Immigration progressI Trump seeks 'long shot' 2nd try on birthright at SCOTUS; 5th Circuit rules cheap tuition for illegals is, well, illegal; historic H1-B criminal cases; and new deep state firings.
H1Bs need to be banned entirely. Any company that fires Americans should not be allowed to hire foreigners. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is a traitor and he appointed a fellow Indian with no gaming experience to run XBOX, then she laid off 3,000 people and was appointed to a Fed board. Unacceptable. This is happening at a mass scale all over corporate America.
Re: H1B and cue again to me screaming into the void ad nauseam about my 29 year-old biomedical engineer daughter with THREE patents under her belt for kidney dialysis products, being replaced by said H1Bs... and having to grind her ever loving brain into contract gig work, begging for start up money and having to pet sit to make ends meet with no benefits and minimal pay. And cue to my other newly married daughter who is trying to save up a "baby delivery fund" so she and her husband (a LEGAL) immigrant can actually have one "smol" little legal child.... today's post hit hard and gave me some hope...
My brother-in-law worked for IBM for decades, and watched as it was hollowed out of Americans and replaced with H1Bs. Then his son, computer whiz, brought up in Silicon Valley, with advanced computer degrees, was unable to get a job in San Jose, and had to go to Washington to work for a foreign owned company.
All of these examples are awful! So very sorry! This current administration has uncovered so corruption that it is mind boggling!!! We must continue to pray for this administration... for God's protection for those in leadership, for wisdom to be able to untangle these messes, and strength to persevere!
You should try to talk to AT&T Customer Service. They used to speak English. Now they donāt. Oh they try. But they speak English the way I speak Greek. I have a few phrases that I can use but little understanding.
We had ATT for years, due to inertia. Dropped calls and poor service in our house, despite living in a standard home (not an in ground bunker, lol) leading me to keep the landline for work calls as I work from home. Finally switched to Pure Talk in March. No reception issues, was able to drop the land line, US-based customer service, and our bill is HALF what it was. Granted we are not big data users, not on an unlimited plan. Kicking myself for not switching sooner.
I used to drive past the world's largest chip-making plant twice a day. Now, it's a brewery, gym, self-storage, and a few small workshops. It was also an IBM property. I also drove past the Pyramids in Somers, where the IBM HQ used to be. Today it is a 100% vacant collection of 5 interconnected buildings totalling 1.2 million square feet sitting on 730 acres. It has been vacant since 2016.
You are looking at the fossilized remains of a great company after the managerial class destroyed the true value of the organization while enriching themselves. They sent all of the manufacturing overseas because the idiots made it too expensive to do business here.
If you saw the number of foreign nurses that have veen brought in the past 6 years, you would realize it affects all of us. The language barrier is huge for their patients, but the hospital systems WILL NOT listen because they are saving tons of money with three year contracts and beginning nurse pay.
And itās definitely reflected in the lack of quality care in hospitals these days. Youāre better off avoiding hospitals entirely if youāre able to. And I spent 32 years working as a RN in hospitalsā¦.I left before the healthcare system became corrupted, ineffective and of poor quality.
These are agregious. But it isnāt just that. Its also companies choosing to āhireā temp employees from foreign countries for just a year and refusing to hire longer because they would pay more. So they go back out and hire a new temp. All to avoid hiring a real worker at American wages. Persistently hiring from Mexico and India on temp work. *Its manipulating the system* My husbands company does this. Sure wish more companies would become fully ethical instead of always thinking how they can save a damn dollar.
My daughter is married to a Marine. Both of their babies spent just under a week in the NICU when they were born. They got bills of $180,000 and just under $200,000 for their births. As active duty military, TriCare paid (or negotiated down?) almost all of the charges. These kinds of unplanned expenses would put most young American citizen families in a financial hole they could never crawl out of. Itās outrageous that taxpayers are forced to subsidize these costs for non-citizens, especially when we should be incentivizing citizens to have babies in light of falling birth rates.
I think anything like extraordinary costs for healthcare/housing for military familes should be provided by taxpayers. How are our soldiers supposed to have their mind in the game if they are having to worry about their child not getting competent care or how to pay for it.
My reasons for not hating foreigners is that 1. They are just taking advantage of opportunities WE (our government) are offering them. I wouldnāt expect a dog not to eat a steak laying on the floor for the taking. 2. Itās not their responsibility to protect US citizens, or jobs, our economy or our culture. Thatās the job of our elected ārepresentativesā who deserve to be relieved of their posts ASAP, if not convicted of crimes and jailed. 3. Hate is hard on our own soul, our outlook on life, and our happiness. Hating foreigners does nothing good for our own short lives and it distracts us from the task at hand-ridding ourselves of the greedy bastards in government who will trade anything for a few shillings more.
valid reply, Jerri. It is easy to blame the immigrant for being here without obtaining legal status, but as you say, human nature is to seek better terms in life for self and family. I would do the same if I were from a third world hell hole.
That said, government subsidies for illegals of any kind should be eliminated, including voting, perhaps the purpose for the left opening the border carte blanche. H1B's and the restrictions placed on these holders proves once again, the democrat party is the party of slavery.
Iāve got so much hate in my heart for our government and for the Democrat party, thereās no room left in my heart to hate foreigners. Unless of course they are the cartels and gangs and rapists/murderers, and traffickers, etc.
Hate the evil, NOT people! There IS EVIL, that must be acknowledged and ROOTED OUT! People ARE waking up. Many are just too busy trying to work, but we still have our voice and our vote. (Have to fight to keep that UNDILUTED by fraud.)
No one should take advantage of us, especially when we are paying. They don't belong here. Round them all up and get them gone. When I see a foreigner, I tell them to get out as we don't want them. I have had it. I work my ass off for them, my own family goes without to pay for those foreigners. GET THEM GONE or I know many that will start doing this. One way or the other....
The VISA program began under President Reagan over four decades ago. This was the beginning of the mass invasion of the US. The VISA program needs to be shut down entirely. Under Trump, the mass invasion continues with the VISA program. And still no mass deportations and still no wall.
Retired British Army Colonel warns that civil war between Britons and immigrants is now inevitable
There is very likely to be civil war in Britain, Col. (Ret.) Richard Kemp said earlier this year.
āIām not talking about the American Civil War,ā he said. āIām talking about something more like Northern Ireland but on a much more intensive scale, where you have the indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other. And Iād be very surprised if that doesnāt happen.ā
I think you might see this catching on in other countries where the immigrants have more rights than the citizens, like France, Germany, Canada and any other country where immigrants are taking over
Right now the violence is dispersed one-on-one crime/attacks. Perhaps(?) at some point people will have had enough and react in mass. But it is amazing how much "the public" will put up with. Look at Britain and Sweden and the constant gang rapes of their daughters by illegal, Islamic immigrants. Look at Ireland and how the Irish people are - literally - being exterminated as a culture and totally replaced by dark immigrants as we speak. They are on the edge of extinction. Seriously! Why aren't the men organizing to hunt down the rape gangs and ending them with prejudice? Look at Nazi Germany and how the German people acquiesced to the Nazi persecution of Jews and Christians. Look at revolutionary Russia and how the people suffered with Stalinist terror for 70 years before the Communist regime collapsed under it's own weight. The French Revolution resulted in a decade of chaos and terror followed by the rise of Napoleon who crowned himself emperor and lead the French people into a destructive war.
The record of human society is not encouraging. Human society lurches from one tyranny to the next interspaced with revolutionary violence. The American revolution was an anomaly. *A true resistance to tyranny that established a republic where the people were sovereign.* The only comparable result I am aware of was the establishment of representative government under Moses after receiving the law of God. But they had to wander 40 years in the wilderness to learn the lessons of this law order and a new generation raised up who were not conditioned to slavery.
Likewise the American colonists had learned independence living in the "wilderness" of America since the first settlements and were explicitly Christians who held to the supremacy of Biblical law even over and above that of their King. The Declaration of Independence is THE founding document of America and the greatest suit for breach of contract ever penned. But people today have no idea what is meant by "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" as ironically enunciated by a President who made war upon half of his own country. That affirmation, "of by and for the people", is a clear statement that the people are the sovereigns of society and government. Think about it.
The Declaration of Independence clearly stated that the Creator is sovereign over men and that He has endowed all men with "unalienable rights" from God; that rights are NOT civil rights granted by a government. It is a question of sovereignty. The people are the sovereigns in the Republic, not the Government! The authors of the Declaration held "these truths to be self-evident", ie, a priori and presuppositional to all of society. Today this has been turned upside down. Instead of being "sovereign citizens" of the Republic, we are now serfs of the State.
Until we understand the issue of Sovereignty, we will continue to see our government become more and more tyrannical in rule. Sadly, even in the churches, the people today do not understand any of this.
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." Hosea 4:6
Ah yes! I can't think of any war that was started because the people voted for it or wanted it. No person in his right mind wants to go to war. Wars are "sold" as necessary geo-political events which is a lie. The only necessary wars are defensive wars to defend against attack. The only two examples of defensive wars in American history are the American war for independence and the War of 1812... both of which were attacks by the British Empire. Every war the USG has gotten us into since then, including the Indian Wars and the so-called Civil War, were wars of aggression which were all objected to by the American people up to and including the Iran War.
Nearly all modern wars are NOT geo-political events. They are genocides for profit based on psyops.
Just this am I was writing about the legacy of slavery. And also concluded that why Israel had to wander 40 years in desert. To learn how to function as a people in an 'economy' w/o slavery, relying on God and self-development. I've heard a LOT of Bible teaching, but don't remember hearing the WHY of the wandering (except a generation to die off.)
The British used to be armed. Your elites decided to charm the populace into giving them up. Also Canada and Australia. This is what happens when the demons call themselves āelitesā.
āAllowedā???? Why would anyone stay in a country that denies you the right to protect yourself, your family and your possessions? Thatās insanity! Maybe now you will understand why the Americans fought a brutal war against Britain for freedom!
buy them on the black market. buy knives, grenades whatever you can get. your life will depend on it. start taking classes to protect yourself. you have got to get them out.
Not just the lefties. I highly object to taking people's property to build a ghastly wall, but more, I object to the interference with animal migration.
I have seen videos of bears and panthers pacing up and down the current wall for miles, unable to get through. It is sad, but more, it is disgusting, because we don't need a wall to stop immigration, we just need the law to be enforced, and the Border Patrol to do their job.
Wow... that makes total sense. Thanks for adding that and "enlightening" me. And of course you are right: what it really boils down to is "our" Gov't doing their job to protect us. Thanks.
Microsoft CEO is tip of the iceberg and hides what's so rampant below... from another comment I made already:
Please encourage anyone interested in the H-1B visa issue(Industry) or connected to the Administration to consider promptly using EEOC to address "low hanging fruit":
Countless small H-1B "job shops"/staffing companies (usually run by recent immigrants or originally H-1B visa holders themselves) exist through out the nation. These companies surface business is allegedly "IT/Computer Programmer Analysts"; but what they really are is job shops hiring almost exclusively people on H1B visa and almost exclusively all from the same country of origin the owner is from (NOT the U.S.)... It is mind numbing how EEOC has not looked at any of these companies employment rosters and said: "Why do all the names on this list sound like everyone comes from India? and then looked into it and found... They do all come from India. 90%+ on H1B visas or OPT; rarely some on green cards... Point being, it should be simple for them (EEOC) to prove employment discrimination OR at least bring the case and put a quick end to those engaged in such fraud.
a similar "business" exists to import, hire, license CDL drivers. One even advertises that the trainers speak several languages. Like Urdu. Good to know semi drivers can read road signs in Urdu.
100% agree. The oligarchs and fraud businesses that push for H1B's will try to couch in either/and 1. National security!!!!! and/or 2. Can't find anybody!!!!!!
First, if it is truly national security, then why would someone OUTSIDE the U.S. have info/experience that we can't find INSIDE the U.S. (with over 300 million people here). This isn't like the 1940's where Nazi's were mysteriously disappearing in Germany, only to conveniently re-appear, often under different names, in the U.S. and Soviet Union because the Germans had a more advanced rocket program (or, unfortunately, a much more advanced psyop-making structure).
Second, if they can't find anybody, they are not really trying. In this era of ubiquitous communication, internet, AI, and coming quantum computing, there is always someone who can fill a position from inside the USA. It is just a matter of cost. Instead we get half-baked search efforts because the consulting firms (at least with IT) make a bleep-load of money providing people. To get any H1B approved for potential filling, a position should have to be listed for 12+ months in a national database with clear and reasonable criteria. Meaning no stupid idiosyncratic requirement put in to make the position unfillable. Let's get real. Most of these IT positions are to replace American workers with less skilled Indians and eastern Europeans. I see it all the time since I work in the industry. We graduate millions of STEM workers who are Americans each year. H1B's are just a carving out of the Middle Class.
And to go along with that, we need to tarriff 200-300% all overseas foreign IT worker positions. I can't emphasize this enough (or even if H1B is shut off, they just move even more jobs overseas.) That will have two benefits. First, it will cut down on cutting people here, and honestly, the quality of work will go up within a year across the board. I was around before the mass offshoring occurred, and have lived through the drop in quality and longer turn around times because of that. It wasn't like this back 25 years ago. Bugs getting into production were much lower. People took pride in their work. And the amount of bloated code was a lot less becuase people applied their brains to solutioning properly.
Finally, why are the Medical schools allowed to operate with impunity on limiting how many seats there are? We see the repercussions with all the foreigners now in the medical field at all levels. Kids here who work their butts off and get decent grades in college are turned aside. "Not enough seats". The Medical Oligarchy is a real problem.
HR departments and schools are not calling over to India or the Middle East or Asia or Eastern Europe to verify Kumar or Mohammed or Muchen or Vlad actually have the credentials (and the schools they list are legit and of high quality). It's a fraud.
Agree with most of your stuff, but regarding the limitation of medical school seats one has to understand that physicians (and lawyers) create their own demand. If you add more physicians total costs actually increase. It's been studied and proven. It's a separate issue as to who should occupy those seats.
Disagree on lawyers. [Putting aside the fact that every profession has seen salary inflation for the past two decades] It has become much easier to go to school to be a lawyer. It is up to the person to pass the bar, but much easier now than in the 1980s to get a law degree. H1B for physicians run around 8,000-11,000 a year. 25% of the US physician workforce (per Grok). These aren't "jobs Americans won't do".
If the medical field (And particularly doctors and PA's) wants, it could have supply of seats meet demand for degrees within 1-2 years. They don't want a lot because they are protecting their profession for those who have made it. If we are admitting H1B people for doctor/PA and other highly skilled med positions, that means the current US system set up is deficient in meeting true demand. This didn't just occur. It has been going on for decades now. I've known many people with stellar grades and MCATs who can't enroll. That is a problem. Accrediting bodies like LCME and COCA play a role too. Then you throw in Federal Funding, residency programs (1997 Medicare residency cap), etc. Road block and hurdle after hurdle. But we are to then take in subpar foreign doctors, etc.
The demand for healthcare services is only increasing per the population aging. That is the demand. Americans have been shackled as to how many in this country can help meet that demand. There is no valid reason, especially in the age of AI, abundant office space (since so many moved to WFH), retired docs and other medical professionals willing to teach, that we shouldn't be able to supply all our own doctors. It's about money and control, plain and simple. Everyone fearful of their own bit of the pie, which results in bad outcomes for the US middle class, the economic ladder, and timely and accurate medical care.
This is all fixable. Instead we get the equivalent of "NASA" logic as to why things can't be done, so nothing changes until someone like an Elon comes along and does it better, faster, cheaper. No difference here.
there are around 1 million medical doctors practicing in the United States, so the H1Bs are a much lower percent of all physicians. Nonetheless, there's no question more doctors could be trained and that existing physicians function as a cartel to keep the number of competitors lower. However, doctors can and do create their own demand when you have a third party payer system like we do. It's been studied and as a retired physician I have no doubt that it's true. Regardless, the question of whether we could use more is up for debate. Primary care has been taken over by DO's and NP's which has created easier access. Specialists are numerous, are more limited and you may be correct that with the boomers aging, we could use more.
I worked for a decade at a "Blue" insurance company. The whole system needs an overhaul. It won't really happen because there is too much lobby money and too many hands in the cookie jar. PBMs didn't help. Physician groups caused more problems. Corporate hospital raiders too. And contrary to what many people think, medical insurances companies are not in the business of detecting all the fraud and stopping payment for what are termed 'frivolous services'.
At a million doctors practicing in the U.S., per Grok's 25% that amounts to 250,000 who got their degree outside the U.S. They didn't all come from Grenada (those who were around in the 1980's would get the reference). About 30,000 kids apply to medical school each year and get rejected. This has to get fixed. It is not fair to import middle and middle-upper class workers.
And the quality of the education of degrees overseas is open to corruption. Both the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) and the Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE) are not funded by the government or public taxes. Instead, they operate as non-profit, self-regulated professional associations that are funded entirely by their member organizations and the services those members provide....The fox watching the henhouse.
I have a doctor friend who has a popular Youtube channel on people 60+ getting into better shape. He doesn't take any medical insurance. Treats a lot of high-level DC people and foreign extremely wealthy people. Some doctors are able to break out from the medical complex to a degree. Too many docs now are just corporate people who follow the treatment flowchart, or they get punished by the doctor group, or lose hospital privileges. I feel bad for them actually. Some during the covid scam were really punished.
I'll stand by my "we don't need any H1Bs (after a 12-month transition period)" for what Jeff phrased as "shifting visas toward higher-skilled and higher-paid workers" in various fields. Certainly not medical or IT. And the $100,000 per sponsored H1B application is meaningless. The jobs where the consulting firms can bill the government will just absorb that in increased rates (which we customers and citizens will pay) to the company over 2-3 years. That means someone coming in and getting a high paid job, and buying a nice house (nicer if they come in with their spouse too, which I see in IT a lot), which pushes the housing prices up in nicer areas.
Jeff needs to dig deeper rather than just take White House talking points. He is falling for First Stage Thinking, as Thomas Sowell calls it, "the tendency to evaluate a policy, decision, or action based entirely on its immediate, intended consequences without considering its later, often disastrous repercussions". That is why we have a jobs disaster.
I think that's the plan at least for Trump. Some of India's universities have been selling fake degrees. MSM will start reporting it ........eventually.
Just as we have recently been reminded how compromised Mitch McConnell is & has been related to his wife's nationality, the same is true for JD Vance and any other elected politicians with similar family connections; including Rubio.
While McConnellās Chinese wife may be a different kettle of fish (a la Feinsteinās chauffeur, Fang Fang, etc.), I would be more concerned with judges from other countries who become US citizens, and then drop absurd progressive rulings.
The evidence that you are judging Vance's wife simply on the color of her skin. Or is it because her parents were not born in our Country? Either way, it indicates prejudice. My great grandparents were born in Germany and Norway, am I bad because of my family connections?
Where do you draw your lines? I know a man from Tibet who became a Citizen a dozen years ago, I have never met a more pro-American. You sir are a bigot.
Our Nation is a melting pot of many people from all parts of the World, to judge them by skin, recent immigration status shows just who you are, and it's not attractive.
At least you are consistent, pulling imaginary facts out of the air so as to make you feel good about yourself, I guess. One example, you accuse me of judging Ms Vance on the color of her skin. Where did you discover that fact?
Check this out. In 2010 Nikki Haley ran for Governor. I contributed to her campaign & I voted for her. She was a pathetic Governor & I didn't vote for her the second time. Today I would cross the street to avoid her because I believe she's an evil, corrupt opportunist.
In 2023 I gave a serious look at Vivek Ramaswamy but he dropped out. Since then he has shown his true colors š and today I would cross the street to avoid him.
In 2020 I supported a black man, a great guy Mr Duke Buckner, running against evil & corrupt yet white Lindsey Graham, and I would do so today.
In 2024 I voted for a black man, Pastor Mark Burns in the primary against my pathetic white US Congressman.
Finally, in 1996 I was a supporter of Dr Alan Keyes for President. I voted for him in the primary & would do so again today.
I tell you that so you understand what kind of bigot I am. I'm bigoted against arrogant judgmental twits who apparently are incapable of rational/critical thought.
It's funny, a few weeks ago I watched a debate between several people running for governor. Of the six candidates, 4 have DC connections, one was born in India and one was a state senator. Since the DC/India crowd were all pathetic I decided to vote for the state senator, even tho he had no chance to win.
During the debate the topic of immigrants came up and when it got to that guy he said he loves immigrants, so much so he married one. Needless to say I didn't vote for him.
I don't care who marries who but if they want to be involved in legislating laws, I don't trust and won't support someone with dual loyalties.
Letās stick with Vance. Cause thatās who you brought up. Vanceās wife, Usha, is a USA citizen, and her parents, naturalized US citizens. Usha born and raised in San Diego, upper middle class. She law clerked for Justice Roberts and Kavanaugh. Is this the person you are stating has duel loyalties? If so, duel loyalties to whom or who exactly?
He is ignorant of what makes a good, if not great American. Judge a man by his actions, not by whether he fit's this person's idea of who is "American".
If ever this phrase applied, "there are none so blind as those who will not see", this is the place.
I couldn't care less who JD or any other person marries but when they want to legislate on issues that have any connections to their family member's nationality, it's safe to conclude they possess a bias, intentional or unintentional.
I would say the same about someone married to a person from any country, East or West.
Do Usha Vance's parents come here for the sole purpose of having a child so the child could be American? Or did they come here to become American citizens legally and continue to be productive American citizens. That's the real question.
Other than basic common information I have no knowledge of, because I have no interest in any personal information about JD's family; it's none of my business. I wish them nothing but the best. However that doesn't mean I trust his judgement related to legislation on any international issues.
Maybe also explain how your posting connects to H1b visas. Was either of the spouses here on visas? I'm thinking no. Another glass not only half empty but containing only snakes and scorpions comment.
And we are now begging our young people to also go into trade careers as infastructure is beginning to crumble around us. We absolutely need the best & brightest to become Ethical Constitutional scholars and lead so we don't succumb to the socialist slop peddlers. There are so many foundations now willing to give scholarships for trades. Sorry, but not everyone is suited for university right out of high school, there are other paths to success that may involve community college or apprenticeships, instead.
We need to begin by insisting Civics, including the Constitution in ALL middle & high schools, be brought back!!!! And classes need to be periodically audited to ensure they are being taught correctl;y and not the "everything is racist & whites are bad" crap we have been seeing.
H1Bs arenāt the only problem. A local surgical robotics company I interviewed with last year recently outsourced their entire software team to the Middle East. The company was bought by a German company about 18 months ago. Thatās the 3rd company I know of that has been bought by German companies in the last 18 months. One is coincidental, 3 is what the heck is going on with that. IBM is also notorious for outsourcing to foreign companies. So software people donāt even need to be on US soil to steal jobs. It must be stopped!
Wouldnāt surprise me if that āGermanā company is actually owned by middle-easterners who are German citizens or residents. It seems that almost all businesses in my German town are started by foreigners, any place that cuts hair or serves food opened in the last 10 years is run by foreigners. Mostly Arabs and Turks, even the āItalianā restaurants. All cash-heavy of course. Out of 40 places that deliver food only two are owned by people with German names (one is the McDonalds franchise). Make of that what you will.
Wow, thatās scary. The 3 companies I know of are medical device/equipment that have been around a long time. I know one is still German because all the top folks came for a visit and/or did a video.
What gets me is that many of these supposedly hard-to-fill jobs are for positions like Program Manager, which has numerous US citizens who are qualified, experienced and educated to fill them immediately. It's appalling to see the job positions of some of the H1B hires.
Several years ago Walt Disney World called in all of their U.S. Citizen IT employees and told them they were being replaced by new employees from India. They had the choice of training their replacements and receiving severance pay, or if refusing to train their replacements, being fired immediately with no severance pay. Since that day weāve not gone to WDW nor spent a dime on any Disney product or service.
Appears to be a myriad of slimy fraudsters and miscreants involved in the schemes and conspiratorial corruption from the reliably despicable leftist ideologues, radical democrat aligned cabal ,and other very bad folks..
If you're talking about Trump, remember that he sides with the owners, not the workers, when it comes down to real life.
Hence, the "hospitality" need for illegal immigrants, and the high tech "need" for H1B immigrants. He has sympathy for the owners desire for cheap labor.
She appears to be manifesting a demon, and it has curdled her mind, like sour, molded milk. And, it also appears that she has turned to islamā¦ā¦not really a surprise at all.
She was in love with Charlie Kirk. He did not love her in return. As soon as he and Erika announced their engagement she found an effeminate guy(?) online, knew him for 17 days, met him once in person and married him before Charlie and Erika got married, lolā¦ā¦to prove she could.
It would NOT surprise me to find out that SHE hired/inspired the killing of Charlie Kirk. She is a vindictive little witch of a woman. Her parents dropped her at the age of, wasnāt it 13? She never got over that rejection.
Trump wisely refused to use her in his Administration. She is the wicked witch in every way.
I urge you to watch this interview of Dennis Kucinich to learn of an extremely dangerous section in the 2027 NDAA bill, Section 219, which would take away our countryās sovereignty
by merging the Israeli military with the U.S. military and put Israel into the U.S. decision-making process in the Dept. of Defense permanently. It is being pushed in committees, and we donāt even know which Congressperson initiated this
Carolyn, I posted this interview to TRM by mistake, meant to send it to you. Dennis Kucinich talks to Tucker Carlson about a proposal in Congress to merge the US military with the Israeli military.
What happened to the practice of midwives and mothers having their babies at home? Surely that would cost far less. Plus it might protect the newborns from the vaxx protocol.
The practice is slowly growing, but 1) not covered by health insurance and 2) limited number of midwives! All the young mothers I know who have had a home birth, have been extremely pleased and have or would do it again!
I would say itās stagnant. In the 80ās, many of my friends and I were having home birth. Yes not covered by insurance but today the cost is a little higher. Most of my grandchildren were also born at home. The death stats are false. You get better care and midwives are selective in who they take, considering the motherās general health and how she takes care of herself.
My cousin and his wife have 4 children, 3 of which were born at home because the woman labors so quickly there is no time to get to the hospital. She literally can pop a baby out. The 3 younger children were all born in the shower. There were no complications and all the babies were/are very healthy.
We have to remember though, Elizabeth, that home births of past generations also had high mortality rates for mothers and babies. It is not all an idealized situation. I gave birth to a child who had the cord wrapped around his neck in the womb, and would have died in a natural birth. He lived due to a C-section in hospital.
Neither home births nor hospital births should be shamed. Everyone has to make their own choice. More power to the woman who researches well and makes the decision based on her and her childās needs.
Your claims remind me of the pro vaccination folks that say the decline in deaths from diseases was thanks to vaccines, whereas any review of the data shows that decline occurred prior to the introduction of vaccines and is largely attributable to better sanitation and nutrition. If you look into the studies of birth outcomes in āfirst worldā countries in recent decades comparing hospital and midwife assisted home births, the latter is safer. Now there are issues about the population that chooses a home birth (high risk pregnancies are usually diverted, etc.) but you simply canāt claim that a home birth is higher risk. The example of the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck was discussed with my first midwife. When the cord was loose enough, she would simply reach in and un loop it. In one instance, where it was very tight, she transferred by ambulance and applied pressure to keep the baby from crowning. She had previously been a nurse in a hospital and felt that baby would likely have died without the close surveillance she provided at home. Who knows. I just wouldnāt assume a hospital environment is safer for all women.
Does that account for the fact that all high risk pregnancies are going to be hospital births? And all planned births that have last minute complications get shifted to a hospital if possible?
Women died in childbirth in premodern times - a lot. They even died a lot around 1900 when doctors realized they needed to wash their hands. It's estimated that around 1700 one in 5 women died in or soon after childbirth, and by 1900 that was only down to one in 10 women.
Mismatch of the woman's uterus and the baby's head has always been a problem. Breech presentations have always been a problem.
I am very careful what I believe about vaccines. I did not get the COVID vaccine because I smelled a rat. Having a hospital birth is not exactly the same thing.
Elizabeth above, who I was replying to on the birth matter, seems as if she was promoting home birth for the sake of being fashionable. Which I object to. Because many women in the 80s and onward did choose it to be seen as progressive and fashionable.
Those of us who experienced the dehumanization and forced separation of hospital births before the "fad" of home births started, chose home birth to avoid those atrocities, not to be fashionable.
You can thank the fact that hospitals started kinder and gentler birthing practices, (even if they do charge for holding the baby, via "skin-to-skin" charges), to the women who simply refused to subject themselves to the arbitrary and authoritarian rules of the maternity hospitals at that time.
It was a opting out of tyranny, just like refusing the GMO injectables, and it made a difference.
Mrs. RW, I hear you. But it is not all that clear-cut. I have expertise in the work of John Bowlby on the Attachment System, so I would be the first to tell you that Attachment matters. And not only at birth. The entire first three years are crucial.
However, living amongst normal human beings, I also saw that many women I knew of child-bearing age were indeed making their birthing decisions based on fads and fashions -- the same way many of them lived their lives in general. Social contagion can be powerful. Behaviour is not always motivated by noble virtue, alas.
I am a retired Ob-Gyn. Midwife deliveries can often be a great experience, but not always. And there are differences between midwife deliveries at home, and those in a hospital. Home deliveries can be appropriate for women who have already had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery in the past. And, even then, an obstetrical emergency can occur in the blink of an eye without warning. Hospital deliveries are much safer, and are especially important for women having their first baby. One of the later comments talks about an OB sitting in the back of the room during a midwife delivery. That was a very gracious thing to do.
@Dr. Sherrylyn- sitting in the back of the room is nice and all but what happens when there's an emergency? There would be no medical equipment to take over.
@A- having the cord wrapped around his neck is not usually a problem since he wasn't using his lungs. When delivered, they simply remove the cord from the neck.
It was my Obstetrician who told me this, Kittynana. I assumed that he knew about such things. If it was such an easy fix at delivery, why didn't he just do that? I was not going to find out the hard way by having my son die at birth before I believed him.
Btw, this happened at a Canadian hospital, where there was no profit incentive for them to do a C-section instead. In fact, just the opposite. They always try to avoid unneccessry medical procedures if they can.
Home births were the big fashion back in the 80s in my area. Until a home-birth advocate was charged with the death of a newborn due to negligence.
Not that hospitals are all perfect either. There is an NHS hospital in England that is like a horror-zone for mothers giving birth, and for the newborns.
You know, I agree with that, Mrs. RW. I have always noted that doctors are rarely charged with negligence when they mis-diagnose or miss the diagnosis, in cases where they should have known. But when parents miss a medical issue in their children, even when they are acting in good faith (and have no medical training), they tend to be charged,
All those medical mistakes or misses out there by doctors are often just shrugged off.
Janine, are you OK? What are you talking about? You just totally mis-interpreted what I said.
In fact the irony is that I am now over on the Saturday forum for C&C, saying how much the normal population has to beware of the Globalist scams that promise to put "public safety" first. That is a cover for population-capture. It means just the opposite of what it says, As in COVID-mania and MAID regimes which promise to make life better, but in reality, always make life worse.
Midwife assisted birth is still 3k and up. We've had 6 babies with midwives, and our total bill for all 6 is the same as my Sister in law's birth bill from a local hospital for her 1 baby - $20,000.
It was a popular way of birthing during Covid, to avoid the medical complex taking over. I think itās actually becoming quite popular among the health-conscious set.
My daughter will be having her first in about 2 months. Going to a birth center for ~4K. She will submit the super bills to insurance afterwards. Since sheās vx injured - she wanted ultimate control over the birth to protect that baby. Also paying a doula in case she needs a hospital transfer. Then God willing - home birth next. Lots of her friends are doing this now - as people have opened their eyes since the Cvd debacle and donāt trust traditional medical doctors.
My children all write cursive, because I taught them myself. They were born in hospital. There is no link there. Most Baby Boomers can write in cursive, and the majority of them were hospital-born.
This belief in "born at home is better" reminds me of the alternative-medicine types in Canada who were very heavily promoting Cannabis when politicians were trying to legalize it. However, you never heard any of them talk about the medical wonders of Marijuana once the legislation went through....they had only been doing the propaganda work for Troodo.
I had my 2nd and 3rd child at home (province of Quebec at the time). Wonderful experiences, but challenging to find a supportive doctor to work with the midwife (ordering bloodwork, assisting if hospital transfer needed, etc. At the time, midwives were not recognized by the medical profession. Shortly afterwards, the provinces took steps to āacceptā midwifery, establishing university programs and programs to āgrandfatherā (or grandmother) experienced midwives into the certification. While there were definite advantages, such as having costs covered by our provincial health plans, the independence of midwives was lost. They are now trained in the standard medical practice and are required to encourage all the standard protocols like vaccines. They do less homebirths and are more often the primary caregiver in a hospital setting.
Dave, check into Dr. Margaret Aranda's stack (the Rebel Patient, I think) for info on this. The births of my own 3 (1978-87) were assisted by certified nurse midwives, at Booth Maternity Hospital in Phila--a Salvation Army hospital where the CNMs were staff--an ob was required to be present in the birthing room, but he just sat in a chair at the back of the room.
Of my three children, I only had one at home, and that is the only birth that I remember with fondness.
The two hospital births were horrendous, each in its own way. Sure, women have been convinced that hospital births are safer, infant and maternal mortality rates in the US notwithstanding, but I think it's very sad.
I was stunned by the supposed cost of having a baby. Iām going to survey my many young church friends who have lots of children. I donāt think it costs that much in small town Oklahoma, but I am curious.
What happened most recently was Rockefeller and the Flexner Report that made midwives and herbalists āillegalā or āuninsurableā without the proper ālicenseā to support women giving birth. Apparently they didnāt burn them all in the 1400s and 1500s so they needed to be culled anew to allow the profit-motivated men to take over.
Our āhouseholdsā used to include multiple generations before WW2. This meant women had support in the community of women in their family. Grandmothers, sisters and aunts provided care and training. FREE! The Maternal Gift Economy is modeled after Mother Nature, whose gifts are offered up freely to us. We prefer to take those gifts and process them into poison for profit. The goal with capitalism. Itās a big issue.
It goes in and out of fashion. Thirty years ago it was promoted by the lefties attempting to show how "progressive" they were. Not to protect newborns, really.
For all the people who are triggered due to āIsraelā, read section 224 here: https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf Itās about sharing TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, etc., and whether you accept it or not, Israel is equal to (if not superior to) the US in technology. It is NOT ācombining militaryā so that we ācontinue to fight Israelās warsā. It might be an idea to actually read the sentence before posting your opinion on the directive.
That is not a statement of complete truth. One is cooperation in their country for a limited period of time. The other is complete integration of military and intelligence..stop comparing oranges to apples.
I guess you never heard of Five Eyes, then, where intelligence is shared between the US, Canada, UK, Australia, etc. In any event perhaps actually READ the proposed directive. Complete āintegrationā? How about sharing weapons research, production and technology, which is what it actually states. Perhaps you are unaware that the US sells military weapons to Israel, who then IMPROVE them and give those improvements back to the US.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly bankrolled the multi-million dollar geofencing campaign targeting American Christian churches. Driven by public records, the operation marks a major, state-funded effort to shore up declining geopolitical support among U.S. Evangelicals.
Someone is tired of watching you mock people in insincerity. You twist the word "hurt" to try to evoke an emotional response. Just like progressives twist the suffix "phobic."
You pretend your agenda is about governance. Your agenda is anti-Biblical . . . anti-Christ. Stop pretending otherwise. This has nothing to do with my feelings.
Wow, do you mean Israel is doing legitimate advertising, unlike the regime change and all other sorts of corruption we do (or did before Trump) to hundreds of countries via USAID and other agencies???
Targeting mosques! Ha! When's the last time you saw a mosque "targeted"? Islamists kill people who do that. Shucks, they kill people who don't!
As to your phone data comment, you mean Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung et al are violating the 4th amendment? Why haven't they been prosecuted???
Which brings me to a thought I had today. Bard, Contrary, Johnnie, apparently Carolyn and other doomsayers, what do you hope to achieve with your comments? What can you or anyone of us do to change any of the things you bring up? If the Rothchildes control global finance, so what? How can you or the rest of us change that? If Trump is controlled by Bibi, (yeah, sure...) what can you or we do about it? I submit there is nothing doable, and knowing has no value, but feeds a increasing irrational life perception that must make it miserable to spend time on this mortal coil. Personally I'm happy to celebrate with Jeff, the successes he digs up and passes on to us, with his learned, succinct, and pleasantly snarky reporting. Carry on Jeff!
If the birthright citizenship appeal doesn't work, I can't wait to see what card Trump plays next--because you know he's got something in mind. On thinking about it, his last name describes exactly what he does: trumps his opposition. š
Those Mexican billboards adds to Democratsā portfolio of polycrisis events. It makes the terrible Supreme Court decision look even more terrible and dumb. Trump will somehow leverage this into a win for America.
I would love Congress to do something about it but since passing the Big Beautiful Bill last summer, Congress has done very little of anything. They can't even get the SAVE Act through the Senate. Although it would take time, I'd like to see an amendment to the Constitution ratified using the second method that has never been tried.
I stamped my letter to Sen Thune. 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510. FLOOD him with very polite letters to PASS SAVE ACT.... just like Miracle on 34th Street.
Let's hope and pray. The ruling highlights a major problem with lawmaking. The letter of 14A practically mandates birthright citizenship, but the spirit of the amendment canāt possibly agree with that. If we assume the SCOTUS majority meant the nation no harm (an impossibly heavy assumption), we might agree with Emerson that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Another great American killed by an illegal alien driving a tractor trailer that canāt read signs and doesnāt speak English. But the illegal worked for cheap!
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael E. Pahira Jr., 44, was struck and killed on July 1, 2026. He was conducting a routine inspection of a commercial truck on the shoulder of Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, when another tractor-trailer drifted off the roadway and hit him.
The incredible thing is with the thousands and thousands killed by illegal aliens in all different ways, mostly violent, when you mention it to a communist democrat they say nothing as though they donāt care. All the democrats stayed seated at the state of the union address when Trump asked if Americans were more important than illegals, what more do you have to see?
Many in powerful government positions are simply addicted to cheap labor and cheap votes. Birthright citizenship is just another tool to keep Americans wages down. This country is addicted to cheap labor. I canāt tell you how many construction jobs Iāve lost to cheap uninsured under the table illegal labor.
My new neighbor has had work going on at her house for months. No one there but the business owner speaks English. My neighbor doesnāt care sheās saved thousands Iām sure. Iām glad the house is finally getting fixed up but every day I think of American blue collar workers that lost another job, its disgusting!
Living in a rural area, I found it convenient to order some things from Walmart online instead of driving into town. To my surprise, instead of shipping those items like amazon does, they started delivering orders by local drivers. Seemed fine until my orders were dropped off at a neighbors instead of my home so I had to go find them. After this happened multiple times, I called customer service. I had added detailed directions to my account that explains in simple terms how to locate my drive way. The customer service rep said, "Not to sound racist, but most of the drivers don't speak English." I won't order from them again, but I was impressed they admitted the reason for the botched deliveries! Not very reassuring to know that when I head out on the road, not everyone with a license can even read the street signs and warnings in English!
This fries me. I paid my car tabs before renewal. Got a letter today saying DMV wouldn't process my renewal (although they did cash the $76 check) because the car has to be insured. State wanted the company, expiration date and policy number. What the hell for? I told them I'm (still) insured, the ID cards are in the glove box, my wallet and the filing cabinet for ME when and if I'm in a wreck. You don't need ID to vote, you can deliver a foreign baby and win the US citizen lotto, but the State needs my insurance policy number? My. Aunt. Fanny.
Yep ..I work in interior design commercial design but also residential and I see the same thing that my clients prefer cheap labor over a licensed, insured, many time labor union worker. Itās not good.
When I was a kid, I disliked seeing my classmates, who werenāt popular, embarrassed by the few number of cards. I gave to everyone in class but there was no requirement to do so.
After years of looking at IRS non-profitsā 990ās, it is not unusual to see the head of these organizations receiving what many would consider an overly generous salary. It is a major feature of these groups and not an anomaly. Itās a giant money laundering scheme set up for the benefit of a few and sadly rarely for the benefit of their supposed mission. I stopped donating to most a long time ago. America, youāve been scammed.
The hospital in question above is run entirely by Indians. Naturally, it is in Texas, where phony baloney governor Heeeeyyyyy Aaaabbott is an entirely bought and paid servant of India and Pakistan. Well, wheelchairs are expensive, I guess, and he needs cash. He's destroyed multiple Texas towns which are now outposts of India.
Abbott constantly gives lip service to being such a great MAGA governor, while behind your back he does nothing but sell out his state.
The H-1B crackdown is way, way overdue. But it's only a small part of the story. There are all kinds of other visas that need to go (like H-1Bs bringing in their wives, parents, etc., and H-1Bs drop anchor babies almost immediately upon arrival). Millions of Indians have been made citizens since this nonsense started in the 1990s, and nothing is going to be done about them. We're stuck with them. At best we can stop the flow of new arrivals, but to date next to nothing has actually been done. Let's hope they mean it this time.
Don't even get me started on how the government literally paid for Indians to take over the small hotel industry in America. We have had an utterly traitorous government for decades, other than Trump. And the American corporate executive class are equally traitorous.
Holy Crap! Ā I was not surprised by your comment that "The hospital in question above is run entirely by Indians."... but had to see for myself... and I DID (... Almost - Unbelieveable!):
"The purchase of Mission Regional Medical Center byĀ Prime Healthcare FoundationĀ would ensure the medical center continues its not-for-profit mission of providing quality care and superior service to the people of Hidalgo County, Starr County, and the surrounding communities."
The Foundation consists of overĀ $1.8 billionĀ in assets all donated by Dr. Prem Reddy and his family."
(Now I kinda wonder how many of Prime & Mission Regional Medical'sĀ Doctors or nurses are here on H-1B visas Ā and how much correspondence it has to a prior post I made about IT work???):
Please encourage anyone interested in the H-1B visa issue(Industry) or connected to the Administration to consider promptly using EEOC to address "low hanging fruit": Ā
Countless small H-1B "job shops"/staffing companies (usually run by recent immigrants or originally H-1B visa holders themselves) exist through out the nation. Ā These companies surface business is IT/Computer Programmer Analysts; but what they really are is job shops hiring almost exclusively people on H1B visa and almost exclusively all from the same country of origin the owner is from (NOT the U.S.)... Ā It is mind numbing how EEOC has not looked at any of these companies employment rosters and said: Ā "Why do all the names on this list sound like everyone comes from India? Ā and then looked into it and found... They do all come from India. Ā 90%+ on H1B visas or OPT; rarely some on green cards... Ā Point being, it should be simple for them (EEOC) to prove employment discrimination OR at least bring the case and put a quick end to those engaged in such fraud.
Last week or so there was a story of a phony medical diploma mill operating in india(of course) and many of the supposedly credentialed medical practitioners from India arenāt real at all. Probably running these birthright hospitals and the hotels to keep the tourists in! Is Marco going to stop this H1B program? It would be an excellent beginning!
I have only 1 parent who wasnt born here. He was brought here as a refugee through the front door in 56 from Hungary by his mom at 9, learned English through TV cartoons and lost a year of school because no one helped him at all, never committed fraud or any other criminal act, worked an honest job, paid his bills, earned an education he paid for working ft at the same time, was one of the best landlords in our old neighborhood with the best accommodations, best service yet lowest terms in the area, and lost a job of 25 years in 2000 because his company decided to offshore American jobs to the DR and force him to train his replacement. He was in the last group let go because he was so competent. And he opposed illegal immigration and supported American workers. He died with severe TDS but then his brain had been dying for years prior and had always been a bit too obsessed with politeness even before that, so Trumps brashness was too much for him to hear anything else.
A top tech bro lamented how poor schools were in CA producing kids that could use their products (think Instagram) but didn't have the educational background to actually make them. But then he cheerfully said they could just import their needs. This is why I am against the visas and glad the fees are so high.
But there are still American kids who CAN do the job and ARE well educated who were passed over for a foreigner. My son was careful and persistent, and in his new employee orientation class of 50 at Intel he was the only white guy. All the others were people from China, India, the Philippines, and a few American women. His coworker, hired at the same time on an H1-B visa, was hired at a higher salary and promoted earlier, in spite of the fact that my son had to coach him through preparing for meeting presentations.
His friends from high school had similar experiences. So itās not primarily a problem with the US education system.
I am just relaying what he said. I absolutely agree that our systems can still produce the best. The horror your son experienced I think is the result of Cultural Marxism which allows recent immigrants, who have done well, to sneer and say they are oppressed. I was baffled by the sentiment a few years ago. But after coming across the work of Rene Girard on scapegoating, I understand the mechanism. That is why I was a supporter of Vivek, when friends were skeptical. Knowing that he would've been taught to despise the US while taking all the benefits, his walking away from the mechanism showed to me he was an honorable man that believed in our system. And I loved the ads he did with his piano teacher who said she would talk to him about the Constitution. Harmeet Dhillon is another fabulous human being. I would love to see her on the Supreme Court.
I agree. I commented earlier about my nephew, bright child who did well in California schools, San Jose, Davis, and San Francisco, and was unable to find a job in the same place, San Jose, where he was born.
Same as saying "Americans won't do those jobs". Americans did do those jobs, except they made good wages. Remember the Meatpackers Union, who was destroyed in the 80s, and now slaughter houses are only staffed with illegals?
Same with farmworkers, and now they're starting on truck drivers.
Are they seriously going to tell us that Americans won't drive trucks??!!! I've got a list of country songs to say different.
We have been SOLD the wrong VALUES. Cheap goods! But the real COSTS are hidden - for a while. Lost JOBS. Wages to raise a family! There is an effort to bring back PRODUCTION!
I am torn. I will use the following anecdotes to explain why.
I took microcomputer design, bought books on programming and hardware design, bought parts in the 1970s but never caught on. It is however easier today to learn using the internet. I think many need a mentor to get started or they have to devote to a full time computer programming course.
I taught my son how to program a space game written in basic that I had first seen on a PDP 11 in the mid 70's. He preferred to keep playing his gameboy rather than learn a skill.
Our education systems needs improvement to encourage and support the learning of skills in both technical fields and in life skills(ie, if you want a good job when you graduate then you better have learned something useful).
I work with lots of immigrants who have come to Canada legally and they work their tushes off 16 hrs a day and do great work. They are part of the movers and shakers in our economy.
I hear from employers about employment lawsuits that they have to defend when letting an employee go. It is easier to hire a foreign worker who is unlikely to launch a lawsuit.
Work ethic is poor amongst young residents. As one contractor put it "I am lucky if one out of 5 summer students is worth a damn".
I wish we could talk about it without the bashing. The members of my family who are practicing Jews agree - this doesnāt seem right, but we canāt even talk about it civilly.
Section 224 is on one page and is one sentence. Hopefully thatās not too much effort so that you actually know what youāve formed an opinion about.
Yes please explain who and what they actually are. You must be one of those 'genocide' people. I'll repost a comment I poster a few months ago:
Did you ever try to understand that the people of Gaza elected Hamas? Did you ever wonder why Hamas built tunnels under schools and hospitals and loaded them with arms, missiles, and hostages? Did you ever wonder what Hamas was trying to accomplish on Oct. 7? Did you ever think about what happened to the delivered aid to the Gazans. Did you ever wonder where all of these weapons provided to Gaza came from? Did you ever wonder why the Hamas leaders lived in luxury apartments in Qatar while their constituents were being bombed and starved? Just some very simple questions that you don't appear to care about. Yes, yes I know. It's all of the Jews and the 'West's" fault
I get really triggered when people say Israel is committing "genocide" on Gaza like it's an undisputed fact. There were three genocides in 20th century:
Turkey against Armenian Christians
Germany against European Jews
Rwandan Hutus against Rwandan Tutsis.
In all those cases the aggressors were doing nearly everything in their power to kill every single member of the target group as quickly as possible. In all those cases they succeeded in killing over half of the target population.
About 3% of the population of Gaza has been killed in 2 and 3/4 years. About half of those deaths have been Hamas fighters, and those fighters have been actively shielding among civilians in an urban environment, for a 1:1 fighter to civilian ratio.
A 1:1 fighter to civilian ratio in an urban environment is generally considered reasonable, especially when the fighters are using the civilians as human shields.
Tucker Carlson is one of the people using the word Genocide. I hope he gets the afterlife he deserves, and I suspect it's not the one he's planning on.
I put out this post yesterday mostly concerning Carlson's views on the Butler assassination attempt. He thinks Israel was behind it.
To be clear, I am not Jewish, nor do I think Israel is squeaky clean. I think Oct 7 was a LIHOP (let it happen on purpose), which was a horrible thing to do to its own people. The leadership let Oct 7 happen, and made sure its response was ridiculously slow to increase the bodycount and justify "war" against Hamas.
I do think Hamas in leadership in Gaza was a big problem for Israel, though.
Everything you wrote I believe is true - and almost never is in forefront of discussions/news. AND there is also a LOT of fomenting of hostilities - has been for decades; centuries by likes of certain other nation(s).
Israeli foreign minister thinks so: "for every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must cry. All of Lebanon must burn." They think they are God's chosen people and others are cattle.
We just did to them what the Japanese did to us on Dec. 7, 1941. A surprise attack, using the excuse of being pre-emptive. They won't be getting over this within our lifetimes, and rightfully so. Millions of red flags are flying in Iran, which mean a call for blood revenge. Again, rightfully so. They may well withdraw from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, and get their own nukes. Again, who could blame them. Iran hasn't attacked anybody in 300 years. We attack other countries all the time. Israel has attacked 6 countries in the last 10 years, as per Grok. A clear-eyed, objective assessment of the countries involved is useful.
"Florida outright banned illegals from attending Floridaās public colleges at all, regardless of tuition level, sparking outrage." - Why should we let them go to college? They're criminals by definition, and once they graduate, they can't get jobs anyway.
Common sense is making a comeback. The federal court strike against the Texas Dream Act is a good sign. Maybe MALDEF and the NAACP will appeal and open the door for the Supremes to revisit Plyler v. Doe. If in-state college tuition for foreigners is a taxpayer rip off, so is free K-12 education for illegal aliens.
Also, British people are outraged? Throughout most of Europe, you are tested in high school or even at middle school age to determine whether you are on the university track or not. If not, you canāt take college prep courses and canāt go to university. People who did poorly in secondary school because they were in a bad home situation, or they didnāt deal with the āteenage angstā years well, or they matured late, etc. lose their chance to even try at university. To me, that sounds outrageously cruel.
I see hospitals get very creative when it comes to business. They donāt seem to miss an opportunity to make a buck. During Covid they engaged in all sorts of shenanigans to maximize profits at the expense of their patients.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~William Shakespeare
ššš»šš Hope everyone has a wonderful day filled with hope and happiness. Donāt let the negativity in the world stop you from enjoying your life. Do what you can to make things better, but donāt let anything or anyone else overwhelm you with anger. Anger can be a dangerous emotion.
When I read about some idiot getting paid over $700,000 a year to head up a worthless organization it reinforces why the US is $40 trillion in debt. What really pisses me off is even with the Repubpukes āin chargeā spending continues to go up. It will be interesting to see what happens when nobody will buy our debt.
"Interesting". As in: May you live in interesting times.
Mrs. RW
PS: We might be seeing what happens as the US flails around deeper and deeper into debt. Just the interest on the debt now is a trillion dollars a year.
The attacks on other countries might just be part of their plan. Start a world war, maybe the debt can be cancelled in the rubble.
As for China I wouldnāt pay them a penny on our debt. Theyāve stolen so much from the US, meddled in our elections, to the point of openly spying on our strategic military capabilities along with killing millions from the Wuhan Lab leak of deadly Covid virus!! They owe us if you ask me.
Regardless of whether there is a reversal (I doubt there will be one) this action fits Trumpās āfight, fight, fightā ethos. And this helps turn out Rās for the midterms. It (2nd denial) could also pave way for rollout of visa restrictions on pregnant women, or EO denying birth citizenship to those born to mothers in US on tourist visas. Then allow that to rise up to SCOTUS. Iād like to see SCOTUSā Roberts and Coney Barrett mental gymnastics to equate 14th Amendment citizenship allowances to births by foreigners on a tourist visas.
H1Bs need to be banned entirely. Any company that fires Americans should not be allowed to hire foreigners. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is a traitor and he appointed a fellow Indian with no gaming experience to run XBOX, then she laid off 3,000 people and was appointed to a Fed board. Unacceptable. This is happening at a mass scale all over corporate America.
Re: H1B and cue again to me screaming into the void ad nauseam about my 29 year-old biomedical engineer daughter with THREE patents under her belt for kidney dialysis products, being replaced by said H1Bs... and having to grind her ever loving brain into contract gig work, begging for start up money and having to pet sit to make ends meet with no benefits and minimal pay. And cue to my other newly married daughter who is trying to save up a "baby delivery fund" so she and her husband (a LEGAL) immigrant can actually have one "smol" little legal child.... today's post hit hard and gave me some hope...
My brother-in-law worked for IBM for decades, and watched as it was hollowed out of Americans and replaced with H1Bs. Then his son, computer whiz, brought up in Silicon Valley, with advanced computer degrees, was unable to get a job in San Jose, and had to go to Washington to work for a foreign owned company.
What a scam.
Mrs. RW
All of these examples are awful! So very sorry! This current administration has uncovered so corruption that it is mind boggling!!! We must continue to pray for this administration... for God's protection for those in leadership, for wisdom to be able to untangle these messes, and strength to persevere!
Same with AT&T.
You should try to talk to AT&T Customer Service. They used to speak English. Now they donāt. Oh they try. But they speak English the way I speak Greek. I have a few phrases that I can use but little understanding.
We had ATT for years, due to inertia. Dropped calls and poor service in our house, despite living in a standard home (not an in ground bunker, lol) leading me to keep the landline for work calls as I work from home. Finally switched to Pure Talk in March. No reception issues, was able to drop the land line, US-based customer service, and our bill is HALF what it was. Granted we are not big data users, not on an unlimited plan. Kicking myself for not switching sooner.
I think they cut money on maintenance and upkeep, as well as labor.
Those greedy profiteers cut everything they can, except management salaries and benefits.
Mrs. RW
Oh I have multiple times. I think they employ those people just so we give up and never call.
I used to drive past the world's largest chip-making plant twice a day. Now, it's a brewery, gym, self-storage, and a few small workshops. It was also an IBM property. I also drove past the Pyramids in Somers, where the IBM HQ used to be. Today it is a 100% vacant collection of 5 interconnected buildings totalling 1.2 million square feet sitting on 730 acres. It has been vacant since 2016.
You are looking at the fossilized remains of a great company after the managerial class destroyed the true value of the organization while enriching themselves. They sent all of the manufacturing overseas because the idiots made it too expensive to do business here.
There used to be a cool looking Firestone factory in LA. Then they sent the work overseas and turned it into a shopping mall. I think it's vacant now.
Mrs. RW
Honestly, it's criminal.
Iām sorry. Most of us arenāt affected that strongly. Thank you for sharing. It brings it down to human costs.
If you saw the number of foreign nurses that have veen brought in the past 6 years, you would realize it affects all of us. The language barrier is huge for their patients, but the hospital systems WILL NOT listen because they are saving tons of money with three year contracts and beginning nurse pay.
And physicians
Agree
And itās definitely reflected in the lack of quality care in hospitals these days. Youāre better off avoiding hospitals entirely if youāre able to. And I spent 32 years working as a RN in hospitalsā¦.I left before the healthcare system became corrupted, ineffective and of poor quality.
Sounds just like the airlines
Until Trump, it was "Americans last" for policy.
These are agregious. But it isnāt just that. Its also companies choosing to āhireā temp employees from foreign countries for just a year and refusing to hire longer because they would pay more. So they go back out and hire a new temp. All to avoid hiring a real worker at American wages. Persistently hiring from Mexico and India on temp work. *Its manipulating the system* My husbands company does this. Sure wish more companies would become fully ethical instead of always thinking how they can save a damn dollar.
It's straight up disgusting and diabolical.
My daughter is married to a Marine. Both of their babies spent just under a week in the NICU when they were born. They got bills of $180,000 and just under $200,000 for their births. As active duty military, TriCare paid (or negotiated down?) almost all of the charges. These kinds of unplanned expenses would put most young American citizen families in a financial hole they could never crawl out of. Itās outrageous that taxpayers are forced to subsidize these costs for non-citizens, especially when we should be incentivizing citizens to have babies in light of falling birth rates.
I think anything like extraordinary costs for healthcare/housing for military familes should be provided by taxpayers. How are our soldiers supposed to have their mind in the game if they are having to worry about their child not getting competent care or how to pay for it.
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We all need to stop paying taxes. That would do it. Can't put us all in jail. I don't support illegals coming here nor paying for them. Pisses me off.
Explain to me again why we should be skeptical, if not hate, foreigners.
My reasons for not hating foreigners is that 1. They are just taking advantage of opportunities WE (our government) are offering them. I wouldnāt expect a dog not to eat a steak laying on the floor for the taking. 2. Itās not their responsibility to protect US citizens, or jobs, our economy or our culture. Thatās the job of our elected ārepresentativesā who deserve to be relieved of their posts ASAP, if not convicted of crimes and jailed. 3. Hate is hard on our own soul, our outlook on life, and our happiness. Hating foreigners does nothing good for our own short lives and it distracts us from the task at hand-ridding ourselves of the greedy bastards in government who will trade anything for a few shillings more.
valid reply, Jerri. It is easy to blame the immigrant for being here without obtaining legal status, but as you say, human nature is to seek better terms in life for self and family. I would do the same if I were from a third world hell hole.
That said, government subsidies for illegals of any kind should be eliminated, including voting, perhaps the purpose for the left opening the border carte blanche. H1B's and the restrictions placed on these holders proves once again, the democrat party is the party of slavery.
Iāve got so much hate in my heart for our government and for the Democrat party, thereās no room left in my heart to hate foreigners. Unless of course they are the cartels and gangs and rapists/murderers, and traffickers, etc.
Hate the evil, NOT people! There IS EVIL, that must be acknowledged and ROOTED OUT! People ARE waking up. Many are just too busy trying to work, but we still have our voice and our vote. (Have to fight to keep that UNDILUTED by fraud.)
No one should take advantage of us, especially when we are paying. They don't belong here. Round them all up and get them gone. When I see a foreigner, I tell them to get out as we don't want them. I have had it. I work my ass off for them, my own family goes without to pay for those foreigners. GET THEM GONE or I know many that will start doing this. One way or the other....
Don't hate, IT will hurt YOU. Insist on right change......
The VISA program began under President Reagan over four decades ago. This was the beginning of the mass invasion of the US. The VISA program needs to be shut down entirely. Under Trump, the mass invasion continues with the VISA program. And still no mass deportations and still no wall.
Coming soon to your neighborhood.....
Retired British Army Colonel warns that civil war between Britons and immigrants is now inevitable
There is very likely to be civil war in Britain, Col. (Ret.) Richard Kemp said earlier this year.
āIām not talking about the American Civil War,ā he said. āIām talking about something more like Northern Ireland but on a much more intensive scale, where you have the indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other. And Iād be very surprised if that doesnāt happen.ā
https://expose-news.com/2026/06/12/civil-war-between-britons-and-immigrants-is-inevitable/
I think you might see this catching on in other countries where the immigrants have more rights than the citizens, like France, Germany, Canada and any other country where immigrants are taking over
BS to that. If it takes civil war, Annie get your gun and do what needs to be done.
I believe we will see it soon. Just waiting for that initial powder keg to explode.
Right now the violence is dispersed one-on-one crime/attacks. Perhaps(?) at some point people will have had enough and react in mass. But it is amazing how much "the public" will put up with. Look at Britain and Sweden and the constant gang rapes of their daughters by illegal, Islamic immigrants. Look at Ireland and how the Irish people are - literally - being exterminated as a culture and totally replaced by dark immigrants as we speak. They are on the edge of extinction. Seriously! Why aren't the men organizing to hunt down the rape gangs and ending them with prejudice? Look at Nazi Germany and how the German people acquiesced to the Nazi persecution of Jews and Christians. Look at revolutionary Russia and how the people suffered with Stalinist terror for 70 years before the Communist regime collapsed under it's own weight. The French Revolution resulted in a decade of chaos and terror followed by the rise of Napoleon who crowned himself emperor and lead the French people into a destructive war.
The record of human society is not encouraging. Human society lurches from one tyranny to the next interspaced with revolutionary violence. The American revolution was an anomaly. *A true resistance to tyranny that established a republic where the people were sovereign.* The only comparable result I am aware of was the establishment of representative government under Moses after receiving the law of God. But they had to wander 40 years in the wilderness to learn the lessons of this law order and a new generation raised up who were not conditioned to slavery.
Likewise the American colonists had learned independence living in the "wilderness" of America since the first settlements and were explicitly Christians who held to the supremacy of Biblical law even over and above that of their King. The Declaration of Independence is THE founding document of America and the greatest suit for breach of contract ever penned. But people today have no idea what is meant by "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" as ironically enunciated by a President who made war upon half of his own country. That affirmation, "of by and for the people", is a clear statement that the people are the sovereigns of society and government. Think about it.
The Declaration of Independence clearly stated that the Creator is sovereign over men and that He has endowed all men with "unalienable rights" from God; that rights are NOT civil rights granted by a government. It is a question of sovereignty. The people are the sovereigns in the Republic, not the Government! The authors of the Declaration held "these truths to be self-evident", ie, a priori and presuppositional to all of society. Today this has been turned upside down. Instead of being "sovereign citizens" of the Republic, we are now serfs of the State.
Until we understand the issue of Sovereignty, we will continue to see our government become more and more tyrannical in rule. Sadly, even in the churches, the people today do not understand any of this.
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." Hosea 4:6
Examples you site are results of banking cartel maneuverings:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3PU3Q1bsOg&pp=iggUQAFKEFJ2WFowQjVMTFJuelJDaGU%3D&ra=m
Ah yes! I can't think of any war that was started because the people voted for it or wanted it. No person in his right mind wants to go to war. Wars are "sold" as necessary geo-political events which is a lie. The only necessary wars are defensive wars to defend against attack. The only two examples of defensive wars in American history are the American war for independence and the War of 1812... both of which were attacks by the British Empire. Every war the USG has gotten us into since then, including the Indian Wars and the so-called Civil War, were wars of aggression which were all objected to by the American people up to and including the Iran War.
Nearly all modern wars are NOT geo-political events. They are genocides for profit based on psyops.
I never want to see war.
Just this am I was writing about the legacy of slavery. And also concluded that why Israel had to wander 40 years in desert. To learn how to function as a people in an 'economy' w/o slavery, relying on God and self-development. I've heard a LOT of Bible teaching, but don't remember hearing the WHY of the wandering (except a generation to die off.)
They had lessons to learn they would never have learned without the wilderness journey.
Ask God.
Based on so far, the government and police will be on the immigrant side. If only we were allowed to bear armsā¦ (from UK)
... "allowed" is one thing, possession is another.(from USA)
ammo is key.
damn right, get them anywhere and prepare.
If only the people had not caved to the government.
We have never been allowed to bear (fire)arms, thatās why we have so many stabbings and knife attacks. We were never asked to vote on it.
The British used to be armed. Your elites decided to charm the populace into giving them up. Also Canada and Australia. This is what happens when the demons call themselves āelitesā.
āAllowedā???? Why would anyone stay in a country that denies you the right to protect yourself, your family and your possessions? Thatās insanity! Maybe now you will understand why the Americans fought a brutal war against Britain for freedom!
Guy Fawkes was a colorful fellow
buy them on the black market. buy knives, grenades whatever you can get. your life will depend on it. start taking classes to protect yourself. you have got to get them out.
Why would you stay in a place that has stripped you of basic human rights?
Bankers fund both sides.
Never a US civil war
Time to cull with civil war or they need to get out and go back to where they came from. This is utter bullshite.
Homan said on live radio yesterday the wall will be DONE 2027. (on the SOUTH)
I can't wait! The woke lefties and the globalists will have a fit, though it is the globalists I worry about.
Not just the lefties. I highly object to taking people's property to build a ghastly wall, but more, I object to the interference with animal migration.
I have seen videos of bears and panthers pacing up and down the current wall for miles, unable to get through. It is sad, but more, it is disgusting, because we don't need a wall to stop immigration, we just need the law to be enforced, and the Border Patrol to do their job.
The wall is a boondoggle and a farce.
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Wow... that makes total sense. Thanks for adding that and "enlightening" me. And of course you are right: what it really boils down to is "our" Gov't doing their job to protect us. Thanks.
Sounds anti semantic.
This is getting old. Please rotate your stock.
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Where the heck have YOU been Phil?? Do some research, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Microsoft CEO is tip of the iceberg and hides what's so rampant below... from another comment I made already:
Please encourage anyone interested in the H-1B visa issue(Industry) or connected to the Administration to consider promptly using EEOC to address "low hanging fruit":
Countless small H-1B "job shops"/staffing companies (usually run by recent immigrants or originally H-1B visa holders themselves) exist through out the nation. These companies surface business is allegedly "IT/Computer Programmer Analysts"; but what they really are is job shops hiring almost exclusively people on H1B visa and almost exclusively all from the same country of origin the owner is from (NOT the U.S.)... It is mind numbing how EEOC has not looked at any of these companies employment rosters and said: "Why do all the names on this list sound like everyone comes from India? and then looked into it and found... They do all come from India. 90%+ on H1B visas or OPT; rarely some on green cards... Point being, it should be simple for them (EEOC) to prove employment discrimination OR at least bring the case and put a quick end to those engaged in such fraud.
a similar "business" exists to import, hire, license CDL drivers. One even advertises that the trainers speak several languages. Like Urdu. Good to know semi drivers can read road signs in Urdu.
Everytime I see H1B I think of pencil led.
You're so old. Or an artist.
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What type of art do you do? I mainly do illustration.
100% agree. The oligarchs and fraud businesses that push for H1B's will try to couch in either/and 1. National security!!!!! and/or 2. Can't find anybody!!!!!!
First, if it is truly national security, then why would someone OUTSIDE the U.S. have info/experience that we can't find INSIDE the U.S. (with over 300 million people here). This isn't like the 1940's where Nazi's were mysteriously disappearing in Germany, only to conveniently re-appear, often under different names, in the U.S. and Soviet Union because the Germans had a more advanced rocket program (or, unfortunately, a much more advanced psyop-making structure).
Second, if they can't find anybody, they are not really trying. In this era of ubiquitous communication, internet, AI, and coming quantum computing, there is always someone who can fill a position from inside the USA. It is just a matter of cost. Instead we get half-baked search efforts because the consulting firms (at least with IT) make a bleep-load of money providing people. To get any H1B approved for potential filling, a position should have to be listed for 12+ months in a national database with clear and reasonable criteria. Meaning no stupid idiosyncratic requirement put in to make the position unfillable. Let's get real. Most of these IT positions are to replace American workers with less skilled Indians and eastern Europeans. I see it all the time since I work in the industry. We graduate millions of STEM workers who are Americans each year. H1B's are just a carving out of the Middle Class.
And to go along with that, we need to tarriff 200-300% all overseas foreign IT worker positions. I can't emphasize this enough (or even if H1B is shut off, they just move even more jobs overseas.) That will have two benefits. First, it will cut down on cutting people here, and honestly, the quality of work will go up within a year across the board. I was around before the mass offshoring occurred, and have lived through the drop in quality and longer turn around times because of that. It wasn't like this back 25 years ago. Bugs getting into production were much lower. People took pride in their work. And the amount of bloated code was a lot less becuase people applied their brains to solutioning properly.
Finally, why are the Medical schools allowed to operate with impunity on limiting how many seats there are? We see the repercussions with all the foreigners now in the medical field at all levels. Kids here who work their butts off and get decent grades in college are turned aside. "Not enough seats". The Medical Oligarchy is a real problem.
HR departments and schools are not calling over to India or the Middle East or Asia or Eastern Europe to verify Kumar or Mohammed or Muchen or Vlad actually have the credentials (and the schools they list are legit and of high quality). It's a fraud.
Agree with most of your stuff, but regarding the limitation of medical school seats one has to understand that physicians (and lawyers) create their own demand. If you add more physicians total costs actually increase. It's been studied and proven. It's a separate issue as to who should occupy those seats.
Go into Alternative Medicine instead
Disagree on lawyers. [Putting aside the fact that every profession has seen salary inflation for the past two decades] It has become much easier to go to school to be a lawyer. It is up to the person to pass the bar, but much easier now than in the 1980s to get a law degree. H1B for physicians run around 8,000-11,000 a year. 25% of the US physician workforce (per Grok). These aren't "jobs Americans won't do".
If the medical field (And particularly doctors and PA's) wants, it could have supply of seats meet demand for degrees within 1-2 years. They don't want a lot because they are protecting their profession for those who have made it. If we are admitting H1B people for doctor/PA and other highly skilled med positions, that means the current US system set up is deficient in meeting true demand. This didn't just occur. It has been going on for decades now. I've known many people with stellar grades and MCATs who can't enroll. That is a problem. Accrediting bodies like LCME and COCA play a role too. Then you throw in Federal Funding, residency programs (1997 Medicare residency cap), etc. Road block and hurdle after hurdle. But we are to then take in subpar foreign doctors, etc.
The demand for healthcare services is only increasing per the population aging. That is the demand. Americans have been shackled as to how many in this country can help meet that demand. There is no valid reason, especially in the age of AI, abundant office space (since so many moved to WFH), retired docs and other medical professionals willing to teach, that we shouldn't be able to supply all our own doctors. It's about money and control, plain and simple. Everyone fearful of their own bit of the pie, which results in bad outcomes for the US middle class, the economic ladder, and timely and accurate medical care.
This is all fixable. Instead we get the equivalent of "NASA" logic as to why things can't be done, so nothing changes until someone like an Elon comes along and does it better, faster, cheaper. No difference here.
there are around 1 million medical doctors practicing in the United States, so the H1Bs are a much lower percent of all physicians. Nonetheless, there's no question more doctors could be trained and that existing physicians function as a cartel to keep the number of competitors lower. However, doctors can and do create their own demand when you have a third party payer system like we do. It's been studied and as a retired physician I have no doubt that it's true. Regardless, the question of whether we could use more is up for debate. Primary care has been taken over by DO's and NP's which has created easier access. Specialists are numerous, are more limited and you may be correct that with the boomers aging, we could use more.
I worked for a decade at a "Blue" insurance company. The whole system needs an overhaul. It won't really happen because there is too much lobby money and too many hands in the cookie jar. PBMs didn't help. Physician groups caused more problems. Corporate hospital raiders too. And contrary to what many people think, medical insurances companies are not in the business of detecting all the fraud and stopping payment for what are termed 'frivolous services'.
At a million doctors practicing in the U.S., per Grok's 25% that amounts to 250,000 who got their degree outside the U.S. They didn't all come from Grenada (those who were around in the 1980's would get the reference). About 30,000 kids apply to medical school each year and get rejected. This has to get fixed. It is not fair to import middle and middle-upper class workers.
And the quality of the education of degrees overseas is open to corruption. Both the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) and the Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE) are not funded by the government or public taxes. Instead, they operate as non-profit, self-regulated professional associations that are funded entirely by their member organizations and the services those members provide....The fox watching the henhouse.
I have a doctor friend who has a popular Youtube channel on people 60+ getting into better shape. He doesn't take any medical insurance. Treats a lot of high-level DC people and foreign extremely wealthy people. Some doctors are able to break out from the medical complex to a degree. Too many docs now are just corporate people who follow the treatment flowchart, or they get punished by the doctor group, or lose hospital privileges. I feel bad for them actually. Some during the covid scam were really punished.
I'll stand by my "we don't need any H1Bs (after a 12-month transition period)" for what Jeff phrased as "shifting visas toward higher-skilled and higher-paid workers" in various fields. Certainly not medical or IT. And the $100,000 per sponsored H1B application is meaningless. The jobs where the consulting firms can bill the government will just absorb that in increased rates (which we customers and citizens will pay) to the company over 2-3 years. That means someone coming in and getting a high paid job, and buying a nice house (nicer if they come in with their spouse too, which I see in IT a lot), which pushes the housing prices up in nicer areas.
Jeff needs to dig deeper rather than just take White House talking points. He is falling for First Stage Thinking, as Thomas Sowell calls it, "the tendency to evaluate a policy, decision, or action based entirely on its immediate, intended consequences without considering its later, often disastrous repercussions". That is why we have a jobs disaster.
There's no way there are 250k HIB visa docs in this country. Otherwise, I agree it's a Gordian knot of a problem.
I think that's the plan at least for Trump. Some of India's universities have been selling fake degrees. MSM will start reporting it ........eventually.
Just as we have recently been reminded how compromised Mitch McConnell is & has been related to his wife's nationality, the same is true for JD Vance and any other elected politicians with similar family connections; including Rubio.
While McConnellās Chinese wife may be a different kettle of fish (a la Feinsteinās chauffeur, Fang Fang, etc.), I would be more concerned with judges from other countries who become US citizens, and then drop absurd progressive rulings.
Nothing like blasting your ignorance and prejudice.
What prejudice? If you are bold enough to slander, be bold enough to provide evidence?
The evidence that you are judging Vance's wife simply on the color of her skin. Or is it because her parents were not born in our Country? Either way, it indicates prejudice. My great grandparents were born in Germany and Norway, am I bad because of my family connections?
Where do you draw your lines? I know a man from Tibet who became a Citizen a dozen years ago, I have never met a more pro-American. You sir are a bigot.
Our Nation is a melting pot of many people from all parts of the World, to judge them by skin, recent immigration status shows just who you are, and it's not attractive.
At least you are consistent, pulling imaginary facts out of the air so as to make you feel good about yourself, I guess. One example, you accuse me of judging Ms Vance on the color of her skin. Where did you discover that fact?
Check this out. In 2010 Nikki Haley ran for Governor. I contributed to her campaign & I voted for her. She was a pathetic Governor & I didn't vote for her the second time. Today I would cross the street to avoid her because I believe she's an evil, corrupt opportunist.
In 2023 I gave a serious look at Vivek Ramaswamy but he dropped out. Since then he has shown his true colors š and today I would cross the street to avoid him.
In 2020 I supported a black man, a great guy Mr Duke Buckner, running against evil & corrupt yet white Lindsey Graham, and I would do so today.
In 2024 I voted for a black man, Pastor Mark Burns in the primary against my pathetic white US Congressman.
Finally, in 1996 I was a supporter of Dr Alan Keyes for President. I voted for him in the primary & would do so again today.
I tell you that so you understand what kind of bigot I am. I'm bigoted against arrogant judgmental twits who apparently are incapable of rational/critical thought.
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So why did you judge Mrs. Vance? Is it based on knowing her personally?
Where is your rational/critical though on judging Mrs. Vance?
Are you saying JD Vance is compromised because heās married to Usha?
If that's his wife.
It's funny, a few weeks ago I watched a debate between several people running for governor. Of the six candidates, 4 have DC connections, one was born in India and one was a state senator. Since the DC/India crowd were all pathetic I decided to vote for the state senator, even tho he had no chance to win.
During the debate the topic of immigrants came up and when it got to that guy he said he loves immigrants, so much so he married one. Needless to say I didn't vote for him.
I don't care who marries who but if they want to be involved in legislating laws, I don't trust and won't support someone with dual loyalties.
Letās stick with Vance. Cause thatās who you brought up. Vanceās wife, Usha, is a USA citizen, and her parents, naturalized US citizens. Usha born and raised in San Diego, upper middle class. She law clerked for Justice Roberts and Kavanaugh. Is this the person you are stating has duel loyalties? If so, duel loyalties to whom or who exactly?
He may be prejudiced but he is not ignorant.
He is ignorant of what makes a good, if not great American. Judge a man by his actions, not by whether he fit's this person's idea of who is "American".
What actions do you judge JD by?
Explain how JD Vance fits into your theory on nationality and family connections.
Usha Vance was born in the US, but her parents immigrated from India.
So what?
I guess we can conclude you say so what about McConnell's wife being Chinese too.
Technically she's from Taiwan.
If ever this phrase applied, "there are none so blind as those who will not see", this is the place.
I couldn't care less who JD or any other person marries but when they want to legislate on issues that have any connections to their family member's nationality, it's safe to conclude they possess a bias, intentional or unintentional.
I would say the same about someone married to a person from any country, East or West.
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Do Usha Vance's parents come here for the sole purpose of having a child so the child could be American? Or did they come here to become American citizens legally and continue to be productive American citizens. That's the real question.
Other than basic common information I have no knowledge of, because I have no interest in any personal information about JD's family; it's none of my business. I wish them nothing but the best. However that doesn't mean I trust his judgement related to legislation on any international issues.
I most certainly do NOT agree with judging a person solely based on country of origin.
What are you referring to?
Maybe also explain how your posting connects to H1b visas. Was either of the spouses here on visas? I'm thinking no. Another glass not only half empty but containing only snakes and scorpions comment.
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And we are now begging our young people to also go into trade careers as infastructure is beginning to crumble around us. We absolutely need the best & brightest to become Ethical Constitutional scholars and lead so we don't succumb to the socialist slop peddlers. There are so many foundations now willing to give scholarships for trades. Sorry, but not everyone is suited for university right out of high school, there are other paths to success that may involve community college or apprenticeships, instead.
We need to begin by insisting Civics, including the Constitution in ALL middle & high schools, be brought back!!!! And classes need to be periodically audited to ensure they are being taught correctl;y and not the "everything is racist & whites are bad" crap we have been seeing.
There are ways to deal with socialists if needs must.
Helicopters?
too expensive:}
H1Bs arenāt the only problem. A local surgical robotics company I interviewed with last year recently outsourced their entire software team to the Middle East. The company was bought by a German company about 18 months ago. Thatās the 3rd company I know of that has been bought by German companies in the last 18 months. One is coincidental, 3 is what the heck is going on with that. IBM is also notorious for outsourcing to foreign companies. So software people donāt even need to be on US soil to steal jobs. It must be stopped!
Wouldnāt surprise me if that āGermanā company is actually owned by middle-easterners who are German citizens or residents. It seems that almost all businesses in my German town are started by foreigners, any place that cuts hair or serves food opened in the last 10 years is run by foreigners. Mostly Arabs and Turks, even the āItalianā restaurants. All cash-heavy of course. Out of 40 places that deliver food only two are owned by people with German names (one is the McDonalds franchise). Make of that what you will.
Wow, thatās scary. The 3 companies I know of are medical device/equipment that have been around a long time. I know one is still German because all the top folks came for a visit and/or did a video.
Itās too bad we donāt have an America first president to put a stop to this!
Love the sarcasm!
What gets me is that many of these supposedly hard-to-fill jobs are for positions like Program Manager, which has numerous US citizens who are qualified, experienced and educated to fill them immediately. It's appalling to see the job positions of some of the H1B hires.
Yes, leaving American workers on the sidelines so they can hire cheaper labor from some other country is a disgrace.
Several years ago Walt Disney World called in all of their U.S. Citizen IT employees and told them they were being replaced by new employees from India. They had the choice of training their replacements and receiving severance pay, or if refusing to train their replacements, being fired immediately with no severance pay. Since that day weāve not gone to WDW nor spent a dime on any Disney product or service.
Hat tip to Florida. 100 percent agree Yuri.
PS: anyone else hates the nytimes? https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-new-york-timess-middle-name-should
Appears to be a myriad of slimy fraudsters and miscreants involved in the schemes and conspiratorial corruption from the reliably despicable leftist ideologues, radical democrat aligned cabal ,and other very bad folks..
It's so confusing when a supposed advocate for capitalism starts spewing government-controlled commie demands.
If you're talking about Trump, remember that he sides with the owners, not the workers, when it comes down to real life.
Hence, the "hospitality" need for illegal immigrants, and the high tech "need" for H1B immigrants. He has sympathy for the owners desire for cheap labor.
Mrs. RW
You bring up a good point but, actually, I was talking about Yuri Bezmenov.
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āNo weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their vindication is from Me,ā declares the LORD.
ā Isaiah 54:17 NAS95
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This is the second time I have run into this same verse in scripture, TODAY. I think I will just be unafraid, and continue to trust Jesus.
Itās fresh on my mind because of a note I posted on my substack today.
Wait - THATS where I first saw it! Still, there are no coincidences with God!
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Amen. I say this every day....
Does merging your government's military with a foreign power (Israel) count as a blessing to "the lord"?
Do your handlers pay well? Asking for a friend.
Why are you asking this? It is an honest question about the proposal.
No, it isnāt. It is a Muslim/candace owens question.
Yes it is. No it isn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
Yeah. It is. Both.
She appears to be manifesting a demon, and it has curdled her mind, like sour, molded milk. And, it also appears that she has turned to islamā¦ā¦not really a surprise at all.
She was in love with Charlie Kirk. He did not love her in return. As soon as he and Erika announced their engagement she found an effeminate guy(?) online, knew him for 17 days, met him once in person and married him before Charlie and Erika got married, lolā¦ā¦to prove she could.
It would NOT surprise me to find out that SHE hired/inspired the killing of Charlie Kirk. She is a vindictive little witch of a woman. Her parents dropped her at the age of, wasnāt it 13? She never got over that rejection.
Trump wisely refused to use her in his Administration. She is the wicked witch in every way.
I urge you to watch this interview of Dennis Kucinich to learn of an extremely dangerous section in the 2027 NDAA bill, Section 219, which would take away our countryās sovereignty
by merging the Israeli military with the U.S. military and put Israel into the U.S. decision-making process in the Dept. of Defense permanently. It is being pushed in committees, and we donāt even know which Congressperson initiated this
Thanks. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul were two peas in a pod on these issues.
This is THE biggest threat to America since the civil war. Yet the Israel-First crowd here just pretend it isn't.
Carolyn, I posted this interview to TRM by mistake, meant to send it to you. Dennis Kucinich talks to Tucker Carlson about a proposal in Congress to merge the US military with the Israeli military.
It is acquiescing as far as I can seeā¦ the elephant in the roomā¦
And entire leadership in the pockets of the Israeli war machineā¦
And it is the demonicRAT party having already merged with islamists and communists.
So.
Your point?
I don't support that either. Just saying I'm consistent in my view whether it is China or Israel.
From my perspective it is actually all of Christendom. Real Christendom anyway. Onward Christian soldiers. The enemy is real. And nefarious.
And their digital data centers.
I agree..this should not only never happen, it should never be proposed or thought of.
TRM did merging your brain with the hive (i.e. the demonicRATS/islamist/communist party ) hurt?
Amen
This is Old Testament so I wonder if this was for the Jews and not any others back in the day.
It is a promise for the "servants of the Lord."
I don't know if God meant that for present day and the goyim since He was addressing the Jews.
What happened to the practice of midwives and mothers having their babies at home? Surely that would cost far less. Plus it might protect the newborns from the vaxx protocol.
The practice is slowly growing, but 1) not covered by health insurance and 2) limited number of midwives! All the young mothers I know who have had a home birth, have been extremely pleased and have or would do it again!
I would say itās stagnant. In the 80ās, many of my friends and I were having home birth. Yes not covered by insurance but today the cost is a little higher. Most of my grandchildren were also born at home. The death stats are false. You get better care and midwives are selective in who they take, considering the motherās general health and how she takes care of herself.
As a mature (40 yrs old) first time mom, no midwives would take me on in 1997.
So sad.
My cousin and his wife have 4 children, 3 of which were born at home because the woman labors so quickly there is no time to get to the hospital. She literally can pop a baby out. The 3 younger children were all born in the shower. There were no complications and all the babies were/are very healthy.
Me, too...born in the car on the way to the hospital. I wanted out!
We have to remember though, Elizabeth, that home births of past generations also had high mortality rates for mothers and babies. It is not all an idealized situation. I gave birth to a child who had the cord wrapped around his neck in the womb, and would have died in a natural birth. He lived due to a C-section in hospital.
My second home birth had the cord around his neck four times and the midwife removed it one ring at a time. He did not die.
Glad to hear it, Melissa. I was told my son would not have been that fortunate.
Neither home births nor hospital births should be shamed. Everyone has to make their own choice. More power to the woman who researches well and makes the decision based on her and her childās needs.
Your claims remind me of the pro vaccination folks that say the decline in deaths from diseases was thanks to vaccines, whereas any review of the data shows that decline occurred prior to the introduction of vaccines and is largely attributable to better sanitation and nutrition. If you look into the studies of birth outcomes in āfirst worldā countries in recent decades comparing hospital and midwife assisted home births, the latter is safer. Now there are issues about the population that chooses a home birth (high risk pregnancies are usually diverted, etc.) but you simply canāt claim that a home birth is higher risk. The example of the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck was discussed with my first midwife. When the cord was loose enough, she would simply reach in and un loop it. In one instance, where it was very tight, she transferred by ambulance and applied pressure to keep the baby from crowning. She had previously been a nurse in a hospital and felt that baby would likely have died without the close surveillance she provided at home. Who knows. I just wouldnāt assume a hospital environment is safer for all women.
Does that account for the fact that all high risk pregnancies are going to be hospital births? And all planned births that have last minute complications get shifted to a hospital if possible?
Women died in childbirth in premodern times - a lot. They even died a lot around 1900 when doctors realized they needed to wash their hands. It's estimated that around 1700 one in 5 women died in or soon after childbirth, and by 1900 that was only down to one in 10 women.
Mismatch of the woman's uterus and the baby's head has always been a problem. Breech presentations have always been a problem.
I meant to say "pelvis", not "uterus", in the next-to-last sentence.
I am very careful what I believe about vaccines. I did not get the COVID vaccine because I smelled a rat. Having a hospital birth is not exactly the same thing.
Elizabeth above, who I was replying to on the birth matter, seems as if she was promoting home birth for the sake of being fashionable. Which I object to. Because many women in the 80s and onward did choose it to be seen as progressive and fashionable.
Those of us who experienced the dehumanization and forced separation of hospital births before the "fad" of home births started, chose home birth to avoid those atrocities, not to be fashionable.
You can thank the fact that hospitals started kinder and gentler birthing practices, (even if they do charge for holding the baby, via "skin-to-skin" charges), to the women who simply refused to subject themselves to the arbitrary and authoritarian rules of the maternity hospitals at that time.
It was a opting out of tyranny, just like refusing the GMO injectables, and it made a difference.
Mrs. RW
Mrs. RW, I hear you. But it is not all that clear-cut. I have expertise in the work of John Bowlby on the Attachment System, so I would be the first to tell you that Attachment matters. And not only at birth. The entire first three years are crucial.
However, living amongst normal human beings, I also saw that many women I knew of child-bearing age were indeed making their birthing decisions based on fads and fashions -- the same way many of them lived their lives in general. Social contagion can be powerful. Behaviour is not always motivated by noble virtue, alas.
I am a retired Ob-Gyn. Midwife deliveries can often be a great experience, but not always. And there are differences between midwife deliveries at home, and those in a hospital. Home deliveries can be appropriate for women who have already had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery in the past. And, even then, an obstetrical emergency can occur in the blink of an eye without warning. Hospital deliveries are much safer, and are especially important for women having their first baby. One of the later comments talks about an OB sitting in the back of the room during a midwife delivery. That was a very gracious thing to do.
@Dr. Sherrylyn- sitting in the back of the room is nice and all but what happens when there's an emergency? There would be no medical equipment to take over.
@A- having the cord wrapped around his neck is not usually a problem since he wasn't using his lungs. When delivered, they simply remove the cord from the neck.
It was my Obstetrician who told me this, Kittynana. I assumed that he knew about such things. If it was such an easy fix at delivery, why didn't he just do that? I was not going to find out the hard way by having my son die at birth before I believed him.
Btw, this happened at a Canadian hospital, where there was no profit incentive for them to do a C-section instead. In fact, just the opposite. They always try to avoid unneccessry medical procedures if they can.
Home births were the big fashion back in the 80s in my area. Until a home-birth advocate was charged with the death of a newborn due to negligence.
Not that hospitals are all perfect either. There is an NHS hospital in England that is like a horror-zone for mothers giving birth, and for the newborns.
Charging someone for a newborn death at home is called lawfare.
The US has the highest infant mortality rate among industrialized countries, but you certainly never hear of OBs being charged for a neonatal death.
Mrs. RW
You know, I agree with that, Mrs. RW. I have always noted that doctors are rarely charged with negligence when they mis-diagnose or miss the diagnosis, in cases where they should have known. But when parents miss a medical issue in their children, even when they are acting in good faith (and have no medical training), they tend to be charged,
All those medical mistakes or misses out there by doctors are often just shrugged off.
Janine, are you OK? What are you talking about? You just totally mis-interpreted what I said.
In fact the irony is that I am now over on the Saturday forum for C&C, saying how much the normal population has to beware of the Globalist scams that promise to put "public safety" first. That is a cover for population-capture. It means just the opposite of what it says, As in COVID-mania and MAID regimes which promise to make life better, but in reality, always make life worse.
āAā,
My response was to Jeff.
Your response came to my inbox, Janine. You must have pressed the wrong button.
Good to hear!
Big pHARMa took over "health care" then made it "too risky"
Midwife assisted birth is still 3k and up. We've had 6 babies with midwives, and our total bill for all 6 is the same as my Sister in law's birth bill from a local hospital for her 1 baby - $20,000.
There's no money in it for the hospitals. Midwives are important for mother's in most countries, sadly not here.
It was a popular way of birthing during Covid, to avoid the medical complex taking over. I think itās actually becoming quite popular among the health-conscious set.
My daughter will be having her first in about 2 months. Going to a birth center for ~4K. She will submit the super bills to insurance afterwards. Since sheās vx injured - she wanted ultimate control over the birth to protect that baby. Also paying a doula in case she needs a hospital transfer. Then God willing - home birth next. Lots of her friends are doing this now - as people have opened their eyes since the Cvd debacle and donāt trust traditional medical doctors.
four healthy grands born that way. and they can write cursive. but I digress.
My children all write cursive, because I taught them myself. They were born in hospital. There is no link there. Most Baby Boomers can write in cursive, and the majority of them were hospital-born.
This belief in "born at home is better" reminds me of the alternative-medicine types in Canada who were very heavily promoting Cannabis when politicians were trying to legalize it. However, you never heard any of them talk about the medical wonders of Marijuana once the legislation went through....they had only been doing the propaganda work for Troodo.
not making any link. just stating some facts. take it as you will. good for your handwriting.
I had my 2nd and 3rd child at home (province of Quebec at the time). Wonderful experiences, but challenging to find a supportive doctor to work with the midwife (ordering bloodwork, assisting if hospital transfer needed, etc. At the time, midwives were not recognized by the medical profession. Shortly afterwards, the provinces took steps to āacceptā midwifery, establishing university programs and programs to āgrandfatherā (or grandmother) experienced midwives into the certification. While there were definite advantages, such as having costs covered by our provincial health plans, the independence of midwives was lost. They are now trained in the standard medical practice and are required to encourage all the standard protocols like vaccines. They do less homebirths and are more often the primary caregiver in a hospital setting.
Dave, check into Dr. Margaret Aranda's stack (the Rebel Patient, I think) for info on this. The births of my own 3 (1978-87) were assisted by certified nurse midwives, at Booth Maternity Hospital in Phila--a Salvation Army hospital where the CNMs were staff--an ob was required to be present in the birthing room, but he just sat in a chair at the back of the room.
Of my three children, I only had one at home, and that is the only birth that I remember with fondness.
The two hospital births were horrendous, each in its own way. Sure, women have been convinced that hospital births are safer, infant and maternal mortality rates in the US notwithstanding, but I think it's very sad.
Mrs. RW
I was stunned by the supposed cost of having a baby. Iām going to survey my many young church friends who have lots of children. I donāt think it costs that much in small town Oklahoma, but I am curious.
@Margot- the US is a litigious society. Malpractice insurance is insanely costly.
Definitely growingā¦
What happened most recently was Rockefeller and the Flexner Report that made midwives and herbalists āillegalā or āuninsurableā without the proper ālicenseā to support women giving birth. Apparently they didnāt burn them all in the 1400s and 1500s so they needed to be culled anew to allow the profit-motivated men to take over.
Our āhouseholdsā used to include multiple generations before WW2. This meant women had support in the community of women in their family. Grandmothers, sisters and aunts provided care and training. FREE! The Maternal Gift Economy is modeled after Mother Nature, whose gifts are offered up freely to us. We prefer to take those gifts and process them into poison for profit. The goal with capitalism. Itās a big issue.
It goes in and out of fashion. Thirty years ago it was promoted by the lefties attempting to show how "progressive" they were. Not to protect newborns, really.
Good morning All!!
I will bless the LORD at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.
My soul will glory in the LORD; let the poor hear and be glad.
Magnify the LORD with me; and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the LORD, and he answered me, delivered me from all my fears.
Look to him and be radiant, and your faces may not blush for shame.
This poor one cried out and the LORD heard, and from all his distress he saved him.
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he saves them.
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.
Psalm 34
Amen, Karmy!!!
Does merging your government's military with a foreign power (Israel) count as a blessing to "the lord"?
For all the people who are triggered due to āIsraelā, read section 224 here: https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf Itās about sharing TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, etc., and whether you accept it or not, Israel is equal to (if not superior to) the US in technology. It is NOT ācombining militaryā so that we ācontinue to fight Israelās warsā. It might be an idea to actually read the sentence before posting your opinion on the directive.
What a stupid comment. Bahrain has now joined with the US military in Iran. You should add them then, to your disfavor.
That is not a statement of complete truth. One is cooperation in their country for a limited period of time. The other is complete integration of military and intelligence..stop comparing oranges to apples.
Section 224. Itās not a ācomplete integration of military, etcā. FFS. Read it: https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf
I guess you never heard of Five Eyes, then, where intelligence is shared between the US, Canada, UK, Australia, etc. In any event perhaps actually READ the proposed directive. Complete āintegrationā? How about sharing weapons research, production and technology, which is what it actually states. Perhaps you are unaware that the US sells military weapons to Israel, who then IMPROVE them and give those improvements back to the US.
Two separate entities
Well, yeah, what's your point?
You already posted that comment we donāt need to see it twice to get your gripe!
Read the directive. Section 224. https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf
"MAGNIFY the LORD With Me"?
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly bankrolled the multi-million dollar geofencing campaign targeting American Christian churches. Driven by public records, the operation marks a major, state-funded effort to shore up declining geopolitical support among U.S. Evangelicals.
Did the post you are replying to have anything at all to do with the issue you referenced here?
No.
So you are hijacking it.
Bad form.
If you have a point to make, don't do it disingenously.
Digital magnification of bible verse.
Someone has hurt feelings.
Someone is tired of watching you mock people in insincerity. You twist the word "hurt" to try to evoke an emotional response. Just like progressives twist the suffix "phobic."
You pretend your agenda is about governance. Your agenda is anti-Biblical . . . anti-Christ. Stop pretending otherwise. This has nothing to do with my feelings.
Go your own way.
What's a progressive?
Which passage in the Bible?
What is anti Bible, anti Christ
You are forgiven.
Wow, do you mean Israel is doing legitimate advertising, unlike the regime change and all other sorts of corruption we do (or did before Trump) to hundreds of countries via USAID and other agencies???
Stop comparing oranges to apples. Countries are not religions.
Targetting mosques and churches sounds like standard operating procedure.
Gathering phone data is a 4th amendment violation.
Exploding pagers anyone.
Targeting mosques! Ha! When's the last time you saw a mosque "targeted"? Islamists kill people who do that. Shucks, they kill people who don't!
As to your phone data comment, you mean Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung et al are violating the 4th amendment? Why haven't they been prosecuted???
Which brings me to a thought I had today. Bard, Contrary, Johnnie, apparently Carolyn and other doomsayers, what do you hope to achieve with your comments? What can you or anyone of us do to change any of the things you bring up? If the Rothchildes control global finance, so what? How can you or the rest of us change that? If Trump is controlled by Bibi, (yeah, sure...) what can you or we do about it? I submit there is nothing doable, and knowing has no value, but feeds a increasing irrational life perception that must make it miserable to spend time on this mortal coil. Personally I'm happy to celebrate with Jeff, the successes he digs up and passes on to us, with his learned, succinct, and pleasantly snarky reporting. Carry on Jeff!
Karmy, this brought tears to my eyes and happiness in my heart
If the birthright citizenship appeal doesn't work, I can't wait to see what card Trump plays next--because you know he's got something in mind. On thinking about it, his last name describes exactly what he does: trumps his opposition. š
Those Mexican billboards adds to Democratsā portfolio of polycrisis events. It makes the terrible Supreme Court decision look even more terrible and dumb. Trump will somehow leverage this into a win for America.
The irony of ironies where US citizens actually leave the country to give birth because it is too expensive to do it here.
Or get cancer tx they cant get or afford here. But. They don't stay there, right?
Yes, timing couldn't be better, only a week after, we get an "in your face" example of the peversity of the ruling!
Godās Will be done!
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Keeps the issue front of mind come midterms. Who do you trust for your employment security, personal security?
Unless that opposition is Iran.
It is not a thing congress can rectify without constitutional amendment, is it?
Michael, Yes Congress can make a law. Justice Kavanaughās statement laid out the roadmap. No constitutional amendment needed.
I would love Congress to do something about it but since passing the Big Beautiful Bill last summer, Congress has done very little of anything. They can't even get the SAVE Act through the Senate. Although it would take time, I'd like to see an amendment to the Constitution ratified using the second method that has never been tried.
I stamped my letter to Sen Thune. 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510. FLOOD him with very polite letters to PASS SAVE ACT.... just like Miracle on 34th Street.
Let's hope and pray. The ruling highlights a major problem with lawmaking. The letter of 14A practically mandates birthright citizenship, but the spirit of the amendment canāt possibly agree with that. If we assume the SCOTUS majority meant the nation no harm (an impossibly heavy assumption), we might agree with Emerson that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
A congressmen whose name I can't remember has introduced a bill that addresses the birthright citizenship issue. I haven't seen the contents yet.
I think it was Chip Roy.
Another great American killed by an illegal alien driving a tractor trailer that canāt read signs and doesnāt speak English. But the illegal worked for cheap!
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michael E. Pahira Jr., 44, was struck and killed on July 1, 2026. He was conducting a routine inspection of a commercial truck on the shoulder of Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, when another tractor-trailer drifted off the roadway and hit him.
The incredible thing is with the thousands and thousands killed by illegal aliens in all different ways, mostly violent, when you mention it to a communist democrat they say nothing as though they donāt care. All the democrats stayed seated at the state of the union address when Trump asked if Americans were more important than illegals, what more do you have to see?
Many in powerful government positions are simply addicted to cheap labor and cheap votes. Birthright citizenship is just another tool to keep Americans wages down. This country is addicted to cheap labor. I canāt tell you how many construction jobs Iāve lost to cheap uninsured under the table illegal labor.
My new neighbor has had work going on at her house for months. No one there but the business owner speaks English. My neighbor doesnāt care sheās saved thousands Iām sure. Iām glad the house is finally getting fixed up but every day I think of American blue collar workers that lost another job, its disgusting!
Living in a rural area, I found it convenient to order some things from Walmart online instead of driving into town. To my surprise, instead of shipping those items like amazon does, they started delivering orders by local drivers. Seemed fine until my orders were dropped off at a neighbors instead of my home so I had to go find them. After this happened multiple times, I called customer service. I had added detailed directions to my account that explains in simple terms how to locate my drive way. The customer service rep said, "Not to sound racist, but most of the drivers don't speak English." I won't order from them again, but I was impressed they admitted the reason for the botched deliveries! Not very reassuring to know that when I head out on the road, not everyone with a license can even read the street signs and warnings in English!
This fries me. I paid my car tabs before renewal. Got a letter today saying DMV wouldn't process my renewal (although they did cash the $76 check) because the car has to be insured. State wanted the company, expiration date and policy number. What the hell for? I told them I'm (still) insured, the ID cards are in the glove box, my wallet and the filing cabinet for ME when and if I'm in a wreck. You don't need ID to vote, you can deliver a foreign baby and win the US citizen lotto, but the State needs my insurance policy number? My. Aunt. Fanny.
Yep ..I work in interior design commercial design but also residential and I see the same thing that my clients prefer cheap labor over a licensed, insured, many time labor union worker. Itās not good.
āItās like second-grade Valentineās cards: All or none.ā - a LOL moment for me - thank you ;)
I like that rule.
When I was a kid, I disliked seeing my classmates, who werenāt popular, embarrassed by the few number of cards. I gave to everyone in class but there was no requirement to do so.
Yep, I had a flashback!
šyes!!
After years of looking at IRS non-profitsā 990ās, it is not unusual to see the head of these organizations receiving what many would consider an overly generous salary. It is a major feature of these groups and not an anomaly. Itās a giant money laundering scheme set up for the benefit of a few and sadly rarely for the benefit of their supposed mission. I stopped donating to most a long time ago. America, youāve been scammed.
Yes. Non-profit does not mean NO profit. It just means they can hide that profit in salaries and assets!
And no taxes.
The hospital in question above is run entirely by Indians. Naturally, it is in Texas, where phony baloney governor Heeeeyyyyy Aaaabbott is an entirely bought and paid servant of India and Pakistan. Well, wheelchairs are expensive, I guess, and he needs cash. He's destroyed multiple Texas towns which are now outposts of India.
Abbott constantly gives lip service to being such a great MAGA governor, while behind your back he does nothing but sell out his state.
The H-1B crackdown is way, way overdue. But it's only a small part of the story. There are all kinds of other visas that need to go (like H-1Bs bringing in their wives, parents, etc., and H-1Bs drop anchor babies almost immediately upon arrival). Millions of Indians have been made citizens since this nonsense started in the 1990s, and nothing is going to be done about them. We're stuck with them. At best we can stop the flow of new arrivals, but to date next to nothing has actually been done. Let's hope they mean it this time.
Don't even get me started on how the government literally paid for Indians to take over the small hotel industry in America. We have had an utterly traitorous government for decades, other than Trump. And the American corporate executive class are equally traitorous.
Holy Crap! Ā I was not surprised by your comment that "The hospital in question above is run entirely by Indians."... but had to see for myself... and I DID (... Almost - Unbelieveable!):
https://missionrmc.org/about-us/
"The purchase of Mission Regional Medical Center byĀ Prime Healthcare FoundationĀ would ensure the medical center continues its not-for-profit mission of providing quality care and superior service to the people of Hidalgo County, Starr County, and the surrounding communities."
https://www.primehealthcare.com/advocacy-community-partnerships-and-giving-back/prime-healthcare-foundation/"Led byĀ Dr. Kavitha BhatiaĀ as President and Chair, the Prime Healthcare Foundation, headquartered in Ontario, California, is a 501(c)(3) public charity that ownsĀ 21Ā not-for-profit community-based hospitals.
The Foundation consists of overĀ $1.8 billionĀ in assets all donated by Dr. Prem Reddy and his family."
(Now I kinda wonder how many of Prime & Mission Regional Medical'sĀ Doctors or nurses are here on H-1B visas Ā and how much correspondence it has to a prior post I made about IT work???):
Please encourage anyone interested in the H-1B visa issue(Industry) or connected to the Administration to consider promptly using EEOC to address "low hanging fruit": Ā
Countless small H-1B "job shops"/staffing companies (usually run by recent immigrants or originally H-1B visa holders themselves) exist through out the nation. Ā These companies surface business is IT/Computer Programmer Analysts; but what they really are is job shops hiring almost exclusively people on H1B visa and almost exclusively all from the same country of origin the owner is from (NOT the U.S.)... Ā It is mind numbing how EEOC has not looked at any of these companies employment rosters and said: Ā "Why do all the names on this list sound like everyone comes from India? Ā and then looked into it and found... They do all come from India. Ā 90%+ on H1B visas or OPT; rarely some on green cards... Ā Point being, it should be simple for them (EEOC) to prove employment discrimination OR at least bring the case and put a quick end to those engaged in such fraud.
Last week or so there was a story of a phony medical diploma mill operating in india(of course) and many of the supposedly credentialed medical practitioners from India arenāt real at all. Probably running these birthright hospitals and the hotels to keep the tourists in! Is Marco going to stop this H1B program? It would be an excellent beginning!
I'd like to see a review of every person living in the U.S. whose parents weren't born here.
Race matters
I have only 1 parent who wasnt born here. He was brought here as a refugee through the front door in 56 from Hungary by his mom at 9, learned English through TV cartoons and lost a year of school because no one helped him at all, never committed fraud or any other criminal act, worked an honest job, paid his bills, earned an education he paid for working ft at the same time, was one of the best landlords in our old neighborhood with the best accommodations, best service yet lowest terms in the area, and lost a job of 25 years in 2000 because his company decided to offshore American jobs to the DR and force him to train his replacement. He was in the last group let go because he was so competent. And he opposed illegal immigration and supported American workers. He died with severe TDS but then his brain had been dying for years prior and had always been a bit too obsessed with politeness even before that, so Trumps brashness was too much for him to hear anything else.
My mom is 100% American citizen though.
Abbott is a fraud which explains why Trump endorsed him!
From the beginning! As Gov of Texas he could have shut down the majority of the US border yet did NOTHING. He is theater!
I agree. From what I read he didnāt get tuff on the border until the year of the election.
A top tech bro lamented how poor schools were in CA producing kids that could use their products (think Instagram) but didn't have the educational background to actually make them. But then he cheerfully said they could just import their needs. This is why I am against the visas and glad the fees are so high.
But there are still American kids who CAN do the job and ARE well educated who were passed over for a foreigner. My son was careful and persistent, and in his new employee orientation class of 50 at Intel he was the only white guy. All the others were people from China, India, the Philippines, and a few American women. His coworker, hired at the same time on an H1-B visa, was hired at a higher salary and promoted earlier, in spite of the fact that my son had to coach him through preparing for meeting presentations.
His friends from high school had similar experiences. So itās not primarily a problem with the US education system.
I am just relaying what he said. I absolutely agree that our systems can still produce the best. The horror your son experienced I think is the result of Cultural Marxism which allows recent immigrants, who have done well, to sneer and say they are oppressed. I was baffled by the sentiment a few years ago. But after coming across the work of Rene Girard on scapegoating, I understand the mechanism. That is why I was a supporter of Vivek, when friends were skeptical. Knowing that he would've been taught to despise the US while taking all the benefits, his walking away from the mechanism showed to me he was an honorable man that believed in our system. And I loved the ads he did with his piano teacher who said she would talk to him about the Constitution. Harmeet Dhillon is another fabulous human being. I would love to see her on the Supreme Court.
I agree. I commented earlier about my nephew, bright child who did well in California schools, San Jose, Davis, and San Francisco, and was unable to find a job in the same place, San Jose, where he was born.
Mrs. RW
Our kids are too dumb to hold these jobs (and we're too dumb to want to change our education system, we'll just replace them) I see a pattern ...
Which is exactly what the Transnational gangsters/WEF want in their bid to destroy this country.
Same as saying "Americans won't do those jobs". Americans did do those jobs, except they made good wages. Remember the Meatpackers Union, who was destroyed in the 80s, and now slaughter houses are only staffed with illegals?
Same with farmworkers, and now they're starting on truck drivers.
Are they seriously going to tell us that Americans won't drive trucks??!!! I've got a list of country songs to say different.
Mrs. RW
Maybe they mean āfor the amount of money we pay foreignersā Americans want things like a living wage, days off, good working conditions ā¦
We have been SOLD the wrong VALUES. Cheap goods! But the real COSTS are hidden - for a while. Lost JOBS. Wages to raise a family! There is an effort to bring back PRODUCTION!
Yes, we have! And it is awesome! Nothing wrong with working an honest labor job.
I am torn. I will use the following anecdotes to explain why.
I took microcomputer design, bought books on programming and hardware design, bought parts in the 1970s but never caught on. It is however easier today to learn using the internet. I think many need a mentor to get started or they have to devote to a full time computer programming course.
I taught my son how to program a space game written in basic that I had first seen on a PDP 11 in the mid 70's. He preferred to keep playing his gameboy rather than learn a skill.
Our education systems needs improvement to encourage and support the learning of skills in both technical fields and in life skills(ie, if you want a good job when you graduate then you better have learned something useful).
I work with lots of immigrants who have come to Canada legally and they work their tushes off 16 hrs a day and do great work. They are part of the movers and shakers in our economy.
I hear from employers about employment lawsuits that they have to defend when letting an employee go. It is easier to hire a foreign worker who is unlikely to launch a lawsuit.
Work ethic is poor amongst young residents. As one contractor put it "I am lucky if one out of 5 summer students is worth a damn".
A work ethic IS a thing. So is a learning ethic.
I agree 100% Wise Old Woman :-)
Why is Israel being dragged into the comments again. Iām so sick and tired of the Israel bashing. Puhleeze, give it a rest for once
I wish we could talk about it without the bashing. The members of my family who are practicing Jews agree - this doesnāt seem right, but we canāt even talk about it civilly.
When you speak the truth about Israel you call it bashing but when truth is spoken about the middle east you don't. Strange.
Is it bashing or is there a real problem?
Itās bashing, frankly.
No it is not. Speaking the truth is not bashing.
Yeah, it is, as I guarantee that M Adams, and probably even yourself, have not taken one minute to read the one sentence in section 224. Here: https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf
Is too. Is not. Uh huh. Nuh uh.
505 pages? šššššš
Section 224 is on one page and is one sentence. Hopefully thatās not too much effort so that you actually know what youāve formed an opinion about.
It is a real problem. But many have digested propaganda for so long they cannot see the problems.
Maybe because they need to be exposed for exactly who and what they actually are
Yes please explain who and what they actually are. You must be one of those 'genocide' people. I'll repost a comment I poster a few months ago:
Did you ever try to understand that the people of Gaza elected Hamas? Did you ever wonder why Hamas built tunnels under schools and hospitals and loaded them with arms, missiles, and hostages? Did you ever wonder what Hamas was trying to accomplish on Oct. 7? Did you ever think about what happened to the delivered aid to the Gazans. Did you ever wonder where all of these weapons provided to Gaza came from? Did you ever wonder why the Hamas leaders lived in luxury apartments in Qatar while their constituents were being bombed and starved? Just some very simple questions that you don't appear to care about. Yes, yes I know. It's all of the Jews and the 'West's" fault
I get really triggered when people say Israel is committing "genocide" on Gaza like it's an undisputed fact. There were three genocides in 20th century:
Turkey against Armenian Christians
Germany against European Jews
Rwandan Hutus against Rwandan Tutsis.
In all those cases the aggressors were doing nearly everything in their power to kill every single member of the target group as quickly as possible. In all those cases they succeeded in killing over half of the target population.
About 3% of the population of Gaza has been killed in 2 and 3/4 years. About half of those deaths have been Hamas fighters, and those fighters have been actively shielding among civilians in an urban environment, for a 1:1 fighter to civilian ratio.
A 1:1 fighter to civilian ratio in an urban environment is generally considered reasonable, especially when the fighters are using the civilians as human shields.
Tucker Carlson is one of the people using the word Genocide. I hope he gets the afterlife he deserves, and I suspect it's not the one he's planning on.
I put out this post yesterday mostly concerning Carlson's views on the Butler assassination attempt. He thinks Israel was behind it.
https://skepticalactuary1348.substack.com/p/tucker-carlsons-view-of-butler
To be clear, I am not Jewish, nor do I think Israel is squeaky clean. I think Oct 7 was a LIHOP (let it happen on purpose), which was a horrible thing to do to its own people. The leadership let Oct 7 happen, and made sure its response was ridiculously slow to increase the bodycount and justify "war" against Hamas.
I do think Hamas in leadership in Gaza was a big problem for Israel, though.
Everything you wrote I believe is true - and almost never is in forefront of discussions/news. AND there is also a LOT of fomenting of hostilities - has been for decades; centuries by likes of certain other nation(s).
Thank you. The genocide clowns are a joke.
Why? What are they? Godās chosen people?
Israeli foreign minister thinks so: "for every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must cry. All of Lebanon must burn." They think they are God's chosen people and others are cattle.
Itās written right in the Bible
We just did to them what the Japanese did to us on Dec. 7, 1941. A surprise attack, using the excuse of being pre-emptive. They won't be getting over this within our lifetimes, and rightfully so. Millions of red flags are flying in Iran, which mean a call for blood revenge. Again, rightfully so. They may well withdraw from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, and get their own nukes. Again, who could blame them. Iran hasn't attacked anybody in 300 years. We attack other countries all the time. Israel has attacked 6 countries in the last 10 years, as per Grok. A clear-eyed, objective assessment of the countries involved is useful.
Wow, are you uninformed!! You should really research the facts a bit
"Florida outright banned illegals from attending Floridaās public colleges at all, regardless of tuition level, sparking outrage." - Why should we let them go to college? They're criminals by definition, and once they graduate, they can't get jobs anyway.
Common sense is making a comeback. The federal court strike against the Texas Dream Act is a good sign. Maybe MALDEF and the NAACP will appeal and open the door for the Supremes to revisit Plyler v. Doe. If in-state college tuition for foreigners is a taxpayer rip off, so is free K-12 education for illegal aliens.
Hey Guardian, I wanted to go to Oxford, but you wouldn't let me.... discrimination.
Also, British people are outraged? Throughout most of Europe, you are tested in high school or even at middle school age to determine whether you are on the university track or not. If not, you canāt take college prep courses and canāt go to university. People who did poorly in secondary school because they were in a bad home situation, or they didnāt deal with the āteenage angstā years well, or they matured late, etc. lose their chance to even try at university. To me, that sounds outrageously cruel.
Ha.. well actually those illegals can get jobs apparently
Not legally. Not in Florida
I see hospitals get very creative when it comes to business. They donāt seem to miss an opportunity to make a buck. During Covid they engaged in all sorts of shenanigans to maximize profits at the expense of their patients.
And killed people with their respirators and especially, remdesivir kickbacks.
Says an awful lot about a hospitalās priorities now doesnāt it?
That is the business model in healthcare and all corporationsā¦. Corp like corpse
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~William Shakespeare
ššš»šš Hope everyone has a wonderful day filled with hope and happiness. Donāt let the negativity in the world stop you from enjoying your life. Do what you can to make things better, but donāt let anything or anyone else overwhelm you with anger. Anger can be a dangerous emotion.
When I read about some idiot getting paid over $700,000 a year to head up a worthless organization it reinforces why the US is $40 trillion in debt. What really pisses me off is even with the Repubpukes āin chargeā spending continues to go up. It will be interesting to see what happens when nobody will buy our debt.
I don't think much of our debt is being bought by real people or entities right now.
"Interesting". As in: May you live in interesting times.
Mrs. RW
PS: We might be seeing what happens as the US flails around deeper and deeper into debt. Just the interest on the debt now is a trillion dollars a year.
The attacks on other countries might just be part of their plan. Start a world war, maybe the debt can be cancelled in the rubble.
As for China I wouldnāt pay them a penny on our debt. Theyāve stolen so much from the US, meddled in our elections, to the point of openly spying on our strategic military capabilities along with killing millions from the Wuhan Lab leak of deadly Covid virus!! They owe us if you ask me.
We must all pray for Godās Mercy that the Supreme Court reverses itself on birthright citizenship.
Regardless of whether there is a reversal (I doubt there will be one) this action fits Trumpās āfight, fight, fightā ethos. And this helps turn out Rās for the midterms. It (2nd denial) could also pave way for rollout of visa restrictions on pregnant women, or EO denying birth citizenship to those born to mothers in US on tourist visas. Then allow that to rise up to SCOTUS. Iād like to see SCOTUSā Roberts and Coney Barrett mental gymnastics to equate 14th Amendment citizenship allowances to births by foreigners on a tourist visas.