...(D-Westchester County outside New York City), parades himself as a pro-Israel Democratic Socialist, which is why — he claims — he had to leave the DSA. Really, he’s a “Yes, but” supporter, but he gets away with it among his Squad friends because he has to say things that will allow his Jewish voters to vote for him. He’s the one who pulled a fire alarm in the House of Representatives to delay/prevent a vote on something or other...
tabled a bill calling for reparations for slavery That old scam again? How trite.
The $14T would be $333,000 for each person - 12 percent of the US population What about those who are of mixed race — is their take prorated by the percent of their DNA that’s not pure Black?
He claimed the government can fund the huge figure like it did amid Covid crisis
Perhaps this POS can tell us stories about when he or his grifting constituents were slaves?
#6
The last American slaves were white servicemembers captured by the Japanese in the fall of the Philippines in 1942 and shipped throughout the empire to labor.
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Any reparations would end up in the hands of the cartels, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Lexus, Cadillac, Lincoln, bling sellers and McMansion sellers. All of which would then be re-possessed when the windfall dried up.
In effect, a wealth transfer, just not in the expected direction.
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They had reparations! Ever hear of '40 acres and a mule'? That was a program setup by Lincoln after the war to pay... reparations. It also included food and clothing to get them started.
The programs was ended by... wait for it... wait for it... (but you probably already guessed)... Democrats.
[NBC News, hat tip to Townhall] Now, bracing for Trump’s potential return, a loose-knit of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power, which could include pressuring the military to cater to his political needs. Planning another slow-motion insurrection, like 2016 and 2020? Those taking part in the effort told NBC News they are studying Trump’s past actions and 2024 policy positions so that they will be ready if he wins in November. That involves preparing to take legal action and send letters to Trump appointees spelling out consequences they’d face if they undermine constitutional norms. Comparing and contrasting to the current administration, are they?
"We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to," said Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law. Part of the aim is to identify like-minded organizations and create a coalition to challenge Trump from day one, those taking part in the discussions said. 2024 just keeps looking better and better. Sedition, anyone?
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#1 How about we send them all to Mars, then they can fuck it up to.
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^ All laid out in exquisite detail in The Marching Morons
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/18/2024 11:54 Comments ||
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Also see: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The "crucial government officials" are rocketed to a planet where they decide to make leaves from trees their currency amd then set out to defoliate the planet to control the value of their currency.
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[Breitbart] Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is demanding that President Joe Biden’s top agencies disclose how much taxpayer money has been siphoned from American veterans to illegal aliens who have recently arrived in the United States.
For years now, Biden’s top agencies have been accused of diverting Veterans Affairs (VA) services from veterans to provide healthcare services to recently arrived illegal aliens.
In a letter sent to VA Secretary Denis McDonough, Blackburn asked the agency to disclose the amount of taxpayer dollars that have been diverted from veterans to shore up resources for illegal aliens at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“How much funding has the VA allocated specifically for the medical care or veterans’ benefits (including claims processing) for illegal immigrants, including but not limited to those in ICE detention facilities or those who were deported?” Blackburn writes.
Blackburn noted reports that suggested in Fiscal Year 2022, taxpayers paid nearly $95 million in medical expenses for illegal aliens in federal custody that “should have been used to support American veterans who bravely served this nation,” Blackburn asserts:
Additionally, in Fiscal Year 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) healthcare arm budgeted more than $74 million for the VA’s contractor to assist with outside referrals and medical claims processing. [Emphasis added]
Yet at the same time, veterans and their families are rewarded for their sacrifice with months- and years-long waiting times for their claims to be processed. Currently, 1,048,765 veterans are waiting for staff to process their claims. The VA claims that the average wait time for a claim to be processed is about five months; yet the agency’s own data shows that its backlog has increased and is expected to grow this year. [Emphasis added]
The VA was created to support those who have served and protected this nation, and now senior VA officials have seemingly placed these veterans on a tier below the flood of illegal immigrants that are crossing our porous border. Since President Biden took office, more than 8.5 million illegal immigrants, including 1.7 million known “gotaways” have entered our country. Hundreds of individuals on the terror watchlist have been caught at our border, including 30 since the start of Fiscal Year 2024. This problem will continue to grow as Secretary Mayorkas continues to turn a willfully blind eye towards the crisis at our southern border. [Emphasis added]
It is unacceptable to see the VA redirect its resources away from those who defended this country in favor of those who flout its laws without remorse. As such, I ask that the VA immediately stop allocating its resources to the care and claims of illegal immigrants. [Emphasis added]
Blackburn similarly wants to know if VA officials “received a specific directive from the Biden administration to provide medical care or veterans’ benefits to illegal immigrants” as well as what federal laws and regulations allow for such a transfer of services from veterans to illegal aliens.
Last month, Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced the “No VA Resources for Illegal Aliens Act” to block the VA from using its resources to provide healthcare services to illegal aliens.
[ZH] Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, announced that it had obtained documents revealing that federal agencies have flagged financial transactions for financial institutions for people using politically sensitive words such as "MAGA" and Trump."
In a letter to Noah Bishoff - who was a former FinCEN Director (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) - and now an Anti Money Laundering (AML) officer at fintech company Plaid, Inc. Jordan described situations in which Americans buying bibles or shopping at sporting good stores might find their transactions flagged.
New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela's or Dick's Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans' private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI's respect for fundamental civil liberties. -Judiciary.house.gov
"The Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents indicating that following January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things, outline the 'typologies' of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement," reads the letter.
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We know the J6 guys are in a political gulag, we know they cheated to beat Trump, We know the white house is guiding the Jack Smiths of the world, We know the FBI has call all who voted for Trum "The" existential threat to our nation, we know the media is working for the CIA with plan Mockingbird, we know the impeachment over Russia was initiated by McCain and then finalized by Hillary, we know these are not conspiracies but truths. What we dont know is if American citizens will stand up to this, of will we take the page in history from the Jews in the 40 and let this happen to us without a fight.
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Some Jews fought in various ways, 49 Pan. Others, like in every other group, were sheep led to slaughter.
My teenaged mother while her false papers would not have stood up against the slightest scrutiny, ran messages for the Dutch Resistance. My grandfather made up false papers for them, using his skills as a licensed German lawyer, while my grandmother, who looked like the German farm girl she actually was (as well as being Jewish and a college graduate), was the public face of the university fraternity as their housekeeper/housemother, hiding the fact that the fraternity house was actually hiding thirteen Jews.
The story of Anne Frank is as much about the fact that Otto Frank organized a refuge for his family and others that survived most of the war as it is about young Anne’s observations as she grew up in the shadow of the Nazis.
In Eastern Europe the Jews had their own resistance groups, because many of the local ones rejected them. And while there were more Righteous Gentiles than will ever be known, in many cases if the Jews did not protect themselves, there was no one else willing to do so.
Finally, the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto, which stood up to the Nazis much longer than the rest of Poland, though they had considerably less to fight with, revolts in some of the concentration camps, and sabotage in others.
The story of the gentle, intellectual Jews, who like sheep accepted their slaughter, is only part of who we were and are. Warlike Israel did not spring, fully adult, into the world in 1947 out of nothing.
[Breitbart] Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is once again refusing to appear before the House Homeland Security Committee, this time alongside Angel Moms, who have lost their children to illegal alien crime as well as fentanyl poisoning.
On Wednesday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) revealed that Mayorkas had turned down the chance to appear before the committee at its January 18 hearing.
“The committee has given Secretary Mayorkas chance after chance to appear and explain his actions, decisions, and statements to us and to the American people,” Green said:
Over the past several months, he has tacitly rejected those offers, resorting instead to political games and delay. We would have liked to include his oral testimony in the official record of these historic proceedings. However, this Committee — part of a co-equal branch of government — will not accept indefinite delays. [Emphasis added]
Our request for written testimony from Secretary Mayorkas is his last chance to show some semblance of respect for the people’s representatives and our constitutional oversight duties. The American people are begging for Congress to act, and we will heed that call. Congressional oversight will continue, with or without Secretary Mayorkas’s cooperation. [Emphasis added]
The hearing, titled “Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis,” will include testimony from Angel Mom Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered and then raped in July 2022, allegedly by an illegal alien MS-13 Gang member who was released into the United States as an unaccompanied alien child (UAC).
“The government could have placed a phone call to authorities in El Salvador and found out that he was a gang member, but they didn’t. If we had stricter border policies, my daughter would still be alive today,” Nobles told the House Judiciary Committee in 2023.
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.
Those taking part in the effort told NBC News they are studying Trump’s past actions and 2024 policy positions so that they will be ready if he wins in November. That involves preparing to take legal action and send letters to Trump appointees spelling out consequences they’d face if they undermine constitutional norms.
