ZUCKERUNT HAS SEEN HIS STAGGERING FORTUNE CLIMB 60% SINCE GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN WAS INSTALLED IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
The Democrats and their allies in Big Tech and the media regularly work to make this happen by subverting election integrity laws like requiring an ID, pushing for unregulated and unmonitored mail-in voting, providing support for one-sided ballot harvesting initiatives, repealing or fighting laws intended to allow states to revise voter rolls, and pouring enormous sums of money into Democrat districts to pay for election officials and ballot drop boxes.
While billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckenberg make over a million times more than the average American worker every year, many families out there, whose parents work themselves to the bone every single day, will still struggle to find what to eat and where to sleep with their children tonight.
Likewise, the Biden-Harris plan for national immigration policy — which seeks to drive up legal and illegal immigration levels to their highest levels in decades — offers a flooded labor market with low wages for U.S. workers and increased bargaining power for big business that has long been supported by Wall Street. JOHN BINDER
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If Corruption Was A Game Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4jdWvqnX4s
Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide’
The book, titled Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite., lays out how Hunter Biden and his business partners, in addition to his numerous Rosemont-branded entities and ventures, was deeply involved with an entity called the Burnham Financial Group.
MARK ZUCKERBERG AT WORK:
Unlike Fredo, Hunter would be shielded from the consequences of his destructive acts. So would the Biden family. After the computer repairman turned over the abandoned hard drive to the FBI (and then to Rudy Giuliani, who passed it to the New York Post), the legacy press and social media companies mounted an all-out suppression campaign against the Post‘s reporting, ensuring that the story was snuffed out before the election.
HOW ZUCKERBERG ELECTED THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN HISOTRY:
BOMBSHELL: Rep Jim Jordan DESTROY Pelosi and Biden for committing Serious acts of Treason
While billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckenberg make over a million times more than the average American worker every year, many families out there, whose parents work themselves to the bone every single day, will still struggle to find what to eat and where to sleep with their children tonight.
ALL IT TAKES IS A PACK OF BRIBES SUCKING DEMOCRATS AND AT THE TOP OF THE HEAP OF PARASITES ARE THE LAWYER-POLITICIANS. THEY'RE TRIANED IN LAW SCHOOL TO GAME THE LAWS AND PARASITE WITH IMPUNITY!
American Corporate Community and its major players — BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Bridgewater, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, and Musk — and, of course, Gates — that draws them to a plutocracy that would never hesitate to betray America for a financial advantage or an opportunity to be a part of a global powerhouse oligarchy complicit with and colluding with malefactor government tyrannies. (avarice, cupidity, and rapaciousness) JOHN DALE DUNN John Dale Dunn'
Schweizer: ‘It’s Going to Be Business as Usual’ for Hunter’s Dealings
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
I’d be inclined to disagree with Don except for one thing: Biden has proven to be a very adept criminal mastermind. For decades, he has funneled millions of dollars to his children and siblings and, especially, to his debauched, deviant son, Hunter. ANDREA WIDBURG
There it is. That's the issue. To begin, you have the corrupt family Biden. They've been scamming us and our system well for almost fifty years. The man is supposedly worth over 250 million dollars. How is this possible on his salary? It's not. So where did his wealth come from? Not from being a brilliant businessman. DAVID PRENTICE
The book is a devastating chronicle of political corruption. From Ukraine to Mexico to China, Hunter Biden's private correspondence shows how he and his family leveraged his father's position to win high-paying, low-work gigs with shady foreign actors—and how Joe's official actions at times directly benefited his family's financial backers.
ALANA GOODMAN
The fact that Hunter's market value was derived from his father's position seemed to be a source of resentment for the younger Biden, even as he continued to cash in on the name. Hunter complained in texts to his daughter that he had financially supported the Biden clan for three decades and that "pop" takes a cut of "half [my] salary." Financia records and correspondence reported on by Devine indicate that money from Hunter's business accounts was used to cover Joe's AT&T bill and home maintenance expenses and that a portion of at least one major China deal was earmarked for the elder Biden. ALANA GOODMAN
Joe Biden didn’t do anything wrong? A time-honored method of taking bribes is having them paid to a family member, usually in exchange for nominal or nonexistent services. It is comical to watch “reporters” pretend not to understand this. MONICA SHOWALTER
There’s also the little problem of Hillary’s incredible corruption (making her and Biden birds of a feather). And of course, the fact that Hillary’s unsecure server damaged national security in a way that would have seen an ordinary, politically unconnected person spend the rest of her life in prison—which, not coincidentally, is where Papa Joe belongs for using his debauched son Hunter as the bagman for decades of anti-American corruption
ANDREA WIDBURG
The screens draining our lives away
We are reaping the full harvest from our digital machine age. Our lives have devolved to depend on invisible technology, which is changing society. You can see it in every facet of life — a growing zombification, using that term loosely, of the public mind.
Social media act as a soporific, effectively thwarting intelligent discourse. There is no spontaneous back-and-forth dialogue since the advent of these static "platforms." In fact, the word conversation has come to have a negative connotation for many people, evoking ridicule — the word is code for a one-way, pedantic (boring) opinion you don't agree with but can't refute before everyone has moved on to the next trope.
The enervating isolation of lockdowns and masking accelerated this effect; I.Q. levels have dropped; and people are wary of direct interaction. The irrational continuation of masking, especially among the young and healthy, further shuts down local discourse. A recent set of flights proved that to me. Other than a few family groups traveling together, I saw no communication among those around me, sitting scrunched next to one another on packed planes.
The effect is obvious in the rest of life. Servers in local restaurants have a mask on — clerks in the stores, too. Muffled words, maybe understood and maybe not, now replace smiles and genuine verbal exchanges. Parents are sometimes unmasked, but here in the Bay Area, at least, many force their children to keep one on, even outdoors.
Dullness and lack of curiosity are ubiquitous. You can see it clearly in TV news. Stories are read from the prompter by robotic talking heads, people who obviously have no investment in what they're saying. They spew uninflected (or falsely bright-sounding), often fact-free paragraphs on local and world violence, war, pandemic, politics, and natural catastrophes.
We nod and wonder what it means as they move on to the next story. We've been trained well, to have a short attention span. The newest travesty is emphasized so it overruns the last one, staying front and center only until the next shows up. Local news adds weather and sports to the mix, making much of every drop of rain or gust of wind. Everything is otherwise identical from one station to the next — formulaic, shallow, mindless.
On many cable talk shows, video loops play that we've seen again and again, while the chosen pundits or pols de jour officiously spew pablum. How many times do we need to hear righteous indignation, absent anyone expressing even the most basic formulation of a solution to the problem?
I find myself yelling at the screen, especially when it's congresspeople, "Yeah, what are you ever gonna do about that?" But this is how it is. Just keep moving — this too shall pass eventually. They report for "work" the same way a toddler comes to a tea party — fake tea in tiny cups, mud cookies, and role-playing. They know that no action will be taken.
Look at any aspect of our lives. Take the border "crisis" that goes on without relief, with Biden apparently unstoppable. I imagine living along our southern border, in Texas or Arizona, New Mexico, and even here in California. Powerless to take back a semblance of normal life, left flapping in the wind by our own government, as unknown hordes stream in.
Image: Woman watching televisions from Pxfuel.
Here's another example: how many times do you hear the phrase "gun violence"? I keep envisioning the same cartoon in my mind, where the gun gets up on its own and starts randomly firing. Nobody ever talks about what makes people violent, what people are being violent, at whom the violence is aimed, what policies have enabled it — and, certainly, no one suggests any way to combat the problem other than taking away our arms.
Then there's the "pandemic." It, beyond all else, proves the public's hubris, inattention, and willingness to be fooled. All the information is out there is easy to find. If there was an open dialogue, and people saw clearly how they've been misled and manipulated, what would be the response? At this point, I wonder if there would be one! Everyone's just given up, basically.
From the economy to Ukraine, from our health to education, we are bombarded with so much misinformation that we have deliberately turned off our minds. Many are simply wallowing helplessly in the narrative, sticking their heads in the sand.
How long can this go on? How far can we sink? What might finally wake people up is losing what they have. That, I think, is reality right now — the middle class is disappearing, our way of life threatened by rapidly escalating fiscal disarray. Shortages are becoming chronic, money is worth less and less, and we have a disruption of life as usual. Time will tell, but it's wise to remember how fast a great society can sink itself. We have historical examples, from the Roman empire to the Venezuelan debacle. You just must open your eyes, stop for a moment, and take a real look.
Note: This is one (older) author's opinion. I'm happy to listen to other interpretations.
25 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANm7FAKuCw0
The rest of the world sees America as the wealthiest nation on the entire planet. But when we take a closer look at the hardships our population is facing, we can rapidly realize that there's a tremendous amount of financial suffering in the United States, and that's getting dramatically worse with each passing year. Today, more money goes towards the pockets of the rich than ever before. Over the past few decades, we've been witnessing the greatest event of wealth transfer in the history of our nation without even realizing it. While billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckenberg make over a million times more than the average American worker every year, many families out there, whose parents work themselves to the bone every single day, will still struggle to find what to eat and where to sleep with their children tonight. Extreme poverty continues to grow all across the country. According to an analysis released by the University of Chicago, at least 336,000 households with children live on less than two dollars a day. That’s a group known as the ultra-poor. Amid skyrocketing housing and rent prices, at least 600,000 Americans remain in a group known as the “unhoused”. “Right now, we are still trending in the wrong direction,” explained Anthony Love, interim executive director at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. “When the public is told that one particular policy is going to end homelessness, what they’re expecting is that they’re going to see fewer homeless people around,” added Stephen Eide, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. What they haven’t considered yet is that housing has to come first, Eide stressed. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the rest of the population is worsening. On average, the top 1% of earners make 20 times more than the bottom 90% every year. The wealth disparity grows the higher up the ladder we climb. Even the mid-level one-percenters can’t reach the gigantic amounts earned by the ultra-rich. These disparities, make us question whether the US is indeed a rich nation or a nation for the rich. The answer is up to interpretation, but you can have a clearer picture about this issue at the end of this video. Today, we gathered some staggering stats that expose that poverty in the United States is wildly out of control. Here are 25 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind. For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/
Likewise, the Biden-Harris plan for national immigration policy — which seeks to drive up legal and illegal immigration levels to their highest levels in decades — offers a flooded labor market with low wages for U.S. workers and increased bargaining power for big business that has long been supported by Wall Street. JOHN BINDER
Democrats, Big Tech Billionaires Unite to Keep DACA Illegal Aliens in U.S. Jobs
In a letter to DHS Secretary (GAMER LAWYER) Alejandro Mayorkas, Senate Democrats including (GAMER LAWYER) Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), (GAMER LAWYER) Cory Booker (D-NJ), (ANCHOR BABY) Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), along with a number of House Democrats, urged the (GAMER LAWYER) Biden administration to move forward with the regulation and expand the program to include more illegal aliens.
BIDENOMICS: The issue is not the survival of what the leader of the most powerful imperialist country calls “democracy.” Joe Biden really means capitalism, the profit system, which has produced a level of economic inequality that is entirely incompatible with any genuine democracy. Instead, it is generating fascist movements all over the world, which aim to abolish all democratic rights and subject the working class to the naked dictatorship of the rich.
PATRICK MARTIN
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
THE HOOK AND CROOK TROIKA OF CORRUPTION
The Regime Media’s Quandary: By Exposing Joe Biden They Exonerate Donald Trump
The regime media (the amalgamation of the legacy media, elitist opinion writers, and the internet troika: Google/Facebook/Twitter) finds itself in a quandary of its own making. As the nation descends into recession and societal turmoil, the candidate for whom they prostituted themselves, Joe Biden, reveals on a daily basis that he is not mentally or physically capable of being President. Further, it has become increasingly more difficult to continuously obfuscate not only the ongoing revelations in Hunter Biden’s laptop but Joe’s life-long history of corruption and mendacity.
By comparison, for four years, despite a lack of evidence coupled with numerous exculpatory investigations, this same cabal incessantly promoted the fictitious narrative that Donald Trump was a racist, a xenophobe, a demagogue, and the most corrupt person to ever serve as president of the United States.
Accordingly, the regime media proclaimed that was in the nation’s vital interest to replace Trump with the “decent, honest, and honorable” Joe Biden. As he has the “experience and character” to rescue the nation and restore “decency and honor” in the White House.
The quandary: how does the regime media avoid the exposure of Joe Biden’s lifelong corruption and failures without the public’s inevitable comparison of the two men, their families, and their accomplishments? A comparison that would result in the effective exoneration and rehabilitation of Donald Trump, whom they relentlessly accused of being the most unscrupulous person on earth. A cudgel they could no longer use if he decides to run for the presidency in 2024.
Their only option is to continue steadfastly limiting any exposure of Joe’s career-long penchant for selling his political office for personal gain. They will have to throw Hunter Biden under the bus by claiming he was solely responsible for any revelations of corruption emanating from his abandoned laptop. That a gradually diminishing but dedicated public servant, Joe Biden, was blissfully unaware of what was going on in his name. Meanwhile, they and the Democrats in Congress can never abandon their quixotic search for Trump wrongdoing or continue beating the drum that he is the personification of corruption.
Why do they need to obfuscate Joe Biden’s personal history? They cannot continue to muddle the revelations in Hunter Biden’s laptop if it is general knowledge that Joe Biden’s malfeasance and the “Biden Family Enterprise” began almost immediately after Joe Biden was first sworn in as a Senator in 1973 when Hunter was two years old.
In August of 2019, Politico International, in a lengthy article, traced the beginning of the “Biden Family Enterprise” back to 1973, Joe’s first year in the Senate. Freshman Senator Biden adamantly demanded and was appointed to a seat on the Senate Banking Committee. Soon thereafter, his brother James, then a 23-year-old business neophyte with a net worth of less than $10,000, decided to open a nightclub. Per a bank officer, James used the Biden family “connection” to obtain $165,000 ($1.1 million in 2022 dollars) in mostly unsecured loans from a failing Delaware bank. Within less than 18 months the venture started to unravel, and James was unable to make the loan payments. Joe intervened with the bank’s Chairman to make certain the bank did not harass James for payment or foreclose on the nightclub.
Miraculously, James was able to find another bank, which was on the Federal Reserve watch list, that gave him a $500,000 ($2.6 million in 2022 dollars) loan. Around the same time Joe Biden met with that bank’s senior vice-president on “other matters” -- no doubt a coincidence. The nightclub venture soon failed, leaving behind a trail of lawsuits and unpaid loans and debts.
The Bidens sanctimoniously proclaimed that Joe and his status as a U.S. Senator had nothing to do with James getting the loans. The fact that Joe served on the Senate Banking Committee (which oversees bank regulatory agencies) and his 23-year-old brother with no business experience received extraordinary – actually, unheard-of -- loans from two banks under scrutiny by the government was, no doubt, also a mere coincidence.
Thus began a pattern that over the years that continued to include James and occasionally other members of the Biden family, and eventually Hunter Biden as the ultimate front for the Biden family business. A family enterprise that despite chartering and acquiring numerous companies over the decades never operated a successful business. Perhaps no prominent family in American history has been involved in so many consistent business failures. The only successful aspect of the “Biden Family Enterprise” was selling Joe Biden and his political influence.
It was while Joe Biden was vice-president that the flood gates opened and what was a domestic influence-peddling business expanded globally into Ukraine, China, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other nations. The layers of greed and unabashed willingness to sell access to the second-highest office in the country is mind-boggling. The most egregious examples are five deals with the Communist Chinese and the subsequent payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family valued at $31 million.
For the past five decades, the legacy media and virtually all of Washington, D.C. has known about Joe Biden’s corruption and penchant for being a serial fabulist and compulsive liar. However, when Donald Trump was elected President, he was immediately inundated with false and hyperbolic corruption charges.
A month before his inauguration on January 20, 2017, Politico Magazine featured an article full of absurd innuendos and breathtaking assumptions entitled: “Trump Could be the Most Corruptible President Ever.” Within ten months after his inauguration it was unabashedly proclaimed to the nation that the Trump Administration was already the most corrupt in American history.
Unsurprisingly, by the end of his term the regime media and left-wing “historians” declared that Donald Trump was not only the most corrupt president in American history but also the worst.
The New York Times, in a hyperbolic October 2020 editorial, pleaded with the public to vote for Joe Biden “and return the country to a more peaceful, stable and respectful form of self-governance” and accused Trump of “rampant corruption, celebrations of violence, gross negligence with people’s health and incompetence—the worst American president in modern history.”
It would not be an overstatement to say that Donald Trump and his immediate family are the most investigated, vetted and audited people in American history. Yet virtually nothing substantive has been found. I spent nearly forty years in international finance and interacted with numerous domestic and international real estate developers. Success in this field requires a single-minded focus and determination in order to build or acquire properties. Virtually all developers at some point have skirted the law, or greased palms, or by-passed regulations.
In light of Trump’s massive business success and nearly 50 years in real estate development, it is remarkable, considering the armies of investigators and auditors with unlimited budgets, that nothing of consequence has been unearthed. Which confirms that Donald Trump is among the least corrupt men to serve as President of the United States. In other words, Donald Trump is the antithesis of Joe Biden.
That is why the regime media, and the Democrat Party will do everything possible to avoid the full exposure of the decades of corruption with
in the “Biden Family Enterprise.” They cannot run the risk of the inevitable comparison of Donald Trump and his family to Joe Biden and his family.
Nor can the regime media risk the unmasking of their primary role in not only falsely incriminating Donald Trump but duplicitously praising and overtly suppressing damning information about Joe Biden during an election. As the citizenry will rightfully conclude that they are chiefly responsible for the disastrous state of affairs in the country today.Photo credit: Michael Vadon CC BY-SA 4.0 license
The Democrat Plan to Stop Joe Biden
Who needs the Twenty-Fifth Amendment when you’ve got a family of crooks?
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Democrat Party is much more worried about stopping Joe Biden than whatever Republican he might end up facing in 2024. Everyone expects Biden not to run, but no one told him that.
Biden keeps talking about running again and it’s not a joke. After spending two generations clawing his way to power, the guy who would have been one of the youngest presidents when he first tried to make a dash at the big job, is not about to just walk away whistling to Delaware.
The Democrats have become a gerontocracy of dementia patients with the party trying to push Senator Dianne Feinstein, 88 years old, and Rep. David Scott, 76, to the exit after reports that they appear out of it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, has vowed to run again and so have her number two and three, Steny Hoyer, 82, and James Clyburn, 81, who got Biden the party's nomination, making it rather difficult to dump Biden on account of being old or out of it.
The real issue comes from the poll numbers which are catastrophic for Biden and the Dems.
Fantasies of a Twenty-Fifth Amendment aside, which even if somehow executed would just saddle the party with Kamala in the White House who polls even worse than her boss, the Dems know that they’re going to be stuck with Biden’s idiotic nonsense for a few years.
Biden cunningly kept his promise to pick a black woman, but also picked one with little support from the black community or the Left, making it unlikely that he’d be ‘Breyered’ to make way for her. Kamala’s only base are the members of her staff and they’re leaving because they know that working for her isn’t a step toward working for the president, just a political dead end.
Dems want to get rid of both Biden and Kamala by keeping him from running again, but what’s going to convince a hack at the end of his wits that he needs to step down and make way?
Family.
The party has to walk a fine line between publicly damaging Joe Biden in a way that would doom the party if he were to run and win, and persuading him that he ought to consider spending the rest of his life in a padded Delaware basement stocked with lots of ice cream.
Biden’s son is the leverage. During the election, Democrats and their media feverishly suppressed any coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop only to now revive the story. In recent weeks and months, the New York Times and the Washington Post have legitimized the laptop.
Going much further, Yahoo News ran a Michael Isikoff article suggesting that Hunter may have been the target of a Chinese counterintelligence operation. Isikoff had been a crucial component of Russiagate with his previous Yahoo News article being used to justify a FISA warrant after he was privately briefed on the Steele smears. The last time Isikoff and Yahoo News put out an article suggesting that a White House candidate was a potential target of a foreign intel scheme, it was just the tip of a much bigger iceberg being used to try and wreck his candidacy.
The media’s treatment of Hunter Biden has been more nuanced than some conservatives realize. While there was a frantic effort to shut down reporting on Hunter during the election, there was no effort to shut down the actual investigation the way that Durham and others have been targeted. The media and the publishing industry abetted a redemption narrative for Hunter and even now the articles suggest that Hunter will likely have to do little more than pay a fine.
Democrats and the media are best served with Schrödinger's Hunter, not indicted or exculpated, but the subject of an ongoing investigation that can be used as leverage on his father, that holds out possible consequences for the son without severely damaging Joe’s election chances.
They would like Joe Biden to say that he’ll be stepping down after one term and for the Hunter Biden investigation to go away with a slap on the wrist. But will the Dems get their wish?
The current investigation is relatively trivial compared to the sort that could be unleashed against Hunter and James Biden, Joe’s brother, and that’s the real power play. The same media that blithely provides inside details on the Hunter investigation could provide starter packs for a dozen more comprehensive investigations that would be far more damaging and dangerous.
It’s a game of chicken in which the Democrats and Biden are facing off. The party wants him to step down after one term, but without crashing the already damaged party car with a fight. But what if Joe Biden is ready to crash the car and wage a primary battle for the nomination? If black voters come out for him again while the white vote is split, Biden could win again.
Black voters are a solid part of the party’s base, and they’re also intensely loyal to the candidates they know. That’s why they initially backed Hillary over Obama, why they picked Biden, and why the Congressional Black Caucus is full of machine politicians in their seventies and eighties who have spent their whole lives commuting between mansions and D.C.
While black support for Biden has declined, it’s fallen less than among any other group.
Black voters helped Carter stave off a challenge from Ted Kennedy. They could play the same role for Biden and whatever candidate or candidates emerge to oppose him in the primaries. The primary battles fatally damaged Carter, but didn’t succeed in blocking him from the nomination thereby giving the Democrats the worst of both worlds.
That history could be about to repeat like a skipped record.
Democrats can’t afford to alienate black voters and they also can’t afford to alienate all the other voters by running the same old damaged ticket. They’re prisoners of their own demographics.
The party and its media don’t want Hunter and James Biden in real trouble, but they also don’t want his father on their ticket. Blowing up the investigation weakens Joe Biden’s election prospects, but it also weakens the party, and so the Dems have to play a double game, slowly legitimizing the investigation to weaken Biden while being ready to pull back at any time.
The quiet pressure campaign isn’t just being aimed at Joe Biden, but at his donors, warning supporters and staffers that there’s no future here because a bigger scandal could be coming.
Why bother investing your money and your career into a politician who’s on the way out?
How far will they go if Joe Biden doesn’t see reason and announce that he wants to spend more time with his word salads, inappropriate sniffing, and his Corn Pop? That’s the big question.
Joe Biden, despite his blowhard posturing, is naturally cautious. It’s why he pulled out rather than face Hillary in 2016, opposed taking out Osama bin Laden, and fled Afghanistan. Like most big talkers, he’s a coward whose boasts and lies are pathetically obvious overcompensation.
But is he really ready to give up the big chair and everything that comes with it to appear remotely on telethons? If he’s not, the Hunter Biden scandal may become very serious.
Who needs the Twenty-Fifth Amendment when you’ve got a family of crooks?
Michael Lind: Migration Is All About Cutting Americans’ Wages
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“So-called ‘immigration reform’ is all about profits,” says Michael Lind, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Yale-educated author wrote:
… do low-wage immigrants—regardless of whether they are legal or illegal—actually suppress wages and/or take away jobs? This brings us to what I think of as the borscht belt theory of immigration. The best-known joke identified with the borscht belt—the region of hotels and resorts in the Catskill Mountains that once served a heavily Jewish immigrant clientele—involves a typical patron who complains that “The food in this place is really terrible, and the portions are so small!”
The borscht belt theory of immigration goes like this: “Immigrants do not suppress wages—and without more immigrants, wages will go up and everything will be more expensive!”…
Both statements cannot be true. It cannot be the case that immigrant competition does not suppress wages in a particular occupation, and at the same time also [be] true that employers in the absence of immigration would be forced to raise wages to attract workers and pass the costs along to consumers.
Lind is the author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, which “debunks the idea that the [populist] insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry.” The book:
… traces how the breakdown of mid-century class compromises between business and labor led to the conflict, and reveals the real battle lines.
On one side is the managerial overclass—the university-credentialed elite that clusters in high-income hubs and dominates government, the economy and the culture. On the other side is the working class of the low-density heartlands—mostly, but not exclusively, native and white.
The two classes clash over immigration, trade, the environment, and social values, and the managerial class has had the upper hand. As a result of the half-century decline of the institutions that once empowered the working class, power has shifted to the institutions the overclass controls: corporations, executive and judicial branches, universities, and the media.
Lind’s new article in Tablet magazine emphasizes how migration is used to sneak wages out of employees’ pay packets, and then sent to Wall Street where it inflates stock investors’ wealth:
When the intellectual apologists for cheap-labor immigration policies in journalism, the academy, and libertarian and progressive think tanks claim that there are entire categories of jobs that American citizens and legal immigrants already here refuse to do, they really mean that workers refuse to do those jobs in bad conditions for low wages.
Scholars have documented many industries and occupations in which employers have used low-wage legal or illegal immigrants or guest workers to break unions and keep wages low, from janitorial services to meat-packing. In tight labor markets, like the one caused by the tech bubble in the late 1990s, the recovery just before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the present period of supply disruptions, employers find that they have to raise wages and lower requirements to attract employees. That’s good for workers, even if it’s painful for employers and some consumers.
Breitbart News has extensively covered the role of money, wages, and stock values in migration politics. Journalists at corporate media outlets only cover the family dramas of struggling migrants.
JOE BIDEN AND HIS SEC. OF OPEN BORDERS HAVE USHERED MORE THAN 2 MILLION ILLEGALS OVER THE BORDERS AND THEN QUICKLY SCATTERED THEM ACROSS AMERICA. HOW MANY WILL GET WELFARE AND AMERICAN JOBS? HOW MANY WILL BE HOUSED FOR 'FREE' IN JAILS AND PRISONS?
“Pennsylvania may be two thousand miles from Mexico, but a massive number of illegal immigrants are flooding into our communities,” McCormick told Breitbart News. “And President Biden is doing far worse than simply allowing it; he’s actually facilitating it. Right before Christmas, a plane with over 100 illegal immigrants on board landed in Scranton in the middle of the night. They have flown at least 11 planeloads into Philadelphia alone. But it’s not just the planes; they’re coming by any means necessary. They’re often released into our commonwealth with orders to show up to court, but most will never show. Extremely conservative estimates say that Pennsylvania is already home to over 150,000 illegal immigrants. Over 50,000 of them live in Philadelphia, welcomed by the radical left city government that has made it a sanctuary city. We’ve got to enforce the law.”
The viewpoint also represents a departure from the business and corporate-backed pushes for more immigration overall, and seems to further indicate an ongoing shift among Republicans away from special interests toward the interests of American workers—a trend that has rapidly intensified in recent years.
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