WE CAN'T SAVE THIS COUNTRY BY ONLY ELECTING SERVANTS OF BANKSTERS AND WALL STREET FOR 'CHEAP' LABOR!
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration (JOE BIDEN WAS OFF SUCKING OFF BANKSTERS AND BRIBES)." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Your choice: The Republican...or Chuck Schumer
Do you like to think that you vote for the man, not the party? Then I should inform you that in the Senate race, if you vote for the Democrat, you are voting for Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), regardless.
There is a nice little ProPublica website that compares the voting records of senators. I used the 2021–22 session to make some comparisons. (I pulled the data on Oct. 6. There may be more votes in this session after that date.)
This first figure shows how many senators voted with Schumer, Democrat majority leader, by the percent of agreement. For example, that large blue spike on the right means that 33 Democrat senators (of 49) voted with Schumer 98% of the time. Think of it as a political spectrum.
Here are a few observations from these data.
- There is an obvious and large difference between parties. The average Democrat agreed with Schumer over 97% of the time, while the average Republican agreed with him only 27% of the time.
- Democrats vote together: 46 of the other 49 Democrats voted with Schumer 96% to 98% of the time. All of them voted with him at least 91% of the time.
- Republicans do not vote together. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), for example, voted with Schumer 70% of the time, while Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) voted with him only 11% of the time. Republican votes are spread out much farther than Democrat votes.
- The "independents" are not really independent. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) voted with Schumer 97% of the time, about like any Democrat. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted with Schumer 93% of the time, even more often than Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) did.
- The "moderate" Democrats are not very moderate. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Manchin voted with Sen. Schumer 95% and 91% of the time, respectively.
- The moderate Republicans are actually moderate. Those three blue votes in the middle of the spectrum belong to senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who voted with Schumer 70%, 63%, and 55% of the time, respectively.
- If you like bipartisanship and "working together," you are already getting a decent amount of it. The average Republican voted with Schumer about 27% of the time. Even the most "conservative" senators voted with him 11% of the time. The Venn diagrams overlap.
The second figure shows how many senators voted with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky., and Republican minority leader) by the percent of agreement. For example, that large blue spike on the left means that 20 Democratic senators voted with McConnell 33% of the time. Again, the Democrat votes were fairly tightly clustered compared to the Republicans'.
You might be surprised that Democrats voted with McConnell about one third of the time. That is because McConnell voted with Schumer 34% of the time. Those Democrats were not really voting with McConnell; they were voting with their own majority leader, Schumer, on the same votes where McConnell voted with him.
Republicans do not have quite the same party discipline as the Democrats do. While Democrats agreed with their leader over 97% of the time on average, Republicans agreed with theirs less than 82% of the time. The Democrat "renegade," Sen. Manchin, still voted with his leader 91% of the time. The Republican "renegade," Sen. Collins, voted with her leader only 63% of the time. In fact, Collins voted with Schumer more often than she voted with her own party leader, McConnell: 70% to 63%.
Voters should know that when they vote for a Democrat, they are getting a clone of Chuck Schumer when it comes to voting. Maybe you find Senator Mark Kelly attractive because he was in the military and was an astronaut. He voted with his party leader 96% of the time, even more often than Bernie Sanders and Kyrsten Sinema did. His 96% matches that of the very liberal Edward Markey (D-Mass.). Arizonans should know that a vote for Mark Kelly is equivalent to a vote for a Massachusetts liberal.
If you like Chuck Schumer's agenda, go ahead and vote Democrat. But don't think you are going to be sending some kind of independent thinker to the Senate by voting Democrat. Whenever they get to the Senate, they will do Schumer's bidding.
On the one hand, the above narrative is appalling insofar as it reflects the values of the New York City establishment. My heart goes out to ordinary people who, for economic or family reasons are trapped in that city. On the other hand, I can’t think of any people more deserving of this pro-criminal viewpoint than the progressives who have visited so many horrors on America, from Biden on down to the crazy, dangerous people flourishing on America’s streets.
New York to send migrants to tent city on island
New York's Democrat mayor, Eric Adams, recently revealed that he is directing that tent towns to house migrants be built on Randall's Island, a relatively secluded island off the Bronx. The tents would provide shelter for roughly 500 border-crossers and illegal aliens.
As it stands now, the vast majority of the approximately 16,000 border-crossers and illegal aliens who have been bussed to New York, a sanctuary city, remain in the city's overcrowded homeless shelter system. As a result, Adams originally stated that he would begin housing migrants in tent towns in a parking lot in the Bronx. Since then, he has changed his mind and will ship them to the island. (Randall's Island isn't exactly Martha's Vineyard, but then Adams is no DeSantis.)
Not to be outdone, New York's Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul, is calling on roughly 100 National Guard reservists to help build the new tent cities where arrivals and excess migrants will be housed.
It's hard to fathom why New York has so much difficulty dealing with just 16,000 migrants — approximately 0.3% of those who have crossed our southern border since Biden took office — when its politicians have previously made it clear that the open border is no big deal and is, in fact, a good thing.
"Progressive" politicians are claiming migrants should stay in Florida so they can help "pick the crops," bussing them to military installations, and confining them to an island and hoping they can't swim.
Democrats who run self-proclaimed "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens consistently show themselves to be the worst kind of frauds. Instead of being allowed to live in mansions and gated communities, they should have to join the "migrants" in tent cities on parking lots in the Bronx and on Randall's Island.
Image: Krystalb97 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped).
The New York establishment’s approach to crime is evil
It’s a horrible story: A woman walking her dog early in the morning was unable to avoid a crazy man who throw a bottle of urine at her and then killed her dog. The New York Times and the local city council member want to ignore the criminal part of what happened to keep the man from facing justice. Why? Because the woman was White and the man Black. As I see it, though, focusing on skin color is as evil in New York in 2022 as it was in the Jim Crow South.
The NY Times reported the ugly facts (hat tip: Twitchy):
On Aug. 3, Jessica Chrustic, 40, a professional beekeeper, was walking her dog in Prospect Park a little after 6 a.m. when she saw a man rifling through the garbage outside the Picnic House. She had seen the man before — tall, with dreadlocks wrapped in a turban, carrying a long staff and often muttering to himself or cursing — and she usually kept her distance. But this morning there was no room to avoid him.
According to Ms. Chrustic, he started yelling about immigrants taking over the park, then grabbed a bottle of what she later concluded was urine and sloshed it at her and her dog. She tried to run away, but Moose, her 80-pound golden retriever mix, was straining toward the man, trying to protect her.
The man started swinging the stick, she said. One blow hit her, not seriously. Another connected solidly with the dog’s snout. Mary Rowland, 56, a hospital manager who was walking her dog nearby, said she heard the crack of wood on bone and came running toward them, screaming at the man to get away.
Image: Mentally ill in New York City. YouTube screen grab.
It turned out that the man also struck Moose’s belly, perforating his intestine, and causing fatal injuries. Clearly, the man was dangerous, yet the New York establishment has been unwilling to go after him. Why? Race, of course. Chrustic is White; the assailant is Black. The Times’ John Leland explains this vexing issue:
Real-world ethics question: In a well-used city park, a man with a history of erratic behavior attacks a dog and its owner with a stick; five days later, the dog dies. The man is Black, the dog owner white; the adjoining neighborhood is famously progressive, often critical of the police and jail system. At the same time, crime is up in the neighborhood, with attacks by emotionally disturbed people around the city putting some residents on edge.
In a dog-loving, progressive enclave, where pushing law and order can clash with calls for social justice, what’s the right thing to do? How do you protect the public without furthering injustice against this man?
So again, the man is known to be violent, he’s killed an animal, and he assaulted a woman with a toxic substance—yet his race protects him from the criminal justice system, while her race means that she has no recourse. Again, try imagining this somewhere in Mississippi in 1950 with the races switched.
Well, what can you expect from the New York Times? It is, after all, the terminus of the “college to job” professional pipeline. Everyone who works there is steeped in academic leftism so, naturally, that’s how Times employees view such issues. However, the problem extends to the politicians, too, the people elected (presumably) to make city life livable. There are problems there too.
What the Black man did to the dog (not including splashing Chrustic with a biological substance), can be tried as a misdemeanor or even a felony. The local pol, though, isn’t interested:
Both Ms. Chrustic and Mr. Nammack [a gay man worried about community crime] separately appealed to their representative on the City Council, Shahana Hanif, for help, but they came away feeling her staff members were more concerned with the safety of the man — whom they presumed to be homeless and mentally ill — than with the threat he might pose to others.
Hanif’s spokesperson “Mx. Michael Whitesides” (I assume “mx” means “mixed up”) was clear: “We don’t believe that the N.Y.P.D. is the vehicle to bring safety to our community.” She/he/it essentially said that, if people want to maintain their progressive bona fides, they must be willing to accept violence in their community lest marginalized people end up in the criminal justice system.
On the one hand, the above narrative is appalling insofar as it reflects the values of the New York City establishment. My heart goes out to ordinary people who, for economic or family reasons are trapped in that city. On the other hand, I can’t think of any people more deserving of this pro-criminal viewpoint than the progressives who have visited so many horrors on America, from Biden on down to the crazy, dangerous people flourishing on America’s streets.
New York City Wants $1 Billion to Help Exploit Biden’s Migrants
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.
“We need help — and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding:
Today we’re issuing a clear message — [the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.
Adams also demanded preferential treatment from legislators nationwide:
We need legislation that will allow these asylum seekers to legally work now, not the six months … We need a coordinated effort to move asylum-seekers to other cities in this country to ensure everyone is doing their part and Congress must pass emergency financial relief for our city and others. Finally, we need a bipartisan effort to deliver long awaited immigration reform.
“We expect to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year on this crisis, all because we have a functional and compassionate system,” he said.
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks to members of the media during a New York State Financial Control Board meeting in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The demand was $500 million two weeks ago, as officials counted the cost of housing migrants who are being drawn to the free overnight shelters attracted to the jobs and schooling in the so-called “sanctuary city.”
City leaders want more migrants because they help to cut wages, inflate real-estate rents and values and boost profit for local business leaders.
The policy also generates many customers for the city’s welfare, aid, housing, education, and medical agencies. For example, Adams admitted in his speech that the city is providing overnight shelters to 61,000 homeless people each night, and is adding 5,500 migrant children to the overcrowded and failing schools needed by non-wealthy Americans in the city.
The cheap-labor migrants also provide more profits for investors in the city businesses. Without the extra labor, the investors otherwise would be forced to hire unemployed Americans in upstate New York cities, or other states such as New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
Overall, the Biden migrants being welcomed by Adams allow the city’s Democratic leaders to preserve their high/low economy, where a small number of wealthy landlords and investors keep political power amid a fractured city of divided, diverse, distracted, and poor voters.
Between the 1940s and about 1980, the city’s wage gap was much smaller, in part, because nearly all migrants to the city were outspoken, equality-minded Americans from nearby U.S. states, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
City leaders hide their post-1990s exploitation of migrants behind the 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. That elite-imposed narrative repurposes the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of Americans’ constitution into a “Golden Door” invite for foreign economic migrants.
In his speech, Adams repeatedly declared his support for the Democrats’ policy of extracting migrants from poor countries, even as he tried to blame Republican governors for the resulting economic damage to American pocketbooks:
Our right-to-shelter laws, our social services, and our values are being exploited by others for political gain. New Yorkers are angry. I am angry too. We have not asked for this. There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up. There’s no playbook for this. No precedent.
But despite all this, our city’s response has been nothing short of heroic. From setting up welcome centers, organizing housing, health care, and transportation, New York city agencies and their community partners have done great work in the face of overwhelming need. New Yorkers as always, have responded to this crisis by pulling together as one.
Yet Adams simultaneously denied that the Democrats’ sanctuary city policies have any role in the migrants’ arrival.
“This crisis is not of our own making, but one that will affect everyone in this city now, and in the months ahead,” he insisted, before ending his speech with a contradictory flourish:
Generations from now, there will be many Americans who will trace their stories back to this moment in time. Grandchildren who will recall the day their grandparent arrived here in New York City and found compassion — not cruelty. A place to lay their head, a warm meal, a chance at a better future. Thank you New York, for doing the right thing.
Breitbart News has extensively covered the damage caused to citizens by the establishment’s policy of Extraction Migration.
NYC Mayor Declares an 'Asylum Seeker State of Emergency'; 'We Have Not Asked for This'
(CNSNews.com) - "My fellow New Yorkers, we are in a crisis situation," New York (sanctuary city) Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed on Friday.
He declared a state of emergency, calling for federal and state aid to handle the continuing influx of asylum seekers who are coming to New York City by the busload from overwhelmed communities at the southwest border.
"New York City now has more than 61,000 people in our shelter system," Adams said:
"That includes thousands of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness and thousands of asylum seekers who have been bused in over the past few months from other parts of the country.
"Almost 20,000 are children, and one in five of them (17,000) is an asylum seeker. And every day, the total number gets higher. Every day, from this point forward, we are setting a new record.
"This is a humanitarian crisis that started with violence and instability in South America and is being accelerated by American political dynamics. Thousands of asylum seekers have been bused into New York City and simply dropped off, without notice, coordination, or care — and more are arriving every day.
"This crisis is not of our own making but one that will affect everyone in this city, now and in the months ahead. New Yorkers deserve to know why this is happening and what we plan to do."
Adams said caring for the growing number of asylum seekers -- mostly adults who cannot legally work and who need long-term shelter, health care and other support -- are "burning through the city's budget."
"We expect to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year on this crisis. All because we have a functional and compassionate system. Our right-to-shelter laws, our social services, and our values are being exploited by others for political gain,' Adams said.
In addition to seeking financial help from federal and state governments, Adams called for federal legislation that will allow asylum seekers to legally work, immediately, instead of waiting six months.
"And we need a realistic decompression strategy at the border that will slow the outflow of asylum seekers. We need a coordinated effort to move asylum seekers to other cities in this country to ensure everyone is doing their part. And Congress must pass emergency financial relief for our city and others. Finally, we need a bipartisan effort to deliver long-awaited immigration reform, so we can offer people a safe and legal path to the American Dream."
Adams also announced a partnership with the private sector, where New Yorkers will be able to host asylum seekers and the "unhoused."
"New Yorkers want to help, and we’re going to make it straightforward and easy for them to do so," Adams said.
Right now, the city is housing asylum seekers in 42 hotels turned into emergency shelters, the mayor said. Some 5,500 migrant children are enrolled in public schools.
"We have not asked for this," Adams said. "There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up. There is no playbook for this, no precedent."
The Biden administration refuses to address the ongoing border crisis, as more than 2 million foreigners have crossed illegally into the United States so far this fiscal year. And those are just the people we know about it.
The chart below shows how illegal immigration has accelerated since Biden took office and scrapped the policies that helped President Trump keep the numbers in check.
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