Beware… it is likely the JoeBama amnesty plan will pass through the Senate in exactly the same way as Obamacare. Through manipulation of the budgetary reconciliation process.
According to numerous outlets, the JoeBama amnesty legislation has been created by the White House for congressional approval.
The House will likely pass such a proposal along party lines, just like ObamaCare; and then it goes to the Senate, where Chuck Schumer will likely do the same reconciliation process to pass amnesty with a simple majority.
By stripping out a budget bill of substance, or using a COVID relief bill, the Senate amnesty bill will be inserted. It will pass along party lines and then be reconciled with the same amnesty bill from the House. The conniving leftists will do anything regardless of public support.
Watch carefully for them to move the execution of this up right after the House sends the impeachment article to the Senate. They will use the period between receiving the article and the February 8th trial to pull-off this amnesty scheme when everyone is distracted. It’s how they roll. Remember, at the time Harry Reid passed Obamacare (Dec ’09 reconciled in 2010) it was opposed by 74% of the voting electorate. They did it anyway. Expect the same here.
(Vox) – […] The bill, known as the US Citizenship Act of 2021 and outlined in a four-page summary shared with reporters, would represent the most sweeping immigration reform package passed since 1986.
It marks both a symbolic and substantive break with the restrictionist immigration policies that have defined the last four years under Donald Trump, setting the tone for what Biden promises will be a more welcoming era for immigrants in the US. At its core is a long-awaited proposal to legalize the more than 10.5 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the US, many of whom have lived in fear of being deported and uprooted from their families for years.
It’s an early signal that the Biden administration is prioritizing immigration, despite an otherwise full agenda in Congress, including confirming the president’s Cabinet officials, conducting Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, and passing additional Covid-19 relief. That draws a contrast with the Obama White House, which faced criticism for squandering its best opportunity to pass comprehensive immigration reform in 2013.
“We made a mistake,” Biden said when asked about why voters should entrust him with passing comprehensive immigration reform during an October presidential debate. “It took too long to get it right.”
[…] But even if the bill doesn’t survive in its entirety, Democrats and immigrant advocates are working to ensure that at least parts of it go on to become law in other forms, including through a budget reconciliation bill, which could pass by a simple majority, and in future pandemic relief packages. (more)
And it’ll all be heartedly cheered on by open borders republicans.
This is what happens when democrats are allowed to steal the presidency by do nothing the . GOP
The GOP has been us. We’ve held our noses and voted. We’re late to the game.
The uniparty, big business, high tech all want this. There is no republican party anymore. The Dem and Rep are the WWE. They are acting. There is no GOP folks. We have one party. The Republicans have to pretend to be conservative to get elected. But they are not conservative. Mitch Mitt and Lindsey are liberal Democrat globalists.
Thanks Republicans. We will not forget your treachery.
I’m sure they will do it. They’ll also probably at some point bring back the Individual mandate penalty for the ACA. The Individual mandate is still there, it was just the penalty was made $0.00.
It’s going to be a long four years.
They will have Medicare for all before that.
Venezuala has that thing called Medicare for all.
Except that the doctors are now eating out of garbage cans. Well, the ones who haven’t fled, that is.
The young Doctors and PA’s I know think they will continue to make the make the big bucks even with ‘Free healthcare. I have not been able to convince one of them that they will be working for free or a tiny little salary.
Indeed…the simpleton ignorance displayed by persons of supposedly high intelligence.
I know someone, a leftist ex-daughter-in-law, still trying to get through med school, who also thinks she will make big bucks regardless of socialized medicine’s encroachment. Stupid…also betting on Corn Pop forgiving her likely $300K school loan debt. She’s barely passing so may never realize MD status. They want it all, and want someone else to pay.
I needed a semi-elective procedure (I say semi becuz it was for something not life threatening at the moment but will have to be done sooner or later.) Well, I wanted it sooner since I have a house guest that would watch my dog.
The Dr didn’t seem to think there was a need to rush and then I mentioned I would soon be losing my terrific employer healthcare when I turn 65 and go on Medicare. I asked about reimbursement rates for the doctors with the 2 plans.
By the time I walked out of his office I had the surgery scheduled for 2 days later 🙂
I think free health care is the master plan, Scott. A really big free goody is needed to bring back the Republicans’ voters.
This is what they mean by unity. Both parties will support this. The media will heap praise. It will be presented as the watershed end of the Trump era of division.
The one-party state slouches nearer.
The dems will be there forever now. Four years was eradicated this election. Evil is in charge of the nation.
And you think they will not cheat then? imho?
We do not deserve a win and we did not deserve Trump.
YES! I got so mad at Trump and the rest of them claiming they’d repealed it! Big LIE! ??
It was not a lie – it was the only way they could get rid of the hated penalty. It has to do with the “severability of the whole Obamacare Law – whether the penalty portion could be separated from the whole of the law.
There were cases to have the whole Obamacare declared Unconstitutional and I guess that failed – so the Trump Administration worked in/around Obamacare as much as possible to at least lessen it’s worst effects.
Not President Trump’s fault. CJ Roberts was front and center. We still believed that he was an Originalist. N.O.T. He is a coward who should retire in abject shame, hiding his face from the public for the rest of his life. Thank you so very much, Globalist Geo W. Bush for this disgrace to the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
What is gonna change in 4 years unless by then we have restored election integrity
Be sure your state has election integrity. Dems are going to be trying laws everywhere they can. We have to fight. No choice.
It won’t matter when illegals made legal by this flip Texas blue.
Say goodnight, Irene.
The only choice we might have is to make it retroactivly unlegal if and when we ever take charge again.
What was given illegally can be taken back.
Illegal citizenship is not citizenship forever, it can be stripped from illegals if the powers that be have the will.
Although….let’s not forget that President Trump had a yuge Hispanic/Latino group of support.
I believe the pendulum will swing. Many immigrants won’t want the same thing that they left behind.
It doesn’t matter. They are going to amnesty 30 million Dem voters.
No need to steal: TX, GA, NC, FL, NV, and AZ just went permanent blue.
It will be a long two years. All I see is the far left democrats angering people everywhere, including in their own party. We are the majority in this country. We have to focus on our own states and ensure the 2022 elections are not stolen.
Four years?
Bud, it’s done.
This is here forever!
1000 years of darkness.
Well legalize them or just let them come across the southern boarder.no difference.
For sure.
They know that we are a dumbfounded group.
The “Republican” party just sealed their fate. Illegals will keep them out of office. Voter fraud from illegals. They won’t need Dominion anymore.
Traitors.
If the illegal’s refuse citizenship, they will qualify for more government handouts than if they got citizenship
Iiiiiiiiiiii think the “US Citizenship Act of 2021″ will address that concern.
And by that I mean: get ready for clauses on “bridge years”… lots of ’em.
Sure, there will be another free election in 2022, 2024, etc. Not.
Well if they keep spending money like they are,6 Trillion so far,there will be no USA.
I think that’s what they’re going for.
We’re about to the point where we’re China West.
Mind bogging for such a once great country to commit suicide because the leaders sold out for more more more for themselves and the people let them get away with it.
That’s it. At least you show us where we are headed, knowingly with our reps stabbing us in the back while we are in the process of bending over.
There is no USA. We’re Venezuela now.
ICE will be retasked with hunting for Trump supporters. The FBI will continue to ensure election “integrity”.
The FBI has a lit up billboard in Baton Rouge, LA asking for citizens to turn in their neighbors for attending the Dec 6 rally in Washington, DC.
Same thing in Reno, Nevada! Where were these billboards while BLM burned down the Cities?
And we are paying for them.
Any Republicans that we know of standing up against this FBI tyranny?
I’m guessing not.
Soooooo, maybe those billboards need to see the same fate that down town Seattle and Portland felt under the BLM.
Anybody can dress up in black with the letters BLM written on their shirts and show up in the middle of the night and ……………………………….
And one in NYS as you cross there from PA on route 84 and one on route 81 in Pennsylvania.
Baton Rouge is totally ? liberal idi##s.
God this is beyond disgusting – I could not HATE the FBI more!
Where were their billboards for the BLM and ANTIFA terrorists!!!
I cannot think of a valid argument for not doing this. We may lose and that’s bad publicity? The media is already claiming the Trump team has lost 50 cases!
https://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/trump-must-bring-quo-warranto-action-as-complete-defense-to-impeachment/
Leo Donofrio did mention that Rudy had been perusing his information – hopefully this is being considered at the least!
That is our last best hope, and I believe it will work IF Trump does it.
Good luck finding a court to hear it.
Would love to see ICE ignore fake president Biden’s “release the criminal invaders” order.
They should! Grow a Pair! If all these other agencies can make their own decisions and just ignore the CIC when the CIC was President Trump, why can’t we have some of the same against Beijing Biden?
They will not ignore because they know Biden is not in charge. It is Obama and they are afraid of him.
I get it, but someone needs to stand up!
Or “somebody” needs to round up these illegals and ship them accross the border themselves.
Maybe we need our own new “Underground Railroad” that works to round up illegals and ship them south ward.
Sort of working backwards than the one in the 1800s that was pretty effective in working against slavery.
Instead of sneaking people out of the south and sending them north they can be picked up and taken south.
The reason they were afraid of Obama is because he plays the race card and used the civil rights dividing of the DoJ as a bludgeon to force compliance. Biden can’t play that card.
ICE is already on… uh… thin ice.
Texas has already filed a suit over it. Biden is telling them to ignore laws passed by Congress.
Will never happen. As I said a few times in these pages over the past years, the police, military, in this case ICE and other agencies with delegated authority, it is their job, their livelihood to follow orders and therefore they will not give that up. There may be a few that quit but they will be a small minority. Sad but true, nobody can afford to be heroic in an a world where all fight for an existence.
Too clever by half. They are hell bent on admitting tens of millions of new Hispanic citizens, thinking they will be lifelong democrat voters. But anyone paying any attention whatsoever will have seen that the persons they are legalizing become more conservative the longer they are here and the more skin they accumulate in the game through their hard work.
Last summer, Hispanics with baseball bats turned around a caravan of antifa and BLM rioters who showed up to burn their neighborhood. They were having none of it, and the rioters never went back.
So I say bring them on. Their rallying cry will be “I came here with nothing but the clothes on my back, not speaking the language, got married THEN had kids, bought a house, stayed married, put my kids through school, and I like it here. I have two jobs, you can’t find ONE?” And they will vote to keep it all.
They don’t. If that were true California would have been red the last 30 years.
Nope. California turned blue because of voter fraud. Guarantee it. Most Californians other than *lazy people* + *elites* are hard working conservative patriotic Americans. Even the supposed “soccer moms” are having none of this. Same thing happened in Oregon, Washington, and Nevada… can’t speak to much east of those states.
Wrong again!
I am beginning to understand this myself Just an old woman.
People have been using the excuse that Colorado turned blue because of all of the people moving here from California and more liberal states.
But when I talk to all of the people who moved here from California they are very conservative and vote that way.
It took years to slowly dawn on me that that was msm gaslighting, and our problem was voter fraud.
The so called conservative msm wrote articles about liberals fleeing California and bringing all of their bad habits with them which kept us here from really finding out what the problem was.
By the time we figure it out it is almost too late to do anything.
The liberals want to keep us separated and infighting, anything to keep us from doing anything to really fix the problem.
Just point the finger and blame each other while they steal everything not nailed down.
Trump received MASSIVE surge of support by Hispanic communities along the Texas-Mexico border. In some counties, his support jumped 50 points.
The district attorney in Hidalgo County (McAllen, Edinburg) has done some important work trying to clean out the ballot harvestors and election fraudsters over the past few years.
Amazing what can change when you clean up corruption.
And yet here in Hidalgo County most Dims run unopposed because no Republican bothers–because they can’t win.
The Dimms will almost always run a candidate in solidly red districts. You never win elections if you have no candidate. The Dimms almost never take the chance of missing out on a participation trophy. I feel your pain. I used to live in Al Green’s district in Houston. Oy vey.
I’ve been busy looking at the canvas results in Hidalgo County in 2020 and 2016. One thing that is striking is that the Dimms down there managed to get their voters to mark their ballots in the down-ballot races in 2020 even in the unopposed races. They marked those ballots in numbers similar to in 2016 when we still had straight party voting. That took some serious messaging to get that kind of compliance.
There were fewer “none of the above votes” in the presidential race. In 2016, the Libertarians + Greens garnered slightly over 3%. In 2020, that changed to slightly under 1.0%.
Generally, the Dimm candidates for US congress did not do as well percentage-wise in 2020 as they did in 2016 even though they were incumbents. The margins were bad but not as unspeakably bad as in 2016.
Do you have a good candidate for Edinburg mayor this time around? LOL.
But his support was from legal immigrants; the illegals who come here are looks NG for handouts.
Once legal, they may not want many more illegals crossing the border. I am not sure this will work out the way Democrats intend.
I will say this, I put more faith in a hard-working Hispanic-American to vote MAGA than an upper middle-class white woman from a blue area.
Hope floats.
Placing hope in either is a fool’s errand.
And he still lost by a boatload.
I live down there.
He won a single, sparsely populated ranching county by a couple hundred votes. A fluke.
He lost all the rest big time.
This area is blue and will never change. It’s Mexico now.
Big Jake, how do you think your local Hispanics of Mexican heritage might react to an influx of Central Americans like the caravan that is making its way to Mexico on the way here?
I assume that they might be planning to simply pass through your area. Maybe not. If the new ones don’t have the ties to family or village of origin up here, they may want to stop in a border area where a fair number of residents speak Spanish.
A young Mexican woman used to come from the cleaning service to clean my condo every week. She was here legally because her 94 y/o father had been granted amnesty under Reagan. She came here through chain migration. She did not want to have anything to do with the people who had come up from El Salvador. She did not make any distinctions between gang members and other Salvadorans.
Any thoughts?
Many LEGAL immigrants will not like to see amnesty. Those who complied, will get mad, perhaps vote red in the future, not that voting matters… but.
Small wonder we lose so often with the above mindset?
And who is counting the votes, trapper/
Rigged elections = no country.
You are dreaming in Technicolor.
Turning conservative requires assimilation. These people have no intention of doing that.
Reconqista!
Hispanics are natural socialists. Peasants are peasants because they want someone to take care of them.
Cali is RED. DACAisCACA, the alians that arrived are now ADULTS, marrying, having kids, working, buying homes and cars. And, they don’t want line jumpers, cheaters, or Lorena molested at school either. #StandUpKAG
Not a chance.
Now that is true trapper.
Just because they have the same skin color or speak the same language or even come from the same country they become very defensive when “their” turf is invaded and I do not blame them.
Many came here legally and worked hard to get what they have, a lot of people do no understand this.
Perhaps bombard the Dem offices as well as the Rep offices with serious objections to this backroom deal. Enough citizens telling them there will be a political price to pay might get their collective attention. There is a reason why they are trying to sneak this thing through using reconciliation. It probably stinks and is nothing like what is being “sold”.
Petition legislators to add amendments/poison-pills to this thing. Lard it down with things like streamlined nuclear power permit approval, new oil/gas exploration , making sure all of the construction/maintenance/transmission line and connection costs to Solar/Wind are added on to the costs of providing voltage and frequency support that drives up ratepayer costs. The opportunities are endless. Kill this thing with “kindness”.
Either it “means something” to be an American Citizen or else Citizenship is simply something to buy and sell for political power.
A 4 page summary is meaningless. The details within the legislation is where the real meat is hidden.
That summary is simply the sizzle. Where’s the Steak?
Two can play this game. It’s only over if you give up.
It would be great if some black constituents would lay into Rep Al Green. Congressman Green used to be the head of the Houston NAACP. He is all about gaining racial preference goodies if it is the black race that benefits.
In fact, why not aim some pointed pleas at the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, or Congressional Black Caucasians as Rush says? Maybe some of the race baiters will take the bait.
https://cbc.house.gov/
Excellent ideas, Cowboy!
There is no political price to pay. 2018 and 2020 elections proved that out.
There has to be tangible consequences for elected officials that are not carrying out the people’s wishes. This is a Representative Republic regardless of those acting like we are a Direct Democracy. It might be that elected officials need a series of civics lessons from the public. Coercion, intimidation, and weaponization of resources is a two way street. After a few public delivered civics lessons maybe those elected will get the picture.
Even i’m impressed with the overt damage they are inflicting at an accelerated rate. I guess they have five years of prosperity to shred, so they are on steroids. So much for them playing nice for a year to win us over.
No need, as AOC already said, we need a majority so we don’t have to compromise.
They have a majority by a very slim margin. A number of these guys will be up for re-election in 2022. Some represent areas that are heavy red votes and/or moderate dems. Watch Joe Manchin. His state voted 66% Trump. Dems did this with both Clinton and Obama and then were creamed in both houses of Congress in the midterms.
But Pelosi has her HR 1 ready to go. That bill basically legalizes all the sketchy activity that occurred in the 2020 election.
They are desperate to ram through their agenda up-front and distract people with the shampeachment.
Full scale psyop response. Flood twatter and fakebook with fear about how this will eliminate jobs and kill the economy, destroy Social Security and Medicare, etc.
This is what they do. So do it better TO them.
They are having Biden do all of the really ugly stuff so that they can push him out and Kampala’s hands will be “clean.”
They had no intention of winning anyone over. Their intention and actions are to mow us over, figuratively and literally.
I want to make this abundantly clear…
The Democrat and Republican leaders do NOT give a rats A$$ about the American people but there is a silver lining…
The Deep State/Shadow Government does not give a rats A$$ about the Democrat or the Republican leaders. So if they are removed by vote or otherwise, the Deep State/Shadow Government could care less!
Spread these words because all Americans need to Unite to inform “THEM” what “WE” know.
FEAR goes both ways.
They want and need a Civil War and I will not give them one, I will not “Kill” any American regardless if they oppose my beliefs and this, is what scares “THEM”.
I will also NOT give up my country freely!
Unite!
https://t.me/TrumpJr/8703
The intention of all this is to blow up the country. Make it broke and lawless, then authoritarian power will be needed to maintain order.
And that would be when America’s military will be used against Americans. Just as our Founding Fathers so feared.
Let’s hope Hornet and Viper drivers are on OUR side.
Van Jones Top down, bottom up and inside out
Glenn Beck was awesome during his CNN, Fox days.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/glenn-beck-the-revolution-is-now
BECK: OK. Top-down, remember, put the radicals in; and the bottom- up, get the revolutionaries to rise up. Grab the whip and run the plantation.
Now, here he talks about his time in the White House, which we brought to an end. Watch.
MICHELLE OBAMA, U.S. FIRST LADY: Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices. We are going to have to change our conversation. We’re going to have to change our traditions, our history. We’re going to have to move to a different place.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: She’s right. To get where they want to go, you must change our traditions. They must have you forget about our past. They were this close. They must teach it all as negative in order to preserve the idea that man was free.
In order to preserve the idea that man must be free, that man can be decent enough to rule himself, you must preserve our traditions and our history. And I’m begging you, please do it quickly. Please.
I’m going to show you some things tonight that are going to melt your brain. You must walk lock step with God now, have peace in your hearts. You must know what these people did and who this man — this is the answer. This man is the answer.
Stacy Abrams is singing folks. It’s over. Organization, at the maturest level,the Uniparty, versus organization not even birthed or at the level of infancy, the Patriots.
We will just watch and do nothing while we are stabbed yet again. I understand why Chuckles does not fear us.
We need to consider Trump to be a president in exile, overthrown by a corrupt deep state. It is to our detriment to acknowledge the Biden administration as legitimate. The longer we pretend that this is all real the worst shape we’ll be in. We need a mass gathering at the capital of a size that truly does terrify those responsible for this mess. They are trying to maintain their power through force, 25,000 troops. It needs to be taken back by force since they will never relinquish their power by any other means.
Indeed.
Kinda wonder if Mitch is shopping for funding of another pricey infrastructure project. He got almost $3 billion for the Olmsted Dam and Lock Authority Project during reconciliation in the 2012 budget. At the same time, Ted Cruz was blasted for delivering on his promise to filibuster that bill.
The Brent Spence Bridge crosses over the Ohio River and connects Cincinnati and Covington KY needs to be replaced. My bet would be on that special earmark.
This may be the case of why critical infrastructure is allowed to get dilapidated in the first place.
Defer maintenance and use those funds on other “projects”.
Then when it must be repaired/replaced, come up with emergency spending authorization/bond/etc. that could buy it ten times over.
Lots of money flow on either end of it.
A lot of these infrastructure funds are used for kick backs and payoffs
I believe it’s known as money laundering, plain and simple.
I just threw up.
Hitler tried and failed.. and handed the ball to Stalin who failed and handed the ball to China.
Who does not intend to fail.
There are some moderate Dems besides Manchin that might not go with this. If you are in a state with a Mark Kelly, Angus King (I) and others that might now want to lose the next election, you should contact them frequently. This issue is too important to give up on.
They know how to ‘win’ elections under any circumstances.
Manchin, a moderate? LOL. Nope. He votes with the Dems and only breaks with them when they give the ok that it’s safe to do. There are no more moderate politicians. 99%are corrupt. And if those 80 mill Trump supporters don’t #WalkAway now … the GOP will be emboldened to continue.
Sick to my stomach at the crookery.
She’s happy to get the gavel out of her azz
I’m not going to write another letter, make another phone call, or give another penny. D.C. is a cesspool of Narcissistic Psychopaths who crave money, power, luxuries, and unhealthy things (which we won’t mention here). Even here in Idaho, the Governor, Senators, and Representatives are pretending nothing horrible is happening OR they are complicit. There’s a difference between “keeping your nose clean” and being absolute cowards.
I’m going Galt.
Just an old woman: Glad to learn of your decision to go Galt. I could use some company.
Idaho’s “leadership” is pretty much completely worthless.
Galt is the only way that I can see.
Me too. Have been trying to be on strike full time since November 2008. ‘16-‘19 was a nice flashback to the America I remembered. ‘20 forward was/is the slap back to reality.
Big Govt and Socialist Globalists types have been yanking the Overton Window Left for my whole lifetime (1970 – now).
There are but a narrow few options to counter a 100 year assault on our Constitution.
I hope and pray that our President Trump is watching this horror show go down and what they are doing to the Republic that he so loves so much. He is never someone to lose and has made comebacks against all odds, when he was down by billions of dollars.
I just can’t believe that he will not come back to finish off what he started- taking out the Deep State. It was our President Trump who said that he had them all and I believe him. He also said that the best is yet to come, which I also believe.
I once read this, I can’t remember where- God doesn’t send desperation to kill us. He sends it to bring new life into us. I cannot let fear take over my life, not at this point. I believe that the good Lord has taken us this far and that He who presides over us all will never let us down.
Thank you Sundance and fellow Treepers for all that you are doing during these perilous times.
Trump said he will come back in some form. The obvious question is when? Timing is everything as well as optics. Trump has to wait until enough people “see” and “feel” it. “Hearing” it is not enough, especially, when the corrupt “Media” holds the megaphone.
Financial security and financial wellbeing is near the very top of the list of importance for most people. When they start to “see” their 401-k’s depreciate and go down in value, this will cause an alarm to both Conservatives and Libtards. I got my first technical warning signal in a long time to sell the Stock Market. Most retirements are tied to the Stock Market.
Many social-media websites are getting democrat posters with regret having voted for Biden. This will grow in the coming weeks and months. There will be plenty to “see” and “feel” by everyone.
Just one more reason why they are keeping the National Guard in DC until at least mid-March.
There will be no dissent. Any dissent will be treated as terrorists. Unless it’s BLM/ANTFA.
It’s a sad day when the American citizen has no standing to bring suit to stop this madness;
used to be when one was in the throes of hysteria (which is what these power lusting politicians are in the middle of) one could simply slap the hysteric across the face and tell them to knock the sh – – off.
Guess we can’t do that, the powers that be want us to believe we have to let our nation’s destruction happen on their new accelerated pace.
I imagine the impeachment trial is going to have just as many stumbling blocks for President Trump or anyone that tries to present a clear picture of what is going on to stop this mad pace to destruction.
Praying for the miracle; and thinking on that passage from Luke 10:3 – Go your ways, behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves and hoping on seeing the perfected expression of Luke 10:19 surround President Trump and his team of lawyers – Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
May that promise be Gracefully present upon President Trump and all those who lead us through these days; it would be nice again to be Winning; not at all tired of Winning. Surely we have one more win in our nation!
You can blame the Supreme Court in the year 1923 for creating the concept of “judicial standing” out of thin air when the Constitution, itself, never granted the Judicial Branch this power.
Massachusetts v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447 (1923), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected the concept of taxpayer standing.
The case was consolidated with Frothingham v. Mellon.
The plaintiffs in the cases, Frothingham and Massachusetts, sought to prevent certain federal government expenditures which they considered to violate the Tenth Amendment.
The court rejected the suits on the basis that neither plaintiff suffered particularized harm, writing:
“We have no power per se to review and annul acts of Congress on the ground that they are unconstitutional.
The question may be considered only when the justification for some direct injury suffered or threatened, presenting a justiciable issue, is made to rest upon such an act. …
The party who invokes the power must be able to show not only that the statute is invalid but that he has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as the result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.”
This case is considered the beginning of the doctrine of standing.
Prior to it the doctrine was that all persons had a right to pursue a private prosecution of a public right.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_v._Mellon
Again, nowhere else in the western world can govt attach a freeway bypass to the defence budget or can an illegal immigration amnesty bill be attached to some other unrelated bill.
Bizarre.
US exceptionalism is certainly errr….exceptional.
Breitbart has a good piece up showing how the MSM sells “Amnesty” as broadly popular, but misleadingly, because better polls show big majorities oppose some of the consequences of new illegal immigrants. https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/01/23/amnesty-polls-show-americans-want-jobs-americans/
And this reminded me of a David Brooks piece a few years ago on News Hour and in the NYT, in which he referred to some study that “showed” that African-Americans didn’t really compete with Hispanics for the same low-wage jobs. I went and checked out his source, and all it showed was that among the top three types of low wage jobs for each group, there was some ranking discrepancy, maybe the second one for African-Americans was third for Hispanics, or some such. But it clearly showed that they competed for the same jobs, not the opposite.
This showed me that Brooks was part of some narrative engineering job then. It looks now like the same team is going full court press to reverse the Trump Immigration Reforms, while pretending that the reversal has widespread support, when it will clearly damage the African American workforce at the low end. I expect it takes a high-cost narrative management program to persuade Brooks to push false narratives. We see if he climbs on the bandwagon for the Immigration changes.
What we the People want doesn’t matter anymore.
Black people voted for this at 90% or so. They can enjoy losing not only jobs, but their neighborhoods, and affirmative action will be going away. Hispanics and muslims don’t have white guilt.
And oh yeah lots of these amnesty cases aren’t Hispanic they are muslim and Carribean – good times.
This is nothing so much as a form of ethnic cleansing. Of course, the democrats are fascists after all.
It’s actually labeled as such by the UN and is considered one of the steps of genocide. It just doesn’t matter when it’s majority white countries.
The message from every state and every organization, governmental and business, for every China Joe Bi Den action should be we will not comply. FU and die.
I don’t think anyone will stop them.
Rule of Law. Very antiquated under Democommunism.
This will be the end of us. Louisiana is trying to turn neighbor on neighbor with the FBI. Meanwhile M-S 13, THE most vile gang has been let out of prison because Covid. Now they will all be citizens and even more easily go back and forth across the border.
As this article says- America is quickly turning Communist Red.
“In light of Biden’s attitudes and appointments, “Americans might wonder if entire ‘classes’ of people such as deplorables, Christians, and elderly people of pallor might be targeted for violence. For leftist Democrats, these are the equivalent of those mutant social growths that need to be uprooted if society is to progress in a socialist direction.”Moreover, “[t]he Biden regime is following the familiar pattern of suppressing a conservative populist movement rising against its radical agenda by criminalizing it as a dangerous threat. But no previous Democrat suppression campaign, not even after the murder of a president, ever involved the scope, ruthlessness, and brutality of the one we are witnessing right now.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/america_is_not_so_slowly_turning_communist_red.html
Published August 26th…
Trevor Loudon’s 2020 list of 65 communists, socialists and security risks in Congress
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/08/trevor-loudons-2020-list-of-65-communists-socialists-and-security-risks-in-congress/
The scope and ruthlessness is expanded by big tech and the media.
Honestly, reading all of this is very depressing because our hands appear to be tied.
If there are more of us than there are than them, why are we LOSING? We need to use the same tactics they use so we can WIN.
We are not organized. The dems all worked for decades through all agencies to accomplish their goals and implement their agenda. The repubs were just happy getting paid off. And we played their game believing in rules and laws that no longer exist.
That is why we cannot win this voting our way out. Little we believed in exists anymore. We need to build a parallell structure based on our founding principles. Trump had 80 million voters, but we do not have 80 million builders. One treeper posted some good ideas about truckers only delivering to red areas, merchants dealing with only deplorables, start our own schools. Massive undertaking. Can it be done?
We need someone who has a megaphone who is fearless,forceful to lead….We have to get UGLY because we are right and we can’t back down . It does not matter if they have 40000 troops. It should not deter us from going to the capital to demand Justice for the wrongs that have been committed. We will not accept the lie that is sitting in the oval Office. We have the proof and demand that it is heard.We have to go back to the past and what worked…Boston Tea Party Patriots comes to mind….. I know this is out of the relm of our trained thinking but if we don’t do it voluntarily now while we still have a head about us…..we will do it out of desperation later. Desperate acts never end well for anyone.
Liberty-loving people can’t use their tactics. The individual freedom we cherish unfortunately provides space for the leftists to operate. It’s quite the conundrum now that our schools are turning out little brainwashed “justice”, useful idiot activists.
They don’t seem to understand their self-entitlement will not be tolerated in the world they are trying to build
https://twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1351799957141872640
Sorry, this man infuriates me. Supposedly spent millions and hired tech experts and has proof that the election was indeed won by President Trump, and here we sit, watching hourly as the person in the Oval Office deconstructs our entire constitution by simply signing edicts called Executive Orders bypassing the entire system of consent by those governed.
Where the Hell are all these people from Sidney Powell to this Bryne character and all the ones in between? If there is proof, our nation really doesn’t have that much time before the entire overthrow of our constitution has been accomplished, and by then, it will be too late to fix this mess.
Sorry, not sorry, anger is beyond bounds.
This current regime are destroyers. They are utterly wicked to the core. It’s only gonna take a few years to decimate the middle class plunging us all into a terrible place. There will only be two distinct classes wealthy and poor. However, the driving force will be the evil and wicked disregard for anything good, decent and wholesome. I expect at some point the church will be forced underground.
I see there’s more money for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Who in their right mind thinks that money will be well spent, or prevent people from heading north?
Can you spell money laundering back to US politicians?
Prediction: “reparations” will make a guest appearance.
Hope you got some Reparation H in the medicine cabinet…
Harris* is already on record supporting reparations and wants to the riots to continue.
Newsom ordered a committee to study this. Guess what the recommendation will be?
Reparations will permanently destroy race relations.
This is what the corporatists want and since they own both parties, it will become the law of the land. The GOP will publicly resist but privately approve. Time for a new Party.
What on earth is wrong with you. Freedom of thought and expression has limits.
Actually, you need to cut the cord. If you just don’t watch the channel, they still get their monthly cut from your cable/dish bill. Just drop TV in any form. Takes about 24 hrs to get over missing it.
Goodbye, America. Or rather, ADIOS. It was nice knowing ya’.
And there goes any hope anyone had of saving the country. Welcome to poverty, full-blown socialism, water shortages, and infrastructure collapse.
Welcome to Venezuela – it’s coming.
Rolling blackouts
I just emailed the following to Governor Abbott, Louie Gohmert, cruz and cornyn.
Since hearing about the Biden admiration’s decision to release ALL criminal illegal aliens I want my tax dollars to go towards bussing ALL of them to Washington, DC upon their release. The support, education, medical care and criminal activity should NOT be foisted on Texans because of irresponsible decisions made by liberal politicians without a care for actual citizens of the United States of America.
Send some to liberal college campuses (dorms are mostly empty now).
This is abuse of the reconciliation process and violates Senate rules.
These people don’t let the United States Constitution get in their way. Do you think they’ll let something as trivial as Senate rules slow them down?
“This is the most important election in our nations history”. – President Donald J. Trump. If you still don’t get it by now, just stick around. There’s a lot more damage to come. A LOT!
Or just remove the filibuster. Graham and Rubio from the original Gang of 8 immigration bill are still there; probably add Romney now. Enough to pass in the Senate.
30 million new Dem voters. Bye Bye America.