In 2022, Abrego Garcia was traveling around with eight passengers from Houston, Texas, to Temple Hills, Maryland, in a car owned by a human trafficker in the US illegally, Hernandez Reyes. he was later deported to his home, El Salvador. They were detained by the Tennessee Highway Patrol and released by Biden’s FBI. Less than one […] The post More Evidence Abrego Garcia Was a Human Trafficker appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

You may have noticed that most of the headlines right now revolve around President Trump and the Republicans. It’s almost as though the Democrats don’t exist. That’s because they don’t. They have almost lost the will to resist, as you have Bernie Sanders and AOC taking private jets to large venues. Democrats are struggling for what their message ought to be, so they have unleashed a new term. It is “Dark Woke,” which is going to go about as well as “Dark Brandon” did. Just a few years ago, at a NASCAR race, people started chanting “F*** Joe Biden” and a woman who was covering that race then suggested the crowd was actually chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon!” Republicans started using the slogan “Let’s go Brandon” to imply “F*** Joe Biden.” And then the Biden administration, trying to seize the language back, put out memes of old Joe Biden with laser eyes calling him “Dark Brandon.” Or they put up memes of him with his sunglasses, grinning, and they called it “dark.” It didn’t go well because he then physically died in the middle of the race and dropped out. In fact, it went very poorly. So now they’re trying “dark” again. They think that just by adding the word “dark” to things, that makes it cool. Dumb. They’re obviously trying to copy the Elon Musk memery of “Dark MAGA.” And so now they have “dark woke.” WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show According to The New York Times, “There was a time last summer when the Democratic Party was cool.” That was a really, really short period of time. (There was a point in time when I was significantly closer to weighing 150 pounds. It was a moment, and then it went away.) The Times continued: Kamala Harris had just stepped in as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in the waning days of Brat summer. She went on the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy.” Tim Walz’s outdoorsy drip led to a Chappell Roan-inspired camo trucker hat. The mems were flowing, and the party’s mood was high. You’ll recall that even by the end of Brat summer, it was pretty much over for Kamala Harris. The “Call Her Daddy” appearance was a giant failure and cost her a bunch of money. Tim Walz was never a bro. Nobody ever saw Tim Walz as a bro, unless the bros were hanging out at a high school musical production using jazz hands. But now, apparently, Democrats are in search of a new memery. The New York Times writes: As liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics. It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing. And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point. Online, it has a name: “Dark woke.” “Republicans have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison,” said Bhavik Lathia, a communications consultant and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “There is an extreme imbalance in strategy that allows Republicans to say stuff that really grabs voters’ attention, where we’re stuck saying boring pablum. I see this as a strategic shift within Democratic messaging — I’m a big fan of ‘dark woke.’” What exactly is “dark woke?” The Times again: During a meeting of the House Oversight Committee last May, Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, found herself in a spat with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, after Ms. Greene made a jibe about “fake eyelashes” that the chair, Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, declined to prosecute under the committee’s rules on decorum. “Mr. Chair, a point of order,” Ms. Crockett said. “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” Ms. Crockett’s moment became a meme. It was printed on T-shirts. It got her an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. And now, Democratic strategists say, it has become a perfect example of “dark woke.” Democrats are very much in love with this sort of stuff. And it ain’t gonna get them out of their morass.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant whose deportation to El Salvador has garnered nationwide controversy, was once pulled over in a vehicle owned by a convicted human smuggler, federal authorities have confirmed. Abrego Garcia was pulled over on a Tennessee highway in 2022 and suspected of human smuggling after local authorities discovered he was transporting […]

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. I want to talk about red ink. Red ink has manifested in trade deficits, budget deficits, and national debt. They’re all connected, but here’s my point: We’ve been warned that trade deficits of the last consecutive 50 years really don’t matter because we grew so much in our gross domestic product and our per capita income. But there were other factors that allowed the trade deficits not to matter as much, because we were not running huge budget deficits, nor had national debt climbed to the present levels. As well as, we weren’t the beneficiaries of a tech revolution in Silicon Valley. And we were not yet beneficiaries of being a net oil producer, rather than importer. But, let me get to my point. In 2000, I’m just taking an arbitrary year a quarter-century ago, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats made an impassioned case that it was unsustainable to have a $100 billion deficit with China, in particular, and to run up a $370 billion trade deficit in general. That was over 3.6%, 3.7% of GDP. In 2025, despite the spectacular growth in GDP, we’re running a $300 billion, roughly, trade deficit with China. And a $1.1 trillion overall trade deficit with the rest of the world, including China. That’s well over 3%—that’s up into the 4%. What am I getting at? At the time that they were worried about this, a quarter-century ago, we had prominent economists who said that if you got over 3% of your trade deficit, you were too deeply leveraged by foreign influences that could buy property, too much bonds they held of American debt, they would get influence, et cetera. Warren Buffett in 2003 warned us in his annual letter that was published in Fortune magazine. As late as 2018, Jason Furman, the Obama economist, warned in The Wall Street Journal, of all places, you don’t want to go over 3% of GDP with your annual trade deficits. So, while we were doing this for the last quarter-century, and … and we’re up to 4% of GDP in our trade deficit, look at the budget—just to go back to that year—25 years ago, we were running—I can’t believe it—a $236 billion surplus. This was the grand [Rep. Newt] Gingrich, [then] speaker of the House, [and the-President] Bill Clinton budget that was still in effect. And we were adding to our national wealth by 2.4%-plus of GDP. Now, we’re running a $1.8 [trillion] to $2 trillion annual deficit. And that is a minus-6.4% of GDP. That has an influence on the trade deficit. And in addition to the debt, the debt was $5.6 trillion a quarter-century ago. That was high, but it was still only about 32%, 33% of GDP. Today, a quarter-century … later, the national debt is $37 trillion. That’s 125% of GDP. What is my larger point? Trade deficits don’t matter as much if your national debt is 35% of GDP or you’re running budget deficits that are manageable. But they do matter when you’ve got 125% of GDP, with your total debt—your $37 trillion debt—which is 125% GDP, and you’re running $2 trillion trade deficits. What has saved us In the past, we were the world’s reserve currency. … And we had 40% of the world’s market. People wanted to get in here, so they were willing to carry paper for us. But when you’ve got $37 trillion, that’s very different than $5 trillion, just a quarter-century ago. We had an oil revolution with fracking and horizontal drilling. We went from paying an exorbitant amount of money to the Middle East and elsewhere to being really a net exporter, if you look at all the ways that we produce oil versus the oil we buy. And of course, we had $9 trillion in market capitalization that flowed into Silicon Valley, to Apple, Google, and these other start-ups that became mega and global corporations. My final point: Trade deficits matter now. We are being crushed by budget deficits, national deficits, and trade deficits. And the people who warned us about this a quarter-century ago, when we did not have this problem with the national debt or the annual budget debt, were none other than Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi; Sen. Chuck Schumer; investment guru Warren Buffett; Jason Furman, an Obama economic adviser; and The Wall Street Journal. So, trade deficits matter. ? We gotta get them down because we have no room to maneuver, given our budget and our national debt. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Seeing Red About the Sea of Red Ink appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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