United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

[Knowledgeispower]

pfft. a slashed budget? really?
no executions? no asset seizure? no life in prison?... no... just a slashed budget...
which will only affect the peons and not the actual decision makers in the agency. what does the current head of the FBI care about the budget of his successor?

Easiest to do in the short term. Plus it effects the entire agency not just the bad parts which means the good agents will be pissed at the bad ones which causes a internal conflict

 

[Zachowon]

Man, some of you would have given up at Valley Forge…

Because they gave up and don't think fighting us Wirth it.
Like some soldiers at forge did

 

[Cherico]

Man, some of you would have given up at Valley Forge…

our situation isn't nearly as hopeless but it is far more tedious and a much longer path.

 

[Zyobot]

our situation isn't nearly as hopeless but it is far more tedious and a much longer path.

More tedious, for sure, but eighty more years?! Yeah, I’d shave that down to thirty or forty, due to tech-driven acceleration and the sheer brazenness of a current elite that struts around unmasked in a “deadly pandemic” and flies around on private jets while telling us to reduce our carbon footprint.

They may have been greedy old men with denarii in their eyes, but last time I checked, the Optimates didn’t habitually poke the bear or propagandize the Roman people with vapid noise 24/7, so that—alongside how much slower the world moved back then—bought them more time than the elites today have afforded themselves. I understand human nature’s the same as it’s always been, but at the same time, we should expect any similar figures (who I have little doubt will arise) to exist in a modern context and operate against a modern backdrop, as opposed to taking important people and events from Republican Rome and “copy-pasting” them onto Modernity. In short, I think you mistake the particulars for the generalities, and thus approach macro-historical comparisons as a game of swapping out names and dates without thinking more deeply about them.

 

[Cherico]

More tedious, for sure, but eighty more years?! Yeah, I’d shave that down to thirty or forty, due to tech-driven acceleration and the sheer brazenness of a current elite that struts around unmasked in a “deadly pandemic” and flies around on private jets while telling us to reduce our carbon footprint.

They may have been greedy old men with denarii in their eyes, but last time I checked, the Optimates didn’t habitually poke the bear or propagandize the Roman people with vapid noise 24/7, so that—alongside how much slower the world moved back then—bought them more time than the elites today have afforded themselves. I understand human nature’s the same as it’s always been, but at the same time, we should expect any similar figures (who I have little doubt will arise) to exist in a modern context and operate against a modern backdrop, as opposed to taking important people and events from Republican Rome and “copy-pasting” them onto Modernity. In short, I think you mistake the particulars for the generalities, and thus approach macro-historical comparisons as a game of swapping out names and dates without thinking more deeply about them.

I honestly hope you are right my friend.

 

[Zyobot]

I honestly hope you are right my friend.

I dunno, I’d rather be on my death bed once your proposed “Neo-Caesar” arrives. That way, I won’t have to live through the worst period in history.

… Then again, I suppose the lead-up to it (which I probably will live through) should also suck, so there’s that.

 

[Cherico]

I dunno, I’d rather be on my death bed once your proposed “Neo-Caesar” arrives. That way, I won’t have to live through the worst period in history.

… Then again, I suppose the lead-up to it (which I probably will live through) should also suck, so there’s that.

No one wanted to live through the french revolution or the salem witch trials either but it still happened. Some times people are lucky to live through boring periods where nothing much happens and others get to enjoy chaos and havok.

 

[DarthOne]

Progressives Demand Two Migrants for Every U.S. Baby

Progressives Demand Two Migrants for Every U.S. Baby

The U.S. must end the "venomous nativism" of Americans by flooding it with tens of millions of immigrants, according to Indian-born Deepak Bhargava and South Korean-born Rich Stolz.

www.breitbart.com

The U.S. government must end the “venomous nativism” of ordinary patriotic Americans by flooding it with tens of millions of immigrants, according to two immigrants, Indian-born Deepak Bhargava and South Korean-born Rich Stolz.

Americans’ “politics of fear and racism” must be drowned by even more poor immigrants, say the two Democratic-aligned progressive activist-authors:

Under our proposal, the US would admit 75 million immigrants over the next decade, which would double the foreign-born population from 15% to over 30%, giving it the largest share of any developed nation. Admitting 7.5 million people a year would be a dramatic increase compared with recent history – in the Obama years, the US admitted 1 million immigrants a year, and that number shrank dramatically under Trump.

The two authors’ “Statue of Liberty Plan” would force Americans to accept an annual inflow of 7.5 million migrants — or two migrants for each American newborn.

The progressive plan would require the federal government to suppress and trash the much-polled preferences and the economic self-interest of 330 million varied Americans.

The plan would be a massive, three-sided elite smack to ordinary Americans:

That massive migration would reduce the labor-market power and cut wages for tens of millions of American employees by flooding the blue-collar and white-collar labor markets with a massive wave of perhaps 50 million low-wage and compliant workers.

The inflow would also drive up prices by adding 75 million consumers and renters to the U.S. market. The migrants also would dramatically increase the purchase of autos and gasoline, and spike the cost of homes and apartments. that would put a middle-class life out of reach for tens of millions more Americans.

The flood would also wreck Americans’ ability to locally govern their society, schools, and civic support programs by injecting more chaotic diversity into their already-fractured society. The economic and civic chaos enforced by the migration would help the business-backed progressives seize more power over ordinary Americans.

The two foreign-born authors justify the wholesale replacement of American culture and people as the righteous progressive answer to Americans’ beneficial solidarity with each other and their society, which they deride as “nativism.”
In a September 23 article in the Guardian, the two authors call for the flood to help to wash away the sins and crimes of U.S. businesses:

Invasions, annexations, coups and mercenary wars are a bloody throughline in the history of US relations with Latin America. US corporations profit from extreme exploitation, while US trade and sanctions policies have increased poverty, notably in Venezuela where sanctions have increased extreme hardship.
The climate crisis is also a growing cause of migration. In Central America and the Caribbean, nearly a third of migrants in hard-hit areas cite climate-induced lack of food as the main reason for becoming migrants. The number of climate migrants will surely grow; the World Bank estimates that 216 million people worldwide will be forced to migrate by 2050.

In reality, Americans’ free-market economy has enormously helped the developing world, especially the countries that focus on trade. For example, the nations of South Korea, China, Vietnam, and India, and become far richer in a few decades — after spending thousands of years mired in poverty, autocracy, and caste culture.

Moreover, Wall Street likely will support the progressive plan.

The progressives’ plan would extract vast human resources from developing countries — and deliver the migrants to U.S. businesses and Wall Street to serve as 75 million more workers, consumers, and renters in the relatively low-corruption United States.

“If the U.S. is going to be a place where people want to migrate [illegally] for economic reasons, let’s have an immigration system that recognizes and takes advantage of that,” a top business lobbyist said in November 2021. “That, I think, is something that will be true five years now, 10 years from now, 15 years from now,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a pro-migration economist who formerly worked for President George W. Bush when he was pushing the open borders “any willing worker” claim.
Billionaire investors routinely call for more migration. For example, CNN reported on September 23:

Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor, has an alternative idea to fight inflation: Increase immigration.
…
“Inflation can be mitigated by reducing demand and/or by increasing supply,” tweeted Ackman of Pershing Square Capital. “Doesn’t it make more sense to moderate wage inflation with increased immigration than by raising rates, destroying demand, putting people out of work, and causing a recession?

Business groups already are applauding the semi-open border policies enforced by President Joe Biden and his Cuban-born homeland security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. This unpopular policy is on track to extract roughly 2 million southern economic migrants in 2022 from poor countries — alongside another roughly 2 million legal immigrants, visa workers, visa overstayers, and workers who arrive on tourist visas. The 2022 inflow is delivering at least three migrants for every four American newborns.
The progressives’ pro-migration groups are already funded by business-backed progressives, such as the West Coast investors-billionaires at FWD.us.

This Extraction Migration economic strategy is enthusiastically pushed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into an economic empire of jealous identity groups overseen by progressive hall monitors.

“We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) told the New York Times in March 2022. “It will be an extraordinary achievement. … We will ultimately triumph,” he boasted. In September 2022, Khanna called for a revival of President George W. Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” “guest worker” plan that would pressure employers to replace millions of American employees with low-wage Indians and other foreigners.

Progressives who want more migration also argue that is a good counter to China: “We probably need to grow the country threefold [from 330 million] — to one billion Americans,” said author Matthew Yglesias, an elite-leftist progressive founder of Vox.com.
Some of the pro-migration progressives come from poor countries whose histories, cultures, and status are subordinate to Americans’ colossal accomplishments since 1776.
Stolz, for example, was born in South Korea, before he began working for the far-left Center for Community Change. He now runs OneAmerica, a pro-migration lobby in Washington State. His co-author, Deepak Bhargava, was an activist at the far-left ACORN group and is now a “distinguished lecturer at the School of Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York.
Similarly, Jia Lynn Yang is the top editor for domestic news at the New York Times. She is the child of Chinese immigrants and the progressive author of a 2020 pro-migration book, titled “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide” where she argues that immigration should sever America from its cultural roots in Europe:

For those Americans who want ethnic pluralism to be a foundation value of their nation, there is unfinished work. The current generation of immigrants and children of immigrants — like those who came before us — must articulate a new vision for the current era, one that embraces rather than elides how far America has drifted from its European roots. If [immigrants] do not, their opponents can simply point out to the America of the last fifty years as a demographic aberration, and they would not be wrong.

The two authors also build their “Statue of Liberty Plan” on the long-standing false narrative that insists the Statue of Liberty is merely a greeter at the doorway to a claimed “Nation of Immigrants.”
The fake and misleading narrative is also pushed by the New York Times‘ Lynn:

The image of the Statue of Liberty, the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue’s base, the notion of America as an eternal “nation of immigrants,” — these make up an intoxicating part of this country’s mythology. Set against all the sins of America’s past — from slavery to the removal and genocide of American Indians — the arrival of open-hearted immigrants, grateful for a chance at a new life on our shores serves as a constant renewal of hope in the American project. If there is salvation for this country, it very well may lie in the underlying gratitude of a refugee whose life has been saved by the granting of a visa.

In reality, the State of Liberty was built by a French artist to display the success of the U.S. Constitution in the 1880s. In subsequent years, a PR campaign by pro-migration advocates portrayed it as a beacon to foreign migrants.

But that success has been lost by many Americans since U.S. economic elites boosted international migration in 1965 and 1990.



Extraction Migration
Government officials want to grow the economy, and immigration is an easier tool than gradually raising exports, productivity, or the birth rate.

So the federal governments extract millions of migrants from poor countries and use them as extra workers, consumers, and renters.

This Extraction Migration policy grows the national economy but also skews it towards employers and investors. For example, migration tends to ensure employers do not run short of labor. The lack of “tight labor markets” ensures that the migration shifts vast wealth from employees to investors, billionaires, and Wall Street. In turn, that makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, or buy homes.

Extraction migration also slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because it encourages employers to boost stock prices by relying on disposable workers instead of uncapturable American professionals and technology.
This migration policy also reduces exports by minimizing economic pressure on U.S. companies to build up complementary trade with people in poor countries.

Migration undermines employees’ workplace rights, and it widens the regional economic gaps between the Democrats’ cheap-labor coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.

An economy fueled by extraction migration also drains Americans’ political clout over elites. It alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives an excuse for wealthy elites and progressives to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.

This progressive-backed colonialism-like economic strategy kills many migrants. It exploits the poverty of migrants and splits foreign families as it extracts human resources from poor home countries to serve wealthy U.S. investors.

Progressives hide this extraction migration economic policy behind a wide variety of noble-sounding narratives and theatrical border security programs. For example, they claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that migration helps migrants, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.

Similarly, establishment Republicans, corporate media, and major GOP donors hide the skew caused by migration. They suppress any recognition of the pocketbook impact and instead tout border chaos, welfare spending, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.

Many polls show the public wants to welcome some immigration. But the polls also show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into the good jobs U.S. graduates need to raise families.

 

[DarthOne]

Government Pushs A “Digital Dollar” So It Can Seize Assets At Will & Enslave Humanity

Government Pushs A “Digital Dollar” So It Can Seize Assets At Will & Enslave Humanity

The digital dollar is the endgame. No matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on, this will be the permanent and inescapable enslavement the ruling classes of the globe desperately need in order to remain in power. You will own nothing, while a handful of people will own everything. You

libertywire.net

The digital dollar is the endgame. No matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on, this will be the permanent and inescapable enslavement the ruling classes of the globe desperately need in order to remain in power.

You will own nothing, while a handful of people will own everything. You will exist if they allow it, be stolen from if they don’t like what you said, and be ruled over in a dystopia that makes our current situation pale in comparison.

A “white paper” published on the White House website calls for the creation of a “digital dollar” that, of course, will be controlled by the ruling class. Much like the Federal Reserve currently has the sole role and responsibility to develop and print fiat currency with which they already control the population to some extent. But the difference here is that if all money was digital, the government and central banks will be one and the same. They could (and would) monitor our bank accounts; monitor all of our transactions; impose barriers to purchases of certain “unfavored” items, and even block access to our money or limit how much of it we could spend.

They will take what they want, and cut off your ability to spend for as long as they want.

“A United States central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. has not yet decided whether it will pursue a CBDC, the U.S. has been closely examining the implications of, and options for, issuing a CBDC,” the White House policy paper notes before touting the digital dollar’s “benefits.”

Of course, they’ve decided to pursue this. We all should know by now that they will need to fully control humanity if they expect to remain in power. Hopefully, enough people will see through this and the agenda will fail. “At last year’s Summit for Democracy, President Biden spoke about the importance of using technology ‘to advance democracies to lift people up, not to hold them down.’ If the U.S. launches its own CBDC, it should advance this democratic vision,” the authors wrote.

In a democracy, you’re supposed to get to choose your master and who to serve. That doesn’t make anyone any less a slave.

No idea how accurate this is when it comes to how a digital dollar would work, so thoughts would be appreciated. Also, the last line of the article has me raising my eyebrow.

 

[Bigking321]

No idea how accurate this is when it comes to how a digital dollar would work, so thoughts would be appreciated.

The big, big danger when it comes to digital currency is that they can then track everything everyone is doing with their money, and if they choose they can lock you out of it with no ability to participate in the economy.

With cash it's a method of transaction that has no real controls. A ten dollar bill can be exchanged anywhere and no one can tell who bought what since it's just currency. You could be a criminal or a Saint, the economy doesn't care.

Digital gets rid of that. So now if you post a Trump meme or something you could be put on a suspected terrorist list, the bank stops accepting your transactions, and you either do whatever they require to get your transaction ability restored or you starve. Unless you want to participate in some illegal black market thing which will soon be any unapproved economic activity.

It's the end goal of the authoritarian globalist. You wouldn't own anything. No roll of bills in case of emergency. Just made up digital cash they can use to keep track of everything your doing and buying and if you ever step out of line they can stop you from using their play money.

 

[Marduk]

The big, big danger when it comes to digital currency is that they can then track everything everyone is doing with their money, and if they choose they can lock you out of it with no ability to participate in the economy.

With cash it's a method of transaction that has no real controls. A ten dollar bill can be exchanged anywhere and no one can tell who bought what since it's just currency. You could be a criminal or a Saint, the economy doesn't care.

Digital gets rid of that. So now if you post a Trump meme or something you could be put on a suspected terrorist list, the bank stops accepting your transactions, and you either do whatever they require to get your transaction ability restored or you starve. Unless you want to participate in some illegal black market thing which will soon be any unapproved economic activity.

It's the end goal of the authoritarian globalist. You wouldn't own anything. No roll of bills in case of emergency. Just made up digital cash they can use to keep track of everything your doing and buying and if you ever step out of line they can stop you from using their play money.

That's just a worse version of some cancel bullshit that's already being done, with good chances of turning out illegal on political persecution grounds.
The bigger danger is that a whole new level of shenanigans will open up, that's physically impossible with normal money.
Like this:

China Reveals Digital Yuan with Expiry Date where People are Forced to Spend and not allowed to Save | EUTimes.NET ⚡ Hidden Story ⚡

China is experimenting with digital money with an expiration date, meaning that citizens will be forced to spend and not save. The “digital yuan” could usher in an era of total population control as people who aren’t allowed to save money will be more dependent on the government. “Beijing has...

www.eutimes.net

Obviously, chicoms lead the way.
Basically, it allows creation of money with any imaginable kinds of strings attached, regarding when and what are you allowed to spend said money on.

 

[Captain X]

 

[Bear Ribs]

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Were it the other way around, there would be race riots with the african americans trying to storm white communities to loot them. I guess the threat of violence works for them.

 

[Arch Dornan]

You must be this tall to qualify for loan relief.

 

[Bear Ribs]

You must be this tall to qualify for loan relief.

Been seeing several reports on that. Prevailing opinion is, student debt relief is going to get quietly flushed down the toilet (aside possibly for a few plum payouts narrowly tailored to the "right people") as soon as the midterms are over and it won't do any more damage.

 

[Cherico]

Been seeing several reports on that. Prevailing opinion is, student debt relief is going to get quietly flushed down the toilet (aside possibly for a few plum payouts narrowly tailored to the "right people") as soon as the midterms are over and it won't do any more damage.

totally belive it.

 

[DarthOne]

Cry some more!

 

[Doomsought]

You must be this tall to qualify for loan relief.

Anything other than allowing bankruptcy to apply to student loans is a scam.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Bruh