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We will see. A good start (if true), but I don't think that the real leaders will let it happen on this scale. A few for photographs and appearances, but thats it. Biden administration prepares for mass deportations of non-Mexicans to Mexico Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is negotiating with the Biden administration to accept non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States. The potential agreement will allow U.S. authorities to carry out large-scale deportations for the first time. One former Clinton official calls it a game-changer. This agreement could prove to be a breakthrough in securing the southern border. The ability to quickly deport non-Mexican migrants back across the border will reduce the record numbers of illegal crossings. The top immigration official during the Clinton administration, Doris Meissner, said this is likely a precedent. Mass deportations of non-Mexicans to Mexico could be a “game-changer.” She said, “I think we’re into a new era and new territory.” A deal has not formally been reached but the U.S. and Mexican officials said the plan being discussed would support measures DHS is preparing to announce next week that will penalize the claims of asylum-seekers who cross illegally or fail to apply for protection in nations they travel through to get to the U.S. border. There will be a “presumption against asylum eligibility”. The Biden administration told the Supreme Court in a briefing this week that illegal border crossers who ace deportation claim a fear of persecution in their home countries. When the pandemic began in 2020, the U.S. government put Title 42 into effect at the recommendation of the CDC. This enabled the expelling of many non-Mexicans to Mexico under the public health law. However, the Biden administration officials argue that formal deportations create legal consequences they need to deter illegal crossings. There is little doubt that immigration activists and other Democrats will oppose the agreement. The use of the word ‘removals’ seems to be the key to the new agreement. Deportations would be carried out using the fast-track process known as “expedited removal.” That is according to the Federal Register Notices and officials with knowledge of the plans. Notices issued by DHS last month make multiple references to Mexico accepting U.S. “removals.” That is the term for deportations when Title 42 restrictions expire. Removals will be limited to Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Venezuelans when the U.S. is unable to send them to their home countries. Sometimes deportees have been sent to other countries when their home countries refuse to accept them but not at this scale. The Trump administration used the Remain in Mexico program which required thousands of migrants to wait outside U.S. territory while their asylum claims were processed but it didn’t send applicants back to Mexico as deportees. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/02/09/game-changer-biden-administration-prepares-for-mass-deportations-of-non-mexicans-to-mexico-n529428

AND NOW, THE AWARENESS GAP President Biden sat down for an interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff yesterday. Students of ancient history may recall the “credibility gap” whose power was deemed to have brought down a president or two. I would like to seize on Pentagon bureaucratese to declare that we have an “awareness gap” in the Biden administration from the top down. In one of the video clips of Woodruff’s interview with Biden below, the president shows no awareness of a proper response to the exposure of the Chinese spy balloon last week. Biden thinks that the relationship between China and the United States should remain a thing of beauty. The CCP regime paid good money for it and Biden means to deliver good value. Biden’s first response is to state falsely that he spoke with Xi himself to support the proposition that everything is beautiful. But why? Someone must wake the president up. Biden was obviously misleading about his alleged chat with Xi last week, as becomes evident within a few seconds. He does not seem to be aware that some more compelling response than his own somnolence is called for. What we have coming into plain view here is the credibility gap superimposed on the awareness gap. It should be a lethal combination. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/and-now-the-awareness-gap.php

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Putin's War, Week 50. The Calm Before the Storm Here we are at Week 50 of Putin’s war in Ukraine. I hate to sound like a broken record, but the tactical situation is basically unchanged in the last month. The only proviso I would add is that the Russians are visibly trying to gain the initiative in Donbas. This squares with reports we’ve had that Putin gave the new theater commander, General Valery Gerasimov, orders to reach the historical borders of Donbas by the end of March. {snip} We’re beginning to see the first outlines of the anticipated Russian offensive. This is how it is being framed by some observers. I’d only agree to that assessment with a ton of caveats. The Ukrainians are pulling some of their most successful units out of the line and sending them to Germany for maneuver training. Trained tank crews are on the way to Poland and Britain for transition training to let them use the new Challenger 2 and Leopard 2 tanks. Instead of shoveling draftees into the line, they are being sent to Britain and Germany for training. This strategy cedes ground now but will result in a more capable force in a few months. What I don’t think we’re seeing is any indication that the Russian Army can achieve anything other than small tactical gains. My gut feeling is that the Russians don’t have the resources to prepare for an offensive and continue what they are doing — 1) support a spoiling attack in northern Luhansk in the Svatove-Kreminna area, 2) keep up the pressure around Bakhmut, while 3) carrying out shaping attacks in southern Donetsk to set the stage for their offensive. I also don’t see how Russia can translate an army of notionally 350,000 mobiks into combat power rather than a mob that needs to be fed and clothed. They are battering their way to small gains at great cost. They could reach the culmination point of their offensive about the time fresh Ukrainian formations with modern tanks and fighting vehicles appear. https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/02/09/putins-war-week-50-the-calm-before-the-storm-n699478

No problem, we can knock it down after its done.

Disney shares are up Thursday on news that the company is cutting costs and letting go of 7,000 employees. But the real news is that the formerly family-friend studio lost 2.4 million streaming subscribers — and has no plan to end the woke programming that drove them away. Do you know who isn’t getting the boot? Disney+ producer Latoya Raveneau, who admits to pushing a “gay agenda” by “adding queerness” to children’s programming wherever she can. Or Jim Morris, who heads up Disney’s Pixar division. Pixar has been slowly losing steam since Disney purchased the computer animation studio from Steve Jobs in 2006, and its last three films — Luca, Turning Red, and Lightyear — have all been massive flops. Lightyear might have been the worst of the lot. It took a beloved Toy Story bad-ass astronaut whose catchphrase was “To infinity and beyond!” and turned him into an all-too-typical clueless white male clod who couldn’t even successfully leave a single planet. Or Kathleen Kennedy. She runs the Lucasfilm division, purchased from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 billion. Since then, she’s run the Star Wars franchise into the ground with a combination of bad scripts and “the Force is female” wokeness. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/02/09/disney-actually-just-laid-off-2-4-million-people-including-me-n1669278

I agree with you sir, my experience was the same. But in today's world of activism, school libraries should be conscious of what books are available for certain ages, because (unfortunately) there is increasing indoctrination as opposed to education. Sad, but true. In either case, the attempt to use this as some type of example why Ron Desantis is a "bad" man is transparent and wrong.

OUR LYING GOVERNMENT. Holman Jenkins: A Balloon Pops D.C.’s Myth Bubble: Federal agencies have become too comfortable using disinformation. FTA: The story has two parts. The U.S. government has become bad at investigating, apparently—i.e., finding and sharing truths relevant to its domain. The Supreme Court, with the help of U.S. marshals, can’t get to the bottom of who stole and leaked a draft opinion. The IRS hasn’t solved who stole and leaked a decade of tax data on more than 10,000 U.S. taxpayers. The FBI never examined the Democratic National Committee server allegedly hacked by the Russians. It was “forensically precluded” from recovering Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. It remained even fairly oblivious to their disappearance while under a congressional subpoena. The list goes on. Multiple leaks of highly classified intelligence related to both the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations remain unsolved. Though possessing for years video of Hunter Biden using illegal drugs when he claimed otherwise on a federal gun application, a Justice Department investigation proceeds inconclusively. Even the Mueller investigation of Russian election meddling was only a triumph until one of the Russian subjects showed up unexpectedly in a U.S. court. Then Team Mueller folded rather than prove its case. We come to the second part. As its truth-finding skills apparently atrophy, the federal government has become increasingly adept at using false information to solve problems. The FBI used “objectively false” Russian intelligence, the Justice Department’s inspector general tells us, to justify its improper acts in the Clinton email matter. It used false Steele dossier evidence to obtain a warrant on a minor Trump campaign associate. It used the same false information to stir the media’s collusion pot. U.S. officials again promoted false information about the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020. In the latest chapter, father and son now are at odds, the dad having told voters it was a Russian job, the son claiming his authentic data was stolen by domestic partisans whom his father should prosecute. The possibility of federal fact-finding being politicized is unmentionable until it’s not. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-balloon-pops-d-c-s-myth-bubble-surveillance-china-hunter-biden-laptop-ufo-pentagon-11675791973?mod=opinion_featst_pos3We are governed by crooks, liars, and incompetents, and the worst of them aren’t even the ones who have to stand for election.

From the Buffalo News article. Clemente's son reacts Roberto Clemente Jr., Clemente's oldest son, said he initially was taken aback after learning that the book was removed from school shelves. But after researching the issue and then rereading the book, which he owns, he said he is "not really going to fuss about it." Referring to a part in the book where the Pirates legend said he encountered discrimination because he was Black and Puerto Rican, Clemente Jr. said, "I think that statement is where they had that issue." Clemente Jr., who lives in the South Hills, added: "If you have a child who does not see color on anyone and you're going to now plant that seed that we are a different color, that is where I agree 100%. We are the same as far as I am concerned. We are all the human race." "I would teach my son about racism because I went through it personally. But putting that issue out there in school, especially with very young children, opens the door to how teachers could possibly use it for their agenda." Amen sir, THAT is how a MAN reacts to this. Sorry your weak-ass Desantis attack was undone in your own post

Prayers up for his recovery. Sen. John Fetterman Rushed to Hospital During Democrat Retreat. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/02/09/sen-john-fetterman-rushed-to-hospital-during-democrat-retreat-n1669288

WSJ: The State of the Union Contradiction: If Biden is such a success, why aren’t Americans pleased? President Biden devoted most of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to celebrating what he says is a long list of legislative and economic achievements—spending on social programs and public works, subsidies for computer chips, even more subsidies for green energy, and a strong labor market. But if he’s done so much for America, why does most of America not seem to appreciate it? That’s the contradiction stalking his Presidency as he enters his third year and plots a likely re-election campaign. The disconnect is clear enough in the polls. His job approval rating average has climbed to 44.2% in the RealClearPolitics average, which should be better with all of that supposed good news. Gallup has it at 41%. Mr. Biden’s RCP average job approval on the economy is 38%. The latest Washington Post/ABC poll is even worse for the President. Some 41% of Americans say they’re worse off financially than when Mr. Biden became President, while only 16% say they’re better off. Most people—62%—say Mr. Biden has accomplished either not very much or little or nothing. That includes 22% of Democrats. And here’s the really bad news for Mr. Biden. Some 58% of Democrats say they’d prefer a different party nominee for President in 2024, and he even loses a head to head matchup with former President Trump 48%-44%. . . . The President’s biggest problem is that all of his legislative victories haven’t delivered the benefits he promised. The $1.9 trillion Covid bill in March 2021 added so much cash to the economy that it helped to trigger an historic inflation. The result is that most Americans haven’t had a raise in their income after inflation in two years. This takes a shine off the low unemployment rate every time people hit the grocery store. They can see that the nearly $500 billion in spending and tax subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 had nothing at all to do with reducing inflation. Americans also observe a fraying social consensus that has them worried about the country. Crime may not be as high as it was in the 1990s, but it has risen sharply in big cities. The record migrant surge across the border would be less worrisome if Mr. Biden seemed to care about stopping it. The fentanyl scourge isn’t his fault, but its breadth betrays a troubling decay in values. As for foreign policy, Americans can see that the world is becoming more dangerous and its rogues more brazen. Americans aren’t pleased, because he’s not a success, all claims by the Biden Administration and the media — but I repeat myself — notwithstanding. https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-america-polling-economy-covid-11675809441 .

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80 days to go !! SCIENCE !!

No surprise at all Americans outside the beltway know the actual state of the union. Biden's State of the Union Lowest-Rated in 25 Years https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/08/bidens-state-of-the-union-lowest-rated-in-25-years-n700682

Now remember the rules, even though this is an actual video of Joe, since it is posted by RNC you can just pretend it didn’t happen 😎

More SPLC Hatred and bias being spread.

As Jon Karl (ABC) tried to spin the reaction of the GOP, even he said “the stuff he [Biden] said about Social Security was over the top” and “there’s nobody seriously talking about sunsetting Social Security in the Republican Party,” though he did seem that impressed that Biden could push this deception “with a smile.” If no one is “seriously” pushing it, then why is Biden bringing this up? The only answer to that is to gaslight the American people and everyone knows that. That’s not something that anyone should be defending. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/02/08/even-abc-throws-in-the-towel-and-busts-biden-as-some-spin-his-social-security-medicare-remarks-n700558

The 3 Biggest Lies From Biden’s State of the Union Address By Justin Haskins FTA: Lie 3: “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.” One of the most dramatic moments of the State of the Union came immediately after Biden accused Republicans of planning to “sunset” Medicare and Social Security. As soon as Biden uttered those words, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shook his head, some House Republicans shouted “no,” and congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) yelled “liar!” The response from Republicans prompted Biden to go off-script and eventually acknowledge — in one of the most bizarre moments we’ve seen in decades at a State of the Union Address — that Republicans do not support eliminating Social Security and Medicare. “Look, folks, the idea is that we’re not going to be — we’re not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don’t respond,” Biden said. “So, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare are off the books now, right? All right. We got unanimity.” The truth is, Republicans never threatened to eliminate Social Security or Medicare. Some Republicans, such as Florida Senator Rick Scott, have said they would support a plan to sunset all federal programs every five years, but that does not mean they support eliminating them permanently. Instead, as Scott has plainly said, the goal of the sunset provision would be to “fix” and “preserve” programs like Social Security and Medicare, key responsibilities of Congress. It is unfortunate that Biden chose to use this important moment in history to dishonestly attack his political opponents while exaggerating his meager achievements. It was a golden opportunity to move the country in a more positive, unified direction, and the president wasted it. https://redstate.com/jhaskins/2023/02/08/the-3-biggest-lies-from-bidens-state-of-the-union-address-n700601

Joe Biden telling Americans how to raise children, it doesn't get any more ridiculous than that.