Pelosi: ‘I Feel Very Confident that the Democrats Will Hold the Majority After the Next Election’
Thursday on CBS’s “This Morning,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was confident in Democrats’ election prospects in 2022.
Pelosi touted the Census results, which she hinted could be favorable for her party’s cause.
“[E]lections are always a contest, and you see what happens in them,” she said. “But I feel very confident that the Democrats will hold the majority after the next election. I think that we’re — for all the huffing and puffing the Republicans are doing, these numbers were not as good for them as they had hoped. They wanted three in Texas, two in Florida and the rest. But many of the — much of the growth in many of these places that picked up more numbers, more — more members in Congress, the growth was from Hispanics, African-Americans and the rest, so we’ll see where those votes go.”
“But this is right now,” Pelosi added. “The best politics of all is to get the job done for the American people, the blueprint that was put forth by the president last night to meet the needs of the American people. That’s what we’re about. We’re not worrying about who’s going to be speaker two years from now.”
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The Bay Area has descended into a post-apocalyptic hell-scape
I was last in San Francisco about three years ago. Back then, the City was already degrading. In the years since then, with help from COVID, the Bay Area has degraded even further. This is what leftism does not communities.
The San Francisco Bay Area is meant to be a jewel-like place sitting on the blue-green Bay, surrounded by natural beauty, and crowned by a city once renowned for its natural and architectural beauty. I know those because I grew up in the City and spent most of my life living in or near it. There are few things more ravishing than to stand at the Marin headlines overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, and the San Francisco skyline. If there’s no fog, it takes your breath away.
San Francisco used to be beautiful even on closer inspection. The Marina District offered beautiful 1930s-style Art Deco architecture, the lovely Presidio, and the vast green swathe of the Marina Green on the Bay. By the 1980s, Golden Gate Park had finally been repaired after the damage the Hippies caused. Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown, and North Beach were all touristy, but they were relatively clean, safe, and great fun. And San Francisco’s Union Square Area and theater district were fun, provided you didn’t wander too far west into the Tenderloin.
For a while, in the 1990s, thanks to the money the tech titans were pouring into the City, it got even more sparkling and lovely. But then, the hard-left policies took over. By then, I’d moved to Marin to raise my family, so I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on in San Francisco. Still, when I went there on errands, I noticed increasing numbers of homeless wherever I looked. They’d always the downtown area but now they were camping all over the place.
Even though I’d heard about the poop maps, San Francisco’s decay didn’t really strike me under three years ago, when a friend and I were in theater district one evening, walking back to our car. We were on the edge of the Tenderloin but heading to a street that used to be safe enough. In the 1990s, it might have a handful of homeless people, so we didn’t weren’t worried.
However, as we started down the street, my friend and I realized that it was wall-to-wall humanity: No tents; just dozens of people on both sides of the street, sitting and lying there in their vomit and excrement, with needles scattered about.
When I’m near the homeless, I don’t look at them because the paranoid ones get set off if you make eye contact. My friend, however, grew up in a small town and believes that you must recognize the homeless as human beings (which is very decent for the ones who aren’t paranoid).
For that reason, she was walking down the street saying, ‘Hello. Hi. Hello,” to everyone we passed. It was too late for me to shut her up or stop her, so I just tried for the powerful martial arts walk.
Eventually, we made it safely down the street, at which point my friend turned to me, clutched my arm, and said, “I’ve never been so frightened in my life.”
As I said, that was a few years ago. For more on San Francisco in that period, you can check out Tucker Carlson’s American Dystopia series, which you can find on this page.
Unbelievably, the Bay Area has gotten even worse. Yesterday, I got this email from a friend:
Went to chat with a friend of mine at my old workplace in Oakland this weekend. It’s in the railyards and there are large homeless encampments nearby.
OMG. Take whatever crazy Mad Max/RoboCop/district 9 dystopian movie you care to imagine. Then amplify the chaos about three times.
Fights. Fires. Cars & RVs burned out all over. It used to be a bit of “urban camping.” Some even used to have jobs. But not this current mob. I’ve seen pics of Brazilian and Indian shanty towns that are neat and civilized compared to this lot. Unbelievable.
So how did we get here? Rumor has it that this is the direct result of the state redirecting resources to illegal immigrants. Don’t know if it’s true. Whatever it is, it’s bad.
What a s**t show. My head is exploding. I’ve never seen anything close to this kind of squalor and dangerous degradation before.
As I said to my friend, three years ago, I walked through purgatory. Just three short years later, my friend found himself walking through Hell. This didn’t happen by accident. This is what Democrats do to the places under their control.
IMAGE: Homeless encampment in Oakland. YouTube screengrab.
THEY HAVE NO FUCKIG IDEA HOW MANY OF JOE'S INVADERS GET THROUGH!!! IT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH THOUGH!
Analysis projects federal immigration officials could encounter 1.2 million illegal aliens at the southern border this year. Likely hundreds of thousands more could successfully enter the U.S., undetected by agents.
Survey: More Than 6-in-10 Republican Voters Oppose Anchor Baby Policy
More than 6-in-10 Republican voters oppose providing birthright American citizenship to the United States-born children of illegal aliens, a new survey finds.
The survey, released by the pro-migration libertarian Cato Institute, finds that about 61 percent of Republican voters said they do not support current U.S. policy that provides birthright American citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, often referred to as “anchor babies.”
Fewer than 4-in-10 Republicans said they support birthright citizenship.
Even more, 65 percent, who voted for former President Trump said they oppose birthright citizenship while only 35 percent said they support the policy. Those who consider themselves “conservative” and “very conservative” oppose birthright citizenship by about 61-t0-63 percent.
Among swing voters, the issue is largely split. While 53 percent of swing voters said they support birthright citizenship, another 47 percent said they oppose the policy.
The survey reveals that opposition to birthright citizenship is a mostly mainstream position among Republicans, conservatives, and Trump supporters.
Population estimates released in February showed that the U.S. is now home to nearly five million anchor babies whose parents are either illegal aliens or foreign nationals with little-to-no ties to the U.S.
Analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that, on average, roughly 300,000 anchor babies are born to illegal aliens every year and about 72,000 anchor babies are born to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students every year.
All of these U.S.-born children, and their parents, benefit immensely from the nation’s birthright citizenship policy that guarantees American citizenship to anyone, regardless of their ties to the country, born within the parameters of the U.S.
For years, former President Trump had said he was readying a plan to end birthright citizenship with an executive order that likely would have been challenged by open borders organizations, forcing the issue potentially up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump, though, did not sign any such order while in office.
To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and a number of legal scholars dispute the idea.
Many leading conservative scholars argue the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment does not provide mandatory birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens, as these children were not subject to U.S. jurisdiction as that language was understood when the 14th Amendment was ratified.
Today’s anchor baby population exceeds the annual number of U.S. births by more than a million. Research from 2018 finds that the U.S. births of illegal aliens costs American taxpayers about $2.4 billion every year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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