Last Saturday, the ignorant and their keepers executed an impressive display. Tens of thousands, reportedly, turned out in opposition to a constitutionally elected president because they wanted the other candidate. Styled as a resistance to tyranny, the assembled zombies marched, chanted, and waved signs; debates about how many were paid to do so are interesting watercooler banter, but I would suggest that they are irrelevant.
Yes, it’s good to know whose funding this sort of thing, but at the end of any day, including No Kings Day, participants and supporters suffer the same problem.
It wasn’t enough people to elect Kamala in November, and it isn’t enough now. That’s not to say it didn’t have value. The primary complaint of the no-king crowd is that the guy America elected president is doing what they elected him to do. He is exercising a lawful power, granted by Congress and the US Constitution, to remove anyone who entered the country illegally. The issue is 60/40 at worst, 80/20 at best in favor of deportation.
A majority of Americans from every walk of life, without regard to demographics, want to see alien invaders escorted out, especially the troublemakers. And with a few exceptions, this same group is also fine with them filing a claim to re-enter legally, through the proper channels from outside the country.
Even a few of those No Kings protesters share this belief, so the key issue the otherwise factious Democrat party has chosen to ride to the midterms is not one America shares, even less so, I suspect, if they truly grasped what is going on. This is not a human rights issue; it is a Wall Street Corporate oligarchs’ issue.
You are protesting to protect conglomerates and investment interests that want undocumented labor because it’s cheap.
Labor is typically one of the most significant costs associated with any business, and the bigger the business, the greater the expense. Wall Street benefits from low-wage labor, as do Big Ag and numerous industries, including construction, landscaping, and others. Lower labor costs mean higher margins, bigger profits, and the Wall Street and Banking Class love that. Big Ag loves it. And the Demcorat party has let slip more than once that we need illegals to pick our crops and manicure their yards.
Wall Street loves cheap labor, which the establishment, led by Democrats, has pursued overseas for decades, erasing the manufacturing sector in America and the good-paying jobs it provided, without regard to the impact on actual citizens or the national security risks exposed during COVID.
Kings, no, but Slaves, yes.
The Democrat party has so obviously abandoned blue-collar union workers that they shifted toward the GOP in 2024 because the Dems left them behind to embrace illegal, low-wage slave labor.
It’s not a surprising position for the party of slavery and Jim Crow. To fight and even riot to protect their financial interests. It’s plantation politics, neo-confederatism. Refuse to allow the Federal government to enforce the law to safeguard cheap labor.
That’s why they are burning police cars and buildings in LA.
The entire movement to End ICE is to preserve an underclass of unskilled workers, many illiterate, who have no generational expectation beyond the jobs the left claims Americans won’t do, which is a lie. It’s not about jobs Americans won’t do. It is about jobs that they don’t want to pay Americans a decent wage to do.
Americans will do it, but they expect to be paid. We can see that effect in the recent report about the sudden and unexpected growth in blue-collar wages. The largest in 60 years.
Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump’s second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.
The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.
Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months.
Mr. Trump’s entire economic strategy is to leverage deals that re-shore manufacturing and investment that the establishment offshored over the past thirty years. His focus is on American workers first. By removing low-wage illegals, he has displaced the corporate incentive to underpay workers.
The budget reconciliation bill includes targeted relief for unskilled or blue-collar workers promised by Trump during last year’s presidential campaign, including “no tax on tips.”
The bill would also eliminate federal income taxes on overtime pay for over 80 million hourly workers in industries like manufacturing, construction, and first responders who often rely on overtime for income.
Tax incentives for manufacturers to build US factories are also intended to create up to 6 million blue-collar jobs in construction and manufacturing, reversing decades of offshoring.
The untold truth by almost peaceful protesters and their propagandists in the Democrat party is that these changes benefit legal foreign workers as well. They make it difficult or impossible to underpay them for the same effort. Something the party claiming to demand higher government-defined wages should not oppose is not about low-income wages, but rather higher wages from a declining force of union labor, which results in higher union dues to fund Democratic campaigns.
If they care so much, why aren’t they fighting to deport illegal farm and hospitality labor instead of insisting these workers be allowed to stay?
Big Ag and the swmap creatures have managed to convince Mr. Trump to tell Tom Homan to leave farms and hospitality industry locations alone as they pursue the work of rooting out illegal entrants. That’s not about farms or jobs, Americans won’t do it, it is to protect the low wage margins for Big Farma.
Occupation should not define which illegals stay and go, but if that is the play, the uncompromising enforcement of other labor laws the left used to love ought to put things back into focus. You must hire them legally and pay them (at least) the minimum wage; otherwise, the legal fees and fines will make it untenable.
In a land with no kings, no one is above the law, even to protect low-wage slave labor. Enforcing the laws is a key function of a democracy. It’s what you’d do to protect one as well.
Protecting a permanent underclass doing jobs the elites in the one-party state won’t do is anti-human rights, and we should say as much.
Stop rioting and protesting to protect the profits of your corporate oligarchs. It’s not a winning issue.
