This is how it's done

Prowers County commissioner Wendy L. Buxton-Andrad

All is not lost in America. Colorado officials including feminine-looking women and men with, presumably, measurable T levels, show us how to fight for our Constitutional rights:

Ten Colorado counties have declared “Second Amendment Sanctuary” status against a gun confiscation law being pushed by state-level Democrats.

On March 8, 2019, Breitbart News reported that eight counties had made sanctuary declarations. The counties are Custer, Freemont, Kiowa, Moffat, Montezuma, Otero, Rio Blanco, and Weld Counties. The Lamar Ledger reports that Prowers County commissioners declared their county a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” on Monday.

Prowers County commissioner Wendy L. Buxton-Andrade said, “We are elected officials when we raise our hand to take office. We are sworn to protect the United States Constitution. In passing this resolution, we are protecting that right and protecting our constituents from those trying to take away that constitutional right, the Second Amendment.” [...]

The Ledger notes that counties are making these Second Amendment declarations as state-level Democrats push “a bill, known as the ‘red flag’ bill, which would allow a judge to order the confiscation of firearms from someone found to be a danger to themselves or others.”

These "red flag" laws, which 13 states have adopted since the Parkland massacre, are totally unconstitutional:

Colorado Republicans defeated a similar bill last year, insisting it infringed on citizens' Second Amendment rights. But Democrats won both statehouse chambers in November, and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis called for a "red flag" law while campaigning last year.

Let's see what the party of treason is pushing:

This year's bill was being heard Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee. It would allow family or law enforcement to seek a court order to have guns seized if they believe the owner is a threat. If approved, a subsequent court hearing would be held to determine whether to extend the seizure, up to 364 days.

The bill also would leave it up to the person whose guns were seized to prove at any point that he or she no longer poses a risk.

The burden of proof is on citizens to show the state that they are compliant, psychologically normal sheeple who therefore deserve to have their basic rights upheld.

Fight!

The language gap: AOC edition

I don't like to write about AOC. It's an unpleasant subject in more ways than one, and I don't like to give her any more attention than she already gets from a crazed media (especially the conservative media, which is making the same mistake with regard to AOC that the mainstream media made with Trump).

That said, AOC fits so perfectly into a phenomenon I wrote about last September that I couldn't resist. From that post:

One worrying sign of the sharpening polarization in America is the increasing inability of the Blue Church to communicate with the rest of the country. Not only do the bizarre ideological fixations of the Left appear to the majority of Americans to be increasingly unhinged and divorced from reality, but the very vocabulary of the Left -- the actual words Leftist use -- bear an ever-more-tenuous connection to normal English.

I was recently thinking about AOC's "voice"... the distinctive way that she communicates on Twitter. Love it or hate it (personally, I find it about as appealing as a million fingernails scraping a chalkboard in unison), there is no denying its power and appeal to a large swath of the country.

AOC's "voice" is a millennial voice, narcissistic and self-satisfied, aggressively liberal, but reasonable-sounding enough to command wide assent. Something else caught my attention too. AOC may be the first mainstream, national politician to communicate in the strange vernacular of Social Justice - an idiom that includes terms and phrases such as these:

• "calling in"
• "centering their concerns"
• "climate delayers"
• "frontline/impacted communities"
• "intersectionally"
• "Latinx"
• "LGBTQ+ inclusion"
• "tokenism"

It goes without saying that, although her meaning is usually clear in context, many of the terms that she uses are totally incomprehensible to normal Americans. "Latinx"? WTF?

I close with this characteristic AOC tweet:

GOP defensively say, “we’re not scared of dancing women!” yet proceed to use footage of me dancing “with the color drained to make it look more ominous.” ?? Spoiler: The GOP *is* scared of dancing women, because they fear the liberation of all identities taught to feel shame.

The USA is so over.

Drumpf betrays base on immigration?

I never expected to have to say this, but if you're a #MAGA person and you continue to make excuses for this sort of behavior, you're just an idiot:

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump is abandoning his prior “America First” legal immigration reforms to support increases of legal immigration levels in order to expand profits for businesses and corporations.

For the fourth time in about a month, Trump suggested increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to grow their business.

“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:

MAGA!

Immigration catastrophe

Trump's inexorable transition into Drumpf

Last post, I told you to spit out that black bill: the Trump administration, through a variety of regulatory changes at US Citizenship and Immigration Services, is building an "invisible wall" of policies and mechanisms that make it harder to immigrate. This is, of course, good news for those of us who seek to curb the million-strong horde of foreign nationals who are permitted to settle in the US every year.

Well, that was the good news. There's bad news too... and it's really bad.

The flood of depressing immigration-related commentary this week is pretty overwhelming, so I will just post a small sample:

"New, awful data shows that the border invasion is worse than ever"

If Trump had not signed the disastrous budget bill several weeks ago and we were still operating on a short-term CR with immigration remaining the top issue, today’s news could have strengthened Trump’s leverage. According to CBP’s preliminary figures obtained by the Washington Post, 76,325 illegal aliens were apprehended at the border in February, more than any other month in over a decade since the decline of migration from Mexico. A record 40,325 family units arrived, blowing out the previous records by almost 10,000. Sadly, Trump already signed away his leverage to force a national dialogue over this issue.

As a nation, we are left debating presidential power from an obscure statute that enables the president to obtain a mere $2.5 billion for partial fencing to deal with a policy-driven invasion. The joke is that even if Trump had full unity behind this approach, it would do little to stop this invasion, which is strategically directed toward soft parts of our border. Unless we force a national discussion over the courts and the illegal immigration magnets that are bringing immigrants in, this entire debate is a non-sequitur. Unfortunately, without a budget deadline for another seven months, no matter how bad things get at our border, there is no mechanism through which to pressure Democrats into submission. [...]

It’s gotten so bad that illegal aliens have successfully taken us past our breaking point, creating a self-fulfilling cycle of catch-and-release. We are so overrun with migrants and detention facilities are so full that now, even those not eligible for catch-and-release are being released. We will never hear from them again, but will have to pay for their public charge and crimes committed.

Money chart:

Judge Sabraw, in case you were wondering, is the US District Judge (a Dubya appointee and son of a Japanese immigrant) who ordered the reunification of children separated from their parents or "parents" at the Mexican border, as a direct result of which, apprehensions of "family units" at the border exploded.

Notice a trend? #MAGA drives illegal immigration down. Judges and the absence of #MAGA drive it back up.

The God-Emperor Trump could put a stop to this treasonous judicial usurpation of power by simply ignoring these totally unconstitutional and ridiculous rulings. But he'd rather whine and bluster, apparently:

"Catch and Release, Birthright Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities Continue Unaltered Despite Trump Opposition"

During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump denounced the Catch and Release program where illegal aliens and border crossers are routinely released into the interior of the U.S. after being apprehended by Border Patrol. [...]

The Catch and Release program, though, was expanded by Trump last month when he signed a spending bill approved by Republicans and Democrats in Congress and strongly supported by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, insiders have told Breitbart News.

The bipartisan spending package Trump signed greatly expands the Catch and Release of border crossers and illegal aliens, codifying into law that border crossers be bused into the interior of the U.S. where they are released with the promise that they are monitored.

DRUMPF denounces his own policies, rages impotently at problems that he refuses to solve! His appointee, DHS head Kirstjen Nielsen, all but rolls out the welcome mat for illegal aliens:

"Beltway Class Praises DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen While She Oversees Illegal Immigration Surge"

The Washington, D.C. political establishment and beltway class are praising their close ally, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, as she oversees a surge in illegal immigration and implements an expansion of the Catch and Release program.

In a glowing piece by Politico, Nielsen received repeated praise for “standing strong” and circumventing President Trump’s criticism of her role as DHS secretary, where she has overseen a continued surge in illegal immigration while focusing her agency’s attention on cybersecurity issues and terrorism prevention. [...]

By all measures of border crossing data and Catch and Release levels, Nielsen’s record at DHS has been dismal. For example, when January 2018 illegal border crossings are compared to January 2019 numbers, the level of illegal immigration year-to-year has nearly doubled.

Most recently, for February, illegal immigration at the southern border hit the highest level for the month in 12 years, surpassing every month of February under former President Obama. Now, experts predict there to be up to half a million illegal aliens who successfully cross into the country this year, alone.

Likewise, Nielsen has consistently privately advocated for spending bills that have provided little-to-no funds for Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall to stop illegal immigration.

Daniel Horowitz of the Conservative Review is nearly apoplectic:



But he has a good idea:

https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1103003714581917It's time to use Article II, 212f, and 215A to categorically shut down all cross border migration

Great! Any takers? Anyone?

Drumpf?...