Biden-Harris didn't just encourage the migrant invasion - they fostered it, and made it all possible.
Remember, in Biden's first full day in office he signed multiple Executive Orders that ended Trump's successful border policies, and flung open the gates, both literally and figuratively.
The Democrats WANTED an open border. Lied about having one. And did zero to stop it.
Obviously so but where are the democrats who say that? Half the country, our “fellow Americans” are very much on board with whatever the Democratic Party does. This is an impossible situation. No country can function like this and in fact America no longer is functioning as a country.
True, to some extent. Half the Country supports the Democrats because they hate Trump. They generally support the freebies and many/most of the Democrat policies. However, if there was a vote on Border security (ala Trump's actions vs Biden's), and Deportation of people here illegally (non-Citizens, non-Green card Holders,people without VISAs) I believe it would be 80/20 (not 50/50)
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You can have free stuff and secure borders. Or you can have open borders and no free stuff. But, you can't have open borders and free stuff.
A couple of years ago there was a proposal in the Chicago city council to put our Sanctuary City status up for a vote. That went nowhere. The mayor and his allies immediately shot it down because they knew the vote would be against it. Yet still in the last election Trump only received 30% of the vote. Same would happen on a national level.
In the November 2024 elections, Multnomah County (where Portland is) went nearly 79% for Harris/Walz and 17% for Trump. I predict that the stats will lean even more Democratic at the midterms, unless some things happen that push waffling voters away from the leftists.
The few think they can run the many. The riots are full of losers who are perpetually agrieved. Why do they think looting and destroying their own city is going to solve a problem? They are covered like heroes by the corrupt leftist media. Interesting that the protestors and rioters appear to be populated by people who got into the country by our kindness. They are addicted to the drug of free stuff, and we knew it would be tough to break the addiction caused by the free stuff dealers called Democrats. That has always been their plan to win votes for the last 65-75 years.
Those that want to ruin the country are always with us. If they don't want to be Americans and conform to society, they need to be gone. But even deporting criminals is fought for by the left. Who can be a Democrat without a messed up sense of right and wrong?
"Support the freebies" paid for by debt that is destroying the American economy and risking the default of American debt which will throw America into bankruptcy and close down the availability to any further debt. That would cut the budget in half and would force the elimination of generous government spending, made so much worse by tens of millions of unemployed immigrants. It is a doomsday scenario the Democrats are trying to create
At one point, Sanders noted that we can have either Open Borders or Share the Wealth, not both. But of course the Neo-Coms want both: must punish White Supremacy! It's easy to be generous, and righteous, with somebody else's money. So, "decolonize your bank account!" I wonder how many White Americans are on board with that ...
Good article about the hypocrisy of the neoliberal agenda. Thank you. I read Chris Hedges articles on these issues and he too, has his finger on the pulse of something I usually don’t quite grasp, but so many of his predictions have come true. The patterns of history, repeat, the patterns of history repeat in some predictable way, when it comes to sociology, the pathology of those who seek power.
"Half the country, our “fellow Americans” are very much on board with whatever the Democratic Party does."
I am not so sure of that. For many policies, eg boys in girls sports and shipping criminal illegals out, the majority comes closer to 80/20 or even 90/10. People who hate Trump and would never vote for him are often opposed to the same things we are.
On Taibbi the other say, a poll shows that only 27% of young men feel positive toward the Dems. Both the Democrat party and the media have the lowest favorability ratings in history.
Trump is getting lower ratings because of the tariffs, but if he learns something from that, sooner or later people are going to feel better off financially, and safer re national security. Just seeing him in the WH every day makes me feel better.
He's far from perfect, but he's the best thing to happen to America in my lifetime., and I'm 78.
Dem leadership is trying to find ways to patch up the "toxic masculinity" meme. But they repeated it for so long and were / are so cruel in attacking and canceling those they hate, they will have a very hard time winning young hetero men back
Democrats always vote Democrat. I have many Dem friends, and though they are in the 80% or 90%, they cannot bring themselves to vote for the GOP under any circumstances, so brainwashed are they
A lot of voters don't even know that the Democrats in Congress vote unanimously or nearly so in favor of pro-trans, anti-girl and anti-woman legislation. Even if they are informed that this is so, and if they actually accept that information as true, when election time rolls around they recoil in fear at the idea of letting go of the Democrat Party.
Dems vote unanimously in every situation. If they don't, they get primaried. Check out progressive Kyrsten Sinema for one example. They are going after John Fetterman next. The Dem leadership requires absolute subservience and obedience or they will kill people's political careers. Dem leadership is much more brutal than Trump, who talks a good game but does not take action.
It's not half the country and Trump knows this. He's got at least 80% minimum. He's getting the real polls and true numbers. I'm so tired of this "half the country" blatant lie. The democrats have the bullhorn; not the people. Does Trump look anxious? No.
I've heard that is the metric Trump is looking to hit. Q has said similar. That in the end all but about 4% to 6% will never be convinced no matter how much evidence you present.
“I'm so tired of this "half the country" blatant lie.”
Trump got 77 million votes. Biden got 75 million. That’s pretty close to half. You overlook how many follow the msm for their facts. The New York Times sets the narrative for the msm nation wide. That’s why they always seem to be on the same page with things like the Russia collusion hoax and the Jan 6 “Insurrection!” They never even see contrary evidence.
“Aaron Mate: From the Russiagate Hoax to Attacking Russia’s Nuclear Forces.” (35 min)
That's right, Seva! When Americans are polled on the specific policies the majority tend to reject the progressive agendas. But when voters elect their representatives, they choose people who vote in lock step for the extreme left wing positions on every debatable topic. So we end up with the partisan half and half, not the 80/20 outcomes in state and national elections.
At least half the country depends on the other people’s money for government subsidies on housing, medical care, education, food and income. Those subsidies from real net positive tax payers comes in the form of government fed/state/local jobs (eg public school teachers, cops, university professors, etc), food stamps, Medicare, Social Security, HUD housing, public schools, etc.
Essentially, we became Socialist with FDR and increased the bottom 75% dependence on net positive taxpayers in the top 25%
So true, and something that has been known for years: once people know they can vote themselves money, our democracy is doomed.
The Democrats know that the more people they can lure into being totally dependent on the government, the more votes their party will get.
Lyndon Johnson is hugely praised for passing the Civil Rights legislation. But then he very quickly passed the Welfare act, which gave money to mothers as long as there were no men in the house.
With one shot he destroyed the black family and got what he (and all Democrats) wanted: "I'll have those n.....s voting Democrat for the next 200 years." This is a direct quote.
And so typical of the Democrats : it was entirely motivated by "compassion" for the folks who just can't make it in this cold cruel "free country" - which they have been undermining now for decades.
I don't think it is half the country, Seva.. hard core Dems are only about 30-35% of the country... I'm guessing most independents are not going to like what they are seeing in LA...
The problem I see is that independent voters don't get many opportunities to vote for candidates who also think and vote independently. Here in Oregon the state and the leftist cities are controlled by the left wing of the Dem Party and by other political groups to the left of the Dems. The Prog branch of the Dem Party also controls which candidates can get endorsements and money from the Dem Party donors, so the choice of candidates at election time often ranges from left to extreme left. Some moderate candidates won in the 2022 midterm elections, but the leftist cities in Oregon all moved farther left in the Nov 2024 elections.
The independents who don't like to see rioters and looters burning down cities have to actively look for that kind of reporting. If we find it, we have to sort through the accompanying propaganda that all the violence was perpetrated by "right wing terrorists." We then have to contend with the contradictory input that some Dem media at some times acknowledge and report on the violence, perhaps when it becomes undeniable, at which point they justify the fires, theft and property destruction, as an uprising of the Oppressed. The Dems I know, who range from extreme leftists to self-categorized moderate liberals, do not question or delve into media coverage of rioting.
During the 2020 riots in Portland one of the local media companies conducted a poll of level of support for the riots. I can't recall the exact numbers, but the results showed that about one third of the people were in favor of the riots and another third were against the riots. The remainder of those polled said they either didn't know or didn't care about the riots.
Even my home town of Corvallis / Albany is now liberal. Albany, particularly, is a mill town and was ALWAYS conservative, until the past 10 years. Now it has also given away to the far left. The city council is 100% liberal in my once conservative town. Big surprise: that progressive council cannot balance its budget and so essential services like road repair go wanting. They are going to pass a city gas tax. I live in AZ now and want nothing to do with Oregon
The Dems I know appear to be gearing up for martial law to be imposed by Trump, so that they can "resist." I have not heard a single person explain what they plan to do in the way of resistance, but more Dems are talking about buying guns now, even though they couldn't tolerate seeing one in their homes previously.
They are quite deranged but then it’s far from just America that’s unraveling, it’s our whole world that’s in a tailspin rapidly heading for WW3. The momentum for war is ever greater. I believe only AI can alter our trajectory taking us to the abyss. The momentum has already taken on a life of its own and is out of human control.
I know. Having been a post WWII kid raised under the continuous fear of a nuclear war, it is really hard to understand why so many people are agitating for more war, especially a WWIII. I tend to think this is an evolutionary defect in humans. I do wonder if the pro war people would still be rattling their spears if they were the ones who had to do the fighting. It seems like wars now are regarded as movies running in the background, with the option of bringing them into the foreground with a touch of the remote. Why would anyone, especially my age or older, want to go to war with Russia?
I've been reading your comments and finding them fascinating. They are like missives from another planet -- and I live in a "blue" state. Portland must be very different. It might make you feel better to know that the place where you live exists at the extreme edge politically.
Portland has always prided itself on being "different," but it used to be mostly just eccentric. Now it is one of the central nodes of the hive mind, from which new and more toxic waves of insanity are being constantly generated.
California Dems going to be surprised when they try to buy that gun for the first time and are told they need a safety certificate and a license and wait 10 business days to get a reduced capacity gun from an ever-shrinking roster of approaching-obsolete firearms.
That's ok, it will take them even longer to learn how to shoot accurately. A lot of female leftists perform hysteria at the sight of a gun, as in, "I WILL NOT TOLERATE having one of those things in my house!!" (with tears and shrieking).
It's NOT "half the country." "Half the country" didn't even vote, & a large percentage of the votes were fraudulent. This is an 80/20 issue, with almost 60% of Americans in full support of indiscriminately deporting ALL illegals. That's almost double from a decade ago when I also did not support blanket deportation. I still have sympathy for those just seeking non-criminal opportunity, but I now understand that they cannot come & operate here illegally without feeding the cartels.
And, the Democrats tried to foist a bill in the Senate that would have codified their open borders strategy, up to 5000 a day of undocumented, which is almost 2 million per year. They also would have codified nearly unlimited funding for NGOs to house and transport illegal aliens and paid for numerous liberal judges to help them gain asylum. It was a recipe for the destruction of America. That is who the Democrats are.
Yes, and when the Republicans refused to support their horrible bill, they used their slippery forked tongues to claim the Republicans did not want to control immigration handily right before the election. They are so transparent or should I say trans-parent? Vote them out if you can.
Agreed. And, their motivation wasn’t to look empathetic. They want to destroy this nation, it’s culture, it’s financial wellbeing, its values, it’s stature, etc. At the same time, they want to ensure their ongoing power by adding democratic voters both directly and indirectly through election rigging.
Yes. As soon as Biden took office, he made public announcements that all illegal migrants were welcome. Everyone in the world was welcome. Please come and we will also pay you to come. He publicly announced that they would provide benefits to everyone who came. It was broadcast all over the world, in many languages. Migrants themselves told me that their radio stations in their home countries broadcast the message from Biden and they were told to come.
In addition, he fired thousands through his vaccine mandates, supposedly to stop the pandemic. Meanwhile, the migrants crossing the border were not required to be vaccinated and were flown at night to cities around the country. Pretty strange policy.
What we saw in early 2021 MUST be kept in perspective to fully grasp the situation. This great wave of migration was coordinated with all of Western Nations. In Europe’s case they mostly received Muslims.
This is NOT a coincidence that much I am certain. People like Mayorkas is a traitor and until he and his ilk are taught a lesson I will not be satisfied. He needs to be dealt with severely.
Dems are pulling their Confederate routine again; they did similar in 1861, nullifying Federal laws they didn’t like, refusing to recognize Federal authority where prescribed by The Constitution, etc.
This is their stock in trade. The Democrat party is the party of The Old South & the Confederacy. Nothing has changed.
Newsom is fanning this cause his podcast rebrand failed so he's now trying to out-Bernie&AOC with "resisting". He saw how popular Trump became thanks to that mug shot so he wants the similar "martyr" path with police cars on fire and Mexican flag behind him.
it's funny to watch different factions and 2028 prospects trying to one-up each other with ridiculous PR stunts that only step on each other's toes and make everyone forget the previous stunt, while the opposition is collecting clips of all of them to use when the time comes.
The President has the right and obligation to free America from weaponized immigration. Meanwhile, the Democrats insist on proving that they are at war w the Constitution. Clean up immigration, ban the Democratic Party outright, and reset the Republic.
Do you realize what you’ve done here, Sasha? This is the first piece of actual journalism I have read in, perhaps, 15 years.
You clearly presented the viewpoints of both sides in real life. You made it clear which side your sympathies lie with, but that didn’t keep you from presenting the perspective of Team Blue.
There's plenty of great journalism. For example, this morning, Nanette Barragan (D- Long Beach) is on State of the Union explicitly saying that all of the protest yesterday was peaceful and it's just the Feds escalating everything to stomp heads.
Meanwhile at the same time on the split screen CNN is showing video of burning things that protesters clearly set on fire (police cars, things in middle of road, and the actual middle of road with the vegetation on the median on fire). You couldn't do journalism any better.
(all accidental in CNN's case, of course!)(and yes, the video clearly is marked that it is from yesterday, the same time frame Barragan is calling fullly "peaceful")
“presenting the perspective” of “both sides” is not journalism, it’s essentially high school social studies. The only facts presented in this piece are Twitter screenshots.
Who do you think is instigating and supporting the violence? Who should have been blamed? Santa Claus or the Easter bunny? It’s unfortunate that your lefty friends seem incapable of rational discussion and react with violence every single time.
Are you even starting to suspect that your rants about hate are directed to the wrong people? Nah, probably not. That’s a mighty fortress of a bubble you’ve hunkered down in.
They make themselves look bad. Not sure what reality you've been living in but they've been making themselves look bad for a very long time. It's the only thing they know how to do.
A lot of miscalculations. This is exactly the confrontation the Left thinks they want but misunderstands that they don't have narrative control. If they did, they could achieve the same level or even greater impact than they did with the Floyd "Summer of Love". If the media wasn't about to capsize, many in the mushy middle could be made to cover their mouth and say "oh my". Not this time. Instead, if we're lucky, the sheer fraud and mendaciousness of the rent-a-mobs and professional trouble-makers may become the bumper sticker. If Bass and Newsom can be connected directly, the Democratic party loses any remaining legitimacy as the "other side". If we're lucky and Trump can coolly eliminate these false trappings of civil war, then the nation's political realignment can continue apace and one or more serious "other side" organizations might start to emerge.
Because they are the actual fascists - totalitarian bullies who weaponize governments to force their policies on an uncooperative populace. In this country, apparently standing up for individual rights & freedoms is deemed uncooperative by the Left.
It’s important people understand that the bulk of the founding thinkers of fascism were socialists who had grown weary of the revolution that never came and the failed communes of the 19th century.
It’s not even a stretch to understand why the modern left is so totalitarian and violent. It’s baked in from the start.
And I am not one to join up Western liberalism to modern leftism. Modern leftism is Central European in origin, it’s just high jacked half the Western European ideological spectrum. I talk to liberals every day who still think it’s 2000, or 1989. They just have no useful sources of news, so they don’t realize.
Because these tactics have worked for them in the past. If a tactic works once, they always double down and double down again. A showdown over illegals in the 1990s got the Democrats permanent control of California. They are applying that playbook to the whole country today. Their eyes are on the prize of absolute power forever, which is why they will never back down. They will escalate to max, and either they win all the marbles or they get wiped out. There is no middle ground.
Well, gee, golly, who isn't for rioting, arson, attacks upon police, Drag Queen Story Hour in kindergarten and grade school, boys in girls' sports, men in women's private spaces, harassing and killing Jews not to mention defunding the police while supportive of assassination of Presidents and the murder of businessmen?
I honestly do not know how it was possible that California could be brought so low. Between Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, Kamalalala Harris, and Eric Swalwell the parade of nihilism seems to extend forever. That list doesn't even include the clowns who turned San Francisco into a feces-dotted gutter.
Don't leave out Nancy Pelosi, she is still in Congress. And don't absolve Dianne Feinstein. Even if she has passed on, her Congressional actions live on
Id like to see these illegal alien supporting rioters treated exactly the same as the Biden regime treated anti-vaccine mandaters, abortion clinic protestors, and J-6 tresspassers: as terrorists.
I wouldn’t bury Newsom yet…he’s amazingly chameleon-like and CA has voted for him for years….I hope you’re right, tho’. Having him as President would make the Biden years look like Paradise.
Let’s be honest. The open border had nothing to do with empathy. Maybe your average brain dead Democrat who gets his rocks off thinking of him/herself as being politically correct wants to see him/herself as empathetic, but the real reason these criminals were let in was to amass millions of votes for the Democrats. These illegals were used to further the Liberal agenda.
The language the media is using this AM in reference to LA is very telling. What may have started as protests escalated into outright riots. But none of the MSM stories I have seen today are using the word riot. The “by design” is obvious. Juxtaposing “protests” with Trump mobilizing the National Guard the media is intentionally feeding the fascist, dictator meme. They are spreading misinformation for political gain.
A protest is peaceful, organized, and controlled. There is no purposeful violence or destruction of property. A riot disturbs the peace and involves violent crime. There is violent or destructive intent, whether or not that intent was present at the event's outset.
The black community in Chicago is fed up with its own governance. They would probably take the side of ICE and Trump against illegal immigration, which has robbed them of resources.
But it has the help of an oversized Democrat Governor who thinks he’s Presidential material (he’s not) to go along with a nincompoop loser of a mayor in Brandon Johnson.
(The Center Square) — A new study paints a bleak picture of the economic health of Illinois.
The personal finance website WalletHub has released its findings of the best and worst state economies.
Researcher Chip Lugo said Wallethub used three economic categories including economic activity, economic health and innovation potential.
“Then we applied 28 relevant metrics, and those run everything from GDP growth, start-up activity and share of jobs in high-tech industries,” said Lugo.
Overall, the study ranked Illinois 40th for its state economy but dead last in the economic health category.
“Fifty-one out of 50 states and Washington, D.C.,” said Lugo. “A number of things Illinois did not fare well in that particular dimension.”
Illinois ranked 48th in change in nonfarm payrolls, 41st in economic activity, and scored poorly for high foreclosure rates and the state’s unemployment rate.
I could not possibly despise Governor Jabba the Hut more than I do. I may literally leave the country if that pig becomes president, like the lefty celebrities did with Trump.
And the wackest thing is that he is literally the Democrat version of everything they claim to hate about Trump: A bombastic, obese billionaire who was born into money. Except without Trump's sense of humor and brash charm.
Purely a guess on my part, but I’d wager that all of the incitement is coming from paid agitators and virtually none of these protests include actual immigrants, illegal or otherwise. This is a real opportunity to start rounding up Antifa and whatever other groups exist out there and throwing them into prison holes.
Watch for who is paying their legal bills and make it all public.
Sadly but likely just the beginning of this behavior in every major city and some smaller ones as Trump and Homan secure our border. The deranged democrats and MSM will stoke the fires as Bass has done. And the ignorant sheeple will continue to follow.
Between the fires, riots, homeless, and overall a very dirty city, I don’t see how on earth LA can host the Olympics. How is this going to happen with so many setbacks? Newsom and Bass seem to be more worried about their political careers than the future of our city. CA cannot be separated from the federal government and neither can their offices. It seems they want it to be so.
Biden-Harris didn't just encourage the migrant invasion - they fostered it, and made it all possible.
Remember, in Biden's first full day in office he signed multiple Executive Orders that ended Trump's successful border policies, and flung open the gates, both literally and figuratively.
The Democrats WANTED an open border. Lied about having one. And did zero to stop it.
This was all treasonous.
“This was all treasonous.”
Obviously so but where are the democrats who say that? Half the country, our “fellow Americans” are very much on board with whatever the Democratic Party does. This is an impossible situation. No country can function like this and in fact America no longer is functioning as a country.
True, to some extent. Half the Country supports the Democrats because they hate Trump. They generally support the freebies and many/most of the Democrat policies. However, if there was a vote on Border security (ala Trump's actions vs Biden's), and Deportation of people here illegally (non-Citizens, non-Green card Holders,people without VISAs) I believe it would be 80/20 (not 50/50)
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You can have free stuff and secure borders. Or you can have open borders and no free stuff. But, you can't have open borders and free stuff.
But Newsome and friends try to convince us otherwise. And a helluva lot of people believe him. And that ass, Bass.
“if there was a vote on Border security)
A couple of years ago there was a proposal in the Chicago city council to put our Sanctuary City status up for a vote. That went nowhere. The mayor and his allies immediately shot it down because they knew the vote would be against it. Yet still in the last election Trump only received 30% of the vote. Same would happen on a national level.
In the November 2024 elections, Multnomah County (where Portland is) went nearly 79% for Harris/Walz and 17% for Trump. I predict that the stats will lean even more Democratic at the midterms, unless some things happen that push waffling voters away from the leftists.
The few think they can run the many. The riots are full of losers who are perpetually agrieved. Why do they think looting and destroying their own city is going to solve a problem? They are covered like heroes by the corrupt leftist media. Interesting that the protestors and rioters appear to be populated by people who got into the country by our kindness. They are addicted to the drug of free stuff, and we knew it would be tough to break the addiction caused by the free stuff dealers called Democrats. That has always been their plan to win votes for the last 65-75 years.
Those that want to ruin the country are always with us. If they don't want to be Americans and conform to society, they need to be gone. But even deporting criminals is fought for by the left. Who can be a Democrat without a messed up sense of right and wrong?
"Support the freebies" paid for by debt that is destroying the American economy and risking the default of American debt which will throw America into bankruptcy and close down the availability to any further debt. That would cut the budget in half and would force the elimination of generous government spending, made so much worse by tens of millions of unemployed immigrants. It is a doomsday scenario the Democrats are trying to create
I’m naive. What do the Democrats gain by this? Power of dictatorship?
At one point, Sanders noted that we can have either Open Borders or Share the Wealth, not both. But of course the Neo-Coms want both: must punish White Supremacy! It's easy to be generous, and righteous, with somebody else's money. So, "decolonize your bank account!" I wonder how many White Americans are on board with that ...
I’m on board with a nationwide tax strike. Just don’t file. They can’t come after all of us.
Good article about the hypocrisy of the neoliberal agenda. Thank you. I read Chris Hedges articles on these issues and he too, has his finger on the pulse of something I usually don’t quite grasp, but so many of his predictions have come true. The patterns of history, repeat, the patterns of history repeat in some predictable way, when it comes to sociology, the pathology of those who seek power.
"Half the country, our “fellow Americans” are very much on board with whatever the Democratic Party does."
I am not so sure of that. For many policies, eg boys in girls sports and shipping criminal illegals out, the majority comes closer to 80/20 or even 90/10. People who hate Trump and would never vote for him are often opposed to the same things we are.
On Taibbi the other say, a poll shows that only 27% of young men feel positive toward the Dems. Both the Democrat party and the media have the lowest favorability ratings in history.
Trump is getting lower ratings because of the tariffs, but if he learns something from that, sooner or later people are going to feel better off financially, and safer re national security. Just seeing him in the WH every day makes me feel better.
He's far from perfect, but he's the best thing to happen to America in my lifetime., and I'm 78.
Dems demonize young men at every turn. Why WOULD young men feel favorable to them.
Same with white people.
Dem leadership is trying to find ways to patch up the "toxic masculinity" meme. But they repeated it for so long and were / are so cruel in attacking and canceling those they hate, they will have a very hard time winning young hetero men back
Democrats always vote Democrat. I have many Dem friends, and though they are in the 80% or 90%, they cannot bring themselves to vote for the GOP under any circumstances, so brainwashed are they
A lot of voters don't even know that the Democrats in Congress vote unanimously or nearly so in favor of pro-trans, anti-girl and anti-woman legislation. Even if they are informed that this is so, and if they actually accept that information as true, when election time rolls around they recoil in fear at the idea of letting go of the Democrat Party.
Dems vote unanimously in every situation. If they don't, they get primaried. Check out progressive Kyrsten Sinema for one example. They are going after John Fetterman next. The Dem leadership requires absolute subservience and obedience or they will kill people's political careers. Dem leadership is much more brutal than Trump, who talks a good game but does not take action.
It's not half the country and Trump knows this. He's got at least 80% minimum. He's getting the real polls and true numbers. I'm so tired of this "half the country" blatant lie. The democrats have the bullhorn; not the people. Does Trump look anxious? No.
I heard it was a 90/10 issue and because of that, far more than the price of eggs, Trump went over the top. This was the number one issue. Period.
I've heard that is the metric Trump is looking to hit. Q has said similar. That in the end all but about 4% to 6% will never be convinced no matter how much evidence you present.
“I'm so tired of this "half the country" blatant lie.”
Trump got 77 million votes. Biden got 75 million. That’s pretty close to half. You overlook how many follow the msm for their facts. The New York Times sets the narrative for the msm nation wide. That’s why they always seem to be on the same page with things like the Russia collusion hoax and the Jan 6 “Insurrection!” They never even see contrary evidence.
“Aaron Mate: From the Russiagate Hoax to Attacking Russia’s Nuclear Forces.” (35 min)
Glenn Diesen interviews Aaron Mate. Jun 4, 2025
https://youtu.be/GoZ6pwZTyfA?si=ehQaTAJbxjT2d3BI
“From Doctor to Political Prisoner: Dr Simone Gold on Covid lies, January 6, and Medical Tyranny.” (15 min)
Kim Iversen. Mar 5, 2025
https://youtu.be/k3lqtVHA9kA?si=6WI6Ccx_ss3YUGOA
Biden did not get 75 million votes. Biden got BALLOTS!
That's right, Seva! When Americans are polled on the specific policies the majority tend to reject the progressive agendas. But when voters elect their representatives, they choose people who vote in lock step for the extreme left wing positions on every debatable topic. So we end up with the partisan half and half, not the 80/20 outcomes in state and national elections.
At least half the country depends on the other people’s money for government subsidies on housing, medical care, education, food and income. Those subsidies from real net positive tax payers comes in the form of government fed/state/local jobs (eg public school teachers, cops, university professors, etc), food stamps, Medicare, Social Security, HUD housing, public schools, etc.
Essentially, we became Socialist with FDR and increased the bottom 75% dependence on net positive taxpayers in the top 25%
So true, and something that has been known for years: once people know they can vote themselves money, our democracy is doomed.
The Democrats know that the more people they can lure into being totally dependent on the government, the more votes their party will get.
Lyndon Johnson is hugely praised for passing the Civil Rights legislation. But then he very quickly passed the Welfare act, which gave money to mothers as long as there were no men in the house.
With one shot he destroyed the black family and got what he (and all Democrats) wanted: "I'll have those n.....s voting Democrat for the next 200 years." This is a direct quote.
And so typical of the Democrats : it was entirely motivated by "compassion" for the folks who just can't make it in this cold cruel "free country" - which they have been undermining now for decades.
I don't think it is half the country, Seva.. hard core Dems are only about 30-35% of the country... I'm guessing most independents are not going to like what they are seeing in LA...
The problem I see is that independent voters don't get many opportunities to vote for candidates who also think and vote independently. Here in Oregon the state and the leftist cities are controlled by the left wing of the Dem Party and by other political groups to the left of the Dems. The Prog branch of the Dem Party also controls which candidates can get endorsements and money from the Dem Party donors, so the choice of candidates at election time often ranges from left to extreme left. Some moderate candidates won in the 2022 midterm elections, but the leftist cities in Oregon all moved farther left in the Nov 2024 elections.
The independents who don't like to see rioters and looters burning down cities have to actively look for that kind of reporting. If we find it, we have to sort through the accompanying propaganda that all the violence was perpetrated by "right wing terrorists." We then have to contend with the contradictory input that some Dem media at some times acknowledge and report on the violence, perhaps when it becomes undeniable, at which point they justify the fires, theft and property destruction, as an uprising of the Oppressed. The Dems I know, who range from extreme leftists to self-categorized moderate liberals, do not question or delve into media coverage of rioting.
During the 2020 riots in Portland one of the local media companies conducted a poll of level of support for the riots. I can't recall the exact numbers, but the results showed that about one third of the people were in favor of the riots and another third were against the riots. The remainder of those polled said they either didn't know or didn't care about the riots.
Even my home town of Corvallis / Albany is now liberal. Albany, particularly, is a mill town and was ALWAYS conservative, until the past 10 years. Now it has also given away to the far left. The city council is 100% liberal in my once conservative town. Big surprise: that progressive council cannot balance its budget and so essential services like road repair go wanting. They are going to pass a city gas tax. I live in AZ now and want nothing to do with Oregon
The Dems I know appear to be gearing up for martial law to be imposed by Trump, so that they can "resist." I have not heard a single person explain what they plan to do in the way of resistance, but more Dems are talking about buying guns now, even though they couldn't tolerate seeing one in their homes previously.
They are quite deranged but then it’s far from just America that’s unraveling, it’s our whole world that’s in a tailspin rapidly heading for WW3. The momentum for war is ever greater. I believe only AI can alter our trajectory taking us to the abyss. The momentum has already taken on a life of its own and is out of human control.
I know. Having been a post WWII kid raised under the continuous fear of a nuclear war, it is really hard to understand why so many people are agitating for more war, especially a WWIII. I tend to think this is an evolutionary defect in humans. I do wonder if the pro war people would still be rattling their spears if they were the ones who had to do the fighting. It seems like wars now are regarded as movies running in the background, with the option of bringing them into the foreground with a touch of the remote. Why would anyone, especially my age or older, want to go to war with Russia?
I've been reading your comments and finding them fascinating. They are like missives from another planet -- and I live in a "blue" state. Portland must be very different. It might make you feel better to know that the place where you live exists at the extreme edge politically.
Portland has always prided itself on being "different," but it used to be mostly just eccentric. Now it is one of the central nodes of the hive mind, from which new and more toxic waves of insanity are being constantly generated.
California Dems going to be surprised when they try to buy that gun for the first time and are told they need a safety certificate and a license and wait 10 business days to get a reduced capacity gun from an ever-shrinking roster of approaching-obsolete firearms.
That's ok, it will take them even longer to learn how to shoot accurately. A lot of female leftists perform hysteria at the sight of a gun, as in, "I WILL NOT TOLERATE having one of those things in my house!!" (with tears and shrieking).
It's NOT "half the country." "Half the country" didn't even vote, & a large percentage of the votes were fraudulent. This is an 80/20 issue, with almost 60% of Americans in full support of indiscriminately deporting ALL illegals. That's almost double from a decade ago when I also did not support blanket deportation. I still have sympathy for those just seeking non-criminal opportunity, but I now understand that they cannot come & operate here illegally without feeding the cartels.
And, the Democrats tried to foist a bill in the Senate that would have codified their open borders strategy, up to 5000 a day of undocumented, which is almost 2 million per year. They also would have codified nearly unlimited funding for NGOs to house and transport illegal aliens and paid for numerous liberal judges to help them gain asylum. It was a recipe for the destruction of America. That is who the Democrats are.
Bingo! That was the Dem idea of "comprehensive immigration reform" = Open Borders.
Yes, and when the Republicans refused to support their horrible bill, they used their slippery forked tongues to claim the Republicans did not want to control immigration handily right before the election. They are so transparent or should I say trans-parent? Vote them out if you can.
Agreed. And, their motivation wasn’t to look empathetic. They want to destroy this nation, it’s culture, it’s financial wellbeing, its values, it’s stature, etc. At the same time, they want to ensure their ongoing power by adding democratic voters both directly and indirectly through election rigging.
Yes. As soon as Biden took office, he made public announcements that all illegal migrants were welcome. Everyone in the world was welcome. Please come and we will also pay you to come. He publicly announced that they would provide benefits to everyone who came. It was broadcast all over the world, in many languages. Migrants themselves told me that their radio stations in their home countries broadcast the message from Biden and they were told to come.
In addition, he fired thousands through his vaccine mandates, supposedly to stop the pandemic. Meanwhile, the migrants crossing the border were not required to be vaccinated and were flown at night to cities around the country. Pretty strange policy.
The NGOs and cartels also promoted that message.
“Mass Graves Discovered in Mexico: Trump Cleans Up Biden’s Border Disaster.” (55 min)
Kim Iversen interviews Oscar Ramirez. May 21, 2025
https://youtu.be/voTOkZzgfeM?si=UynG69qHrH-cpLlu
They (all of the Dems running) said it during the primary in 2019 and 2020 - they ALL ran on open borders and free healthcare for them.
They paid for it as well those millions that came received direct support from NGO’s funded by the Federal Government
What we saw in early 2021 MUST be kept in perspective to fully grasp the situation. This great wave of migration was coordinated with all of Western Nations. In Europe’s case they mostly received Muslims.
This is NOT a coincidence that much I am certain. People like Mayorkas is a traitor and until he and his ilk are taught a lesson I will not be satisfied. He needs to be dealt with severely.
Dems are pulling their Confederate routine again; they did similar in 1861, nullifying Federal laws they didn’t like, refusing to recognize Federal authority where prescribed by The Constitution, etc.
This is their stock in trade. The Democrat party is the party of The Old South & the Confederacy. Nothing has changed.
I agree. It is treason and I voted for Trump because I want to see justice done! Line these traitors up against the wall and ¡Fuego!
Newsom is fanning this cause his podcast rebrand failed so he's now trying to out-Bernie&AOC with "resisting". He saw how popular Trump became thanks to that mug shot so he wants the similar "martyr" path with police cars on fire and Mexican flag behind him.
it's funny to watch different factions and 2028 prospects trying to one-up each other with ridiculous PR stunts that only step on each other's toes and make everyone forget the previous stunt, while the opposition is collecting clips of all of them to use when the time comes.
The President has the right and obligation to free America from weaponized immigration. Meanwhile, the Democrats insist on proving that they are at war w the Constitution. Clean up immigration, ban the Democratic Party outright, and reset the Republic.
History, study Reagan.
Do you realize what you’ve done here, Sasha? This is the first piece of actual journalism I have read in, perhaps, 15 years.
You clearly presented the viewpoints of both sides in real life. You made it clear which side your sympathies lie with, but that didn’t keep you from presenting the perspective of Team Blue.
Beautiful work.
There's plenty of great journalism. For example, this morning, Nanette Barragan (D- Long Beach) is on State of the Union explicitly saying that all of the protest yesterday was peaceful and it's just the Feds escalating everything to stomp heads.
Meanwhile at the same time on the split screen CNN is showing video of burning things that protesters clearly set on fire (police cars, things in middle of road, and the actual middle of road with the vegetation on the median on fire). You couldn't do journalism any better.
(all accidental in CNN's case, of course!)(and yes, the video clearly is marked that it is from yesterday, the same time frame Barragan is calling fullly "peaceful")
It’s dejavu all over again!
Gee where have we seen that before. 🤠
Hey Peri, Sasha’s been doing this for a while. “Welcome to the party pal…”
“presenting the perspective” of “both sides” is not journalism, it’s essentially high school social studies. The only facts presented in this piece are Twitter screenshots.
Who do you think is instigating and supporting the violence? Who should have been blamed? Santa Claus or the Easter bunny? It’s unfortunate that your lefty friends seem incapable of rational discussion and react with violence every single time.
Are you even starting to suspect that your rants about hate are directed to the wrong people? Nah, probably not. That’s a mighty fortress of a bubble you’ve hunkered down in.
They are the enemy!!
They make themselves look bad. Not sure what reality you've been living in but they've been making themselves look bad for a very long time. It's the only thing they know how to do.
A lot of miscalculations. This is exactly the confrontation the Left thinks they want but misunderstands that they don't have narrative control. If they did, they could achieve the same level or even greater impact than they did with the Floyd "Summer of Love". If the media wasn't about to capsize, many in the mushy middle could be made to cover their mouth and say "oh my". Not this time. Instead, if we're lucky, the sheer fraud and mendaciousness of the rent-a-mobs and professional trouble-makers may become the bumper sticker. If Bass and Newsom can be connected directly, the Democratic party loses any remaining legitimacy as the "other side". If we're lucky and Trump can coolly eliminate these false trappings of civil war, then the nation's political realignment can continue apace and one or more serious "other side" organizations might start to emerge.
I think you are spot on target here. Well stated. Thank you for this.
Maybe they were on the criminals side all along?
That is precisely why the Democrats need to escalate to the max - and quickly. They need bloody street battles. Millions dead. And they need it now.
Why are democrats such violent people?
Is this the Summer of Love Part II?
Because they are the actual fascists - totalitarian bullies who weaponize governments to force their policies on an uncooperative populace. In this country, apparently standing up for individual rights & freedoms is deemed uncooperative by the Left.
It’s important people understand that the bulk of the founding thinkers of fascism were socialists who had grown weary of the revolution that never came and the failed communes of the 19th century.
It’s not even a stretch to understand why the modern left is so totalitarian and violent. It’s baked in from the start.
And I am not one to join up Western liberalism to modern leftism. Modern leftism is Central European in origin, it’s just high jacked half the Western European ideological spectrum. I talk to liberals every day who still think it’s 2000, or 1989. They just have no useful sources of news, so they don’t realize.
Because they are the actual racists and they can only achieve power by lies because no one would vote for what they believe in
Actually Summer of Love Part XXII
lol
Because these tactics have worked for them in the past. If a tactic works once, they always double down and double down again. A showdown over illegals in the 1990s got the Democrats permanent control of California. They are applying that playbook to the whole country today. Their eyes are on the prize of absolute power forever, which is why they will never back down. They will escalate to max, and either they win all the marbles or they get wiped out. There is no middle ground.
Well, gee, golly, who isn't for rioting, arson, attacks upon police, Drag Queen Story Hour in kindergarten and grade school, boys in girls' sports, men in women's private spaces, harassing and killing Jews not to mention defunding the police while supportive of assassination of Presidents and the murder of businessmen?
I honestly do not know how it was possible that California could be brought so low. Between Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, Kamalalala Harris, and Eric Swalwell the parade of nihilism seems to extend forever. That list doesn't even include the clowns who turned San Francisco into a feces-dotted gutter.
Don't leave out Nancy Pelosi, she is still in Congress. And don't absolve Dianne Feinstein. Even if she has passed on, her Congressional actions live on
Id like to see these illegal alien supporting rioters treated exactly the same as the Biden regime treated anti-vaccine mandaters, abortion clinic protestors, and J-6 tresspassers: as terrorists.
Trespassers??? Rewriting history much? We all see it happen in real time. Speaking of real…..get real!!!!
I wouldn’t bury Newsom yet…he’s amazingly chameleon-like and CA has voted for him for years….I hope you’re right, tho’. Having him as President would make the Biden years look like Paradise.
But check out voters choices in other blue states! You don’t think they’d vote for Newsom?
Hope you’re right. We left CA in 1998. Glad we did.
Let’s be honest. The open border had nothing to do with empathy. Maybe your average brain dead Democrat who gets his rocks off thinking of him/herself as being politically correct wants to see him/herself as empathetic, but the real reason these criminals were let in was to amass millions of votes for the Democrats. These illegals were used to further the Liberal agenda.
Slight correction: him/herself/theyself
Ha ha
I'll believe it when I see a stake through his heart and a coffin full of garlic.
That will only work for Stephen Nosferatu Miller
The language the media is using this AM in reference to LA is very telling. What may have started as protests escalated into outright riots. But none of the MSM stories I have seen today are using the word riot. The “by design” is obvious. Juxtaposing “protests” with Trump mobilizing the National Guard the media is intentionally feeding the fascist, dictator meme. They are spreading misinformation for political gain.
A protest is peaceful, organized, and controlled. There is no purposeful violence or destruction of property. A riot disturbs the peace and involves violent crime. There is violent or destructive intent, whether or not that intent was present at the event's outset.
"Mostly peaceful" 🙄
Because the term "riot" is racist, didn't you know that?
I think Newsom's chances for President were over after DeSantis mopped the floor with Newsom during the Nov 2023 debate.
I respectfully disagree. I'm not fan of Newsom and I see it but many don't unfortunately, which is very scary!
You are putting too much stock in the American people.
Yup, so sadly accurate.
🎯
Definitely
Makes me wonder if Illinois/Chicago is next. With JB around, calling for violence, that could make LA look like a campfire.
The black community in Chicago is fed up with its own governance. They would probably take the side of ICE and Trump against illegal immigration, which has robbed them of resources.
I remember when Lightfoot ran for mayor how she tried to pass out $20 gas cards to entice those in the ‘hood to vote for her.
So easily swayed…
And now, Lightfoot looks like the messiah compared to this guy !
Hard to believe but, yep.
Chicago is a sinking ship as are all democrat run cities.
But it has the help of an oversized Democrat Governor who thinks he’s Presidential material (he’s not) to go along with a nincompoop loser of a mayor in Brandon Johnson.
Illinois places last in the country for economic health: Study
https://www.therightreasons.net/topic/115692-illinois-places-last-in-the-country-for-economic-health-study/#comment-691899
The Washington Examiner/The Center Square
Center Square
June 7, 2025
(The Center Square) — A new study paints a bleak picture of the economic health of Illinois.
The personal finance website WalletHub has released its findings of the best and worst state economies.
Researcher Chip Lugo said Wallethub used three economic categories including economic activity, economic health and innovation potential.
“Then we applied 28 relevant metrics, and those run everything from GDP growth, start-up activity and share of jobs in high-tech industries,” said Lugo.
Overall, the study ranked Illinois 40th for its state economy but dead last in the economic health category.
“Fifty-one out of 50 states and Washington, D.C.,” said Lugo. “A number of things Illinois did not fare well in that particular dimension.”
Illinois ranked 48th in change in nonfarm payrolls, 41st in economic activity, and scored poorly for high foreclosure rates and the state’s unemployment rate.
(Snip)
I could not possibly despise Governor Jabba the Hut more than I do. I may literally leave the country if that pig becomes president, like the lefty celebrities did with Trump.
And the wackest thing is that he is literally the Democrat version of everything they claim to hate about Trump: A bombastic, obese billionaire who was born into money. Except without Trump's sense of humor and brash charm.
Perhaps the “biggest” (no pun, really) political disappointment in my lifetime-at least on a state/local level. Rham Emanuel is a clear second.
Purely a guess on my part, but I’d wager that all of the incitement is coming from paid agitators and virtually none of these protests include actual immigrants, illegal or otherwise. This is a real opportunity to start rounding up Antifa and whatever other groups exist out there and throwing them into prison holes.
Watch for who is paying their legal bills and make it all public.
I think they are paid but i also think there are plenty of illegals rioting with impunity, and they’re likely paid too.
Follow the money and charge them.
The Left has essentially all the money, but they wash it through so many NGOs and cutouts that it is impossible to trace.
I think there are plenty of illegal immigrants in the bunch. Hence all the Mexican flags. Looks like it to me, anyway.
Sadly but likely just the beginning of this behavior in every major city and some smaller ones as Trump and Homan secure our border. The deranged democrats and MSM will stoke the fires as Bass has done. And the ignorant sheeple will continue to follow.
Agree. And those are the people who vote for Newsome and Prickster
Yes, I've been wondering about that. I think he might find himself a small fish in a big pond if he runs for President.
Prickster - love it!
A democrat said just the other day that they need them here to "wipe their ass*s" !
And here are the groups using your tax money to fund the agitations. She outlines in the replies.
https://x.com/datarepublican/status/1931508083127362024?s=46
Between the fires, riots, homeless, and overall a very dirty city, I don’t see how on earth LA can host the Olympics. How is this going to happen with so many setbacks? Newsom and Bass seem to be more worried about their political careers than the future of our city. CA cannot be separated from the federal government and neither can their offices. It seems they want it to be so.
No one is coming to the Olympics apart from Russia!! The rest of the world will sanction and boycott USA if things keep going the way they are.
Who cares about the Olympics?
Spoken like a short sighted Nihlist!!