“WEAPONIZATION: Smoking-gun emails show that Biden’s FBI was actively attempting to find ‘crimes’ to charge Trump with in an effort to prevent him from running for office in 2024. ASAC Tim Thibault opened ‘Arctic Frost’ to find a way to frame the GOP’s selection of electors as an illegal conspiracy. His efforts formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against President Trump. Lavrentiy Beria would have been proud… “
“We imported millions who retain loyalties to foreign homelands, who form ethnic enclaves where English is optional. Activists like Omar Fateh call Somalia “our home” while running for office in Minneapolis, and we’re supposed to pretend this doesn’t undermine the national fabric”
“@StephenM: “NOBODY has the right to invade our country, fill up our emergency rooms, take our health care, take our jobs, take our tax dollars, live an entire life on free welfare…Who do you think is paying? … The working and middle class of this country.”
“If you work for the Dept. of Education and are rage posting on Twitter today about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump firing you and thousands of your coworkers, please remember only 27% of all children in the K-12 public school system will be able to read it.”
“It was a TOTAL indictment.Victor Davis Hanson just obliterated former CIA Director John Brennan, as fresh investigations into his actions take a dark turn.
Hanson laid out THREE DAMNING examples of lies and hoaxes that expose the real Brennan.
And he finished with a gut-punch:
“He should be worried. Not about losing his security clearance. But about the very real possibility of being indicted and sent to jail.”
Orange County father of 3 U.S. Marines released from immigration detention center after multiple days
~ The family of Narciso Barranco was reunited with the 48-year-old landscaper on Tuesday, July 15, after bureaucratic delays postponed his bond release from the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center.
Barranco, of Tustin, whose detainment by immigration agents late last month in front of a Santa Ana business garnered national attention because of a video showing him being hit multiple times in the head, was originally scheduled to be released on July 11. ~
(Alejandro Barranco previously said his father was in the process of applying for parole-in-place, which is granted to undocumented family members of active-duty military members, giving them permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year. Three of Barranco’s sons are Marines, two on active duty.)
(hearings on the incident will be upcoming in August)
This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA.
What a GREAT perspecitve… My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.
These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards.
Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity!
Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth.
Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?
We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished.
Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why?
The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity.
We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn’t see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.
We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.
We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”
“The fact is there’s no inflation at the wholesale level since Jan and higher prices for tariffs have not thus far been passed on by foreign producers; to say otherwise is not to argue w/ me but your 2nd grade math teacher:”
“Even w/ core wholesale inflation being adjusted upward for May, the Jun reading was marginally lower, so cumulative inflation for the year is still just 0.5%, an annualized rate of merely 1.2% while the Y/Y core rate plummeted from 3.2% to 2.6% – moving in the right direction:”
“Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties
Are we now to hold up double digit millions of deportations because ya’ll came up with one sob story case where errors were made, when we already deported a million the right way?
“It appears DC Obama Judge Jeb Boasberg plotted a constitutional crisis against President Trump just days before Boasberg illegally and dangerously exposed a military operation to expel terrorists.”
“Anthony Bernal — Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff — just invoked the Fifth Amendment during his congressional deposition.
This week new reporting confirms President Biden’s aides took unauthorized executive actions during his presidency amid his cognitive decline. It’s no surprise that Anthony Bernal is pleading the Fifth Amendment to shield himself from criminal liability. During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health. This is a historic scandal and Americans demand transparency and accountability. We will continue to pursue the truth on their behalf and examine options to get the answers we need.”
This is very underreported. Christians are being targeted and attacked by Zionist extremists in Israel, especially on the West Bank. This article is related to articles I linked last week, but people here took issue with my sources, Haaretz and The Times of Israel . Maybe Breitbart and Ambassador Huckabee are more acceptable.
Omar Fateh was born in Washington DC and calls Somalia home as much as I call the Netherlands home, in other words not at all. First generation immigrant kids participating in electoral politics is a sign of assimilation, not undermining anything.
Illegal migrants don’t receive welfare — it’s almost impossible to receive social assistance without the proper papers. However it’s quite easy to pay taxes without papers.
Who’s paying? Not the working class. I remember being told 48% of Americans don’t pay income taxes and a large percentage of the taxes was paid by the top 5% (I might have read it here or my libertarian friend, the figures are approximate). If you believe the household analogy (I don’t), nobody is paying for the health care, emergency rooms, welfare etc. As the big beautiful bill demonstrates, the US runs a massive deficit and doesn’t pay its bills. As an aside, the household analogy is bogus and to a certain extent it really doesn’t matter that nobody pays.
The bizarre thing about the Dept of Education issue is the president apparently can shut down the whole department without congressional approval and yet can’t cancel student loans on his own. Intuitively that doesn’t make sense — but I’m sure the Court has its reasons. Personally, you only need a federal department to coordinate and maintain curriculum consistency across the country, the rest can be done locally.
This lady is writing from a position of privilege. Sure, in some areas of the US (and Canada) in really nice coffee shops, you can write eloquently about the prosperity around you. If the coffee shop has people using $3000 MacBooks as opposed to $300 chromebooks, you might be in a prosperous neighbourhood but that’s not the view for many Americans (or Cdns).
On average, for those under 35 they are faced with a higher cost of living, higher rent, lower wages, etc than boomers faced in the 60s and 70s and even Gen X in the 90s and 00s. As an MBA student, she should know that American (and Cdn) prosperity has been stagnating since the early 80s. Unless she is a member of the top 10%, her parents are probably not better off than her grandparents. (then again MBA degrees are simply purchased paper to increase your wages with very little learning)
I saw a quote posted by a millennial which makes sense — When my generation hears socialism we think Sweden, when a boomer hears socialism they think the Soviet Union. Sweden is appealing to this lady’s generation — no student loans, universal health care, etc. Sure the Nordic model has its problems but for many in the US its a model that seems better than the high rent, student loans, and health insurance cost
Not sure where some of those X commentators read about the inflation rate but it went up to 2.7% this month a small increase from 2.4% in May. It’s to be expected — if you increase sales taxes (ie tariffs) inflation will occur. Some of the expected tariffs weren’t applied and others have yet to work their way through the system so a mild increase for now is to be expected. More might come depending on whether Trump follows through or does a TACO
One area to look at is the price of cars. Tariffs were put on copper, steel, aluminium etc. Basically the raw materials to construct a car. Thus North American car manufacturers will face increased costs to raw materials whereas Asian and European will access tariff free materials and thus can produce cars cheaper. It’s possible for foreign companies to have an advantage over North Americans even in the domestic car market.
There’s actually good reasons to put tariffs on foreign metals but there’s a lack of planning here. For example, Trump put tariffs on copper. Right now 50% of the copper is imported but there is a mine in Arizona that should put a dent in that figure. The problem is it won’t be ready until probably next year so why not wait…..
A bigger problem is the lack of smelters in the US. As in none that I could come across. In most cases, raw copper has to go to China to be refined. To put a smelter online takes forever and most communities want nothing to do with a smelter. No community no matter how desperate wants one — especially after strong correlation has been established between smelters, low IQs and violence.
There’s more than one sob story, there’s probably hundreds of them. Not to mention some deaths in custody. Again Biden’s admin deported or returned over a million migrants a year without the excess, why can’t this admin — because cruelty is part of the plan? because they are incompetent? because there are quotas? I’m really not sure, but one injustice is enough.
One of the arguments against capital punishment is the likelihood of mistakes. There’s less than a 1% rate of errors but for many that’s too many — you don’t want state sanctioned murder of the innocents. Same here — do you want to imprison, deport, beat, etc the wrong person 1% of the time??? Just for efficiency sake?
Or, in the interest of saving the lives of a few of those privileged citizens, do we go ahead and detain and even deport with the system set up so they can argue their case?
George Retes, a disabled veteran and U.S. citizen, who was employed as security guard at the raid location says he was zip-tied and detained for nearly 2 hours during the recent federal immigration raid near Camarillo. This was justified he was only detained not arrested and he was working for people who support illegal child labor so it seems he’s on the wrong side!
Let’s be clear:
he was detained during total chaos while actual illegal immigrants were throwing rocks and resisting federal officers
Yet the Left is still crying that ICE raids are “inhumane” — while stories like this prove the operation was so chaotic that even American citizens were caught in the mess.
Maybe if California officials stopped shielding illegals, ICE wouldn’t have to carry out massive raids like this in the first place.
This is what happens when:
Local governments refuse to cooperate with federal law
Activists swarm enforcement zones
And ICE has to do its job in hostile, Democrat-run cities
Assault a federal officer, and we WILL track you down to face justice.
Suspected Texas ICE shooter Benjamin Song has been arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder thanks to the great work by our FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation partners!
He now joins 13 others arrested in connection with the heinous Prairieland terrorist attack.
Citizens are not to be detained without charge or access to legal counsel. Abolish ICE. They obviously don’t know or follow the law.
“July 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who works as a security guard at a California cannabis farm said on Wednesday that U.S. officials arrested him during an immigration raid last week and held him for three days without explanation.
George Retes, 25, told reporters he was manhandled by federal agents who broke his car window, damaged his vehicle and sprayed him with tear gas during the raid last Thursday, when immigration officers were confronted by throngs of angry protesters in Camarillo, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Los Angeles. He said he was released on Sunday afternoon.”
As was pointed out the scene was chaos due to attacks on ICE while they were carrying out their JOB! This security guy was caught up in the mayhem and was not arrested. The left is going to play the “I was standing by quietly minding my own business” card every chance they get. He was guarding a business with children working in a marijuana field…is he complicit? Wrong place wrong time…
As was also stated, he was held for 3 days without being arrested or charged. This is an egregious violation of his 3th amendment rights. Abolish ICE and give the job to trained FBI agents who are professionals held to account for their actions. There should not be two tiers of justice. If we do things in a proper manner we are more likely to serve the interests of justice and mercy. If we refuse, I think unrighteousness and it’s fruits will follow.
Wandering Views 
This is what weaponized govt looks like, and an actual conspiracy.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1945128869272387844?t=alEmRTbXMw2yaXT9u6Uyyg&s=19
“WEAPONIZATION: Smoking-gun emails show that Biden’s FBI was actively attempting to find ‘crimes’ to charge Trump with in an effort to prevent him from running for office in 2024. ASAC Tim Thibault opened ‘Arctic Frost’ to find a way to frame the GOP’s selection of electors as an illegal conspiracy. His efforts formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal case against President Trump. Lavrentiy Beria would have been proud… “
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CORRECT!!!!
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1945344889840906312?t=_wFdjVaYtLMiXkHeNKkZQw&s=19
“We imported millions who retain loyalties to foreign homelands, who form ethnic enclaves where English is optional. Activists like Omar Fateh call Somalia “our home” while running for office in Minneapolis, and we’re supposed to pretend this doesn’t undermine the national fabric”
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Another inconvenient truth.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1945236771043692669?t=7ZrSSYQdLxMgXmwb8u9XbQ&s=19
“@StephenM: “NOBODY has the right to invade our country, fill up our emergency rooms, take our health care, take our jobs, take our tax dollars, live an entire life on free welfare…Who do you think is paying? … The working and middle class of this country.”
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Ouch.
Sad, but true.
https://x.com/NotKennyRogers/status/1944861898035618265?t=gz_xilMT3hv2Bp5TH0P7Yg&s=19
“If you work for the Dept. of Education and are rage posting on Twitter today about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump firing you and thousands of your coworkers, please remember only 27% of all children in the K-12 public school system will be able to read it.”
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“It was a TOTAL indictment.Victor Davis Hanson just obliterated former CIA Director John Brennan, as fresh investigations into his actions take a dark turn.
Hanson laid out THREE DAMNING examples of lies and hoaxes that expose the real Brennan.
And he finished with a gut-punch:
“He should be worried. Not about losing his security clearance. But about the very real possibility of being indicted and sent to jail.”
🧵 THREAD”
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1945149617311535441?t=0E_OBpAK_7Ktk54dQRJ7lA&s=19
And the media ran with it as gospel….
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We’re ruled by clowns and idiots.
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1945289198287704202?t=4OlciQ5BF7AeQEIzpq-Iww&s=19
“An MS-13 fentanyl trafficker was just arrested in Providence, Rhode Island.
The mayor and city council president are pledging to investigate…
Not the MS-13 problem, but to ensure police didn’t assist ICE in arresting him.”
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Good news in our area:
Orange County father of 3 U.S. Marines released from immigration detention center after multiple days
~ The family of Narciso Barranco was reunited with the 48-year-old landscaper on Tuesday, July 15, after bureaucratic delays postponed his bond release from the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center.
Barranco, of Tustin, whose detainment by immigration agents late last month in front of a Santa Ana business garnered national attention because of a video showing him being hit multiple times in the head, was originally scheduled to be released on July 11. ~
(Alejandro Barranco previously said his father was in the process of applying for parole-in-place, which is granted to undocumented family members of active-duty military members, giving them permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year. Three of Barranco’s sons are Marines, two on active duty.)
(hearings on the incident will be upcoming in August)
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Interesting insight off Twitter this morning:
This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA.
What a GREAT perspecitve… My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.
These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards.
Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity!
Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth.
Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?
We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished.
Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why?
The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity.
We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn’t see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.
We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.
We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”
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NTers and The WSJ hardest hit…..
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1945472502097965220?t=12hajexBXDVAiV9y0a-8KQ&s=19
“The fact is there’s no inflation at the wholesale level since Jan and higher prices for tariffs have not thus far been passed on by foreign producers; to say otherwise is not to argue w/ me but your 2nd grade math teacher:”
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“Even w/ core wholesale inflation being adjusted upward for May, the Jun reading was marginally lower, so cumulative inflation for the year is still just 0.5%, an annualized rate of merely 1.2% while the Y/Y core rate plummeted from 3.2% to 2.6% – moving in the right direction:”
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1945466304200114470?t=HWeeIFctdaWfjCbW8lXmOA&s=19
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“It’s almost like the economics profession doesn’t fully understand tariffs”
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1945469193756750065?t=xeAEd215Ov8y1If3IM8GWQ&s=19
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https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1945467556287922584?t=EcPdFtwqeyZvgl7em2RZyg&s=19
“PPI in June came in lower than all 50 forecasters in Bloomberg’s survey predicted.”
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Well said at 11:32.
mumsee
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This is my shocked face… 😒
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1945457444047528009?t=mQzu3vcDRIpSSPaNXyRfVQ&s=19
“Memo Reveals D.C. Judges Are Predisposed Against Trump Administration”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/16/exclusive-memo-reveals-d-c-judges-are-predisposed-against-trump-administration/
“Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties
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So quick question….?
Are we now to hold up double digit millions of deportations because ya’ll came up with one sob story case where errors were made, when we already deported a million the right way?
That’s not how this works.
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All under the compromised eye of Chief Justice Roberts, his buddy.
https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1945456294724256197?t=rvXUA_3EydKZqaQCKaDcTw&s=19
“It appears DC Obama Judge Jeb Boasberg plotted a constitutional crisis against President Trump just days before Boasberg illegally and dangerously exposed a military operation to expel terrorists.”
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Go figure. 🙄
https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1945494393773080998?t=fC19cKSyeFLya0D4W7cNcg&s=19
“Anthony Bernal — Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff — just invoked the Fifth Amendment during his congressional deposition.
This week new reporting confirms President Biden’s aides took unauthorized executive actions during his presidency amid his cognitive decline. It’s no surprise that Anthony Bernal is pleading the Fifth Amendment to shield himself from criminal liability. During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health. This is a historic scandal and Americans demand transparency and accountability. We will continue to pursue the truth on their behalf and examine options to get the answers we need.”
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“The Treasonous John Brennan”
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1945240804211003826?t=xh6ysD3y6i05hDPZC6QgEw&s=19
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https://justthenews.com/podcasts/victor-davis-hanson-show/treasonous-john-brennan?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
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Yes. And it’s not one sob story. But yes. Because behaving in a right manner with justice and mercy is worth the trouble.
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This is very underreported. Christians are being targeted and attacked by Zionist extremists in Israel, especially on the West Bank. This article is related to articles I linked last week, but people here took issue with my sources, Haaretz and The Times of Israel . Maybe Breitbart and Ambassador Huckabee are more acceptable.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/07/15/huckabee-blasts-terrorist-jewish-extremists-who-beat-palestinian-american-christian-to-death-israel/
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That certainly should not be tolerated, hate is bad, no matter the side it comes from.
Also, I’d note that the Trump admin’s response thru Huckabee is the correct one.
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As for the underreporting….
You know why. But shhhhhh…..
It’s a secret, can’t be mentioned in polite company….
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Omar Fateh was born in Washington DC and calls Somalia home as much as I call the Netherlands home, in other words not at all. First generation immigrant kids participating in electoral politics is a sign of assimilation, not undermining anything.
Illegal migrants don’t receive welfare — it’s almost impossible to receive social assistance without the proper papers. However it’s quite easy to pay taxes without papers.
Who’s paying? Not the working class. I remember being told 48% of Americans don’t pay income taxes and a large percentage of the taxes was paid by the top 5% (I might have read it here or my libertarian friend, the figures are approximate). If you believe the household analogy (I don’t), nobody is paying for the health care, emergency rooms, welfare etc. As the big beautiful bill demonstrates, the US runs a massive deficit and doesn’t pay its bills. As an aside, the household analogy is bogus and to a certain extent it really doesn’t matter that nobody pays.
The bizarre thing about the Dept of Education issue is the president apparently can shut down the whole department without congressional approval and yet can’t cancel student loans on his own. Intuitively that doesn’t make sense — but I’m sure the Court has its reasons. Personally, you only need a federal department to coordinate and maintain curriculum consistency across the country, the rest can be done locally.
hrw
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This is draconian.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/15/dhs-imposing-huge-fines-on-illegal-migrants/
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Re the 11:32 post
This lady is writing from a position of privilege. Sure, in some areas of the US (and Canada) in really nice coffee shops, you can write eloquently about the prosperity around you. If the coffee shop has people using $3000 MacBooks as opposed to $300 chromebooks, you might be in a prosperous neighbourhood but that’s not the view for many Americans (or Cdns).
On average, for those under 35 they are faced with a higher cost of living, higher rent, lower wages, etc than boomers faced in the 60s and 70s and even Gen X in the 90s and 00s. As an MBA student, she should know that American (and Cdn) prosperity has been stagnating since the early 80s. Unless she is a member of the top 10%, her parents are probably not better off than her grandparents. (then again MBA degrees are simply purchased paper to increase your wages with very little learning)
I saw a quote posted by a millennial which makes sense — When my generation hears socialism we think Sweden, when a boomer hears socialism they think the Soviet Union. Sweden is appealing to this lady’s generation — no student loans, universal health care, etc. Sure the Nordic model has its problems but for many in the US its a model that seems better than the high rent, student loans, and health insurance cost
hrw
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Not sure where some of those X commentators read about the inflation rate but it went up to 2.7% this month a small increase from 2.4% in May. It’s to be expected — if you increase sales taxes (ie tariffs) inflation will occur. Some of the expected tariffs weren’t applied and others have yet to work their way through the system so a mild increase for now is to be expected. More might come depending on whether Trump follows through or does a TACO
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
One area to look at is the price of cars. Tariffs were put on copper, steel, aluminium etc. Basically the raw materials to construct a car. Thus North American car manufacturers will face increased costs to raw materials whereas Asian and European will access tariff free materials and thus can produce cars cheaper. It’s possible for foreign companies to have an advantage over North Americans even in the domestic car market.
There’s actually good reasons to put tariffs on foreign metals but there’s a lack of planning here. For example, Trump put tariffs on copper. Right now 50% of the copper is imported but there is a mine in Arizona that should put a dent in that figure. The problem is it won’t be ready until probably next year so why not wait…..
A bigger problem is the lack of smelters in the US. As in none that I could come across. In most cases, raw copper has to go to China to be refined. To put a smelter online takes forever and most communities want nothing to do with a smelter. No community no matter how desperate wants one — especially after strong correlation has been established between smelters, low IQs and violence.
hrw
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There are almost no USA citizens that do not come from privilege.
mumsee
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1:32 — quick answer – YES
There’s more than one sob story, there’s probably hundreds of them. Not to mention some deaths in custody. Again Biden’s admin deported or returned over a million migrants a year without the excess, why can’t this admin — because cruelty is part of the plan? because they are incompetent? because there are quotas? I’m really not sure, but one injustice is enough.
One of the arguments against capital punishment is the likelihood of mistakes. There’s less than a 1% rate of errors but for many that’s too many — you don’t want state sanctioned murder of the innocents. Same here — do you want to imprison, deport, beat, etc the wrong person 1% of the time??? Just for efficiency sake?
hrw
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Or, in the interest of saving the lives of a few of those privileged citizens, do we go ahead and detain and even deport with the system set up so they can argue their case?
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George Retes, a disabled veteran and U.S. citizen, who was employed as security guard at the raid location says he was zip-tied and detained for nearly 2 hours during the recent federal immigration raid near Camarillo. This was justified he was only detained not arrested and he was working for people who support illegal child labor so it seems he’s on the wrong side!
Let’s be clear:
Yet the Left is still crying that ICE raids are “inhumane” — while stories like this prove the operation was so chaotic that even American citizens were caught in the mess.
Maybe if California officials stopped shielding illegals, ICE wouldn’t have to carry out massive raids like this in the first place.
This is what happens when:
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Assault a federal officer, and we WILL track you down to face justice.
Suspected Texas ICE shooter Benjamin Song has been arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder thanks to the great work by our FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation partners!
He now joins 13 others arrested in connection with the heinous Prairieland terrorist attack.
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Citizens are not to be detained without charge or access to legal counsel. Abolish ICE. They obviously don’t know or follow the law.
“July 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who works as a security guard at a California cannabis farm said on Wednesday that U.S. officials arrested him during an immigration raid last week and held him for three days without explanation.
George Retes, 25, told reporters he was manhandled by federal agents who broke his car window, damaged his vehicle and sprayed him with tear gas during the raid last Thursday, when immigration officers were confronted by throngs of angry protesters in Camarillo, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Los Angeles. He said he was released on Sunday afternoon.”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-citizen-says-he-was-jailed-three-days-after-california-immigration-raid-2025-07-17/
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As was pointed out the scene was chaos due to attacks on ICE while they were carrying out their JOB! This security guy was caught up in the mayhem and was not arrested. The left is going to play the “I was standing by quietly minding my own business” card every chance they get. He was guarding a business with children working in a marijuana field…is he complicit? Wrong place wrong time…
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As was also stated, he was held for 3 days without being arrested or charged. This is an egregious violation of his 3th amendment rights. Abolish ICE and give the job to trained FBI agents who are professionals held to account for their actions. There should not be two tiers of justice. If we do things in a proper manner we are more likely to serve the interests of justice and mercy. If we refuse, I think unrighteousness and it’s fruits will follow.
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*4th amendment
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