Surges

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY) has announced that talking about the surge (of illegal aliens) at our southern border is putting the crisis in militaristic terms.

They wanna say, “But what about the surge?” Well, first of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who’s using the term “surge” around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame.
And that’s a problem because this is not a surge, these are children and they are not insurgents and we are not being invaded, which by the way is a White supremacist idea-philosophy…

Here are some other things that surge:

  • electricity—which also damages when it does so
  • tides
  • the sea itself
  • ships in that sea
  • water when driven by wind
  • floods
  • momentum in sporting games
  • a soft drink
  • stock markets
  • cold air comes surging in the house if doors are left open
  • rainwater through cracks in windows
  • product sales after ad campaigns

Oh, and Anthony Fauci’s coming COVID-19 surge.

All of these things are military formations of White supremacy according to Ocasio-Cortez.

Hmm….

Costs and Capitalism

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Texas State Representative Matt Shaheen (R, District 66—full disclosure: he represents me among others in the District) put this up on his Twitter feed Tuesday:

(Note: the blue box at around 60% on the y-axis reads “Overall Inflation (59.6%”)

Notice that. All those blue-lined curves running at no or decreasing inflation (some might say, “deflation”) are in competitive industries. There’s nothing wrong with those health care costs—hospital and medical care services—that replacing government with competition, with capitalism, in the market segment wouldn’t cure.

Additional note: see the college-related curves. Those also result from government intrusion into our post-high school education system, here in the form of overt subsidies to the institutions. There’s nothing wrong with these costs, either, that replacing government with competition, with capitalism, in the market segment wouldn’t cure.

Pesky Democracy

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We’ll have none of that here. Much too noisy. Much too disordered. Much to great a risk to our rule.

And so the People’s Republic of China has extended its despotism further into Hong Kong.

China has sharply reduced the number of directly elected seats in Hong Kong’s legislature in a setback for the democracy movement. The changes were announced Tuesday after a two-day meeting of China’s top legislature.
In the new make-up, the legislature will be expanded to 90 seats, and only 20 will be elected by the public. Currently, 35 seats, or half of the 70-seat legislature, are elected.
China’s top legislature approved amendments to Hong Kong’s constitution on Tuesday that will give Beijing more control over the makeup of the city’s legislature.

Those 20 will be carefully selected by the PRC’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress:

Local national-security officials will also get effective veto power over election candidates, allowing authorities to bar opposition figures from elected office.

This is not the behavior of a civilized, much less enlightened, nation. It is, though, of a piece with the barbarism of genocide against the Uyghurs, the occupation of Tibet and the South China Sea, and the threats of war against the Republic of China.

Censoring Senators

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Sadly, this isn’t an April Fools bit.

Recall that 18 Senators, including Mike Braun (R, IN) and Ted Cruz (R, TX), last Friday visited our southern border and the facilities being by the Biden administration to hold those illegal aliens who are actually caught—including the cages into which President Joe Biden (D) is packing children—roughly 10% of whom (like the illegal alien adults similarly caged) test positive for the Wuhan Virus—like sardines and other cages into which he’s ordered adults to be jammed.

It’s not just the press and the American public that Biden is trying to censor, trying to deny access to those facilities so that we can see the unconscionable mess he’s making of things. Now he’s trying to censor the United States Senate, trying to block them from publishing what they’re seeing with their own eyes (even as both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) each refuse to go to the border themselves).

“There was one of Biden’s representatives. I felt sorry for the lady because she actually talked to me about deleting a picture, but by the time she got to me, all those other pictures were taken, and that shows you the hypocrisy.
“None of us would have gone down there if we were going to be muzzled,” said Braun, who added that Border Patrol also asked that no photos were to be taken, but that “they were telling us that because they had to.”

Here are a couple of the images the Senators took that Biden wanted censored. It’s apparent why he wanted them hidden away from us. The abuse Biden is inflicting on those children makes me wonder what he’s doing to them that he’s better concealing. Both are from the CBP’s Donna, TX, facility.

It truly is disgusting. And it appalls me that our Vice President laughs at and ridicules the idea her august self ought to go there.

An Example of Why

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…State and local jurisdictions don’t—and didn’t—need the billions of dollars of Americans’ tax money sent to them as “bailouts.”

San Francisco plans to start paying 130 local artists $1,000 a month starting in May through the fall in a pilot program announced on Thursday.

Here’s the kicker [emphasis added]:

[San Francisco Mayor Landon] Breed previously announced nearly $25 million from a budget surplus that would go toward preserving the arts as well as nearly $12 million in grants to local arts organizations