First of all, no. The Biden administration didn’t ‘do both.’ It managed to set the American economy on fire in service of climate change boondoggles like the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’, which didn’t, in point of fact, accomplish anything for the environment. It just lined the pockets of the left’s political patrons at the expense of the American taxpayer.
But we all knew that already. The real question is: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THIS PICTURE?
Is this another Photoshop? It sure looks that way.
Biden’s hapless Photoshop eunuch has proportioned Joe so that he looks the way Bruce Wayne was depicted in the 1990s Batman: The Animated Series cartoons:
Which seems odd, since we now know Batman’s secret identity, and it’s not Joe Biden:
“That is such bullshit! That is total bullshit! That is buying into the right-wing media narrative and I’m so sick of Democrats like you selling out and saying this. You know who talks about trans people more than anybody? MAGA,” Welch said. “MAGA is the most genital-obsessed political party I have ever seen. [Former Vice President] Kamala Harris talked about homeownership. She talked about kitchen table issues. Trump’s over there droning on about Hannibal Lecter. Are you kidding me?”
“This is where the Democrats lose, because we’re playing the game with the rulebook — they’ve ripped the rulebook up and are cramming it down everybody’s throat. And Democrats are upset because [former President] Joe Biden pardoned his son?” she continued. “We gotta fucking fight! They’re the gender-obsessed weirdos, not us. We’re the ones who fight for Social Security. We fight for Medicare. And yeah, we’re not going to bully trans people. We’re not going to fucking do it. If you want to do it, fine.”
Emanuel touted his record as former Chicago mayor, saying in 2016 he “dealt with the bathroom issue.”
“It’s not my most important issue,” he said. “It was dealt with, and I appropriately dealt with [it], dealt with marriage equality, as I said.”
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“I have to live in a state where women rape victims can’t get an abortion because of this bullshit! And so I’m going to fight till the bitter end,” she added. “And I’m not going to let some MAGA moron define what progressive values are. And I think it’s a really dangerous precedent. Mr. Emanuel, I’m sorry, but I just — I have to push back. And I’m not some coastal elite liberal.”
Emanuel replied that she has the option to move to another state.
The material progress of our species is directly tied to increasing our energy density. Using much less of the Earth to get a whole lot more power from it is how we advance. Humans nearly hunted whales to extinction so we could obtain tiny trickles of oil from them, and we once deforested vast hunks of wilderness just to create fire.
Switching to land-devouring wind and solar energy would be a giant leap backward.
Nuclear power, America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity, is a functionally miraculous alternative. To get the energy embedded in 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas or 120 gallons of oil requires a uranium pellet no larger than the end of a small adult’s thumb. A nuclear power plant is almost as gentle on land use as a natural gas powerstation, but is the most reliable source of power we have and one of the safest.
But don’t attend Earth Day to hear this good news because the Earth Day Network hates nuclear power. In 2021 the nonprofit co-signed a letter sent to President Biden that made this request: “Phase out nuclear energy as an inherently dirty, dangerous and costly energy source.”
Last year’s Earth Day theme— “Planet vs Plastics”— also portrayed environmental progress as a problem. The Earth Day Network’s website for the event proclaimed they were “unwavering in our commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health.”
Trees, turtles, and elephants are just the start of a long list of creatures and resources that were once consumed with reckless abandon but are now conserved because we use plastic instead. Innumerable plastic health and safety devices save and prolong human lives every day. We waste less food, and pay less for it, because low-cost plastic keeps it fresh. Most household consumer products, from toothbrushes to televisions, are made with plastic.
The leftist opposition to fossil fuels has nothing to do with environmental quality or climate issues or any of the other rationalizations repeated ad nauseam. It is instead a central component of the fundamental anti-human core of left-wing environmentalism, a stance that studiously ignores the relationship between fossil fuel use and human flourishing. In 1990, the late Alexander King, cofounder of the Club of Rome in 1968, argued in the context of the use of DDT to control malaria:
My own doubts came when DDT was introduced for civilian use. In Guyana, within two years it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time, the birth rate had doubled. … My chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem.
Tens or hundreds of millions of the world’s poor have died from malaria as a direct result of the multination ban on the use of DDT, driven by falseassertions about its harmful effects on various bird species, promulgated from the very first Earth Day in 1970. Then there was the observation made in 1971 by Michael McClosky, the former executive director of the Sierra Club, during an Ethiopian famine:
The worst thing we could do is give aid…. the best thing would be to just let nature seek its own balance and to let the people there just starve.
For left-wing environmental ideologues, humans are nothing more than environmentally destructive mouths to feed without moral standing. (The Nazi term was “useless eaters.”) Nor, implicitly, do humans have the intelligence, inventiveness, and ingenuity to solve problems. Au contraire: Simply because of the laws of large numbers, some substantial numbers of people are and will be geniuses.
I return, as I have so many times, to the wisdom of Dogbert: “You can’t save the earth unless you’re willing to make other people sacrifice.” That is the true theme of all Earth Days, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever.
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab is under investigation by the organization he created after a new whistleblower letter alleged financial and ethical misconduct by the longtime leader and his wife.
The anonymous letter was sent last week to the Forum’s board and raised concerns about the Forum’s governance and workplace culture, including allegations that the Schwab family mixed their personal affairs with the Forum’s resources without proper oversight, according to the letter and people familiar with the matter.
It included allegations that Klaus Schwab asked junior employees to withdraw thousands of dollars from ATMs on his behalf and used Forum funds to pay for private, in-room massages at hotels. It also alleged that his wife Hilde, a former Forum employee, scheduled “token” Forum-funded meetings in order to justify luxury holiday travel at the organization’s expense.
Related: With Blofeld staring into the piranha pits, new Bond supervillain appointed to lead Spectre:
Former Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe has been named interim Chairman, replacing Klaus Schwab at the helm of the World Economic Forum.
Brabeck-Letmathe is known for his stance that water is not a human right but a commodity.
Nestle, eh? If that business’s name rings a bell in the context of woke corporatism, it’s what launched Jonah Goldberg to write Liberal Fascism in 2008, which focused several chapters on a century’s worth of corporatism, the intertwining of government and corporations, much beloved by the namesake publisher of Bloomberg (and in an even more radical form by Bernie Sanders), which the post-Weimar government of Germany dubbed the Gleichschaltung.As Jonah told Kathryn Jean Lopez in 2009, at the apogee of the left’s Hopenchange Obamamania:
You know, when I first started pondering the book, I thought it might be all about economics. About ten years ago I went on a junket to Switzerland and attended a talk with the CEO of Nestlé. Listening to him, it became very clear to me that he had little to no interest in free markets or capitalism properly understood. He saw his corporation as a “partner” with governments, NGOs, the U.N., and other massive multinationals. The profit motive was good for efficiency and rewarding talent, but beyond that, he wanted order and predictability and as much planning as he could get. I think that mindset informs the entire class of transnational progressives, the shock troops of what H. G. Wells hoped would lead to his liberal-fascist “world brain.”
If you look at how most liberals think about economics, they want big corporations and big government working in tandem with labor, universities (think industrial policy), and progressive organizations to come up with “inclusive” policies set at the national or international level. That’s not necessarily socialism — it’s corporatism. When you listen to how Obama is making economic policy with “everyone at the table,” he’s describing corporatism, the economic philosophy of fascism. Government is the senior partner, but all of the other institutions are on board — so long as they agree with the government’s agenda. The people left out of this coordinated effort — the Nazis called it the Gleichschaltung — are the small businessmen, the entrepreneurs, the ideological, social, or economic mavericks who don’t want to play along. When you listen to Obama demonize Chrysler’s bondholders simply because they want their contracts enforced and the rule of law sustained, you get a sense of what I’m talking about.
I don’t think Obama wants a brutal tyranny any more than Hillary Clinton does (which is to say I don’t think he wants anything of the sort). But I do think they honestly believe that progress is best served if everyone falls in line with a national agenda, a unifying purpose, a “village” mentality expanded to include all of society. That sentiment drips from almost every liberal exhortation about everything from global warming to national service. But to point it out earns you the label of crank. As I said a minute ago about that “We’re All Fascists Now” chapter, I think people fail to understand that tyrannies — including soft, Huxleyan tyrannies — aren’t born from criminal conspiracies by evil men; they’re born by progressive groupthink.
I’m sure with a former Nestle CEO running the World Economic Forum, the chocolate ration should be doubleplusgood! Or the insect ration, at the very least.
CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.
In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”
“So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” he wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The New York Times.
“60 Minutes” has faced mounting pressure in recent months from both President Trump, who sued CBS for $10 billion and has accused the program of “unlawful and illegal behavior,” and its own corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
When a group of German saboteurs were caught in New York and Florida in June 1942, planning to blow up hydroelectric plants and other loci of American industrial power but ratted out by two of their fellows in Operation Pastorius, President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew exactly what he was not going to do. “I want one thing clearly understood, Francis,” he told his Attorney General, Francis Biddle. “I won’t hand them over to any United States marshal armed with a writ of habeas corpus. Understand?” Biddle understood: this was war. There would be no civilian “due process.” They would get what was coming to them.
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Now we’re fighting saboteurs and infiltrators from our own hemisphere, here on our home turf, “Maryland men.” After Pearl Harbor, FDR went before Congress to declare, “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God.”
Now, instead of the chair, our enemies get the best lawyers your money can buy, and laugh in your face.
And the answer is a very likely…No! Joe Biden did not Photoshop himself into an Easter family photo — because Joe Biden’s brain is made of tapioca, and wouldn’t have a clue how to manipulate the program. But somebody in his immediate orbit likely did:
Even the left finds the day more than a little glum just now though that’s because the world hasn’t ended yet. Remember—end-of-the-world doomsday scenarios make environmentalists happy, so when the end of the world fails to arrive on schedule, they get the sads.
Like The New Republic, which [asked] this week [in 2022]:
A person could be forgiven for being cynical about Earth Day in 2022. Even ExxonMobil celebrates the holiday. . . ExxonMobil doing Earth Day is a lot like arms and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin co-opting International Women’s Day—a holiday which began as a protest of capitalism and war. . .
Ask Bob Langert about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he starts to chuckle. “When we meet the regulators, it’s kind of nice,” says the senior director for social responsibility at the McDonald’s Corporation. “We just got an award from the EPA. When we see the regulators, we always hope it’s because they’re giving us an award.”
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The idea of the rich corporate villain gleefully dirtying Mother Earth is powerful and appealing. Children of the 1980s encountered this supervillain in comics, movies, public awareness videos, and science textbooks. Times were good for mandatory recycling, for mandatory emissions reductions, for anything mandatory aimed at restraining corporate polluters.
But in the late ’90s, something peculiar started happening. The men in suits were still middle-aged, round, and white. They were still just as concerned with profit and golf. Very few of them sported tie-dyed attire, aside from the occasional whimsical Jerry Garcia tie. But the men in suits started caring. Or at least acting like they cared. Which, if you ask a spotted owl, is the same thing.
So environmental activists across the nation bought their own ties and started dealing with corporations as almost-equal partners in planet saving. Businesses in turn learned that it’s pretty easy being green.
All the way up to Obama’s crony corporatism and beyond, which helped birth Tesla, which are currently being burned and vandalized by the same side of the aisle that demanded we switch to electric cars in the first place. But apparently not those electric cars. Best to look for something more “ethically sourced,” as the kids on the left like to say:
Meanwhile, live look at how they’re celebrating Earthy Day in North Korea:
Exit quote, found via Jim Treacher: “Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” — P.J. O’Rourke.
UPDATE: Like I said, former environmentalists declare Mission Accomplished on Earth Day:
The Tesla store in Manhattan, which has been violently protested in recent months by leftists, was targeted for political vandalism on April 22. Leftists and Democrats have been furious that the federal government is making cuts to overspending. pic.twitter.com/3ewRW4vteU
In a post at the Liberal Patriot, the disaffected Democratic strategist Ruy Texeira notes that it is “magical thinking” to believe that voters will suddenly forget about Democrats’ cultural radicalism and inept governance if the party focuses on class war. Much of Trump’s populist appeal, he observes, comes from working-class resentment of progressive cultural politics—“soak the rich” messaging will do nothing to address it.
But a pivot to the left would have at least one advantage: delaying any reckoning with the party leadership that brought the Democrats to this point. Reading Rhodes’s fulminations against the “rigged” system of the “oligarchic global elite,” it’s easy to forget that these are the words of the man whose identification with Obama was so total that George Packer judged the phrase “mind meld” insufficient to describe it.
It was, after all, the Obama administration that oversaw the rise of the new identity politics and its nationwide implementation through the coercive power of the federal bureaucracy. It was the outgoing Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign that cooked up Russiagate and tried to use the resulting hysteria to consolidate the national security establishment against Trump. It was the Obama and (contrary to myth) Biden administrations that oversaw the tilt in American foreign policy away from Israel and Saudi Arabia and toward Iran, paving the way for the Gaza war that, ironically, ended up inflaming the Left against Biden and serving as an electoral millstone around his neck. And it was the Biden administration that pushed an economic agenda that pundits described as “economic populism” and “social democracy” and inspired regular comparisons of Biden with FDR. That agenda yielded the inflation that voters last November cited as a key reason for giving Democrats the shove.
In the Italian novel The Leopard, set during the nineteenth-century movement for national unification, a young Sicilian nobleman urges his uncle, a powerful conservative landowner allied with the Bourbons, to flip his allegiance to Garibaldi’s nationalists to avoid being caught on the losing side. As the young man explains, “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Democratic leadership seems to be thinking similarly. What advocates of the pivot to the left are suggesting, in effect, is a rehash of what they have pushed as party leaders over the past decade and a half—albeit with fresh young faces and “radical” new antiestablishment branding to “meet our moment.” Given the institutional strength of the party, they may succeed. But as Donald Trump proved in 2016, a party exhausted of ideas, with a leadership class sporting a record of failures, makes a prime target for a hostile takeover.
But pushing back on a decade’s worth of obsessing over the trans movement, and crafting a foreign policy that doesn’t demonize Israel means pushing back hard on the Democrats’ base. Can Oceania once again declare it has never been at war with Eastasia?
[Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY)] immediately called Tanden out for fabricating a vote he never took part in.
“Actually, not,” he said after being falsely accused. “But nice try.”
“You voted against the reconciliation bill that had actual child care in it. You did. And the child tax credit,” Tanden insisted without backing off an inch.”
She added, “You voted against it back, way back in 2022.”
“I wasn’t elected until ’22. So, I didn’t come to Congress until ’23. But thank you,” countered Lawler. “So, you apologize for lying?”
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Tanden was not, in fact, going to apologize.
“I‘m not lying,” she said after very clearly lying.
Lawler notes that since coming to Congress, he has “supported the child tax credit” and “co-sponsored legislation to that effect.”
Tanden responds by fully admitting that her entire false narrative was shellacked in epic fashion. Just kidding, she reduces his efforts, which go back to her original argument, with a dismissive, “Okay, great. I think that’s wonderful.”
I lied. You proved it. The proof counters my entire argument, so I’ll just pretend, hey, everything is cool.
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Tanden has a rich history of lying, which makes it confounding why CNN would use her as a guest on its programs in the first place.
Former Democratic Vice President Al Gore: The country “must join together to wholeheartedly and unequivocally condemn political violence,” and “the former president and those affected today are in my prayers.”
Hangover: Gore jumpstarted the modern corporatist radical environmentalism movement in 1989 with the emo headline in the New York Times, “An Ecological Kristallnacht. Listen.” So if the earth’s temperature and (more importantly for Gore) the temperature of your air conditioner can be considered Hitler, everything can.
Incidentally, the creator of Godwin’s Law gave his blessings for everyone to trample it — during Hitler’s first term in office — after the dictator [checking notes] left the White House and was in the process of running in a national election to return to it last year.
A progressive prosecutor is declining to charge a Minnesota state employee after he was caught on camera allegedly causing an estimated $20,000 worth of damages to Tesla vehicles in protest of billionaire Elon Musk.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office is seeking diversion for Minnesota Department of Human Service employee Dylan Adams after he allegedly vandalized at least six Teslas in Minneapolis while walking his dog.
“This is an approach taken in many property crime cases and helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and can pay restitution, as well as reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses,” the DA’s office told CBS News.
If the vandalism continues, the County Attorney’s office would not rule out charges. Progressive County Attorney Mary Moriarty took office in 2023 and has faced strong criticism for her soft-on-crime approach. On several occasions, Moriarty has shown leniency to violent criminals, including suspects charged with murder and sexual assault, leading to disputes with prosecutors and outrage among victims’s families.
The Minneapolis Police Department blasted the county attorney’s office for its refusal to pursue charges against the Tesla vandal, making it the latest clash between police and the county’s lax prosecutor.
There is a myth that the then Bishop [Jorge] Bergoglio was reluctant to become pope, as propagated by the Netflix drama, The Two Popes. In truth, as John Cornwell of Jesus College, Cambridge has written, the Argentine had a ‘well-planned set of policies ready ahead of his election’. And it was all thoroughly post-Benedict. The Argentine’s papacy would entail acceptance of ‘LGBTQ communities’, a rejection of clericalism, an openness to the idea of having female deacons, a reform of the church to make it less centralised around Vatican diktat, and – most strikingly – a new focus on the ‘climate crisis’. As Cornwell summarised it, Bishop Bergoglio, if elected, would ‘emphasis[e] sins against the environment’ rather than sins relating to ‘sex and “life” issues’. Forget fornication – it’s failing to recycle that will land you in Hell now.
When he became pope, he made good on these policies. Especially in relation to climate change. He promised to minimise the Vatican’s ‘carbon footprint’. Where once the Vatican was seen as a glorious monument to God, now it was treated as a pox on Earth. A place of wonder, art and prayer was reimagined as a drain on Mother Nature, a ‘footprint’ to be shrunk. Catholics must ‘repent’ for their sins against nature and ‘modify [their] lifestyles’, Francis decreed. One couldn’t help but wonder what god he served: the god of Christendom or the god of environmentalism? Where once Catholics pleaded with God for forgiveness, now they were instructed to appease the gods of weather with ‘lifestyle changes’. Neo-paganist rituals like recycling and carbon offsetting competed with the older ritual of communion with God.
Just in time for “Earth Day,” the DNC-MSM talking points went out:
The talkers went out: The New York Times, Time, Axios, and NPR all wrote the same thing about Pope Francis. pic.twitter.com/PLwsrg4Lkp
Matthews asked and answered his own question, “What did Hitler do? What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed.”
Acosta helped Matthews double down, “And so when you see what’s happening right now with this El Salvadoran Gulag, I mean, this CECOT Gulag he’s basically taking a page out of that playbook, you think.”
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Acosta naturally agreed, “No, and there’s a component here that is deeply disturbing because it seems to be all about inflicting cruelty. It’s all about making an example out of this person and saying, ‘We’re going to be cruel to this guy, and so you better not come here or we’re going to be cruel to you too.’”
Of course, the people Trump is deporting are illegal immigrants. Even if one supports bringing Garcia back on the grounds he shouldn’t be sent to prison without due process, he is still an illegal immigrant who could just as easily be re-deported to another country like any other illegal immigrant. That’s not exactly mass murder on an industrial scale.
HOWARD FINEMAN, THEN OF NEWSWEEK: Everybody is focusing on the divisions in the Republican Party. I find the Democratic Party interesting on this too. In the old days, the unions, the labor unions …
MATTHEWS: Do we still have unions?
FINEMAN: We do have some. But the unions would have said wait a minute, all of our wage an hour workers who are doing pretty well here, are going to get killed with a wave of 11 million illegal immigrants. We‘ve got to stop it.
But the union leadership today has said no, no, because we have so many Hispanics in our unions, because we know the stories of personal struggle and family travail, we‘re not going to oppose this. As a matter of fact, we‘re going to get on board and shape it the way we want, so it‘s all those people against the cloth coats that you were talking about [GARBLED]
MATTHEWS: I think the country is going to get really ticked off at a government that won‘t do what they tell them to do. A country without borders is not a country. If you don‘t have a border—I‘ve never heard of a country in the world that doesn‘t have a border. That‘s what defines a country. If you don‘t enforce it, you‘re a joke.
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FINEMAN: Well, this is bigger—as I travel around and talk to people, this is a bigger issue around the country than people here inside the beltway in the elite understand. That doesn‘t mean that that will will be reflected in legislation. Often it isn‘t. That‘s the story of Washington.
MATTHEWS: By the way, if you‘re a European trying to come to America and move here, or an African, West African, and you‘re waiting in line somewhere at a U.S. consulate nowhere, whether it‘s Albania or Nigeria, you‘re waiting in line dutifully. You show up every day, you fill out the papers and you wait and you wait and you wait.
Meanwhile, people are slam banging across the Mexican border every night with the searchlight on, and now we‘re saying put them ahead of you in line.
Oceania has never been at war with illegal immigration.
Who knows if this is true, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it turned out that Joe Biden’s Easter photo was fake. The former president took a picture with his family, and many are wondering one thing: was this photoshopped? I mean, it’s odd looking. First, I doubt that Joe, given his age, is kneeling or squatting like that to get into the photo.
The proportion of Joe in relation to the rest of his family, and the shape of his hand holding the back of a family member’s neck certainly look off. Has anyone tried playing recent speeches of Biden backwards to check for subliminal messages about his condition?
GREAT MOMENTS IN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Socialists With A Nationalistic Agenda Call Conservative Black Man A Nazi.
I went to a Tesla protest with Florida’s next Governor, Rep. Byron Donalds.
He calmly asked a simple question: ‘What are you protesting?’
The response: “Fascist.” “Race traitor.” “Nazi.” “Uncle Tom.”
Happy Easter! Christ is risen and has conquered the devil. That’s bad news for a mob of crazy Commies in California, who showed their support for having biological men compete in women’s sports by shrieking the praises of their master, Satan.
A Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) board meeting in California’s San Bernardino County took a dark turn last week, when rabid leftists who fanatically support transgenderism revealed also — surprise, surprise — that they have a streak of Satanism, real or feigned. How appropriate that people who support the lie that people can change sexes salute the Father of Lies.
God created us male and female (Genesis 1:27), but Satan mutilates from male to pseudo-female. The devil cannot create, he can only pervert.
According to a report byFox News, the meeting saw tense moments as the board addressed policies related to transgender participation in school athletics. Footage from the event reportedly showed protesters who support biological males in girls’ sports chanting the [Satanic] phrase.
Saul Alinsky smiles: “I opened [Rules for Radicals] and couldn’t believe my eyes. Alinsky offered this acknowledgment: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
More than 11 million people crossed into this country under Joe Biden’s watch. Will each individual require his own legal process before being eligible for deportation? Going through the motions of that process would take decades, if not, as some have argued, centuries.
To forestall that unhelpful eventuality, I would like to suggest an expedient to the various courts. I got the idea from the mass weddings presided over by Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church. The enterprising and entrepreneurial clergyman would preside over 5,000, 10,000, or even 20,000 happy couples at a time. Thus, large batches of new church members would be minted in a single go.
Could not the American judiciary take a page from the book of Reverend Moon and conduct, not mass weddings, but mass hearings to confer the golden halo of due process upon thousands of potential deportees at a time? Especially after our experience with COVID, when just about every human action was virtual or by proxy, why can we not hold hearings by proxy to determine the immigration and deportation status of likely candidates? Even at 20,000 per session, it would be a tedious process, but how much more efficient than taking each miscreant individually? I offer the idea free and for nothing as my contribution to salvaging the reputation of the judiciary, recently so tainted by its inveterate anti-Trump bias.
I have one other idea I’d like to offer for reform. There has been a flurry of additional opinions, orders, and such like in the aftermath of Judge Xinis’s demand that the government take steps to “facilitate and effectuate the return of Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.” Even the Supreme Court has weighed in on the issue. The due date on Judge Xinis’s original demand has come and gone. Garcia is still in El Salvador, apparently enjoying drinks with U.S. senators worried about his spirits and safety.
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