Back in February, I reported to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. MICHELLE MALKIN
AS THE U.S. CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE HANDS OUT BRIBES TO DEMS FOR OPEN BORDERS: Remember these laid-off
workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to
lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant
DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical
professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts.
MICHELLE MALKIN
Don't Be a Victim of Democrat Abuse and Voter Endangerment
Biden poked his head out of the basement Monday but saw his shadow and quickly retreated back into hiding. Bad news, America: six more weeks of riots and looting.
Democrats have a problem. It turns out they can't set cities on fire, destroy local businesses, and unleash rampant violence upon their residents and call it an election strategy. They can accurately call it domestic terrorism or anti-government insurrection, but those bumper stickers don't sell well when every car parked in Democrat zones of lawlessness from New York City to Portland has already been ransacked and torched.
What to do? Blame the whole Democrat operation on President Trump, of course. Somehow, the guy who has been standing up to the mob for four years is secretly leading the mob, too. Joe Biden's campaign may be bailing out the army of Marxist brownshirts toppling statues in city squares and beating people in the streets, and Soros-installed faux prosecutors may be setting criminals free to commit new and worse crimes, but it's the law-and-order candidate in the White House who is actually to blame.
I know it's a bedrock principle of American politics that Democrats achieve success by simply accusing their Republican opponents of whatever crimes or political transgressions they, themselves, are instigating, but this about-face takes the cake! After every Democrat fear merchant has spent months bending the knee in support of and allegiance to the enemy occupying forces taking over American towns, they now want us to forget their ties to the Marxist mobs entirely? That would be like asking Americans to vote for a candidate who is so well known to be suffering from dementia that...wait, scratch that simile.
Democrats do get away with murder, don't they?
This last Saturday, an Antifa operative walked up behind a Trump-supporter in Portland and shot him dead. There was no heat-of-the-moment fight leading to the murder. It was a cold-blooded political assassination, and Antifa immediately cheered the result and began fundraising for bulletproof vests while the victim still lay on the street. Both Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and "Joke" Biden immediately blamed President Trump, while giving Antifa and their murderous allies another pass. It was murder most foul, and Democrats took sides with the murderer. Only in Biden's America can a person be killed for his political views and immediately be blamed by the national press and Democrats before even being carried away. The lives of Trump-supporters just don't matter.
This type of Democrat political violence should have been highlighted and eradicated back in 2017, when a Bernie Sanders–supporter and frequent emailer of Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois attempted to carry out a mass political assassination that could easily have ended with two dozen dead Republican congressmen. That attack nearly changed the balance of power in Washington and the course of national history, but still Jeff Flake and other apologists found it easier to blame President Trump rather than call out the relentless Democrat campaign to tar his presidency as illegitimate and a national threat. Because the press and the Democrats ignored the violence breathing life into their political party, they implicitly sanctioned all the acts of violence that have continued to the current day. If Antifa and BLM someday achieve what the 2017 shooter did not, nobody in America will be surprised because nobody in America has seen any pushback against the Democratic Party's sympathies for acts of domestic terror.
There is no reason for Americans to accept Democrat terror as an inevitable "new normal," though.
If you have been surviving in a pocket of America where Democrats have forced you into unemployment over a virus that is proving less lethal by the day, robbed your kids of an education while using teachers' unions as political weapons, turned your elderly parents' nursing home into a death camp for disease transmission, fire-bombed your favorite restaurant or neighborhood drugstore because you've been deemed insufficiently "woke" and irredeemably racist, and now deprived you of any sports or entertainment shows that don't first take a moment to tell you how awful and evil you are, then you are a victim of Democrat abuse and voter endangerment.
American cities didn't kill themselves, after all. Democrats did that. All this mayhem and violence in the streets — the Democrats built that, too.
Democrats have had an absolute monopoly on the way most American cities are governed for fifty to a hundred years. They run those cities' police departments. They control the national news media housed in those cities. They sit on the boards of all the "woke" corporations that fuel their wealth. They've taken over the sports leagues and replaced entertainment with sermons from the perpetually aggrieved. They have the backing of the Chamber of Commerce, an organization that prefers Wall Street to Main Street and cashing checks from Chinese communists to aiding American workers. And the Democrats are Hollywood.
If there is "institutional racism" lurking in the heart of big "blue" cities, by golly it is wholly owned and operated by the Democratic Party. And if LeBron James thinks the "system" is still rigged against him, then he needs to wake up to who's doing the rigging. Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti is a Democrat. Kenosha mayor John Antaramian is a Democrat. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is a Democrat. New York mayor Bill de Blasio is a Democrat. Maybe it's time for athletes who insist that "black lives matter" to recognize that seeking help from the party that harms them will only get them more of the same.
For too many years, Democrats have destroyed American cities and gotten away with it. They've encouraged rioting and looting on the streets and called it "justice." They've looked the other way while police officers and Republicans are attacked and murdered, and their national politicians pause but a second before once again engaging in the kind of rhetoric that only provides legitimacy to future violence. If the highest-ranking Democrat in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, can call Republicans "enemies of the state" without thinking the recent political assassination in Portland is the natural result, she is mentally unfit to serve. If she and other national Democrats are well aware of the violence they help seed, then they aren't representing a political party anymore. They're just part of the revolutionary mob. Either way, it's time for all of them to go.
Back in February, I reported
to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50
stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other
high-skilled industries. MICHELLE MALKIN
AS THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HANDS OUT BRIBES TO DEMS FOR OPEN BORDERS: Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts. MICHELLE MALKIN
Michelle Malkin: Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing
to Celebrate
American
workers across the wage scale are hurting. Small-business owners across the
country are fighting for their survival. Young people face more uncertainty
than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table.
As
we head into Labor Day weekend, I would like to offer a friendly reminder from
the "America First" right to the Beltway Republican message machine
and the Trump campaign's social media mavens: Now is not the time to be
cheerleading for pandemic profiteers, tech billionaires, and "woke
capital" globalists who are addicted to cheap foreign labor and abhor
American sovereignty. According to one analysis by Oxfam, 17 out of the top
25 most profitable U.S. corporations — including Microsoft, Johnson &
Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer and Visa — are projected to rake in $85 billion more
in 2020 than in previous years as upward of 40 million Americans are out of
work.
SwampCons
keep touting the "booming stock market" and "record"
S&P 500 highs. President Donald Trump himself bragged last week,
"NASDAQ has broken the record, I think 16 times already, during a
pandemic." He also warned Republican National Convention viewers that Joe
Biden is bad for our "retirement" nest eggs and "401(k)s." True
enough. But what about the tens of millions who've lost their jobs and those
who haven't even had the chance to start putting away any savings?
Moreover, why should
any "Make America Great Again" populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft,
Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, and Facebook? The founders, top executives, and
elitist employees of these Silicon Valley firms — the top five companies in the
NASDAQ index — hate America, sabotage U.S. workers through advocating for
mass migration, Black Lives Matter and Antifa anarchy, and they openly
disparage and discriminate against Trump-supporting customers.
In
ordinary times, I used to be one of those reliable voices touting the
"free market," "invisible hand," and miracles of American
capitalism over "socialism." But our current condition is not one of
"limited government conservatism" vs. "big government
socialism." As I've illustrated all summer long, we live in a bloody state
of anarchotyranny. The lawless reign while big business collectively allies
itself with the mob to reap profits at the expense of the law-abiding.
Back in February, I reported to you on the myth of the American
worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of
recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. Among the U.S.
corporations and institutions responsible for laying off, replacing,
offshoring, and outsourcing tens of thousands of American jobs:
Wayfair, TripAdvisor, LogMeIn, Inc., Zume Pizza, VMWare,
Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe, NortonLifeLock, AT&T, Macy's,
Walgreens, Uber, Lyft, UCSF Medical Center, Baptist Health, Sysco, WeWork,
American Family Insurance, Tennessee Valley Authority, Amway, UPS subsidiary
Coyote Logistics, Comcast, Lime, Bird, Unicorn, Getaround, Cerner, Oracle,
Samsung US, Edmunds.com, Textron Aviation, Morgan Stanley, Spirit AeroSystems,
Mozilla, UiPath, Plexus, Cisco, Ancestry.com, Clover Health, State Street
Corporation, Anthem, Transamerica, Verizon, MassMutual, Disney, Carnival,
Abbott Labs, EmblemHealth, Harley Davidson, Cargill, Eversource Energy, Best
Buy, Southern California Edison, and Qualcomm.
Six months later,
record layoffs are piling up.
—Last
week in California, VMWare, downtown San Jose's Hilton Hotel, Veritas,
Blackhawk Country Club, Gap, Chartwells, and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San
Jose all announced hundreds more Bay Area layoffs.
—Among
the companies confirming new COVID-related permanent layoffs reported by The Wall Street Journal: GM Resorts
International, Stanley Black & Decker Inc., and Coca-Cola.
—American
Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax
more than 53,000 workers unless they get new federal bailouts. Frontier
Airlines signaled nearly 400 layoffs in Colorado.
—Even as it crowed
about record quarterly sales, Salesforce handed out pink-slip notices to 1,000
of its employees.
—Despite
promising not to cut workers in the midst of the COVID chaos, Morgan Stanley,
Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo are now all considering doing just that.
—In
Florida, more than 1,900 hotel employees are facing layoffs or temporary
layoffs at Loews Hotels and Co and Marriott.
—Telecom
giant Cisco plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers amid business
troubles.
—Manufacturing
giant 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the month.
—Walmart
laid off hundreds of employees in its logistics, real estate, and retail
location planning departments over the past two months.
—Hundreds
of health care workers have been laid off in Cook County, Illinois, Cape Cod,
the University of Texas Medical Branch Health system, Lynwood Hospital in Los
Angeles, and Minnesota's state hospital system.
Remember these laid-off
workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to
lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant
DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical
professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts.
I
repeat: There is no American worker shortage — only a shortage of politicians
who truly put American workers first.
Michelle Malkin is a conservative
blogger at michellemalkin.com, syndicated columnist, author, and founder of
hotair.com. Michelle Malkin's email address
is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.
Chamber of Commerce
Backs Freshmen House Dems Over Trade and Immigration
2 Sep 202011
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to
endorse 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall’s
elections, a bipartisan move by an organization that has long leaned
strongly toward Republicans.
The country’s largest business group
is also endorsing 29 freshmen House Republicans, said a person familiar with
the organization’s decision who described the actions. Even so, the decision
has prompted internal divisions, with some state chamber officials criticizing
the national group’s decision to back freshmen Democrats in their areas.
The House freshmen the chamber is
endorsing
include several who face tough
reelections, such as
Reps. Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne
of Iowa, Andy
Kim of New Jersey, Xochitl Torres
Small of New
Mexico, Anthony Brindisi of New
York, Kendra Horn
of Oklahoma, Joe Cunningham of South
Carolina and
Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger
of Virginia.
The chamber has a long track record
of using most of its political might to back Republican candidates, especially
with money. But the organization has had to recalibrate its tactics as the
once-reliably pro-business GOP has taken a more populist, conservative hue on
issues like immigration and trade, reflecting the views of President Donald
Trump and hard-right tea party adherents whose numbers in Congress have grown.
In earlier indications of the
chamber’s more bipartisan approach, it has boosted some campaign contributions
to Democrats and changed how it assigns publicly released scores about whether
lawmakers help business, now factoring in whether they try reaching across
party lines.
The moves come as Democrats seem all
but certain to continue running the House after November’s elections. Any
support for Democrats helps the chamber maintain lines of communication with
them, especially as growing numbers of progressive Democrats in Congress makes
it harder for business groups to find allies in the party.
Democrats in tough reelection fights
can cite the chamber’s backing “as a sort of Good Housekeeping seal of
approval,” said Liam Donovan, a lobbyist and former GOP political operative.
The chamber is also endorsing
freshmen
Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton of
Arizona;
Josh Harder, TJ Cox and Harley Rouda
of
California; Sharice Davids of
Kansas; David
Trone of Maryland; Haley Stevens of
Michigan;
Angie Craig and Dean Phillips of
Minnesota;
Susie Lee of Nevada; Antonio Delgado
of New
York; Colin Allred and Lizzie
Fletcher of Texas
and Ben McAdams of Utah.
The person describing the chamber’s
endorsements would only do so on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss the moves publicly. The decision by the chamber, which
issued no statement about the matter, was first reported by The Hill newspaper.
Earlier this
year, the chamber said it spent six figures on digital ads opposing
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a primary that the progressive
lawmaker won easily.
Otherwise, all of the chamber’s $2
million so far in the 2020 campaign on outside spending — money spent without
coordinating with candidates — went to helping Republicans, according to the
nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. So did all of the $40 million in
outside spending by the chamber during the 2018 and 2016 campaigns.
Yet the chamber’s much smaller,
direct contributions to candidates have been more evenhanded, if politically
pragmatic.
The $210,000 the chamber’s political
action committee has donated directly to 2020 candidates’ campaigns has been
split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans, the center’s data shows.
In 2018, about 2-in-3 dollars it gave to House candidates went to Republicans.
The chamber has also contributed
$168,000 this year to GOP candidates for the Senate and nothing to Democrats.
Since it is unclear if Republicans will continue running the Senate, the
chamber’s contributions to Senate GOP candidates have more political weight
than spending on the House, where control isn’t in serious doubt.
Some state chambers complained to
U.S. chamber officials about the expected endorsements, arguing that the
Democratic lawmakers did not have sufficiently pro-business records.
Chad Warmington, president of the
Oklahoma state chamber, opposed the expected endorsement of Horn, who was
narrowly elected in 2018 to a district centered on Oklahoma City. Warmington
said he believes Horn hasn’t been supportive enough of the state’s oil and gas
industry.
“A U.S. chamber endorsement can be
persuasive in convincing voters that she’s pro-business,” Warmington said in an
interview last week. “And I don’t believe there is enough evidence to say she
is. I was saying to them, ‘Stay out’” and don’t endorse anyone.
Alan Cobb, president of the Kansas
Chamber of Commerce, said he objected to the U.S. organization’s expected
endorsement of Davids, from the Kansas City area. Cobb said he prefers Davids’
GOP opponent, Amanda Adkins, a businesswoman and former member of the state
chamber’s board.
Warmington and Cobb both said they’d
not been consulted by the national chamber about the endorsements.
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