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Victor Davis Hanson: Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?
American Greatness ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/14/2024 6:55:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Anytime ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety, the result is predictably dangerous. America needs to recalibrate its priorities to protect the lives and aspirations of its citizens.

The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration.

When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden misidentified her as “Lincoln Riley”—the USC football coach!

Biden only accurately noted that she “was killed by an “illegal.””

True—but almost immediately the left was infuriated over Biden’s accurate use of the supposedly insensitive “illegal” for the murderer Ibarra.

Biden soon apologized for correctly identifying her killer as an illegal alien—but not for misidentifying the victim.

He left the callous impression that he was more upset about offending his open-borders base than about the savage beating of a young 22-year-old American nursing student.

Biden’s woke open-borders agenda supersedes any worry over the subsequent mounting number of Americans who have fallen victim to foreign gangs and criminals. He seems oblivious to the nearly 100,000 Americans who die from fentanyl imported across open borders.

The same idea of abstract humanity juxtaposed with concrete callousness towards humans characterizes much of the current leftist agenda.

The Biden administration envisions mandating the use of electric vehicles and banning natural gas appliances. These measures will supposedly help “save” the planet—even as they make life far more expensive and dangerous for the middle class and poor in the here and now.

We are told that biologically born males who transition to females have a civil right to compete in female sports.

Such transgender activism may sound compassionate in the abstract...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


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To: TheConservator
Here in Washington State, in blind obedience to this agenda, the Legislature just (in the last week or two) passed a law banning the use of natural gas appliances, such as many people use to heat their home and provide hot water.

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I’m hoping it causes a taxpayer revolt against the libtards that have ruled this state for the last 30 plus years. But that’s probably just a forlorn hope.

I believe November can be a big turn around politically here in WA, even dumba$$ democrats love their natural gas appliances.

I think the democrat majority overstepped this time and will pay dearly in the upcoming election.

Wouldn't it be grand to send Inslee off having completely deleted his brutal 12 year legacy, including voting to end his carbon tax scam?

21 posted on 03/14/2024 12:31:22 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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HITHER AND YON:

Can We Now Admit Trump Was Right About Haiti?
It is the very definition of a failed state.

Becoming Haiti: How Biden Is Transforming America Into a Gang-Infested Wasteland!

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1767590258630156288/MVMk9KLL?format=jpg&name=medium


22 posted on 03/14/2024 3:09:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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Rick Scott: Biden is ‘completely unprepared’ for unrest, trapped Americans in Haiti!

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss what the Biden administration should do about the Americans trapped in Haiti.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6348915300112


23 posted on 03/14/2024 4:50:27 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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