That was over the Friday-Saturday series of votes in the House.
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Coherent Argument
Progressive-Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (CT) provides yet another example. He kindly provided his own Friday morning reminder that Progressive-Democrats are unable to form coherent arguments on policy, and so they engage in smear.
Murphy’s example:
Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
Your Friday morning reminder that Republicans are full of shit when they complain about the border.
They killed the tough, bipartisan border security bill because Trump told them to keep the border a mess because it would help him politically.
The border bill Murphy so loves did nothing to secure our border, rather it codified an annual flood of 1.4+ million illegal aliens before the Federal government even would be permitted to act, and that bill would have codified 1.5+ million illegal aliens flooding in every year before actually requiring the Federal government to act.
A Vote For Terrorism
Last Thursday, the House voted on HR 1143, Condemning Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, a Resolution developed in consequence of Iran’s firing of more than 300 missiles, rockets, and drones at Israel intending to inflict death and destruction on Israelis. The attack was executed, Iran claims, to exact revenge for an IDF execution of two of Iran’s senior terrorist generals, but it was also done to support Iran’s satrap Hamas’ own war of extermination against Israel. The Resolution passed 404-14, with 13 more Representatives not voting.
Here are the Representatives who voted against the Resolution.
- Jamaal Bowman NY
- Cori Bush MO
- Greg Casar TX
- Jesse Jackson, Jr IL
- Pramila Jayapal WA
- Hank Johnson GA
- Barbara Lee CA
- Summer Lee PA
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez NY
- Ilhan Omar MN
- Ayana Pressley MA
- Ramirez IL
- Rashida Tlaib MI
- And a lone sort-of Republican: Tom Massie KY
These are the Representatives who are actively supporting terrorists in their war of extermination against Israel.
Remember this in November.
“We are obligated”
Apple has once again kowtowed to the demands of an enemy nation government: the People’s Republic of China instructed Apple to remove some of the world’s most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country. The offending apps include Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads and Signal and Telegram.
Apple promptly and meekly complied.
An anonymous Apple spokesman rationalized the obedience:
We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree[.]
Certainly. But Apple is not obligated to operate in those countries where they disagree; especially is Apple not obligated to operate in an enemy that is engaged in genocide internally or that externally is actively occupying seas and islands that are either international or belong to other nations, openly threatening to invade and conquer a sovereign nation, and prosecuting an economic war against us. Indeed, moral imperative at the least would seem to urge ceasing business operations with and within such a nation.
But Apple thinks it has more important things to do.
Stopping Fentanyl
Sultan Meghji, Frontier Foundry CEO and former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation CIO, wants the government to use artificial intelligence packages to stop fentanyl at the border.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) can leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the trucks, boats, and planes trying to sneak fentanyl into the country.
We must use this technology at the border and ports of entry (where nearly 85% of America’s fentanyl comes into the country,) when we have access to every vehicle coming in.
That’s a good step, to the extent such packages actually can be useful in combatting fentanyl entry in to our nation. It is, though, at best a third step.
Better would be to use artificial intelligence packages—again, to the extent they prove useful—to intercept and stop fentanyl precursor and constituent chemicals from entering Mexico, thereby starving the drug cartels of these ingredients. Additionally, use these packages, if they actually work, to prevent those precursors and constituents from leaving the People’s Republic of China, these chemicals’ primary source, from leaving the PRC at all.
Those moves would interfere with Mexico’s participation in the drug trade, and they would greatly inhibit the PRC’s ability to continue its Opium War Redux against the US.