What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s recipe is Red Velvet Bundt Cake in honor of Valentine’s Day!

Ingredients

Cake:

Baking spray with flour

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

3/4 tsp. baking soda

3/4 tsp. table salt

1 cup (8 oz.) unsalted butter, softened

1 2/3 cups granulated sugar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

4 large eggs, at room temperature

3/4 cup whole buttermilk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 tsp. white vinegar

2 tsp. to 2 Tbsp. red food coloring

Cream Cheese Glaze:

4 oz. (1/2 package) cream cheese, at room temperature

1 1/3 cups powdered sugar

1 Tbsp. half and half or whole milk

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions

Prepare oven and Bundt pan:

Preheat oven to 325°F. Generously spray a 12 cup Bundt pan with baking spray with flour.

Prepare Cake:

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add vegetable oil and beat 1 minute longer, until combined.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stop and scrape down the bottom and sides of the mixing bowl as needed.

Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, starting and ending with flour.

Beat in vanilla, vinegar, and food coloring (tint to desired shade) just until combined.

Pour batter into prepared pan and tap lightly on the counter to release any bubbles. Smooth the top of the batter with a spatula.

Bake cake:

Bake 55-65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and the top of cake springs back when touched.

Let cool in pan on cooling rack 10 minutes, then turn out onto cooling rack to cool completely.

Prepare the Cream Cheese Glaze:

Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, and salt together with an electric mixture on medium speed until smooth. Add half and half and vanilla; beat until smooth. If glaze is too thick to pour, add additional half and half, 1 teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached.

Decorate Cake:

Pour glaze over cooled cake.

ENJOY!

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        1. I had a mixed spitz/poodle named Sammie when I was young; I had been out playing with him and my lab/Weimaraner cross, Midnight, and came inside w/o putting them up. They disappeared and we couldn’t find them anywhere. A day or so later, Midnight showed up w/o Sammie. The next spring, we found his body down south by the RR tracks. I have NO idea how they got all the way down there!!!

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            1. I got Sammie a few years after I got Midnight and we speculated that he was jealous and tried to lose him. Not sure he was THAT smart but you never know with dogs!

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              1. my son was talking about their dogs yesterday. Abby, the older one, is reactive to EVERYTHING that crosses her path–she has to investigate, sniff, bark–something. Sam, the younger one, doesn’t much care. they are so different.
                I was like DUH? kids in the same family are way different from each other and your pups aren’t related…what did you expect? LOL

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  4. TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    February 5, 2024 01:26

    Abbott, 13 governors declare states can secure border, have right to self-defense

    Thirteen Republican governors joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Eagle Pass, Texas, Sunday to pledge their commitment to border security and states’ constitutional rights to self-defense.

    “Half of the governors of the United States have joined with Texas in our cause to make sure states should do everything possible to secure our border,” Abbott said. “We are here to send a loud and clear message that we are banding together to fight to ensure that we will be able to maintain our constitutional guarantee that states will be able to defend against any type of imminent danger or an invasion that has been threatened by Joe Biden and his abject refusal to enforce the immigration laws of the United States of America.”

    Abbott cited the self-defense clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which more than 50 Texas counties have cited in their invasion declarations, saying, “We’re all fighting for a safer, more secure border and country.”

    Texas governor was joined by governors of Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Utah.

    They appeared in Shelby Park, where concertina wire barriers are the focus of one of three lawsuits filed over border barriers in the Eagle Pass area between Texas and the federal government.

    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said there are hundreds of Tennessee troops currently serving along the Texas-Mexico border.

    “We are prepared even today to send additional troops working with the Texas Department of Military to do just that,” Lee, said, adding that states were doing the job the federal government failed to do, “to protect this country.”

    “Each one of us understands the devastating effects that the border policy has had on every one of our states individually. We’re here together to collaboratively work to support Texas and to provide for the safety and security of people all across the country,” Lee said.

    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said they were standing with Abbott “because every state in our country now is a border state [and] if our border is not secure, our country is not secure and Joe Biden’s policies are making our country less safe.”

    He cited the record number of people being apprehended on the terrorist watch list, asking how many of them “are in our country that we didn’t apprehend?” He cited the record 458 million lethal doses of illicit fentanyl and 56,000 pounds of methamphetamine that OLS officers have seized, adding, “think about the doses that were not.”

    …Abbott said the states’ efforts were working. There used to be 3,000 to 4,000 foreign nationals illegally entering through the park a day. Today, the average is three a day.

    “If we put up resistance, we show we can secure the border,” Abbott said, adding that states can secure the border. “Joe Biden should not be stopping that.”

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    1. Well – Texas isn’t our only border. We have a longer northern border and many thousand miles of coastline to protect.

      The best defense is to ENFORCE all our CURRENT laws against illegal invasion!

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      1. Morning GA!
        EXACTLY….there was an article yesterday about a illegal alien smuggling outfit operating out of New Jersey–smuggling them across the Vermont/Canada border…costs an illegal $6K

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    2. Morning, Pat! Got that in my e-mail and was just coming to drop it – don’t need to now! Much of our snow has melted, leaving only the bigger drifts/piles remain. Temp supposed to be almost 60 by Wednesday! That will definitely take care of the rest of it. Back into the 30’s next week but that’s ok, as long as the snow is gone.

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        1. Oh, we’ve got some rain in the forecast, too, and it will take a while for all the melted snow to soak in – pretty soggy out there! Now there are warnings out about the ice flows coming off the river and flooding, which I mentioned a few days ago. Thankfully, I’m not that close to it here but an hour west of me is a different story! Down south, just west of where Michael lives, will most likely see flooding.

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            1. I know – they had a visual of all the rain coming to CA on the local weather report this morning. The only slightly open area was in the middle of the state.

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  5. WE DO KNOW

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  6. America First details new immigration bill

    America First Legal
    @America1stLegal
    9h • 11 tweets • 5 min read •
    Read on X
    🚨The new Senate border bill is out () and we are evaluating it, but here are TEN things you should know to start with (there are more).

    In sum, it appears to be WORSE THAN the current law.

    Read this 🧵and decide for yourself.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
    1. It does not end catch and release. Instead, it facilitates catch and release for certain populations. This should be a MAJOR red flag for all.
    2. It exempts UAC from the new “break glass” removal authority. Which means it is worthless, as UAC remain a gaping loophole, and we have seen the largest child smuggling operation in history during the Biden Administration. For context, more than 476,000 UAC have come during the Biden Admin. None of them ever go home.

    3. It does nothing to end perpetual settlement agreements like Flores, which have undermined border security for decades.
    4. The bill effectively codifies the Administration’s absurd “asylum officer rule” that dozens of state Attorneys General are currently challenging in court. They might as well call this the “Asylum Officer Empowerment Act,” meaning more and more aliens will get asylum based on lax adjudications. And asylum = path to a green card and citizenship.
    5. The new “break glass” emergency authority is a disaster. The Secretary “may” use it if there are 4,000 or more aliens encountered each day (28k per week, 121k a month, 1.46 mil a year). But he “must” use it when there are more than 5,000 a day over a week or 8,500 in a single day. Those are insane numbers and totally unacceptable to the American people.

    6. And Non-Mexican UAC are NOT counted in the total that triggers the emergency authority.
    7. But if that wasn’t bad enough, there is a provision that allows the Biden team to essentially opt anyone out from the new supposedly expedited proceedings.
    8. And if that weren’t bad enough, it allows Biden to SUSPEND the new authority if he wants to, rendering it meaningless:
    9. Oh, and the authority is limited in time duration, going down each subsequent year, making it even more worthless:
    10. The bill wastes a ton of taxpayer money.

    Billions here and billions there for more “processing.” Including $1.4 BILLION for more FEMA grants that provide shelter and other services to illegal aliens.

    There are even nuggets like $36 million to provide attorneys for “incompetent” adult aliens.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1754315351855100084.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

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            1. This is exactly why people are flocking to social media for real news – they are awakening to the fact that all of the media is in cahoots with those bastids!

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  7. we’ll see

    Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes
    It’s Official, Black Voters Know They’re Being Replaced With Illegal Immigrants

    “Why do think they’re doing this? Why would they be bringing in these tens of thousands of people? Twenty buses a day, a thousand more per day. Why would they be doing this, and what’s your message?”

    “The only reason that I could see that they’d be, uh, would be doing this is to replace us. And we say Trump 2024 because Trump is the only one who’s gonna do something about this and partner With all of America this is this is where all of America has gotta come together and put a stop to this. We have to send these people back where they come from. Oh, this is going to explode violently. It’s gonna explode on multiple fronts, and and the the mayor and This governor doesn’t care.

    And since they don’t care, then we must go red. We must link up with all of America, And and we care, and we have to do something about it. We’re coming for every electoral official that did step up and all those that that supported, uh, this mass. I mean, wipe out of our our our communities, we’re coming for you. By the time Trump gets ready to to, To run-in November, Chicago is gonna look like a sea of red.

    When that democratic national convention get here, you’re gonna see so many red t Research that you’re gonna think you’re in Texas. Enough is enough. We just can’t give it away to foreign nationals. No no other country’s gonna allow us to cut in And do the same thing that’s happening here.

    You have American citizens of African American descent, that have built this country and built the great city of Chicago. They are the back and shoulders that built this city”

    Democrats Have Lost The Black Vote

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  10. very long, i apologize, but i think it’s worth a read…
    You now see these derelict fleabag motels in working- and middle-class communities all across Massachusetts.

    Your local Days Inn or Motel 6 or Comfort Inn — not so long ago they were moderately priced places for the grandparents to stay in when they returned for Junior’s high-school graduation, or maybe even for an ill-advised, late-night, low-rent romance…

    All in the past now. The businessmen’s and no-tell motels have been commandeered in the greater cause of Obama’s fondest dream — the “fundamental transformation” of America into a Third World hellhole.

    Everywhere the motels are being turned over to the state and its “NGO” proxies. They are rebranded, if you will, into flophouses for the “migrants” who are now enjoying permanent all-expenses-paid vacations at the taxpayers’ expense.

    The other day, a former radio coworker of mine sent me this photo from the Holiday Inn in Marlboro with its vaguely ominous sign:

    “Hotel Closed to Public.”

    I tweeted out the photo with a brief explanation of what had happened. I was surprised when the photo got far more clicks than anything I’ve ever posted.

    The next day, the “hotel” removed the sign and replaced it with something smaller and slightly less obvious.

    “Hotel Is Currently Closed.”

    After posting the initial photo, I also got a torrent of responses from people who are witnessing this ongoing disaster first hand.

    What follows is an account from someone who works in a different one of these “converted” hotels which are decimating the entire communities around them.

    This report has been lightly edited to protect the source from retribution by the woke comrades:

    There are 200-plus families, he begins, and more than 500 people currently living at the (facility).

    It’s not only a roof over their heads and three squares a day, but “free” diapers, wipes, toiletries, free tablets and phones, free English lessons, state case workers making sure all entitlements are taken, free Uber and Lyft rides, free bus passes from (redacted).

    All with no end in sight.

    All are going to the (redacted) immigration office in Ubers… round trip is more than $130 per trip.

    All get DTA (Department of Transitional Assistance, i.e., welfare) benefits, EBT cards. They have more expendable cash than I do.

    If DCF (Department of Children & Families) says they need a crib, stroller, toys, etc., management is required order them. Everything is new and arrives the next day from Amazon.

    They all have MassHealth, free legal services, free tax-filing services.

    Most now have Social Security cards and many are getting work permits, as many have been in the “shelter” for months.

    They are learning they can make more on DTA than from working.

    The biggest cost that you can’t put a price tag on is the burden on the schools and public-safety budgets.

    We daily have local police or fire at the hotel. Police have had to help with fights, guns, drugs, overdoses….

    They call 911 for a headache. I even heard someone called 911 for a paper cut. Nuisance calls, because they don’t have to pay for them, or anything else.

    I know people in public safety, including some on command staffs. They are fed up with this and concerned about keeping staff.

    The brass put on a good face, but are beyond overwhelmed and have no staff or plan. They flat out admit the educations of “regular kids” are being impacted.

    The task is to get housing for the immigrants. Not very realistic around here.

    Few are working, most who do work for FedEx or Amazon. They have no concept of saving $$ or the cost of housing. The Walmart in (redacted) loves the first and 15th of the month, as that’s when they get their direct (welfare) deposits.

    The amount of Amazon and Temu packages delivered every day is crazy. DoorDash is also loving them in (redacted).

    The post office just drops off piles of mail for them in the lobby every day, a lot from the state agencies. Many either misspell their names or write them backwards so they can double dip. I assume that the welfare agencies are so overwhelmed, most of it isn’t caught.

    Many now have cars. Somebody here’s always chasing them for insurance and registration info. Most try to avoid anybody making inquiries. They buy the vehicles here, pay here. Dealers must be making a fortune. Most still do not have drivers’ licenses.

    Most are nice people, but they are now conditioned to think everything is free and that we work for them. Many are rude and have zero respect for rules, police, hotel cleanliness, etc.

    DCF has removed quite a few children for abuse.

    Local churches have been great with donations of clothes, but the hoarding by and the entitlement of the residents is startling.

    The hotel provides breakfast and lunch. There is also a catering contract just for dinner. I’ve heard that one alone is for more than $2 million a year, as it feeds more than 500 people a day, 7 days a week.

    The hotel is getting $130 a night for the rooms, charges for other rooms where the food is served, and for the rooms used for computer labs and ESL (English as a Second Language) classrooms.

    Plus $12 per each breakfast and $15 per lunch times 500 people.

    Hotel is making a killing with cash flow, but the property is being destroyed. Will need an entire remodel.

    I keep my mouth shut while at work, as I don’t blame the residents. I blame the president and even more so Gov. Healey.

    This whole situation is mind-boggling to me. What about all the little old ladies, low-income seniors and homeless veterans down on their luck? They’re taxpayers, they’re American citizens.

    They’re desperate to get into the public housing controlled by these towns, but they’re required to go onto a waiting list for years.

    The towns tell them, sorry, we can’t accommodate your needs. We have no available units.

    Yet now the state is bending over backwards with no concern about expenses for Right to Shelter individuals, who are here illegally.

    Also don’t understand why more local officials aren’t speaking up. The burdens placed on these communities are huge. Certainly can understand why legislators are silent, but if I were still a town official, I would be demanding a meeting with the governor, he concluded.

    Maybe I’ll do a follow-up next week. Readers, please send me photos of your local foreign-freeloader flophouses, as well as the motels’ old signs now covered up by tarps.

    Tweet them to @howiecarrshow or email them (and your personal stories) to policeblotter@howiecarrshow.com.

    Two final thoughts:

    Import the Third World, become the Third World.

    Elections have consequences. Catastrophic elections have catastrophic consequences.

    https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonherald.com%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fhowie-carr-from-the-front-lines-of-massachusetts-descent-into-the-third-world%2F

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  13. Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes
    WOW 🚨 Americans Have No Idea How Bad Things Really Are

    Denver Police At Airport Off The Record “The media will not tell you this. — We’ve arrested, the Denver Police in Denver has arrested over 50 Al Qaeda members in the last 2 months”

    “So I just had a conversation with a Denver police officer at the airport, and we were talking about the crime that’s going on, not only in Denver, but our country. And he says, the media will not tell you this. I’m not even supposed to talk about this, but I don’t care anymore. We’ve arrested. The Denver police in Denver has arrested over 50 Al Qaeda members in the last 2 months.

    50. Okay. So with that said, we started talking about everything else. And And we started talking about where the budget’s going and how they don’t have enough police cars. They’re gonna be putting them on foot.

    We started talking about all the migrants that have coming over the border and how they’re cutting the police budget in all major cities, including Denver. And then we started talking about how their sleeper cells all over Colorado. He’s talking about South Americans. He’s talking about people from Central America. He’s talking about people from China.

    He’s talking about people from, um, the Middle East all over, and he says, the police know this, the state police and the local police, and they’re not allowed to do a damn thing about it. So y’all, here’s my question for you, especially for those of you that are left leaning. Do you still think that it’s okay to have open ****** borders?”

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    1. Just e-mailed that to Marilyn – Danelle and the kids live in Durango, CO. 6 hours from Denver but no doubt, those people will be spreading out thru the state.

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  15. Mike McCaul was just on Fox – the Senate border bill contains NONE of what was in the House bill. He doesn’t see this going anywhere w/o a LOT of reconciliation between the 2 bills. But bear in mind – he cannot be trusted either.

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  16. so President Trump can’t do a thing about it…

    Greg Price
    @greg_price11
    Not only does this bill codify 1.5 million illegal border crossings into law, but the “border emergency” that automatically gets implemented at 5,000 crossings per day in a week can be overturned by Joe Biden.

    And in case 1.5 million illegals isn’t enough, it also locks in green card giveaways through 2030.

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  17. “World leaders split on Trump reelection – with ideology, immigration, trade, Biden all key factors. A Trump victory in November would likely result in widespread and dramatic changes in the global order.”
    By Eric J. Lyman, JustTheNews
    Published: February 4, 2024 11:39pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: With Donald Trump the almost-certain Republican Party nominee for president – and given his lead against Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in most national polls – two broad camps are emerging among global leaders on who they’d like to see in White House a year from now. A Trump victory in November would likely result in widespread and dramatic changes in the global order – from changing the nature of the U.S.’s relationship with NATO allies, Ukraine, and Israel to the tariffs that govern international trade, worldwide refugee policies and to multilateral efforts to combat climate change.

    Trump, president from 2016 to 2019, is a world-class disrupter, and the pro-Trump camp among global leaders is large and filled with like-minded figures. Among them are three leaders often seen as their country’s version of Trump: Argentina’s newly-elected Javier Milei, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing coalition in the Netherlands.

    If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is paying homage to Trump in his campaign style that includes a hardline refugee policy and other topics that differentiate him from his political rivals. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as distancing himself from the Biden administration as the White House is increasingly critical of Israel’s war in Gaza. That pattern could help Trump capture votes from more American Jews in November.

    Victor Orban in Hungary, Europe’s longest serving prime minister, makes no secret of his hopes for a Trump victory. He’s a good leader,” Orban said. “I belong to the club of veteran leaders and the veterans support each other.” Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has made it clear he has no reservations about a Trump returning for a second term. And India’s Narendra Modi has been seen as having had a “bromance” with Trump, though that relationship has seen ups and downs over the years.

    Additionally, strong ties between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un date back to early in Trump’s term. Even leaders who may have reason to oppose Trump – Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who could see his country’s exports slapped with aggressive tariffs in a second Trump term, and French President Emmanuel Macron, whom Trump mocked at a recent campaign rally in Iowa – are apparently not entirely opposed to Trump’s return to the Oval Office.

    Media reports have speculated that Trump’s relative indifference toward the fate of Taiwan – the island nation China wants to one day absorb – is appealing to Xi, and a Trump administration’s likely focus on domestic issues could give Xi a freer hand to pursue his agenda in some parts of the world.

    Meanwhile, Macron, a pragmatist who is facing his own electoral challenges at home, said he was open to working with Trump if he is victorious. “I take the leaders people give me,” Macron said regarding Trump recently.

    Biden didn’t name names, but he said recently that at multilateral summits leaders privately express their support for him. “You’ve got to win,” Biden says his fellow heads of state tell him. “We can’t let this happen again.” Only a few of those leaders have made it known publicly that they are in the international anti-Trump camp. Among them is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who used unusually direct language to support Biden during a trip to Washington last year. “I want him to be reelected,” he said strongly, with Biden standing nearby.

    In Canada, which like France is liberal leaning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said of a possible second Trump term, “It wasn’t easy the first time and if there is a second time, it won’t be easy either,” though Trudeau’s views might be tempered by a recent poll that showed Trump has a higher approval rating in Canada than Trudeau does.

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said she wants Europe to be “Trump proof” in case the former president wins in November, though it’s not clear how possible that will be. The European Union has deep security, economic, and cultural ties with the U.S.

    It’s no surprise that with U.S. support for Ukraine in question in an election year and Trump’s boast that he would bring about a swift end to that country’s war with Russia that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is concerned. “It’s very dangerous,” Zelensky warned of the former U.S. president’s rhetoric. It’s also not surprising that what worries Zelensky likely pleases Russian president Vladimir Putin. Already, Trump’s GOP allies on Capitol Hill do not support continuing financial aid to Ukraine with no end in sight.

    The leader who clearly stands out among those who do not support Trump is Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran who has said, “Trump will pay for his crime.”

    The crime? Overseeing the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general seen as waging a “shadow war” against western interests. In December, an Iranian court said the U.S. government was liable for nearly $50 billion in damages for the Soleimani killing, a ruling that given Iran’s status as a pariah state is unenforceable outside the country’s borders.”

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  18. “Oklahoma GOP Chairman says party must follow censure rules amid frustration over Sen. Lankford: “There was a meeting that was held, but it was illegitimate because they didn’t follow the GOP party rules and the proper procedure for calling for a meeting,” state Sen. Nathan Dahm said.”
    By Charlotte Hazard, Just The News
    Published: February 4, 2024 11:43pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Oklahoma GOP Chairman and state Sen. Nathan Dahm said that while people are upset over Sen. James Lankford’s border negotiations, the party has to follow censure rules.

    “As Republicans, we’re supposed to follow the rules,” Dahm said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “We believe in the rule of law, whether that’s party rules or the constitution. So there are people that are very upset about the negotiations that are taking place. We still haven’t seen the final outcome of what this deal might be. But people are very upset about it, because we are being invaded by the policies of this Biden regime.”

    Oklahoma Republicans have criticized GOP Sen. Lankford over what they call his “Open Border Deal” with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer that would reportedly allow 5,000 illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. daily. Lankford has urged critics “not to believe everything” they read on the Internet regarding the alleged deal.

    Earlier this week, the Oklahoma Republican Party voted to censure Lankford during a state Committee meeting, but Dahm explained that the vote was not legitimate. “There was a meeting that was held, but it was illegitimate because they didn’t follow the GOP party rules and the proper procedure for calling for a meeting,” he said. “They didn’t invite over 100 elected officials, including the governor, and the entire House and Senate. They didn’t give the opportunity for all people to be involved in that.”

    “People are upset,” Dahm also said. “But I’m just as chairman saying, ‘I get that. I hear your frustrations, but we still have to follow the rules. We can’t evolve into the party of the left where the ends justify the means.'”

    The southern border crisis has been a massive issue for Republicans in Congress as thousands of migrants have been reported to be flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border daily. The Homeland Security Department revealed last year that the backlog of tracking and vetting illegal aliens inside the U.S. had nearly doubled under Biden, to over six million, while arrests of suspected terrorists and violent offenders also exploded.

    Dahm said that it is up to the grassroots activists to pick the best conservative candidate to run for office in the primary and then the party does work from there. “In our GOP rules, we can’t get involved in the primaries,” he said. “That’s not the role of the party. That’s the role of the grassroots and of the activists and of other organizations to get in there and make sure that we get the most conservative candidate through the primary so that they can actually be the nominee in November.”

    Election integrity is also a big concern of the Republican Party, and Dahm said he believes Oklahoma’s elections are pretty solid.

    “We have some of the best in the country,” he said. “I would say we’re at an ‘A’ but with my role as a state senator, I’ve worked to improve it. For instance, I’m trying to make it to where all of our ballots have to have a special watermark on them just to add that extra layer of security.”

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    1. of course, we’re the party of rules and guidelines, meanwhile the dems run all over rules and create crimes out of thin air.
      I know we need to maintain law and order, but allowing the left to tear it all apart is not going to maintain ANYTHING but democrat rules

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      1. Agreed! All I could think was…did the voters get to approve those so-called “rules?” THIS is how they get around us and effectively void our votes! Waaay back when I was considering running for the City Council here, Brook (the newspaper guy) who was head of the Chamber of Commerce here then, told me about a manual I would have to “study” that is about 2-3 inches thick of all the myriad, detailed “rules” one must follow. From Federal, to State, to County, to City & City Manager rules, all interacting/interlocked and sooooo fucking complicated, you’d go blind after 3 pages of it all! That was when I said not only NO, but HELL NO!!!

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  19. EXCERPT: “Russian media outlet “Mash” reports that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was seen at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in recent days. On the social media platform X, there’s enormous interest in Carlson’s trip and speculation about whether he plans to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    As of Sunday morning, “Tucker” is trending on X with over 307,000 posts. The journalist previously relayed a story about trying to set up a Putin interview, until a Washington, DC source briefed him about how the NSA spied on him.
    […]
    “Uncensored on X. The US deep state and the Biden administration must be in panic mode because Putin (the most censored man in the West) will expose their propaganda and lies,” X user Kim Dotcom wrote in a post.
    […]
    This comes as Elon Musk has freed Twitter from corporate and government control while citizen journalists, armed with keyboards, report the news unbiasedly. In other words, the matrix has glitched. — ZeroHedge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-spotted-moscow-necons-meltdown-over-potential-putin-interview

    Our Take: “Propaganda is a relatively local phenomenon. This was one of the lessons I learned during the COVID narrative. The propaganda was tailored uniquely to different localities, and varied from nation to nation.

    In the midst of the lockdowns, I decided to test the claim that we weren’t allowed to travel and accepted a job as a speaker at a conference in North Carolina. The conference had offered to host my whole family, so we made a vacation of it. Needless to say, we did in fact travel regardless of all the fear mongering and claims that we would be stopped.

    In Toronto, the mask mandates were for children 2 & up (we had not been masking our children regardless). As soon as we landed in North Carolina, we found out the mask mandate was for children 11 and up. A 9 year difference!! Sounds super scientific!!

    The propaganda was designed for its target audience, standard psychological warfare. Once I saw this drastic inconsistency in COVID policies, the nature of the global operation being run suddenly became a lot clearer.

    All this is to say that this is what Tucker Carlson is up to merging American awareness with Canadian awareness, and now moving on to Russia. Even though our enemy is running a globalist operation, they rely on curated psychological ecosystems that cannot withstand the free thought that is cultivated when non-local awareness is injected into these delicate, localized cognitive biomes. Panic.” — Simon Esler

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    1. I am 100% convinced Tucker is working with Trump on this! In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Trump didn’t come up with this idea in the first place!

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  22. I know this has already been posted but now a bit more detail…OK – is it just me or does this sound ridiculous on it’s face, considering all of the really serious crime they should actually be solving in CA??? Don’t get me wrong – I still despise rap but seriously? For knocking down a security guard in a manner that could well have been an accident??? Citizen’s arrest??? Which “citizen” made the “arrest”??? WTF!?!

    EXCERPT: “Rapper Killer Mike was booked on a misdemeanor battery charge following his citizen’s arrest at the 2024 Grammys Sunday night, Page Six has confirmed. He was released from jail on his own recognizance about an hour after he was booked, police records show. He has a court appearance set for Feb. 29, 2024.

    The “Run” performer, 48, allegedly knocked down a security officer after he did not move away fast enough in the pouring rain. Footage obtained by TMZ shows the aftermath of the alleged altercation in which other security personnel can be seen trying to stop Killer Mike from getting away. Eventually, he was cuffed and taken into a security room at Crypto.com Arena, with a source telling the Hollywood Reporter his detainment was a “big nothing” and he would likely be released within a few hours….”

    Musician Arrested at Grammys – Leaves in Handcuffs After Winning 3 Awards (Video)

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          1. Is that like Sicilian deep-dish pizza? ‘Cause I love that kind….used to go to a place not far from Ft. Myer to get authentic Sicilian pizza and I got spoiled. My friend who took me to the Kennedy Center to see Dracula introduced me to it…the friend I met on the bus from Ft. Myer to the Pentagon, who was the only person present at my wedding to HB’s Dad…..when he was in isolation at the hospital with incurable leukemia, we took HB to see him so he could “meet” her and also took him a Sicilian pizza! We couldn’t go into the room, of course, but we talked thru the window/door. Such a really sweet guy and really good friend! He died not long after that and his Mom contacted me to tell me how much our friendship meant to him…..ah, memories!

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              1. True….talk about a friend – when my hubby was away at BNOC (Basic Non-Commissioned Officer) training in SC, he was complaining that all the guys around him had sexy pics of women hanging in their wall lockers. He wanted to hang one of Joan Jett – of course, I objected and told him I would send him a pic of me for his wall locker. Don was the one who took the pic of me in a sexy dress, with the halter straps undone and a skirt slit to the waist, with me draped over the railing of the stairs in our TH. I had it blown up to a 3′ X 5′ poster and sent it to him. “Now you’ve got a picture of a sexy woman for your wall locker!!!” Yes, I was VERY particular about that kind of thing! Playboy and such as NOT allowed in my house – period!!!

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              4. IDK what happened to the poster, tho. IIRC, he brought it back and put it up in his wall locker again. After that, I haven’t a clue what happened to it.

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  27. “I am certain Democrats will attempt to steal the coming election, but I feel reasonably confident they will fail this time. Things here are going to become worse, not better. The victory margins are going to be too great to overcome. Their options will be limited.

    Maliciously stupid; relentlessly incompetent; progressives know they are losing and they’ve an unquenchable thirst for power. I fear the left this November, and I am grateful we are armed. — The Hammer Charles Martel

    https://rumble.com/v4bhe7u-the-left-is-maliciously-stupid-relentlessly-incompetent-trump-is-going-to-w.html

    https://canadafreepress.com/article-video/the-left-is-maliciously-stupid-relentlessly-incompetent-trump-is-going-to-win

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          1. Oh, I’m not talking about that – I mean all their stupid intricately-connected official “rules!”

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  32. Long but an uplifting post….

    “Survival in Tough Times: Adapt! Improvise! Overcome! Translation: We must find a way!”
    By Dr. Bruce Smith ——Bio and Archives–February 4, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Many times every day we encounter problems that need solutions. Each time we face a choice, we must find a way to go forward. We must find a way. We must find a way to make the most of what we are given. Only rarely is it the same that is given to others. Living by comparison to others is not good, whether others wish us well or ill. It really means turning our self-esteem over to others. Those who wish us ill love this. It gives them the power they crave.

    It helps to find a way to see the best in our circumstances. There are always others who see how our situation could be different, but others aren’t very good at considering our interests. Always looking at the down side doesn’t help. We must find a way to look at things differently, to look on the bright side, the positive side. We can always find plenty to regret that we didn’t do, or that we did badly. Seek the benefits of every bad situation. Look to the bright side for inspiration.

    We must find a way to self-counsel, taking advantage of help when we can find it, then relying on ourselves to make the good advice work. We must find a way to keep our detractors from dwelling rent-free in our heads. We must find a way to avoid contact with those who seek to beat us down. We do not work for them or act at their bidding. We are individuals, not serfs or slaves.

    We must find a way to discover the real intentions of others: are they only self-serving, or do they really care for us? If they are only or mostly self-serving, we must be wary of their wiles. We must find a way to escape the negatives of our pasts. We must find a way to draw upon the strengths and lessons of our pasts.

    We must find a way to experience happiness in our work, because we were made for productive labor, not idleness. We must rest when we need to. Even machines need maintenance and down time. A good balance is necessary for everyone. We must find a way to be optimistic, even while we are preparing for difficult days. If we are downcast, we make easier targets and better victims. Depression saps energy and diminishes results.

    We must find a way to avoid frantic worry, because it only draws down our energy and determination. Panic over a looming test just makes it worse. The solution is to be well prepared. Then we have done our best. We must find a way to be true to our selves, so that we canst be false to any man. If we are not healthy and strong in our minds, then the door is open for any creeping thing to come in during the night in order to spoil tomorrow.

    We must find a way to deal with our physical limitations, too. This applies to any age. When we are younger we hardly know the limits, but when we get older, or really old, we feel the limits much more. There are limits at every stage of life, so it helps to work with them to keep our perspective. As younger people, we try to direct our efforts toward what we must do, but also to what we ought to do. Later in life some of the limiting is done for us, but we still must direct our efforts intelligently, or perhaps even wisely.

    We must find a way to constructively direct the effects of our hormone levels, be they elevated or ebbing. This is because culture changes much faster than our physical selves. Hormones prompt us to do things we scarcely understand. They make demands hinting that ‘it’s the way things are, and must be.’ But we must be in control of ourselves at all times.

    We must find a way to channel our wisdom, often acquired at heavy cost, to lead us in the paths of helpfulness and charity. We must allow ourselves to benefit from our own lessons. We should know ourselves better and better, much better than others know us, and act according to our own prudent needs.

    We must find a way to deal with our changing perspectives. We don’t see the world as 22 year-olds now, although we can go back there in our heads and relive a bit of it now and then. We must think and reason and let rash proposals sort themselves first so they can be evaluated BEFORE we act upon them.

    Above all, we must find a way, every day, to make what we must do as pleasant as possible, or at least as rewarding as possible. In the absence of these, we must understand why it is necessary, to understand why we must do it. It’s very helpful to make a virtue out of necessity. If our necessities are modest, they’re easier to achieve. With time and luck, necessity can become virtue that becomes routine. Therein lies the prospect of a good life.

    I like the admonition sometimes heard in military training: Adapt! Improvise! Overcome! Translation: We must find a way!”

    https://canadafreepress.com/article/we-must-find-a-way

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  33. Another day of pea soup – still super foggy and only 32. Dreary day…..see, Pat? What goes around, comes around – I’m getting your dreary skies now! LOL

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      1. Possibly some sun here Wednesday into Thursday, which is when they are predicting temps almost to 60…we’ll see. Rainy/foggy until then.

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  34. “Rep. Jayapal Demands Slur ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Stop Being Used To Describe Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally”
    POLITICS · Feb 2, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a fiery speech on Capitol Hill this week, Rep. Pramila Jayapal condemned the use of the derogatory slur “illegal immigrant” to describe people who immigrated to the country illegally.

    “The use of such precise, descriptive language to describe persons of other-than-documented status is offensive, demeaning, and racist,” said Jayapal to an empty House floor and a C-Span camera operator. “When we accurately describe a problem that we don’t want to solve because it helps us politically, it makes it much easier to solve that problem. We can’t allow that.”

    “Also, it’s probably homophobic.”

    Research from prominent sociologists has confirmed the term “illegal immigrant” often leads directly to anti-immigrant sentiment and hate crimes, probably. “When we use dehumanizing slurs to describe undocumented persons of noble asylum seeking, it contributes to the problem,” said noted immigrant-terminology expert Dr. Fletch Pugg. “Individuals of non-traditional nation entry deserve more dignity than that.”

    At publishing time, locals from Jayapal’s Seattle district had demanded answers after another 1,000 international dreamers of unorthodox interactions with the law were given shelter in an elementary school.”

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  35. EXCERPT: “….As a rule, the mission of our armed forces is to defend our country and national interests. At the outset of our country’s founding, our Army protected us. That’s kind of changed, in that we use our military primarily as an overseas arm of American policies—to defend our values and to help our friends. So, two million people who have the capacity to defend really aren’t here for us in the real sense of defending our country. Our Guard is here for that, but the mission of the Guard is a bit obscure in this day and age. We ostensibly have the Border Patrol and Homeland Security to protect our sovereign land. The federal Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security and is a 22,000 agent-strong unit. The Department of Homeland Security has roughly 260,000 people on its payroll.

    But, hey, we have 2.3 million people in uniform and about 260,000 Homeland Security personnel. We have our own state and local police forces who are here for public safety. We’re all good, right? Our minds should be at ease.

    Until you realize that in the past three years, we’ve had upwards of eight million people slip into our country, both detected and undetected. The Biden administration’s Border Patrol has caught and released into America a reported 2.3 million foreign nationals since 2021. There are informed estimates that as many as six million others have filtered in illegally during the same period. The thought of so many unaccounted-for and unvetted people sneaking into our country is a great concern. In December 2023 alone, more than 300,000 people have shown up at our border trying to get into the United States….”

    https://tennesseestar.com/policy/commentary-when-the-invaders-outnumber-the-army/admin/2024/02/02/

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  38. “Medicine Has Been Fully Militarized”
    BY Clayton J. Baker, MDCLAYTON J. BAKER, MD JANUARY 30, 2024

    EXCERPT: “I am thinking of a certain industry. See if you can guess what it is.

    This industry is huge, constituting a large portion of the nation’s GDP. Millions of people earn their living through it, directly or indirectly. The people at the top of this industry (who operate mostly behind the scenes, of course) are among the super-rich. This industry’s corporations lobby the nation’s government relentlessly, to the tune of billions of dollars per year, both to secure lucrative contracts and to influence national policy in their favor. This investment pays off richly, sometimes reaching trillions of dollars.

    The corporations supplying this industry with its materiel conduct advanced, highly technical research that is far beyond the understanding of the average citizen. The citizens fund this research, however, through tax dollars. Unbeknownst to them, many of the profits gained from the products developed using tax dollars are kept by the corporations’ executives and investors.

    This industry addresses fundamental, life-or-death issues facing the nation. As such, it relentlessly promotes itself as a global force for good, claiming to protect and save countless lives. However, it kills a lot of people too, and the balance is not always a favorable one.

    The operational side of this industry is emphatically top-down in its structure and function. Those who work at the ground level must undergo rigorous training that standardizes their attitudes and behavior. They must follow strict codes of practice, and they are subject to harsh professional discipline if they deviate from accepted policies and procedures, or even if they publicly question them.

    Finally, these ground-level personnel are handled in a peculiar manner. Publicly, they are frequently lauded as heroes, particularly under declared periods of crisis. Privately, they are kept completely in the dark regarding high-level industry decisions, and they are often lied to outright by those at higher levels of command. The “grunts” even significantly forfeit some fundamental civil liberties for the privilege of working in the industry.

    What industry am I describing? If you answered, “the military,” of course you would be correct. However, if you answered “the medical industry,” you would be every bit as right….”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/medicine-has-been-fully-militarized/

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  40. send the illegals…they want a different life after all

    Citizen Free Press
    @CitizenFreePres
    Chuck Schumer, blackmail right on cue.

    If you don’t pass the Immigration bill, Americans will be sent to Ukraine.

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  41. Talking about lawfare….not just Citizens United needs to go!!!

    “The Legal Batteries That Supercharge the Bureaucratic State”
    BY Thomas Buckley, JANUARY 29, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a nutshell) that courts must defer to the wisdom of the implied expertise of a government agency when deciding certain legal questions.

    In other words, if the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Global Performative Planning, Department of Commerce, decides that X is true and/or to be done it doesn’t really matter that Congress never really envisioned the law being interpreted that way and it can’t be stopped because the court has to go along with it – sorry, government-suing plaintiff – because the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Global Performative Planning said so.

    (Note: that’s not a real job, but when you Google the phrase hundreds of very similarly titled real government jobs appear. Shudder.)

    Today, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a pair of cases filed by east coast fishermen that goes directly to the heart of Chevron deference. The fishermen complained that the Commerce Department was forcing them to pay $700 a day to a government employee to stand on the boats and monitor their activities. Lower courts ruled against them, citing in part Chevron deference, hence their appearance at the Supremes.

    “It violates Article 3 of the Constitution,” said plaintiff’s attorney Roman Martinez. “Chevron mandates judicial bias” because it essentially precludes the court from ruling on behalf of the plaintiffs (again, nutshell).

    While it may seem obscure, the ramifications are vast, especially when it comes to rules and regulations like those instituted by Julie Su’s (kinda) Department of Labor regarding freelance work. The rule is so confusing as to be impossible to fairly follow, let alone interpret, automatically pushing its use into Chevron territory. In other words, the Labor bureaucrats will be able to determine who is a freelancer and who is not and avoid being challenged in court. In fact, Su has already been sued over this matter.

    Like Julie Su having the power of Secretary of Labor when she’s really not (kinda), however the court rules on Chevron, it will have serious consequences. Ramirez also noted the troubling contradiction at the center of the discussion – “So the statute says courts do the interpretation. Chevron says agencies get interpretive authority, not courts. These are inconsistent,” Martinez said. At the core of the argument is who gets the last word on regulatory issues and such – the bureaucrat or the court. Sounds a bit “devil and the deep blue sea,” but leaving omniscient interpretive power in the hands of a bureaucrat tends not to work out terribly well.

    See Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and Dr. Francis Collins RE: Covid. Associate Justice Elena Kagan – who backs Chevron – said the courts should “defer to people who actually know things” about the topic at hand. See Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and Dr. Francis Collins RE: Covid. And see the deserved devastation of the public trust in the entire expert class over the past five or six years. Kagan’s “trust the experts” argument may have seemed reasonable in 2004, but in 2024 is ludicrous.

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed that Chevron was doing the “important work of helping courts stay away from policymaking.” By automatically letting unelected, faceless bureaucrats do it, one supposes. The expert reliance argument falls on its face because the “experts” to be relied upon tend not to be actual experts.

    Of course there are thousands of lab techs and mathematicians and coders and fish counters with the government who really are experts in their field. But they tend not to make the final call, to set policy. That is typically done at the “appointed” government person level. “Today’s experts are partisans,” said Michael Lotito, Co-Chair of the Workplace Policy Institute in San Francisco. “Both parties do it.” Lotito said overturning Chevron would be an important step in limiting the power of the “administrative state.”

    “We live in an administrative state and the administrative state gets deference from the court” under Chevron, Lotito said. “And the administrative state has created a constant state of regulatory churn. A regulated group values certainty, reliability. For the regulated community, Chevron is a nightmare,” said Lotito.

    Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar – who argued on behalf of the government to keep Chevron – said the doctrine followed precedent that long predated its formal creation and unwinding it would cause “profound disruption” and that litigants would “come out of the woodwork” to reopen old cases, etc. Overturning Chevron would be a “a shock to the legal system,” Prelogar said.

    As for the justices, they appeared to split along philosophical lines – as usual – with the three left-leaning justices wanting to keep Chevron, while the five right-leaning justices seem ready to toss out Chevron. As for Chief Justice John Roberts, who knows, though considering his past decisions he may push to find a “middle ground.” There is precedent for that: in a case called Skidmore years ago, the court ruled that judges must consider and weigh evidence brought forward by a government agency but it does not automatically have to say “yes.”

    The ruling is expected in early summer. Here is a copy of the transcript of today’s hearing:”

    Click to access 22-1219_c07d.pdf

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  46. unaccompanied alien children get in no matter what–so if you can pass for under 18…you’re in no questions asked according to the new bill

    …the “emergency authority” the bill would grant to the secretary of homeland security to “summarily remove” aliens. But that authority only arises if the number of encounters with aliens at the border averages 4,000 for seven consecutive days or more than 8,500 in any one day.
    Beyond the flood of aliens allowed to enter the United States without triggering the emergency authority, the statutory exemptions gut the secretary’s authority. Specifically, the bill provides that the border emergency authority cannot be used against “an unaccompanied alien child,” so every illegal alien who is under 18 — or can pass as someone who is under 18 — will be allowed in…
    https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/05/under-the-senates-atrocious-border-bill-everybody-gets-asylum/

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  49. Johnny
    Johnny
    February 5, 2024 11:22 am

    All this is about is stopping President Donald J Trump from deporting these invaders, when he is re elected.

    They are scared of him, and they know he will do what he promised.

    Langford is a traitor to Oklahoma and the Citizens of this country.

    Mitch the snake has been trying for years to get all these invaders here for cheap labor. If they can get work permits for all these invaders, kiss every blue collar job goodbye.

    This is about screwing every hard working American, for these multi national companies so they can make more money. Every republican that votes to pass this in the senate is bought and paid for traitor to the United States of America.

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  50. Roll Tide in NC
    February 5, 2024 11:15 am

    Summary of the Lankford/Schumer/McConnell/Biden border scam:

    1) It will not end catch-and-release. Instead, it expands the use of Alternatives to Detention for aliens wanting a protection determination, allowing illegal aliens to disappear and never to be seen or heard from…

    — Immigration Accountability Project (@I_A_Project) February 5, 2024

    From the Immigration Accountability Project:
    Summary of the Lankford/Schumer/McConnell/Biden border scam:

    1) It will not end catch-and-release. Instead, it expands the use of Alternatives to Detention for aliens wanting a protection determination, allowing illegal aliens to disappear and never to be seen or heard from again.

    2) It will not restrict Biden’s unprecedented abuse of parole. It allows Biden to continue to grant parole for “humanitarian” reasons as defined by the administration.

    3) It will not end the exploitation of children by the cartels. It leaves in place the Flores Settlement Agreement and exempts UACs from the “Emergency Authority.”

    3) Codifies the Biden/Mayorkas proposal that allows asylum officers — hired by Mayorkas — to adjudicate asylum claims rather than an immigration judge. If an alien doesn’t like the decision made by the asylum officer, the decision can be appealed to a three-person appellate board also established by Mayorkas.

    3) The much-touted “Emergency Authority” automatically kicks in after the 7-day average of daily encounters along the Southern border exceed 5k/day. But the Secretary (Mayorkas) has “sole and unreviewable discretion” over the authority. The President (Biden) can suspend the authority for up to 45 days if there’s a “national interest.” The “authority” automatically ends when encounters drop by at least 25% from level that caused it to kick in in the first place.

    4) The “Emergency Authority” sunsets after 3 years.

    5) The “Emergency Authority” only applies between ports of entry. Illegal aliens can still show up at ports of entry.

    6) $1.4 billion for grants to open-border NGO’s who will help feed, shelter, and transport illegal aliens across the country.

    7) No new wall funding. It rescinds funding that’s already been appropriated and reinstates it with a deadline of 2028, so Biden/Mayorkas never have to spend a penny on new wall.

    The following provisions have nothing to do with the border crisis and are nothing more than efforts to buy off Members who are on the fence:

    1) Increases family and employment green cards by 50k/year for 5 years for no apparent reason. One can only assume that its purpose is to lock in additional green cards should Trump become President.

    2) Allows approximately 250,000 adult children of H-1B visa holders to stay and work in the U.S.

    3) Gives green cards to approximately 70k Afghan nationals who were able to escape the country during the U.S. evacuation and don’t qualify for one of the special immigrant visa programs created by Congress. None of these Afghan nationals served as “interpreters” of U.S. troops, as those individuals would have been eligible for the special immigrant visas. The DHS Inspector General wrote a scathing report highlighting the deficiencies in the vetting of these individuals.

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