum has stopped is the past practice of allowing millions of illegals to hop aboard north-bound trains in Mexico.

"This new caravan has more than 1,500 criminal illegals in it, mostly from Central America.

"These lawbreakers are right about one thing, though. Trump won’t let them in once he takes over. So, Biden’s gravy train is about to end."

CANADA’S Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poilievre, slams Justin Trudeau for partying while pro-Hamas rioters set Montreal ablaze

 Barenakedislam

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The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity

Victor Davis Hanson  

"The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting antisemitic venom is passing. So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity."

"The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.

The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.

 Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51% of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.

"Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.

"Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad. 

"The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.

"The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy. Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status.

 "The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.

 "President Joe Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.

"Criminals with weapons are as deleterious to society as law-abiding citizens deprived of them." . . .

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

Eliminating Biden’s EV mandate

 Samantha Fillmore

 "Ironically, the EVs that Biden, Left-leaning ideologues, and green lobbyists want to force Americans to drive require huge amounts of electricity from a grid they are making less reliable." . . . 

"President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has announced that it is planning to eliminate the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle (EV) purchases as well as relaxing the standards on fuel efficiency for automobile makers as part of the incoming administration’s reform agenda.

"The decision to jettison the EV subsidy, first reported by Reuters, came as no surprise, seeing as how Trump campaigned on ending President Joe Biden’s EV mandate. Throughout the Biden administration, a substantial push was made to transition from conventional gasoline-powered automobiles to EVs.

"The $7,500 EV subsidy was one of the more notable measures of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which many argued was yet another example of the federal government picking winners and losers.

"Moreover, another report from Reuters details how the incoming administration plans on addressing the standards on fuel-efficiency requirements and emissions finalized earlier this year by the U.S. National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. This move would counteract Biden’s regulations that require all automakers to shift at least 35 percent of their production to EVs by 2032.

"Critics of Biden’s aggressive actions regarding the automobile industry have called it a “rush-to-green agenda” and highlight the fact that it forces Americans to purchase expensive, impractical, and unpopular EVs.

"A report from Consumer Reports shows that electric vehicles are rife with problems and are overall less reliable than conventional automobiles.

"Furthermore, in January of this year, a coalition of nearly 5,000 car dealerships sent a letter to Biden urging him to “hit the brakes” on his draconian regulations and mandates. Despite the public pushback, Biden’s emissions standards rule was ultimately finalized.

"While Biden’s EV mandate and lavish subsidies have wrought havoc in the auto industry, it has also affected the dependability of the U.S. energy grid.

"Our energy grid was once a source of affordable and reliable power. Historically, America’s power grid has been mostly supplied by coal, with natural gas and nuclear power as significant contributors. All these energy sources are extremely reliable, affordable, and have the ability to produce the enormous amount of energy necessary to support the U.S. economy." . . .

Semper Fi, Sgt. Penny!

  James A. George  

"As despicable as Alvin Bragg’s persecution of President Trump was, in my opinion, what he has done to this proud Marine is an outrage and a disgrace to the Rule of Law. We can only pray that the jury, or perhaps just one of them, as that is all it will take, will make the right decision and give this Marine his freedom back." 

"Disclaimer: It is impossible for me to be objective about the Marines, and thus I am hard pressed even to try to see the “justice” in the prosecution of Marine sergeant Daniel Penny for acting as the very definition of what we think of as a good Samaritan on the subway in New York City — and, judging by the statements of those he protected, maybe even saving those on the train from the lunatic Jordan Neely.

"This is written as the defense begins its case in what is clearly to me a persecution, with clear and distinct racial overtones.  I will look at Sgt. Penny and his background of defending his country; the “victim,” a non-white person alleged to have been choked to death by Sgt. Penny; and the trial thus far.

"Daniel Penny, 26, is a native of West Islip on Long Island and signed up for the Marines upon completion of high school. Witnesses called by the defense, including his sister, described him as “kind” and  “peaceful.”  His sister expressed surprise that he joined the Marines because “he was a very calm, soft-spirited person.”  But it wasn’t completely surprising, because “he was always patriotic, and men in our family served.”  One article noted, in connection with the family tradition of serving the country in uniform, “Penny, whose grandfather served in the US Navy and uncles in the Merchant Marines, was a star lacrosse player at West Islip High School.”

"His mother testified that he was studying architecture at New York City Tech, working nights at a restaurant, and teaching swimming lessons at a gym in Manhattan.

"He served in the Marines for four years and was deployed twice, being promoted to the rank of sergeant and the head of a water rescue squad.  He received an honorable discharge.  Several of his fellow Marines testified at the trial, describing him in the following terms: . . ."

Day-O...Tally My Banana: Duct-Taped Banana Sells for $6.2 Million

Jim Thompson; RedState

. . ."On Wednesday, Sotheby auctioned a banana. 

"At a Miami show, Maurizio Cattelan displayed a duct-taped banana in 2019. He did it again on Wednesday:  

"EA Bucchianeri wrote in "Brushstrokes of a Gadfly" that art is in the eye of the beholder and everyone will have their interpretation. I've never read any books by Bucchianeri. But if I dropped that quote in the "right" circles (while holding a martini and wearing Italian loafers), I might be mistaken for an art collector. Or not.

"I've never been good at pretending. I used to sculpt. Sports sculptures in bronze. Only once did I submit one of my sculptures for an "award." I got an honorable mention. A participation trophy. I anticipated losing but the winning sculpture was god-awful. "That won?!" I asked my wife. She was mortified that I said it loud enough for people in the gallery to hear. I picked up my bronze award and tossed it in the trash on the way out.

"Art is subjective." . . .

Mike Harris Artwork