I resent that I am put in a position of having to constantly defend a President who in almost every way but one is the antithesis of the ethics template for American leadership that I have spent my professional life studying and promoting. That one virtue, and it is a crucial one: President Trump has the determination to fix problems as he sees them, and is not afraid of the conflict necessary to do it. One of those problems is the complete rot of U.S. journalism, without which a functioning democracy is nigh impossible, and the risk of totalitarianism grows nearer.
Here’s another measure by which America is doing “pretty well”: at least NPR and PBS have to earn their own money to spread their propaganda.
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Ethics Alarms 
Trump must have banned “assault rifles” while nobody was looking.
See the article below. There were lots of guns floating around. That’s it! It’s those darned guns floating around!
Since we can’t currently end birth-right citizenship, the obvious response is to deny all visas to women of child-bearing age, focus on deportation of illegal immigrants of child-bearing age, and keep the borders closed to illegal immigration. These actions are well within the law and Constitution, and will eventually have the same effect.
You do not have the right against searches at the border. It would be lawful for border agents to ask any woman who isn’t entering as a citizen or on a visa “hey lady, please pee on this stick before I let you in.”
The teeth-gnashing at that one would be epic!
gah, bad proofreading
on a visa –> on an immigrant visa
The left is trying hard to make sure to claim that immigration crackdowns have NOTHING to do with this. Nope, targeting criminal illegal aliens and deporting them simply can’t reduce crime. It’s a lie. Trust me bro.
Get a load of this from the NPR article:
“LaMaria Pope has had a front-row seat for the recent change. She works for … a violence-prevention nonprofit focused on young people in the Seattle area, and she remembers the anxiety of the pandemic years.
“There was a lot of guns floating around,” she says. “There was almost nothing to do but engage in crime. And knowing that, ‘Oh, we want to defund the police, if we call they’re not going to come for two hours’ — kids are smart and they picked up on that.”
She credits the return to in-person programming, school and structured activities for much of the improvement. “We have a better way to connect and make an influence on our young people,” she says.”
There was almost nothing to do but engage in crime! Eureka! It was the anxiety of the pandemic years. It wasn’t the Biden presidency! Why didn’t I think of that? So, once the teachers unions finally let the teachers go back to the classroom all these kids started going to school instead of gang banging? Isn’t the chronic non-attendance rate in most urban school systems about forty percent?
Nothing to see here. Move along.