“A Farce, or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both.” WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump’s Attack on Rule of Law 
“A Farce, or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both.” WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump’s Attack on Rule of Law
I wondering how Canada deals with illegal aliens. I’m within walking distance.
Don’t try that in the dead of winter!
Canada has had an “open” immigration policy which supposedly has tremendously increased its population and thus housing crisis. It’s now taken to closing that policy.
https://www.econotimes.com/Canada-Slashes-Immigration-Numbers-Trudeaus-Shocking-New-Policy-Sparks-Controversy-Among-Critics-and-Supporters-Alike-1694224#google_vignette
This “open” policy has also created a supposed “crisis” at US border as some have attempted to illegally enter the US and as Alan King stated,…https://www.newser.com/story/359972/2-guilty-in-deaths-of-family-that-froze-near-border.html
Canada’s housing crisis is centered on a few major cities, principally greater Vancouver and the conurbation on the western end of Lake Ontario, centered on Toronto. It has several causes; immigration is one. A major one is the influx of global capital, looking for relatively cheap housing to buy. Another is wealth inequality, as those on the high-end looking for second and third homes to buy.
The “Econotimes” is based in Seoul, Korea, has 31 employees and a whopping $3.9 million in revenue. I would look for alternate news sources.
Trudeau’s government, like the American one, is facing a surging hard right movement, to the point that Trudeau has adopted an anti-immigrant meme to hold onto power. Blaming immigrants for domestic troubles seems to be a popular crutch around the world. Leaders unwilling to respond to the Climate Emergency will make it a more popular excuse.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-canada-india-smuggling-deaths-trial-verdict-de2f999332e6cc8be1ea78c7fdfb6590
The trial dealt with a single smuggling ring. It appears there is money in India enough for each person wanting to be safely smuggled to pay a hundred grand. These are not poor people wanting into the US. These are people who can come up with the money. What percentage of people in the US live paycheck to paycheck with no chance to front a hundred grand? Use that as a measure. Human smuggling pays, and therefore it is done.
And speaking of Canada, Canada’s top military commander [F] calls out US senator for questioning a woman’s role in combat
https://apnews.com/article/woman-combat-canada-us-carignan-risch-23ad537fbfab4a63e41b5d4366f24d91
Marcy, why do you believe it is the case that only you have covered the Brady side channel to frame Biden?
The rest of the media have ignored it. [Minus bad faith people like Miranda Devine].
What does your gut tell you?
All of the Russiagate scandals the past 10 years, left wingers and media ate it up. All of the Trump scandals and corruption and outrage, left wingers and media eat it up.
But the Brady-Barr-Rudy-Smirnov effort to frame Biden is a black hole.
I don’t know. But I find it especially instructive that NYT TOOK OUT the references to Rudy when they reported on Smirnov.
Institutional inertia. An influential senior Republican Senator pushed the Smirnov representations out the door, and media deferred. Grassley is not a bonb thrower, they presumed. What confuses me, is if lazy and deferrential, it’s easy to read this site and then write up a story later while at the bar. Likely, the editors squelched any such stories, and so next time, why bother?
Hagseth worries me. What if the sexual allegations are distractions intended to deflect Senate resources from digging any further?
Those tattoos are not a manufactured distraction. They are real and a worry. The question, can Trump control him is a double edged sword.
Do you trust how Trump would control him? Do you trust him to resist Trump controlling him, because he has worse in mind?
The sexual allegations are easily shrugged off these days. This gives wiggle room for the senate to approve. To reject the nomination may require evidence that rises above the high bar granted to Trump.
This morning on ABCs “This Week” Jonathan Karl allowed Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) to say that Trump has a mandate. 1.5% more popular votes is not a mandate. Nor is 312 electoral votes. The media can begin cleaning up its act with shutting lies like “Trump has a mandate” down.
Barack Obama won with 53% of the popular vote and 385 EC votes. THAT is more of a mandate.