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The Patriot Post Digest 6-27-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jun. 27, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/63927-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/63925-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
The first Democrat debate and how they know better than you.1
The true story of the two drowned migrants is even more sad.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Demo Debate 1: How Far Left Can They Go?10
The Democrat field of 25 announced candidates is, on the one hand, a clown car full of people who can’t possibly be serious about being president along with a few who have a legitimate shot. But the amalgam, as on display in last night’s Part I of II debate featuring 10 of those candidates, reveals that the party strategy is to cultivate a constituency of dunces11 around various issues and offers of “free” stuff — all to be brought together under one Hate Trump banner in time for 2020.
The candidates on stage: Elizabeth Warren12, Cory Booker13, Amy Klobuchar14, Julian Castro, Beto O'Rourke15, Bill de Blasio, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Tim Ryan, and John Delaney. Ten more will debate tonight.
As for last night, we’ll focus on three examples of the effort to push the envelope as far to the left as possible, testing messaging for the general election and bringing Democrat voters together.
Economy
Warren led the charge on this one, revealing the party’s strategy. If Democrats can’t get the recession they want16, they’ll go with their bread-and-butter standby: envy.
“Who is this economy really working for?” Warren asked in a common theme for the debate. “It’s doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top.” Warren pointed to Big Pharma and Big Oil, as well as the prison system, as examples. She’s not entirely unfounded in diagnosing the problems, but she is grossly wrong about the solutions. “When you’ve got a government, when you’ve got an economy that does great for those with money and isn’t doing great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple,” she thundered. The economy, she insists, is “rigged.” Warren’s solution? More government — telling business how and what to sell and consumers what they’re allowed to buy. Her real gripe is merely one of who’s doing the “rigging.”
De Blasio made this plain, saying there’s “plenty of money,” but “it’s just in the wrong hands.”
In any case, it’s rather hilarious to hear Warren talking about anything being “rigged” when she parlayed her phony minority ancestry17 into a posh Harvard job. Moreover, she and her husband have an estimated net worth of as much as $10 million, which puts even millionaire socialist Bernie Sanders18 to shame. Must be hard being that “thinner slice at the top.”
Health Care
Warren and de Blasio were the only two candidates on stage to raise their hands when asked if they’d be willing to abolish private insurance. De Blasio, who never saw a private enterprise he didn’t want to destroy, even rebuked former Leftmedia heartthrob Beto O'Rourke for “defending the private insurance industry.”
Again, Democrats are testing the waters to see how voters react to the idea of losing their private insurance. Medicare for All is popular … until people realize the implications.
Immigration
This time it was Castro offering up the most “progressive” proposition. He has called for repealing the federal law that makes illegally crossing the border a crime, and he demanded the others on stage line up behind him.
We’ve all seen the very real border crisis19 fomented by Democrats’ invasion invitation20, marked by 144,000 apprehended or rejected migrants in May alone. Castro’s policy is to inject that with steroids.
Democrat pandering peaked with O'Rourke, Booker, and Castro each breaking into Spanish.
In summary, in addition to testing leftist messaging, every Democrat on stage, to varying degrees, thinks they can be more generous with your money, smarter with your decisions, and wiser with … well, everything than you can. Do Americans really want to put someone like that in the White House?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63924-demo-debate-1-how-far-left-can-they-go
The True Story of Two Dead Migrants21
“Photo of drowned migrants triggers fight over Trump asylum clampdown.” That’s how Reuters headlined the fallout following this week’s revelation that two Salvadorans, a father and his two-year-old child, failed in their attempt to traverse the Rio Grande. The photo is unequivocally heartbreaking. It’s the kind of picture that makes one sick to his stomach. But like most things in life, emotional incidents without proper context inevitably result in irrational knee-jerk reactions.
According to The Daily Mail, the family’s journey began on April 3, when they departed El Salvador. For the next two months, the family — which was seeking asylum in the U.S. — was lodged in a migrant camp in southern Mexico. Restless and intent on engineering a more expeditious asylum process, they jumped onto a bus that took them to the U.S. border this past weekend. “When they arrived, the consulate was closed but they also learned they were far down a list of hundreds of migrants in line for interviews,” the Mail reports. “They decided to make the crossing illegally rather than wait — a decision that led to their deaths.”
Bad choices have consequences. Furthermore, as The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh observes, “This was not a family turned coldly away as it fled violence and oppression. They were not turned away at all. They simply grew impatient waiting for the bureaucratic wheels to turn. Indeed, family members confirm that the family was not being persecuted in its home country.”
Which gets us to the other half of the story. The Mail goes on to reveal that the father had been employed at Papa John’s Pizza. Granted, his income of $350 per month was paltry, but seeking entry based on low or insufficient income, as Walsh explains, “isn’t how the asylum program is traditionally meant to be used.”
Yet Democrats are hell-bent on hanging the incident around President Donald Trump’s neck. Sen. Bernie Sanders bellowed, “Trump’s policy of making it harder and harder to seek asylum — and separating families who do — is cruel, inhumane and leads to tragedies like this.” And according to NBC News, presidential candidate Julian Castro “pointed to the Trump administration’s metering policy as what ‘prompted’ the father and daughter who were found dead Monday to cross the Rio Grande illegally.” (Side note: An NBC “fact check” absurdly labeled this assertion as “true.”)
Actually, to Sanders’s point, other countries’ failure to enforce their own borders is what leads to tragedies like this. And to Castro’s point, Democrats are prompting this behavior19 — both with open-borders advocacy and legislative malfeasance. As Trump put it, “If they fixed the laws you wouldn’t have that. People are coming up, they’re running through the Rio Grande. They can change it very easily so people don’t come up, and people won’t get killed.”
But that would mean losing an important narrative leading up to the 2020 elections. Can’t have that.
Part of the Democrat effort to push Trump out of the Oval Office and to take over both chambers of Congress is to suggest that “Republicans don’t care about kids.” They point to this week’s photo of two drowned people as proof. Yet it’s Democrats who won’t budge on fixing the laws. And that’s to say nothing of the people who really don’t care about kids — the ones trafficking them. The Department of Homeland Security has so far flagged 316 fraudulent families22. Sadly, our lawmakers have also perpetuated this fraud.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63923-the-true-story-of-two-dead-migrants
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: California Will Endure Prearranged Power Outages23 — First World problems in the Golden State are thanks to insane leftist policies.
American Spirit: ‘Good Cemeterian’ Restores Vets’ Gravestones24 — Andrew Lumish has spent years quietly refurbishing time-worn tombstones in the Tampa area.
Video: Crisis or No Crisis?25 — “We have never not said” that there’s a border crisis, Pelosi insists. Let’s go to the tape.
Video: Trump & America … A Love Story26 — Blue Collar Logic explains why Trump and his rally crowds really make a connection.
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