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Mayorkas: Who'll Pick the Cotton -- Er, Crops? Ed Morrissey In an ever-changing world, it's good to have some reliable consistency. When it comes to labor policy, Democrats have consistently made this same argument since ... 1861. {snip} The agricultural argument is absurd on its face in another way. If picking crops is "a job Americans won't do," then it's just as true of illegal immigrants. Estimates put their participation in the ag sector at around one percent. Mayorkas' successor Kristi Noem and new border chief Tom Homan aren't raiding farms to find criminal aliens. ICE is conducting raids in major cities, where mayors like Brandon Johnson have declared "sanctuary" from federal law enforcement. What crops does Chicago produce, anyway? But even if an influx of cheap labor were that important -- to either industry -- the answer isn't to stop enforcing border security. The proper response would be to set up a program for temporary labor to assist US firms as needed and as necessary. We used to have such programs in the past, but those relied on strong border security and strong disincentives for violating the terms of the programs by overstaying or attempting to receive unauthorized services. Did Mayorkas even once suggest such an effort to provide cheaper labor via secure and legal means? So Mayorkas' argument fails any rational basis of consideration. Now let's tackle its moral vacuity. Mayorkas wants to argue that the real value of illegal aliens is only in how they can make life cheaper for Americans. They are apparently only good for manual labor, as a sort of Untouchable caste in the American context, with apparent anxiety that their absence will force elites to perform Untouchable tasks. Or at least Mayorkas thinks that's how the rest of America thinks, which would be an entirely different kind of cynical elitism, but just as despicable. It also sounds aaaawfuuuuuullllly familiar as an argument from Democrats to exploit mass importation of labor to keep costs down for the nobility. Some things never change. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/06/mayorkas-wholl-pick-the-cotton-er-crops-n3800480

Please read it all. Hitler All the Way Down The Left trivializes real totalitarianism. Daniel J. Mahoney The grotesque banalization of Hitler and Hitlerism proceeds apace. The American Left’s discourse is replete with comparisons of President Donald J. Trump to Adolf Hitler and constant evocations of a dangerous “fascist” threat to democracy supposedly coming from an altogether illiberal Right. Kamala Harris labeled Trump a fascist and Nazi sympathizer in a CNN town hall meeting in October, and she and the mainstream media continued to pile on until the November election. When Trump held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on October 27, a little over a week before the election, many Democrats, and the increasingly hysterical talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, compared that rally to a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund in that same venue in 1939. Completely disregarding the impressively multiracial character of the MAGA supporters gathered to hear Trump, as well as the large contingent of Orthodox and Hassidic Jews also in attendance, the media incessantly identified Trump with Hitler and “fascism.” Not only was the deep-seated evil that was National Socialism trivialized beyond recognition, and not only was fascism crudely (and absurdly) identified with any opposition to a hard Left agenda, but crucial distinctions between fascism, National Socialism, and democratic conservatism were elided in a deeply misleading manner. This drumbeat continues to this day. The Trump/fascism/Nazism elision is commonplace in leftist discourse. {snip} Examples of this reductio ad Hitlerum, as Leo Strauss once suggestively called it, are legion and are likely to continue for a very long time to come, thus compounding the damage. As Dennis Prager (himself Jewish) argued in an insightful syndicated column published on election day, immense moral and civic damage has been done to our country by leftists insisting on “calling Donald Trump a fascist and a Nazi and declaring him ‘Hitler.’” Prager points out that “if Trump is Hitler, then Hitler was Trump. Hitler was nothing worse than a German version of Trump—not the instigator of World War II and the creator of the Holocaust; just a German Donald Trump.” The core of National Socialism was a morally insane anti-Semitism and pseudo-scientific racism that, in the end, justified genocidal mass murder, limitless war, and contempt for all decency and moderation. Hitler equated patriotism with lupine imperialism, what Ernst Renan called “zoological” race wars. He recognized no limits above the will of the totalitarian Führer and the self-assertion of the German Volk. He was a nihilist through and through. Trump doesn’t remotely belong to such a perverted and monstrous moral universe. The defamation of American conservatives committed to the preservation and sustenance of a constitutional republic is accompanied by, and culminates in, the trivialization of the monstrous evil that is National Socialism. What is sacrificed is nothing less than the truth and the capacity for measured civic and moral judgment on the part of those who hurl such slurs, and those who hear and accept them. The indiscriminate use of “fascist” and “fascism” does serious damage to historical understanding. More at the link: https://americanmind.org/salvo/hitler-all-the-way-down/

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But, but, President Trump is taking away our freedom (to wear masks) NOT in a felony !

WELL, BYE: Disney Pulls Plug On FiveThirtyEight Amid Broader ABC News Cuts. https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-pulls-plug-on-fivethirtyeight-amid-broader-abc-news-cuts

"It's been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict. And frankly, it's a proxy war..." "... between nuclear powers — the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia. And it needs to come to an end. And no one has any idea or plan to bring it to an end. The plan of the Ukrainians up to now — and their allies on Capitol Hill and people you talk to in other countries — is let's just keep giving them as much as they need for as long as it takes. That's not a strategy."

Meet the Sole Democrat Who Stood for Cancer Survivor DJ Daniel During Trump's Address to Congress By Becky Noble Gillen, a first-term Congresswoman, hails from Long Island, a red blip in a sea of New York blue, and quite possibly, the last existing rational Democrat. https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/03/05/meet-the-sole-democrat-who-stood-for-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel-during-trumps-address-to-congress-n2186305

Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious 'Vaccine Company' Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box by Andrew Kerr During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers. To Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), the September 2024 grant from the NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health doesn’t pass the smell test. Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland. https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/biden-awarded-28-million-to-mysterious-vaccine-company-run-by-his-covid-adviser-and-based-out-of-a-maryland-po-box/ https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_AY2AX000054_7529 https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-announces-awards-develop-computational-platform-multi-virus-vaccine-design

Gee, Dad leaves office and suddenly Hunter is broke.

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