Mike Van Meter, Candidate for Congress 11th district Virginia

I am a legal immigrant and naturalized US citizen who has been living in Fairfax County for 15 years. I came to the United States 20 years ago from a communist country. Having lived in both worlds, I appreciate this country and its founding principles, maybe much more than many Americans who were born and grew up here ever would. Therefore, I am very attuned to things that are happening in the United States  that are far from our nation’s founding principles.

We sometimes hear people warn, maybe hyperbolically, that if Kamala Harris is elected, America will turn into a communist/socialist country. I think many people here, myself included, do not believe that America would ever go full communist because after all, this country is still being run by the super rich donors and special interests, and being capitalists themselves, they will not let that happen. If anything, crony capitalism is a much bigger concern. What the Democrats are doing and the policies they are supporting are increasingly resembling those of a totalitarian regime, the kind of regime that all communist party ruled countries have. 

In a totalitarian regime, censorship is prevalent, you can’t say things that you are not allowed to say, at least not publicly. In a totalitarian regime, the ruling party goes after their political opponents and dissidents. In a totalitarian regime, coercion from the government is commonplace. If they tell you to do something, you can’t say no. What we witnessed during the 2020 Presidential election was the US government working in collusion with big tech companies and big media to censor people with different viewpoints on the Covid vaccine or those expressing doubts about the 2020 elections. They also suppressed information that was negative for the Biden campaign, like calling Hunter Biden’s laptop and the serious information it contains as Russian disinformation. They used Covid as an excuse to change election rules right before the election, bypassing the legislature, and carry out a 2020 election in an unprecedented manner with mass mail in ballots, and then vilifying individuals who doubted the election results. 

Democrats say Trump is a threat to democracy because he didn’t accept the results of the 2020 election. To be fair, had the 2020 election been done the same way it was always carried out, with one day election and in person voting, Trump wouldn’t have had much basis for not accepting the results of the election. In a totalitarian regime, elections are a joke, and if people here do not demand their elected officials to try their best to ensure election integrity, the country will soon be forever controlled by one party. That is not a good thing, as in countries that are ruled by one party, liberties are stiffened and corruption and lack of accountability are prevalent. We don’t want this in the United States.

I have also noticed the expansion of the nanny state and big government which is the antithesis of our founding principles as a nation. Up until 1935, there was not a built up Government based welfare system in the United States one welfare program was introduced at a time, and since the birth of the Great Society by Lyndon Johnson, welfare has become the norm, and to some, an entitlement. Now, even individuals who come here illegally can have access to welfare in one way or another. 

Since Joe Biden took office, the first thing he did was rescind several executive orders under the Trump Administration and opened the “floodgate” of southern border crossings, which has peaked to record high under his watch. Millions of individuals have flown into this country, given housing, money, and food stamps, etc. all at taxpayers’ expense. As a legal immigrant, I have never asked for one cent in the form of welfare. I went through the immigration process one step at at time, paid all the fees, even thousands of dollars for a medical checkup as a required step in order to get a green card, which is ridiculous given that I had been in the country on a work visa for years before that, and especially, when thousands of people a day have been crossing through the southern border without having to go through any medical examination. I think welfare as a necessary program to help citizens temporarily in difficult situations, or when they are permanently disabled or people in old age that have not saved enough to support themselves, but when it is used for any purposes other than that, it’s an abuse of taxpayer dollars and disincentivizes hard work and attracts even more illegal immigrants. 

It is disingenuous for the Democratic Party to mingle legal and illegal immigrants as one group and call Donald Trump and Republicans who want to secure the border and stop mass immigration racist, or equalize settlers and immigrants to this country in the early years, who received no welfare, and those who are coming here in the thousands every day. They are not the same. Cut welfare and the influx of illegal immigration will drop substantially. 

Fairfax County’s Congressman Gerry Connolly, is a staunch Democrat and his voting record is 100% in line with the Democratic Party, whether or not the proposed legislation is in the best interest of his constituents. He supports the Green New Deal, which would require 100 percent renewable-sourced electricity along with changing transportation and industry to eliminate the burning of carbon. That would mean closing every nuclear, coal, and natural gas plant, controlling every aspect of American lives and implementing broad, socialist policies. Such programs are unrealistic and estimated to cost trillions of dollars. He champions “environmental justice”, “racial justice”, which implies that this country is institutionally racist, and that somehow non-white people are oppressed and we need to vote for Democrats to fix that. People with leftwing ideology may agree with him, but such claims have no factual basis.  Connolly also introduced the Lady Liberty Act to institute a minimum of at least 125,000 refugees to be admitted to the country annually. What is that number based on? Why does it have to be a minimum but not maximum? What will a maximum be? 1 million? 10 million? Or 100 million? If millions of Haitians and Venezuelans can pour into this country, claiming asylums, many more can for the same reasons. There are more than 700 million people in the world  living under extreme poverty and unstable countries right now.  

Does Connolly intend to bring all of them here? How would that benefit his constituents and this country in general? While advocating for broad socialist programs and flooding this country with millions of migrants who do not wish to go through the official immigration system, Connolly, among 150 other Democrats, opposed legislation that would remove illegal immigrants convicted of rape and sexual assault from this country. He also opposed the Save Act, an election integrity bill that would require proof of citizenship for registering to vote, and in the aftermath of the horrific school shootings in Uvalde, TX and Nashville, TN, opposed several bills that would help fund enhanced school security measures across the country by using surplus Covid funds for those purposes.

The ultimate goal of and measure of ethics for elected officials should be serving, first and foremost, their constituents, not foreigners, not special interests. They should adhere to the Constitution and stay away from policies that are the antithesis of the country’s founding principles, unless they don’t really believe in them. However, for those of us who still cherish these values and principles and keep our Republic, we should pay attention and vote for representatives who uphold them.

Mike Van Meter is that candidate who is committed to securing the border and listening directly to the needs of Constituents in VA-11.

Ofir Akunis, the counsel general for Israel in New York, told Newsmax on Friday hailed Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

“Israel is saving the world,” Akunis said on “National Report.” “Sinwar … was the head of the snake in the Gaza Strip, and he is responsible for the October 7 massacre.”

Akunis quoted Winston Churchill, who said during World War II, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“It’s very important that [Sinwar] is not with us anymore,” Akunis said. “But we need to defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip and to defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. It’s not over until it’s over. We will defeat the terrorists.”

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday promised to press on with Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, dashing the hopes of some that the killing of Sinwar might help end more than a year of escalating conflict in the Middle East.

“The war, my dear ones, is not yet over,” Netanyahu told Israelis.

Akunis noted that Hamas is still holding 101 hostages.

“Innocent Israelis,” Akunis said. “American citizens as well. We want them with their families in their homeland. We need the international support.”

Netanyahu said the war will continue untily the hostages are released.

Information from Reuters was used in this report.

Biden threatens Israel as if it’s an enemy, Kamala agrees with cutting off arms to Israel and where are all the Jews who vote Democrat?

Is America now a terrorist nation? With the current regime in charge, we are. This isn’t my country.

It just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it?

Does anyone really think that Kamala and the regime will walk away if Trump wins? NO WAY. They will not go.

If you want to know what the Kamala puppet regime will look like, just look at the things they’re predicting Trump will do.

In the last 2 days alone, I have heard Kamala and other leftists predict that Trump will: round up people and imprison them based on race; treat the Constitution as a relic; set fire to ballot counting locations in swing states on election night; impose a dictatorship; prosecute and imprison political opponents; and wreck the nation.

Keep in mind that the existing Obama-Biden-Kamala regime already does all or most of these things. We have every rational reason to believe they will triple-down, if given the green light. The Trump administration, when in office, did NONE of these things.

How can decent, even semi-intelligent people hesitate to support Trump (a known defender of freedom) over an already existing regime imposing dictatorship in plain daylight?

Wake the hell up, people. It’s not a personality contest. It’s life-or-death.

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The idiots are not only on the left. On the libertarian and “Objectivist” right, people are trying to argue that while Kamala Harris is evil and wrong about everything, a second term of President Trump would be worse. Why? Because, they claim, in the long run we’re better off with a catastrophically bad regime not associated with capitalism (Kamala/Walz) than we are with a President associated with capitalism, America and the Bill of Rights, but who may get a few things wrong.

The evasion here is staggering. It’s truly cataclysmic. They’re saying that for the sake of the long run, we must destroy ourselves. That, in essence, we must pull the trigger and blow our brains out — so that down the road, we’ll have a merry old time and get Thomas Jefferson (or John Galt) as President. Even though America will be incinerated by then (assuming it’s not too late already).

The Ayn Rand Institute has been promoting this approach to government, as have some others on the libertarian right, in the name of Ayn Rand, the brilliant author who predicted our present downfall in her transformative work, Atlas Shrugged. Note that Ayn Rand, when she was alive, viewed it as imperative to vote for Richard Nixon, in 1972, over George McGovern, because McGovern was virtually a socialist. The Ayn Rand Institute (and the camp followers who parrot everything they utter) claims to know that Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, would never vote for Donald Trump. How do they know? Seances, I guess. And just think: Kamala Harris makes George McGovern look like Ronald Reagan.

I find these conclusions inexcusably dishonest and worse than the worst of the leftists. The leftists are either ignorant, neurotic or intellectually lazy. Some are just plain evil, and want America destroyed. But these proliberty, purportedly rational people on the right know precisely what’s wrong and what the solutions are; yet rather than risk a mixture of truth and error in a Trump agenda, they opt for a murder suicide — all for the sake of the “long run.” It’s madness and idiocy on steroids, and I find it increasingly incomprehensible. The world is truly morally inverted and upside down, and this includes even those who sought to be on the side of truth, freedom and justice.

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The leftists in charge of our culture, media, corporations, schools and government constantly lecture us. “Columbus is bad. Whites are bad. Men are bad. Capitalism is bad. Money is bad. Republicans are bad. TRUMP IS BAD. Unless you think and act precisely as we do: You are racist, heterosexist, misogynist, xenophobic.”

Yet the people who lecture us on morality appear devoid of morality and character themselves. They follow none of the principles they claim to uphold. In fact, virtually everything they do is the polar opposite of what they proclaim you and I must do.

We’re supposed to bow our heads in shame for our “privilege,” pretending we do not achieve anything, that it’s all luck. “Shame, shame, shame” say the people who do the canceling, impose the censorship, shred the Bill of Rights, skewer science and reason while claiming they are apostles of … science and reason. And always (in the end) these amoral moralists are the ones who build the extermination camps.

Be careful of the people trying to make you feel guilty. You can be sure they have something to feel guilty about themselves.

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Leftists, who have renamed Columbus Day “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”, are not fit to criticize Christopher Columbus.

Columbus Day. Say it over and over — and agitate a leftist. Leftists are inherently fragile. Why? Because their entire “ideology” is actually psychopathology, resting on intellectual quicksand. Psychopathology is, by definition, unstable.

Columbus was a hero. He was an achiever. If it hadn’t been for him (or someone like him, and they come along very rarely), then life as we know it would not exist. There would have been no United States of America. There would have been no discovery of individual rights. There would have been no Industrial Revolution, and there would have been no Information Revolution, because the system of capitalism most embodied by America was required for life to move beyond the horse-and-buggy and outhouse era.

You are NOT entitled to disagree with me — UNLESS you’re prepared to renounce (in practice) all the creature comforts of modern life that Columbus set into motion. Columbus was the first American innovator and achiever. In many ways, his courage and achievement made all the others that followed possible.

You like your smart phone? Your computer? Your Internet? Your automobile, video games, cheap clothing — even your electric car, if you’re a super rich leftist who can afford one? Then thank Columbus. Because without his kind, there’s no America. And if there’s no America, you’re living like your ancestors did (or worse).

You leftists out there who condemn Columbus: You’re not nearly so quick to condemn the fruits of a free, rational and productive society which require some individuals (only a few are needed) to take risks.

Columbus didn’t take risks so you idiots out there didn’t have to take risks. He took a gigantic risk because he was that kind of man.

You snowflakes are not fit to criticize him.

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