By Mitch Berg
I’m no expert, but it looks to me that keeping the southern border open is more important to the Biden administration than either Ukraine or Israel.
Again – no expert. But those seem like strange priorities for the American executive branch.
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December 14th, 2023 at 9:11 am
It only looks strange because you still believe America has the cleanest and fairest elections in the world. Come over to the Dark Side, embrace the tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, and things will be much clearer.
You already know that Liberal policies appeal only to a narrow band of middle class low information voters, the people who went to college for social science and keep informed by skimming the headlines or watching Tik Tok. They believe they are intelligent, well-informed, above-average, politically aware and firmly on the Right Side of History. There’s not enough of them to win the election.
What you have a hard time believing is that Liberals are willing and able to cheat to win. There are two kinds of cheating. Even people of intelligence and goodwill confuse ‘voter fraud’ with ‘electoral fraud’ (Hinderocker does it all the time).
Voter fraud occurs when a college kid votes in person on campus and absentee at home. Everybody agrees that happens but there’s not enough of it to change the outcome. Electoral fraud occurs when the election workers count ballots improperly. That’s much harder to identify. That’s the reason we have poll watchers monitoring the count and challenging votes. Think about Al Gore and the hanging chads – that’s the kind of scrutiny which guarantees only proper ballots are counted.
We know from decades of monitoring elections in Third World Countries that systemic electoral fraud is most easily done with unverified absentee ballots scanned into a wifi-connected computer by unsupervised partisans willing to bend the rules to make things come out right. The result is a spike in votes for the favored candidate occurring at the same time in multiple crucial jurisdictions and viola, we have a winner. That’s what happened in 2020, much as people struggle to refuse to believe it.
So what does that have to do with the southern border? All those immigrants claim refugee status, get shipped to states where they are given driver’s licenses, and an unknown number of their identities are used to request absentee ballots which are then marked for Liberal candidates and dumped without verification into the general pile of ballots. The elections office cannot discard them – that might ‘disenfranchise’ some legitimate voter – so they all get counted. And viola, we have a winner. It happened last time. It’ll happen again next time. The result won’t be different, the pile of unverified absentee ballots will just be larger.
The open border is not a bug, it’s an essential feature of Liberal election policy. Ukraine and Israel are distractions.
December 14th, 2023 at 9:37 am
bigman
It is disappointing that conservatives in particular refuse, in the face of overwhelming evidence, to acknowledge that we no longer have “the cleanest and fairest elections in the world”. And the few that do can barely bring themselves to even mention it to Republican candidates when those candidates are pumping them for contributions.
It being an election year I explain to every phone solicitor that there is NO good reason for me to give a dime to the GOP because:
a) they are going to lose and
b) they will lose because they refuse to do anything to secure our elections.
I also tell them to call back when their candidate very publicly makes Secure Elections the most significant part of their campaign.
December 14th, 2023 at 9:59 am
Pig;
I’ve been responding in similar terms.
I’ve received a couple of email solicitations from “Ronna McDaniel”, looking for money for the GOP. I’ve responded that until they get rid of the RINO establishment types, I will only donate to individual candidates.
On another note, a new Heartland – Rasmussen poll, one in five voters admit to fraud on mail in ballots.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heartland-rasmussen-poll-one-five-161100197.html
December 14th, 2023 at 12:02 pm
2024 has 65 elections globally across 54 countries. We won’t see that many again until 2048.
Couple elections with unrest in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and potentially here at home . . . global government turnover makes me wonder whether Mitch’s next column about a national divorce might come sooner than we think.
Oh, and just to really add to the angst, there’s this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ammo-prices-set-to-rise-substantially/ar-AA1l9Rjy
December 14th, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Just sent a note to the President asking why Americans can’t get the basic courtesy of their government doing basic background and medical checks for those who wish to immigrate. Is the country really in need of a lot more criminals and tropical diseases? Are we lacking in how many welfare families we support, somehow? Do we lack illegal and often toxic drugs with which to kill our people?
And yes, I’m thinking more and more that we ought to be asking “which illegal voters are turning the elections for the left?”.
December 14th, 2023 at 1:14 pm
One of the charges frequently leveled against Constitutional Conservatives is that we are ‘isolationist.’ We want to disengage from the rest of the world. We don’t want to spend our blood and treasure solving other people’s problems around the globe. We believe in commerce and honest friendship with all, entangling alliances with none, same as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson instructed.
Guilty as charged.
And to move our nation back to that relationship viz-a-viz the world, we first must curb our charitable impulses. We must redirect them from “the government should do something” to “I should do something.” Children starving in Africa? Donate your own money to Sally Struthers but don’t send her my tax dollars. Jews, Ukranians, Taiwanese under attack? Buy a plane ticket to go help the war effort (if you can’t hold a rifle, you can wash dishes in the mess tent so somebody else can hold the rifle) but don’t send my nephew to fight and die Over There.
To further move our nation back to its original founding principles, withdraw from the 1951 Refugee Convention and repeal the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965. Establish some sort of “value” test for immigration applicants – do they bring to our country something we need? Brains? Skills? Money? If not, why let them in?
And to keep them out, Build the Wall! (whether or not we make Mexico pay for it).
The present administration opposes all of these suggestions. They hate the notion of putting America First ahead of all other nations.
Which makes me wonder about their goals. If not America First, then who?
December 14th, 2023 at 2:47 pm
^ Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
December 14th, 2023 at 3:00 pm
I would, temperamentally, love to be isolationist, but the unfortunate reality is that sometimes, the woes of the world come to you, and it’s easier to deal with before that particular enemy has become an empire. Put in terms of current events, Russia’s end game is not Kyiv; it is Berlin, and some of their politicians have already revealed that by noting that they felt that 1991 was “colonization” by the west. Iran’s end game is not Jerusalem; it is Washington, as is evidenced by Iran’s attempts to make “intercontinental” ballistic missiles. Since Israel and Iran are both in western Asia, those missiles are not for Israel; they are for us.
The notion that the world is going to leave us alone is something of a “Polyanna” moment, politically speaking.We can reduce the amount of problems, yes, but sometimes, the problems of the world will find us.
December 14th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
I hear you, bikebubba, but it seems to me that if Russia comes for Berlin, then Berlin has a problem. Why is it my problem?
Put another way, under what legal, ethical or moral principle arises my obligation to fight and die for the people of Berlin?
As for Iran and their nukes, I recommend Richard Fernandez’ monograph “The Three Conjectures” (you may remember him as Wretchard from The Belmont Club). It’s 20 years old but much of the underlying reasoning is still valid. Available on Amazon for $2.49.
December 14th, 2023 at 4:51 pm
It’s your problem because empires rarely stick to their borders, and the countries many isolationists think don’t matter are natural allies in the fight against them. So if you want to be ruled by some clown like Putin, ignore the well being of your neighbors. If you want the Berlin Wall to fall, you work with your NATO allies to make sure the Fulda Gap would be an utter killing field for the Soviets if they were ever dumb enough to venture in.
December 14th, 2023 at 6:34 pm
The Domino Theory, eh? Just like Vietnam? There could be merit in that idea, if the dominoes under threat were willing to fight to survive but just needed a little help. Britain against Hitler, for example.
I’m not sure Germany has the will to survive. Trump flat-out warned them about the Russian peril and challenged them to increase their own defense spending, at least push it up to their existing 2% NATO commitment levels. Nope, the German people are not willing to spend that much to defend themselves so I can’t see much value in me defending them. The Germans won’t be a useful ally to defend the USA in the fight against Russia; they’ve already given up.
I understand the theory but I think the geopolitical situation has changed since Eisenhower proposed it.
December 15th, 2023 at 7:41 am
Bigman,
Your point about Germany’s defense spending has aged a bit. You are quite right about the former East German Socialist Angela Merkle’s approach toward defense and Russia – but she is gone.
Germany’s 2024 defense budget will satisfy the NATO commitment of 2% of GDP. Having said that, they have a long way to go to catch up.
On the other hand, Germany is not (now) in Putin’s cross-hairs, but Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, most certainly are, Putin has said so, and they have taken an aggressive stance toward defending themselves. Still, they are small and Russia is big.
I would prefer that Europe address Europe’s problems while the US focus on China – but that is not going to happen.
What made Russia so (militarily) powerful during the Soviet era was its empire, and that is what Putin wants to re-establish.
December 15th, 2023 at 8:43 am
While Germany’s spending will catch up under Schulz, the culture of the Bundeswehr has decayed to the point where, outside their various special forces, it doesn’t appear that they’re mentally or organizationally ready to fight.
December 15th, 2023 at 8:51 am
I agree with a certain level of resentment over Germany’s defense posture of the last few decades, which was to spend next to nothing on defense and reap the “peace dividend” – in other words, “let American taxpayers cover us”
December 15th, 2023 at 9:37 am
Regarding Germany, the culture is bad currently, and back in the 1980s, friends of mine who were serving in Fulda (speedbumps for the Red Army, we joke) were skeptical that the Bundeswehr would fight well, yes. But on the flip side, I think the Russian adventure in Ukraine is starting to wake them up. Yes, they’ve enjoyed relative peace and prosperity for a long time, in great part on Uncle Sam’s dime, but they’re realizing that the security of their neighbors matters as they send a lot of artillery and tanks to Ukraine.
Really, if you look through history, there are innumerable examples of the Revolutionary War axiom “If we do not all hang together, we shall all hang separately.”, and one of the best ways of getting nations to hang together is to remind them of what happens when they don’t.
December 17th, 2023 at 7:17 am
From today’s WSJ: A 1% of GDP increase in NATO defense spending is equivalent to a 24% increase in Russia’s.
December 17th, 2023 at 11:54 am
Notice the projected timeline in that article, Greg? Putin will lose in 2025. Not this year. Not next year. But sometime in 2025, when NATO spending catches up to and overwhelms Russian spending. All Ukraine needs to do is hang on another 18 months or so, and then it’s curtains for Putin.
Um . . . how?
Manpower. Material. Money. All the things it takes to wage a war, Ukraine doesn’t have. So where will they get it?
Allow me to suggest that article is less about insightful military analysis and more about administation puffery intended to support additional funding “for Ukraine” which will end up being given to the US defense industry to kick back in the form of campaign donations and bribes laundered through charitable foundations run by families of powerful people in Washington. The average schmuck on the streets of Odessa will see none of it.
The war is over. Russia won. Time to move on. Spend the money somewhere it’ll do something useful, like BUILD THE WALL.
December 17th, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Well, a couple of things.
– America and Europe needs to rebuild it’s military-industrial base. That is happening, maybe not as fast as needed, but it is happening.
– Europe is getting the message that it needs to ramp up it military. It is and any step in that direction is good.
– Putin has not “won”. The best that he was able to accomplish was fend off a Ukrainian offensive.
– Call it perverse, but I rather enjoy seeing the empire that tried to bleed us dry in North Korea, Vietnam and a long list of other places, get a taste of its own medicine.
– A wall is not necessary if the social security administration did a simple cross check on SS payments and anyone found paying an illegal immigrant cash lost their business license.