38 thoughts on “News/Politics 5-11-24

  1. This is a good idea and all, but again, it’s mostly just posturing. Even if you get it thru the Senate, Biden will never sign it. While it’s a nice gesture and I agree wholeheartedly it’s necessary, it’s DOA at the White House.

    “Congressional Democrats insist that the SAVE Act—which requires proof of citizenship to establish eligibility to vote in federal elections—is unnecessary because federal law (18 USC § 611) already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections.

    Those making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren’t allowed to require proof of citizenship.

    It’s therefore shockingly easy for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference.

    Anyone—even an illegal alien or other non-citizen—can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.

    This is all on the honor system. No proof of citizenship is required.

    It’s not just that state officials—who are responsible for federal voter registration and elections in our country—*don’t* verify citizenship in this context; it’s that the Supreme Court has told them that they’re not allowed to do so.

    In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, 570 U.S. 1 (2013), the Court held that the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA,” known as the “Motor Voter” law) prohibits states from requiring proof of citizenship when processing federal voter-registration forms.

    The SAVE Act would fix this gaping loophole by requiring anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide proof of citizenship.

    It would also require states to review existing federal voter-registration files and remove all non-citizens.

    Remember: every state except South Carolina issues driver’s licenses to non-citizens, and 19 states issue them to illegal aliens.

    This, coupled with the Motor Voter law and the Supreme Court’s ruling, makes it shockingly easy for aliens—legal and illegal—to vote in federal elections, even though they’re prohibited from doing so.

    Considering that there are now nearly 30 million non-citizens in the U.S., including about 12 million who have entered illegally since the last presidential election, we desperately need the SAVE Act.

    While Democrats are already mocking the SAVE Act, they don’t dispute that non-citizens shouldn’t vote in federal elections.

    Rather, they insist that there’s no need for the bill because non-citizens—being prohibited by law from voting in federal elections—categorically *do not* vote in such elections.

    That argument fails for one simple reason: it implausibly assumes universal compliance with a law that has become breathtakingly easy (and correspondingly tempting) to violate.

    Some say that non-citizens wouldn’t dare register to vote in federal elections, as doing so is illegal and could adversely affect their present or future immigration status.

    Even if this assumption were correct with regard to many (or even most) non-citizens in the U.S., that still wouldn’t disprove the need for the SAVE Act.

    If even a tiny percentage of America’s 30 million non-citizens were to vote, they could change the outcome of a close federal election.

    And, as noted by the @I_A_Project, it’s odd for the left to insist so vehemently that illegal aliens don’t vote, given that congressional Democrats have inserted language “to waive inadmissibility for illegal voting in all [their] amnesty bills.”

    Democrats can’t have it both ways; they can’t (1) credibly say that illegal aliens don’t vote in federal elections, and then (2) expect us to forget their own proposals, which assume the opposite is true.

    In any event, and regardless of how many (or few) non-citizens may have voted in the past, why not take steps to prevent it from happening in the future?

    The sanctity of your vote is at stake.

    Now more than ever, we need to make sure that our elections are fair, lawfully conducted, and free of foreign influence.

    To do that, it’s imperative that Congress pass the SAVE Act.”

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  2. The invasion continues….

    “Yet another little-known policy implemented by President Joe Biden last year allows migrants in the U.S. on parole to serve as sponsors for other parolees – and border hawks are not happy with the revelation.

    While the number of migrants in the country who are only allowed in because they are being supported by other parolees is unknown, it’s thought at least hundreds of thousands could be utilizing this policy.

    Any migrants on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or in the U.S. on asylum claims, as well as parolees, refugees and recipients of deferred action, Deferred Enforced Departure or DACA are all able to serve as the support for other migrant parolees, according to policies implemented in January 2023. This creates a ‘chain parolee’ system where parolees are able to bring into the U.S. other parolees by promising to financially support and sponsor them.House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green told DailyMail.com that the policy ‘makes a mockery’ of immigration laws as well as national and border security in the U.S.”

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    Biden has made a mockery of alot of things. This, the presidency, our country….

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  3. Checked and rechecked, right?

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  4. Bit it’s OK, right, because Orange Man Bad…..

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  5. Hamas and Iran aren’t the only terrorists Biden uses our money to fund…

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  6. As much as I love my state, sometimes it is difficult to be here in the midst of what goes on unseen all around us. May God have mercy! He sees and knows it all. Justice is His in His ways and timing. I praise Him for how He is working it all according to His plan.

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  7. Bragg can get a prison cell next to Jack Smith, for evidence tampering and obstruction of justice.

    “A paralegal from Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg’s office testified on Friday during former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial that some phone call records between Michael Cohen and Stephanie Clifford’s (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) lawyer were deleted, raising questions about evidentiary integrity.

    In a bid to challenge some of the evidence being put forward in President Trump’s business records falsification trial in Manhattan, Trump attorney Emil Bove asked paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider in court on May 10 about roughly three pages worth of records that the attorney claimed Mr. Bragg’s office had deleted.

    Mr. Jarmel-Schneider confirmed some deletions. He acknowledged that some phone call records from 2018 between Mr. Cohen and Keith Davidson (Ms. Clifford’s lawyer) had been deleted, along with some records of conversations between Ms. Clifford’s manager Gina Rodriguez and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard about Ms. Clifford’s claim that she had an affair with President Trump.”

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  8. Since I rarely have anything good to say about him, I’m going to confess that I’m not unhappy with the way Biden is dealing with the aid to Israel right now. It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the US interfering in the internal politics of other countries. However, Israel is a somewhat beleaguered ally and defensive weapons with strings attached may help stop the killing. But in the end, ALL nations must learn to live peacefully with their neighbors, especially those on their borders.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/11/joe-biden-ceasefire-in-war-with-israel-up-to-hamas/

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  9. Of course Fauci has his corrupt little fingers all over this.

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  10. Hitler’s crowds roared, too.

    (Running for cover now. 😀 )

    (No, I am not comparing Trump to Hitler, just making a little point about crowds.)

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  11. So no comment on Snopes saying the diary is Ashley’s and Biden’s a pedophile?

    They rated it true, it’s Ashley’s, and she claims Biden showered with her and that she had to shower late at night to stop him from coming into the shower with her.

    For all the complaints from Never Trumpers about his affairs, you’d think this info on Pedo Joe might garner a reaction, but nope…

    That’s weird.

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  12. AJ – I specifically said that I was not comparing Trump to Hitler, merely that I was referring to the point about the crowds cheering. Cheering crowds are not really an indication of much, other than current popularity.

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    Just saw this quote shared by Tim Challies. I wish this could go out all over social media. where too many Christians are behaving like the world in their online discourses . .

    “One of the signs of Christian maturity is the ability to disagree with other Christians on secondary matters without vilifying them.” (J.R. Vassar)

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  13. To finish the point I started to make above, about cheering crowds (I realize I didn’t finish what I was trying to say):

    “Cheering crowds are not really an indication of much, other than current popularity.” And neither cheering nor popularity are really an indication of rightness or ultimate success. There are many throughout history who were cheered by crowds, but were not good people.

    Again, I am referring to the relevance of cheering crowds, not to Trump himself.

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  14. This piece, “How to Make Better, More Careful, More Persuasive Arguments,” focuses on matters between Christians, but it is also relevant to political discourse, too.

    His first point, of only two, is that we should focus on the “what” instead of the “why”. IOW, don’t focus on motives (which we can be very wrong about), but on the matter at hand. ‘Why’ arguments “insist that our opponents are not just wrong, they are bad people, with bad motives, in league with other bad forces in the world.”

    https://clearlyreformed.org/how-to-make-better-more-careful-more-persuasive-arguments/?utm_source=ClearlyReformed.org&utm_campaign=0e0be1455d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_01_06_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0e0be1455d-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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  15. Amen to the Tim Challies reference @11:43.

    One step toward that would be to watch how we speak of those who disagree. Words matter. It’s a request that as a start we drop the name-calling on this thread? Can we not disagree yet still show respect toward one another in our discourse? We’re called to do that.

    Discussions should be abut issues not just throwing vindictive names at (or about) those who disagree.

    We will never agree on politics. It’s a secondary (or third or fourth) issue for us as believers so I think we should be able to all agree on that point. It’s of lesser importance than so many other things for us as believers.

    How we treat (and speak of) those with whom we disagree that should be different from the world’s behavior. A lot different in this particular (and ugly) political climate the nation finds itself.

    Blessings to all of you, may we rejoice in Him who is so much more important than our earthly trials and tribulations (we’re told to expect those in this world).

    And Happy Mother’s Day to all today, as well — hope your day is filled with blessing in whatever state God has placed us 🙂

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  16. I guess it’s appropriate to wish everyone a Happy Mothers Day, but why stop there. Have a Happy Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Day, Happy Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, Happy International Nurses Day, Happy Mothers at the Wall Day, Happy National Anthony Day [to honor those named Anthony, who knew?! ]. And last but not least, my personal favorite, Happy National Limerick Day. And since this is the politics thread, here’s a limerick dedicated to all the happy optimistic supporters of funding our various wars:

    The optimist fell ten stories,
    And at each window bar,
    He shouted to all his friends,
    “All right so far!”
    (author unknown) 🙂

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  17. These are, of course, culturally made-up holidays (mothers, fathers, etc.). But while many of us don’t celebrate those days in a greeting card way (though I do always send texts to all my mom friends wishing them a Happy Mother’s Day on this ‘calendar’ morning), there are ways to connect some of it biblically — in the sense of honoring our parents and what that means, biblically speaking, for all of us.

    My parents weren’t perfect but I often thank God for them, maybe especially so on the Hallmark “holidays” because it’s so in front of us, culturally.

    Thankful, too, for my friends who are such good moms; and thankful for the many women who serve in those ‘mom-like’ roles to others throughout a lifetime, wherever God may place us.

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  18. Debra – I am confused a bit by your last comment. Was that in response to DJ or just a general comment about these “holidays”?

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    Tychicus – Again, my comment was not about Trump in particular, but – despite AJ’s snarky comment about TDS – was specifically referring to the comments on those two posts about the crowds. A politician or other public person attracting big crowds is a sign of popularity, but popularity of the time is not related to whether the person is truly good or bad, right or wrong, or how history will remember them.

    It was just an off-hand comment on that particular matter that has been taken out of context and made a bigger deal than it was.

    (As for TDS, although I do not like Trump in general, I do not fall into the category of TDS. That and other labels like it (woke, fascist, Never-Trumper, MAGA nut, etc.) – are convenient terms to dismiss people one disagrees with without engaging with them and considering what they actually have to say.

    I have seen several people who seemed to fit in one political category or another who actually had some nuanced views on certain matters, not always walking in lock-step with their assumed group.)

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  19. I was just hit with a realization — this year’s Thanksgiving & Christmas holidays will come AFTER this crazy election is over with! At last!

    Although it may not be (really) over as the wrangling will carry on, I’m quite sure.

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