BREAKING NEWS: Tulsi Gabbard Defends Trump From Nikki Haley At CPAC As South Carolina Primary Nears

BREAKING NEWS:

Tulsi Gabbard Defends Trump From Nikki Haley At CPAC As South Carolina Primary Nears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7RH_Lz58Ro

JUST NOW! Trump Attorney Drops NIGHTMARE For Judge Engoron After $364 Million Verdict!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ny8m4kGktQ

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to undeclared nuclear war.                                             TULSI GABBARD

The perverse roots of anti-Trump lawfare

By Tom G.K. Swift

What’s driving the lawfare against Donald Trump and MAGA?

Superficially, the answer is politics and the quest for power, where lawfare is the only practicable way for power to be gained.  That’s because Democrat policies and ideology — lawfare is a Democrat thing — are widely unpopular, notably with independents, in whose hands nationwide election outcomes frequently rest.  Under normal circumstances, open borders, infanticide, “chest-feeding” and other transgender fictions — in general, turning America into California — do not present ready avenues to political power.

And now, with Judge Arthur Engoron’s $355-million fine of Trump for his Manhattan business dealings, we see what is really driving lawfare: unreason.  Not corruption, although that’s a factor.  (Since there are no victims for Trump’s “fraud,” the state of New York gets to have the money, which is self-dealing on steroids.)  No, what’s undermining the rule of law is a kind of irrationality.  Unquestionably, the rule of law is facing an ignoble collapse in New York State.  Learned Hand and Benjamin Cardozo must be rolling in their graves.

Corruption isn’t the driver of the rule of law’s impending collapse unless intellectual corruption is meant.  And even that doesn’t really explain the present threat to the rule of law.  It’s not corruption of the intellect that’s driving the nationwide practice of lawfare, of which the state of New York is merely a harbinger (including A.G. Letitia James’s embryonic prosecution qua persecution of the invaluable website Vdare).  No, the real driver of lawfare is unreason — disdain for, or thinly veiled hostility toward, impartial rationality, of the kind that Cardozo and Hand devoutly believed in.

As for why it’s happening now, we know the short answer: TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome.  The longer answer is harder to guess.  But let’s suggest something more immediate than the cultural vagaries of second- and third-rate philosophers: the charismatic intellectual balderdash of Barack Obama.  I need not elaborate.  America’s current travails began with, and because of, President Obama and his brand of Harvard “veritas.”  Think of Claudine Gay as the intellectual upshot of Obamaism, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of why lawfare is now happening, and to whom it’s happening.

The rule of law is imbued with, and depends on, reason and reasoning.  Reasoning requires intelligence, but the purpose of intelligence is thoughtfulness, which is frequently lacking in smart people.  Think of Larry Summers (circa 1994) on trade, or Barack Obama on many things, and contrast that subpar or middling degree of thoughtfulness with John Rawls’s.  (Rawls is my favorite thoughtful liberal, although he had a partial blind spot on abortion.  I assume that he, too, the author of the magisterial Political Liberalism, is rolling in his grave at the spectacle of Democrat lawfare.)

Few people think of Trump in terms of thoughtfulness, but give credit where it’s due: on free trade, he “got it” well before most of us did, as his 1990 Playboy interview showed.  And consider his current alarm at the very real danger of nuclear war posed by needlessly poking the Russian bear, specifically by reckless official talk of expanding NATO to Ukraine, which includes Crimea, where Russia has a vital navy port.  Surely the avoidance of nuclear war, when that can be easily done, is an apex of thoughtfulness?

The latter affects our literal survival; the former affects our nation’s prosperity and stability (a shrinking middle class is an invitation to long-run social and political instability).  On these big things, and the huge immigration issue, Trump is right, and his opponents are wrong and/or deluded.  How ironic that a leader having thoughtful positions on important political matters is subjected to lawfare — to thoughtlessness, to unreasoning, to irrationality, and precisely at the expense of the rule of law.

The rule of law presupposes thoughtfulness, as the most pertinent form of rationality for maintaining a fair legal system.  Legal “rules” are just manifestations of thoughtfulness, given the conditions at hand.  Lawfare is the antithesis of this — but don’t tell Judge Engoron.  He wouldn’t want to hear such impieties.

The legal system can’t justly be regarded as a kind of warfare, which of course is how “lawfare” gets its name.  The only conceivable rational justification for lawfare is that the ends justify the means.  But the history of communism shows how dangerous that kind of thinking is.

If Democrats really are honest, they will abandon lawfare and try to persuade people the old-fashioned way.  Hint: Being thoughtful has something to do with it.  They will do this first on the core issues affecting society.  These are trade, immigration, and avoidance of nuclear war.  Honest Democrats will try to prove to the public’s satisfaction that Trump is wrong about those issues and proceed from there.

But Trump isn’t wrong about those things, and certainly not clearly wrong.  Having no use for intellectual honesty, the Democrats seem determined to proceed with lawfare.  Engoron the Great!  (No doubt Judge Engoron has fancies of historical awesomeness.)

Democrats forget, or don’t care, that reason is the true and ultimate foundation of the rule of law.  Lawfare is the antithesis of reason and the enemy of the American experiment.  It must be vanquished, and its practitioners punished or forever shamed.

Image via the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

California Budget Deficit Swells to $73 Billion as Incoming Tax Revenue Falls, Watchdog Reports - WELFARE TO ILLEGALS TO KEEP THEM COMING HOVERS AROUND $50 BILLION YEARLY

the 11 million illegals number has been used for years, even decades. the true number is really about 50 million, with joe biden having ushered in about 15 million within 3 years. half the population of 

CA are illegals, which is about 15 million. now do the math!

The Cost of Illegal Immigration For Taxpayers in Every State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrfJtsNO1m8

Migrants ATTACK Cops & DEMAND More Free Stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ZiBlxmxKc

CA - THE ONE PARTY AND LA RAZA/UNIDOus STATE

California approves ‘shocking’ policy giving weekly checks to migrants: Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCsB3LL1Nw

 

The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.

Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.

“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.  DANIEL GREENFIELD   

Joe Biden Oversees 7.2M Illegal Aliens at Southern Border, Equivalent to 2 Years of U.S. Births

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JOHN BINDER

22 Feb 20242,700

2:17

President Joe Biden has overseen a record-breaking level of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border — a large portion of which is being released directly into American towns and cities.

From February 2021 through January 2024, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shows that more than 7.2 million illegal aliens have arrived at the nation’s porous southern border.

Thus far in Fiscal Year 2024, with only four full months completed, nearly a million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border. In Fiscal Year 2022, Biden broke records by overseeing close to 2.37 million illegal aliens at the border, and he shattered that record the following fiscal year when 2.47 million arrived.

For perspective, about 3.6 million Americans are born each year. Thus, two years of American births are equivalent to the total number of illegal border crossings Biden has overseen.

Groups of migrants of different nationalities arrive at the Rio Grande, to cross it and surrender to the American authorities, since elements of the Texas National Guard no longer prevent their passage in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 19, 2024. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A group of migrants are processed by Border Patrol after crossing the river illegally near the highway on February 4, 2024 outside Eagle Pass, Texas. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP)

Groups of migrants of different nationalities arrive at the Rio Grande, to cross it and surrender to the American authorities, since elements of the Texas National Guard no longer prevent their passage in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 21, 2024. (Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)

This year, the nation’s foreign-born population is expected to hit 50 million thanks, in part, to Biden’s policies regarding illegal immigration, as well as legal immigration levels that import more than a million legal immigrants annually to the U.S.

In January, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reportedly said in private that the agency is releasing into the U.S. interior about 85 percent of all border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the southern border.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that from January 2021 through December 2023, DHS welcomed 6.2 million illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) have sought a full numerical accounting of every border crosser and illegal alien released into the U.S. interior since the start of 2021. Mayorkas, though, has refused that request thus far.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

Liberal California Emigrants are Toxic

By R. Quinn Kennedy

When Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise. Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this instance, at least, the polling was correct.

The question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.

The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.

California Budget Deficit Swells to $73 Billion as Incoming Tax Revenue Falls, Watchdog Reports

Gov. Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Susannah Luthi

February 21, 2024

California’s budget watchdog warned Tuesday that the state’s deficit has swelled to $73 billion this year, just a month after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) painted a rosier picture of the state’s financial outlook.

Incoming tax revenue is so low that the state’s budget analyst believes they will ultimately fall $24 billion below Newsom’s budget proposal, according to the latest forecast from California’s Legislative Analyst's Office. The analysis urged leaders to cut one-time and temporary spending and rescind unspent funds from programs ranging from homelessness to education, labor, transportation, and criminal justice, so that they have more options to use other cost-saving measures should the economy or deficit worsen.

This snapshot comes just one month after Newsom, in rolling out his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, projected a $38 billion shortfall. The governor has striven in recent months to paint California as a national model as he raises his profile ahead of a potential presidential run and campaigns alongside President Joe Biden.

Just two years ago, California had a nearly $100 billion budget surplus. Newsom heralded the extra state income as a sign that "California is a model for the nation on how we can confront our greatest existential threats and make historic investments in our future."

Tuesday’s report noted that the state’s true financial position won’t be clear until tax returns have been filed and tallied. Each year, the governor unveils a revised budget that more accurately reflects California’s finances.

In a statement, a spokesman for the governor stressed the uncertain nature of forecasts but stuck by Newsom’s $38 billion number from January.

"From now through April, more than $51 billion in income and corporate tax receipts are forecast to come in," the spokesman said. "No one can say today with certainty how those numbers may change the budget estimate of a $38 billion shortfall."

Published under: Budget , California , Democrats , Economy , Gavin Newsom

CALIFORNIA

 

 

 

Eyeing Record $68 Billion Deficit, California Institutes State Spending Freeze Until Summer of Next Year

CRAIG BANNISTER | DECEMBER 15, 2023

Expecting a $68 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, California’s Department of Finance has ordered a spending freeze for the rest of the current fiscal year (FY2024).

That means all state agencies will have to curtain all non-critical expense for over six months, until the current fiscal year ends next Summer, on June 30, 2024.

A California Department of Finance “Budget Letter” issued Tuesday directs “all state entities” to “take immediate action to reduce expenditures and identify all operational savings achieved:

“The State of California anticipates significant General Fund budget deficits in fiscal years 2023-24 and 2024-25. Accordingly, this BL directs all entities under the Governor’s direct executive authority to take immediate action to reduce current-year General Fund expenditures.”

If realized, the $68 billion deficit would be the largest in state history, local station KCRA reports, noting that state Republicans have been warning about California’s spending:

“‘Despite all warnings that it was unsustainable, California’s tax-and-spend majority increased state spending by $116 billion over the last six years, nearly doubling the general fund budget in that short time,’ said Republican State Sen. Roger Niello, who is the vice chairman of the Senate's budget committee.

“He said in part, ‘Republicans cautioned that this level of spending would lead to greater deficits, and it would be more prudent to show restraint. Unfortunately, the majority party ignored those warnings.’”

State agency Secretaries and cabinet-level directors will be required to submit monthly reports detailing all spending exemptions and savings achieved.

Expenditures specifically cited as subject to the spending freeze include:

New Goods and Services Contracts

· IT Equipment

· Fleet Vehicles

· Office Supplies

· Other (subscription renewals, training costs, furniture purchases, etc.)

· All non-essential ravel (both in-state and out-of-state)

· Leave Buy-Back

· Architectural Revolving Fund (ARF)

 

“Additionally, entities shall re-evaluate expenses related to current IT projects,” the letter states.

 

OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED

 

New study says high housing costs, low income push Californians into homelessness

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4guGq6kWxg

 

CA makes up third of homeless population in U.S., according to study

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OCZZF3_Yas

 

Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant

Welfare

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/04/study-more-than-7-in-10-california-immigrant-households-are-on-welfare/

 

More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.

The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.

Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.

All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.

In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.

President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.

The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.

As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

California approves ‘shocking’ policy giving weekly checks to migrants: Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCsB3LL1Nw

 

The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.

Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.

“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.  DANIEL GREENFIELD   

Liberal California Emigrants are Toxic

By R. Quinn Kennedy

When Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise. Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this instance, at least, the polling was correct.

The question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.

The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.

Who is responsible for creating such an alarming living environment within the state? California liberals. A November, 2020 report produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University stated that California has 395,608 regulatory restrictions. The sheer volume and scope of California regulations creates such a compliance nightmare that they kill entire industries, send housing prices to unattainable heights, and restrict even commonplace liberties for which conservative leaning states are known.

Piled onto California’s endless river of regulations are its nonsensical laws and policies. Twenty major metropolitan cities or counties in California have established laws, ordinances, regulations, or other practices that shield illegal immigrants from prosecution after committing a crime. These counties brazenly safeguard illegal immigrant criminals against deportation either through noncompliance or by refusing to hand them over to federal agencies such as ICE. With over $1.5 trillion in state and local government debt, California effectively has little money to spare for conveniences such as criminal incarceration. What do sanctuary cities and counties see as the alternative to handing illegal immigrant criminals over for deportation? Release them back into the general population, of course.

Consider this: Between 2014 and 2017, the FBI reported that 49 states saw an average increase in crime annually of around 3%. After implementing “humane” alternatives to criminal prosecution, California crime increased more than 12% per year over the same time period. With irrational sanctuary policies that send a clear message of little to no consequence for offenses, is it any wonder California’s crime rate is now spiraling out of control?

Arizona is not the only beneficiary of the California exodus. The Colorado State Demography Office has published an active flow map of people moving into the state from 2010 on. Disturbingly, the state sending the most movers to Colorado since then has consistently been California. As recently as 2004, Colorado had the political trifecta of a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled House and Senate. A short ten years later, all three had turned irrevocably Democrat. The subsequent consequence? A drastic increase in state and local regulations, a dramatic increase in violent crimes, a severe shortage of home inventory and affordable housing, and a staggering increase in homelessness. Do these newfound troubles sound familiar to any other state mentioned here? The only safeguard against out-of-control tax hikes in Colorado is the TABOR Amendment passed by voters 1992, prior to the influx of California residents, that requires taxpayer approval for any new tax. Not surprisingly, emboldened liberals in Colorado are vigorously resolute in repealing this tax hike protection. As of the most recent election they are unsuccessful, yet remain undeterred.

What has coincided with Colorado’s decline? The mass inflow of Californians to the state. Californians have brought with them all the very same liberal doctrines and ideologies that forced their flight from California in the first place. Does this dissuade liberal Californians from shaping Colorado into the very image of California? Not in the least.

If there is any hope for Arizona, it is that they might learn from the resulting ruin of Colorado, however unlikely.

In the 2020 election, Texas was startlingly considered in play for liberals. Since 2015, which state has contributed the most emigrants into Texas? Not surprisingly, the state of California. The hope for liberals is that they can turn Texas into the next purple soon-to-be blue state. The coveted prize is Texas’ electoral votes. Even more insidious, if liberals are able to capture Texas as they have done in Colorado and Arizona, they will force the state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. They will then achieve their ultimate goal of a Democrat president reigning over the United States for endless generations until the point our country experiences the same collapse as other great civilizations throughout world history.

The obvious question is this: How can Texas avoid the same fate as states such as Colorado and Arizona? Simple. By being proactive.

It is much easier for liberals to enact new legislation than to argue for the removal of existing laws. With this in mind, Texas should take advantage of their current Republican-controlled Senate, House, and governor’s office by making haste and passing laws that would limit the future incursion of liberal meddling. Texas can presently enact laws that prohibit sanctuary cities, require voter approval to remove the state’s mandated balanced budget, require that any new regulation must necessitate the removal of an existing one, and compel voter approval of each new local or state tax including non-user fees. While such laws may only serve to stem the liberal takeover of the state, they would be roadblocks making it much more difficult for ideological infiltration in areas that affect inhabitant’s liberties and quality of life.

It would be absurd to suppose Californians have malintent. Rather, they are simply following the course with which they are most familiar while being blissfully ignorant of the negative unintended consequences their political ideology brings. To suggest that any act of suppression, aggression, or intimidation towards Californians moving into red states is acceptable would simply be un-American and subject to the same type of hypocrisy liberals practice. If conservatives stoop to their level, we have lost the battle and, perhaps, the war.

However, by taking aggressive legislative action in states that have not yet succumbed to liberal infiltration, Conservatives will effectively be planting our flag in a defiant refusal to hand over our institutions and our liberty.