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In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president.
The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador, which is apparently more of a crime than whatever the gangsters did in America.
There are legal issues here. An Obama-appointed federal judge tried to order Trump not to send the plane. The administration didn’t release their names or their offenses, so some may not be gangsters. The flight can be debated. But in today’s media, the first objective is to present Trump as a malignant actor. The tone of his coverage should be all negative all the time. There’s nothing resembling an “achievement” on immigration.
On “CBS Mornings Plus,” co-host Adriana Diaz weirdly touted an upcoming segment to explain what “the Trump administration’s move to deport hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants using a law from 1798 could mean for you today.” It sounded like Whoopi Goldberg claiming on “The View” that any of us could be deported for being on the wrong side of Trump.
Then came this false labeling. Diaz opened a segment this way: “Joining us now to break it all down is Katherine Yon Ebright, a lawyer with the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. Her work focuses specifically on wartime powers and the constitutional separation of powers.”
To be blunt, this is a lie. This leftist group may be tax-exempt, but it’s not nonpartisan. Take a look at the OpenSecrets website for campaign contributions by employees of the Brennan Center for Justice. It lists hundreds of contributions — but only to liberal PACs and to Democrats, including Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for President. Four Brennan Center staffers donated to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign last year.
You can also tell this is a Democrat episode on CBS when Diaz compared Trump’s flight of gangsters and their legal justification under a 1798 law to “the internment of 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent after the bombings of Pearl Harbor.” CBS mentioned Ronald Reagan apologized for it as a regrettable episode of “racial prejudice,” but they didn’t mention the president at that time was their Democrat hero Franklin Roosevelt.
“Nonpartisan” Ebright played the same game: “(T)he internment of 31,000 noncitizens without due process and based principally on their ancestry was a shameful moment in American history. And so reviving the Alien Enemies Act to target new ethnic groups today is, frankly, un-American and it shows that we haven’t learned from the mistakes of our past.”
So FDR was “un-American”? It’s weird when the Left calls things “un-American,” since they generally hate nationalism and patriotism in all its forms. Any border enforcement against illegal aliens (even violent criminals) is “targeting ethnic groups,” as if it’s just like FDR interning actual American citizens.
The only balancing note was co-host Tony Dokoupil acknowledging these gangsters committed some crimes in America. He noted officials said the gangsters trade immigration paperwork and hide their gang affiliation: “So within the law, what can this government do to take care of the very real threat of violence without trampling on the civil liberties that you’re concerned about?”
The Left touts the “civil liberties” of illegal immigrants as if they were uniformly sympathetic Trump victims. When some of these people commit violent crimes — and the raped and/or murdered people lose their civil liberties — networks like CBS ignore or downplay them because that would feel like positive coverage for Trump, and that cannot be allowed.
See B.S. News is he #1 Worst source of News in America between 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning or Eye On America See B.S. News is the all Fake News
1. In his first term TRUMP imposed ECONOMIC sanctions and SECONDARY economic sanctions
on VENEZUELA and SYRIA that destroyed the economies of those two nations andcreated the exodus of 7 MILLION Venezuelans.
2. Today Trump will impose a 25% tariff on all nations that buy Venezuelan oil. 95% of Venezuela’s income comes from…..the sale of oil. And it is not that much,only 200 tankers per year,of which 90 tankers go to China.The other countries are: Russia,India,Spain,Cuba.Do you know who else? The UNITED STATES,China buys 350,000 barrels per day and the US comes in SECOND with 220,000 barrels per day.
3. Today 80% of Venezuelans are living in poverty, and 53% live in EXTREME poverty. The minimum salary is around $10 a MONTH and a meal in a restaurant costs……$5. How can people survive on $10 a month. You can’t. They survive because the 7 million Venezuelans abroad send their relatives money.
However Trump’s new sanctions will bring starvation and death on the Venezuelan people,since 95% of the country’s income will DISAPPEAR. Pure evil. Why will Trump do it, he has given as an excuse,of which there is no evidence,that the Venezuelan government LITERALLY sent criminals to the US.
The reason I don’t believe Trump is because of the facts about DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).
You are truly a communist and an incredible idiot. Move to some s-hole country that appeals to you. How about Venezuela.
I am not a communist but a seeker of the truth.
But Communism has sometimes worked.The first Christian community,that of JERUSALEM,led by James(Jacob) the brother of Jesus was Communist.
It lasted from 30 AD to 70 AD,for 40 years,when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.
ACTS 4:32-35 records that church in Jerusalem
”All the believers were one in heart and mind.
No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own,
but they shared everything they had.
33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there
were no needy persons among them.
For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet,
and it was distributed to anyone who had need.” ( more communist impossible)
In 1875 MARX wrote “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” which is the CORE principle of communism.
If you say it is a lie there is ACTS 2:44-45
” ALL the believers
were together and had EVERYTHING in COMMON.
45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had NEED.”
More Communist impossible.
Continuing with Communism in the past,have you heard of the ESSENES?
We have their writings found in caves,in their library there and yes,they were Communists. They were 4,000 in total and in JERUSALEM they had their own neighborhood ,the ESSENIAN QUARTER .
Josephus the 1st century Jewish historian writes that a breach was made in the wall around Jerusalem and an entrance created which he calls the GATE of the ESSENES,leading to their quarter.
The Essenes were CELIBATE and then there were FOUNTAINS in the cities and WOMEN would go with JARS to get water for the house.
But if you saw a MAN carrying a JAR in JERUSALEM then you knew it was an Essene. No women in their house,they were celibate. In the gospel of Mark and Luke what does Jesus do?
He decides to celebrate the Passover and institute the NEW ALLIANCE,meaning Mosaic Law was over,void and kaput, in Jerusalem.
He tells his disciples that when they see a MAN carrying a JAR,to follow him to his house,for the Passover.
Obviously Jesus had TALKED with the Essenians ahead of time and made an arrangement to live with them. They were soul brothers.
That was very symbolic,Jesus was giving a message,from their writings we know the Essenes were AGAINST: slavery and polygamy.
Jesus was implicitly saying he agreed with them.
And that in the New Alliance slavery was bad,and so was polygamy.
The Essenes were COMMUNIST,was Jesus also saying he was ok with Communism? Who knows.
What did Jesus teach for 40 days after his resurrection?
Right away the Jerusalem church after the 40 days instituted what? They established Communism. Apparently for 40 years.
Was it because Jesus said it was ok with him? Who knows.
As evidenced by the story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) the early Christians were not under any compulsion to sell their property, or to give any specific proportion to the church – their impetus came from the work of the Holy Spirit within their hearts. Communism, on the other hand, involves the external imposition of a non-voluntary system.
”Communism, on the other hand, involves the external imposition of a non-voluntary system.”
That is historically incorrect because the famous Jesuit missions of the Spanish empire and Brazil were communist and there was no compulsion.
In the Spanish empire there were about 100 missions: Paraguay,Urugual,Chiquitos(southern Bolivia ),
Lower Californai (peninsula),northern Mexico,Sinaloa,Arizona, New Mexico.
There there was an ANNUAL election for several administrative posts,no rent paid,no private property (except for clothes and furniture), no money,all was BARTER,
FREE food for your life,no need to work after age 60, free medical service, free housing,free education.
Work was 5 days a week, each day 6 hours,not 8 hours ( 9 am until 12 pm,then 2 pm to 5 pm ).
Since the Indians of the missions were subjects of the Spanish king,they could leave a mission and look for work in the CITIES but they would have to pay rent, pay for their food and outside the missions it was not 6 hours a day but
EIGHT hours a day,except in the MINES,where it was 7 hours a day.
The Jesuits had got the essence of their ideas from ”Utopia” by Thomas More.
So, how many on that flight did you know? How many AMERICANS have to be killed, raped, or maimed to “justify” their DEPORTATIONS? Are you REALLY saying it’s OK for them to come here – commit their crimes to get money to send back home??? You fail to see the “BIG PICTURE” here! VZ is a corrupt, communist DICTATORSHIP! Yeah, they had an “election” – probably less fraudulent then OURS in 2020 – and the WINNER was NOT the one with the most votes! I guess you could say they have a DEMOcrazy like you’d prefer HERE! The main purpose of PRESIDENT TRUMP’S Economic sanctions is to make other Nations possibly join in to help END the misery of those VZ poor!
Odd that you leftists don’t have some kind of DONATION agency to help the oppressed! Imagine how many could be helped by foregoing just ONE MONTH of Starsucks frappalappadappa’s!
Also, the reason the US imports oil from Venezuela is because the idiot Biden regime, the environmentalists, and the stupid climate change hysterical idiots put up too many road blocks for our own oil production. Trump will change that, like he did with Trump 1.0. Drill baby Drill! And RLagrange, why don’t you just move to Venezuela if you are so deranged..;.
Put your welfare money where your mouth is, and remove yourself to Venezuela. Communists are so funny…you seriously believe it is the responsibility of the USA to provide for a Communist country.’s economic and social needs.
Our purpose is to keep Venezuela propped up with our taxes????
Economist RICHARD WOLF and he is a brilliant man,has said DOGE ( Department of Government Efficiency) created by Trump is essentially a facade. I applaud his destruction of USAID which was dedicated to interfering in other countries internal affairs.
Which is illegal according to the UN and also according to American law.In the US it is illegal for foreign countries to interfere in the internal affairs of the US.
1. In TWO YEARS there will be elections in Congress and if Trump loses the Republican majority it is the end of his plan to have MAGA rule the US for 20 years.
2.So he has to impress the MAGA followers that he is a genius.DOGE’s firing of 100,000 GOVERNMENT employees is insignificant acccording to professor Richard Wolf.
He says 50 years ago there were 2.5 million government employees,today it is 2.5 million. But today we have 150 million MORE people in the US than 50 years ago. So that is being efficient.
And that STATE employees are 5 million,and those at the lower,local,municipal level are 15 million. Yet Trump and Elon Musk do not dare to fire any of them ,even if they had the power. Even if many are incompetent and useless. It is a show. 100,000 out of 2.5 million is very little.
Seriously?? A facade? I guess you don’t recall how much the biden bunglers added to the Fed ee’s – grifters with little abilities but big salaries! You leftists better hope that PRESIDENT TRUMP and his TEAM are successful in ridding Our Nation of the unruled Federal ee’s and associated FRAUD! When, or IF, we ever face a collapse of Our Nation, the left will be facing a Nation of Patriots who blame them for all this misery. We do hope it never comes to another “civil” war, but if it does, it will be not nice!
Your Mr. Wolf fails to see what is at stake – it’s NOT just the 100,000 or so being removed – it’s the PIPELINE of the corruption that FUNDS the left! I once said “any idiot can see that” – evidently not!!
That was why I applaud the elimination of USAID which funded hundreds or more ”NGOs”, ”non-governmental” groups in other countries that pretended to be
independent and were not,but puppets and proxies of the US government.
And those groups were either promoting wokism non-stop or doing covert operations to overthrow governments. Regarding the Venezuelan government
it is nobody’s business to interfere,that is something for the Venezuelan people to decide.
The solution is NOT to destroy the lives of the Venezuelan people,lots of Venezuelan businesses,small shops,corner stores, restaurants, cafés,etc have been destroyed and will be even more by Trump’s economic sanctions.
Do to others as you would have them do to you,the Golden Rule.
mrrreew…you have yourself some unfettered penis envy, hun. How DARE a President—for whom we are scolded by your unintentionally comical ilk for being witless minions to a *dictator*—work to reduce the size and influence of a government beast…the very antithesis of a *fascist dictator*.
It’s called a good start.
PDT and EM are FEDERAL officials (yes, EM, as an appointed one, too.) And our taxes should not go to provide gov’t jobs for other people. No. Just what is in the Constitution, meaning allll those bureaucracies were created for the swamp’s benefit, as the Founders didn’t create such a leviathan.
FCC must bar CBS and affiliates from air waves. CENSURE for 5 years.
Someone once called CBS as Censors Bearing Sissors
EVERY illegal immigrant that Biden (illegally let in to the United Stated (especially criminals, murderers, drug dealers need to deported! Those without past criminal records should be required to LEGALLY apply for American citizenship if they chose to remain! GO THROUGH THE LEGAL PROCESS an immigration system of law that has been on the books for over 100 years! It is called “Legal, applied for, registered, documented immigration” that my ancestors, your generational ancestors and every elderly non citizen immigrant had to adhere to!
The Democratic Party needs illegal immigration for VOTERS and nothing else! They cannot win an election without these illegals!
Leftists rag Time has come out in Favor of this Invasion not surprised since Time named Hitler as their 1938 Person of the Year and pushes this Evolution nonsense as the truth and going Vegan and Climate Brat Thunberg as their Person of the Year and Supports Gun Control
Comparing rotten apples with oranges!
How dare you!
Reference to ancient communities is completely beside the point. 20th century history makes amply clear the utter human disaster of communism. The attempt to create the visionary society resulted in brutal concentration of political power, that power held by murderous, insane monsters and unscrupulous political wire pullers, unprecedented misery on a mammoth scale and 100 million dead. And gross inequality, except for the party, This was inevitable as anyone knowing human nature would have recognized. Only a total fool would today advocate communism. As for poor Venezuela, our leftist idiot doesn’t understand the people are oppressed by a communist tyrant, they have no say.