Hard Hitting Conservative Commentary by Gary M. Polland
Volume XXIII Number 9 – June 14, 2024
By Gary Polland, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
JOBS IN 2023 WENT TO ILLEGALS!
The US labor market has been appallingly weak per Bloomberg, with most of the jobs “gained” in 2023 and meant to signal how strong the Biden “recovery” has been, about to be revised away and more shockingly, all the job growth in the past few years has gone to illegal aliens.
DEMOCRATS FAKE A JOBS BOOM
With thanks to Daniel Greenfield, Fellow, David Horowitz Freedom Center:
“Of those 300,000 jobs ‘created,’ 71,000 or 1 in 4 were government jobs. Another 72,000 jobs came out of the healthcare industry which is heavily government funded. And 9,000 came from ‘employment in social assistance’ or welfare. About 1 in 2 of Biden’s jobs were funded by taxpayers in one form or another. The only non-government industry showing significant job growth was the hospitality industry.”
“Employment in social assistance has been gaining an average of 22,000 jobs a month. Along with healthcare, welfare continues to be the leading source of Biden’s job growth. These are not the signs of a healthy economy, but a faltering socialist economy faking its job growth. Rather than creating private sector jobs, some of which like those in New York City, are not even jobs at all. By boosting Medicaid spending and other forms of welfare assistance, Biden and the Democrats faked a jobs boom and an economic expansion that doesn’t actually exist.”
“The Biden administration’s formula for job gains is government spending. But government spending provides nothing but a temporary boost in the market-based private sector. However, creating entitlements and boosting union rolls does create jobs. Unfortunately, those jobs tend to be a net loss and a severe drain on the economy.”
“And . . . we’re stuck in recession with persistent inflation and the only thing that’s actually booming is the explosive rate of government spending on propping up a fake economy that only benefits the government.”
THE GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY FLIMFLAM
ITS CASUALTY DATA ARE INCOMPLETE, UNSOURCED, MAINPULATED, OR PERHAPS INVENTED – AND TAKEN AS GOSPEL
Thanks to David Adesnik and Kevin Chen and Commentary Magazine:
“For SIX MONTHS, the Gaza Ministry of Health presented its data as the authoritative source of information about the number of lives lost in Gaza since October 7. Then, in April, it quietly acknowledged that its records for more than 10,000 of the war’s fatalities include ‘incomplete data.’”
“The Gaza Ministry of Health has proven itself to be an unreliable source of information. While posing as a neutral arbiter of facts, the ministry retails a narrative whose purpose is to blacken Israel’s reputation. Its statistical sleight-of-hand is meant to draw attention away from Hamas’ criminal conduct of the war, built around the exploitation of hospitals, schools, mosques, and UN buildings as military assets. The terror group is glad to sacrifice as many Palestinian civilians as necessary while assigning Israel the blame.”
“In contrast, Israeli forces have engaged in persistent efforts to shepherd civilians away from the battlefield while providing extensive warning of coming operations. There is no question that prosecuting this war to the end will impose additional costs on civilians, but if Hamas survives to rebuild its forces and replenish its arsenal, then the countdown to the next war will begin.”
HCAD BOARD RUNOFF ELECTION IS SATURDAY 6-15-2024
Please Vote for TCR’s Endorsed Candidates
Just a reminder that there is one more chance to vote in Harris County—in the runoff election for Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD) Board of Directors on June 15. TCR has two endorsed candidates in that race: Kyle Scott who is running for HCAD, Director, At-Large, Place 2, and Ericka McCutcheon for HCAD, Director, At-Large, Place 3. TCR urges Harris County conservatives to get out and vote for these endorsed conservative candidates who can make a huge difference on this taxing entity. This will be a low-turnout election, so your vote counts 100x! Polling locations can be found at https://www.harrisvotes.com/Vote-Centers.
Cartoon of the week by Michael Ramirez
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/michael-ramirez/cartoon-opportunity-knocks-3051685/
DAVID SACKS MAKES COMPELLING CASE FOR TRUMP
On June 6, Donald Trump raised a reported $12 million at a fundraiser co-hosted by venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya in the unlikeliest of places—San Francisco, California as detailed in an article by Kristina Wong on Breitbart.com. In the article, Wong quotes a Sacks post on X where he explains his rationale for supporting Trump. In TCR’s opinion, Sacks makes a compelling argument that is worthy of sharing. To see the full article (which is well worth the time), click here.
Why I’m Backing President Trump (by David Sacks)
As many press accounts have reported, I’m hosting a fundraising event for President Donald J. Trump at my home in San Francisco this evening.
Over the last couple of years, I have hosted events for presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as several Congressional figures in both major parties. I give to many, but endorse few.
But today I am giving my endorsement to our 45th President, Donald J. Trump, to be our 47th President. My reasons rest on four main issues that I think are vital to American prosperity, security, and stability – issues where the Biden administration has veered badly off course and where I believe President Trump can lead us back.
1. The Economy
President Biden took over an economy that was already recovering strongly from the Covid-induced shock of Q2 2020. Demand had roared back, and employment had recovered. But he chose to keep priming the pump with unnecessary Covid stimulus – almost $2 trillion of it, passed on a straight party-line vote in March of 2021, with trillions more to follow for “infrastructure,” green energy, and “inflation reduction.”
Biden did this despite early warnings from former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers that it could lead to inflation. When the inflation came, the Biden administration dismissed it as “transitory.” In fact, inflation still remains persistently high even after the fastest interest-rate tightening cycle in memory.
As a result of Biden’s inflation, average Americans have lost roughly a fifth of their purchasing power over the last few years. Moreover, any American who needs a mortgage, car loan, or credit card debt faces much higher interest costs, which further constrain their purchasing power.
It’s no different for our federal government, which now must devote over a trillion dollars annually to interest on its $34 trillion debt, a massive sum that’s been growing by a trillion dollars every hundred days. This trajectory is unsustainable, yet Biden’s 2025 budget calls for even higher spending.
Growth has already slowed from 3.4 percent in the last quarter of 2023 to an anemic 1.3 percent in the first quarter of this year. We can’t afford another four years of Bidenomics.
2. Foreign Policy / Ukraine War
President Trump left office with ISIS defeated, the Abraham Accords signed, and no new wars raging on the global stage. Three and a half years later, the world is on fire. President Biden has made several strategic choices that have contributed to this situation.
In his first year in office, Biden unnecessarily alienated the Saudis before realizing that they are an indispensable partner in the Middle East. He also presided over a chaotic withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan (right policy, abysmal execution).
But his biggest blunder by far has been in Ukraine. His administration immediately began pushing for Ukraine’s admission to NATO, despite no unanimity among the existing NATO members that such a move was a good idea. When this predictably antagonized the Russians, the Biden administration doubled down at every turn, insisting that “NATO’s door is open, and will remain open” with respect to Ukraine. Biden himself baited Russia when he said he didn’t “accept anybody’s red lines.”
After the invasion, there was still a chance to stop the war in its early weeks before much loss of life and destruction had occurred. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators had signed a draft agreement in Istanbul that would have seen Russia retreat to its pre-invasion borders in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality. But the Biden administration rejected that deal as well as General Milley’s advice to seek a diplomatic solution in November 2022.
As the war of attrition grinds on, the Ukrainians face ever-mounting casualties and infrastructure damage. Still, President Biden keeps allowing the conflict to escalate and risk World War III. Every escalation that Biden initially resisted – Abrams tanks, F-16’s, ATACMs, allowing Ukraine to hit targets in Russia – he has eventually acquiesced to. There is just one more escalation to go: NATO troops on the ground fighting Russia directly. And our European allies like Emmanuel Macron are already spoiling for exactly this scenario.
With Biden, our choices are limited to fighting the proxy war to the last Ukrainian, or fighting Russia ourselves. President Trump has said he wants the dying in Ukraine to stop, and that he will seek to end the war through a negotiated settlement. Ukraine will no longer be able to get the deal we talked them out of in April 2022, but we can still save Ukraine as an independent nation and avert world war.
3. The Border
As an immigrant to the United States myself, I certainly believe in America’s history of strengthening its ranks by welcoming talented people from other nations seeking freedom and opportunity. But that promise requires an orderly process of legal immigration that emphasizes skills and the principles of American citizenship. This was the preferred policy under President Trump.
What Biden ushered in was a de facto open border policy. On his first day in office, he repealed President Trump’s executive orders restricting illegal immigration and stopped construction of a border wall, selling off parts of it for scrap metal. This quickly resulted in a massive spike in illegal border crossings and a chaotic and dangerous situation on our southern border.
President Biden (along with the hapless Kamala Harris and the malevolent Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas) responded to growing concerns by gaslighting the American public, saying there was no problem at the border despite constant videos of masses of people sprinting across it.
When the situation became too dire to ignore or deny, Biden claimed he didn’t have the executive authority to do anything about it and blamed Republicans for not sending him legislation. But this week, facing abysmal polling numbers on this issue, Biden suddenly discovered he has executive authority after all. The order he signed is a tepid, too little-too late effort to slow the tidal wave of illegal immigration in time for the election. But Biden has shown he is not serious on this issue. If he wins a second term, the open border policy will resume, and tens of millions more illegals will stream across the border.
4. Lawfare
A bedrock of the political stability we’ve enjoyed in America over the last 250 years is that we don’t accept attempts to jail political opponents in order to win an election. Yet Biden has pushed for selective and unprecedented prosecutions of his once and future opponent from the moment he assumed office.
Merrick Garland took a long look at the January 6 situation and didn’t see a path to prosecute Trump, even after a one-sided Congressional committee sent a highly-prejudiced referral to his Justice Department. Press stories then appeared describing Biden’s frustration with Garland’s reticence. The result was Jack Smith at the federal level and Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis at the state level. All have pursued cases based on novel legal theories heretofore unseen and designed to get Trump. In the NY case, Bragg resurrected a dead book-keeping misdemeanor into 34 felonies by claiming it was in the service of a second crime that he never defined and that the judge never insisted the jury unanimously agree on.
My immigration to this country as a young boy happened because my parents disagreed with the political system of their home country. That government sought to solve its political disagreements by imprisoning its political enemies. What a sad irony that the lawfare we escaped has now reared its ugly head in America of all places.
President Biden keeps insisting that a return of President Trump to the White House threatens democracy. But his administration is the one that has colluded with tech platforms to censor the Internet, used the intelligence community to cover up his son Hunter’s laptop, and pursued elective prosecutions against his political opponents.
Conclusion: The A/B Test
The voters have experienced four years of President Trump and four years of President Biden. In tech, we call this an A/B test. With respect to economic policy, foreign policy, border policy, and legal fairness, Trump performed better. He is the President who deserves a second term.
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