The BIG ballot question in 2024

Almost immediately after he was steered into the Oval Office to begin work as front man for the Obama-Soros Deep State, Senile Joe Biden began rolling back President Trump's immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as "harsh and inhumane."

That was three years ago. And we all know what's happened to America since the borders (north as well as south) were declared open again. President F.J. Brandon now sounds remarkably like the Donald as he presses Congress for "restrictions" (not an outright ban) on asylum seekers. Progressive thinkers are moaning that such measures would be unthinkable if Uncle Joe were still alive.

But no... President Brandon is boarding up the entrance to his Delaware basement against  the expected home invastion by the "undocumented newcomers" he can see marching up the driveway even now. He is under intense pressure, not just from Republicans but from Democrats, including elected Democratic officials in "sanctuary cities" 1000s of miles from the border who are feeling the blowback from Americans angry about the effects of asylum-seekers arriving in record numbers. 

With the 2024 presidential campaign shaping up as a likely rematch between Crooked Joe and the Donald, unlimited and uncontrolled immigration has become Mr Brandon's biggest potential liability.

That's why the Democrats have and the lickspittle media have done the Big 180, and are now pushing a sweeping measure that would expand the President's authority to put strict new limits on border crossings. "If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly," Joe said (from his basement) this past weekend.

Meanwhile, President Trump, is eager to rekindle the passions that the wide-open border fueled during his successful 2016 campaign. Corey Lewandowski, his 2016 campaign manager, said, " It has been a message that has resonated not just with Republicans or Democrats, but across the country, because now even those liberal cities, those blue cities, those blue mayors, they're saying we can't handle the crisis anymore and give us help,"

Mr Trump lamented over the weekend that his border message didn't resonate when he ran for reelection in 2020 because he'd done such a good job controlling the border that he "took it out of play." The Dempanic over Covid didn't help either, as the number of immigrant wannabes dwindled somewhat because of lack of job prospects. 

Campaigning in Las Vegas on Saturday, President Trump said, "Literally we couldn’t put it in a speech. Nobody wanted to hear about the border. We had no border problem. But now we can talk about the border because it's never, ever been worse than it is now."

A vote on the supposedly bipartisan bill to reimpose border controls is expected today. Walt wonders if the so-called moderate Republicans will be suckers enough to support the Dumbocrats' desperate ploy to shield Crooked Joe from the voters' wrath in November, thus putting him back in the White House for aother four years or his death, whichever first occurs. Stay tuned.

First ever Wally Award for Egregious Hypocrisy goes to...

Earlier today I complained... OK, I remarked... that things had been quiet on the political front. Too quiet! Although this November's mid-term elections could be the most important in decades, the Excited States of America seems to be slouching towards the voting polls.

There was, however, one story which made the lamestream press sit up and take notice, because it cut too close to the bone to suit the propagandists for President Brandon's Dumbocrats. They've been trying hard to toe the party line that there is no crisis at the southern border. Sure, a few [thousand] "folks" are entering the USA without proper immigrant status. It's OK (they say) because America needs immigrants. And they will be welcome in the "sanctuary cities" where liberal, right-thinking Americans -- unlike those racist Republicans -- will be glad to look after them.

This week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) put that claim to the test by shipping 50 (count `em, 50) illegals to the very Democratic island of Martha's Vineyard, the playground of the rich and famous, notably former President Barack Hussein Obama II. The residents were not amused, nor were they compassionate. 

The undocumented migrants (to use the PC term) were shipped by bus and ferry to Cape Cod last Friday morning. It should have been easy to find places to put them up. According to the National Association of Realtors, about 55.5% of the homes on Martha's Vineyard are vacation homes, mostly vacant now that summer's over. 

According to the New York Post, one local resident even urged former President Barack Obama to offer up his $12 million Vineyard vacation manse for shelter. The Post didn't say if the resident had  his tongue in his cheek when he said that.

Apparently none of the vacation homeowners were willing to step up to the plate. Instead, they labelled the arrival of the unexpected visitorsus a "humanitarian crisis", providing care and shelter for them for two (count `em, 2) nights before putting them on a ferry back to the mainland, where they will now be looked after by... wait for it.... the Massachusetts National Guard.  

They were transferred to Joint Base Cape Cod, a former Air Force base known locally as Otis Air Base. Plans call for Governor Charlie Baker (D) to "activate up to 125 members of the Massachusetts National Guard as part of this relief effort." According to a statement from the governor, "The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is coordinating efforts among state and local officials to ensure access to food, shelter and essential services for these men, women and children."

Walt is pleased indeed to award the residents of Dukes Country, which encompasses all six municipalities on Martha's Vineyard, our first ever Wally Award for Egregious Hypocrisy. Other "sanctuary cities" will surely follow your precedent as they plan their own compassionate response to the humanitarian crisis caused by [We regret that limitations of space do not allow us to publish the end of this sentence. Ed.]

Dog lover to be deported from Oregon... eventually

Over the years, Walt has occasionally posted stories about zoophilia -- sexual attraction to animals -- described over a century ago by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his seminal work [Careful! Ed.] Psychopathia Sexualis. [Ed., have you seen my copy? It's not in its proper place in the library!]

Bestiality -- having sex with an animal -- is one of the few perversions still considered a crime, maybe not in the Middle East but in the rest of the world. Examples posted on WWW include horses, goats, and, from Egypt, a story about a woman who molested a monkey. Just this past March, Walt passed on a report of an illegal alien who was arrested for boffing a cow. WWW 27/3/19.

Sadly, such shockingly deviant behaviour is being reported more often than was the case before hordes of illegal immigrants started streaming across the Rio Grande to take up residence in America's stupid "sanctuary cities". This week we have a report from Breitbart News of the release from detention of Fidel Lopez -- that's him in the picture -- an illegal alien convicted of raping a dog to death. Mr Lopez, aged 52, was turned loose by the sanctuary state of Oregon after being sentenced to just 60 days in prison, for killing his girlfriend's small Lhasa Apso with kindness, so to speak. The judge in the case said he would have given the perv a longer sentence, but that 60 days is the max under Oregon law.

Mr Lopez was able to walk, after hearing his sentence, because he'd already done the time while waiting to stand trial. But what about his illegal alien status, Walt hears you ask. ICE (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement folks) had requested that Mr Lopez be turned over to them for deportation should he be released from prison, but officials in Multnomah County ignored the request and released the illegal alien into the community.

But there's a happyish ending. ICE arrested the miscreant and expect he will be deported from the US of A one of these days... unless sympathetic Democrats and SJWs intervene on his behalf.

Thanks to Agent 6 for the link to this tale of depravity, which Walt would otherwise have missed since, as is well known, he doesn't pay attention to such things!

Political victory for Marine Le Pen: French deport migrants FAST

Marine Le Pen lost France's presidential election last year, but is now justified in claiming a moral victory as centrist (read: not quite socialist) President Emmanuel Macron adopts exactly the kind anti-migrant policies and tactics she advocated. The difference is nobody calls M Macron a racist or Islamophobe. They say only that he's being practical about cleaning the garbage off the streets of Paris.

While mouthing the usual liberal platitudes about brotherhood and diversity -- "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" and all that -- the French President has made clear he doesn't want economic migrants in France. As for the "refugees" and asylum-seekers, M Macron wants those who don't qualify for expelled, and quickly too!

M Macron has promised the French people, who are more than fed up with having to thread their way through hordes of bogus refugees -- mostly brown or black, mostly Muslim -- thronging the streets of the City of Light, that he will get migrants off France's streets and out of forest hideouts by the end of this year. With four days left, it's a safe bet that won't happen (lifetime pct .989) but the authorities are ramping up expulsions and allowing ID checks in emergency shelters. Can you imagine that happening in New York or Los Angeles or Toronto?!

The French president doesn't even want migrants to try to come to his country. He has been rolling out a multi-pronged approach that stretches to Africa (where most of the bogus claimants come from), with points set up in Chad and Niger to weed out potential economic migrants and preselect those certain of gaining asylum. Back at home, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has ordered prefects to crack down on illegal immigration, "act quickly" to expel those who fail to gain asylum and report results within weeks.

That was in November. This month M Collomb went even farther, ordering regional authorities to set up mobile teams to run checks in emergency housing to ascertain the status of migrants. Emergency shelters are considered bedrocks of the French tradition of open arms to those in need and have been considered untouchable, even by security authorities, much like American "sanctuary cities".

Critics contend that Macron's increasingly tough policy on migrants contradicts his image as a humanist who defeated an anti-immigrant populist (Mme Le Pen) for the presidency, and has crossed a line passed by no other president in the land that prides itself as the cradle of human rights. And what does the leader of the Front National say? Probably the French equivalent of "I told you so."

Footnote: A learned professor at a French university tut-tutted that President Macron's policy was the toughest seen since World War II, and was really inconsistent with French respect for human rights, yada yada yada. He may have forgotten that just after WWII (before Mme Le Pen was born), the greatest French president of all time, Charles de Gaulle, warned that measures such as those now being employed would be necessary to keep France France! Click here to read le Général's warning to the French people.

Further reading: "Ann Coulter: 'Let's Start by Deporting the DREAMers!'", Breitbart News, 25/12/17.

UPDATED: Trump keeps his promises; panic ensues

Things have moved so fast in the first full week of Donald Trump's presidency that it's been hard for me to keep up. [Nothing to do with the Chinese New Year celebrations, then? Ed.] Across the Excited States of America and around the world, supporters and haters of The Donald [Ed., can we still call him that?] are expressing surprise (the supporters) and horror (the haters) that President Trump has moved immediately to keep the promises he made during the late election campaign. A politician who does what he said he'd do? AMAZING!

Agent 3 tells me that President Trump has done more in one week that Canada's new(ish) prime minister did in his first year. That would be because Mr Trump thinks there has been enough talk, and now it's time for action, whereas M Trudeau believes in more "conversations" -- including a "face the music tour" last week -- and no action apart from giving taxpayers' money to "disadvantaged minorities" and foreigners.

Everything President Trump has done, without exception, has aroused the ire of the usual suspects -- snowflakes, SJWs, eco-wienies, lawyers, activists and Democratic politicians. The liberals are revolting, and I mean that sincerely. "Spontaneous protests" have broken out in the streets of America's "sanctuary cities", in airports, and in the wilderness of North Dakota.

The ageing hippies camping out on private property in Dakota are incensed by President Trump's decision to greenlight the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. That decision has been warmly applauded by the folks in the oil patch, especially those north of the world's longest (somewhat) undefended border. Good time to buy Canadian oil stocks... and Transcanada Pipeline. (You're welcome.) Americans should be glad too. Why import oil from the sand niggers and terrorists when you can get it from the friendly frostbacks up north?

The protests raging today in the airports and sanctuary cities have been sparked by President Trump's executive order, announced on Friday, putting a four-month hold on the admission of "refugees" into the United States. The same order temporarily bars travellers from Syria and six other predominantly Muslim countries -- Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Iraq. Those, of course, are the sandpits from which Islamic terrorists come, in the guise of refugees and asylum-seekers, to wreak havoc in Western countries and kill as many "Christians" as they can, by whatever means possible.

The new restrictions on immigrants and refugees also apply to permanent residents who have passports from the seven Muslim countries. Any green card holders who were outside the country when the order took effect will have to be cleared back into the United States on a case-by-case basis. Google ordered its foreign Muslim employees to get back to the USA right sharpish, but several were caught in the air and detained on arrival at JFK and other airports. Chaos at the airport terminals ensured, and immigration lawyers, activists and Democratic politicians immediate organized protests and started knocking on judges' doors to help followers of the Prophet get back into the country.

At the break of dawn today, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying they plan on continuing to "enforce all of the president's executive orders in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the American people." The DHS was responding to a temporary order granted Saturday night by a New York judge staying the operation of the White House order, and releasing the dozen or so Muslims who were being held at JFK. "The president's executive orders remain in place," said the DHS statement. "Prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the US government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety."

America's staunch allies, the friendly frostbacks referred to above, immediately announced that refugees and any other travellers barred from entering the USA would be welcome in Canada... provided of course that they aren't Christians or conservatives or racists or oilpersons. Starting tomorrow, all travellers crossing the border or arriving at Canadian airports will be given a "liberal values" test to determine their willingness to embrace diversity... and vote Liberal.

Footnote: The Toronto Sun ran a poll yesterday asking its readers if they approved of President Trump's executive order banning Muslims from entering the USA. The results so far: YES - 55%; NO - 33%; not sure - 12%. You may think that Prime Minister Selfie is tone-deaf to the sentiments of ordinary Canadians. But it's not his fault. He and his liberal cronies don't read the Toronto Sun. They do read comments on the CBC website, but, alas, the CBC isn't allowing comments on any stories about immigration and "refugees". Wonder why...

FOOTNOTE ADDED 30/1/17: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which considers itself the collective voice of the Muslim world, has 57 member states. President Trump's travel ban affects citizens of only seven (7) of them. The governments of Iran and Iraq, to name two, have reacted with predictable fury. But from the leaders of the other 57... crickets! In the heart of the Muslim world -- Cairo (Egypt) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), the executive order has met with a conspicuous silence.

King Salman of Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest sites, spoke to President Trump by telephone on Sunday but made no public comment. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, whose capital, Cairo, is a traditional seat of Islamic scholarship, said nothing. What are we to make of this silence? Could it be that these leaders agree that a ban on travellers from terrorism-infected states is a good idea? Or are they merely afraid that their nations may be next?

Further reading: "In Face of Trump's Order, Some Muslim Nations Are Conspicuously Silent", New York Times, 29/1/17.