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New York Times economist defended Biden’s border crisis with an infuriating column

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Democrat-controlled media outlets will protect Joe Biden at all costs.

They have to obscure the truth to ensure Donald Trump does not get back in the White House.

And one New York Times economist defended Biden’s border crisis with an infuriating column.

Left-wing economist Paul Krugman cannot stop being wrong about things.

That is why he stays employed by The New York Times.

He can be trusted to hide economic truths with fairy tales that make Democrat readers feel good.

Krugman wrong again

In his most recent column, Krugman defended Joe Biden’s border crisis with a headline that read: “Are Immigrants the Secret to America’s Economic Success?”

Krugman argued that “the very surge in immigration that has nativists so upset has played a big role in increasing the economy’s potential.”

However, Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni pointed out that Americans are losing ground in the job market.

Antoni explained, “Native-born employment is not only way below pre-pandemic trend but also 1 million below pre-pandemic level, losing ground over the last 4 years; conversely, foreign-born employment has been back to pre-pandemic trend for months, and now 3.3 million above its pre-pandemic level. . .”

If one has complete disregard for the plight of the American worker, then flooding the country with cheap, low-skilled labor seems like a good idea.

However, not only do American workers suffer, illegal immigration puts downward pressure on wages, and illegal aliens on net balance take out more in social services than they contribute.

The crime problem

Krugman then downplayed the crime problem to which illegal aliens have contributed.

Many New Yorkers are still furious over the sight of NYPD officers being beaten by migrants.

Krugman wrote, “I’d still say that even if the migrant crime wave Trump and his allies harp on were real, and not a figment of their imagination (violent crime has in fact been plummeting in many cities). And I’d say it even if there weren’t growing evidence that immigration is helping the U.S. economy — indeed, that it may be a major reason for our surprising economic success.”

Krugman is essentially making the establishment Republican and open-borders libertarian arguments for more illegal immigration: cheaper goods and services at the cost of everything else.

But Krugman is not being honest about crime statistics.

A January 2024 study from the Council on Criminal Justice reported that “[m]ost violent offenses remained elevated in 2023 compared to 2019, the year prior to the outbreak of COVID and the widespread social unrest of 2020. There were 18% more homicides in the study cities in 2023 than in 2019, and carjacking has spiked by 93% during that period.” 

Democrats are hoping that they can ignore the migrant crisis, but even prominent leaders like New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are speaking out.

Adams said that the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City,” and Hochul deployed the National Guard to get subway crime under control.

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Democrat-controlled media figures got exposed in one eye-opening anti-Trump conspiracy

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Donald Trump was called crazy when he said the deep state colluded against him.

Then he was proven right.

Now Democrat-controlled media figures got exposed in one shocking anti-Trump conspiracy.

Donald Trump told people that the FBI spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.

The claim was immediately dismissed, but it was proven true.

Ever since then, the deep state along with the corporate-controlled media have worked against him.

Secret meetings

And POLITICO just confirmed that a cadre of anti-Trump legal experts have been holding weekly meetings in order to figure out ways to take down Trump.

The Zoom meetings include host Norman Eisen, a senior Obama administration official, and Jeffrey Toobin, both CNN legal analysts.

Also in attendance are Bill Kristol, son of neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol, and former Nixon administration White House counsel John Dean, who has made a living for the past 50 years by denouncing Republican scandals as “worse than Watergate.”

Legal scholar Laurence Tribe and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weismann also attend, as does Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway.

POLITICO reported that “[s]ometimes there is a special guest, like the Jan. 6 committee staffers (who recalled briefing the group). One Friday last May, after E. Jean Carroll defeated Trump in the first of her two defamation cases to go to trial, her lawyer Roberta Kaplan joined as a guest to talk for roughly half an hour about her strategy for beating Trump in court.”

Conway was the one who urged Carroll to sue Trump for sexual assault (New York temporarily changed the law to allow for suits outside the statute of limitations), and her court case was bankrolled by Democrat megadonor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

POLITICO added that “some members of the group were understandably anxious about its publication. Trump has claimed that there is a legal conspiracy against him, and there is a risk that news of a group such as this could give Trump and his allies an attractive target.”

Where would Trump ever get an idea like that?

This is not the first time that the press boasted about a conspiracy to stop Trump.

The “cabal”

After the 2020 election, Time published a piece from Molly Ball titled, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.”

In the piece, Ball wrote glowingly of “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”

Trump is such a threat that establishment players are openly projecting their conspiratorial efforts to stop him.

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Joe Biden got skewered by the Democrat-controlled media for one statement

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Polls show that the American people are fed up with Joe Biden.

Even the press is getting annoyed with him.

And Biden got skewered by the Democrat-controlled media for one statement.

Columbia University has fallen.

Far-left protesters have essentially taken over the school.

Frustrated with Joe Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza, the left-wing outrage mob has essentially been allowed to set up autonomous zones and daisy-chain lines to obstruct the free movement of people.

In response to the chaos, Columbia went to remote learning for the rest of the term.

When Biden was asked about the protests, his response was interesting.

Columbia protests

A reporter asked, “Do you condemn the antisemitic protests on college campuses?”

Biden replied, “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians and their — how they’re being —”

“Should the Columbia University President resign?” asked a reporter.

Biden said, “I didn’t know that.  I’ll — I’ll have to find out more about it.”

Biden essentially said there were very fine people on both sides, which is what Donald Trump got pilloried for in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

 

The press was upset, but Biden has not gotten the same level of venom as Trump.

 

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Media lies persist

Perhaps the most infuriating aspect of the double standard is that the “very fine people” narrative was a hoax.

Trump specifically said he was not talking about the racists chanting, “The Jews will not replace us!” Trump said to a hostile press corps, “Was George Washington a slave owner? So, will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down – excuse me. Are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay, good. Are we going to take down his statue? He was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue? You know what? It’s fine, you’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.”

Trump never said it, but Biden used the lie as the basis for his 2020 presidential campaign.

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State-run media outlet promoted one message that will have you gnashing your teeth

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Radical leftists have gradually taken over many institutions.

That has created a distorted reality that affects how people vote.

And a state-run media outlet promoted one message that will have you gnashing your teeth.

People cannot make good decisions if they are getting bad information.

That is the problem with state-run media organizations like NPR and PBS.

Both are taxpayer-funded and are supposed to be neutral, but like so many institutions, they have been captured by the Left.

Longtime NPR senior reporter Uri Berliner resigned from the outfit after 25 years because he was punished for writing an op-ed that exposed NPR’s far-left bias.

But PBS is just as bad.

The unhoused

The channel recently platformed an expert on the unhoused, which is the latest propaganda term for homeless people.

Host John Yang asked Cornell professor Charley Willison, “[T]he Supreme Court hears arguments about whether laws limiting homeless encampments in public places are unconstitutional because they punish people for being homeless. The case is about laws in Grants Pass, Oregon, a city of about 40,000 in the state southwest corner, but the outcome could reshape policies nationwide for years to come. . .What’s your take on that?”

Willison responded, “[W]hat this case is really getting at is a deep tension that American cities face when thinking about how to respond to homelessness across the country, but especially in West Coast cities that have very limited shelter capacity, and are also in the midst of a housing crisis.”

Right off the bat, she is lying.

The root cause

Homelessness is not a housing issue; it’s a mental health and substance abuse issue.

Leftist activists intentionally conflate the two issues.

Also, there is shelter space available, but the people on the street are almost exclusively addicts with mental health challenges.

They want to stay on the street so they can score drugs easier, and they do not want to deal with curfews, drug tests, and employment requirements in subsidized housing.

And the far-left activists do not want them to have any conditions for having their own apartments.

Willison continued, “And these two tensions that I’d like to emphasize are that cities generally use much more punitive policies these criminalization approaches that are at the heart of Johnson v. Grants Pass to effectively punish people who are experiencing homelessness for behaviors that are associated with the realities of homelessness. Now, importantly, the use of these punitive policies actually facilitate cycles of homelessness and does not effectively end homelessness. While the alternative addressing homelessness through the use of more housing, as well as housing paired with access to social and medical services, does successfully end homelessness.”

Cities like San Francisco have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the homelessness crisis, and it has only gotten worse.

The reason why is because leftists refuse to acknowledge the underlying issues.

They think the problem can be fixed with free housing and free stuff.

That is fundamentally flawed, and all of the data prove this.

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