vdare--2020-04-26--Coronavirus Policies Yet Another Indication That U.S. States Are Too Big

See, earlier: Separating Illinois From Cook County Would Help Save The Historic American Nation
Bret Stephens, the New York Times’ faux WASP, faux conservative columnist, just got in a lot of trouble for suggesting that, in its response to Covid-19, America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules [April 24, 2020]. But he’s right. The U.S. is 33 times the size of Italy, the next worst-hit country, and One Size just doesn’t Fit All. Moreover, the pandemic is also providing yet another indication that many U.S. states are too big, too diverse yet too centralized—and that they need to split up.
I wrote recently about secession/subdivision movements in Illinois (which all by itself is almost half the size of Italy). Illinois is demographically dominated by Cook County, a majority-minority community that contains Chicago and voted for Hillary Clinton, while the rest of the state, which is whiter than the national average, favored Donald Trump. That means Chicago gets to impose its policy preferences on very different people and communities several hours and hundreds of miles away. This didn’t used to happen, but U.S. Supreme Court rulings like Reynolds v. Sims (1964) and Baker v. Carr (1962) destroyed internal federalism in American states by asserting a one man-one vote dogma and removing the check that less densely populated suburban and rural hinterlands exerted on their megalopolises through various constitutional arrangements, just as the U.S. Senate does at the federal level.
Michigan is a prime example of how coronavirus is exposing this disparity. Wayne County, which includes Detroit, has a coronavirus problem. As of April 22, there had been a 0.85 percent confirmed infection rate and 1396 deaths as a result [Infection2020.com, April 22, 2020]. Conversely, in the northern half of the state, including the upper Michigan peninsula, not one county had an infection rate exceeding 0.1 percent.
However, since Wayne County went overwhelmingly for Democrat Gretchen Whitmer in the 2018 gubernatorial election [Michigan Election Results 2018, Politico], people in the northern half of the state are now thrown out of work, cannot attend church or see family members, even though the disease is a minimal threat in their areas.
It also means they have a governor who extended their state’s stay-at-home order from May 4 to May 15—further bludgeoning their economy [Report: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Extend Michigan Lockdown Until May 15, by Kyle Olson, Breitbart, April 23, 2020].
The same goes for other large states dominated by megalopolises. New York City, an internationalist city, has a 1.8 percent infection rate and at least 16,400 coronavirus deaths—about a third of the U.S. total. As Bret Stephens pointed out, New York City has more fatalities than 41 states combined.
But anyone who has driven through upstate New York knows how rural it can be. There are many farms alongside Interstate 90. It is also overwhelmingly white.
As of April 25, 2020, counties like Franklin, Lewis, Fulton, Schoharie and Seneca have zero reported deaths. Coincidentally, as of 2019, Seneca County was 88.8 percent non-Hispanic white and 0.8 percent Asian [Seneca County, New York, United States Census Bureau].
Although New York is one of the bluest states in the country, removing New York City and Westchester county would result in it leaning Republican. Trump would have won it in 2016 with 2,193,747 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 2,118,623 [2016 New York Presidential Election Results, Politico].
Yet Governor Andrew Cuomo restricts the daily lives of people in upstate New York essentially because the state’s largest urban areas are, in Bret Stephen’s words, “urban sardine cans” where a cosmopolitan population travels using public transportation.
And different cultures simply have different standards of hygiene. This helps explain why there are frequent E. coli outbreaks in lettuce originating on farms across the country.
There have been many calls over the years to split New York into multiple states. In 2009, state senate Republicans Joseph Robach, Dale Volker, and Michael Ranzenhofer proposed a referendum to divide the state in two with upstate New York becoming a separate state from the Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island [Split New York State? Robach Wants to Know What Counties Think, by Jill Terreri, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, November 28, 2009].
Stephen Hawley, a Republican member of the state assembly proposed such a referendum again in 2013 and 2015. In 2015, 15 towns in New York's Southern Tier also proposed seceding into Pennsylvania [15 New York Towns, Desperate to Frack, Ponder Secession, by Zoe Schlanger, Newsweek, February 22, 2015].
California is similarly dominated by the megalopolises of San Francisco and Los Angeles. But California is even bigger than Italy and there are still areas where coronavirus is not a factor.
There have been repeated proposals that California should subdivide (here, here, here, and here).
One initiative proposed six Californias:
‘Six Californias’ backers say it’s heading for the ballot, by Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, July 14, 2014
In contrast, the situation in Georgia is the reverse of states like New York and Michigan.
In this Wikipedia-provided map, the part marked in black is Atlanta, which has a large urban population and public transport system.
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp declared that some businesses like salons, gyms, and bowling alleys could reopen on April 24, and restaurants could resume dine-in service on April 27 [Trump approved of Georgia’s plan to reopen before bashing it, by Jonathan Lemire and Ben Nadler, The Associated Press, April 24, 2020]. Leftist government officials in Atlanta do not like the move and see it as a threat to their community’s public health. They have the authority to keep those businesses closed. But rural and suburban counties in Georgia still have enough votes that their preferences prevail.
Other states with a hinterland-megalopolis conflict like New York when it comes to coronavirus issues include Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Minnesota—and Washington State.
Unsurprisingly, a proposal in the Washington state legislature exists that would break the state in two [House Joint Memorial 4003]. It aims to create a state called Liberty using all counties east of Okanogan, Chelan, Kittitas, Yakima, and Klickitat, so that the border between the states would be the western boundaries of those counties:
The vitriol directed at Stephens may be because some New Yorkers are affronted by the idea that they are not America, or because many Democrats clearly want to keep the economy closed in the hope that it will flush out the Presidency of Donald J. Trump. Nevertheless, the logic behind the redrawing state boundaries grows inexorably stronger.
Hank Johnson [Email him] is a student of New England politics and popular culture.


vdare--2020-04-27--Immigration Study "Dehumanizes" Murder Victims, Rape Victims,  Gun Owners, And  Majority Of American

Immigration Study "Dehumanizes" Murder Victims, Rape Victims,  Gun Owners, And  Majority Of Americans

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Over at BearingArms.com, after noting that gun rights supporters support immigration enforcement, although the two issues aren't directly related, they note an attack on gun rights and immigration restriction by two professors.
A recent study funded in part by the National Science Foundation argues that those who are pro-gun and pro-death penalty actually dehumanize immigrants, thus making it easier to mistreat them. An online study that pulled equally from people who identify as Democrats or Republicans has found subtle new clues that underlie views about immigrants. The words people use and their beliefs about social harms, such as the death penalty and gun rights, can predict attitudes favoring harsh treatment and the dehumanization of illegal immigrants, report University of Oregon researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, conducted by UO communication professor David M. Markowitz and UO psychologist Paul Slovic, appeared online April 16 ahead of print. In the study, the pair dug deeper into the characteristics of those who dehumanize immigrants—beyond often-discussed factors such as hatred toward outside groups and extreme racism. Study On Immigration Views Betrays Anti-Gun Bias In Research,by Tom Knighton, April 25, 2020 (Emphasis added)
The link on "dehumanization" above is in the original, a quote from a Phys.org on story on why you and I are Bad People, and it goes to a total of three stories, the first one is the one they're talking about:
Views on guns and death penalty are linked to harsh treatment of immigrants An online study that pulled equally from people who identify as Democrats or Republicans has found subtle new clues that underlie views about immigrants. April 23, 2020 Study finds troubling consequences for anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican attitudes and actions The President's recent Executive Order is attempting to close U.S. borders to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, with the rationale that it would make Americans safer against the threat of terrorism. But new research ... February 06, 2017 Study shows media play role in dehumanizing immigrants and refugees A new study from Western University suggests that the news media may take advantage of an existing uncertainty and unease around immigration policies and the treatment of immigrants and refugees to create a crisis mentality ... September 23, 2013
Just a reminder that Phys.org is for physicists, and covers "Nanotechnology, Physics, Earth, Astronomy & Space, Technology, Chemistry, Biology, and Other Sciences." This nonsense is the "Other Sciences".
Views on guns and #deathpenalty are linked to harsh treatment of immigrants @PNASNews https://t.co/NCCXgofKTR — Phys.org (@physorg_com) April 23, 2020
The study, as BearingArms's Tom Knighton points out, has bias against normal Americans baked in.
Journalism professor David M. Markowitz [Email him] and psychologist Paul Slovic [Email him] assume that supporting gun rights and the death penalty for murder are "social harms" and supporting jail terms for illegals are also social harms.
From the Phys.org story:
The researchers next focused on how dehumanization connected to social harms. Those who endorsed social harms related to protecting American rights to own guns, the death penalty and harsh raids on immigrants tended to dehumanize more and identified as conservative. Such individuals were also more likely to endorse lengthy jail time for illegal immigrants.
The actual study is available at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
This study extends the current body of work on dehumanization by evaluating the social, psychological, and demographic correlates of blatant disregard for immigrants. Participants (n = 468) were randomly assigned to read a scenario where 1) an immigrant or 2) an immigrant and their child were caught illegally crossing the southern border of the United States, and then rated how long they should spend in jail if convicted. Participants reported that they would sentence the immigrant to more jail time than the immigrant and child. Those who sent immigrants to jail for more time also viewed them as socially distant and less human, described immigration in impersonal terms, and endorsed other social harms unrelated to immigration (e.g., the death penalty for convicted murderers). Crucially, endorsed social harms accounted for explained variance beyond simply holding conservative views. We position these data within the current literature on dehumanization theory and immigration issues. Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants, April 16, 2020. (Emphases added)
Here's my point: Markowitz and Slovic are dehumanizing the unarmed victims of crime, dehumanizing the victims of Mexican rapists, dehumanizing murder victims, and dehumanizing the majority of Americans who support both sending illegals back, punishing border jumpers, and exercising their Constitutional right to defend themselves.


vdare--2020-04-27--Patrick J. Buchanan: Up For A New Cold War—with China?

Is America, in lockdown, with 26 million unemployed and entering a new depression, up for a confrontation and Cold War with China?
For that appears to be where the GOP wishes to lead us.
According to Politico, a 57-page memo [PDF] from Mitch McConnell's senatorial committee instructs GOP candidates to blame the coronavirus pandemic on China, commit to stand up to China, end U.S. dependence on Chinese manufacturing and tell voters "my opponent is soft on China."
"China is not an ally, and they're not just a rival—they are an adversary and the Chinese Communist Party is our enemy," reads one of the talking points.
Sunday, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas echoed the memo, charging that China's leaders wanted the coronavirus to spread because they "did not want to see their relative power and standing in the world decline."
Cotton went on: "It's a scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese communists. If Chinese students want to come here and learn Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers—that's what they need to learn from America; they don't need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America."
The Wall Street Journal ran back-to-back editorials last week urging a more confrontational stance toward Beijing and endorsing GOP plans for new defense spending on U.S. air and naval forces in the Western Pacific.
Cotton and the Journal are not wrong in their characterization of China's behavior. It is belligerent toward its neighbors and hostile toward the United States.
China has indeed sent student-spies to study at U.S. universities.
Under cover of the coronavirus crisis, Beijing is moving to strip the 7 million people of Hong Kong of the rights they were guaranteed when the British departed. The Uighurs of Xinjiang are being persecuted and coercively cleansed of their cultural and religious beliefs.
The Peoples Liberation Army seeks to intimidate Taiwan by sending military aircraft near the island. China's warships have harassed Vietnamese, Malaysian, Philippine and Indonesian commercial vessels to assert its claim to the entire South China Sea.
Chinese propagandists have accused the U.S. of creating the coronavirus crisis that broke out in Wuhan last winter.
JFK may have been inexact when he observed: "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
But that is an accurate description of how China has conducted itself since it unleashed the Wuhan virus upon the world.
But why did Americans, after a 40-year struggle with another "Evil Empire," ever believe differently about the Communist Party of China?
Under the code of that party, the morality of an act is determined by whether it advances or retards the goals of the regime: expansion, conquest and domination.
As President Ronald Reagan undiplomatically observed in an early press conference, Communists reserve to themselves "the right to lie, cheat and steal," which is pretty much how the Chinese Communists have been behaving toward us since we reengaged with them in 1972.
What course does the Journal recommend that we pursue?
"Freedom of navigation exercises" by U.S. naval and air forces are "not enough to secure the Western Pacific from Chinese domination."
Instead, the Journal says the U.S. "may need to start recognizing claims of countries like Vietnam to make China pay a price for further expansion. The U.S. should also try to maintain its defense pact with the Philippines' mercurial President Rodrigo Duterte."
The Journal seems to be suggesting that we formally recognize and back Vietnam's claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea. None of these islands belongs to us?
Why should the U.S. Navy risk a clash at sea by making us a party to these latest quarrels halfway around the world?
Vietnam is a country of 95 million people. Like China, it is also Communist. The Philippines have more than 7,000 islands and 100 million people. Indonesia has 17,000 to 18,000 islands and is the fourth-most populous nation on earth with 267 million citizens.
Cannot the nations that share the South China Sea with China acquire coastal navies to defend their own waters? Why is the Journal volunteering the U.S. as Coast Guard of the South China Sea?
The Journal argues that with Chinese nationalism rising under Xi Jinping, "It's more important than ever for the U.S. to signal that it considers the independence of Pacific states a vital interest and isn't retreating."
The independence and borders of these states is undeniably vital to them. But how is that vital to us, 8,000 miles away, on the other side of the Pacific? This is power politics, pure and simple.
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vdare--2020-04-27--This Day In VDARE.com History 2015:  Yes, BALTIMORE SUN, There Is A “Baltimore Riot.” And The Answer

This Day In VDARE.com History 2015:  Yes, BALTIMORE SUN, There Is A “Baltimore Riot.” And The Answer (Again) Is Ruthless Coercion

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015. The level of race riot denial continued until Donald Trump was elected, partly as a result. Example:
"Donald Trump said Monday that "race riots" are happening every month amid deep divisions across the country, apparently referring to protests...etc." Trump says 'race riots' are happening every month, by Sean Sullivan, Washington Post, October 3, 2016.
See also The Answer To Race Riots Is Ruthless Coercion. What Is America Waiting For? By Peter Brimelow
Gov Hogan: at the request of #BaltimoreCity, I have called in @mdnationalguard pic.twitter.com/o32HA4urto — Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) April 28, 2015
Baltimore is burning as I write, the streets are filled with rioters and police. They don’t seem to be “clashing” much, however. Photographs show looters looting, and cops standing around. The black lady mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, [Email her] made a statement that, in the interests of the demonstrators’ “free speech” rights, she had told the Baltimore PD to “give those who wished to destroy space to do that.” The white Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, said as late as 5:30 Monday afternoon there had been no requests for the National Guard.
(But by 8:30 pm he had signed an Executive Order [PDF] declaring a State of Emergency and activating the Maryland National Guard—a promising sign, although at this point I don’t know if they’ll even be issued live ammunition. The lady mayor finally asked for the Guard, and the lady Brigadier General who is head of Maryland’s Army National Guard (Linda Singh, pictured below—despite her last name, the “first African-American” to head the Maryland Guard) stood beside him at a press conference, so they must be getting worried (Gov. Hogan Declares State of Emergency, Activates Md. National Guard, CBS Baltimore, April 27, 2015).
All of this will be news to the notoriously liberal Baltimore Sun. On Monday, it posted an editorial titled No 'Baltimore riots' | Saturday's violence was deplorable, but it was no “Baltimore riot.” April 27, 2015. Its only reason for insisting that it was “no Baltimore Riot” was that there was much worse rioting in 1968.
"With all sympathies to the police officers who have been injured and the handful of businesses that sustained damage, Baltimore has had riots before, in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and we are, thankfully, seeing nothing on that scale."[Cached | Alternate link.]
That version of the editorial has undergone a complete Memory Hole-style rewrite, and is now called Reclaim Freddie Gray.
Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew did call for the National Guard during the Baltimore Riots Of 1968, which lasted from April 6 to 14, and 5800 people were arrested.
This was exactly right. The answer to rioting is to arrest the rioters, using as much force as necessary, and then prosecute them, using the kind of “exemplary sentencing” that the government tends to apply to hate crimes, even crimes that don’t do much harm.
In August of last year, VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow pointed out in The Answer To Race Riots Is Ruthless Coercion. What Is America Waiting For? that what the authorities in Ferguson, MO, were doing
to the usual MSM applause, is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. They should meet any sign of rioting with ruthless coercion: The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force. The cops will usually be caught flat-footed (no pun intended) by the initial outbreak. But they need to spring into a pre-arranged mobilization that should always be as ready in every major city as the fire-department or hospital disaster-response program. That was the late Eugene Methvin…writing in the pre-purge National Review (June 10, 1991).
Methvin argued that
Riots begin when some set of social forces temporarily overwhelms or paralyzes the police, who stand by, their highly visible inaction signaling to the small percentage of teenaged embryonic psychopaths and hardened young adults that a moral holiday is under way. [A Riot Primer | The importance of using force to control the spread of urban riots, By Eugene H. Methvin, National Review, June 10, 1991]
Methvin was old enough, and historian enough, to include some of the white riots of the Jim Crow era on his list.
“Atlanta in 1906; East St. Louis in 1917; Charleston, Chicago, Washington, Boston, and Knoxville in 1919; Harlem in 1935; Detroit in 1943.”
The same rules apply—but the rioters are outraged about different things. The Atlanta Riots of 1906 started when, according to Wikipedia, “Atlanta newspapers reported four sexual assaults on local white women.”
Methvin contrasted the police non-response at the beginning of the Watts, Newark, Detroit, and Washington Riots with the response of the chief of police in Toledo, Ohio, 36 hours after the Detroit Riot started.
Have you ever hear of the Toledo Riots? Neither have I. There’s a reason for that:
There, five hundred young men began breaking windows along a six-block stretch. The fourth police cruiser arriving radioed: “Do you want us to observe?” That such a question should even have been asked was damning proof that Americans had let years of extreme court rulings and hysterical “police brutality” propaganda paralyze our last line of defense against criminal anarchy. Yet in Toledo the answer snapped back steely and clear. Police Chief Tony Bosch happened to be monitoring the radio and he barked: Arrest every lawbreaker you can–and meet illegal force with legal force!” Just as quickly, Toledo’s mayor requested and Ohio Governor James Rhodes called in five hundred National Guardsmen to stand behind police in reserve, with well-publicized orders to kill if necessary to maintain order. They were never needed. Toledo’s police arrested 22 people (nine for possessing firebombs) in the first three hours. That was almost triple the number Detroit and Newark police arrested in the same period.
The point of arresting people at the start is this—riots aren’t started by outraged citizens. They’re started by the usual thugs who commit the usual crimes. You can have a bunch of outraged citizens on the streets, but it’s the criminals who start breaking windows.
Thus in Toledo,
Chief Bosh laid out for a Senate committee the criminal records, “some as long as your arm,” of the rioters jailed in his city’s three-day eruption. Of the 126 adults a startling 105 had prior arrests, averaging six apiece. Every single one of the 22 young adults jailed in the first three hours had criminal records; they averaged only twenty years old and three prior arrests apiece. The twenty young men jailed on firebomb charges averaged four apiece. The result of the quick arrest policy: Toledo’s trouble hardly earned the name “riot.” No one died–not one person, looter, policeman, or innocent bystander. The will that Toledo’s civil authorities displayed, like a heavy rain on a kindling forest fire, made the difference between “incident” and “insurrection.” They withdrew the one essential ingredient for a major riot: implied official permission for criminals and rowdies to coalesce and rebel.
My emphasis. “Implied official permission” is what the rioters in Baltimore, Ferguson, and elsewhere have been receiving from the MSM, the local authorities, and the President of the United States (who most recently sent an aide—a black aide—to the funeral of the man who died in police custody).
In its PC-crazed editorial, The Baltimore Sun wrote:
As terrible as the scenes were Saturday and yesterday, we cannot let them overshadow the legitimate expression of grievances. Looting convenience stores, smashing police car windows and throwing rocks at officers accomplishes nothing but to confirm the ugly stereotypes that underlie the very injustices the demonstrators are trying to protest.
Well, if the stereotypes are true, and they mostly are, why does the Sun they think what the rioters are protesting are “injustices”? A lot of the time, what rioters are rioting about is actually justice.
We know that that, as it turns out, Michael Brown was attacking Darren Wilson, that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense against a potentially lethal attacker, and if you bother to remember that far back, that the LAPD officers were using reasonable force to arrest Rodney King—they proved it in court—and that the man whose arrest sparked the 1965 Watts Riot was guilty of what he was arrested for.
VDARE.com has been watching the decline of Baltimore for some time. Last year, Paul Kersey chronicled the amusing saga of a white liberal lesbian, Tracey Halvorsen, who was the victim of a typical PC pogrom for complaining about rampant crime, apparently not realizing that people would assume (correctly) that the crime was black and thus a Hate Fact. Back in 2011, Baltimore native Eugene Gant wrote presciently “What Will Come Of The Race War That Roils The Streets Of Baltimore?” Sample:
When Baltimore erupted in violence on April 6, 1968, two days after James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, my parents wondered whether my older sister, who worked in the city, would come home alive. Her employer was in the middle of the war zone. Even today, whites dare not go near that employer’s headquarters at night.
It remains to be seen whether the black lady mayor, the black lady Brigadier, and the black male Police Commissioner of Baltimore will be willing to use the “ruthless coercion” needed to suppress a riot.
But if they do, their color should protect them from a Loretta Lynch prosecution.
James Fulford [Email him] is a writer and editor for VDARE.com.


vdare--2020-04-24--Three Africans Arrested In Utah For Defrauding 30 Homeless Whites

This story from Bountiful in Utah describes a scene where police were suspicious when they were told that
It all started when employees at the FedEx Office Print & Ship Center in Bountiful on Wednesday notified police that four men -- three African-American, one caucasian-- who were standing outside their store were acting suspiciously, according to probable cause (PC) statements obtained by 2News.
Caucasian should be spelled with a capital C, but never mind. The three-arrestees weren't African-American, a term that describes people like Oprah and Jesse Jackson, etc. They were African.
On Wednesday, officers with the Bountiful Police Department arrested 50-year-old Martin Bokanga, 41-year-old Lateek Ramon Leonard, and 33-year-old Djimy Okutennde for dozens of felony identity fraud, communications fraud, and forgery charges -- in addition to numerous misdemeanors.
The police have to explain why they were suspicious, for Fourth Amendment reasons. They saw these three blacks with a white homeless guy named Michael and questioned them.
Michael told police the trio picked him up near 1300 S. West Temple in Salt Lake City and asked if he had a Utah ID card and if he wanted to make between $1,000 - $2,000. Michael said "yes" and agreed to go with Bokanga, Leonard, and Okutennde. They traveled to the Bountiful FedEx store where they used Micahel's ID card to print off a fraudulent paystub -- all with Michael's information -- from Tele-performance -- a place Michael has never worked, according to the PC statement. FedEx provided police with two documents -- one was the fraudulent paystub, the other had Wells Fargo bank account information from either "a third party or Michael." Police believe the second document is also a fraud. In the PC statement the arresting officer said: It is a common occurrence for individuals conducting fraudulent activity to pick up a homeless person and to use them to cash fraudulent checks or conduct credit card fraud based on my training and experience." 3 men facing 101 charges; accused of stealing identities, defrauding 30 of Utah's homeless by Adam Forgie, KUTV, April 24th 2020
What these guys were doing was, in effect, a hands-on version of the famous Nigerian internet fraud. I'm assuming that the other homeless types these guys were using as their catspaws were white because almost everyone in Bountiful, Utah, is white.
The population of Bountiful is 44,708, of which, according to the Census, four-tenths of one percent are black, or 178 people. The police probably know most of them by sight. (The white homeless are having their identities stolen, the actual money comes from banks and check cashing agencies.)
And that's why the police had to go on in the probable cause statements about why they were suspicious—they don't want to have defense attorneys using the defense that their clients were arrested for commiting felony identity fraud, communications fraud, and forgery While Black.


vdare--2020-04-27--SAID IN SPANISH: (5 ITEMS) WuFlu Still Slow To Hit Mexico; Shutdown Doesn’t Slow Mexican Violence; D

SAID IN SPANISH: (5 ITEMS) WuFlu Still Slow To Hit Mexico; Shutdown Doesn’t Slow Mexican Violence; Drug Cartel Robin Hoods;  Mexican Doctors, Nurses Keep Getting Assaulted In Street; ETC.

COVID-19: Mexico vs. U.S.
First, the mandatory Chinese Virus update from Worldometer as of April 27, 2020—16,381 cases in Mexico with 1,517 deaths. Cases per million were 120, with 11 deaths per million.
In the U.S.: 1,010,658 cases, with 56,809 deaths. Cases per million were 3,053, with 172 deaths per million.
Does that mean that Mexicans, or at least mestizos, are relatively resistant, as Mexican government health specialists appear to think ?
It's too early to tell, plus COVID-19 arrived to Mexico a month after arriving to the U.S. But, it's worth looking into.
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Mexican Murder Rate Still High
With all the shutdowns and quarantines and more people at home, you’d think the murderers in Mexico might take a break. That's happened in Central America, except that in El Salvador there's been a recent burst of murders, with over 50 killed from April 24 to 26. Meanwhile, the Mexican death merchants won’t let a pandemic stop them!
Murders in March numbered 3,000, the most thus far in AMLO’s presidency. Most were in Guanajuato, former president Vicente Fox’s home state.
“The high rates of violence for the settling of scores and of femicides in Mexico have not diminished, despite the confinement for the COVID-19 health emergency,” Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero is reported to have acknowledged [Pese a confinamiento, no bajan homicidios dolosos ni feminicidios (“In Spite of Confinement, Murders and Femicides do Not Decrease”), Ernesto Mendez, Excelsior, April 24, 2020].
Los altos índices de violencia por ajustes de cuentas y de feminicidios en México, no han disminuido. https://t.co/Sk3biyZrGY — Excélsior (@Excelsior) April 24, 2020
So the Chinese Virus is no deterrent to the gang vendetta and not even femicides (the murder of women for being women is a specific crime under Mexican law).
Said Sanchez:
In some of these families the father or mother or both lost jobs and they also have economic stress. They have stress from the confinement, they have stress being together more than they are accustomed to, of course, it is very probable that the violence has increased. As for femicides … basically we have the same stats as we did before the pandemic.
A possibly relevant factor : the consumption of alcohol.. Sales rose 63 percent between April 5 to April 11, Excelsior reported [En cuarentena la gente gasta más en bebidas alcohólicas (“People spend More on Alcoholic Beverages During Quarantine”) April 24, 2020].
😱🍷 Los vinos de mesa reportaron un alza de 82 por ciento.https://t.co/1UzO6uJADG — Excélsior (@Excelsior) April 24, 2020
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador knows the murders are a problem but blames his predecessors:
“We continue suffering the confrontations between gangs that fight over plazas [smuggling points or drug marketplaces] , drug trafficking routes. They are constantly confronting each other, and this has been going on for some time. It was an inheritance we disgracefully received [from previous administrations] … it has not been possible to decrease the number of murders.” [Crimen organizado mantiene elevado número de homicidios (“Organized Crime maintains elevated Number of Homicides”), by Arturo Paramo, Excelsior, April 24, 2020].
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Drug Cartels Giving Aid To Citizens, AMLO Says Stop It
A darkly amusing coda to that news is this: The same drug cartels that murder with abandon have been dispensing supplies Robin Hood-style to help rank-and-file Mexicans through the pandemic [Mexico can’t stop drug cartels from handing out virus aid, Associated Press, April 20, 2020].
Amusingly, or perhaps not, AMLO wants the cartel aide program stopped, yet concedes that the government can’t do much about it.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said such handouts have occurred “in several places,” but said the government can’t stop the practice. “It is something that happens, it cannot be avoided,” López Obrador said. “I don’t want to hear them saying, ‘we are handing out aid packages,’” he said. “No, better that they lay off, and think of their families, and themselves, those that are involved in these activities and who are listening to me now or watching me.” Videos posted on social media have shown one of the daughters of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman handing out boxes of rice, pasta, cooking oil and toilet paper with Guzman’s image printed on them.
WATCH: El Chapo's daughter, cartels giving aid to Mexican residents struggling during coronavirus https://t.co/yKulRnDSqe pic.twitter.com/NqWsBrFzTO — The Hill (@thehill) April 18, 2020
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Mexican Health Professionals Attacked
And here’s an outrage occurring in Mexico – members of the medical profession are being attacked on the street.
At least 44 attacks against medical personnel have been registered across the country since mid-March, according to data provided to CNN by Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination. The types of attacks vary but include nurses and doctors being struck in the face and scalding liquid thrown onto their bodies. … Authorities say the attacks are likely motivated by rumors that medical personnel are responsible for spreading the virus throughout Mexico. Several doctors and nurses told CNN they have been harassed on their social media accounts with accusations of spreading the disease. [Dozens of medical workers have been attacked in Mexico amid coronavirus fears by Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallon, CNN, April 23, 2020]
Isn't that something?
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Mexicans Dying In The U.S.
For years, Mexico’s lighter-skinned ruling class has tacitly—and sometimes not so tacitly—encouraged lower-class, darker-skinned Mexicans to emigrate to the United States. Emigration is not only a relief valve to get more people out of Mexico but also a return conduit for cash remittances. When Mexicans get into trouble in the U.S., the Mexican elites make a great show of defending them.
But the Mexican government can’t defend Mexicans in the U.S. from the virus. As of the 24th of April, 529 Mexicans had died here.
“The Mexican foreign ministry said that of the deceased, 417 were located in New York, 26 in Illinois and 25 in California,” an AFP dispatch in Excelsior reported. “The rest were from the other states” [Suman 529 mexicanos fallecidos por coronavirus en EU (“Mexicans Dying of Coronavirus in U.S. Total 529”), April 24,2020].
Many of the Mexicans in New York are poblanos, people from the Mexican state of Puebla. A Milenio article reported the death of 52 poblanos in the United States.
According to Miguel Barbosa Huerta, governor of Puebla (who’s been quoted in Said in Spanish before), the ashes of the poblanos who died on American soil are going to be transported back home via diplomatic pouch,on a special flight. thanks to the Mexican consulate in New York.
[Cenizas de migrantes con covid-19 volverán a Puebla en 'valija diplomática' (“Ashes of Migrants with COVID-19 to Return to Puebla in ‘Diplomatic Pouch’ “) by Carlos Morales, Milenio, April 24, 2020]
Another Mexican state with a lot of coronavirus victims is the state of Oaxaca, an isolated, heavily Indian, and poverty-stricken state where some residents don’t even speak Spanish.
On the 22nd of April, it was reported that 33 Oaxacans had died of COVID-19 in the United States. According to Milenio, “not all their bodies will be repatriated, as the families of some of them are not settled in that country.” [Reportan muerte de 33 migrantes oaxaqueños por covid-19 en EU (“The Deaths of 33 Oaxacan Migrants in the United States Reported”) by Oscar Rodriguez, Milenio, April 22, 2020]
And thus it goes.
I mean no disrespect to the dead, but how many of these Mexicans who died would be alive had they stayed in Mexico?
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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--2020-04-27--Faith Goldy: Globalism vs. Nationalism—The Post Coronavirus World Order

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With mandatory quarantine blanketing the majority of the globe, people everywhere are wondering: Are things ever going to go back to normal? The consensus seems to be: Probably not, at least not any time soon.
Top scientists say normal life won’t resume until 2021, most politicians keep extending their lockdown timelines, tens of millions find themselves without work, and commentators predict the WuFlu will usher in an entirely new post-coronavirus world order. So, what will the new New World Order look like? There seem to be two competing desires in that department as COVID-19 has brought about an international, inter-sector, showdown between Globalism and Nationalism.
Were Reason alone our predictor, Team Nationalist would have this in the bag.
Coronavirus is a story all about borders. At the root of this pandemic is a tale about the evils of open borders, diversity, globalism, immigration, and the fragility of economic interconnectivity.
To be sure: Immigration patriots have been vindicated at every turn of this crisis:
Concern for your homeland above other nations doesn’t make you a racist
Race is real
Demography is destiny
Globalism is a rigged and ruptured system
Sure, Joe Sixpack is getting redpilled about the fact Team Nationalist was right all along while he’s in his sequestered state— it was common sense to suspend flights, close the borders, and to make and keep supplies at home as soon as the KungFlu started making headlines—but do more ‘woke’ citizens mean a ‘w’ for Team Nationalism or are we simply being corralled into the next phase of globalism, despite rising consciousness about that system’s flaws? Many dissidents on the right are optimistic; however, I share John Derbyshire’s doubts.
Even under pressure of the current crisis and the realization that open borders and free markets have failed us, “[The American] government is still cheerfully bringing in tens of thousands of guest workers from abroad, even as the numbers of unemployed Americans rises through the stratosphere.” When pressed about the move, President Trump during a press conference literally said that without foreign guest workers coming in to do agricultural work, “We’re not going to have farms.” Someone should remind the President that H-2A foreign visa workers make up only about 10% of the US crop farm workforce. And with exponential American joblessness, how are demands to suspend programs like H1-B visas not being implemented if Nationalists are on the winning side of this thing.
Simply put: It’s because we’re not winning. The Globalists are.
Yes, we had a glimmer of hope for a few hours when President Trump announced an Immigration Moratorium Executive Order via Twitter—all of which was completely undone once Trump became a puppet to enemies to the America First crowd, planted within his White House.
Immigration moratorium EO? More like symbolic gesture BS. Rather than focusing on temporary foreign workers visas, which take good paying jobs away from Americans—you know, some 26 million of whom are unemployed at the moment—all Trump did was put a 60 day pause on new green cards… Something that was already de facto being done since the State Department has stopped processing visa applications due to virus hysteria weeks ago!
As Michelle Malkin put it: “It's all moratorium hat and no cattle”
All new green card applications and routine visa processing were already suspended
Refugee resettlement was already suspended
Despite massive layoffs of H-1B workers in tech, there is no move to send them home
More than a million F-1 foreign student visa holders remain in the country, including nearly 400,000 from China
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All this, despite the fact a whopping 79% of Americans are now in favor of a full halt to immigration!
That’s because Team Globalist is in control: They’re using the pandemic to bend the law and usher in an era of Anarcho-Tyranny in America, and across the globe. “Thanks to the Chinese Virus, you can be arrested for leaving your home or travelling for “non-essential purposes. Failure to “social distance” can mean jail-time as well. Yet the same politicians and judges who propose and enforce such measures have freed thousands of criminals from jails.”
Meantime, there are reports that Deep State saboteurs in ICE SVU are executing a mass jailbreak for illegal aliens in custody, as “more than 160 have already been released by ICE in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus in detention facilities.”
And as convicted criminals are released with nowhere to go, law abiding Americans wonder if and when they’ll ever be freed from house arrest. Not until there are “no new cases,” “no new deaths,” or a Gates-approved vaccine emerges, according to public health autocrat Anthony Fauci.
And the tyranny isn’t just medical but technological as well, with Google releasing location data—to the government and public—so to monitor whether or not we’re following social distancing rules.
Meantime, with the US only months away from the Presidential election, Americans are completely unsure of how procedurally they will cast their ballots, as primaries have already suspended in-person voting over the Chinese virus.
How will Americans—now 1 in 10 of whom are unemployed—view their President come November? The Globalists have had his back against a wall this whole time: When he refused to shut down the economy, they blamed him for every death; now that he has responded aggressively, the economy is being thrust into a recession as his Presidency hangs on the decision of when to reopen America.
So, what should Trump do? What he was elected to do in the first place: Wave the flags of economic nationalism and immigration patriotism for the sake of America’s founding stock! Stop throwing trillions at the pandemic (which will invariably end up in the pockets of Wall Street) and let Main St get back to work before unemployment kills more of America the disease itself.
Thankful @realDonaldTrump took executive action to protect American workers. I’m also requesting the suspension of additional guestworker visas and programs that undercut the American workforce. #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/GRIf7Frts1 — Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) April 24, 2020
And for heaven’s sake: Use the 30-day window afforded in section 6 of his own EO, to expand the immigration moratorium to something meaningful. Include a suspension of additional guest worker visas and programs that undercut the American workforce, visas like the H-1B, H4, B1, and B2 to name a few. Ensure American Workers are first in line to return to work by bringing on a Second Phase EO concerning Guest Worker Visas!
The America First movement has been right throughout this pandemic, and 8 in 10 Americans now share their goal of an immigration moratorium. There could never be a more perfect time for implementing an immigration restrictionist agenda. Meantime, thinking more immigration will help America’s stratospheric unemployment levels is dumber than thinking people won’t riot when they haven’t any food, even as their immigrant over-class feeds on the carcass of what was once America the Beautiful.
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vdare--2020-04-28--The Fulford File: Why Immigrant Caregivers Are Not The Answer To Coronavirus Crisis—15 Minority Hosp

The Fulford File: Why Immigrant Caregivers Are Not The Answer To Coronavirus Crisis—15 Minority Hospital Rapists In 5 Years

See also: The Fulford File: In KILL BILL, White Rednecks Raped A Comatose Woman. In Real Life, All Known Offenders Against Comatose Women Are Black
One of the things we’re being told in the age of Coronavirus is that immigrants are health care workers, and must not be sent back, even if they’re Obama’s illegal DACA recipients. See About 280,000 essential healthcare workers in the US are undocumented, by Ephrat Livni, April 16, 2020, and 29,000 DACA Recipients Are Fighting COVID-19 as Healthcare Workers, by Julyssa Lopez, Remezcla, April 16, 2020.
This is nonsense, of course. The total number of healthcare workers in America, according to the Henry J. Kaiser foundation, is 16,866,020, of which DACA recipients, with their stolen educations, are 17/100ths of one percent. Illegals are criminals and, if they’re lying about their status and Social Security numbers, they may be lying about any qualifications they have, too.
But let’s talk about the other downsides of immigrant healthcare workers—specifically things we’re not going to be told about them because it doesn’t fit the Narrative. Like immigrant male nurses and “caregivers” raping their charges.
Dave Gibson’s Illegal Alien Crime Report reported on one these cases last year. He was promptly attacked by the vigilantes at MediaBiasFactCheck.com who wrote:
In review, the Illegal Alien Crime Report, reports on crimes that are allegedly committed by illegal immigrants. Headlines are typically written in bold lettering and accompanied by a mugshot or negative image. Wording is typically moderately biased such as this: AFRICAN ‘MIGRANT’ REPEATEDLY RAPED DISABLED WOMAN IN SEATTLE NURSING HOME. Although this story is copied virtually word for word from KLTV, the original article has a very different headline: Family sets up hidden camera in nursing home, catches man sexually assaulting patient [KLTV.com, August 2, 2019] The original reporting also does not mention anything about migrant status. In fact, a search indicates that Only Illegal Alien Crime Report is describing the alleged rapist as a “migrant.” They claim without evidence that “[alleged rapist Nshimiyiana O.] Hamzat is not a citizen and came to this country from Nigeria.” While that may be true, without evidence it simply is not credible. Further, if this person is not a citizen, that does not mean he is illegal. It seems this website targets all immigrants rather than just illegals as their name suggests. Illegal Alien Crime Report, MediaBiasFactCheck, August 7, 2019
Well, of course, if a criminal charged with rape is called Nshimiyiana O. Hamzat, the onus is obviously on him and the news agency reporting about him to prove that he is a citizen, and didn’t come here from Nigeria. (Nshimiyiana and Hamzat are both Nigerian names, as Refugee Resettlement Watch’s Ann Corcoran pointed out here.) Thus, legal or illegal, he is a “migrant,” and the fact that only Gibson was reporting this says more about the American MSM than about him.
Hamzat was caught by hidden camera, below:
As for Hamzat being legal, it doesn’t make a rape victim feel better to know that her rapist has a Green Card in his pocket.
(The MediaBiasFactCheck.com people regard us here at VDARE.com as a Far Right “QUESTIONABLE SOURCE” based on …the Southern Poverty Law Center’s opinion of us. So much for their factchecking!)
But Hamza is just another example of the phenomenon I’ve tagged as “Minority Hospital Rapist”: black caregivers—many of them recent African immigrants—rape helpless, frequently elderly, women in hospitals and nursing homes.
They have also been known to rape comatose women, like the Bride in the movie Kill Bill—except, as I noted above in the article linked at the top of the page, the movie makers deliberately chose to portray the rapists as white rednecks, whereas every single one of the real-life perps I’ve been able to find are definitely not white rednecks.
Gibson’s webpage highlighted (archive link) the case of Anthony Mamboleo Nyakeo, below, a Kenyan rapist in Texas.
I know that Nyakeo is a Kenyan, because when you search for his name, the second result is from the Daily Nation of Nairobi, Kenya, and its headline is Kenyan man gets life sentence for raping elderly US patient, by Vincent Achuka, August 23 2019.
The victim was a 74-year-old female patient, now deceased. (Probably white, though they don’t say.)
An exam found evidence of vaginal tearing consistent with sexual abuse and staff collected DNA that was eventually used to tie Mr Nyakeo to the assault,” Fox News reported. After the discovery of the blood, all male staff at the facility at the time the suspected sexual assault took place were asked to undergo a DNA test. The Tarrant County District Attorney's office told the court that Mr Nyakeo’s DNA sample “matched the sample recovered from the woman during her sexual assault exam. The court was also told that the Kenyan nurse, who immigrated to the US, raped the elderly woman despite knowing that she could not resist or consent to his sexual advances because of her medical condition. [Emphasis added]
That’s how the Nairobi media describes this case, but if you look in the US press, Nyakeo is described as Worker, Former Texas nursing home worker, Former health care worker, Fort Worth man, and Home Care Aide in headlines.
Again, via Illegal Alien Crime Reports (archive link), another African accused of the rape of an extremely elderly woman in a North Carolina nursing home: Joseph Ngigi Kariuki, pictured below.
A 79-year-old woman said she was attacked by a staff member, police said. Brookdale administrators said a supervisor detained a suspect as soon as the allegation was made, and the suspect was removed from the facility as police investigated. Joseph Ngigi Kariuki, 47, of Clayton, was charged with second-degree forcible rape. He was being held Monday in the Johnston County jail under $100,000 bond and will make his first court appearance on Friday. Police: Staffer raped resident at Smithfield assisted living facility, WRAL, December 23, 2019
There are fewer details, but while, as in the other cases, the US press insists that Mr. Kariuki is a “facility worker” or an “employee,” a “staffer” above or several other uninformative things like that, the Kenyan press unflinchingly acknowledges that he’s a Kenyan: Kenyan man Joseph Ngigi charged in US with raping 79-year-old granny, SonkoNews.com, December 31, 2019.
This one I found myself: I don’t know for sure that Confidence Boms, below, is African immigrant, but I would say that while American blacks name themselves in a variety of interesting ways, they rarely name themselves “Confidence Boms”—that’s more typical of actual Africans:
Confidence Boms was arrested April 24th and charged with rape, sexual assault and access device fraud after assaulting a client in her Wormleysburg home. … Police say the victim is disabled and had Boms as her caregiver for some time.… The victim also reported Boms forcing her to go to a clinic in Harrisburg City to obtain free HIV testing, and making her take free condoms from the facility, according to documents. Police say the woman reported on Feb. 20 that Boms used her debit card to purchase the morning after pill from Rite Aid, which was confirmed later by surveillance video. On Feb. 23, the victim said she was vaginally raped by Boms at her apartment, according to police. Police: Caregiver charged with rape after assaulting client by CBS 21 News ,Thursday, April 25th, 2019
To find cases like this, you have to search for things like “Caregiver charged”—because searching for “African immigrant charged” would be absolutely useless. (Because the MSM is useless.)
I can tell for sure that Joachim Mmassey, below, isn’t descended from black Americans of the kind who came to the US between 1619 and 1865. Mmassey is a Tanzanian name, and African-Americans don’t tend to call themselves Joachim.
Woodbridge caregiver arrested for allegedly raping disabled woman, by Kiona Dyches, WDVM 25, July 9, 2019
The same onomastic rule tells me that Thomas Kamau Nganga, the nurse pictured below is not a regular African American (people named Nganga are Kenyans). But for once, his immigration status was actually mentioned in an American MSM news story—in the context of him asking for clemency:
Prior to sentencing, Nganga's father-in-law said the arrest was traumatizing for the defendant’s two young children. Nganga moved to the United States on a green card from Kenya more than 20 years ago. Henrico nurse found guilty of attempting to rape patient, by Brendan King, WTVR CBS 6, March 4, 2020. [Emphasis added.]
“Moved to the United States” is, believe it or not, a common euphemism for “immigrated” in these immigrant crime stories. MSM hacks are happy to say someone is an immigrant if they’re a crime victim, but not if they’re being sentenced for rape. See also Nurse charged with raping elderly patient at Henrico care facility, WRIC, Oct 19, 2018.
One more case—not an African, for once, but a Filipino. Emeterio Ticar Betiwan, 61, no picture available, was sentenced for raping an 83-year-old woman who suffers from dementia [Walnut Creek: Ex-caregiver sentenced for raping dementia patient, by Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, June 29, 2017.
If you want to know whether rapist Betiwan, a Filipino as shown by his name, is a Filipino immigrant or a Filipino-American, the MSM isn’t interested in telling you. [Walnut Creek: Elder care worker convicted of raping patient, by Nate Gartrell, East Bay Times, March 9, 2017] But the record of his appeal in People v. Betiwan notes that an interpreter was present in court. (This is one of Ann Coulter’s Secret Decoder Ring tips for detecting MSM-hidden immigrant crime as described by her in Adios, America, Chapter 9.)
I became interested in the phenomenon of Minority Hospital Rape when licensed practical nurse Nathan Sutherland (right) an immigrant from Haiti, was arrested for raping and impregnating a woman in a "persistent vegetative state " in January of 2019. The victim was a member of the San Carlos Apache tribe. The way we know the story is that San Carlos Apache Tribe officials issued a statement. If the victim had been white, there would have been no one to issue a statement.
Sutherland is described in MSM reports as, for example, an "Arizona nurse."
I’ve reported a lot of cases like this here on VDARE.com. There are 13 posts in our “Minority Hospital Rapist” category (which includes a 2018 Ann Coulter column called Teddy Kennedy's Surprise For Grandma—Immigrants Who Rape The Elderly) and there are more than 13 cases like this. Ann’s column listed three.
The three previously most recent cases:
This adds another seven, almost all African immigrants.
Total that I’m aware of: fifteen in five years. I’m sure there are more.
So if President Trump is being told to let “caregivers” have visas to help with coronavirus-stricken hospitals and nursing homes, someone should tell him to ignore it.
Because whoever’s sending these guys is, as Trump said in 2015, not sending their best.
James Fulford [Email him] is a writer and editor for VDARE.com.


vdare--2020-04-28--Kayleigh McEnany's "Racist Language" About  Obama's Brother Or NYT's Ignorance?

Tthis is from a hit piece on White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, which Soledad O'Brien (formerly of CNN) on Twitter, wouldn't even link to because it wasn't enough of a hit piece.
But she was using racist language similar to Mr. Trump’s long before the formal launch of his political career — or hers. Eight years ago, a 24-year-old Ms. McEnany leapt at the Twitter hashtag #ObamaTVShows to offer “How I Met Your Brother — Never mind, forgot he’s still in that hut in Kenya.” In Kayleigh McEnany, Trump Taps a Press Fighter for the Coronavirus Era, by Elizabeth Williamson, NYT, April 27, 2020
Tweet still online:
How I Met Your Brother -- Never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya. #ObamaTVShows — Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 30, 2012
It seems like the NYT doesn't realize that George Hussein Onyango Obama, half-brother of Barack Obama, exists, and in 2012, was living a hut, or possibly a shed, shack, or shanty.
Steve Sailer blogged on this in 2008 [Obama's Brother by Another Mother Found Living in a Hut] the Daily Mail covered it at the same time in Barack Obama's 'half-brother discovered in Kenya, living on a dollar a month' By Nick Pisa, August 20, 2008.
And this was not old news by 2012, when a 24-year-old McEnany tweeted about it, Obama's half-brother was, in fact, still living in a hut in Kenya in 2012:
Obama's slumdog brother: Meet the hopeless drunk from a Nairobi shanty town who is the U.S. President's BROTHER, DailyMail, August 10, 2012.
Obama's slumdog brother: Meet the man from Nairobi shanty town... http://t.co/YX5a8kMb — NEWS MAKER (@NEWS_MAKER) August 10, 2012
He was still living there in 2015. [Obama: I don’t need my brother US President Barack Obama’s penniless half-brother George lives in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, despite the fact that he is the author of a successful book and a play. He wants to make it on his own. by Argwings Odera, Africanindy.com, September 26, 2015]
Obama's father, Barack Sr. had children by two white women, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Ruth Baker. Stanley Ann Dunham's son was President of the United States, Ruth Baker's son (Obama's half-brother Mark) is an executive with a Chinese Import-Export company, and his youngest son, George, lives in a hut in Kenya.
But many of you knew that. My feeling is that the NYT's Elizabeth Williamson called this racist because she'd never heard of George Obama, and her picture of a "hut in Kenya" is a traditional African dwelling inhabited by a man in a loincloth with a spear.
Well, that's racist, right there. The slums of Nairobi are pretty Third-Worldy, but they're not jungle or savannah, it's a city.
But the main thing is that Williamson assumes it's racist because she never heard of Obama's brother, and assumes anything you say about Obama is racist.
This is true, and is the problem with the whole Obama project, as noted in Face It, Anything You Say About Obama Is A Gaffe on February 2, 2007, before Obama was elected.


vdare--2020-04-28--WaPo: Wealthiest Black County "Hardest Hit" Because Racism

As we near the end of the Coronavirus lockdown, the one consensus opinion forming and coming from the corporate press is all too clear to discern: white people/implicit bias/white privilege/ environmental racism/structural inequalities/the legacy of slavery/segregation/redlining is the primary reason the virus is impacting blacks disproportionately.
If black people are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus, obviously this is a sign of white racism and perverse white supremacy, correct? The virus isn’t colorblind, directly targeting blacks in Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and Atlanta, while leaving white people alone.
Right?
It could never be individual black people have pre-existing health problems (and fail to social distance), which collectively make this community more at-risk than whites, because just blaming some combination of white racism/segregation/redlining/historical legacy of slavery/Tuskegee Experiments will ensure billions of dollars are directed to the black community when the coronavirus dust settles and recompense for the dead is tallied.
It’s a simple formula for ensuring the perpetuation of white guilt to maintain the status quo: If a disproportionate amount of black people suffer from some demonstrable malady (foreclosures, denial of loan, bad credit, low SAT/ACT scores, high incarceration rates, deaths via the coronavirus), then it’s axiomatic white people/implicit bias/white privilege/environmental racism/structural inequalities/the legacy of slavery/segregation/redlining is to blame.
Never, ever must we consider the collective individual actions/choices of blacks as the reason behind the problem, when the blanket of blame can easily fall over all white people.
Covid-19 is ravaging one of the country’s wealthiest black counties, Rachel Chason, by Ovetta Wiggins, and John D. Harden, Washington Post, April 27, 2020 The intensive care unit at Inova Alexandria Hospital has empty beds, and doctors are prepared for a rush of coronavirus patients that has yet to hit the largely white suburb. A dozen miles away at Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Hospital Center, the ICU is full, and employees treat coronavirus patients in medical tents in the parking lot. Paramedics across Prince George’s County are summoned daily to help people struggling to breathe, and funeral home directors are searching for more places to store bodies. Prince George’s, one of the nation’s wealthiest majority-black counties, has reported the most coronavirus infections and some of the highest death tolls in the Washington region. In the hardest-hit neighborhoods, African American and Latino residents make up more than 70 percent of households. The grim statistics mirror data showing black Americans are more likely than white Americans to be infected with the novel coronavirus and more likely to die of it. Officials say the pandemic has hit the county of 900,000 especially hard because many residents are front-line workers exposed daily to the virus, and Prince Georgians disproportionately suffer from underlying health conditions that make the virus more deadly. “His comment to me was, ‘I am the only pharmacist,’ ” said Bowie resident Nicole Boynes, whose husband, Sean, had asthma but kept working at a pharmacy he helped found in Greenbelt. Sean Boynes, a former Air Force captain, died of covid-19, the disease the virus causes, on April 2. He was 46. Nearly 14 percent of adults in Prince George’s have diabetes, according to county health statistics, 36 percent are obese, and 64 percent of the county’s Medicare beneficiaries suffer from hypertension — rates above national and statewide averages. There are fewer hospital beds and primary care doctors than in neighboring jurisdictions, which means residents are less likely to treat medical problems early. The county also spends less on public health efforts than its wealthier neighbors. The 174 county residents who had died of covid-19 as of Sunday, according to The Washington Post’s tracker, include educators, a maintenance worker, a prominent artist and a pastor. One of the youngest victims was Leilani Jordan, 27, who had cognitive disabilities and worked at the Giant supermarket in Largo. As the number of cases continues to rise, officials are promising to put more money toward public health, even as the prolonged economic shutdown decimates government budgets. They are determined to improve wellness and find ways to bring doctors and nurses to the communities they say have too long been ignored. “It’s served as a magnifying glass for challenges we knew we had,” said County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D). “We know that when this is over, we can’t return to business as usual.” Death transcends class Maryland’s first coronavirus death, announced March 18, was a Prince George’s man in his 60s with underlying health conditions. The deaths that followed have been people from poor neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway and wealthy subdivisions outside of it. A Washington Post analysis found that among the Zip codes with the highest per capita infection rates is 20769, which includes Glenn Dale and has a median household income of $148,800. But there is also 20712, which includes Mt. Rainier, on the border with the District, and has a median household income of $54,800. Of the deaths in Prince George’s for which the victim’s race or ethnicity was reported, 130 were African American, 15 were Latino, and 19 were white, according to county data. Jordan, the supermarket worker, lived in Upper Marlboro. Her mother, Zenobia Shepherd, warned her about the risks of the pandemic, but she said Jordan probably did not fully understand. “She said, ‘Mommy, I’m going to work because no one else is going to help the senior citizens get their groceries,’ ” Shepherd said. “She only stopped going to work when she could no longer breathe.” Shepherd said her daughter’s death made her more aware of the disparities between white and black communities. Recently, she tried to buy respiratory masks in her local pharmacy; there weren’t any. When she drove across the river to Alexandria, she had no trouble finding them. Transition and struggle The history of Prince George’s makes the story unfolding there distinct from those in highly segregated cities like Detroit, Chicago and New Orleans, Wright said. Prince George’s was a mostly white, working-class suburb through the 1970s. Starting in the 1980s, it attracted more middle-income and wealthy black professionals, creating a rare example of a county that grew more affluent as white residents moved out. Despite the concentration of wealth and education in the county, there remain pockets of poverty, and officials have struggled to consistently attract the kind of development — including grocery stores and restaurants — that residents want. Swaths of the county are considered food deserts by the federal government. Dialysis centers are common in its strip malls. About 11 percent of residents do not have insurance, higher than state and local averages. There are 477 primary care physicians in Prince George’s, fewer than half the 1,420 in neighboring, more affluent and whiter Montgomery County, which has about 20 percent more residents. “The reasons are structural, and they are historical,” Wright said. “The county did not get here overnight.”
There’s an awful lot to unpack from this story, though the obvious lesson is one so glaring does it even need utterance?
Go ahead and dissect this story and see if blaming white people is at all possible.
We’ll wait. Take your time.
A majority black county–perhaps the wealthiest majority black county in America–with elected/appointed black leaders providing governance to their black constituents is a hotbed for the coronavirus, and the Washington Post has multiple writers contributing to a story bending over backward to blame white people for the crisis.
If you look closely, they trot out the old food deserts trope, in what is supposed to be the wealthiest black county in America.
This same scene is unfolding in heavily segregated cities across America (Chicago, Atlanta, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City), where black people are dying disproportionately from the coronavirus. But if black communities are being ravaged disproportionately from the coronavirus, doesn’t this confirm the opposite of the media attacks on white people for being behind the crisis?
After all, white flight was the original social distancing.
Think about it.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-27--Ethnomasochism Personified: White Female Oxford Professor Hopes White Male Scientists Don't Find Vac

Ethnomasochism Personified: White Female Oxford Professor Hopes White Male Scientists Don't Find Vaccine to Coronavirus

So why was my initial relief at hearing Oxford and Imperial are racing away to develop the vaccine followed by worry?
Let’s suppose that Oxford does develop the first vaccine. What happens next?
David Heymann, an infectious disease specialist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who heads a panel that advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on Coronavirus, says that there could be a production shortage. Researchers have also warned that this will lead to rich countries hoarding supplies. We were too late when it came to stockpiling PPE, but we won’t be caught out again. The vaccine, developed by our finest brains, is ours. And it will be Britons who are prioritised for protection.
If there is enough vaccine to go round, the UK will be the world’s saviour. We’ll quickly forget the devastating delay of the UK government to take action, as Boris Johnson proudly safeguarded British institutions like individual liberty, and the pub, over lives.
We’ll forget the lessons that the pandemic has taught us so far: that the UK and the US are in fact not exceptions at the global stage. That we are not only vulnerable but can also afford to learn lessons from countries, regardless of whether we have a special relationship with them – such as South Korea. That being white, male and Oxford-educated may not be the only criteria for effective leadership (the countries whose responses have been most widely praised, Germany and New Zealand among others, are all led by women).
The developments made by researchers at Oxford have been enabled by international co-operation among the research community. Whilst China has faced lots of questions about it’s sharing of information politically, according to Laura Spinney: “The unprecedented speed of virus development so far is thanks in large part to early Chinese efforts to sequence the genetic material of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. China shared that sequence in early January, allowing research groups around the world to grow the live virus and study how it invades human cells and makes people sick.”
Dr Claas Kirchhelle, fellow of the Research and Policy Unit at the Oxford Martin School, confirms that “there has been a radical sharing of information and a very rapid sequencing of the pathogen’s genetic code.” It is clear, then, that international co-operation saves lives.
But do our Oxford-educated leaders think like this? Coronavirus is a global epidemic. Yet, rather than motivating the UK to take a proud role at the global stage, as leaders like Macron have urged, the UK is increasingly resorting to patriotism in response.
This war-time rhetoric is useful in instilling a sense that this is a moment when individuals need to make sacrifices and put the country first. But this time, the enemy is not a nation. It is a microbe. So why do our collective solidarities end at the border?
The race is on and researchers at Oxford are doing vital, life-saving work. But races have winners and losers. If my university is the first to develop the vaccine, I’m worried that it will be used as it has been in the past, to fulfil its political, patriotic function as proof of British excellence.
The story will be clear: China, once again, has unleashed a threat to civilisation. But the best brains of the UK have saved the world.
Whilst I’m hopeful that I will be able to visit my Dad soon, this must not overshadow the key lesson of coronavirus: international cooperation saves lives. The research community knows this. Let’s hope our politicians do too.
Dr Emily Cousens researches vulnerability and gender at Oxford Brookes university and teaches on the women’s studies masters course at University of Oxford.


vdare--2020-04-27--Handshakes Down Through History

Handshakes Down Through History

With handshakes suddenly out of fashion, it’s fun to recall improbably lengthy handshake links through history.
For example, Winston Churchill (1874-1965) liked to recount in the 1930s that as a boy, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) had told him that he remembered the bonfires celebrating victory at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
Somebody on Twitter today extended one link recollection of those 1815 Waterloo celebrations all the way to 1979:
You may not have seen this, but in 1979 I sat next to a certain TN at dinner (b. 1887), who when a child had met someone who remembered the Waterloo celebrations. — Ecclesiam (@Bruveccles) April 27, 2020
The intermediary was Tressilian Nicholas, geologist and bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, who lived from 1887 to 1989.
What about American links? What’s the shortest set of intermediaries to Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)?
Genial British journalist Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) liked to tell people who shook his hand: you are shaking the hand of a man who shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln. The intermediary was the famous Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935), who shook Lincoln’s hand during the Civil War, in which Holmes (the son of a famous doctor and humorist who tried and failed, like Semmelweis, to convince his fellow doctors to wash their hands) was wounded three times.
How about to George Washington (1732-1799)?
Once again, Alistair Cooke to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. As a boy, Holmes Jr. shook the hand of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), whose father was a key founding father. I presume that JQ Adams as a brilliant young man shook the hand of each of the major founding fathers, even Ben Franklin (d. 1790).
Robert Krulwich noted this connection in 2012, which he learned from Jason Kottke:
2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Shakes Hands With Both Presidents Adams And Kennedy Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lived long enough (1841-1935) to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams (b. 1767) and a young John F. Kennedy (d. 1963). One man, says Kottke, “spanning 200 years of American history.”
Krulwich also supplied a more ignominious connection:
Tony Hiss, son of Alger Hiss, says that when his dad clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes, he remembers Justice Holmes saying that as a kid, his grandmother used to talk of the day at the beginning of the American Revolution when she was 5 years old and stood at her dad’s front window on Beacon Hill in Boston and watched “rank after rank of Redcoats marching through town.” So that’s grandma to grandson to us. Two bounces.
Tony Hiss, a writer for the New Yorker, says his traitor dad called it:
My father himself even had a name for a kind of ongoing closeness between people in which death is sometimes only an irrelevance. He called it “the Great Span,” a sort of bucket brigade or relay race across time, a way for adjacent generations to let ideas and goals move intact from one mind to another across a couple of hundred years or more.
So how about connecting Alger Hiss to Benedict Arnold? Alger Hiss to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to John Quincy Adams to George Washington to Benedict Arnold sounds highly plausible. And it’s not impossible that the JQA himself met Arnold as an adolescent in America and/or as a young diplomat in England, although whether JQA would have shaken Arnold’s hand after his flight in 1780 is uncertain.
Can we cut out Alistair Cooke? Is anybody still alive who shook the hand of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the 1930s before his death in 1935?
Tony Hiss was born in 1941 so he won’t do. Warren Buffett was born in 1930, but his father wasn’t elected to Congress until the 1940s. Bob Dole was born in 1923 but his Kansas family wasn’t of national prominence. Gore Vidal was born in 1925 to a national prominent family but he has been dead for almost 8 years. Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-2019) died last year at 95. It’s not unreasonable to imagine that she, as an heiress to a famous fortune, might have been introduced to the famous O.W. Holmes as a child.
Jurist Rush Limbaugh Sr. (1891-1996) sounds plausible but the broadcaster’s grandfather has been dead for 24 years.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-27--Coronavirus Pandemic, Stay-At-Home Orders Can't Stop Black Violence In St. Louis—ALL Homicides In 20

Coronavirus Pandemic, Stay-At-Home Orders Can't Stop Black Violence In St. Louis—ALL Homicides In 2020 Have A Black Suspect

PK Note: Pick up a copy of Bell Curve City: St. Louis, Ferguson, and the Unmentionable Racial Realities That Shape Them. You might learn something about St. Louis…
So far in 2020 St. Louis, a 49 percent black/43 percent white city, there have been 47 homicides.
Suspects in which the race is known of the offender are all black (of the 47 victims, four have been white, one Hispanic and the rest black).
Why mention this? Well, it seems the coronavirus is impeding the rollout of a crime reduction campaign called “Cure Violence,” a taxpayer-funded initiative where former criminals go into the community of St. Louis to convince current criminals to disengage from violence and stop killing people.
Murders in St. Louis are up 23% while pandemic delays ‘Cure Violence,’ by Elliott Davis, Fox2Now.com, April 24, 2020 LOUIS, Mo. – “You Paid For It” investigator Elliott Davis learns that the coronavirus crisis is delaying the implementation of an anti-crime program called Cure Violence. The Board of Aldermen appropriated $5 million for the program that’s supposed to cut homicides as much as 50 percent. But the city has been slow in getting the program put in place. A contract has been awarded to a company to hire workers for Cure Violence but the workers are not hired yet. Meanwhile, murders in St. Louis are up about 23 percent from this time a year ago. The Krewson administration says right now they’re focused on dealing with slowing the spread of COVID-19. It seems that Cure Violence is taking a back seat right now. Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed says the program should have been put in place sooner. He says the city can’t use coronavirus as an excuse when it could have gotten the program up and running before the crisis hit. Mayor Krewson’s spokesman said that even if Cure Violence had been put in place before now it more than likely would have been slowed by the social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Part of Cure Violence involves hiring former criminals to go out and convince current criminals to forgo vengeance. Right now no one is sure when Cure Violence will be up and running. A representative for Mayor Krewson’s office says it all depends on what happens with the pandemic.
Remember: black people dying of coronavirus disproportionately in St. Louis is the fault of white racism (segregation is obviously to blame, protecting white people from the virus!) and black people shooting other blacks in St. Louis during the pandemic is equally the fault of racism.
Or is it structural inequality? Or redlining? Or implicit bias? Wait, isn’t it white privilege?
Maybe just call it environmental racism and be done with it?
Just remember: Black people shooting/killing other blacks in St. Louis is the fault of white people, just as blacks dying disproportionately of the coronavirus is the fault of whites too.
Of course, noting segregation (white people voluntarily deciding to live in communities devoid of blacks) might be keeping whites safe from black violence and the coronavirus is something we aren’t supposed to consider.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-28--This Day In VDARE.Com History, 2015: Pat Buchanan Channels Peter Brimelow—"No Excuse" For Rioting

Originally published here on this day in 2015. In 2018, we published an item called It's The 50th Anniversary Of The Martin Luther King Riots—And Will Be For About A Week, because that was how long it took America in 1968 to put down those riots. It will be 5th Anniversary of Obama's Baltimore Riot for a while.
When these weekly riots for the Oppression Mascot of the month began, Peter Brimelow wrote,
Contrary to Jonah Goldberg in his August 16 Ferguson Agonistes in National Review (which seems to be having a particularly bad time with its peasants on this issue), I don’t think “rioting is almost never justified” (my emphasis). I think it’s never justified. In other words, what Governor Nixon and Captain Johnson are doing, to the usual MSM applause, is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. They should meet any sign of rioting with ruthless coercion: The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force. The cops will usually be caught flat-footed (no pun intended) by the initial outbreak. But they need to spring into a pre-arranged mobilization that should always be as ready in every major city as the fire-department or hospital disaster-response program. That was the late Eugene Methvin…writing in the pre-purge National Review (June 10, 1991). Personally, my sympathies, like those of most fair-minded Americans, are entirely with Police Officer Wilson (who is clearly going to be legally lynched like the Rodney King cops and who should probably flee the country). But his guilt or innocence is completely irrelevant here. There is no right to riot—period.
Now, the best President America never had, Pat Buchanan, says the following.
“The arson, looting, vandalism and violence that have ravaged Baltimore should have been met days ago with superior and decisive force. There is no justification, no rationale, no excuse for what has been going on in the streets of Baltimore. None." “The root cause of riots is rioters, and the answer is ever the same if we are to remain a free society – the swift and unapologetic restoration of law and order. “What is needed today is not solicitude or empathy for the lawbreakers and rioters, but unequivocal condemnation of them, by the president and those in both parties who aspire to succeed him.” [Pat Buchanan: Baltimore Needs "Decisive Force," WorldNetDaily, April 28, 2015]
In contrast, President Obama seems to be doing his best to keep this going.


vdare--2020-04-27--Social Distancing  With  Peter Brimelow And Colin Flaherty This Wednesday At 3 p.m. EST

Join us HERE (from a safe digital distance) for our happy hour with Peter Brimelow and Colin Flaherty this Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST! We’ll be streaming LIVE on our YouTube channel!
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Colin Flaherty is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.
He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller: 'White Girl Bleed a Lot': The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It. And Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It. Unfortunately, the latter book was banned by Amazon by Tech Totalitarians, and five separate channels on YouTube Mr. Flaherty created were also deleted. It could be argued Mr. Flaherty was one of the first targets of digital deletion by our tech totalitarians.
As Flaherty wrote at American Thinker at the time of his final ban:
“As with all my videos, there is no racism, no rancor, no apologies. Neither is there obscenity or vulgarity of any kind. No matter: that video came down. And, once again, YouTube dropped me like a pile of hot rocks. Over the last few years, my videos have become "a thing," garnering more than 100 million views, mostly from people who are as skeptical as you and me. No one has time to watch videos that are not true. And if they are not true, it should be the easiest thing in the world to show. Instead, the dominant reaction from the trolls is 1) that is not happening; 2) white people do it, too; 3) white people deserve it; and 4) let's hammer YouTube until Colin is removed.”
Thomas Sowell praised Flaherty, as he said, "Reading Colin Flaherty's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities."
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:
Michelle Malkin
Diana West


vdare--2020-04-29--Trump’s Immigration “Moratorium”—A Millstone Could Become A Milestone With Some Tweaks. How Else Can

Trump’s Immigration “Moratorium”—A Millstone Could Become A Milestone With Some Tweaks. How Else Can He Win Re-Election?

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Can President Trump and the GOP salvage something from the wreck of his immigration moratorium proposal? Though the details were a bitter disappointment, it may be yet turn out to be a milestone rather than a millstone. Trump officials now say that what’s in place now is only the beginning. A growing number of Republican lawmakers demand that he expand it. And Trump’s base, including the conservative commentariat, is angry. But none of this guarantees Trump will beef his Executive Order up, so immigration patriots on and off Capitol Hill must deliver a strong message.
VDARE.com has long supported an immigration moratorium. As Trump said: “It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad. We must first take care of the American worker.” [President Donald J. Trump Is Honoring His Commitment to Protect American Workers by Temporarily Pausing Immigration, April 22, 2020] But as a practical matter, this moratorium proposal is toothless [Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak, WhiteHouse.gov, April 22, 2020].
Jared Kushner reportedly gutted the original order, which exempted only guest-worker visas for farm and health care workers [Exclusive: Trump’s Original Order Halted Foreign Workforce Flow to U.S., by John Binder, April 23, 2020]. Now the new prohibition only limits green-card applicants, and explicitly exempts EB-5 investor-visa holders and healthcare workers. And thanks to the cloudy language, the Homeland Security Secretary can declare the “H” visa holders vital to the national interest and continue letting them pour across the border [Jared Kushner pushes back on Trump’s immigration ban, by Amber Athey, The Spectator, April 21, 2020].
Kushner, of course, had obvious conflicts of interest that the Democrats/ MSM will inevitably exploit. For example, his relatives have lobbied for more investor visas, which primarily go to Chinese oligarchs, to obtain funding for family business ventures [America Has a Jared Kushner Problem, by Pedro Gonzalez, American Greatness, April 24, 2020].
Still, the White House, and surely Trump himself, know that the current order satisfies no one.
Of course Treason Lobby Democrats and their Media Information Ministry declared the moratorium “racist” and “authoritarian,” proving once again the party cares more about foreigners than Americans and that no compromise from Trump will appease them ['Xenophobe. In. Chief.': Democrats blast Trump's plan to suspend immigration to U.S., by Rebecca Shabad, NBC News, April 21, 2020].
Trump can ignore the Democrats. But he can’t ignore his own base, not least its leaders with a very loud voice.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson ripped into the Administration for the neutered order, saying it fails to protect American workers and rewards greedy businessmen.
Must Watch @TuckerCarlson Monologue: Trump's EO Fails To Protect American Jobs
"There is only one point in handing out hundreds of thousands of these visas to foreign nationals & it is to placate big business."
"If the point of this EO was to protect American jobs it failed." pic.twitter.com/XzFsoxpXbT — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 22, 2020
Significantly, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also blasted the guest-worker exemptions. “We don’t need to be bringing in a million-plus workers when 22 million Americans are out of work,” he told Carlson [Cruz: Doesn’t Make Sense to Bring in Foreign IT Workers, Americans ‘Need to Get the Jobs,’ by Ian Hanchett, Breitbart, April 21, 2020].
(Cruz had it right. Two days later, the Department of Labor reported that another 4.4 million Americans had applied for unemployment [Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims, April 23, DOL.gov]. More grim data will certainly be forthcoming Thursday morning).
Another significant figure who attacked the moratorium, albeit without naming Trump: TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.
Kirk has typically cheered whatever Trump says or does, and always champions the interests of big business and the “free market.” But for some reason, his priorities have apparently shifted toward a nationalist view. Maybe the “Groyper War” affected him?
Trump listens to Carlson and sometimes acts on what the Fox host says [Trump gets more foreign-policy ideas from Fox News host Tucker Carlson than his actual advisers, Steve Bannon claims, by Tom Porter, Business Insider, December 12, 2019]. Cruz is a powerful senator who can force the president’s hand with legislation expanding the ban. And TPUSA’s Kirk enjoys close ties to the White House—he might even have suggested the moratorium to begin with.
Good news is, the White House has felt the heat. Thus Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller told prominent Trump supporters during a phone call last week the executive order is just the first part in a wider plan to “turn off the faucet of new immigrant labor.”
“When you suspend the entry of a new immigrant from abroad, you’re also reducing immigration further because the chains of follow-on migration that are disrupted,” Miller said. “So the benefit to American workers compounds with time” [Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump’s ‘temporary’ immigration order, according to private call with supporters, by Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, April 24, 2020].
And, also last week, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News that the order is a “first step” and to expect additions [Trump officials eye 'additional steps' after executive order on immigration, by Adam Shaw, Fox News, April 25, 2020].
Even if this is empty rhetoric aimed at pacifying restless natives, it reveals fear in the White House. If patriot critics are shaking Trump’s cage, he might just do something—particularly if he listens to the cry for help from that disparate group of Americans known as Deplorables.
A USA Today survey before the controversy showed that nearly 80 percent of those polled want a temporary halt to immigration [Exclusive: In four devastating weeks, Americans' fears of the coronavirus have exploded, by Susan Page, USA Today, April 13]. And 57 percent of those answering a more recent Rasmussen survey want a temporary halt [Most Favor Trump’s Halt to Immigration to Help U.S. Workers; Democrats Don’t, RasmussenReports.com, April 24, 2020].
Rasmussen also showed how extreme the average Democrat has become on immigration: 53 percent of those polled disagreed with the idea that American workers should come first. In contrast, 85 percent of Republicans agreed.
That looks like a slam-dunk on the campaign trail.
Similarly a new Washington Post poll found that 65 percent of Americans support temporarily blocking nearly all immigration, a similar finding [April 21-26, 2020 Washington Post-University of Maryland. poll crosstabs (Google Dock)].
Of course, Main Stream Media Trump Haters could ask embarrassing questions, such as: Why did his order drop some protections for American workers and reward the fat cats of Wall Street and Big Business.
But that would require Treason Lobby scribes to think like real Americans. They just don’t. They represent the Democratic elite that prefers foreigners to Americans.
And to them, of course, Trump is never right when he pushes a popular idea.
Then again, perhaps a conservative journalist might stop tossing slowballs over the plate and ask Trump about the moratorium. A dry spitter low on the outside corner from One America News might move him to correct his error. Tucker Carlson, Breitbart, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and others can pressure Trump on TV and social media to do the right thing. But who will do the job in the White House press room?
Fortunately, on Capitol Hill a few lawmakers are already stepping up:
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar has sent a letter to the White House urging the “suspension of additional guest-worker visas and programs that undercut the American workforce.” He declared: “There has never been a better time to truly put America first” [Gosar Requests Suspension of Additional Foreign Workers, Gosar.House.gov, April 24, 2020].
Gosar is 100 percent right.
Gosar has continued to hammer home this message on Twitter. “We cannot truly put #AmericaFirst unless we suspend H-1B, H4, L1, B1, B2, Optional Practical Training Program, and other guest worker admissions,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
Chances are, one of the two will join the immigration patriot chorus. The Senate is set to return to session next week, a great chance for a bold legislator to call for a correction.
The issue isn’t going away. Millions of Americans will still be jobless when the 60-day pause is over. GOP leaders must be reminded it’s a winning issue that can highlight Democratic extremism.
In the House, ambitious lawmakers such as Matt Gaetz might echo the call for a moratorium expansion.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan also gets it: “[Democrats] said they want to release illegal immigrants. They said they wanted to pay states to let criminals out of jail early. They said abortion clinics are essential businesses. And they said you can’t purchase firearms and can go to church. That’s the radical position. They’re going to go crazy on this, but most Americans are going to see it for what it is, which is just good common sense” [Jim Jordan: Suspending Immigration During Pandemic ‘Just Good Common Sense’, by Jeff Poor, Breitbart, April 20, 2020].
That message rewrites the MSM-Treason Lobby Chinese Virus narrative: Republicans are doing as much as Americans will tolerate. Democrats will impose anarcho-tyranny.
Flawed as it is, until Trump’s Executive Order, remember that not a single Republican proposed such a sensible idea at the height of the 2008-9 Great Recession. All that has changed.
Trump has put the idea of an immigration moratorium in play. Now it’s up to him to correct his flawed.
After all, playing endless word-games about Coronavirus with a hostile media is not going to re-elect him.
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-04-29--Watch The Replay Of "Social Distancing With Peter Brimelow" And His Guest Colin Flaherty

You can now watch the replay the third episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow.” He was joined by Colin Flaherty. You can click here to go to our YouTube channel to watch the conversation (be sure to subscribe!). Or, watch below:
Flaherty is an award winning writer whose work has been published in more than 1000 places around the globe, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business Week, Time magazine, and others.
He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller: "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It." And "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It." Unfortunately, the latter book was banned by Amazon, as were five channels on YouTube Mr. Flaherty created. It could be argued Mr. Flaherty was one of the first targets of digital deletion by our Tech Totalitarians.
As Flaherty wrote at American Thinker at the time of his final ban:
“As with all my videos, there is no racism, no rancor, no apologies. Neither is there obscenity or vulgarity of any kind. No matter: that video came down. And, once again, YouTube dropped me like a pile of hot rocks. Over the last few years, my videos have become "a thing," garnering more than 100 million views, mostly from people who are as skeptical as you and me. No one has time to watch videos that are not true. And if they are not true, it should be the easiest thing in the world to show. Instead, the dominant reaction from the trolls is 1) that is not happening; 2) white people do it, too; 3) white people deserve it; and 4) let's hammer YouTube until Colin is removed.”
Thomas Sowell praised Flaherty, saying "Reading Colin Flaherty's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities."
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:
Michelle Malkin
Diana West