Children Of Big Brother: What It Means To Go Back-To-School In The American Police State
Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”
– Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
It’s not easy being a child in the American police state.
Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved.
Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later. In your neighborhoods, you’ve got to worry about the Nanny State and its network of busybodies turning parents in for allowing their children to walk to school alone, walk to the park alone, play at the beach alone, or even play in their own yard alone.
The tentacles of the police state even intrude on the sanctity of one’s home, with the government believing it knows better than you—the parent—what is best for your child. This criminalization of parenthood has run the gamut in recent years from parents being arrested for attempting to walk their kids home from school to parents being fined and threatened with jail time for their kids’ bad behavior or tardiness at school.
This doesn’t even touch on what happens to your kids when they’re at school—especially the public schools—where parents have little to no control over what their kids are taught, how they are taught, how and why they are disciplined, and the extent to which they are being indoctrinated into marching in lockstep with the government’s authoritarian playbook.
The message is chillingly clear: your children are not your own but are, in fact, wards of the state who have been temporarily entrusted to your care. Should you fail to carry out your duties to the government’s satisfaction, the children in your care will be re-assigned elsewhere.
This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today: where parents have to worry about school resource officers who taser teenagers and handcuff kindergartners, school officials who have criminalized childhood behavior, school lockdowns and terror drills that teach your children to fear and comply, and a police state mindset that has transformed the schools into quasi-prisons.
Instead of being taught the three R’s of education (reading, writing and arithmetic), young people are being drilled in the three I’s of life in the American police state: indoctrination, intimidation and intolerance.
Indeed, while young people today are learning first-hand what it means to be at the epicenter of politically charged culture wars, test scores indicate that students are not learning how to succeed in social studies, math and reading. Rather, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms.
In turn, these young people are being brainwashed into adopting a worldview in which rights are negotiable rather than inalienable; free speech is dangerous; the virtual world is preferable to the real world; and history can be extinguished when inconvenient or offensive.
What does it mean for the future of freedom at large when these young people, trained to be mindless automatons, are someday running the government?
Under the direction of government officials focused on making the schools more authoritarian (sold to parents as a bid to make the schools safer), young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.
From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:
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draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior,
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overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech,
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school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students,
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standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking,
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politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them,
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and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.
This is how you groom young people to march in lockstep with a police state.
As Deborah Cadbury writes for The Washington Post, “Authoritarian rulers have long tried to assert control over the classroom as part of their totalitarian governments.”
In Nazi Germany, the schools became indoctrination centers, breeding grounds for intolerance and compliance.
In the American police state, the schools have become increasingly hostile to those who dare to question or challenge the status quo.
America’s young people have become casualties of a post-9/11 mindset that has transformed the country into a locked-down, militarized, crisis-fueled mockery of a representative government.
Roped into the government’s profit-driven campaign to keep the nation “safe” from drugs, disease, and weapons, America’s schools have transformed themselves into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, strip searches and active shooter drills.
Students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
Students have been suspended under school zero tolerance policies for bringing to school “look alike substances” such as oregano, breath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar.
Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in hot water, in some cases getting them expelled from school or charged with a crime.
Not even good deeds go unpunished.
One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed.
Having police in the schools only adds to the danger.
Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers (a.k.a. school resource officers) to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting.
Indeed, the growing presence of police in the nation’s schools is resulting in greater police “involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers.”
Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers have become de facto wardens in elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepper spray, batons and brute force.
In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines, police are more and more “stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking: sagging pants, disrespectful comments, brief physical skirmishes. What previously might have resulted in a detention or a visit to the principal’s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness, often followed by a trip to the courthouse.”
Not even the younger, elementary school-aged kids are being spared these “hardening” tactics.
On any given day when school is in session, kids who “act up” in class are pinned facedown on the floor, locked in dark closets, tied up with straps, bungee cords and duct tape, handcuffed, leg shackled, tasered or otherwise restrained, immobilized or placed in solitary confinement in order to bring them under “control.”
In almost every case, these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids—some as young as 4 and 5 years old—for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums.
Very rarely do the kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others.
Unbelievably, these tactics are all legal, at least when employed by school officials or school resource officers in the nation’s public schools.
This is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into the schools.
Paradoxically, by the time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills, instead of making the schools safer, school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, anxiety, mistrust of adults in authority, as well as feelings of anger, depression, humiliation, despair and delusion.
For example, a middle school in Washington State went on lockdown after a student brought a toy gun to class. A Boston high school went into lockdown for four hours after a bullet was discovered in a classroom. A North Carolina elementary school locked down and called in police after a fifth grader reported seeing an unfamiliar man in the school (it turned out to be a parent).
Police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis. Two armed officers, guns loaded and drawn, burst into classrooms, terrorizing the students and placing the school into lockdown mode.
These police state tactics have not made the schools any safer.
The fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson that the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment) doesn’t mean much in the American police state.
Likewise, the harm caused by attitudes and policies that treat America’s young people as government property is not merely a short-term deprivation of individual rights. It is also a long-term effort to brainwash our young people into believing that civil liberties are luxuries that can and will be discarded at the whim and caprice of government officials if they deem doing so is for the so-called “greater good” (in other words, that which perpetuates the aims and goals of the police state).
What we’re dealing with is a draconian mindset that sees young people as wards of the state—and the source of potential income—to do with as they will in defiance of the children’s constitutional rights and those of their parents. However, this is in keeping with the government’s approach towards individual freedoms in general.
Surveillance cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your emails and text messages and monitoring your spending, mandatory health care, sugary soda bans, anti-bullying laws, zero tolerance policies, political correctness: these are all outward signs of a government—i.e., a monied elite—that believes it knows what is best for you and can do a better job of managing your life than you can.
This is tyranny disguised as “the better good.”
Indeed, this is the tyranny of the Nanny State: marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and inflicted on all those who do not belong to the elite ruling class that gets to call the shots.
This is what the world looks like when bureaucrats not only think they know better than the average citizen but are empowered to inflict their viewpoints on the rest of the populace on penalty of fines, arrest or death.
So, what’s the answer, not only for the here-and-now but for the future of this country, when these same young people are someday in charge?
How do you convince someone who has been routinely handcuffed, shackled, tied down, locked up, and immobilized by government officials—all before he reaches the age of adulthood—that he has any rights at all, let alone the right to challenge wrongdoing, resist oppression and defend himself against injustice?
Most of all, how do you persuade a fellow American that the government works for him when, for most of his young life, he has been incarcerated in an institution that teaches young people to be obedient and compliant citizens who don’t talk back, don’t question and don’t challenge authority?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, if we want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, we must start by running the schools like freedom forums.
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Durov Bombshell: Archaic Crypto Law Charges Reveal French Intel’s Access to Private Communications
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The Durov saga in France and the continued efforts by countries around the world to crack down on his popular cloud-based, end-to-end encrypted private messenger and social media software has divulged a string of embarrassing details about the sorry state of internet privacy and freedom of information.
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Two of the six charges facing Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France are grounded an obscure, never-used twenty-year-old law obliging companies providing cryptography tools to inform the French Cybersecurity Agency (French acronym ANSSI) and grant it access to the software’s source code and “a description of [its] technical characteristics.”
The 2004 law – uniquely blunt in its demand that companies divulge info about the tech tools used for private communications, is being used against Durov by accusing him of providing encrypted communications services “without certified declaration.”
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Brazil’s right rallies for ‘freedom’ after X blow
Led by beleaguered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s political right will rally for “democracy and freedom” Saturday amid a free speech tussle that has seen X, their preferred social platform, suspended in the country.
Bolsonaro called the demonstration for Latin America’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, on Independence Day — which will be celebrated in the capital Brasilia with a parade overseen by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro in a video urged protesters to turn out en masse in green and yellow — the colors of the Brazilian flag but also coopted by his supporters.
“There is no point celebrating our independence if we are deprived of freedom,” he railed in the post on Instagram.
At the rally Bolsonaro will be hoping to show his political clout a month before municipal elections in the deeply divided country.
He left office nearly two years ago after a razor-thin election defeat to arch-rival Lula.
That prompted so-called Bolsonaristas to storm the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court on January 8, 2023, calling for the military to oust Lula and claiming, without evidence, that the election was stolen.
Bolsonaro, dubbed the “Tropical Trump” is under investigation for an alleged coup attempt over those events.
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Bolsonaro and the far right are at war with judge Alexandre de Moraes who presided over the TSE electoral tribunal when it banned the ex-president from running for office until 2030 over his attempts to discredit Brazil’s electoral system.
Moraes, who has taken on the mantle of an anti-disinformation crusader, is leading several other investigations into Bolsonaro and it was he who ordered the suspension in Brazil of X for breaching local laws.
The right hates Moraes and accuses him of censorship and abuse of office.
Bolsonaro has described his ruling against X as a “blow to our freedom and legal security, which will drive away foreign investors and have adverse consequences in all spheres of public life in Brazil.”
Lula has come out in support of the fight against “fake news.”
Saturday’s demonstration was called before Moraes blocked the platform formerly known as Twitter.
One of its organizers, evangelical pastor Silas Malafaia, urged followers to come out in numbers to demand “the removal of the toga-clad dictator Alexandre de Moraes.”
Members of the right-wing opposition in Brazil’s Senate have said they will file for Moraes’s impeachment next week — a move welcomed by Musk.
Bolsonaro has traveled the country widely in recent months to boost allies who will be seeking office in October local elections.
On Saturday, “we will see the true extent of Bolsonarism,” Geraldo Monteiro, a political scientist with the University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), told AFP, in reference to the turnout.
In his social media appeal, Bolsonaro asked supporters to “not take part in the independence ceremonies organized by the government.”
In February, a pro-Bolsonaro rally also in Sao Paulo gathered about 185,000 people, according to an estimate from researchers at the University of Sao Paulo.
Another in Rio in April gathered fewer.
Saturday’s rally is expected to start at 5.00 pm (1400 GMT), whilst in Brasilia, Lula is expected to attend a parade accompanied by 30 military athletes who had competed in the Paris Olympic Games.
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“Big Cold Front Coming This Weekend”
A cold front is set to sweep across the eastern half of the US, a reminder that planet Earth is not on fire as some leftist corporate media outlets repeat like a broken record for years, if not decades. Even if there is some warming, these media outlets fire up the propaganda cannons squarely at fossil fuels without, as of recently, even mentioning the 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern scientific instruments, blasting an enormous amount of water and volcanic gases into the atmosphere that has been linked to the warming.
“Big cold front coming this weekend. Sunday AM departure from normals here showing some areas 10+ degrees cooler. Some upper 50’s might reach the upper Gulf. Pumpkin Spice better be in stock and ready to go. Almost time to dig out the Halloween gear,” Mike’s Weather Page wrote on X.
For the Lower 48, the 30-year, 10-year, and 5-year temperature averages peaked in mid-July and trended lower into September.
Looking ahead, the 208th edition of the Farmers’ Almanac, titled “Wet Winter Whirlwind” and published last month, warned that “The Northeast is in the bullseye for a barrage of storms this winter…”
The weather prediction formula that Farmers’ Almanac uses revolves around a climate pattern known as La Niña, likely to emerge in September-November.
Remember that the emergence of La Nina can impact weather conditions across the Lower 48 this coming winter season.
We suspect that as power bills become more unaffordable for working-class households, the number of folks burning wood should only increase to offset the costs. The heating season across the Lower 48 begins to emerge.
According to 2023 data from Angi, the average cost of a cord of wood across the US is…
Don’t worry. The far-left corporate media will blame weather cooling on…
Strong hurricanes? Global warming
Weak hurricanes? Global warming
No hurricanes? Global warming
Hot today? Global warming
Cold today? Global warming
Raining too much? Global warming
Drought? Global warming
— Some guy from TN (@SomeguyfromTN) September 2, 2024
Folks in the Mid-Alantic and Northeast regions might have to pull out their jackets from the closet this weekend.
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Breitbart Business Digest: The Jobs Report Was Even Worse Than It Seemed
A No Good, Very Bad, Horrible Jobs Report
If you squint at the latest jobs report, you might find something to cheer about. But if you look at it with clear eyes, what you really see is an economy downshifting and bracing for impact.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics told us Friday that employers added 142,000 jobs in August—hardly anything to write home about and well short of expectations for the second month in a row. Add to that the revisions to June and July, which collectively erased 86,000 jobs from the books, and the three-month average is now a tepid 116,000. That’s a far cry from the 202,000 monthly average we saw last year.
If we narrow that down to the private sector, employment grew by 73,900 in August, falling short of the consensus forecast of 136,000. What’s more, the prior month’s private sector figure was revised down from a lukewarm 97,000 to a chilly 74,000. The three-month average is now just 96,000. This suggests that businesses are not expanding payrolls, indicating a weakening demand for labor.
Go a step further and subtract the so-called government-adjacent sector of health care and social assistance, and private payroll growth drops to just 73,900. After revisions, the July figure was just 15,200, bordering on contraction territory, and the June figure was 28,3000. That brings the three-month average down to just 39,100, one of the weakest three-month periods outside of outright recessions and employment contractions recorded in data going back to 1990.
So, where’s the good news? August was not as weak as July or June, so the deterioration of the labor market may not be getting worse. Then again, given the history of large downside revisions, it’s very likely that the reported numbers for August are too high and will be revised down. So, perhaps things are getting worse and we just do not know it yet.
The unemployment rate fell from 4.3 percent to 4.2 percent. But that decline is less a sign of strength and more of a rounding error and a statistical quirk. The rise to 4.34 percent was largely due to temporary layoffs, which cleared up by August. And the actual move was from 4.25 percent—which was rounded up to 4.3 percent—to 4.23 percent—which was rounded down to 4.2 percent. So, all we really got was a two-tenths of a percentage point improvement that looks larger due to rounding.
The household survey, from which the unemployment rate is derived, showed slightly higher employment growth in August, with the number of employed people rising by 168,000. The discrepancy between the establishment survey and the household survey that got a lot of attention earlier this year after several reports showed far less employment growth in the household survey than the establishment survey seems to have been resolved. For the past three months, the two surveys have been producing results very close to each other.
The Foreign Worker Surge
One aspect of the household survey that has received a lot of attention is the gap between native born employment and foreign born employment. In August, the number of U.S. born employees fell by 1.3 million and the number of foreign born employees rose by 635,000. Over the past 12-months, native born employment has contracted from 131 million to 129.7 million, a loss of 1.3 million natives from payrolls. The number of foreign-born employees has grown from 30.4 million to 31.6 million, a gain of 1.2 million.
This does mean that close to all of the increase in employment has gone to foreign-born workers. Actually, the official numbers may undercount the number of foreign born employees because the household survey is probably not picking up a lot of the newly arrived Biden-Harris open borders crisis migrants.
This is not, however, primarily a sign that foreign workers are taking jobs from Americans. What the government calls the “civilian noninstitutional” native population over 16 shrank by 392,000 over the past year. The U.S. born civilian labor force—that is, the part of the population that is able and willing to work—fell by 768,000. In other words, one of the primary drivers of the contraction in U.S. born workers is that there are fewer adults born here who are able and willing to work because our native population is aging, retiring, and dying.
Meanwhile, the foreign born adult population grew by two million, and the foreign born labor force grew by 1.2 million, matching the gain in employment. While that is no doubt pleasing to their employers because it means they can replace U.S. born natives exiting the workforce with foreigners entering it and do not have to compete for a dwindling pool of workers, which would push up wages, it’s not clear that that is something American voters should be very pleased with.
Keep in mind that the new workers will consume as much as they produce—or nearly so. As a result, there’s almost no benefit at all to the U.S. born or even pre-existing foreign population from new workers. Whatever surplus is left over tends to go to the wealthiest Americans, while the wage depressing effects are felt by the lowest income households.
There’s also likely an inflationary effect. Newly arrived workers tend to be less productive than U.S. born or longer-residing immigrants, but they bid up the prices of everything from groceries to gasoline to housing. And to the extent that the U.S. is facing real production constraints, the additional demand simply means higher prices. In effect, the Biden-Harris migrant crisis is a tax on U.S. residents who were born here or arrived earlier.
One likely reason immigrant employment is growing so fast is that newly arrived immigrants tend to work fewer hours per week and fewer weeks per year, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. As a result, when employers substitute natives or permanent foreign-born workers with newcomers, they have to hire more of them to get the same level of output. This has almost certainly inflated the demand for workers.
As we explained last month, eventually these newcomers will catch up to American work levels. But that takes years. So long as the economy is dependent on new immigrant labor for growth, employment levels are likely to be artificially inflated.
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Exclusive: Photo Essay — Kamala Harris’s ‘Middle-Class’ Upbringing in Westmount, Canada
Now that she is running for president in a political moment when victimhood is currency, Vice President Kamala Harris paints herself as being brought up on the “streets” — complete with fake accents as part of her bit.
However, unfortunately for that narrative, the politics editor at Breitbart News (me) happens to have grown up in the same neighborhood Harris lived in from when she was 12 to 18 and can report that calling herself “middle class” is definitely a stretch.
On Labor Day, Harris put on one of her myriad fake dialects to address a working-class crowd in Detroit, Michigan.
However, it is virtually impossible for Harris to have organically adopted that accent — or “code switch,” as the propagandists at the Associated Press refer to it — given that not only did she not grow up anywhere near the working class, she actually grew up in one of the most upscale enclaves in Canada, a commonwealth nation with distinctly non-American English.
When Harris was 12, she left Berkeley after her mother was hired to work with McGill University, doing breast cancer research at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital — the hospital in which I was born. Local doctors described her mother as a “pioneer.”
The neighborhood Harris grew up in is called Westmount, a majority-English neighborhood in the French province of Quebec.
She would have definitely experienced segregation living there but not the kind she has claimed in the last few years to have lived through in her bizarre, obviously mostly-made-up origin story in which she claims to have been of a modest background and somehow had some sort of involvement with the civil rights movement.
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There is no racial hostility in Montreal. Some racial political discourse has been imported from America in more recent years, but that would not really be a part of the cultural awareness or experience of someone who stopped living there before 2020.
Montreal is actually a “melting pot” in terms of racial and ethnic diversity and has always had a unique ability to accept immigrants of all backgrounds, races, and religions while maintaining its French culture due to a series of language and culture laws it began implementing in the 1970s.
In a story about Harris’s roots and personal experience, the only segregation she would have experienced would be economic segregation, as Montreal is the most economically segregated city in Canada, according to a study from the University of Toronto.
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And, in that city, Harris grew up in the poshest neighborhood, which, at the time she lived there, was not only the nicest neighborhood in Montreal but was the richest one in all of Canada — far from the struggle of the “streets” Harris now purports to have been down with.
According to an op-ed that her best friend from her time at Westmount High School penned, Harris lived with her mother and sister Maya on Grosvenor Avenue in a Victorian home. As her friend explains, Harris enjoyed “family dinners and a stable life.”
This is the street Harris grew up on. These homes list for, minimum, more than $1-2 million CAD (~$750,000-$1.5 million USD):
Emma-Jo Morris / Breitbart News
That tracks with most people’s lifestyles in that neighborhood. It is one of the luckiest places someone could live. Harris implying that it is the “streets” is an ironic joke many who grow up there make.
This is the main street crossing through the middle of the neighborhood, an avenue that bears the same name:
Emma-Jo Morris / Breitbart News
This is the street, Redfern Ave., that Harris’s high school is on the corner of:
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This is the library at the edge of Westmount Park, where she could have studied or borrowed books and would have walked by to get to and from home and school each day:
Emma-Jo Morris / Breitbart News
This is where Harris would have spent time and where many or most of her classmates lived:
Emma-Jo Morris / Breitbart News
Harris has contrived a persona and has heralded policies based on what is politically convenient at any given moment to exploit opportunities for herself to get ahead, and it has kind of worked (so far). Extremely fortunately for her, she has found herself running for president in a moment when the media and elites are at their absolute dumbest and laziest, won’t bother to analyze policy, and, instead, sum up a candidate’s entire identity and worldview solely on physical traits, like race. So, she takes advantage of this moment — using her race as some sort of tool to give the opposite impression of the immense privilege (as you can see) she really comes from and deflecting from her lack of connection to or solutions for the real working class.
There is nothing wrong with being from this neighborhood, as you can see. It is beautiful. The people are happy. It is safe and a wonderful place to grow up. However, Harris’s “lower-middle class” pandering bit does not work.
Time for a new bit.
Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her on Twitter.
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Goldman Sachs Endorses Kamala Harris’s Globalist Migration Policy
Kamala Harris will be better for Wall Street investors because she will import more low-wage legal and illegal migrants from around the world, according to Goldman Sachs, a New York investment firm.
The choice was admitted in a September 3 report, titled “The Election and the Economy: Estimating Immigration, trade and Fiscal Effects”:
If Harris wins, we expect that net immigration will continue [at] 1.5mn [million] per year, somewhat above the pre-pandemic trend of 1mn [legal immigrants]. If Trump wins with divided government, we expect net immigration will fall to 1.25mn. If Republicans sweep, Congress could increase enforcement resources, and we expect net immigration would fall to 0.75mn.
The biggest short-term impact, says Goldman, would be caused by President Donald Trump’s support for tariffs to protect U.S. industry, jobs, and science.
However, the firm’s charts show that reduced migration would have the second biggest change, especially after January 2026. “We estimate that the contribution from immigration to labor force growth would be about 30,000 per month higher if Vice President Harris is elected than in the Republican sweep scenario,” the report said.
But Trump’s populist policies would only cost the nation about one-half of one percent of the total economy, the report noted:
We estimate that if Trump wins in a sweep or with divided government, the hit to growth from tariffs and tighter immigration policy would outweigh the positive fiscal impulse, resulting in a peak hit to GDP growth of-0.5pp [percentage points] in 2025 …that abates in 2026.
Government-delivered migrants boost the economy by serving as wage-cutting workers, rent-inflating renters, and government-funded consumers.
The federal “Extraction Migration” strategy provides a huge human stimulus for Wall Street’s investors in the U.S. consumer economy, even though it imposes huge costs on ordinary Americans and reduces the pressure on companies to invest in high-tech productivity and foreign trade.
Goldman Sachs has been very successful for its wealthy investors over the years, but it is also hated by populist critics on the left and right. “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere …. [and] is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” according to a 2010 article in Rolling Stone magazine.
The report does not explain why Goldman Sachs thinks migration will decline if Harris is in the Oval Office.
Her language suggests she will not reduce the huge inflow of legal, illegal, and quasi-legal migrants arranged by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief. She has also been supported by many wealthy California investors who gain from massive migration, and by many progressives who use immigration to forcibly diversify the nation’s populist culture.
Harris’s economic plan offers few strategies for growing the economy aside from more migration.
The report also seems to greatly understate the pre-election inflow allowed by Biden’s border chief, the Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas. In July, for example, Mayorkas allowed roughly 170,000 migrants through the southern border, at a rate of about 2 million people per year. That inflow is in addition to the legal inflow of 1 million, and the inflow of short-term workers, which includes about 500,000 blue-collar workers, and roughly 500,000 white-collar workers.
Since January 2021, Biden’s deputies have imported almost 10 million legal and illegal migrants. That huge inflow adds three migrants for every four American births during the same period.
Mayorkas is working hard to expand the inflow of foreign graduates, partly because the migrants are helping subordinate better-paid American professionals to the investors’ executives.
Trump has promised to help Americans by shutting down the supply of southern migrants, and by deporting some of the roughly 15 million illegals. But he has also made and withdrawn various claims to donors since 2015 about importing more white-collar workers.
Trump’s zigzags have helped keep vital support from wealthy donors but have also narrowed his polling advantage on immigration.
Trump has also promised to help young Americans by excluding illegal migrants from the U.S. housing market.
The Goldman Sachs report does not mention the productivity and income gains for Americans that emerge as employers lose access to extra cheap labor.
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JACK POSOBIEC and LOMEZ: We need to put ‘blackpillers’ into the ‘phantom world’ and focus on staying positive in the Republican party
Jack Posobiec hosted Passage Press Founder and CEO “Lomez” on Friday’s episode of Human Events Daily to talk through the “blackpill” phenomenon that has been growing in America over the past couple of years.
Blackpillers, as Posobiec explained, are people who listen to dark conspiracies and are “wrapped up in despair” to the point where they don’t believe any effort in the betterment of the US matters. They were previously infamously known as men who despise all women and have given up on trying to find a life partner in one. “Why will these people refuse to accept objectively positive information when it comes their way?” the host asked Lomez.
Lomez pointed out that this phenomenon does not only afflict the right wing as it initially was thought to have, but “humans across the board,” particularly on social media and platforms such as X. Based on recent polling he saw, Lomez said, “I don’t think the Trump coalition has ever been in a better position. Electorally, everything is trending in the right direction in the swing states.”
He contemplated that many of these blackpillers were not in favor of Trump winning at some point and have given up upon seeing that he has the official Republican nomination. “They have a hard time then adjusting to a reality in which their preference doesn’t look like it’s going to come to fruition. And so rather than just look at things objectively, reevaluate and be happy that our guy is in a great position to succeed,” Lomez said, “Rather than just commit now to winning, they want to hold on to this previous intellectual commitment that they have, and whether it’s another candidate, like I said, or some other political project, and they just can’t let it go.”
Lomez stated we need to put blackpillers “into the crystals where they belong” and “into the phantom world” and focus on staying positive and spreading that positivity throughout the rest of the Republican party.
Watch the full episode below.
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