[FoxNews] Discovery highlights widespread abuse of visitor visas and Visa Waiver Program by foreign workers
When ICE visited a new battery plant run by the Korean firm Hyundai last week, they went to find several aliens working there illegally – from Latin America. They were probably not expecting to roll up hundreds of illegal South Korean workers at the same time.
This came as a surprise to the national media and even some immigration experts. But the problems underlying ICE’s haul of illegal Korean labor are no secret.
First, the B visitor’s visa. The B-1 is for business trips, the B-2 is for personal reasons like tourism or visiting relatives. There are so many different things an alien can do on a B that they are normally issued as one B1/B2 visa to keep it simple.
The B visa only allows a foreigner to apply for entry to the U.S. at an air or land port. There, Customs and Border Protection lets them in for a certain period. Most often, that is six months.
Although an alien can’t work full-time on a B visa for an extended period, they are permitted to have meetings, repair or install complex, proprietary machinery, and carry out specialist training for American workers. So, some of the Koreans could have applied for B visas and have come to Georgia to work on machinery or train Americans to do it. So far, so legal.
But Koreans are also allowed to enter the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) for up to 90 days for business or pleasure. Under the VWP, they are expressly not allowed to work. Still, visitors from many countries have abused the VWP, for example Israeli youth coming on VWP and selling Dead Sea salts in shopping malls for the summer, or Chileans coming to commit organized burglary.
It seems that some of the Koreans came under the VWP and were working illegally. Most probably, they were working for subcontractors that Hyundai hired for labor. Hyundai may have done so in good faith, assuming that the subcontractors were doing due diligence. But using subcontractors to avoid scrutiny and bring in cheap labor is a common tactic among big and small American and foreign companies.
Then there is the H-1B. Despite their statutory purpose, and several attempts to fix loopholes, H-1Bs have been abused to replace American workers and as a source of cheap labor for a generation. U.S. companies from Alphabet to Walmart employ hundreds of thousands of H-1B foreign workers, sometimes directly but often through outsourcing companies like Cognizant, HCL or Tata Consultancy Services. Most of the big ones are based in India or owned by Indians, and India is the source of nearly all their workers.
In addition to the H-1B, companies also misuse the L visa, which is for intra-company transfers. In theory, this should be for a foreign company, like Volvo or Toshiba, to bring in an executive for a few years to work in their U.S. branch then go home. However, the L has been abused by mom-and-pop motels and restaurants to bring in relatives, and as a back door when the H-1B annual numerical caps are reached.
When I was issuing visas in India 25 years ago, large Indian out-sourcing/consultancy firms would hire young people out of college. After the minimum 12 months that they had to work for the company before being eligible for an L visa, they would send them to work for their U.S. subsidiary. They would farm them out as "consultants" to American companies, taking a fat cut.
Apart from the visa fraud and abuse, the Hyundai debacle sheds light on one other question: if Hyundai wants to hire Americans, can they? In the skilled technical areas, yes – there are plenty of U.S. STEM graduates not working in that field, and unemployment for recent graduates is twice that of older workers. But factories need skilled blue-collar labor too. In Georgia, only half of eighth graders scored "at or above basic" and only a quarter "at or above proficient" in math.
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[REGNUM] The publication Moskvich Mag, which positions itself as a “magazine about life in Moscow and beyond,” decided to dilute reviews of the best bistros and “selections of things a cyclist cannot do without” with an article criticizing migration policy. As a pretext, the Moscow magazine chose the decision made back in July by the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, to ban foreigners working with licenses from driving taxis until the end of 2025.
According to the authors' logic, such restrictions and prohibitions will have a detrimental effect on the availability and cost of familiar services. To confirm this opinion, the publication cites a survey of its own readers. It turns out that "at least half" of them consider the decision of the St. Petersburg authorities to be erroneous.
To confirm the thesis that “a ban on migrants with patents inevitably leads to a shortage of taxi personnel” (and a more general conclusion – “any restrictions on the work of foreigners are harmful”), experts were also brought in.
The situation with St. Petersburg taxis was commented on by associate professor of the Yekaterinburg Ural Federal University (UrFU), economist Elena Bedrina. However, she gave not so much an economic as a sociological and political commentary.
"Today, the number of migrants in Russia has already sharply decreased due to the restrictions imposed," Bedrina believes. She says that the introduction of restrictions on foreign labor is definitely harmful, because "any reduction in economic activity means lost tax revenues, and therefore a reduction in funding for the social sphere."
A common opinon among economists, I understand, who don’t think in terms of the cost to the native population of fewer work opportunities, especially first-rung-of-the-ladder jobs that start the climb to economic independence.
The authors of the text add that, according to estimates by unnamed economists, "based on open data," with the new restrictions, the St. Petersburg budget is threatened with a loss of about 2.5 billion rubles a year. And this is only due to the fact that taxis and deliveries will no longer use foreign labor.
Budget revenues from migrants holding patents are “essentially a tax on income for migrants”; if there are no migrant workers behind the wheel, there will be less budget revenue, financier Yana Savenkova confirms the author’s theses.
Another invited speaker, the head of the National Taxi Union Natalia Lozinskaya, also talks about the "alarming trend" and the restriction of workers' rights. She emphasizes that migrants with patents are legal participants in the labor market, who have gone through all the registration procedures, have documents and are under constant control.
Lozinskaya believes that if migrant "cab drivers" currently work in the legal field (“taxi drivers have a traffic monitoring system, there is operational communication that ensures the transparency of their activities"), then with the introduction of restrictions they will go "into the shadows", and carriers will face a shortage of personnel. And this, they say, will hit first and foremost vulnerable Petersburgers, because taxis are needed by passengers with limited mobility.
From the speakers’ discussions and comments, a general conclusion can be drawn: the unpleasant consequences of the emergence of “cities without migrants” may be greater than the expected benefits.
At first glance, all this apologetics for importing labor from neighboring countries may seem plausible. But upon closer examination, the claims turn out to be disingenuous.
Firstly, the thesis that the number of migrant workers in Russia is continuously decreasing due to restrictions is not confirmed. The publication states that in 2025, about 3–3.5 million migrant workers will work in Russia – almost half as many as in 2013–2014.
But this is not true. About 3.5 million people is the number of workers from abroad who have obtained work permits. In total, there are officially 6 to 7 million foreign citizens in the country, to which illegal migrants must be added. There is no precipitous decline. For comparison, five years ago, in 2020, according to the State Information System of Migration Registration, 5.8 million foreign citizens arrived in Russia in 2020. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs as of September 2021, there were about 7 million foreigners in the country.
It turns out that the authors of the article in the “magazine about life in Moscow and beyond” quite deliberately understate the number of migrants in the country in order to explain the crisis in the labor market by a shortage of foreign specialists.
Secondly, it is a clear stretch that the registration of a work permit by migrants is presented as a source of important tax revenues, without which the budget of St. Petersburg would be depleted. It is strange that the economists involved did not explain that the permit is an advance payment on personal income tax (PIT), which is calculated based on the average salary. That is, it is not some kind of additional income “in addition” to the PIT, but part of the tax paid.
In practice, a "patent" migrant who earns, for example, 100 thousand per month, pays 1.5 thousand rubles. At the same time, his employer does not pay 30% personal income tax (which in ordinary, non-"patent" cases, must be paid for an employee who is a non-resident of Russia).
Patent holders are “charged” as Russian citizens, but at the same time the employer may not pay social contributions for “their” foreigners.
It is clear that such a tax regime is more than beneficial to companies and provokes them to give preference to migrants when hiring. And the comment of the head of the National Taxi Union Natalia Lozinskaya, who is more than concerned about the decision of Governor Beglov, is quite understandable here.
Thirdly, the sum of 2.5 billion rubles, which, according to the authors, the Northern capital will lose due to the restrictions introduced, looks terrifying only by the standards of an individual citizen.
Another picture emerges if we look at the data on the St. Petersburg budget: for this year it is 1.5 trillion rubles. Thus, the expected loss is comparable to fractions of a percent of the total volume.
At the same time, according to the estimate of Sergei Anureyev, a professor at the Department of Public Finance at the Financial University under the Government and Doctor of Economics, all of Russia loses up to 3 trillion rubles (two budgets of St. Petersburg) every year due to the fact that migrants and their employers underpay taxes to the budgets. From 32 billion to 40 billion dollars go abroad every year. The leakage is not surprising, since, as Professor Anureyev points out, up to two-thirds of foreign workers work "in the shadows."
Finally, the "transparency" and controllability of the work of carriers and taxi aggregators - which the head of the National Taxi Union insists on - is greatly exaggerated. Practice shows that many aggregators do not use a driver verification system before each trip. As a result, the person who is not registered in the aforementioned control system may get behind the wheel. Among the "cab drivers" there may be an illegal one, especially if we are talking about a one-day taxi company (which, in addition, evade taxes).
A ban on allowing migrants to drive will make business safer and, indeed, more transparent – something that lobbyists for the import of cheap labor are, of course, “overlooking.”
Thus, Moskvich Mag, a publication aimed at a liberal urban public, pushes the reader to the conclusion that there is a strong demand in society for a constant import of migrants, since only this can provide a sufficient level of comfort and service.
In fact, Russians express a different opinion. Thus, the majority (80%) of participants in a survey conducted in October 2024 by the job search service hh.ru said that they consider the number of labor migrants excessive.
From 2023 to 2024, the share of those dissatisfied with the migration situation increased by 21 percentage points. Most often, we note, respondents were dissatisfied with the presence of a large number of foreigners in the transport and logistics sector (92%).
The real demand of society is to bring order to the migration sphere and solve the problems arising in connection with the large influx of foreigners - from taxes not reaching the budget to excessive burden on "social services". Not to mention the gray zone in which a huge number of "guests" are located and work. And the authorities are responding to this public demand.
[FOXNEWS] Iran's proxy war on Jews is an all-out attack on Western civilization. Australia gets it
In late August, the government of Australia announced it had hard evidence that the Islamic Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) was responsible for domestic antisemitic incidents after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, and the Iranian ambassador would be expelled — the first such expulsion since World War II.
On the surface, this makes no sense. If, as the official legacy media narrative contends, Oct. 7 was an outburst by some desperate Palestinians radicalized by the Israeli occupation of their land, why would the Iranian regime be trying to foment violence against Jews some 7,600 miles away?
The grim answer is that Oct. 7 was only a symptom of the antisemitism that has been growing for some 20 years. It simply revealed itself after the attacks.
The fundamental bigotry that is Jew-hatred has not significantly changed over the millennia, but this manifestation wears a different face. The antisemitism of the Spanish Inquisition was religious; that of the Third Reich, racial. This version is civilizational.
The goal of modern antisemitism is to eradicate Western civilization, as we understand it, by eradicating Jews. Recognition that this threat extends far beyond the borders of modern Israel is why The Heritage Foundation launched Project Esther last year — to combat antisemitism here in America, now in support of the robust initiatives of President Donald Trump and his administration.
Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has been the primary force behind this effort. Its stated objective is the elimination of Israel (the little Satan) followed by the United States (the great Satan). In this world view, both Satans represent an insufferable blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... that cannot be accommodated or tolerated, but must be destroyed.
From the emergence of their regional proxies Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and Hezbollah in the 1980s, to their deployment to plot terrorist attacks from Gazoo to Beirut to Buenos Aires, to the clandestine development of a nuclear program to provide them with ever more powerful weapons, Tehran has poured precious resources into projects that only exist to target Israel and the United States — as well as partners and allies such as Australia.
No degree of sympathy for the Paleostinians can offset this reality. Many in America and even Israel, not to mention Australia, consider themselves strong supporters of the Paleostinian cause. But this jihad isn't actually about the Paleostinians. Their adherents are only "useful idiots" in the real battle to destroy the civilization that inspired all three countries.
For months, demonstrations in support of the Paleostinian cause have become a fixture in Australian and American cities and campuses,
…and Europe and Britain and all over the world…
despite both countries having small Moslem populations located thousands of miles from the Middle East. Their apologists insist they are "mostly peaceful" political protests expressing opposition to the Netanyahu government in Israel.
The supposed nobility of this cause justifies in their minds any aberrational violence —from Oct. 7 to attacks on Jewish students in New York City, to Jews set on fire in Boulder, Colorado, to the destruction of a kosher food company in Sydney, to the arson attack on Melbourne's oldest synagogue while worshipers were inside.
None of these incidents had anything to do with Israel or the war in Gaza, but rather with targeting Jews wherever they might be found, regardless of their nationality. And now the Australian government admits this activity is not spontaneous but coordinated by the Iranian military, just as the Oct. 7 attacks were.
Presumably Canberra did not act lightly, any more than the Biden administration did when it admitted in July 2024 that Iranians had been funding protests on American campuses. Both governments bent over backward to create a moral equivalency between Israel and the Paleostinians after Oct. 7, primarily by insisting Israel exercise restraint and take extraordinary measures to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Rather than treating Hamas as a proxy of a common enemy, they tried to elevate the terrorist group into a negotiating partner for hostage releases.
In early August, tens of thousands of Australians poured across the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the so-called "March for Humanity" demanding the end to the war in Gaza and the creation of a Paleostinian state. Just a few days later, the Australian government announced its intent to recognize this state at the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... General Assembly in September.
But all this appeasement turned out to be in vain, because — again — the Paleostinians are not the point and never were. They are an Iranian vehicle to gain traction in the strongholds of the West — vibrant democracies such as America, Australia and Israel — and destroy them from within by encouraging the ancient hatred that is antisemitism.
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[Daily Signal] Charlie Kirk shaped modern conservatism and reached youth in ways no one else could—and that’s precisely what made him so dangerous to the Left.
The trailblazing 31-year-old activist and commentator who founded Turning Point USA was regularly smeared as a "fascist," a "Nazi," and a "threat to democracy" by the Left. It was only a matter of time until a crazed person put those words into action. On today’s episode of "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words," Hanson pays tribute to Kirk and explains how his death is more than just a personal loss; it signals a dangerous new era where political violence is becoming normalized.
" He connected with people. He had a podcast. He was an extemporaneous speaker. He could ad lib. He wrote columns. He was fearless. He was—he registered voters. He might have been more responsible for winning key states than any other political activists in the 2024 election. I don't think anybody in our generation—I'm speaking my generation—could have done what he did.
" We are legitimizing political violence. If you call someone day after day after day, "white, white, white, white"; "racist, racist, racist"; "fascist, fascist, fascist"; "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi"—we hear that from Joy Reid. We see it on "The View." We see it on MSNBC. Even just seconds after Charlie died, we had Matthew Dowd go on and basically said that he got what he deserved because he was an extremist, etc., and he and you "live by the sword, die by the sword" sort of argument he used."
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I've seen all manner of online posts calling Charlie Kirk every bad name the left has to offer, but I haven't seen a post saying: "Rebut Charlie Kirk's Arguments".
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Since Erika spoke, TPUSA has 1800 chapter requests at the college and high school level. That’s what happened in the first several centuries to the Christian church. Martyrdom tends to metastasize movements.
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OK I am sticking my neck out here...
But I am seeing a lot of technical issues being pointed out by SME's about the shooting, the media video and the provided narrative.
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[REGNUM] Until September 10, many people had not thought about what it was like to bleed to death after a bullet wound to the neck. Some did not even know that a person has two carotid arteries - left and right.
Some doctors even argued: is it really possible to take the victim to the hospital in such a situation? And if it is possible - not only to take him, but also to save him - won't the person remain disabled?
The death of one of the most popular political influencers in the United States, Charlie Kirk, has given rise to such anatomical thoughts in a very predictable way.
Exactly the same thing was discussed after the assassination of the 35th US President John Kennedy. In 1963, many journalists wrote that his wife Jackie's pink suit was not only covered in blood, but also smeared with pieces of brain.
It sounds somewhat disgusting, but when a murder of this kind occurs - and in a country like the United States - it tears the information field into before and after, endows the murdered with an aura of being chosen, and national history gets a new chapter, followed by a locomotive of new urban myths, gossip and a new chapter of the "political Gospel".
The latter will have everything from frightening naturalism to the prediction of an upcoming war with aliens.
SYNOPSIS OF THE LEGEND
Charlie Kirk was shot during a public event on the campus of Utah Valley University. The incident caused panic, with numerous students and guests of the event running away and police rushing to cordon off the campus.
At the same time, the first suspect was captured - an elderly man, Michael Mallinson, a member of the Utah branch of the Democratic Party. However, after the first interrogation, he was released.
Several more people were subsequently detained, but all turned out to be innocent.
Along the way, and somehow by the way, it turned out that at the event, in which Charlie Kirk, who had repeatedly received threats, participated, sufficient security measures were not taken: entrance tickets were not checked, there was practically no security, no one checked bags, no one went through metal detectors.
No one scouted out rooftop perches and made sure they could not be accessed. Apparently they took no precautions whatsoever.
A day after the murder, the FBI reported that it had found the weapon believed to have been used to shoot Charlie Kirk - a high-powered bolt-action rifle.
At the same time, new photos of a potential suspect, who was finally captured by surveillance cameras, surfaced. He turned out to be a fairly young and thin man in sunglasses and a baseball cap, dressed in a dark sweatshirt.
Speculation immediately spread that the perpetrator was a professional shooter and was aiming at the victim either from the roof of one of the campuses or from another point approximately two hundred meters from the target.
True, there were those who doubted the professionalism of the sniper, given that Kirk was shot in the neck. According to some people, professionals aim for the head or the heart.
NEW ICONIC IMAGE
When you read Charlie Kirk's biography, you are somewhat perplexed as to why he didn't have not just regular guards, but a whole legion of them.
By the age of 31, Kirk had achieved considerable heights - and this despite the lack of the "right" background, the "right" degree, and the "right" connections at the beginning of his career.
He became involved in politics while still in high school, and later continued to oversee youth projects for the Republican Party and spread conservative ideas among young Americans.
It worked out great. Especially on social media — over 7 million followers on Instagram*, about 4 million on YouTube, over 5 million on Facebook*, and over 6 million on TikTok.
Kirk hosted podcasts, wrote books, debated, coordinated religious fellowships in schools and colleges, and talked, talked, talked. Mostly with young people, both left and right, constantly challenging the latter to public debates.
It is not surprising that he had many enemies.
Just look at the scandal that ensued after he asked a transgender person** in the face: “Who is a woman? ”
A fair question, for those claiming to have crossed categories.
And considering that Kirk consistently and vividly promoted all the main theses of the Republican Party - against sexual minorities, illegal immigration, black crime, support for Ukraine and official Kyiv - he had not just many enemies, but a lot of them. True, mainly within the English-speaking community.
And Kirk looks like he came straight out of a Conservative Party brochure. Traditionally attractive, white, with a beautiful young blonde wife and two children, a boy and a girl.
In fact, he was a living symbol of the MAGA movement, a synonym for it. And the murder of the Republican Party's "living mascot" among young people is quite rightly called a "personal insult" to the White House.
"THE NEW GEORGE FLOYD"
One of Kirk's last speeches on social media was dedicated to the murder of Irina Zarutskaya, a refugee from Ukraine who was stabbed to death several days ago in North Carolina by a black migrant of unknown origin.
Irina did not enter into any conflict, she was simply the only white person in the carriage and sat with her nose buried in her phone, not paying attention to the situation around her. The killer attacked from behind and stabbed her in the neck.
Kirk and other Republican activists immediately condemned the crime and began to mold Zarutskaya into a “new George Floyd.” Representatives of the scandalous BLM movement immediately responded to this, stating that such an aggressive reaction gave all members of the movement the right to violence.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the top leadership and leading public figures of the Democratic Party saved face. They expressed condolences and condemned all forms of political violence.
However, in the liberal media the situation was different.
The anchors allowed themselves to smile while talking about the murder, articles called Charlie Kirk a "controversial figure," and some even claimed that he had simply been accidentally shot by one of his overly cheerful Republican fans.
Even during the moment of silence in Congress, individual Democrats shouted out objections. And on social media, a portal to hell opened up: representatives of various leftist movements expressed joy at the murder and collected likes.
Already at this stage, Republican activists launched a counterattack. They declared that they would continue their public activities and that conservatives were being killed "for believing in Jesus Christ."
Social media has seen descriptions such as “The Democratic Party is the party of murderers,” and Kirk himself has been called “the new George Floyd.”
And when one of the media outlets reported that the killer's cartridges allegedly featured slogans of representatives of the trans community*, the visor of some Republicans fell completely.
"LEFTIST WITH A RIFLE"
A bullet in the neck, a knife in the neck… Too many fatal blows to the neck in the last few days in the public space. And not only in the American one. Both murders have stirred public opinion in Russia as well.
On September 11, when publications about Kirk's murder were spreading across Russian social networks, Orthodox Christians were celebrating the day of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Some authors from the Russian-language segment of social networks added this reference to the nascent myth about Charlie Kirk. Although in the US this day is celebrated at the end of August, and Americans did not even have such associations.
Nope. I wasn’t aware it was on the Christian calendar.
The public murder of Charlie Kirk is being overly attributed to supporters of the Democratic Party, although initially it all looks like a contract killing, albeit with a personal message. And this message is addressed first and foremost to Donald Trump, whose loyal supporter Kirk was.
Perhaps the killer was trying to say something? To take revenge? To threaten? And to hint that the very existence of the ideology promoted by Trump’s structures is under threat?
Yes, that's pretty much how it looks. However, it is in the interests of the same Trump to write it all off as the mental instability of another "leftist with a rifle." As the crime chronicle shows, no one in the US is surprised by such criminals anymore.
And the true motives of what happened will be sorted out behind the scenes, so that no one's important head will fall. And Kirk... Well, that's the job of a symbol - to become a victim of someone else's interests at the right moment.
And no, this story will not break America's long-suffering backbone. But a cut has already appeared on the neck.
[Federalist] No NFL team in the last 50 years has had a perfect season, but this is Trump’s record in the U.S. Supreme Court: 18-0. His splendid solicitor general, John Sauer, has racked up 18 wins this year by staying lower court decisions against Trump and thereby allowing the president to exercise the full "executive power" granted by Article II of the Constitution.
These victories have been on emergency applications to the Supreme Court, where it is difficult to obtain the justices’ attention and even more challenging to prevail. Also called the "shadow docket," these wins by Trump have come quickly, without oral argument, often by a 6-3 or greater margin.
Seven of these wins have been on deporting illegal aliens, five on firing unnecessary federal workers, four on terminating wasteful federal spending, one on ending transgender personnel in the military, and one on stopping the epidemic of nationwide injunctions by district court judges.
On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay to Trump, as requested by Sauer, of a D.C. Circuit ruling that had blocked Trump from removing a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Despite being on the court’s traditional summer vacation until it returns later this month, Roberts granted Trump’s request on the second business day after it was filed.
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The judges are the Mueller investigation for the second term. It is a harassing tactic. What we will begin to see is more and more of the cases being dropped before the Supreme Court has a chance to rule on them. The more cases that actually generate Supreme Court rulings, the more bricks are added to the wall against judicial activism. Their strategy is self-defeating. They are accelerating the total number of Clarence Thomas rulings before he retires.
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Make district seats like the minor leagues for sports by putting term limits on them.
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If you win 18-0 you're doing an excellent job of picking your battles and prepping the battlefield. And a lot of people deserve credit for that, from the folks who propose the executive orders to the folks who defend them. And of course the guy who signs them.
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[ColonelCassad] The democratic establishment unanimously condemns political terror. However, there is a different schedule in social networks: on the occasion of the murder of Kirk, there are public celebrations of Trump's opponents, and you should not think that this is worthless nonsense.
The point is that with appeals not to rock the boat, democratic leaders push away the most passionate part of their voters. The Republican Party has already passed through this crisis, as a result of which right-wing anti-globalist conservatives seized control of it, which is a natural revolution for America.
They were captivated not because all the voters of the elephants in one rush signed up as Trumpists, but because the neocons, the former republican ideologues, were completely bankrupt in their politics. The ordinary voter naturally gravitated to new ideas, even those promoted by charismatic new leaders.
The same processes are going on with the Democrats. All these Clintons, Bidens, Obamas and others suffered a crushing defeat, they will not be able to enter this river for the third time. No matter how much Trump mows, the only chance for Democrats to fight him is to move to the left.
To move to the left is to become radicalized. That is, any politician who wants to become the leader of the Democrats and get a chance for the presidential nomination will have to openly divide citizens into his own and those who are not. Because when political differences are so strong, no one will be able, as before, to act as president of all Americans.
To be a leader for one's own means, in one way or another, to stand in solidarity with the bacchanalia that has now broken out in social networks in connection with Kirk's murder (our readers kindly collect this trash in the comments to the previous post and which even breaks into the federal media.
This vocal minority can give the Democratic Party a new ideological base: leftist, populist, almost socialist, involved in countering the Trumpists. The social base will be those dissatisfied with Trump's rule: from the impoverished middle class to those affected by the taxes of transnational corporations.
Thus, the same thing can happen on the left wing, as in the Republicans: the remnants of the old establishment will have to swear allegiance to new, radical leaders, and traditional moderate Democratic voters will follow them in exactly the same way as Republican voters followed Trump.The ideological split will be exacerbated geographically: not only between red and blue states, but also between large, almost universally democratic megacities and the red hinterland.
So, the turning point is the change of elites in the democratic party. When and if this happens, the old, familiar America will no longer exist. When and if this happens, a question from the famous film "What exactly are you Americans?" will become a reality.
Now, by the way, Kirk's funeral will be an important event. In those days, the victims of the regime were buried with a large gathering of masses, this was often accompanied by riots and necessarily slogans with far-reaching political consequences.
The peculiarity of the moment is that the Maga-Trumpists still feel in the minority, the general place among them is: the deepstate and the rotten swamp have entrenched themselves in power and do not allow us to save America.
Let's see if Kirk's murder will have the same effect as the coffers of Sacco and Vanzetta. Considering the media resource of Trump and his associates, if they start to push — it may flare up.
But it is necessary to remember that Trump always gives back, so it is not excluded that he will not ride the wave, but will once again go solo. In this case, the split and radicalization in the USA will still continue, but without a guiding hand from the White House.
Why is this important? Well, the showdowns of the old American elites and Trumpists directly affect the participation of the United States in Ukrainian affairs. The brighter their flames will be there, the less they will care about us.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] Discovery highlights widespread abuse of visitor visas and Visa Waiver Program by foreign workers
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
