Attack On the West

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’d like to point out what’s been happening on our Southern border is not “immigration” of any kind. Not legal (obviously) not illegal (though what is happening is illegal) and not refugees of any kind, either.

What’s been happening is unprecedented, it’s happening all over the West (look up poor little Italian islands overwhelmed by waves of illegals from Africa and Middle East) and it is in fact an attempt at extinguishing the West and its uniqueness.

Now you can insert a lot of stuff here about race, and replacement of races, but that’s not what’s happening either. The problem would be just as bad if they were channeling exclusively from the underclass of Europe. (Some of whom are in fact here.)

Whether that’s what the left thinks it’s doing or not, that’s something else, since the left is utterly convinced that cultural is hereditary in a genetic way (yes, there are hereditary basic character traits, but those are very malleable. Humans are creatures of culture as well as genes, and the split is so close no one has ever identified one as a decisive factor over the other. Defects, like autism or actual, verifiable mental issues DO win over culture, but that’s a different kettle of fish. And the heredity of such defects is… debatable in many cases, and we should have more research on it, tbf. ) I mean, back in the nineties I had an argument with someone in the letters column of analog. The poor idiot thought that Chinese were genetically more “community oriented” and “non materialist.” Where they get these idiocies, only Heaven knows.

Yesterday I got bogged down trying to write this because I got caught in a rabbit hole of attempting to figure out how the left came up with this mode of attack. There are many reasons it has the support of their base who doesn’t view it as an attack, but as a way to utopia. See above. They believe certain races/heredities are more “communitarian” and “natural communists.” (Please, if you invent a time machine go beat Gramsci black and blue for me, okay?) Which is just part of their being the same genocidal eugenicists they’ve always been, right? They just changed targets.

But also some of them firmly believe we owe the third world supporting them and giving them anything their heart desires, since in the leftists’ blinkered, narrow minds there is no wealth creation, and the only way some countries/cultures are more productive is that they have “stolen” the “Wealth” from other countries. This is the whole rage against “colonialism” ignoring that most countries in the world have been both colonies and colonizers and that if your culture is broken, being a colonizer and actually for real stealing wealth (Hello USSR) does not do you any good and you’ll remain a sh*thole.

These same cartoon characters believe that people become instantly productive and rich by moving here. Call it the Garden of Eden effect (You shall be like gods…)

And for the bunch of you who are going to tell me no one on the left believes that utter nonsense, your argument is invalid. Find a recent college geography book (probably history too, but geography is where I found it for my kids. And yeah, we repaired the ceiling above where I went off like a rocket when I read that some countries were poor because other countries stole their “natural resources.”) Also talk to anyone under the age of… oh, 35. Particularly someone who is nice and not a particularly deep thinker. Sooner or later you’ll get them to say that they’re poor because we’re rich. Or some other piece of nonsense.

If you want to look up why they’re more communist than the US, do not look at genes, but at the fact that most of them were under a (heavier than here) concerted barrage of propaganda by the USSR for its entire existence, and the fact that their best and brightest learned communism everywhere from Patrick Lumunba University in Moscow, to Harvard and Yale. The worst colonialism ever perpetrated against the third world was exporting communism to them. Also, for the record, they’re poor because they’re communist. Communism (and socialism) destroys wealth and kill humans (the only different about socialism is it does it slower and with crappier writing and art telling you that you should love it.)

But all of this is utterly irrelevant as I’m convinced the leftists at the top, the ones who designed this strategy, have no warm fuzzies for third worlders, any more than they do for the west. All they have is will to power and a naked thirst to dominate all of humanity. Or perhaps to exterminate it. They don’t seem to like humans very much. In fact, they seem to despise humans to the point that one wonders if all the jokes about lizard beings are just jokes.

What happened was this: the left — the powerful on the left — always imagined they’d get all the power, as the west succumbed to over population and lack of resources, was conquered by the USSR, and post collapse became a wasteland ruled by them as overlords.

Some wrenches dropped in the way of their grand plans, one being the fall of the USSR, another being that the overpopulation crisis failed to materialize, and even demographers are becoming aware that statistics are not reality and that no economy, no every day reality corresponds to “too many people.” Not even in the third world.

To add to this, humans — the pests! — came up with an agricultural miracle that feeds everyone we have. And continue to be endlessly adaptable.

Most of these horrors of communism, these international villains that would make a James Bond villain blush are older than I, or not very far off my age.

Your sixties, no matter how well you’re doing, even in the first world, are when you start thinking “Whoa. At this point, I might live another forty years, or I could die tomorrow, and it wouldn’t be exactly a surprise.”

A lot of these people are in their eighties and nineties. And they’re starting to suspect they’ll never rule over the world and everyone in it, while most humans die or grub in the dirt for subsistence. And they were PROMISED.

Well, they really couldn’t hope to conquer the West. Or let’s be blunt, America. Europe is still too free for them — which should give you pause. Or fill you with rage. Or yes. — but America? America is two middle fingers raised in their sight. We were supposed to have collapsed from our prosperity (“decadence”) by now. We were supposed to be conquered by the USSR. We were supposed to be communists, the seat of their power.

Instead, we keep denying them their promised glory and just being…. America.

They couldn’t attack us frontally. Or with armies. Look, even under Biden, with as much as they’ve done to destroy our military, there is no one in the world who can take us. And even as wimpy as Europe is, their soldiers are better fed and generally better equipped than, oh, the Chinese. (No, really. If you believe in the amazing Chinese might, you should remember that totalitarian regimes not only lie, most of the time they don’t even know they lie, because the lies are baked in at every level of their society. And that fact alone means they can’t fight free or mostly free countries that have a clear sight of their capabilities. In the end, information is the most powerful weapon.)

China has been their great hope since the nineties, but it’s now obvious it really is a paper tiger, and one that is smoldering if not outright on fire.

So they came up with a last desperate strategy: send the third world in waves, masses and unimaginable multitudes into the west, particularly America.

The strategy is brilliant on the level of damage it causes: It destroys the high trust society when there is a large number of strangers who do not share our assumptions, our morals or our culture; it exploits and destroys our social welfare net (you know what I think of it, but we have it and I can’t convince people to get rid of it) which is enough to bankrupt us; it challenges the West’s Happy Go Lucky belief in human potential and the value of every human; it creates deep ethnic and nationalist rifts within society that leads to nepotism which by itself destroys productivity.

Like all smart weapons, it takes advantage of the best qualities of those attacked and weaponizes them against the victim. (Not that it’s in any way helping the people used as weapons either. More on that later. Put a pin in it.)

But Sarah! You’ll say “It’s just people who want a better life, who are, at worse, economic refugees.”

Well, no, it damn well isn’t. Go look at the series here, by Bill Reader. He did a deep dive, and it was obvious, early on that the “caravans” were being filled with communists. Devote, dyed in the wool commies, who came here to “conquer.” (Remember all the flags and anthems sung at the border? Yeah.)

Since then, it’s got complex, simply because there aren’t that many commies, even in South America. (I do wonder though if that’s what allowed sanity to happen in Argentina and El Salvador. They sent the commies North.)

However, if you think the flow at the border is natural, you must believe in “global warming” or another widespread disaster that could cause that. Study history. That much of a movement of people simply doesn’t happen just because they “want a better life” and a rich country has its border open.

I do realize we’re an attractive nuisance. (And the only way to get rid of it is to stop both welfare to all illegals, but also to revoke minimum wage laws, which make illiterate, lost peasants worth it because you can pay them less. This is what’s known as a signal that our minimum wage is too high. Economics is a bitch. You can’t really legislate it. You can try, but you just end up with pathologies like illegal immigration.) BUT even so.

Look, humans are social animals. That means we’re creatures not just of economic well being, but of connections to family, friends, to the way things work.

As someone who immigrated, and who comes from a family where a lot of people immigrated over the generations (not here.) I can tell you that the drive is neither universal nor particularly widespread. Dad’s family is WEIRD. They’re born with wandering feet and tend not to fit where they were born, so they leave in search of where they belong. Sometimes they even find it.

Mom’s family is more normal and seems to be the pattern of normal human beings: Stay where you’re planted, unless there is a major push to make you move. How major? You and your entire family will otherwise be murdered. Or you’ll starve to death.

Go look at the great migratory movements of the world. That is exactly what’s happened. If you see places emptying themselves to go elsewhere, they’re either being invaded or climate change (real one) has made it impossible to feed themselves; or there is some other form of destruction, including governmental. (See Irish Potato Famine.)

The thing is that you need to get to the point of famine in stupid government tricks for people to move in any amount worth noting. The USSR didn’t manage it. The DDR didn’t manage it. CUBA hasn’t managed it. There are immigrants into the US and the west, sure, but never en masse.

The people movement we’ve seen over the border is too large for it to be just the people who naturally seek better. (So those of you Libertarians who feel queasy about supporting deportations, stand down. This is not the movement of free people or free markets.)

Even if countries aren’t emptying (and one hears stories) the numbers coming over our border indicate something is going on other than “I want to earn a living for my family.”

Also, honestly, look at any picture. I remember reading Simak’s Our Children Children and their talking about how the refugees from the future didn’t behave as any other refugee in the history of mankind. This was taken as evidence that they were more “evolved” or something. The thing was that Simak was a journalist and he nailed it on what refugees look like. They usually look hungry. They almost always look tired, ragged, and clutch with hopeless despair a few possessions, some of which are nonsensical. A teddy bear. A sheaf of papers. A bag of potatoes. Something that gives them security when entering the unknown territory ahead.

This is not what we see with the people coming over the border. By and large they’re well fed. Most of the few women who come over are actually better dressed than I on any given day. They clutch no few possessions. Most of them are male, which negates refugees, but not economic immigrants. Most economic immigrants start as unaccompanied males who hope to ‘send for’ family, or to send money home and eventually return.

So, what is going on here? Where are these people coming from? Who are they?

Well, we know for a fact that a lot of them are the prison populations of communist countries, ala Mariel boat lift. There will also — we’ve captured several — Jihadists bent on revenge against us. There are probably still communists, particularly from China, Europe and Africa, who come here to destroy America, as their holy mission.

But I honestly think — based on the reports from people who work border patrol, and who talk off the record — that a lot of the people being flung against us are actually coerced to come.

Coerced, you say? Well…. Mexico is a failed Narco state. The biggest resorts, the most powerful families are up to their necks in drug trafficking and other public. And the way the society works is Lords and Peons. (Throughout most of the American continent south of the border, to be fair.) If the Lord make the Peons move, the Peons will move. Through debt, or attrition, through terror or orders, they will move. Because the alternative is death.

I think that’s how we end up with people who quite obviously come from so far from civilization that they have no clue what a toilet is, and think it’s a water fountain. (Yes, fairly regularly, it does happen.)

More importantly, Spanish isn’t the majority spoken language of those coming from south of the border, and many of those we can’t find interpreters for. (The dirty secret being that most Spanish-Speaking American countries are actually and for real ultra-racist against their tribal “Indio” populations. So getting rid of them is a bonus.)

But I suspect if the media cared to look, a lot of favelas, remote, poor villages and slums in Mexico, Central and South America and for that matter the rest of the world have been cleared and sent to the border. Once here, they are ruthlessly exploited by the cartels and the other criminal elements of their own or associated countries already here. The over a third of a million missing children aren’t the only ones exploited. Yes, women have been trafficked too. But I bet you anything men are working in conditions of inhuman servitude and compelled not to leave.

If you read “missing family” reports, you’ll find some of them still did, heading mullishly back to the border and back home. They were just overwhelmed by people coming the other way.

Of course, in this there were also the people that preferentially want to go beyond the sidewalks, or to the totally strange place. BUT those are a minority of humanity.

I think most Americans, and a large number of Europeans are unaware of how much of the rest of the world is run by “mobs” o a sort or the other. Either hereditary power of a few families, or power of armed gangs, or true mafioso organizations run most of the world for their benefit. And until this past week it was to their benefit to send their serfs to invade, exploit and destroy the West, particularly the US.

(Real immigration doesn’t need well-funded NGOs to chase the “migrants” towards your border or give them what they need to survive here.)

This has been a disaster to the countries of origin as much or more than the US. Okay, so maybe not the sending us their criminals, though kindly remember that “criminal” in places like Venezuela might just mean “doesn’t sit down and shut up”. Probably sending us their underclass (and tomorrow or the day after I’ll write about underclass and what makes an underclass, a group that has more to do with each other across races and cultures and TIMES than is comfortable to contemplate.) also doesn’t hurt them. Maybe.

But an uninterested press has ignored the rumors of children kidnapped to be sent North, the stories of entire villages left empty, and of course the stories of places left without men (which to be fair happens with real economic migration, too.)

It has also been a disaster for the people sent over. Yes, even those put in luxury NYC hotels. Again, humans are social. These people have been ripped from their society, culture, and ways of living, and are fish out of water in ours. The fact we don’t appreciate their effects on us is just icing on the cr*p cake. Most of them don’t fit, don’t have the skills to fit, and are either exploited or turn utterly feral.

So… For the sake of humanity, for the sake of our country, for the sake of the future and our children, the best thing is for them to leave. The best thing is for them to go home, if possible. But if not possible, well… “You don’t have to go home. You just can’t stay here.”

As for the hand wringing over who will pick our crops or work in our factories: Frens, what we’ve seen are people being laid off and having to subsist on various kinds of welfare and assistance while the illegal immigrants are moved in to work at very low wages and in substandard conditions. Yes, minimum wage laws are an abomination onto economics, but you know, we can bridge that with technology. Automate more and hire locals for where you need them. (Which honestly would already have happened without this source of sub-standard but very cheap labor.)

More importantly, our economy will benefit greatly by having the burden placed on it lifted. Burden? Well, since we — malgre people like me — live in a society that insists on having a governmental safety net, illegal immigrants who can barely look after themselves are a drain on the collective resources.

How big of a drain? Oy, people. Even before the last four years of insanity? Ask anyone who works in an urban hospital, say, how many of the people filling emergency rooms were here illegally/didn’t speak English; ask any social worker how much of their case load are illegal immigrants who don’t speak English and who might or might not be passing the same six kids around amid various families, for extra benes; ask any school teacher in a place not utterly isolated how many of their students are non-English speakers and poorly socialized; have anyone who works for a charity food distribution tell you how many illegal immigrants they feed; figure out how much of homeless encampments are actually non-English speaking illegal immigrants, whose struggles to survive/criminal activities make our cities unsafe.

How big of a drain? I don’t know. I’d be tempted to tell you half of our expenditures are going to support people who shouldn’t be here, and who are paying mordida to some sort of criminal overlords. I have a cold feeling in my stomach that I’m way underestimating the numbers, though.

I was relieved when Trump declared this an invasion and the cartels enemy non-national organizations. Because it meant he saw what I saw.

The West has always welcomed those in true distress and willing to adapt and acculturate (a process that is not easy, and might be impossible for those without the desire or ability to thrive in the US) but this is no normal migration.

This is people being used as weapons by other people who don’t view humans as individuals or, frankly, human, and who are throwing them at us hoping to take us out and to finally achieve the world in which we are all serfs and they are the few, god-like overlords.

The only way to counter these human weapons is to send them back. As fast and as economically as possible.

I firmly believe even in the short run the money we safe on social services will more than pay for the price of deporting them.

We don’t have to hate them. If I’m right they’re not even here of their own volition. And we don’t have to despise them. And we don’t have to make sure they go “home.” The integrity of their culture and their nation is their lookout, not ours. (Their standards are also not ours.)

For our good, for their good, the attack has to stop and reverse.

We don’t in fact care where they go. They just can’t stay here.

156 thoughts on “Attack On the West”

  1. “decadence”. 15 minute HOT shower. The heck with giving that up.

    I’ve thought for years that part of the reason the boarder wasn’t enforced with Mexico was so that food prices were kept down for the crops needing manual labor to pick. Thumb on the scale by politicians. Which has distorted the world’s economy majorly, as when labor costs get too high automation comes in, and there are a lot of farm automation tools in the world now that don’t seem to be used in the US that should be, but the low wages keep them from being used. /cut big long Bob* level rant.

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    1. Well you aren’t completely wrong, as we now see how immigration schemes of all sorts have been used to suppress wages for generations now. Holy crap, how it sticks in my craw to hear those SOBs lecture about how wage increases for working Americans would just lead to inflation (and everybody here knows full well that is NOT what causes it by and large)…enough to want to mobile Team Heads-On-Pikes…

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      1. Dang, that’s really bad anatomy. Could just be his right hand (attached to his left arm) with his pinky finger right up near the camera lens.

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    3. Here – add my own rant to it – https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73069.html

      I have long believed that most Americans, outside the bubble of proggie activism, are NOT OK in the least with illegal immigration, considering all the knock-on criminality that it brings. Not just the outright murder, gangsterism, rape, trafficking of people and substances … but the low-level degradation of neighborhoods, schools, social services. The ID theft, the diseases, the uninsured and ignorant driving … and the undercutting of wages.

      That is why most normal Americans are as pleased as anything to see the deportations swing into high gear.

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      1. Oh. I meant to put this in the post, but forgot (Yes, thyroid acting up. Why do you ask?)
        We were hit just short of t-boned and needed 6k of repairs to our car …. six? months ago?
        We’re still getting phone calls from some poor woman’s insurance. The woman had nothing to do with it. And we were insured for uninsured drivers, so we’re okay with the 6k of damage from the accident.
        … but the illegal, driving a car from the junkyard had stolen her license plate. And the insurance is determined to recoup costs by harassing this poor woman. Which means we were fielding calls every other day, until Dan sent them our picture of the accident, which proved it wasn’t HER CAR.
        So, you know? there’s another of those uncounted costs.

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        1. About 5 years back one of my relatives was t-boned by an illegal, hospitalized and nearly killed. I don’t know if the car was stolen or not, I actually think not, but the driver definitely had no insurance.

          So. Yeah. We have enough legal bad drivers here. We don’t need more.

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          1. Which is why I grind my teeth every time I hear “Issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens will make them better drivers!”

            That doesn’t work for legal residents, WHY would it work on illegal aliens?

            Of course, the fact that voter registration has been linked to drivers licenses has NOTHING to do with the issue. </sarc>

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            1. Oregon legislative argument was (to pass this) that allowing non-documented workers to get driver’s licenses meant that not only could the state verify that they knew the rules of the road (they don’t take the written test), can drive (again, they don’t take the driving test), must have liability insurance, at minimum, like any other Oregon driver (again, they are here illegally). They might have insurance to show getting the license, but that can be cancelled as soon as they walk out the door. If they even bother getting a driver’s license.

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                1. Would be?

                  There is.

                  Legislature passed the illegal driving license bill.

                  Lord help you if you are a citizen driving without insurance, or a driver’s license, if just pulled over for a road infraction, worse if accident. But illegals? They still do not bother. A lot of hit and runs happening locally. Not all are due to DUI. Not all are actually the driver’s fault, until they don’t stop and call.

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            2. Never heard that rationale. Here in California, the excuse was that people who drive without a license get their car impounded. If an illegal was gainfully employed, losing the car might make it so the illegal couldn’t work. So letting illegals get drivers licenses was so that they could drive without having to worry about having their car impounded if they got pulled over.

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        2. The only repair-level accidents Beloved Spouse has had were with, what was the new term I saw lately, “underdocumented migrants” I think?

          First one was in a parking lot, young mom with kids in her old minivan, no inglaise, no insurance, no DL – which in the Formerly Golden State takes some serious not-trying as they give them out at the DMV like candy on Halloween – with only a Mexican Consular ID and a slightly-English-speaker on the phone.

          Second was her getting rear ended stopped at a red light at night, impactor had “DL” and “insurance” for “her father’s car”, both turning out to be fake, including the address. That one ended up with me needing to get our insurance corporate group 1 talking to the investigator for our insurance corporate group 2 to get our uninsured coverage to kick in.

          Statistics for uninsured motorist payouts would be interesting reading.

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      2. And I have heard reports that some illegals are taking the hint and leaving while they still have some control over the process.

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        1. That’s a good idea on their part. Saves them a lot of difficulty, and us not only the difficulty of getting them out, but of any downstream effects of their living here.

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    4. It used to be that much of that manual crop labor was done by legal, migrant guest workers. Coming up and picking crops in the US was the family business of a whole bunch of families from South of the border and they came in legally, and went home when harvest was over.

      They weren’t immigrants.

      But the Left decided that there was an advantage is confusing migrant, with immigrant, with alien, and now no one can even talk of the differences between them

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      1. And it was an awful thing that decimated uS agricultural work.
        The reason people don’t pick crops legally now is that the stupid dept of labor has made all sorts of stupid rules, not because “Americans don’t want to work.”
        We don’t need “migrants” we need the rules cut down. Ask our very own Foxfier whose family is in agriculture about it, then sit back and she’ll give you an earful.
        I can think of tons of young people who’d do it during their “vacation” if lodged the same as camping, which is how it used to be, and save for houses, etc. BUT now they require farmers to pay them minimum wage (before you scoff, think of minimum wage in CALIFORNIA) and house them like they live there year around, etc. It’s not a need for migrants. It’s an excess of bureaucrats.

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        1. Most of our problems can be traced back to an excess of bureaucrats.

          ‘It is not within the power of any government to increase the value of unskilled labor, only to raise the cost.’

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        2. It used to be that a college student could work his or her way through school. Summers working agriculture or construction, winters in the classroom.

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          2. I did. Work summers. Then use that to pay for college, and room and board. Also worked during the school year. Still needed loans. But those loans were < $10k, 5% annual interest, which didn’t start for 6 months after quitting or getting degree. $30/month for 10 years. (Which with interest rates in the ’80s of > 10% on regular savings, we did not pay off quickly. No loans on subsequent degrees even as we were still paying on the prior one.)

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      2. It used to be in the Red River Valley of ND and MN, Mexican families would come yearly to hoe sugar beets (the whole family, from parents to children [it must have been daunting to look at a square mile of close spaced rows]), given adequate housing about like the farmer enjoyed. Price agreed by a handshake that both honored. Then the Government stepped in. Minimum wages, port-a-potties, meals, children must not work and be schooled (at County expense). With the growth of Big Ag Machinery, it became much cheaper to use herbicides and mechanical thinning. By the mid 1990’s none came back.

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      3. Yes, and no.

        IIRC, Cesar Chavez didn’t like migrant workers, seeing them as a threat to his power base (which was farm workers). That was back in the ’70s.

        It’s probably why he doesn’t get talked about all that much even in California these days.

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    5. And construction, and concrete work, and landscape maintenance, and housekeeping, and workplace janitorial, and CNAs in SNFs, and the list goes on and on.

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      1. This is how much I DGAF. I probably have more African blood than the screamers. And yet, I find that only the screamers equate Monkey and Black.
        I mean, when they pictured G W Bush as a chimp, was that racist? No? Your argument is invalid.
        My field of f*cks is barren. Next years crop looks non-existent too.

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        2. Yes, but it denies them the pleasure of screeching “RRRAAACISSST!!” at you. They just have to sit there all puffed up and stew.

          Now I’m thinking of the “I have no f*ks to give” song. :-P

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  4. Total government spending in Q419was $7.547 Trillion. The WuFlu disaster caused huge fluctuations, but had spending had settled down by Q122 at $8.404 Trillion. As of the last reported figure in Q324 total government spending was $10.388 Trillion. So, over the 2.5 years, spending went up 24% or 8.2% CAGR.

    Federal rates are a bit lower with $7.052T in Q324 from $5.997 in Q122 or 18% and 6.3% CAGR

    As they used to say on Myth Busters, “Well, there’s your problem.”

    Data are from the quarterly GDP report and can be found at the BEA or the St Louis Fed FRED site under NIPA.

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    1. The government, and its spending, are growing far faster than our population and our economy. If This Goes On, the government will eventually devour the entire United States. There will be nothing left but the government.

      Which can’t support itself by taxing itself.

      It will implode.

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      1. Uh no. All money and economic activity comes from government. So total government means super hyper incredible total financial excellence sustainably transferred. Really.

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          1. Hmm. I’m not sure what you’re implying. Perhaps I should give the viewpoint of a restrained conservative position. Total government will result in sociopathic hyper inflational tyranny/societal turmoil of ragnarok magnitude. There, now both left and right viewpoints are, I believe, adequately represented. ;-)

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  5. One thing I found interesting about the recent deportations is that ICE knew where the gangsters were.

    To me that means the Biden Gang knew where they were and did nothing about and that means IMO the Biden Gang were also interested in “Attacking The West”.

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      1. And that’s no ordinary rabbit in that rabbit hole.

        I certainly hope someone has a Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and knows how to count to 3.

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      1. Ones currently in prison are supposed to finish their sentence, and *then* get sent back. It used to be that the prison would notify ICE when an illegal was about to be released from prison.

        But sanctuary policies ban the notifications.

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        1. In Santa Clara County the Sheriff runs the jails, and per this recent story, ( https://sheriff.santaclaracounty.gov/misinformation-about-raids-triggers-panic-among-immigrant-communities ):

          “The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has a primary responsibility to protect all residents, regardless of immigration status. We do not inquire about a person’s immigration status and will not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain individuals solely for immigration enforcement.”

          Weasel words, yes. Further down it says:

          In line with California Senate Bill 54, which limits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, local law enforcement in Santa Clara County will not assist with ICE actions unless there is a serious criminal threat. 

          …with “serious criminal threat” being undefined.

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          2. California Senate Bill 54 is probably the one passed back in 2017. Some of California’s counties (including Orange, IIRC) were giving ICE a heads up when illegals were getting out of prison. The Dems up in Sacramento decided to ban that, of course.

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  6. In addition to sending them all back, NGOs need to be shut down, all of them that played any role in this, those that supported lawlessness in Blue cities and the whole funding/money laundering schemes betwix leftist “groups”. This includes the Red Cross, Catholic Charities, HIAS, Lutherans that have been involved and the smaller groups.

    Some of the deepest revelations about the money octopus have come out recently. People have traced the money flows/relationships between hundreds of these groups and created 3d diagrams.

    The left/elite learned to use foundations and NGOs as tools and cutouts to cause color revolutions, riots, plagues and fake grass roots support. Helped in part by TLAs. Mostly funded by a group of billonaires and millionaires as well as “grant” money from US agencies.

    Not only shut them down; seize their assets, go after the executives and the origin donors.

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    2. Weirdly, Catholic Charities and IIRC Lutheran Charities are NOT affiliated with the churches (though some pastors get fooled into supporting them) and are the same company with different skinning….

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      2. And yet, you’ll still get people directly blaming the religions for the work of the charities in their names. And will fight you if you correct them. (Just observed; I have no need to pick that battle.)

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        1. Have the religions ACTIVELY fought to prevent the bad actors from using their names? In this case, “Catholic” / “Lutheran” is a brand. They either defend it by keeping out the fakers, or “silence implies assent” prevails.

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          1. It’s really difficult because it has to come from the highers up, who have been captured, right now, kind of like the American government was till recently.
            Also as I said, Parish Priests sometimes fall for it.

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            1. Well, sounds like the higher-ups need to be hearing from their church members: “You want us to donate? For anything? Then clean up your act!” Fussing at people making the normal association is a waste of good fussing energy.

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              1. They are. More and more. The kids in the church including priests are …. well, they make me look like a raging liberal.
                BUT it’s a huge organization. These things take time to turn around.

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          3. It’s a hard thing to do when there are so many other calls on the attention. Also, though the Catholic Church (and to a certain extent, the Lutheran church) is a giant organization, there’s a lot of hierarchy involved too and probably nobody paying attention close enough to see the issue who also has the authority to do anything about it.

            Also, there are a lot of Catholics who honestly don’t understand that “Catholic Charities” isn’t sponsored by the church, so they’d be uncomfortable speaking against it.

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  7. Fascinating that the “utopians” seek a “new way” that can only exist, only survive, if something else first destroys freedom and the United States. None of their schemes can compete. But they see that as strength, not flaw.

    We had a system under Eisenhower to import temporary seasonal farm labor. It worked well. Go north. Pick crops. Go home with pockets full of US dollar cash. Prosper. Very few of those stuck around, which is why the Left killed it.

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    1. Some migrant families followed the crops. Start in the south work their way north to the apple orchards. A few weeks later start planting timber trees (private timber still plants). Never actually going home. Or going home briefly before coming back for the next crop or plantings. FYI, planting trees isn’t that hard of work. It is the environment that is the challenge. You haven’t had fun until you are traipsing up and down on 30% – 40%+ slopes, and sides of ravines, through mixture of salmon berries, vine maple, salal, and rhododendron (does not take coastal slopes to get growth started. Oh, and where did that Devil’s Club cluster come from? Asking for a friend.

      A huge problem was the migrant housing situation, and childcare. Both parents, and often “old enough to pass” children, were all working.

      These days? Most crops are planted and picked by machine. Most the local strawberry fields are long gone, strawberries now almost exclusively are from Mexico. Lots of blueberry fields. They are now picked by machine. Even timber tree planting would be by machines if it wasn’t for those pesky steep slopes.

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      1. I read there was a kerfuffle on CNN this morning where an AWFL panelist was actually screeching, “I hope American women like it when they can’t get blueberries.” Assuming “undocumented migrants,” must be picking berries.

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        1. You can get hand harvested blueberries. Hand harvested blueberries are advertised as hand harvested. Other than u-pick I haven’t seen any advertised so locally. Blueberries are harvested mechanically. The farms locally do not hire anyone. It is them and their kids, and kids spouses, and grandchildren. Family I know locally is working on great-grands, as soon as said great-grands are big enough to reach the controls, same criteria as their parents, and grandparents. Full disclosure, be awhile, oldest is only 5 and takes after her petite/short grandmother, so another 8 years or so. But guarantied she is out with parents, grand, and great-grand, learning how it all works, now.

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  8. The Mayans and other Indios from the waybacks who have suddenly showed up… Yeah, Spanish is not their native language, either. Nice folks, mind you, but I agree that I don’t think they wanted to come.

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  9. The Left is highly insistent, correctly, that Trump is barred from a third term.

    Which means he has no interest in personal re-election. “One and done”. He can now focus his whole effort on getting -his- things done, and not wasting any of his effort on re-election. Rallies will be for recharging his personal batteries. He -might- seek elections of useful folks, but only to the degree it gets his agenda done. HOOAH! Let’s roll!

    In other words, “Your terms are acceptable”. (Kzin Grin) “Thanks”. SNIKT!

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  10. My mother told me she saw a video from–I think–the WEC in Davos* the other day, where one of the many would-be rules around the table finally admitted that the problem is…they lost. They didn’t win. I haven’t gone looking for it myself, but if this actually DID occur (not that I disbelieve my mom, but there’s a chance it was fake, or a joke)? It looks like at least some of the would-be tyrants are starting to twig to reality, and it might mean they’ll suddenly become more interested in ways to preserve their own hides than in making the rest of us bow to them. I can hope, anyway…

    *I swear, whenever I see the name “Davos” my brain tries to read it as “Davros” and conjures up an army of Daleks (as Davros is their leader, after all). Which, when you get down to it, isn’t far off the truth, given their goals…

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    1. It doesn’t help that the head honchos there all look like Bond villains from the 70s and 80s.

      Also, even if they are starting to admit to themselves that their plan isn’t working, they’re not acting like they’ve lost. They’re acting like they’ve still got a chance at it, if they can just outlast Trump and this MAGA/freedom fad….

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      2. Well, the left are nothing if not delusional. Which is why we must remain vigilant, and keep voting and doing whatever else is necessary to prevent them from seizing the levers of power.

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    2. Supposedly (and I haven’t bothered to check this), there was an “Oh, crap, we just lost in the US, and the voters there will never support us. How do we block them from doing this to us again?” day at the WEF conference.

      Same basic realization as the one you described, but with a follow-up that’s aimed at overthrowing the will of the voters.

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      1. Maybe they could die.

        That would permanently prevent them from ever again being disappointed that people in the US don’t agree with them.

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      1. That’s good to know (I’ve been busy trying to make some major, life changing decisions and haven’t had the spare energy to look for it, lol). Alas, though, as mentioned elsewhere in these comments, it’s not like they’re gonna stop trying.

        It does, though, mean I think they’ll keep doubling down on the stupid because they really do seem incapable of grasping that their approach isn’t working anymore and won’t going forward.

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  11. Like the wealthy paying their “Fair Share”, you will never get a leftist to answer “How many 3rd worlders should we take in each year”. The answers are the same – more or unlimited. And then listen to the complaints that it takes too long to drive to the store because of too much traffic. The issues are unrelated in their simple minds.

    Next, you can notice how every single depiction in media of an immigrant being deported is someone who has peacefully lived here for 20+ years. Poor Abuela! She’s so sympathetic. Where’s your compassion, you monster! Of course, they won’t ever show you the violent gang member being deported. And they will never show how it’s the poor that have to live amongst the violent one. It’s never the UWS or Beverly Hills where the locals have to put up with it.

    In a way, they are hostage takers. Like when they want to make an example of 1400 peaceful protesters that walked through open doors and stayed within the ropes – so let’s just talk about how 20 or 30 struck police. Lock them all up!

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    1. I’ve got a scene in my head of a billionaire industrialist making a video about that ‘fair share’.

      He’s sitting at a table with bundles of money stacked up, a respectable pile. “This is how much income tax the average family pays. Quite a bit, isn’t it? How much better could their lives be if the government didn’t take all this money from them?”

      The camera then zooms out to show him surrounded by pallets of cash, stacked to the roof. “This is how much income tax I paid last year. HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU VULTURES WANT, HUH? HOW MUCH?“

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      3. …And of course the answer is “All, they want ALL of it”, under the fixed pie theory of money, applied as Sarah notes to individuals, corporations, and countries.

        If your slice of pie is larger, someone else’s must be smaller, missing all of that entire “creation of wealth” thingee.

        If Jeff Bezos had not created that mail order book seller Amazon from nothing and grown it to be the new Sear Roebuck online, there would be no entry level jobs at shipping locations, no sales of delivery trucks, both ICE and electric, and thus no jobs building them, and so on throughout the economy. Amazon being created and growing created that wealth. None of it was stolen from Ghana.

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        1. I was recently reminded that my mom made a friend on rec.arts.books (remember those days?) who was working for this weird little bookseller startup in Seattle. We had lunch with that lady about a year after it had gone public, but it wasn’t a juggernaut like it is today, just “doing pretty well.”

          Had We But Known. Of course, the only thing we could have done would be to say “Hold on to your stock.” For all I know, she did.

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      5. Remember at school, or for those unfortunate enough, when you’d be around family, and all the kids got a treat?

        Some of the kids gobbled it down, and half an hour later were whining about how those who savored it, or worse saved it, needed to share?

        And then the chronological adults in the situation are tired of hearing the whining so they take from the kids who weren’t being brats and give it to the whiners?

        That kind of “fair.”

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  12. Like the wealthy paying their “Fair Share”, you will never get a leftist to answer “How many 3rd worlders should we take in each year”. The answers are the same – more or unlimited. And then listen to the complaints that it takes too long to drive to the store because of too much traffic. The issues are unrelated in their simple minds.

    Next, you can notice how every single depiction in media of an immigrant being deported is someone who has peacefully lived here for 20+ years. Poor Abuela! She’s so sympathetic. Where’s your compassion, you monster! Of course, they won’t ever show you the violent gang member being deported. And they will never show how it’s the poor that have to live amongst the violent one. It’s never the UWS or Beverly Hills where the locals have to put up with it.

    In a way, they are hostage takers. Like when they want to make an example of 1400 peaceful protesters that walked through open doors and stayed within the ropes – so let’s just talk about how 20 or 30 struck police. Lock them all up!

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    1. I have heard of people who will answer that they are happy with 100% of the population being immigrants. Who apparently don’t realize that would require ethnical cleansing, too.

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  13. I can attest to the breakdown of trust. When you’re trying to work customer service and the person (almost always a guy) not only won’t speak English, he often won’t speak at all except to slip Spanish insults about you to his other guy friends, you start thinking longingly about long-distance catapults.

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      1. Generally buying construction supplies. They present the items, you ring it up and take the credit card.

        Unfortunately for whoever’s sending them out with the cards, there are other questions that are supposed to be answered with words!

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  14. North America was colonized by multiple foreign countries. The United States started as ‘The 13 Colonies’ after all. We seem to have done all right after being colonized. The colonizers, not so much.

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  15. Compassionate soul that I am, I used to worry greatly about deporting those folks who “slipped across the border.” Then Oklahoma, IIRC, passed a law that said any business who hired or employed an illegal alien, after checking with the national registry, would lose their business license for six months. After the second offense they lost the license permanently, but if the national registry said they were OK but later proven wrong, they were in the clear. Sounds like GREAT national policy– universal E-verify– but what about the terrible conditions that these people faced “back home”? Well, as soon as the law was announced, thousands of people left the state, emptying out apartment buildings and schools and businesses, and went somewhere, I can only conclude that they were NOT afraid to return. After we get the first several million out– the serious criminals– I may have a solution for the rest.

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    1. A lot of them are criminals in American terms, besides coming over illegally. You see, other countries…. work by bribery and mordida. They don’t even consider it bad. They won’t stop doing it here.
      They also work by “What you can get away with.”

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  16. Our small-town food bank may be an exception. We handled 72 families this month, none of them illegals. Of course, we have paperwork to fill out, which amounts to, “means testing,” I suppose.

    And it’s a small town, where you get to recognizing family names over time.

    I’ve been told there are other food banks in the area which simply hand you food if you show up, no questions asked. It would be interesting to know whether they get illegals and if so, how many.

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  17. Naomi Wolf continues her wandering out of progressive-land. Read her column today where she admits places like Eugene and Corvallis no longer feel, “safe,” due to the numbers of crazy/addicted homeless taking over former public spaces and turning them into camps.

    She also just learned Section 8 housing not only doesn’t help, “the poorest of the poor,” but it incentivzes not striving to improve your situation or build wealth. You lose it after you’ve started to move up, but before you’ve made enough to replace your subsidized housing, so trying to pull yourself up worsens your living conditions. Built in “stabilizers,” to keep the lesser orders in their place.

    She was a good Northeastern upper-middle-class progressive, but the concept of stabilizers outrages every corner of her, “but rags to riches is the *heart* of being an American!” mindset. Good for her. She’s got her share of quirks in her gallop, but she at least seems able to notice when progressives goes wrong.

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    1. Could have told her about Eugene a decade ago, even without living there. I knew someone who was working for the chamber of commerce, and her stories about what downtown was ending up like were not great.

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      1. I live there. It is bad. It’s a joke.

        TPTB cleared out the huge tent city between 5th & 6th under the Washington/Jefferson bridge. Fenced it off and then had to dig off at least a foot of sod and soil because of all the bio contaminants.

        Funny they complain they can’t clear out the homeless, but TPTB made the homeless scarce during the US Track and Field Trials.

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        2. Never been to Eugene, but spent a few days near Corvallis. They weren’t covered in homeless folks then; however, it was clear the town was proudly, progressively bigoted against “haters,” as defined by current doctrine.

          I still order tea from Oregon Coffee and Tea, though, because despite the “fair trade,” and “organic” buzzwords (have no problem with either concept, anyway), they did not have a, “Hate Has No Place here,” sign and didn’t care about my skin color, sexual orientation or political leanings so long as I paid them. And it’s good tea.

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          1. We always say “We may have an Eugene address. But we aren’t ‘in’ Eugene.”

            We are not. We, for all that Eugene has been trying, still county. Not in an incorporated section. We are officially now part of the urban growth boundary. Last lawsuit established that Eugene has to surround unincorporated sections with incorporated sections to force incorporation. Not even declaring all public schools, public parks, and businesses, within the urban growth boundary incorporated, pulled that off. Some infilling, caused by large lots being split, and home built on, is incorporated (new, not rebuild, homes require property incorporation). The NE corner property off of NW Expressway and Irvington to W. Beacon to River Road subdivision will, unfortunately seal the forced incorporation deal. Unless the unincorporated properties vote to be incorporated. For reasons, not seeing the first happen in my lifetime. The second? Why? Gain is “free” library card for Eugene Library (can buy one now for $80) all for the cost of more than tripling our property taxes. Not kidding on the differences of city VS county property taxes. Only difference between sister’s and BIL’s residence is they are city, we aren’t. Our 2024 – 2025 property taxes, paid in Nov.: $2200, theirs: $7200 …

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        3. Yeah, I’ve seen that fence on visits. And I was there eight years back during the Track & Field Trials and it was, interestingly enough, hard to see the homeless on the major paths there.

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          1. More recently the Willamette Parkways (bike paths) have had undergrowth vegetation cleared out between paved paths and river, and paths and private property. Much harder for the homeless to camp back hidden in the vegetation. Not that the homeless care. They camp between tracks and fences in the right of ways, on sidewalks between streets and laws/raised yards/fences, sidewalks and businesses, even along the freeway and beltline right of ways, wherever they can park a tent/tarp. The ones invisible in the blackberries are harder to see. Most do not bother.

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  18. Please, if you invent a time machine go beat Gramsci black and blue for me, okay?

    Sounds like a lot of effort. Can I just shoot him instead?

    (Being cognizant of the possible unintended consequences of killing him, I would settle for kneecapping him)

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          1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 
            Came to the checkout at the 7-11 
            Marx was skint, but he had sense 
            Engels lent him the necessary pence

            The Clash: Magnificent 7 of their 3 record set Sandinista. So accurate about Marx. They managed to lose so much money that they had to make Rock the Casbah to make up the loss and keep from being dropped by their label. Typical Marxist

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          2. I change my superpower wish every so often, and one of the ones I play with is the gift of Elsewhere. You know, where you pick someone to go Elsewhere and they bampf there.

            Nowhere inimical to human life, beyond the baseline of “quite a lot of livable places on Earth are only that way because of humans”, but just imagine if you could bampf, say, Putin to some random place in Siberia. Or Winnie the Flu to rural China. Or even some U.S. politicians to parts of Appalachia.

            Heck, I’ll even let them come out near people. Why not. But see how they fare when not shielded from consequences.

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  19. From what I watched, many came because they were invited by those in the Biden Administration, religious organizations and their way paid by the likes of Soros. After arriving, they were giving free room-and-board, health insurance, gift cards and allowed to roam without restraint. It was a grand vacation, paid by taxpayers and orchestrated by people that should be hung. I would be pleased to see the worst involved prosecuted, and their punishment held at a public gallows.

    Send them back. Fill up busses, airplanes, boats and send them anywhere but here. Give them a case of drinking water, and few dozen MRE’s and a “goodbye”. They arrived here on their own volition, they can do the same wherever they go.

    And another thing: Just because your spawn arrived on U.S. soil doesn’t make them a citizen.

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    1. I’ve always felt that the anchor baby thing needs to be done away with. Either that, or we take the baby and tell the mother, ‘The baby can stay, you can’t. If you take the baby with you back home, then you need to sign this document that relinquishes all claims of citizenship on the baby’s behalf.’

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    2. Don’t trust the blaming of “religious organizations.”

      There’s a lot that are doing actually-locally-funded training refugees and teaching them how to American.

      I ran into a van full of them over in Perry, Iowa. Couldn’t figure out what on earth I’d done to scare a 20-something guy, very dark, into dang near running away from not-scary me.

      ….he was doing a “go in and buy three times on this list without getting in trouble” test at their Hy-Vee. I noticed him getting into the van with the logo for a local megachurch on it, and overheard him getting grilled about how he’d done, then praised. (and then I went and looked things up, too. ^.^ )

      So that’s who the grifters are skin-suiting; folks who are taking collections and actually giving cultural acclimation training to refugees.

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  20. Ya know, rather than malice, there’s always the possibility that it’s all just the money. To that end, word on the street — may be true, may be false — is that Pelosi dumped a boatload of NVDA as late as last week. if true, makes you go hmmm.

    Also, 15% of NVDA sales went through Singapore. Taken with the disclosure that DeepSeek disclosed that all their development was done on NVDA boxes that China is not supposed to have and the word on the street — again could be true, could be false — is that the China boxes went through Singapore makes you go hmmm.

    I can confirm that the $5MM number for development expense was made up by a Chinese Hedge fund with a large short on …. NVDA.

    all the boys are talking about nothing else. It’s been a day, let me tell you. I’m in the city and the buzz is everywhere. NVDA down another 4.1% at the close in an otherwise dull market.

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    1. The AI bubble has been softening for a while too, and Blackwell appears to be under-delivering on performance, around the same time it looks like the leadership of the AMD GPU division is finally pulling it’s head out of its neither regions.

      I would not coined nVidia among the dead yet, Jensen has an uncanny talent for vaulting to the next bubble as the current one pops, but their AI and GPU sales are definitely not going to grow on what they’ve been growing on for the past few years.

      My current guess is nVidia shows up with good Arm for Windows laptops and devours Intel’s part of the ultrabook market. But that’s not something that’s going to be on the average market analyst’s radar.

      Context: Intel is floundering, Microsoft internally believes that x86 is what ails Windows, and nVidia has been developing low power ARM APUs for a while. The Qualcom X Elite’s problems were mostly their GPU drivers where terrible. The ARM part actually worked pretty well.

      Between the work that they tried to sell to Nintendo, their 4nm laptop GPU line and highly mature driver stack, the work MS and Qualcom have already put into ARM for Windows, and the giant gap in the market left by Intel just dropping every single ball, nVidia has a real opportunity to break in, and potentially replace Intel.

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      1. Microshaft is wrong. MS-WIN-BLOWS is what ails MS-WIN-BLOWS.

        Don’t get me wrong, Intel CPUs suck too, but MS-WIN-BLOWS on ARM wouldn’t be any improvement. There’s a reason I run mostly Linux and Raspbian.

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        1. Oh, absolutely. But just because they are wrong, doesn’t mean they haven’t spent a ton of time, money and effort on making it easier for ARM CPUs to run Windows.

          From nVidia’s perspective, it’s still free money for them to compete in an area they don’t have other ways to access.

          I’m pretty sure they’d just as cheerfully buy an x86 license from Intel, and build x86 chips, and just pretty sure that no sane manager in Intel would sell them one.

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      2. the whole ai thing was overblown and this is a necessary correction. That said book of faces off 4% after hours on missed revenue, Microsoft off 5.5% on missed cloud revenue, TSLA off a tick on missed EPS but good FCF.

        the whole market is just too damned expensive, especially the “Magnificent 7.” What can’t go on, won’t. I have no idea if this is the start of a nice bear market or just a bit of noise, but i do know that I don’t have any of them, and I’m hedged out my a—. Never advice, just tellin what I see.

        i like Qualcomm and have for some time. NVDA a makes a good product and will be OK in the long run. they’re also selling embargoed chips to China and, if proven, they should pay a personal price. Prison preferably,

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        1. Yes. The thing with paradigm shifts is they always come with a bubble. The Internet didn’t die with the dot con craah. But a lot of the bad ideas went under in the correction. We will see the same here.

          I kind of expect in 20y LLMs will be embedded all across our lives and being used for things we can’t even imagine now, and we’ll look back on the ideas being run around with in the 2020’s with the same sort of ‘wtf were we thinking?’ that we look back on the dotcom crash with.

          I’m of a lot of different minds on nVidia’s selling of AI GPUs to China. They were definitely circumventing the sanctions, but with the Deepseek stuff, I wonder if the managed to build China’s gallows and get them to pay for the privilege.

          Discovery is definitely going to be lit there, though.

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  21. I’ll admit, my first thought was it seems outlandish. However there’s been a lot of stuff out there that I’ve been wrong on, and you’ve been right.

    Thinking further on it, it makes sense. It wouldn’t require any big conspiracy, any more than the fentynal flood did (which they’ve apparently completely gotten away with), and it is both an effective asymmetrical attack, and they may even be making money from the trafficking.

    Since the basic failure of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I’ve come around to agree with the position that their military threat is far more limited than we believe, and that the big dangers are from those lone genius attacks. This does feel like the sort of thing a lone genius true believer could cook up and kick off.

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  22.  have anyone who works for a charity food distribution tell you how many illegal immigrants they feed

    A very Nice Liberal Lady of my acquaintance– the sort that always gives from her own pocket first, even if she is inclined to get everyone else to pay as well– flipped hard on no documents/illegal doesn’t matter for food pantries because one of their higher ups made the bone headed choice to have her be the one that bounced around for a month or so, filling in the empty spots at their various outlets. (She not only donated a lot of money, and was one of their big time donation solicitors, she also manned the desk like it was a paying job. Seriously Nice Liberal.)

    She identified

    1) she recognized most of the people coming in to get their two week supply (I don’t actually remember the exact time, but it was a long period) of food,

    and,

    2) she didn’t recognize some of the folks that brought in kids she recognized.

    And she saw them at more than two of the locations, which were seriously far apart.

    At which point she talked to my mom, who explained that yes, that was one of the sources of selling-stuff-out-of-your-trunk type events, and told her about the trick my parish at the time had come up with, of working with other parishes to help refer people for more help like “hey let us call the veteran’s volunteer group”…which just so happened to also need your ID or recent mail with your address. Which got rid of the folks farming you for groceries to sell.

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  23. What will happen in the short term?, I see people moving back into small towns from the bigger towns to avoid the corruption of the illegals and their whores in the democrat party and Rino’s. And as always Democrats don’t like the reference, than change your corrupt party.

    Also, any Mayor,City Council or governor that won’t support ICE and the Federal Government in enforcing Federal Law is Guilty by definition of Sedition, arrest and start hanging them. Because if really convicted of sedition the sentence is DEATH!

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  24. I knew there was no talking on this issue with a leftist, when I was told that Native American’s were taken over by Colonists, so it was our duty to take the same route, and stand aside to let the invaders take over America from us.

    Seriously. That was his reasoning. That it was righteous retribution.

    How can you even talk to someone so gibbering insane? I mean, not even let the tribes on reservations take back the land, which at least correlates???

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      1. There’s a tribe north of me that has been training all of its youth in conservation projects—as in, all the big machine training. Mostly what they’re doing is wildfire repair, fixing old mining damage, taking out narrow culverts and replacing them with bridges and then “re-wilding” (in the good way) the streams. They also doing replanting.

        I applaud them, because that’s taking a good step to having not only gainful employment, but also rehabilitating areas that have been woefully mismanaged on the state and federal level so that they should be more resilient in the future.

        (They are also having better luck doing this because this isn’t the “desirable” area of California. Not quite Modoc County, but up that way…)

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  25. Re: Chinese AI — I remember years back, that China’s government made a propaganda video about how their army was trained on advanced simulation programs developed by Chinese knowhow!

    It was the free trial version of an Australian company’s training simulation “game”, from about ten or fifteen years before that time. My younger brother had worked on helping various US military units learn the non-free non-trial version, so it was kinda hard to miss.

    There’s also the infamous video from maybe five years back, of a Chinese AI program, that was just a chat avatar with a human person talking remotely through it. It was an old chat avatar, too.

    And so on. So yeah, it is probably ChatGPT with a slightly different “face.”

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  26. I can speak, a little, to the abuses the males are suffering. I work in occupational medicine and we see a lot of illegal laborers. It makes me sick some days. A lot of unnecessary injuries because the employers don’t care enough about these guys to provide/require they have the correct safety equipment for the jobs or have them work in reasonable conditions. And legally underage guys in hazardous jobs with company provided identities insisting they are in their 30s. They will also recycle the same identities over time, so the guy you did a physical on 6 months ago, may be a completely different human (although he’ll have a photo ID with the right picture) when he comes back 18 months later for an injury. And no, we can’t do anything but treat the patient no matter what we suspect. Just like every other medical facility.

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    1. the fact that employers can get away with employing people not elligible for employment speaks volumes, the employers who do this should be locked up, all of em and for a good long time.

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      1. Agreed. And as far as I am seeing, not only employ them, but actively participate in setting up their serial stolen identities. When we talk about minors being trafficked across the border, we tend (or I do) to initially think of the sex trade, but what I see are the ones being trafficked as labor instead into dangerous industries.

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        1. Who is going to pick the Blueberries?

          The same mechanical method that picked them last season.

          Think they will accept that answer?

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  27. Plane crash over Potomac near Reagn National. Early reports is it was a Canadian Regional jet operated by American Airlines. Looks like a midair collision between plane and a helicopter. And while the picture is blown up and grainy, it looks very much like the copter flew directly into the plane.

    No word yet on casualties, but it looks bad. And BTW, Twitter had it a good 10 minutes before Fox.

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    1. I”m not sure which the Left are more angry about – the “let’s think about limiting who we let in, mmmkay?” bit or the “Hold our noses and work with the icky populists because they are popular and might have a point” bit.

      IF, and it is a huge if, CDU were to actually agree to work with AfD, the numbers mean that the Greens would no longer be needed to form a parliamentary coalition and thus a government. Ouch. *beatifically evil kitty smirk*

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      1. The CDU evacuated it’s headquarters after a far-left mob formed outside to “demonstrate”. Also reports that at least one mp has his office occupied.

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          1. Probably, yes.

            The timing on this is quite curious. The German parliament is about to vote on a measure that will ban the AfD, strip any members in government of their position, and confiscate all of the party’s assets. Given the political environment up until this week, I thought the measure was likely to pass. But now I’m not so sure. My understanding is that the CDU and AfD can form a majority government out of just their two parties. If the CDU has truly chosen to work with AfD, then that means that it doesn’t need the support of anyone else. That will leave all of the other parties scrambling in a now-minority position. What might have prompted the sudden change? I’m hardly in a position to know for certain. But there was a big change in another very significant country just recently, and I’m forced to wonder if that had something to do with it…

            The literal fact that Trump exists, and is President of the United States, might have restored confidence that had gone missing in the CDU’s membership.

            Also, Musk has been highlighting AfD on X recently, which might have made many Germans more aware of the true nature of the party, instead of just what the press tells them.

            Alternatively, it could be that the CDU has become disgusted with its current set of allies, and has decided to gamble on the AfD (which is rapidly growing in size). Or it could be trying to extract concessions out of its current “allies” by forcing them to acknowledge that they are replaceable if they try and push CDU too hard. It’s important to note that while CDU joining AfD for this vote is an earthquake in German politics, the measure itself was non-binding. Ergo, there were no laws or practices that were changed as a result of the vote.

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  29. It was an American Eagle (actually PSA) flight from Wichita to DC colliding with a VH-60M “gold top” Blackhawk that’s used for VIP transport, flying out of somewhere in Anacostia back down the river to Fort Belvoir. Apparently the helo was on a training flight.

    The CRJ had been moved over from runway 1 to runway 33 at DCA, a fairly normal “circle to land” approach, so it was moving out toward the middle of the river to turn left to the runway. The Blackhawk was coming down the river and flying visually. The controller asked them if they saw the CRJ and the helo pilot said they did and they would “maintain visual separation.” The helo was on a separate frequency from civilian traffic so they could hear the CRJ but the CRJ couldn’t hear them and never got told to look out for them. It was all on the helo and they just flew right into the plane, maybe because he mistook another set of lights for the CRJ. 67 dead or missing (64 on plane, 3 in helo), no survivors expected.

    Two excellent Youtube channels for information on air incidents like this are “blancolirio,” run by Juan Browne, a 777 captain who has a real knack for untangling all the complexities of something like this; and “VASAviation,” a guy named “Victor” who digs up the ATC recordings and puts them together with radar recreations that do a great job visualizing what’s going on.

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  30. However, if you think the flow at the border is natural, you must believe in “global warming” 

    ya, glowBULL warming,

    thats why theres record low temps

    its the CO2 dontcha know

    never mind that every single plant on the planet needs CO2 to grow, and more to thrive and convert NPK

    they are the ones with the masks

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  31. It helps this is January.

    Was in the library earlier this week and a woman complained of how horribly cold it was. It was above freezing in a New England January.

    I’ve known legal foreigners and even natives from farther south to complain, but the illegals sometimes find it hard.

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