Executive order drafts are being prepared. Here’s five things to discuss.
Five Things
- Immigration: Trump has said he would reimplement on day one his “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico until their cases are processed by U.S. immigration courts.
- The Wall: He has also said he would resume construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border—something he repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for failing to continue.
- Pardons: Fire Jack Smith and pardon Jan. 6 offenders. Trump has called the people facing charges hostages and political prisoners.
- Climate: Trump has said that he will sign an executive order once again withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, the international treaty which implements the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. President Biden on his first day in office had brought the U.S. back into the Obama-era accord after Trump had pulled out of it in 2019. Officials close to Trump said the order has been drafted and will be ready for Trump to sign on his first day in office.
- Transgender Student Protections: In April, the Biden administration unveiled a final set of changes to Title IX to cover discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time. Trump has vowed to revoke such protections for transgender students the day he takes office.
The above list is from the Wall Street Journal article What Trump Can—and Can’t—Do on Day One.
I agree with most of those, at least partially.
1: I am fine with remain in Mexico but we do need faster decisions on an outcome.
2: If the wall was funded, then it can continue. If not, Trump can’t do that on day one.
3: I strongly disagree with blanket pardons, but I am OK with pardons for anyone who was totally peaceful (no destruction of property or violent actions). My guess is Trump will go way overboard.
4: Go for it. End the nonsense.
5: No new protections were ever needed in the first place. Adding them made a huge mess of things with absurd state actions and interpretations.
Here are some other ideas from the article
Mass Deportations
Trump has vowed to implement “the largest deportation program in American history” as soon as he takes office. Although such a massive logistical feat would likely take longer to carry out, officials familiar with his planning said it is likely he will sign a pre-drafted executive order when he takes office ordering the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to deport undocumented migrants.
Mass deportations would be a huge mistake, especially for those here for over two years and is working, those with citizen spouses, and those with citizen children.
But please deport the criminals. Start there, then intelligently think about how to proceed.
Otherwise, many states will not go along.
Ending Birthright Citizenship
Trump has also said he would use executive action on his first day in office to put a stop to granting birthright citizenship to children born to anyone who entered the U.S. illegally. This is likely to face legal challenges.
We can debate the merits of the idea, but there would be a court challenge and Trump would lose.
The Constitution says “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
That seems clear to me. The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” refers the children of foreign diplomats and invading foreign enemies.
Vox has an Excellent Discussion of Birthright Citizenship.
Trump would be wise to not step into this mess.
Ukraine and Israel
Trump has vowed to take several measures aimed at putting what he sees as America’s interests first and has vowed to end conflicts around the world, including in Ukraine and the Middle East, before he takes office. Among them, he has said he would give priority to American national security and economic interests at home over paying billions to support allies abroad, and would impose steep tariffs on imports to stimulate domestic job creation.
Trump may have luck encouraging Ukraine, which has been losing ground, to the negotiating table, but Russia’s Vladimir Putin—as well as Hamas and Israel—have shown no signs they want to end the fighting in their respective conflicts.
Ukraine and Israel are not day one issues that can be addressed by executive order.
Trump has also said that he would demand the resignation of any general involved in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by “noon on Inauguration Day.”
Demanding resignation is doable, but Firing is Complicated, says Lawfire.
The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
The most disturbing day one action would be blanket deportations. I strongly disagree. But that won’t be day one regardless.
I discussed blanket deportations and the Dignity Act in The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
Please click on the link and play the interview with Republican Florida rep. Maria Salazar.
I endorse the bipartisan Dignity Act she sponsored. It is exceptionally balanced and well thought out. But it’s not what Trump promised.
Trump will screw this up and 2026 will see a flip of the Senate and the House. 3rd quarter of 2025 the stock market will turn down and by the 3rd quarter of 2026 it will be half what it is today. Tesla will be about 10% of its current value.
I dont understand how all 5 arent just normal law. How bad do you have to hate the country to do crap like that?
If Trump doesn’t destroy the deep state within the next four years, they will destroy us for voting him in again. They are an evil and vengeful bunch. Just look at what they did to spite us for his first term.
From what I know, ALL should be pardoned. Yes, some were at fault. They overreacted and went too far, but I suspect agent provocateurs incited them. Also, from what I know, almost all were grossly overcharged and over sentenced. Considering what happens to the vast majority of felons on a first offense (I was a criminal prosecutor for 9 years) the truly culpable have spent far too much time in jail and received grossly disproportionate punishment. Compare their punishment with BLM and Antifa protestors. You can never give back the years and months spent languishing in prison for political prosecutions. They have done their time. Paid the price. Most should be given $10 million in compensation for false or at least unjust imprisonment. A pardon is not unreasonable under the circumstances.
Well said. Some of the sentences were absolutely obscene.
You don’t forgive people because sentences were too harsh. You commute them for time served,
No one has ever explained how you deport people who have no country – they have no papers as far as I know. Even if you could find a carrier, they would be refused entry.
LMAO. They should’a thunk of that before they done left.
Of course, bipartisan bunga bunga Joe will issue family pardons before he resigns the presidency, allowing for cackling Mamala, the soon to be first if brief undefinable female black president, to handle more pardons and commutations for past and present deep state Comeys and homeys, including Epstein’s client list for the heels up head down coterie. Bunga bunga cackle cackle. . .
The US Court system has never defined what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” constitutes. A decent arguement could be made that a person who illegally crosses the border has infact invaded the country, in much the same way a person who illegally enters your house is a “home invader”.
I think this EO will have some other aspects to it as well, such as curtailing “birth tourism”.
I agree on the J6. Full pardon for all non violent offenses (trespassing, disrupting a proceeding, ect), but destruction of property, assault, is another matter.
That is incorrect. I don’t have time to look them up now but I did research this before. There have been similar cases, not this exact one, and the decision is clear.
We have a Supreme Court that seems willing to reinterpret and reverse anything, despite its protests otherwise. “Plain meaning” of language can be in the eye of the beholder, and the 14th Amendment is one of the most controversial writings ever. The rise of the popular doctrine of “historical originalism” in the federal courts has not cleared up, but rather has introduced a huge elasticity into it all.
Total nonsense. You’ve done no work on this. Foreign tourists can’t be drafted and can’t vote. Foreign nationals are indeed subject to the jurisdiction thereof and can be deported for any number of criminal and nominal violations of US law. Deportees and their children are not awarded citizenship because their children happened to be born in an airport. Kim Wong Ark’s parents were naturalized.
I suggest you read the law, what I said, existing supreme court precedent, then apologize.
I love how you post a Vox article for the birthright citizenship issue. There’s zero bias from those folks. I’m sure there are all sorts of conservative minded legal scholars who would disagree with Vox.
I did, however, find this comment interesting from one of the legal scholars:
“So it is clear that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to someone born in the United States, at least if the mother is here legally, and no executive order can change that.”
Isn’t the whole legally here for mom & dad at the crux of a conservative’s view of this issue? This scholar clearly opens the door to what is at issue here.
Most reasonable people would agree with the common “foreign invaders” interpretation, right? Well, these millions of people are here illegally and are invading our country, right?
Look – I am tired of damn ad hominem attacks. I don’t like VOX either. But if you think you can refute the article. Go ahead.
I expected this kind of nonsense reply.
Mike,
It’s your article. Feel free to research the conservative side of the argument maybe using Results Hunter or something and present the opposing argument. Vox is an extremely left leaning website. I’m simply pointing out their bias. The problem with that, of course is there are a lot fewer legal scholars sounding off about anchor babies. Maybe in time, it will become a growing concern. Those 25M illegals are having way more babies that the legal, native born population.
I was going to include in my original comment that I agree Trump should steer clear of this issue at least until later in his term. His main goal should be to come up with policies that deport as many illegals as he reasonably can and the force the issue of pushing through immigration reform that’s got a solid conservative slant to it in terms of legal immigration.
A great example, IMHO, is to pull back significantly on H1-B visas. It’s very hard to guess how far Trump will be able to take any of this. The Dems are going to fight him tooth & nail and so will a portion of his own party.
Trump’s 2nd term will be a referendum on how hard conservatives can push back on all of the crazy policies & cultural war that’s been brewing for 10-15 years.
If I’m not mistaken, there is money already allocated to build the wall.
Biden tried to divert $2 billion or so for the wall that was unspent under Trump and the courts ruled that he couldn’t do that.
Since we know Biden didn’t build one foot of wall, that money should be available.
Trump also diverted $3.8 billion in Pentagon funding to build the wall which is presumably at least part of the $2 billion in unspent funding for the wall.
The courts ruled that Trump could divert the original $3.8 billion, so I trust he could do something along the same lines again.
Whether he builds the wall or not, and he will eventually, there is no doubt that his administration will be much tougher on the border than the current administration has been.
If I’m not mistaken, Republicans could include money to build the wall in any continuing resolution in congress and can do so with a simple majority in the House and the Senate.
They don’t even need democrat support to do so and for that matter, continue Trump’s tax cuts and pass additional tax cuts and/or spending reductions.
Agree but a continuing resolution is not day 1.
I would agree that a continuing resolution won’t happen on day one. However, if there is already $2 billion in funds that were allocated to build the wall, aren’t those funds available now? Biden tried to divert the funds elsewhere and the courts ruled that he couldn’t do that. I think it’s safe to assume that Biden didn’t allow those funds to build more of the wall, so logic would dictate that those funds are still available to be spent on the wall.
BIden said lots, and did little. The Inflation Reduction Act was an enormous waste. Dig deep enough, and I’ll wager fraud and payoffs were commonplace in many contracts. That Ukraine swindled as much as they did from US support is telling in itself.
Re No. 1, sure, speed up the “No” decisions. Make them automatic. Re most of the challenges ahead, there’s no reason to believe Trump has a better idea on how to manage an economy than his predecessors had. If the knowledge existed, we wouldn’t need markets. What’s worrisome is that he may think he knows, and GOP senators and reps–as group-brained as Dems–might go along.
I hope Trump does go “overboard”. It should be obvious that the Jan 6 protesters were treated completely differently from BLM protesters that burned businesses and firebombed police cars with police inside. Jan 6 people were set up as patsies to destroy the MAGA movement.
You are absolutely correct in your reading of the 14th Amendment. Trump cannot undo it with the stroke of a pen. As far as I can tell, the original intent of the amendment, to protect slaves, and children of slaves, has become perverted over the years to include anyone who slides across the border and has a baby. That baby is an American citizen. The authors of the amendment actually were aware something like this might happen. Looked at rationally, it’s a stupid idea. Of the 33 countries that have some form of birthright citizenship, almost all of them are third world nations. I doubt people are lining up for citizenship.The reason this section of the 14th amendment was penciled in has long since been done away with. At the very least, we should start talking about the merits of this policy. I for one have no idea what how it breaks out in actual numbers. But when birthright citizenship is added to family unification practices, well, then. Things get interesting. Anyway, birthright citizenship strikes me as a profoundly Progressive idea, like open borders and criminal mayhem.
“I strongly disagree with blanket pardons…”
Absolutely agree, the undercover FBI agents that were there need to be rounded up and put in jail.
Point 4: Trump should confer with whomever the new Senate Leader is and arrange a vote on the “Paris Accord Treaty”. The Senate Leader should make damn sure they get ALL the GOP senators on board with voting “no” to the treaty, bring it up for a vote, vote it down. That way the next admin can’t bring it back via EO. Once the treaty is voted down by the Senate, it’s dead and we can move on.
Otherwise it risks just being Yo-Yo’ed until the Dims regain control and shove it through as a treaty.
No need for a vote or reviews from liberal clown courts for any of the Mandates that Trump was given. The J6 pardons is one of those mandates that he brought up every time during his campaigning so it is not questionable by any lesser authority than The People.
On point 3 – All of those people have already paid more than their due for whatever they may have done. A blanket pardon is appropriate – no one was killed as a direct result of the riot save for Ashli Babbitt. All other deaths were deemed either of natural causes or suicides among police later on and cannot be directly blamed on the participants. There is an undeniable selective insistence on punishing these people by the Democrats vs actual criminals. The Democrats support the propagation of chaos via soft on crime policy – look at California where it took prop 36 to get back to some sense. Look at the BLM riots where Kamala was encouraging of those people to keep destroying private property. But they are happy to spend tax-payer money to go after a former president for BS charges and imprison people who were just doing what they always tell their own people to do, namely “engage in civil disobedience”
One thing some form of should get done.
Getting Federal Bureaucracy under control.
Order all new rules and regulations implemented by Biden administration executive order over past year, to cease and desist until further review.
I propose every rule from any government agency that applies to American citizens should require congressional approval no sooner than 60 days from authorization by the executive branch to become effective. That would slow down the BS like EV mandates and mpg rules plus put the executive branch back to enforcing rather than legislating via rule making and executive orders.
Legislative action would be best. It takes long time to get anything thru Congress.
Watched clip from Sen. Joni Ernst who suggested things were in the works to get Trumps nominees moving so that when he took office he would be able to get cracking.
This is an important admission as McConnell and his Band of never Trumpers is already attempting to sidetrack what the Nation just voted for.
I’d watch what comes out of Senate with all the dirty Tricks.
If there is the revolt that should happen, Rick Scott or someone at his level will be next Majority leader. A full repudiation of McConnell.
Still am of mind that there is going to be a wave of Moderate Dems siding with Trump in one way or another and that is going to turn the tide against uniparty and deep Staters.
Manchin already said he would be willing to help out Trump administration but from outside official channels as a consultant.
The birthright citizenship was supposed to apply to slaves. I don’t think it’s authors foresaw immigration as a welfare program or political warfare by other means.
Putin is Trump’s best friend. Russia #1 tv network exposed naked pictures of Melania from 2000.
Oh STFU!
It’s a bomb that bombed itself !
Thanks for the Moronic Comment of the Day!
Shut it down folks, we’re done here.
They should start deportations of all criminals (crime done here or abroad), then anyone without any paperwork at all, then start LIFO deportations – last one in, first one out – for at least the past 4 years when Biden changed the rules. This includes the Haitians and Venezuelans Biden made special arrangements with. If you have legal, documented employment, maybe skip them and their immediate family.
Item 3 – a: Pardon Julian Assange and formally apologize for not doing it during his first term.
Among numerous messages it will send; the Deep State is put on notice. The truth matters. Also, the mass media who left Assange to the wolves, to rub their noses in Demo-crap!.
For icing on the cake: appoint Assange White House Press Secretary
The DEI administrative complex has got to go.
My question on the funding of the wall is this: where were the funds coming from to provide cell phones, prepaid cards, airline/airline pilots/jet fuel to fly folks around the country for the last 2 years. Busing, etc. Wherever that money came from is how you fund the wall. And since student loan debt foregivenes is a net outlay by the government that had not direct funding and deemed by SCOTUS to stop, I am wondering why the wall (or any funding) is different with Trump in office. I recall he tried to redirect appropriated military funds to the wall last time and they stopped. I maintain that he just simply proceed as Biden has and march onward somehow.
I agree with the statement but my question is legitimate as I’ve witnessed things that had no explicit funding in the last 4 years occur without comment.
Regarding funding of ILLEGAL ALIENS: try FEMA and fraudulent expenses under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Audit the Biden Administration!!!!!
Very good points. My guess is that, in part, the problem is from a fractured GOP. Dems funding their pet projects don’t have this issue.
If Trump declares it a national emergency, then he can use Pentagon money. That’s a fact. It will be interested to see how the GOP in Congress line up. This is the issue that will determine the direction of the GOP. Either Trump will be successful enough that his own party members who oppose this will face some sort of reckoning or he won’t and it’ll be mostly a repeat of his 1st term with very modest success. Trump was largely voted in by almost 75M to do something bold about this issue.
If he’s smart, he’s going to take an umbrella approach and create a public relations campaign that gets younger, able-bodied workers to consider trade jobs. Solving this issue the right way is MUCH bigger than just trying to deport 1.5M criminal aliens and then maybe another 1M and finally another 1M over 4 years that self-deport.
And most importantly, he has to convince the voters and corporations that it’s in America’s long-term interest to take a wholistic approach which places equal importance on trade school education, retraining, relocation services, & enforcement of employers who hire illegals.
Basically, he to get everyone’s attention he should partner with DeSantis and send ICE into a couple of cities in FL in the first 30 days and rounded up a bunch of illegals doing residential construction work, deporting them and then going after the companies that hire them.
That would get everyone’s attention.
If I were Trump (but I am better lookin’ – – HA), I would immediately PULL MIC FUNDING of Ukraine and Palestine Killings. The latter is akin to an effort to REDUCE or ELIMINATE Muslims. It should not be our focus of our MIC spending. Our focus needs to go back to be DEFENSIVE and not OFFENSIVE in our tactics.
Plus, there will be no end to the spending (TRILLIONS).
Two states solution, under a different Israeli leader, before merging as one state, a few decades later as : the “United Holy Land”. The Palestinian fungals settled in Euro-Arabia. They will chew Europe up.
“PULL MIC FUNDING..”
And ditch any standing army altogether. Defense is; properly, in all and any legitimately governed countries; the domain of the militia. Not a bunch of taxfeeders.
The Mag-7 spend about 1% of their market value on AI : $30B : $3,000B =1%.
SPY rises above 600 might cont for a while, before a sharp correction.
Regarding day one deportation – my understanding is that there are about 1 million illegals who have already been processed and have final deportation orders against them – Biden-Harris just didn’t execute those orders. It would seem Trump is proposing to enforce these orders.
Thanks – Unaware
5) No new protections are needed … Title 9 changes were put into place to the detriment of women’s sports. Women’s sports. The new “protections” are also added incentives to continue the madness of identity politics entering the trans human phase, where consumer “choice” has been pushed along by the biomedical / pharmaceutical / surgical warfare complex, to aid the appearance (secondary characteristics) of a biological transition using synthetic hormones and surgery. Appearance, at the very least from ancient Greek philosophy, is the starting point of error and manipulation. Feelings as a basis for over riding biology is absurd on the face of it. The central canard is that this is about “gender” which can be viewed as a role or set of socially accepted norms, which is then conflated with biology by biotech to alter appearance, which is then used to conflate appearance with being. Mr. Levine : I AM a Woman. No sir, you are a homely man playing the part of a homely woman. Good riddance to you.
The logical first order of business for a man who firmly believes they are a woman would be to get the castration part out of the way. This however rarely happens. In the spirit of Billy Joel, everybody talking about the new sound funny but it’s just an un-castrated man to me with a severe mental disorder.
Subsidized castration should be available to all Democrat males. They won’t notice the difference.
That’s the Dem ideal of masculinity!
3) J6 produced a riot. Not all were rioters. It was not an insurrection under any rational definition, yet DoJ and MSM manufactured false narratives to that effect. They applied a novel (specious) legal interpretation of a law written around the Enron debacle. The courts have tossed this. If you arrest, try, convict and incarcerate every rioter for over a year from left wing agitators encouraged by the likes of VP Harris and well funded, then I might consider some of the violent participants of J6 for no pardon. Otherwise, arbitrary and capricious application of the law, in a partisan fashion, known as lawfare. Pardon all of them. They’ve been in the gulag for years now. We don’t do gulags in America.
I compare J6 to the “summer of love” George Floyd riots. One dead on J6 and it was a protester. Over 100 dead from Summer of Love (SOL) riots. Tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) in damage on J6 … billions in damage from SOL riots. J6 protesters rounded up and incarcerated, the future VP of the USA drove a mass amnesty effort for SOL rioters … which was almost un-needed because so few were arrested or charged. I would like any prosecutions on J6 to require viewing of the videos. Unlike what happened with the student Palestinian protests on colleges and the SOL riots … I do believe people should be held responsible for property damage. That said, if they’ve been in prison for > 1 year … that’s already a pretty significant punishment for property damage.
Yes
MIss-use of legal proceedings allows civil remedies against the offenders. J6 ‘victims’ should be allowed to personally sue DOJ lawyers and judges when there is abuse of process, prior legal standards, etc. If the injury is due to malpractice, then are additional remedies.
The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”
Nothing in the Constitution is ‘clear’. That’s why we are still arguing about it 250 years later.
Lots of things were quite clear if you read the related writings. Many of them were not to the liking of many people (Woodrow Wilson, Rexford Tugwell, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, …) and thus they muddied the waters.
If the hordes of illegals invading the US are not dissimilar to a formal invasion then it could be argued that the children born in the US to the invaders are not protected by the birthright but in the constitution. Might require first finding proof that certain illegals were aided or directed by enemy governments to invade the US; then get any children they have ruled by the Supremes as not having birthright citizenship. Once that first small and specific batch of kids are stripped of US citizenship that makes it easier to expand that ruling to all illegals kids excepting those with one legal resident or citizen parent.
Even with such a change it doesn’t mean most of those kids or their parents will be deported if their parents have been otherwise law abiding and productive after they broke the law in illegally entering.
Same for those illegals without kids, make them come forward, be screened for character and made to sign documents attesting to work history in the US with a requirement they will pay a percentage of their future income to cover the back taxes. If they keep an honest lifestyle, declare all income and commit nothing more than minor traffic offences then they can become citizens.
EVERY J6 political prisoner has to be released immediately! No other option.J6 was a political setup.
Trump’s stick and carrot : two states solution or an economic and weapon embargo if Bibi can’t. Orders and shipments are on hold, subjected to cancellation, until Bibi is deposed.
Nobody familiar with events on the ground except white liberals wants a two state solution. Least of all the people that live in the region. Doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be done but it definitely isn’t as simple as you make it sound.
Yes, you can build a wall down the middle of Jerusalem as it was before Israel’s independence and victory over those who tried to keep it there. But nobody who would be on either side of that wall wants it or says that they will peacefully accept it.
Of course is it possible perhaps to get a North Korean style armistice, I suppose. You can then call that a two state solution But, as in North Korea, no would think the war is over, Instead, everyone is just taking a rest break is all, with lots of provocations and close calls going on indefinitely. Not a solution but just the same old, same old with lipstick on it.
Trump might ignore Euro-Arabia pain and focus instead on cutting US gov debt.
It would be amazing if Trump (or anyone other than Rand Paul and Thomas Massie) put any priority on reducing gov’t debt. This should happen, but it hasn’t been.
Assuming Musk can reduce Govt by 15%…
If all funds raised from tariffs were used to pay off the Federal Debt, I wonder if Mish would change his mind on tariffs?
Your assumption is wildly unrealistic. This is Washington D.C. we’re talking about!
Actually, is is simple. The President declares an emergency and cuts all Federal budgets 15% across the board to avert a looming debt crisis. It would be smart to start by telling the people just how much Federal employees make, their extended leaves, bonuses, retirement packages etc. And then give examples of the level of performance of Federal employees, which Elon Musk will soon report as shockingly low.
And yes, this is DC we are talking about.
The concept of getting citizenship just by being born somewhere is absurd and should be banned in every country.
It creates peverae incentives for illegal immigration and effectively potential ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population.
That may not be a big deal in immigration “civic” countries like the USA but it is a huge deal in original ethnic states as in Europe and parts of Asia. Economics is not everything. Ethnic identity matters in Europe.
Mass deportation is a matter of principle.
You should not encourage illegal unwanted mass immigration anywhere.
Blanket pardons for J6 will be a lot quicker and cheaper than selectively doing it. It will also prevent the Democrat authoritarians from playing games and dragging it out. Kill off the whole J6 hoax nonsense, and send a clear message to other developed countries currently suffering under leftist authoritarian regimes like Australia, Canada, UK, NZ, France and Germany that the persecution of political enemies is over.
Until about the mid 80’s only children with Japanese fathers in a Japanese/non Japanese marriage were given automatic Japanese citizenship. The law was changed so that children of these types of marriages would receive Japanese citizenship.
Being born in Japan doesn’t confer citizenship.
The list of things to fix/halt/reverse is almost endless. These would be a good but minuscule start. It all can’t begin fast enough.
MAGA
Birthright citizenship is due to a decision of the bureaucracy — I don’t recall precisely when but recently in context — and at this point no one knows precisely who made the decision — and is an absurdity that is not in any way reqd by the constitution — proved by the fact that it was never previously the practice of the US.
Just propose a constitutional amendment.
If the Dems were smart, they’d cooperate in building the wall, remain in Mexico and in impeding the flow of illegals into the US. If the flow dropped back to where it was at the end of Trump’s first term, illegal immigration wouldn’t have the salience it did in the 2024 election.
Dems have a civil war with the far left and the moderate left … and the far left has been in total control for the last 4 years at least. Your sane suggestion is toxic to the activists on the far left. Yes, getting the immigration crisis off the headlines would indeed help dems. I would hope that some self-reflection would cause a re-centering of the progressive movement … but mostly I’ve seen them focusing on the monster on the outside … and not the monster on the inside.
Get the popcorn. He’s overpromised by 4 times and you dont have to be a current events novice to see he’s gonna squirm and twist the truth to meet his personal “greatness” score. The fact a lot of the land that he wants to build a wall on is privately owned and story after story about climate change around the world wont get in the way, I know. But this is gonna be made into an opera by the time he’s done …
For the private border land most is owned by conservative people who are terrified of things like armed cartels running drugs and illegals across their properties and they won’t risk not locking their doors or risk going out at night to investigate sounds.
The strip of land can be acquired under Eminent Domain either by purchase or lease at the landowners choice and at an above market rate.
And that worked so well in 2017-2021 … just cause theyre Repubs means theyll happily let their land be taken by force … you guys really think you can run two directions at once …
You really do not get it, do you? The democrats lost the election in a massive landslide.The message should be loud and clear, but you’re deaf. Illegal aliens are NOT wanted. Legal immigrants are wanted. I’m one of them. Our first act is NOT to break US laws. We apply from our home countries and stand in line at embassies. And then wait years in some cases. IF they’re especially valuable to the US, their visas are approved within hours. With few exceptions, illegal aliens come only to take advantage.
The people have spoken. And now I get to reply to my Repub friends texts with “FAKE NEWS” over and over … we’re gonna watch this flam flam felon try to run a country … p.s. my illegal alien is painting my house …
Did I see you bawling on X/Twitter? Are you withholding sex from your spouse (male or female)? Painted your face blue?
However, my main concerns are ‘privately owned land’ and ‘climate change around the world.’ The right of Eminent Domain exists for the use of privately owned land being used for the public good.
As for climate change? Migration over the southern border is not climate based. It is economic migration, pretending to seek political asylum. Now, the thing about that is white South Africans suffer under a bad case of political persecution; However, the biden administration (note the non-use of capitals) specifically excludes them. Why, you ask? Well, white South Africans tend to be conservative.
Im not rich like you — I dont have Iphone so no tweeter
Good article, MISH. The J6 defendants have been imprisoned without trial for the better part of four years. Guys do less time for murder. There was almost zero violence or property damage. Let ‘em all go. Prosecute the FBI instigators, though, like Ray Epps and the higher-ups.
Less for murder, unless you hammer that point with the Pelosis, then you might have well committed murder since you get life w/out parole …
CL slow rise will deflate Europe in frog cooking. Putin and Iran will subsidize China and frontier nations. The BRICS will herd together. They will be cemented. Landlord Trump will have no friends. President Vance doesn’t care.
Bollocks.
By Elon’s command.
Idiot
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Fill up strategic oil reserves to the brim.
From what I read the SOR is constantly being depleted and restocked because oil does go bad. It’s also not that much oil in terms of fueling the country even when filled. I think the concern about the SOR is due to articles about it being depleted by people who don’t know much about how it works beyond the word depleted trying to get clicks.
Sounds like an excuse for Biden using it to try to lower gas prices leading up to the midterms. It was created for emergencies, not to play political games.
Biden was a three alarm dumpster fire so one could argue …