vdare--2020-11-13--Back To Open Borders?, Light In The Gloom, Europe Slowly Sinks , And Retreat From Kabul, Etc.

05m45s Light in the gloom ?
( A Biden Rush might help . )
17m50s The retreat from Kabul .
@ @ @ @ @ . )
23m38s Sad faces in the Kremlin .
( Elites really believe Russia-Russia .
@ @ @ @ @ Dog .
( Why do n't we have one ? )
33m28s Derbyshire moos .
@ @ @ @ @ Belper . )
36m47s Hillary feels better !
( After four years of teeth-grinding .
@ @ @ @ @ .
( Some words of encouragement . )

01m45s Back to open borders. (Biden's immigration policy.)
05m45s Light in the gloom? (A Biden Rush might help.)
12m32s Europe slowly sinks. (Britain too.)
17m50s The retreat from Kabul. (Trump fires his DefSec.)
23m38s Sad faces in the Kremlin. (Elites really believe Russia-Russia.)
29m47s Turkmenistan's National Dog. (Why don't we have one?)
33m28s Derbyshire moos. (Not much happens in Belper.)
36m47s Hillary feels better! (After four years of teeth-grinding.)
38m11s Toobin gets fired. (Some words of encouragement.)
39m31s Tot-tossing in France. (A passion for learning.)
41m22s Aussies grovel. (Cultural appropriation Down Under.)
43m41s Signoff. (O Valiant Hearts.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your iconoclastically genial host John Derbyshire.
The fog of battle surrounding the November 3rd election has cleared somewhat, but there are still uncertainties about the consequences. Plainly there was much more than the usual amount of skullduggery in the registering and counting of votes, and it all seems to have favored Joe Biden. Whether much of it can be dealt with in the courts; and whether, if it can, the judgments will be enough to swing the result back to Trump; these are open questions as I come to the mike here.
As best I can predict, we'll be looking at a Joe Biden inauguration in January. It's not certain, and I'm glad the President and his team are fighting for what's right—all strength to them. It's probable, though, and I base my commentary on that.
So what shall we get from a Biden administration? One thing we are sure to get is open borders.
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02—Back to open borders. As VDARE.com's correspondent Jack Dalton noted on Thursday, a Biden administration will go full-bore open borders, jumping to the whips cracked by cheap-labor business lobbies and anti-white ethnic grievance activists.
The dribble of reforms and improvements made by the Trump administration's executive orders will all be canceled. If we're lucky, the new stretches of border wall will not be dynamited; but no more will be built.
The Biden people are perfectly open about their intentions. CBS News ran a report on Tuesday, presumably sourced from Biden campaign insiders, spelling it all out.
The so-called "DREAMers," illegal aliens who claim to have been brought here as children, will get full resident-alien status, leading to citizenship.
The eleven, or twenty, or thirty million non-"DREAMer" illegal aliens living here—nobody really knows the number—will also be given permanent residence, likewise leading to citizenship.
There'll be a hundred-day freeze on deportations of illegals.
Illegals not targeted by ICE—that is, they are just here illegally but aren't suspected of any other criminality—won't be arrested.
The policy of requiring non-Mexican asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided will end.
The ban on entry from terrorist-friendly nations will end.
The Trump administration has negotiated agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allow us to send rejected asylum-seekers to those countries to argue their cases. The Biden administration will pull out of those agreements.
The public charge rules this administration has implemented to deny permanent residence to aliens using, or likely to use, government benefits, will be scrapped.
The limits on guest-worker visas imposed this spring will be lifted. In an ongoing pandemic with widespread unemployment, the gates will be opened to cheap foreign workers.
There will be huge increases in numbers of so-called "refugees."
Aliens given Temporary Protected Status, often decades ago, because of some crisis in their home countries, will not be forced to leave next March, as a court said they should be. "Temporary" will not, after all, mean temporary; it will mean permanent.
And so on. It's all deeply disheartening.
Are there any shafts of light in the gloom? I'll go looking for some. New segment …
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03—Light in the gloom? As I said, Biden's victory is very disheartening to those of us at VDARE.com and like-minded groups, who have been toiling away for years—for decades now—to bring the true facts about immigration to public attention, to expose the carefully-concocted blend of misty sentimentality and cold cash racketeering that guided the immigration policy of Presidents from LBJ to Barack Obama.
We advocate for a rational immigration policy: one to the advantage of American citizens in general, just as Japan's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Japanese citizens, just as Israel's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Israeli citizens. It can be done, as those nations have shown.
Immigration is not some kind of natural force against which resistance is futile, or immoral. It's just a policy, like tax rates, farm price supports, or how many aircraft carriers we need. Donald Trump was the first President in sixty years who seemed to understand that.
Now we're back to sentimentality and racketeering, to the delight of the Koch brothers, the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley billionaires, and the refugee resettlement scammers—but to the further impoverishment of the American middle class.
And while Trump has done much with executive actions and appeals to the courts, we shouldn't let him off the hook for his administration's failures. We've heard a lot about his problems finding staffers who are on board with his policies; yet when capable, reliable people were available—I'm thinking of Kris Kobach, Steve King, Jeff Sessions—they were discarded and humiliated by Trump, the jobs they should have had given to mediocrities and anti-Trumpers.
Above all there was that wasted two years when Trump's party controlled Congress. Real immigration reform needs legislation; legislation needs congressional action.
To be sure, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were much more interested in feeding their business-lobby donors with cheap foreign labor and virtue-signalling their anti-racist piety than in enacting Trump's policies; but with energy, determination, and the negotiating skills he boasts of, Trump might have gotten something done. He didn't even try.
The future, however, isn't completely dark. Quote from that CBS report on Biden's plans, quote:
While Mr Biden's team will have the legal authority to overturn Mr Trump's policies, Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), said it will not be an easy endeavor, given bureaucratic requirements, the ongoing COVID-19 emergency and the volume of changes implemented over the past four years.
[Inner quote from her.] "The Trump administration had an extraordinary preoccupation with immigration issues and they invested an enormous amount of attention and single-minded focus on immigration … An administration that wants to undo those changes would have to devote a similar amount of time and effort." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
If the lady is right, Trump's actions on immigration won't all be swept away with a stroke of the pen. Some of them may survive.
And then there's the Biden Rush. American voters may not give immigration the attention it deserves, but elsewhere in the world, interest is very keen. Hundreds of millions of people in crap-hole countries worldwide have been watching this recent election intensely. They believe a Biden administration will throw the borders wide open, and they are packing their bags to make their way to those open borders.
If this develops into a real human tide, as it well might, immigration will be front and center of the national consciousness, with strong public pressure to re-impose controls.
"Numbers are of the essence," said the great British immigration patriot Enoch Powell. Indeed they are; but the sheer stupendous numbers of people who want to come and live in America is the hardest thing to get across to ordinary voters.
With the encouragement of Biden and his people, those numbers may be clearly visible on our TV screens a few months from now … or perhaps in the run-up to the 2022 mid-terms.
This could get interesting.
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04—Europe slowly sinks. As a footnote to that, having mentioned Enoch Powell there, while immediate prospects for the U.S.A. are dark, for Britain and Western Europe the longer-term prospects are way darker.
In Britain's case, Brexit is a factor. Remember Brexit? In 2016 the Brits voted to leave the European Union. That was one of the two great populist-nationalist events of that year, the other of course being the election of Donald Trump.
Three and a half years of fussing and fudging followed, until at last, on January 31st this year, Britain did formally leave the EU.
Key word there: "formally." Britain's out of the EU but still subject to EU laws and regulations until the end of this year, December 31st. This eleven-month span from January 31st to December 31st, is the so-called "transition period," when details of future trade, customs, travel rules, and, yes, immigration are worked out.
So seven weeks from now, Britain will be really, truly, at last, finally, no more fudging, honest injun out of the EU. What will Britain's immigration rules then look like?
Incredibly, with severe lockdowns leading to soaring unemployment, with illegal immigration at levels that an independent inspector has told the government are, quote, "unsustainable," end quote, and with widespread housing shortages, incredibly the government wants to relax immigration controls.
You ready for the punch line? Britain's current ruling party is the Conservative Party!
The post-Brexit immigration rules were published three weeks ago. The changes that have gotten the most attention relate to work permits for skilled workers, like our own H-1B visas.
The cap on total numbers has been removed. Eligible skill levels have been lowered. The minimum salary on offer has been reduced … These post-Brexit rules are a cheapskate employer's wet dream, and of course a middle-class British worker's nightmare.
Last year here on Radio Derb I pooh-poohed the idea that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had any kind of a clue on the National Question. I didn't know the half of it. National Question-wise, this guy is worse than Tony Blair.
In Western Europe, as in the English Channel, the invasion quietly accelerates. Less than a hundred miles off the coast of West Africa lie the Canary Islands, which are Spanish territory. Their being Spanish means that an African who wants to live in Europe just has to cross that few miles of sea to the Canaries.
So far this year 11,000 have done so. Just last weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 2,000 Africans on 45 boats landed on the islands. The authorities have had to put them up in hotels, a thing the British have also had to resort to with illegal aliens crossing the Channel.
There is no strong will, in Britain or Western Europe, to do anything about this. The citizens of these countries seem determined on national suicide. Meanwhile living conditions in Africa get worse. Latest news: Civil war is breaking out in Ethiopia.
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05—The retreat from Kabul. President Trump fired his Defense Secretary on Monday. This was Mark Esper, who had held the job since July last year.
Prior to joining the administration three years ago, Esper was a lobbyist for big defense contractors. Did Trump know that when he appointed him? If you get elected President on an America First platform, why would you hire in a front man for the military-industrial complex, and then promote him to your cabinet? Just another Trump administration mystery we'll have to wait for the memoirs to clarify.
Anyway, Trump fired Esper on Monday. Major areas of discord seem to have been
Esper opposed using regular troops against the anarchist mobs trashing our cities this summer, and
He wants to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.
So good riddance to another lousy hire. Don't let the door hit ya, pal.
Esper's replacement is Christopher Miller, a counter-terrorism expert who won his credentials through thirty years in Special Ops actually fighting terrorists.
That's good work, but kind of ground level. For some loftier geostrategic perspective, Acting Defense Secretary Miller has hired in as senior adviser retired army Colonel Douglas Macgregor.
That's good news, or would be if this wasn't so late in the game. Macgregor is on record as believing a lot of what Radio Derb believes.
Pull our troops out of Afghanistan and close the embassy in Kabul.
We have zero national interest in Syria and should have nothing to do with the place.
Defending South Korea is a job for the South Koreans, not the United States. They have twice the population of North Korea and fifty times the GDP. Let them take care of their own defenses.
He thinks European countries have been too welcoming to, his actual words, "Muslim invaders."
And so on. That's gotten Colonel Macgregor tagged as "divisive" and "iconoclastic" by the media—another good sign. "Divisive"? I'm all for dividing off lobbyists for defense contractors and Middle East potentates from Americans who just want their country secure and prosperous, minding its own business.
I should add that Colonel Macgregor's boldest iconoclasm is his desire to get rid of the U.S. Marine Corps. Quote from him on that:
The Marines as currently organized and equipped are about as relevant as the Army's horse cavalry in the 1930s.
End quote.
That's not as outrageously iconoclastic as it sounds. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower both favored scrapping the Marine Corps. Both of them were, though, like Colonel Macgregor, Army veterans. Sharing a house as I do with another Army veteran, I can testify that some Army guys have … issues with the Marines. I'll just leave it at that and return to my main theme.
Which was, what? Oh yeah: sensible new policies on our World Policeman role.
Remember that this, along with patriotic immigration reform, these were the two issues that, more than any others, got Trump elected in 2016. The Clinton-Bush-Obama policies of "invade the world, invite the world" were out of favor with a huge segment of the voting population. Trump promised to end them.
In the event he didn't do much either of de-invading or de-inviting. The things he did do on immigration, Biden has promised to undo.
Will the same apply to policing the world? Will Biden send our troops back out policing after Trump has brought them home, assuming he can? I guess we'll find out.
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06—Sad faces in the Kremlin. Here's an old story from my Liverpool days. For background I need to explain that mid-20th-century Liverpool had two First Division football teams—that's soccer, of course—named Liverpool City and Everton.
Now Liverpool was almost as much an Irish city as an English one. It's just across the water from Ireland, so there was considerable Irish influence. That included sectarianism, strong Protestant and Catholic identities. One manifestation of that was in football. Liverpool City and its supporters skewed heavily Protestant; Everton were for the Catholics.
OK, the story. One year a derby was played, Liverpool against Everton. The result was a win for Liverpool. On a bus taking supporters home after the game, there was a glum little group of Everton supporters tasting the ashes of defeat. One of them was heard to say: "Sure, there'll be some sad faces in the Vatican tonight."
For some reason I had that story on my mind last weekend when the media declared that Trump had lost the election. The phrase my inner cynic came up with was: "Sure, there'll be some sad faces in the Kremlin tonight."
I hasten to explain that wasn't me thinking that; it was me guessing at what the anti-Trump Establishment were all thinking. Hadn't they been telling us for five years that Trump was Vladimir Putin's glove puppet?
So it would make sense for them to believe that Trump's loss would be Putin's loss. So, yes, according to them there should be some sad faces in the Kremlin.
I dismissed those thoughts as low and facetious. Surely Establishment progressives aren't that stupid?
I dismissed too soon. Here's a progressive tweeter labeled "Trump's Zombieland," November 11th, responding to the news about Colonel Macgregor's appointment and his wish to bring the troops home. Tweet:
Putin has called in all of Trump's carrot and stick IOUs. Trump has 2 months to make good on his end.
An America in shambles was a bonus for Putin. Giving Russia the Middle East was the payday that Putin bargained for.
What do you think all those Pentagon firings are about.
End tweet.
That is actually, really, the Establishment mindset. Putin put Trump in power by hacking the 2016 election. The Russians have kept him in power by similar shady means, and he's been obediently doing their bidding.
Now they're calling in their IOUs. Their endgame is to replace our influence in the Middle East with theirs.
Leaving aside that there is no evidence Russian hacking had any significant effect in 2016, and that the Trump administration has done Putin no favors—by, for example, lifting the sanctions that followed the 2014 annexation of the Crimea—I wish someone in the Establishment would explain a few things they have never bothered to explain. Like:
Why is influence in the Middle East such a big prize? We don't even need their oil any more.
Is chasing Muslim fanatics around the Hindu Kush for twenty years really a good way to spend our national resources, and the lives of our soldiers?
Russia's population is less than half of ours, and declining. That's spread across a land area close to twice of ours. They have no economy to speak of, other than pulling oil and gas out of the ground. Their society is a swamp of crime, corruption, and alcoholism. I should fear Russia as a threat or a rival to the U.S.A. … why?
If it's loud, open, and plausible rivalry I should worry about, doesn't China outweigh Russia by a factor of at least ten?
If that tweeter, or some other Establishment shill, wants to address those questions, I'm all ears.
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07—Turkmenistan's National Dog. Here's an item from — yes!—Turkmenistan.
You know how your state has a state song, a state bird, a state flower, and so on? Well, Turkmenistan has a national dog: the Alabay, described here as "a home-bred Turkmen variety of the Central Asian shepherd dog."
It's quite a handsome critter, the Alabay. "Strong and fearless. Independent, freedom-loving and confident," says this website I'm looking at. "Body heavy, huge, balanced and muscular … Weight 40 to 80 pounds." That's a big dog.
No surprise, given all that, to learn that Turkmenistan's strong, fearless, balanced and muscular president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, patron and friend of Radio Derb, is also a big fan of the Alabay. Last year he wrote a book about it, to unanimous acclaim from Turkmenistan's literary critics.
On Tuesday last President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov accorded the breed a further honor, unveiling a golden (actually, of course, gilt) statue of an Alabay in the center of the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat.
The statue is hard to miss: It's nineteen feet high, on top of a plinth thirty feet high, in a residential area of the city inhabited by government workers.
The BBC, reporting on this in its usual snooty style, still burning with resentment at the loss of Britain's empire, honked that, honk:
Despite the grandeur of the statue, much of Turkmenistan's population is impoverished. The country is ranked one of the least free in the world by press freedom organisation RSF, just one place above North Korea.
End honk.
Yeah, right, Sir Humphrey. Whatever. Here's one statue that, unlike yours and ours, won't be daubed with anarchist slogans, or pulled off its plinth by a jeering mob—not while President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is there to protect it.
Long live President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov! Long live the noble republic of Turkmenistan!
[Clip: Turkmen national anthem.]
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08—Derbyshire moos. Derbyshire, as well as being the surname of your genial host, is also the name of an English county, one of the 39 historic counties in the mother country. It's a bit of a backwater: rural and hilly, no great centers of power, wealth, or influence, not much industry. The busier, smokier counties to its north and west regard Derbyshire folk as gap-toothed bumpkins.
Derbyshire born,
Derbyshire bred:
Strong in the arm —
Weak in the head.
I hasten to say that other than sharing its name, I have nothing to do with Derbyshire, and have no gaps in my teeth. I have only been in Derbyshire twice, briefly on business both times. That doesn't stop Radio Derb listeners sending me news items about Derbyshire, usually items that reinforce the bumpkin stereotype.
Here's one such. This is a story from BBC News, November 7th, headline: Belper's mass moo returns for second lockdown.
Belper is a small town a few miles north of Derby. There was a coronavirus lockdown there from March to June. To keep up their spirits, the townspeople organized a daily moo. That's "moo" as in, the sound made by a cow. At 6:30 every evening they would stand on their doorsteps or lean out of their windows and moo for two minutes.
Quote from the BBC story:
Back in April, resident Isabel Kennedy said the moo had become "the highlight of my day."
End quote. Are you getting the impression that not a lot happens in Belper?
The lockdown was suspended in June as the pandemic ebbed. Now the virus is coming back and another lockdown has been ordered; so the good people of Belper are warming up to resume their daily moo.
That's the latest moos from Derbyshire.
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09—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Contemplating President Trump's defeat, Hillary Clinton told an interviewer that, quote:
I am feeling better than I have felt in four years
End quote.
Can you imagine taking politics so seriously you've been out of sorts for four years over losing a race? Well, if you're female you probably can. As I've noted before, quote from me:
Women take things a whole lot more personally than men do.
End quote.
I do understand, though, how galling it must be for Mrs Clinton, after devoting all those years to being some guy's wife with opinions out of the Wellesley College Progressive Student's Handbook, 1968 edition, to lose an election to a political nobody out of right field — a guy who made his fortune in, eiuw, business.
I'm glad you're feeling better, Hillary.
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Item: I mentioned in the podcast three weeks ago the case of Jeffrey Toobin, star writer at New Yorker magazine. Toobin was caught jerkin' the gherkin when he thought he was off-camera on a Zoom conference. The magazine suspended him pounding … I'm sorry: pending, pending an investigation.
Wednesday this week the New Yorker announced the investigation was complete and Toobin had been fired.
It's a sad story … but not all that sad. I'm here to assure Mr Toobin that getting dumped by a prestigious magazine is not the end of the world. He's a smart guy, and only sixty years old—a spring chicken. If he can't get work in the magazine business, he's still young enough to adapt and change careers. A guy as capable as Toobin should be able to turn his hand to anything.
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Item: Very little remains of my high-school French. I only did one year of it, then I switched to German as being more mathy and sciencey. I can still construe "La plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle," but beyond that all is mystery.
I therefore had to resort to Google Translate for this one: "Je ne lance pas mes enfants par-dessus le portail." That, according to Google, means: "I don't throw my children over the gate."
The story here concerns Trillade primary school in Avignon, southern France. The school is surrounded by a six-foot fence with a six-foot gate in it. At precisely 8:30 a.m. the gate is closed and locked. Local parents who missed the deadline had been throwing their kids over the gate into the schoolyard. So to discourage this practice, the school has posted a big sign outside saying "Je ne lance pas mes enfants par-dessus le portail."
I think I did the right thing switching to German. Ich werfe meine Kinder nicht über das Tor.
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Item: From even further afield, here is a once-proud nation of pioneers, adventurers, yeoman farmers, and … well, OK, convicts, all bending over and grabbing their ankles in self-abasement at the demand of social activists.
Yes, this is Australia. The postal service down there is running a campaign to get people writing the aboriginal names of cities and districts when they address a letter or parcel. So instead of addressing your Christmas card to Sydney, you write it as "Eora"; Melbourne should be "Woiworung"; for Brisbane you should write "Yuggera"; and so on.
Aboriginal activist Rachael McPhail—who, by the way, looks about as aboriginal as I do—started the campaign on social media in August, telling us that aboriginal people had lived in Australia for at least 60,000 years.
Well, that's nice. In all those 60,000 years, however, aborigines never developed any kind of writing system; so by imposing our Latin alphabet on their precious place-names, aren't they committing an act of cultural appropriation?
Come to think of it, aborigines never, in those 60,000 years, developed a postal service. Nor did they develop agriculture, enabling their people to feed themselves up to the size of Ms McPhail, who I would judge weighs north of 300 lbs. These things were all gifts of the white man.
You're welcome, Ma'am.
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10—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and particular thanks, in this week of Veterans' Day, to any veterans among the Radio Derb listenership.
As is customary at this time of year, I shall play us out with what is, in my opinion, the loveliest of all hymns appropriate to Veterans' Day—or, as I was brought up to call it, Remembrance Day. Here is the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, singing "O Valiant Hearts."
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, "O Valiant Hearts."]


vdare--2020-11-13--SAID IN SPANISH: Mexico’s AMLO Still Hasn’t Congratulated Biden. Maybe He Knows Something About Vote

SAID IN SPANISH: Mexico’s AMLO Still Hasn’t Congratulated Biden. Maybe He Knows Something About Vote Fraud

After the Leftist Mainstream Media declared Biden “ president-elect , ” foreign leaders rushed to congratulate him .
But absent from the honking gaggle of global geese : Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador .
Indeed , as of this writing , despite chances at three news conferences , AMLO still has yet to congratulate Biden .
He continues to speak well of President Trump and says he won ’ t recognize a president-elect until it ’ s official .
In other words , AMLO has more respect for the American electoral process than many Americans , not least Treason-Lobby @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worthies of the MSM .
It ’ s the latest twist in Trump ’ s surprising ( to some ) rapprochement with Mexico .
Among those who think/ hope Trump will depart the White House on January 20 • His British counterpart Boris Johnson , now known as BoJo ; • French President Emmanuel Macron , who married his high-school teacher ; and [ Here are the world leaders who congratulated Joe Biden , by Jennifer Hansler and Nicole Gaouette , CNN , November 11 , 2020 ] .
But not AMLO .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ about ballot rigging .
Or because he knows it stings when the kudos arrive before all the votes are counted .
In 2006 , he explained at his morning presser on November 7 , during his contested election against Felipe Calderon Spain ’ s prime minister congratulated eventual winner Calderon before the legal process was complete [ Conferencia de prensa encabezada por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( “ Press Conference of President Andres Manuela Lopez Obrador ” ) , Gob.mx , November 7 , 2020 ] .
As The Los Angeles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silly “ AMLO-blundered ” headline : Following his narrow loss in the 2006 presidential balloting , López Obrador mounted a protracted protest campaign alleging fraud that sent tens of thousands of supporters into the streets and shut down much of the capital for weeks .
It was for naught : His conservative rival , Felipe Calderón , was declared the winner .
As president , López Obrador has labelled Mexico during Calderón ’ s leadership as a corrupt “ narco-state.
” On Saturday , López Obrador recalled with indignation how José Luis R. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , recognized Calderón ’ s 2006 victory before certification of the final count .
“ We don ’ t want to do the same thing , ” López Obrador said .
[ As the world congratulates Biden , Mexico ’ s president opts to wait .
Critics call it a diplomatic blunder , by Patrick J. O ’ Donnell , November 8 , 2020 ] .
AMLO ’ s reticence to jump on the Biden Bandwagon invited criticism from Democrats in the U.S. , among them Hispanic activist Joaquin Castro—no relation to Fidel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Foreign Affairs Committee ’ s oversight subcommittee—who called it a “ stunning diplomatic failure [ Latino Democrats tell Mexican president to get with the program and back Biden , by Anthony Esposito , Reuters , November 8 , 2020 ] .
On November 9 , Mexican reporters raised the subject again .
What about “ this controversy resulting from the fact that you have still not recognized Joe Biden as president-elect ?
” one asked .
AMLO replied : Citing the Mexican Constitution , AMLO explained that his country ’ s “ foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of non-interventionism and self-determination of the peoples ” : “ We do not want to get mixed up in the politics of other countries , of other nations .
We have to be respectful of the decisions that other peoples take , that foreign governments take .
This does not mean that we are against or in favor of anyone .
… We don ’ t want foreign interference in our affairs .
Mexico is an independent , free and sovereign country .
Thus , we are not in favor of any party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a very good relationship with the government of President Donald Trump , because it has been a relationship of respect , of non-intervention.
” AMLO insisted that Mexico is neutral .
It has nothing against Biden or the Democrats , but neither does it oppose the GOP .
“ We are the party of Mexico , ” he concluded .
“ That is our party.
” Then , as he has so often done , he complimented President Trump : “ He never took a decision without consulting us and always respected us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discussed the 38 million Mexican-Americans in our country .
( Mexicans consider them Mexicans , even if they are born in the U.S ) .
“ Some voted for one party , others voted for another party , ” he explained , which is axiomatic but apparently requires explanation for the Mexican MSM , which is as Leftist as the American MSM .
He also acknowledged that Mexico ’ s government backed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016 , an admission of foreign “ collusion ” that the Hate-Trump MSM ignored because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That segued naturally into the next subject .
Despite AMLO ’ s seeming disinterest in who takes the oath on January 20 , he warned the incoming Biden-Harris regime about meddling in Mexico : “ We will not permit what President Calderon permitted , the introduction of weapons in the secret Fast and Furious operation.
” Then , remarkably , he bashed anti-Trump censorship in the U.S. , which including social media silencing Trump himself : AMLO seems more concerned about tech censorship than your typical Republican .
Then came another news conference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given the chance to acknowledge Biden ’ s putative victory , AMLO punted [ Versión estenográfica .
Conferencia de prensa del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador del 11 de noviembre de 2020 ( Press Conference of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , Gob.mx , November 11 , 2020 ] !
AMLO spoke about the USMCA , the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement ( T-MEC in Spanish ) Trump negotiated to replace NAFTA .
AMLO ’ s predecessor Pena Nieto signed the USMCA , but AMLO also backs it .
It “ benefits Mexico , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our independence , our sovereignty.
” Reporters brought up Biden again , but AMLO remained firm , and instead turned the subject to … censorship in the United States : “ Some days ago I commented that I didn ’ t like what they did in the United States , with all respect , with all respect .
The censorship , how ?
To turn off the television because someone is talking , to turn off the radio ?
In the United States , that has defended the freedom of expression so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the freedom of the press .
That had never happened before.
” And why fear people talking ?
Why shut them down ?
Let them , anybody , let the people be the one to decide if they like it or not .
Why censor ?
” Let ’ s make this guy CEO of Twitter !
Or Fox !
I ’ ve written about AMLO on VDARE.com for years .
In 2006 , I said he was no threat to us , despite his Leftist credentials : “ If we had a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it would n't matter a hill of beans what any Mexican president said or did about our immigration policy.
” That was 14 years ago .
Two years ago , AMLO became president of Mexico and forged a fast friendship and good working relationship with Trump — the man , the MSM repeatedly told us , who hated Mexico and Mexicans .
But if that ’ s true , why has AMLO repeatedly refused to criticize him—and why has AMLO stanched the flow of Central American illegals through Mexico to our southern frontier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ College has spoken on December 14 to congratulate Biden ?
No one can say .
But in refusing to do so now , he has shown more respect for Trump than our own elected leaders !
It ’ s all a credit to Trump .
But he won ’ t get credit for it .
American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard .
His VDARE.COM articles are archived here ; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

After the Leftist Mainstream Media declared Biden “president-elect,” foreign leaders rushed to congratulate him. But absent from the honking gaggle of global geese: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Indeed, as of this writing, despite chances at three news conferences, AMLO still has yet to congratulate Biden. He continues to speak well of President Trump and says he won’t recognize a president-elect until it’s official. In other words, AMLO has more respect for the American electoral process than many Americans, not least Treason-Lobby Democrats, NeverTrump Republicans, and the worthies of the MSM. It’s the latest twist in Trump’s surprising (to some) rapprochement with Mexico.
Among those who think/ hope Trump will depart the White House on January 20:
[Here are the world leaders who congratulated Joe Biden, by Jennifer Hansler and Nicole Gaouette, CNN, November 11, 2020]
But not AMLO. Perhaps that’s because he knows about ballot rigging. Or because he knows it stings when the kudos arrive before all the votes are counted.
In a press conference on November 7, AMLO explained that in 2006, during his contested election against Felipe Calderon, Spain’s prime minister congratulated eventual winner Calderon before the legal process was complete [Conferencia de prensa encabezada por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“Press Conference of President Andres Manuela Lopez Obrador”), Gob.mx, November 7, 2020].
As the Los Angeles Times reported in the story below its silly “AMLO-blundered” headline:
Following his narrow loss in the 2006 presidential balloting, López Obrador mounted a protracted protest campaign alleging fraud that sent tens of thousands of supporters into the streets and shut down much of the capital for weeks. It was for naught: His conservative rival, Felipe Calderón, was declared the winner. As president, López Obrador has labelled Mexico during Calderón’s leadership as a corrupt “narco-state.” On Saturday, López Obrador recalled with indignation how José Luis R. Zapatero, then the Spanish prime minister, recognized Calderón’s 2006 victory before certification of the final count. “We don’t want to do the same thing,” López Obrador said. [As the world congratulates Biden, Mexico’s president opts to wait. Critics call it a diplomatic blunder, by Patrick J. O’Donnell, November 8, 2020].
AMLO’s reticence to jump on the Biden Bandwagon invited criticism from Democrats in the U.S., among them Hispanic activist Joaquin Castro—no known close relation to Fidel but head of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee’s oversight subcommittee—who called it a “stunning diplomatic failure" [Latino Democrats tell Mexican president to get with the program and back Biden, by Anthony Esposito, Reuters, November 8, 2020].
A “stunning” failure? Really?
On November 9, at a press conference, the subject was raised again.
What about “this controversy resulting from the fact that you have still not recognized Joe Biden as president-elect?” a reporter asked. AMLO replied:
“I want to make it clear, I want to inform the people of Mexico that, in reference to the U.S. elections, the position of the government that I represent is to wait for the authorities of the United States in charge of the electoral process to decide the winner of the presidency. We cannot act in an imprudent manner.” [Conferencia de prensa del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador del 9 de noviembre de 2020 (“Press Conference of President Andres Manuela Lopez Obrador”), Gob.mx, November 9, 2020]
Citing the Mexican Constitution, AMLO explained that his country’s “foreign policy should be guided by the principles of non-interventionism and self-determination of the peoples”:
“We do not want to get mixed up in the politics of other countries, of other nations. We have to be respectful of the decisions that other peoples take, that foreign governments take. This does not mean that we are against or in favor of anyone. … We don’t want foreign interference in our affairs. Mexico is an independent, free and sovereign country. Thus, we are not in favor of any party in the United States. We have a very good relationship with the government of President Donald Trump, because it has been a relationship of respect, of non-intervention.”
AMLO insisted that Mexico is neutral. It has nothing against Biden or the Democrats, but neither does it oppose the GOP.
“We are the party of Mexico,” he concluded. “That is our party.”
Then, as he has so often done, he complimented President Trump: “He never took a decision without consulting us and always respected us, he always respected us.”
AMLO discussed the 38 million Mexican-Americans in our country. (Mexicans consider them Mexicans, even if they are born in the U.S). “Some voted for one party, others voted for another party,” he explained, which is axiomatic but apparently requires explanation for the Mexican MSM, which is as Leftist as the American MSM.
He also acknowledged that Mexico’s government backed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016, an admission of foreign “collusion” that the Hate-Trump MSM ignored because it was on a Russian snipe hunt.
That segued naturally into the next subject.
Despite AMLO’s seeming disinterest in who takes the oath on January 20, he warned the probable incoming Biden-Harris regime about meddling in Mexico: “We will not permit what President Calderon permitted, the introduction of weapons in the secret Fast and Furious operation.”
Uh-oh.
Then, remarkably, he bashed anti-Trump censorship in the U.S., which including social media silencing Trump himself:
“That’s another interesting topic of what is occurring in the United States. How is that … in the country of liberty, of the free press, that suddenly they censor the president? That hadn’t been seen before, the media censoring. I’m talking about the United States, because we’re used to it in Mexico. We were censored, we didn’t exist, here it’s not a novelty. But in the case of the United States what happened is something special, on the internet and then the big channels, the major informative media. And what about liberties?”
AMLO seems more concerned about tech censorship than your typical Republican.
Then came another news conference on November 11, and again, given the chance to acknowledge Biden’s putative victory, AMLO punted [Versión estenográfica. Conferencia de prensa del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador del 11 de noviembre de 2020 (Press Conference of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Gob.mx, November 11, 2020]!
AMLO spoke about the USMCA, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (T-MEC in Spanish) Trump negotiated to replace NAFTA. AMLO’s predecessor Pena Nieto signed the USMCA, but AMLO also backs it. It “benefits Mexico,” he said, “but without ceding our independence, our sovereignty.”
Reporters brought up Biden again, but AMLO remained firm, and instead turned the subject to … censorship in the United States:
“Some days ago I commented that I didn’t like what they did in the United States, with all respect, with all respect. The censorship, how? To turn off the television because someone is talking, to turn off the radio? In the United States, that has defended the freedom of expression so much, one of the fundamental liberties, the freedom of the press. That had never happened before.” And why fear people talking? Why shut them down? Let them, anybody, let the people be the one to decide if they like it or not. Why censor?”
Let’s make this guy CEO of Twitter! Or Fox!
I’ve written about AMLO on VDARE.com for years. In 2006, I said he was no threat to us, despite his Leftist credentials: “If we had a pro-sovereignty, pro-American government in Washington, it wouldn't matter a hill of beans what any Mexican president said or did about our immigration policy.”
That was 14 years ago. Two years ago, AMLO became president of Mexico and forged a fast friendship and good working relationship with Trump — the man, the MSM repeatedly told us, who hated Mexico and Mexicans. But if that’s true, why has AMLO repeatedly refused to criticize him—and why has AMLO stanched the flow of Central American illegals through Mexico to our southern frontier?
Will AMLO wait until the Electoral College has spoken on December 14 to congratulate Biden? No one can say. But in refusing to do so now, he has shown more respect for Trump than our own elected leaders!
It’s all a credit to Trump. But he won’t get credit for it.
Instead, it’s AMLO’s “blunder.”
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-11-13--Biden's "Transition Chief" Thinks the U.S. Has Too Much Free Speech, Wants to Change That

So who is this person ?
And what did he write ?
So who defines `` speech that incites hate @ @ @ @ @ diplomats now authorized experts on the U.S. Constitution ?
Stengel says such speech `` can @ @ @ @ @ against another '' .
But the group perpetrating the violence is not the one exercising @ @ @ @ @ Muslims have veto power over what people in our society say about Islam ?
Here @ @ @ @ @ thing again .
What about all the false narratives spread by our own Mainstream Media @ @ @ @ @ them .
Even Stengel admits that `` there 's no agreed-upon definition of what hate @ @ @ @ @ That makes it a weapon to be used by a dominant group to shut out @ @ @ @ @ .
What about the anti-white rhetoric so common today ?
Would that be covered ?
@ @ @ @ @ speech and we need to do it now before we lose it .

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team leader for US-owned media outlets wants to redefine freedom of speech and make “hate speech” a crime.
[Joe Biden transition official wrote op-ed advocating free speech restrictions, by Steven Nelson, New York Post, November 13, 2020]
So who is this person?
Richard Stengel is the Biden transition “Team Lead” for the US Agency for Global Media, the US government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
And what did he write?
Stengel, an Obama administration alumnus, wrote last year in a Washington Post op-ed that US freedom of speech was too unfettered and that changes must be considered. He wrote: “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate.”
So who defines "speech that incites hate"?
Stengel offered two examples of speech that he has an issue with: Quran burning and circulation of “false narratives” by Russia during the 2016 election.
Regarding Quran burning
“Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?” Stengel wrote.
So are Arab diplomats now authorized experts on the U.S. Constitution?
“It’s a fair question. Yes, the First Amendment protects the ‘thought that we hate,’ but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another. In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw.”
Stengel says such speech "can cause violence by one group against another." But the group perpetrating the violence is not the one exercising the free speech.
Should Muslims have veto power over what people in our society say about Islam?
Stengel wrote that “our foremost liberty also protects any bad actors who hide behind it to weaken our society,” adding, “Russian agents assumed fake identities, promulgated false narratives and spread lies on Twitter and Facebook, all protected by the First Amendment.”
Here we go with the Russia thing again.
What about all the false narratives spread by our own Mainstream Media? Stengel doesn't mention them.
Stengel until recently worked as a paid MSNBC contributor. He led the National Constitution Center from 2004 to 2006, and was undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2014 to 2016 during the final years of the Obama administration. So a guy with this opinion was running the National Constitution Center? Did he believe what he believes now about free speech?
“Since World War II, many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred. These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation,” Stengel wrote.
Even Stengel admits that "there's no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is." That makes it a weapon to be used by a dominant group to shut out speech by a less-dominant group.
“I think it’s time to consider these statutes. The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites ‘imminent lawless action’ or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn’t pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?”
What about the anti-white rhetoric so common today? Would that be covered?
We need to defend free speech and we need to do it now before we lose it.


vdare--2020-11-10--Right In Time For Senate Runoffs, GA GOP Endorses Immigration Moratorium

Lost in the Summer of George Floyd Riots was an incredibly important bit of news out of Georgia , where the Platform of the Georgia Republican Party went full VDARE.com and called for a full immigration moratorium : The Georgia Republican Party is set to pass a resolution asking President Trump to impose a full immigration moratorium while about 30 million Americans remain jobless due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis .
In April , Trump signed an executive order pausing employment-based green cards — a narrow portion of overall immigration that accounts for less than ten percent .
Since then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and college student groups have urged Trump to halt the inflow of H-1B visas , H-2B visas , OPT visas , L-1 visas , and the J-1 visa program .
Now , the Georgia GOP is set to be the first state party to support a full immigration moratorium .
Currently , Georgia has an unemployment rate of nearly 12 percent — only slightly lower than the national average .
WHEREAS , President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order limiting immigration into our country during the present health and economic crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BE IT RESOLVED that the Georgia Republican Party commends and supports President Donald J. Trump ’ s leadership in protecting American jobs during the pandemic by restricting immigration during the present health and economic crisis .
[ Emphasis added ] BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Georgia Republican Party urges President Trump to issue a second executive order that removes the various special interest exceptions to the first executive order and shall strictly limit new immigration visas until the economy reaches its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of no greater than 3.5 percent .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this week , the urge for an immigration moratorium has overwhelming support , about 93 percent , from members who responded to a poll of party delegates .
The resolution is the first time in recent memory that a state Republican Party has joined the overwhelming majority of the GOP electorate in supporting reductions and a halt on immigration .
[ Georgia GOP Urges for Full Immigration Moratorium with Millions Jobless , by John Binder , Breitbart.com , June 16 , 2020 ] The good news is I can confirm the resolution passed—it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP website [ https : //gagop.org/2020resolutions ] put there by GA GOP Vice-Chair Brant Frost .
Also note point 14 of the GA GOP platform : • We believe that immigration policies and laws should be written to promote the interests of the American people as a whole rather than any particular special interest group .
One party wants to totally open up America ’ s borders , engage in unilateral amnesty for the 25-30 million illegal aliens in the USA and enable mass refugee resettlement ; and as we can see from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political party appears ready to fight for the Historic American Nation .
As 2020 comes to a close , with uncertainty still surrounding the outcome of the 2020 POTUS election ( and an early 2021 runoff for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia ) , let us find hope in knowing American patriots having finally started to salvage something out of the wreck of this great republic .
Introducing the concept of a total immigration moratorium as a resolution for the state GOP is a powerful reminder the good people who vote Republican @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state become just another Colorado , California , or Virginia .
Surrendering to the Left means losing not just your country , but your freedoms .
The only way to fight this is with an immigration moratorium , so the Left ca n't import millions to disenfranchise you today and enact laws to ensure your children have no tomorrow .
For our posterity , indeed .

Lost in the Summer of George Floyd Riots was an incredibly important bit of news out of Georgia, where the Platform of the Georgia Republican Party went full VDARE.com and called for a full immigration moratorium:
The Georgia Republican Party is set to pass a resolution asking President Trump to impose a full immigration moratorium while about 30 million Americans remain jobless due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. In April, Trump signed an executive order pausing employment-based green cards—a narrow portion of overall immigration that accounts for less than ten percent. Since then, grassroots activists with American worker advocates and college student groups have urged Trump to halt the inflow of H-1B visas, H-2B visas, OPT visas, L-1 visas, and the J-1 visa program. Now, the Georgia GOP is set to be the first state party to support a full immigration moratorium. Currently, Georgia has an unemployment rate of nearly 12 percent—only slightly lower than the national average. The resolution states: A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROTECT AMERICAN JOBS WHEREAS, President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order limiting immigration into our country during the present health and economic crisis; [Emphasis added] NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Georgia Republican Party commends and supports President Donald J. Trump’s leadership in protecting American jobs during the pandemic by restricting immigration during the present health and economic crisis. [Emphasis added] BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Georgia Republican Party urges President Trump to issue a second executive order that removes the various special interest exceptions to the first executive order and shall strictly limit new immigration visas until the economy reaches its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of no greater than 3.5 percent. [Emphasis added] Set to be passed this week, the urge for an immigration moratorium has overwhelming support, about 93 percent, from members who responded to a poll of party delegates. The resolution is the first time in recent memory that a state Republican Party has joined the overwhelming majority of the GOP electorate in supporting reductions and a halt on immigration. [Georgia GOP Urges for Full Immigration Moratorium with Millions Jobless, by John Binder, Breitbart.com, June 16, 2020]
The good news is I can confirm the resolution passed—it can be seen on the official Georgia GOP website [https://gagop.org/2020resolutions] put there by GA GOP Vice-Chair Brant Frost. Also note point 14 of the GA GOP platform:
We believe that immigration policies and laws should be written to promote the interests of the American people as a whole rather than any particular special interest group.
One party wants to totally open up America’s borders, engage in unilateral amnesty for the 25-30 million illegal aliens in the USA and enable mass refugee resettlement; and as we can see from the GOP in Georgia, the other political party appears ready to fight for the Historic American Nation.
As 2020 comes to a close, with uncertainty still surrounding the outcome of the 2020 POTUS election (and an early 2021 runoff for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia), let us find hope in knowing American patriots having finally started to salvage something out of the wreck of this great republic.
Introducing the concept of a total immigration moratorium as a resolution for the state GOP is a powerful reminder the good people who vote Republican don’t want to see their state become just another Colorado, California, or Virginia.
Surrendering to the Left means losing not just your country, but your freedoms. The only way to fight this is with an immigration moratorium, so the Left can't import millions to disenfranchise you today and enact laws to ensure your children have no tomorrow.
For our posterity, indeed.


vdare--2020-11-13--GOP Always Surrenders To Voter Fraud—Example: Carter Vs. Ford, New York State,  1976

Earlier , by Ann Coulter : The Democrats ’ Guide to Losing Gracefully In her recent article , Ann Coulter noted that Democrats always cry foul when beaten honestly , but the GOP always surrenders gracefully when the Democrats try to steal something .
One example was Of course , that 's from the Democrats ' point of view .
But if there 's one man who could be counted on to surrender gracefully , it was Gerald Ford , who surrendered over the 1965 Immigration Act , the Vietnam War , Watergate , Affirmative Action , Amnesty ( for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1976 election .
Republican journalist Victor Lasky wrote in Jimmy Carter , The Man And The Myth , And so , finally , in the bicentennial year of 1976 , the American people went to the polls .
Not all who were entitled to vote , however , did so .
Just 54.4 percent of the 150 million eligible , the lowest election turnout since Truman edged Dewey in 1948 .
Carter won the electoral vote 297 to 241 , the popular vote 40.8 million to Ford 's 39.1 million .
Ford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But he needed five or six .
Had Ford carried New York with its 41 electoral votes , he would have won the election .
But he lost the Empire State by 289,000 votes .
And though New York Republicans were prepared to demand the impoundment of all the voting machines because of suspected irregularities , the White House decided the Democrats could n't have pilfered all those votes .
You can see the story G.O.P .
WITHDRAWS SUIT ON BALLOTS IN NEW YORK , November 4 , 1976 , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position seems to have been that there were too many votes for them to have been all stolen , a position Steve Sailer mocked here much more recently : The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination : a “ political machine ” if you can imagine such a thing .
But , of course , political machines don ’ t exist .
NYT : Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'Political Machine , ' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept , November 7 , 2020 Sometimes it feels like Republican political machines either do n't exist , or they 're controlled by the other side .

Earlier, by Ann Coulter: The Democrats’ Guide to Losing Gracefully
In her recent article, Ann Coulter noted that Democrats always cry foul when beaten honestly, but the GOP always surrenders gracefully when the Democrats try to steal something.
One example was
1976: Carter won—FAIR ELECTION, CLEAN AS A WHISTLE!!
Of course, that's from the Democrats' point of view. But if there's one man who could be counted on to surrender gracefully, it was Gerald Ford, who surrendered over the 1965 Immigration Act, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Affirmative Action, Amnesty (for draft dodgers, not illegals) and the 1976 election.
Republican journalist Victor Lasky wrote in Jimmy Carter, The Man And The Myth:
And so, finally, in the bicentennial year of 1976, the American people went to the polls. Not all who were entitled to vote, however, did so. Just 54.4 percent of the 150 million eligible, the lowest election turnout since Truman edged Dewey in 1948. Carter won the electoral vote 297 to 241, the popular vote 40.8 million to Ford's 39.1 million. Ford carried four of the eight biggest states. But he needed five or six. Had Ford carried New York with its 41 electoral votes, he would have won the election. But he lost the Empire State by 289,000 votes. And though New York Republicans were prepared to demand the impoundment of all the voting machines because of suspected irregularities, the White House decided the Democrats couldn't have pilfered all those votes.
You can see the story G.O.P. WITHDRAWS SUIT ON BALLOTS IN NEW YORK, November 4, 1976, on the NY Times website.
The GOP surrender position seems to have been that there were too many votes for them to have been all stolen, a position Steve Sailer mocked here much more recently:
The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination: a “political machine” if you can imagine such a thing. But, of course, political machines don’t exist. NYT: Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine: a 'Political Machine,' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept, November 7, 2020
Sometimes it feels like Republican political machines either don't exist, or they're controlled by the other side.


vdare--2020-11-12--The Rise And Fall (Alas!) Of Trump's Voter Integrity Commission: A Round Up

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No one knows who won the election .
Accusations of fraud are abundant despite the Main Stream Media 's attempts to suppress .
Should n't there be some kind of commission to investigate ?
Well , there was !
So what happened ?
The Rise And Fall Of Trump 's Voter Integrity Commission '' The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with machine-like coordination : a `` political machine '' if you can imagine such a thing . ''
—Steve Sailer , NYT : Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine : a 'Political Machine , ' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept But there 's more : Virginia ( Dare ) , There WERE Shy Trump Voters .
And Polls On BLM Etc .
Are Even Worse Patrick J. Buchanan : Will The State Of Georgia Halt The Radicals ' Revolution ?
NYT : Vote Fraud Would Require @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : a 'Political Machine , ' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept Do Third World Countries Take As Long To Count Votes As The US ?
Why Did Pfizer And FDA Agree To Not Release The News Of The Vaccine 's Success In October As The Original Protocol Would Have Required ?

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No one knows who won the election. Accusations of fraud are abundant despite the Main Stream Media's attempts to suppress. Shouldn't there be some kind of commission to investigate? Well, there was! So what happened?
Find out here!
The Rise And Fall Of Trump's Voter Integrity Commission
Steve Sailer ponders:
"The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination: a "political machine" if you can imagine such a thing." —Steve Sailer, NYT: Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine: a 'Political Machine,' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept
But there's more:
Virginia (Dare), There WERE Shy Trump Voters. And Polls On BLM Etc. Are Even Worse
THE SACRED FURY Sale - Extended!
Patrick J. Buchanan: Will The State Of Georgia Halt The Radicals' Revolution?
NYT: Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine: a 'Political Machine,' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept
Do Third World Countries Take As Long To Count Votes As The US?
Why Did Pfizer And FDA Agree To Not Release The News Of The Vaccine's Success In October As The Original Protocol Would Have Required?


vdare--2020-11-11--From Derb's Email Bag: Virtuous Pagans, Fired For Apprehending A Thief, And Benford's Law, Etc.

Brainteaser solution .
There 's a worked solution to the brainteaser in my October Diary here .
Virtuous pagans .
In my October 23rd podcast I passed comment on the defacing and pulling-down of statues of historical figures , persons judged by the zealots of Wokeness to have been insufficiently antiracist .
I suggested a parallel with the `` virtuous pagans '' that medieval Christian theologians had issues with : people like Aristotle and Cicero , who lived virtuous lives before the coming of Christ .
A Mormon friend emailed in about that .
Regarding your comments on `` virtuous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only Christian church , or any religion I 'm aware of , that addresses this issue in doctrine and practice .
`` The ministry of Christ was not confined to the few who lived on the earth in the meridian of time , and it is not confined only to those living now .
The apostle Peter made it clear that those who do not have the opportunity to hear the gospel on this earth will have such an opportunity in the spirit world ( see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
4:6 ) .
And the apostle Paul in writing to the Corinthians asked : 'Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead , if the dead rise not at all ?
why are they then baptized for the dead ? '
” ( 1 Cor .
15:29 ) . ''
— Elder Franklin D. Richards .
So Mormons believe that those who lived without hearing the gospel in this life will be given the chance in the next world .
Living Latter Day Saints are given the duty of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proxy for the dead , in Temples .
Searching out the dead via genealogy and organizing the records are key parts of this effort .
That 's why Mormons are often the best genealogists around .
The LDS Temple baptismal font , where baptisms for the dead are performed , rests on twelve oxen , signifying the twelve tribes of Israel .
There are numerous references here : just do a site search for `` Redemption of the Dead . ''
The moral case for Trump .
In that same podcast I made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rich by building stuff , with a starting boost from his Dad ) over Biden ( got rich from politics ) .
A friend emailed in with this : Fired for apprehending a thief .
In my September 25th podcast I told the story of the supermarket employee who was fired for apprehending a thief .
I remarked on how odd this was , and wondered if the thief was black .
The news story of course did n't say , and had no pictures , only gave the thief 's name as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , though not very .
Benford 's Law .
On November 6th I mentioned the geek website Github.com , who were applying Benford 's Law to vote counts by precinct in select cities and counties .
Did the numbers follow Benford 's Law ?
Where they did n't , were there benign explanations for their not doing so ?
A listener emailed in with far , far more than you wanted to know about this .
Short answer : Yes , there are benign explanations .
Long answer ( edited down some , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you partition the data in a way that groups related values together ( like precincts within a single county , which usually have similar populations ) , the Law is likely to be broken due to those values ' similarity .
You need a large evenly distributed range , over something like three orders of magnitude or more , to reliably expect Benford 's law to apply .
In contrast , the data coming from Miami-Dade county , for example , is very clustered around 1.5 orders of magnitude .
If the distribution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Benford 's test is just going to favor whatever the peak of the distribution is .
You can adjust for this by changing the base you use from base 10 to a smaller value .
For example , if we change to base 3 , I believe the digit distribution will spread out by a little over 2x ( 3^2 is a little under 10 ) .
That does n't give us much room to apply Benford 's law to Biden's votes and see a pattern though , with only 2 options for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 '' values and 295 `` 2 '' values , which is a pretty reasonable 50 percent drop .
If we compromise and go to base 4 , we get 417 for `` 1 '' , 203 for `` 2 '' , and 198 for `` 3 '' , which is not the smoothest distribution , but the values are very clustered on 5 orders of magnitude , with over 50 percent of them being there .
So that basically ensures that Benford 's law will not consistently work on a dataset this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's `` consistently inconsistent '' within each county—that is , why Biden 's graph looks one way while Trump 's looks a different way ... well , they 're all counties that Biden beat Trump in .
If Biden gets 2x the vote that Trump gets , the peak of his distribution will likely be in the same order of magnitude but with a different peak , and therefore ( as explained above ) a different favored starting number in Benford 's test .
It 's basically impossible to do this test , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not tied , and see similar results .
In Miami-Dade county , where Trump got 46 percent and Biden got 53 percent , the 7 percent difference is not enough to shift the peak vote count away from the 1000 's to the 2000 's .
But in a county like Milwaukee , where Biden got 69 percent and Trump got 29 percent , that 40 percent difference is certainly enough to change the peak and the most popular leading digits .
Without doing a full analysis , I can see that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] shows that Trump has `` 1 '' , `` 2 '' , and `` 3 '' being popular , while Biden has `` 1 '' , `` 4 '' , and `` 5 '' being popular , which would make sense if the `` 1 '' counts increased to be split between `` 1 '' and `` 2 '' counts , the `` 2 '' counts increased to `` 3 '' and `` 4 '' counts , the `` 3 '' counts increased to be `` 4 '' and `` 5 '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' and `` 9 '' counts increased to wrap around and become additional `` 1 '' counts again .

Just a few:
Brainteaser solution. There's a worked solution to the brainteaser in my October Diary here.
Virtuous pagans. In my October 23rd podcast I passed comment on the defacing and pulling-down of statues of historical figures, persons judged by the zealots of Wokeness to have been insufficiently antiracist. I suggested a parallel with the "virtuous pagans" that medieval Christian theologians had issues with: people like Aristotle and Cicero, who lived virtuous lives before the coming of Christ.
A Mormon friend emailed in about that.
Regarding your comments on "virtuous pagans," the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only Christian church, or any religion I'm aware of, that addresses this issue in doctrine and practice. "The ministry of Christ was not confined to the few who lived on the earth in the meridian of time, and it is not confined only to those living now. The apostle Peter made it clear that those who do not have the opportunity to hear the gospel on this earth will have such an opportunity in the spirit world (see 1 Pet. 3:18–20; 1 Pet. 4:6). And the apostle Paul in writing to the Corinthians asked: 'Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?'” (1 Cor. 15:29)." — Elder Franklin D. Richards. So Mormons believe that those who lived without hearing the gospel in this life will be given the chance in the next world. Living Latter Day Saints are given the duty of performing ordinances (like baptism) by proxy for the dead, in Temples. Searching out the dead via genealogy and organizing the records are key parts of this effort. That's why Mormons are often the best genealogists around. The LDS Temple baptismal font, where baptisms for the dead are performed, rests on twelve oxen, signifying the twelve tribes of Israel. There are numerous references here: just do a site search for "Redemption of the Dead."
The moral case for Trump. In that same podcast I made the moral case for Trump (got rich by building stuff, with a starting boost from his Dad) over Biden (got rich from politics).
A friend emailed in with this:
You may not be aware of it but for decades Freddie Trump [i.e. the president's father] was a hero among NY Jews for building first-rate affordable apartments. My aunt and uncle lived in one in Brooklyn and spoke highly of Freddie. That business model ended with civil rights litigation and Donald has admitted this. No wonder today's building boom focuses on luxury. No landlord can possibly make money from underclass black tenants without tax subsidies.
Fired for apprehending a thief. In my September 25th podcast I told the story of the supermarket employee who was fired for apprehending a thief. I remarked on how odd this was, and wondered if the thief was black. The news story of course didn't say, and had no pictures, only gave the thief's name as Adrian Moore.
A listener:
I think this is (actually was) your man. Burlington Free Press has a memorial tribute here, with picture.
Moore actually was black, though not very.
Benford's Law. On November 6th I mentioned the geek website Github.com, who were applying Benford's Law to vote counts by precinct in select cities and counties. Did the numbers follow Benford's Law? Where they didn't, were there benign explanations for their not doing so?
A listener emailed in with far, far more than you wanted to know about this. Short answer: Yes, there are benign explanations. Long answer (edited down some, believe it or not):


vdare--2020-11-11--Lindsey Graham Suggests Amnesty Is On The Table. He May Be Alone In Thinking So

Previously : What the GOP ’ s Surprisingly Good Congressional Results Mean For Immigration Patriotism South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to work with a President Joe Biden on immigration .
“ You 'll also see me trying to find common ground that would benefit all of us and a good place to start , I think , would be the debt and infrastructure and immigration , ” he told reporters last week [ GOP Establishment Rebuked for Fleeing ‘ America First ’ with Amnesty Talk , by John Binder , Breitbart , November 6 , 2020 ] .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Graham and Democrats is Amnesty .
The comments are certainly a disturbing sign some GOP leaders will cuck on immigration if Trump is not around .
However , the backlash against Graham ’ s comments show the party is very different from what it was in the Gang of Eight era .
Two congressmen—Jim Banks of Ohio and Paul Gosar of Arizona—attacked the amnesty suggestion .
“ There is no common-ground between conservative Republicans & @ JoeBiden on immigration , ” Banks tweeted .
“ Any amnesty ensures Texas and Arizona and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ join southern California as a once red area , ” Gosar told Breitbart [ GOP Establishment Rebuked for Fleeing ‘ America First ’ with Amnesty Talk , by John Binder , Breitbart , November 6 , 2020 ] .
Tucker Carlson also attacked Graham for his suggestion , saying the senator was all too happy to sell out his voters : I was particularly interested … in the comments of Lindsey Graham who just won reelection in the state of South Carolina because conservatives voted for him … the people around Trump put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Graham to send them money , so after a day or two , he made a great show of sending them $ 500,000 .
But then on the issues that matter , Lindsey Graham immediately ran away from the ideas that he claimed to support and said that he would be happy to sell out his voters with an amnesty deal , like within hours of the election .
Graham will also have less power to make amnesty happen .
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley , a fairly solid voice on immigration who supported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s moratorium , will take over the Senate Immigration Committee from Graham .
Center for Immigration Studies ’ Mark Krikorian says this development will likely stifle amnesty attempts as the committee chairmanship would give Grassley an “ informal veto ” over immigration legislation [ Migration Hawk Chuck Grassley to Run Senate ’ s Immigration Committee , by Neil Munro , Breitbart , November 9 , 2020 ] .
It ’ s typical for Amnesty Graham to look for any opportunity to reward his corporate donors with cheap foreign labor .
However , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Trump won record numbers of Hispanics with nationalism , not a promise of amnesty .
My view : there is little appetite for the bad policies the party embraced after the defeat in 2012 .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: What the GOP’s Surprisingly Good Congressional Results Mean For Immigration Patriotism
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to work with a President Joe Biden on immigration. “You'll also see me trying to find common ground that would benefit all of us and a good place to start, I think, would be the debt and infrastructure and immigration,” he told reporters last week [GOP Establishment Rebuked for Fleeing ‘America First’ with Amnesty Talk, by John Binder, Breitbart, November 6, 2020].
The only “common ground” on immigration for Graham and Democrats is Amnesty. The comments are certainly a disturbing sign some GOP leaders will cuck on immigration if Trump is not around. However, the backlash against Graham’s comments show the party is very different from what it was in the Gang of Eight era.
Two congressmen—Jim Banks of Ohio and Paul Gosar of Arizona—attacked the amnesty suggestion. “There is no common-ground between conservative Republicans & @JoeBiden on immigration,” Banks tweeted. “Any amnesty ensures Texas and Arizona and Florida will be solid blue and would join southern California as a once red area,” Gosar told Breitbart [GOP Establishment Rebuked for Fleeing ‘America First’ with Amnesty Talk, by John Binder, Breitbart, November 6, 2020].
Tucker Carlson also attacked Graham for his suggestion, saying the senator was all too happy to sell out his voters:
I was particularly interested … in the comments of Lindsey Graham who just won reelection in the state of South Carolina because conservatives voted for him … the people around Trump put a great deal of pressure on Lindsey Graham to send them money, so after a day or two, he made a great show of sending them $500,000. But then on the issues that matter, Lindsey Graham immediately ran away from the ideas that he claimed to support and said that he would be happy to sell out his voters with an amnesty deal, like within hours of the election.
.@nedryun & @TuckerCarlson Calling Out America Last Republicans (@LindseyGrahamSC) For Trying To Push For Amnesty & Return The GOP To Being A Neo-Con Globalist Party
Ned Ryun: "America First is not going away." #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/8bjMWV9ni9 — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) November 7, 2020
Graham will also have less power to make amnesty happen. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a fairly solid voice on immigration who supported the extension and expansion of Trump’s moratorium, will take over the Senate Immigration Committee from Graham. Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian says this development will likely stifle amnesty attempts as the committee chairmanship would give Grassley an “informal veto” over immigration legislation [Migration Hawk Chuck Grassley to Run Senate’s Immigration Committee, by Neil Munro, Breitbart, November 9, 2020].
It’s typical for Amnesty Graham to look for any opportunity to reward his corporate donors with cheap foreign labor. However, we live in a different time from 2013. Trump won record numbers of Hispanics with nationalism, not a promise of amnesty. My view: there is little appetite for the bad policies the party embraced after the defeat in 2012.


vdare--2020-11-07--With "Remarkable Synchronicity" Press Calls Race For Biden, Just In Time To Step On Trump's Election

With "Remarkable Synchronicity" Press Calls Race For Biden, Just In Time To Step On Trump's Election Fraud Presser

My iPhone is lighting up with alerts saying Pennsylvania ( home of corruption and voter fraud ) has gone for @ @ @ @ @ he 's President , and Kamala has achieved a historic `` First Woman '' VP @ @ @ @ @ was ever a time to use expressions like `` declared falsely '' or `` without @ @ @ @ @ , the things the MSM says about Trump 's true statements -- it 's now @ @ @ @ @ : This of course has no legal standing , and the recounts and challenges will @ @ @ @ @ but it was probably timed to step on Trump ’ s election fraud presser .
@ @ @ @ @ re distracting from : What happened to “ count all the votes ?
”

My iPhone is lighting up with alerts saying Pennsylvania (home of corruption and voter fraud) has gone for Biden, and that means he's President, and Kamala has achieved a historic "First Woman" VP of color. If there was ever a time to use expressions like "declared falsely" or "without evidence"--you know, the things the MSM says about Trump's true statements--it's now.
Instapundit is on it:
WITH REMARKABLE SYNCHONRICITY, big media organizations, including Fox, call race for Biden. This of course has no legal standing, and the recounts and challenges will continue unless Trump concedes, but it was probably timed to step on Trump’s election fraud presser. Related: UPDATE: Yep. This is what they’re distracting from: What happened to “count all the votes?”
See also
Trump Rejects Outcome as Democrats Celebrate Biden’s Triumph, By Jordan Fabian, Bloomberg, November 7, 2020


vdare--2020-11-14--John Derbyshire: If Trump Has Lost—A “Biden Rush” For The U.S. Border?

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] The fog of battle surrounding the November 3rd election has cleared somewhat , but there are still uncertainties about the consequences .
Plainly there was much more than the usual amount of skullduggery in the registering and counting of votes , and it all seems to have favored Joe Biden .
Whether much of it can be dealt with in the courts ; and whether , if it can , the judgments will be enough to swing the result back to Trump ; these are open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we 'll be looking at a Joe Biden inauguration in January .
It 's not certain , and I 'm glad the President and his team are fighting for what 's right—all strength to them .
It 's probable , though , and I base my commentary on that .
So what shall we get from Biden administration ?
One thing we are sure to get is open borders .
As VDARE.com 's correspondent Jack Dalton noted on Thursday , a Biden administration will go full-bore Open Borders , jumping to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-white ethnic grievance activists .
The dribble of reforms and improvements made by the Trump administration 's Executive Orders will all be canceled .
If we 're lucky , the new stretches of border wall will not be dynamited ; but no more will be built .
The Biden people are perfectly open about their intentions .
CBS News ran a report on Tuesday , presumably sourced from Biden campaign insiders , spelling it all out .
• The so-called `` DREAMers , '' illegal aliens who claim to have been brought here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ status , leading to citizenship .
• The eleven , or twenty , or thirty million non- '' DREAMer '' illegal aliens living here—nobody really knows the number—will also be given permanent residence , likewise leading to citizenship .
• There 'll be a hundred-day freeze on deportations of illegals .
• Illegals not targeted by ICE—that is , they are just here illegally but are n't suspected of any other criminality—wo n't be arrested .
• The policy of requiring non-Mexican asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from terrorist-friendly nations will end .
• The Trump administration has negotiated agreements with Guatemala , El Salvador and Honduras that allow us to send rejected asylum-seekers to those countries to argue their cases .
The Biden administration will pull out of those agreements .
• The Public Charge rules this administration has implemented to deny permanent residence to aliens using , or likely to use , government benefits , will be scrapped .
• The limits on guest-worker visas imposed this spring will be lifted .
In an ongoing pandemic with widespread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cheap foreign workers .
• There will be huge increases in numbers of so-called `` refugees . ''
• Aliens given Temporary Protected Status , often decades ago , because of some crisis in their home countries , will not be forced to leave next March , as a court said they should be .
`` Temporary '' will not , after all , mean temporary ; it will mean permanent .
[ Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump 's immigration agenda , by Meg Kinnard , CBS News , November 11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden 's victory is very disheartening to those of us at VDARE.com and like-minded groups , who have been toiling away for years—for decades now—to bring the true facts about immigration to public attention , to expose the carefully-concocted blend of misty sentimentality and cold cash racketeering that guided the immigration policy of Presidents from LBJ to Barack Obama .
We advocate for a rational immigration policy : one to the advantage of American citizens in general , just as Japan 's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Japanese citizens , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designed for the advantage of Israeli citizens .
It can be done , as those countries have shown .
Immigration is not some kind of natural force against which resistance is futile , or immoral .
It 's just a policy , like tax rates , farm price supports , or how many aircraft carriers we need .
Donald Trump was the first President in sixty years who seemed to understand that .
Now , apparently , we 're back to sentimentality and racketeering , to the delight of the Koch brothers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billionaires , and the refugee resettlement scammers—but to the further impoverishment of the American middle class .
And while Trump has done much with executive actions and appeals to the courts , we should n't let him off the hook for his administration 's failures .
We 've heard a lot about his problems finding staffers who are on board with his policies .
Yet when capable , reliable people were available—I 'm thinking of Kris Kobach , Steve King , Jeff Sessions—they were discarded and humiliated by Trump , the jobs they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-Trumpers .
Above all , there was that wasted two years when Trump 's party controlled Congress .
Real immigration reform needs legislation ; legislation needs congressional action .
To be sure , Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were much more interested in feeding their business-lobby donors with cheap foreign labor and virtue-signaling their anti-racist piety than in enacting Trump 's policies ; but with energy , determination , and the negotiating skills he boasts of , Trump might have gotten something done .
He did n't even try .
The future , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Quote from that CBS report on Biden 's plans : If the lady is right , Trump 's actions on immigration wo n't all be swept away with a stroke of the pen .
Some of them may survive .
And then there 's the Biden Rush .
American voters may not give immigration the attention it deserves , but elsewhere in the world , interest is very keen .
Hundreds of millions of people in crap-hole countries worldwide have been watching this recent election intensely .
They believe a Biden administration will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are packing their bags to make their way to those open borders .
If this develops into a real human tide , as it well might , immigration will be front and center of the national consciousness , with strong public pressure to re-impose controls .
`` Numbers are of the essence , '' said the great British immigration patriot Enoch Powell .
Indeed they are ; but the sheer stupendous numbers of people who want to come and live in America is the hardest thing to get across to ordinary voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his people , those numbers may be clearly visible on our TV screens a few months from now … or perhaps in the run-up to the 2022 mid-terms .
This could get interesting .
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him . )
He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
The fog of battle surrounding the November 3rd election has cleared somewhat, but there are still uncertainties about the consequences. Plainly there was much more than the usual amount of skullduggery in the registering and counting of votes, and it all seems to have favored Joe Biden. Whether much of it can be dealt with in the courts; and whether, if it can, the judgments will be enough to swing the result back to Trump; these are open questions.
As best I can predict, we'll be looking at a Joe Biden inauguration in January. It's not certain, and I'm glad the President and his team are fighting for what's right—all strength to them. It's probable, though, and I base my commentary on that.
So what shall we get from Biden administration? One thing we are sure to get is open borders.
As VDARE.com's correspondent Jack Dalton noted on Thursday, a Biden administration will go full-bore Open Borders, jumping to the whips cracked by Cheap-Labor business lobbies and anti-white ethnic grievance activists.
The dribble of reforms and improvements made by the Trump administration's Executive Orders will all be canceled. If we're lucky, the new stretches of border wall will not be dynamited; but no more will be built.
The Biden people are perfectly open about their intentions. CBS News ran a report on Tuesday, presumably sourced from Biden campaign insiders, spelling it all out.
[Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump's immigration agenda, by Meg Kinnard, CBS News, November 11, 2020] And so on.
Biden's victory is very disheartening to those of us at VDARE.com and like-minded groups, who have been toiling away for years—for decades now—to bring the true facts about immigration to public attention, to expose the carefully concocted blend of misty sentimentality and cold cash racketeering that guided the immigration policy of Presidents from LBJ to Barack Obama.
We advocate for a rational immigration policy: one to the advantage of American citizens in general, just as Japan's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Japanese citizens, just as Israel's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Israeli citizens. It can be done, as those countries have shown.
Immigration is not some kind of natural force against which resistance is futile, or immoral. It's just a policy, like tax rates, farm price supports, or how many aircraft carriers we need.
Donald Trump was the first President in sixty years who seemed to understand that.
Now, apparently, we're back to sentimentality and racketeering, to the delight of the Koch brothers, the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley billionaires, and the refugee resettlement scammers—but to the further impoverishment of the American middle class.
And while Trump has done much with executive actions and appeals to the courts, we shouldn't let him off the hook for his administration's failures. We've heard a lot about his problems finding staffers who are on board with his policies. Yet when capable, reliable people were available—I'm thinking of Kris Kobach, Steve King, Jeff Sessions—they were discarded and humiliated by Trump, the jobs they should have had given to mediocrities and anti-Trumpers.
Above all, there was that wasted two years when Trump's party controlled Congress. Real immigration reform needs legislation; legislation needs congressional action.
To be sure, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were much more interested in feeding their business-lobby donors with cheap foreign labor and virtue-signaling their anti-racist piety than in enacting Trump's policies; but with energy, determination, and the negotiating skills he boasts of, Trump might have gotten something done. He didn't even try.
The future, however, isn't completely dark. Quote from that CBS report on Biden's plans:
While Mr. Biden's team will have the legal authority to overturn Mr. Trump's policies, Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), said it will not be an easy endeavor, given bureaucratic requirements, the ongoing COVID-19 emergency and the volume of changes implemented over the past four years. "The Trump administration had an extraordinary preoccupation with immigration issues and they invested an enormous amount of attention and single-minded focus on immigration … An administration that wants to undo those changes would have to devote a similar amount of time and effort."
If the lady is right, Trump's actions on immigration won't all be swept away with a stroke of the pen. Some of them may survive.
And then there's the Biden Rush. American voters may not give immigration the attention it deserves, but elsewhere in the world, interest is very keen. Hundreds of millions of people in crap-hole countries worldwide have been watching this recent election intensely. They believe a Biden administration will throw the borders wide open, and they are packing their bags to make their way to those open borders.
If this develops into a real human tide, as it well might, immigration will be front and center of the national consciousness, with strong public pressure to re-impose controls.
"Numbers are of the essence," said the great British immigration patriot Enoch Powell. Indeed they are; but the sheer stupendous numbers of people who want to come and live in America is the hardest thing to get across to ordinary voters.
With the encouragement of Biden and his people, those numbers may be clearly visible on our TV screens a few months from now … or perhaps in the run-up to the 2022 mid-terms.
This could get interesting.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.