Oh yes you would; in fact, you've been doing it for four years, and you're still at it

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such a thing!

Trust Me, We Would NEVER Do That, Says Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas, the impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary, wants you to know that he's vewy, vewy angwy that people would dare say that the reason he, Border Czar Kamala Harris, and President Joe Biden have opened the borders to a marauding horde of millions of illegal aliens is to import new Democrat voters. 

That's just "disinformation," he said on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday morning, with just a tad too much-feigned disbelief in his voice. 

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"The notion that we in law enforcement have sought to intentionally allow individuals to cross the border illegally for the purpose of voting is preposterous, and everyone should condemn that rhetoric," he solemnly told Brennan. "Everyone, regardless of party affiliation."

What is the purpose of bringing in MS-13 gangsters, Venezuelan cartel members, military-age Chinese men, and Haitian cat-cookers, if not voting, then? Somebody should ask him. Brennan didn't.  

That’s the national picture. Here’s a story of illegals voting in Maine, one of the least populated of our 57 states. It concerns a tiny sampling of voter records, and what was found.

Exclusive: Records Show Votes Cast Under Names of Non-Citizens in Multiple Maine Elections Since 2016

An investigation by the Maine Wire has found multiple votes cast in the names of Maine Democrats who are described in Medicaid records as legal or illegal immigrants

[All registered as Democrats — surprise!]

Whistleblower records obtained by the Maine Wire, along with voter registration records from the Maine Secretary of State’s office, show that multiple votes have been cast in Maine under the names of legal and illegal aliens who should be ineligible to vote in U.S. federal, state, and local Maine elections.

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The records show the legal and illegal aliens billing Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare, for hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses. They were provided to the Maine Wire by a whistleblower concerned about potentially fraudulent billing practices at a healthcare provider in Maine.

When the identities of the 18 legal and illegal aliens named in the records were cross-referenced with voting records from the Maine Secretary of State, six of the individuals were registered to vote, five had voted in elections since 2016, and all were registered Democrats.

If their immigration statuses have been correctly recorded in Maine’s MaineCare system, then none of the individuals should be legally allowed to register to vote or vote in U.S. federal, state, or local Maine elections.

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The individuals range in age from 35 to 74. According to SSN-Check.org, they received their social security numbers at ages ranging from 16 to 58. Four of the individuals received their social security numbers in Maine, while one received their number in Georgia and another received theirs in California.

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The records offer no indication as to whether the individuals intentionally registered to vote and cast the ballots themselves or were registered to vote by another party and had ballots cast in their name without their knowledge or permission.

Several of the medical records indicate that the registered Democratic voters have severe intellectual or developmental disabilities and cognitive impairment.

One voter, who has not voted but was registered to vote as a Democrat in June, is described in the medical records as having “no cognitive capacity.”

All but one of the individuals has an address that corresponds with taxpayer-subsidized public housing.

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Green card holders, legal permanent residents, asylum recipients, asylum applicants, aspiring asylum applicants, and illegal immigrants are prohibited from voting in U.S. federal, state, and local Maine elections.

It’s unclear how or why these six individuals — despite not being U.S. citizens — have become registered to vote as Democrats and, in several cases, have had votes cast in their names in U.S. elections.

However, Maine does not affirmatively verify citizenship when an individual attempts to register to vote, and instead relies only on the individual’s attestation that they are, in fact, eligible to vote as proof that they are eligible to vote.

Maine is also not among the states that requires voters to present photo identification in order to obtain an absentee ballot or cast a ballot on Election Day.

For the past four years, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and the Democrat-controlled legislature have shot down several attempts at implementing election integrity reforms that would prevent non-citizens from voting, including proposed voter ID laws.

The sample of records obtained by the Maine Wire is a tiny portion of the population of legal and illegal aliens currently residing in Maine.

Immigrant advocacy groups estimate that anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 legal and illegal immigrants currently reside in Maine, but it is unclear how many of them are also registered to vote and voting in U.S. elections — or having votes cast in their names by other parties.

In an interview I heard this morning, the publisher of The Maine Wire emphasized that the state of Maine has both sets of records: medicare and voter registrations, and could, if it wished, x-check the entire data bases “in a few hours or one day”. That it has chosen not to do so says it all.

Prediction: their appeal will be, er, "selective"

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Camouflage: it’s not just for cisgenders anymore

Powerline’s John Hinderaker has thoughts:

Manly Masculine Macho Men for the Wimp

As we have noted more than once, the Democrats are panicking over the fact that male voters, especially minorities, are deserting the Harris-Walz ticket. Thus, they have made absurdly clumsy attempts to associate their far-left, matriarchal ticket with masculinity.

Now we learn that Tim Walz is heading up a last-minute effort to draw hunters and fishermen into the Democratic camp. They placed an article in Outdoor Life magazine:

Later today the Harris-Walz presidential campaign will announce the formation of a coalition of hunters, anglers, and gun owners and tomorrow Democratic vice-presidential candidate and sitting governor of Minnesota Tim Walz will kick off his state’s pheasant opener with a stage-managed event in southern Minnesota.

That event happened yesterday, and it gave rise to peals of laughter as Walz was apparently unable to operate his shotgun. But at least Outdoor Life acknowledged that the “pheasant hunt” was a “stage-managed event,” whereas the Star Tribune, with doglike loyalty to its party, headlined “Walz takes a break from the campaign trail to hunt in Minnesota’s pheasant opener.” Right. From Outdoor Life:

Sources in the Harris-Walz campaign confirmed today that a broad coalition of rural, conservation-minded, and what the campaign calls “responsible gun owners” will hold its first organizing call on Monday. Creation of the coalition is intended to create a “permission structure for those who simply love to hunt, fish, and be outside, to join the Harris-Walz campaign,” said a campaign staffer who spoke on background.

Fortunately, we've got the Drag Team to stop them

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July 12, 2024:

Chinese Graduate Student Pleads Guilty to Drone Photography Espionage Charges

October 12, 2024:

Chinese University of Michigan students charged after allegedly spying on military base

The former students were allegedly taking pictures of military vehicles and other equipment

(Also October 12, 2024)

Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped. U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline.

Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the base, got on a squadron rooftop to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers responsible for a clutch of the nation’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors.

For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told Kelly.

The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.

The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port.

Officials didn’t know if the drone fleet, which numbered as many as a dozen or more over the following nights, belonged to clever hobbyists or hostile forces. Some suspected that Russia or China deployed them to test the response of American forces.

Federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drones near military bases in the U.S. unless they pose an imminent threat. Aerial snooping doesn’t qualify, though some lawmakers hope to give the military greater leeway.

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit”
The Ukrainians may have thoughts on how to stop unwelcome drones.

Meanwhile, via email, some thoughts from Josh Trevino:

Now, this is not new news to those paying attention. The War Zone has been covering drone-swarm harassment / overflight of U.S. military assets and bases in the United States for years now, to the extent that they have a whole story category on it.

What is happening is that the story is moving into mainstream press as the problem worsens. A few notes on this:

First: the WSJ story amply illuminates the profoundly stupid bureaucratic bumbling in the USG response to this, which is characteristic of states that do not wish to survive. Consider this passage:

“Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall convened the White House brainstorming sessions. One official suggested using electronic signals to jam the drones’ navigation systems. Others cautioned that it might disrupt local 911 emergency systems and Wi-Fi networks. One suggestion was to use directed energy, an emerging technology, to disable or destroy the drones. An FAA official said such a weapon carried too high a risk for commercial aircraft during the December holiday travel season. Others suggested that the U.S. Coast Guard shoot nets into the air to capture the drones. An official pointed out that the Coast Guard might not have the authority to use such a weapon in this instance.”

Second: when the big war kicks off, these swarms will be delivering munitions directly onto the targets they now only surveil, and in fact the practice for that mission is likely why they conduct operations now. This is a solid and cost-effective alternative to developing a strategic-bomber force.

Third: the likely bases for these operations are not exactly hard to discern. You have offshore platforms. You have unused or unmonitored land within the United States. And you have Mexico.

Fourth: it is probably mostly the PRC, which further illuminates the sheer insanity of allowing PRC nationals to work, study, and live in the United States.

Fifth: if you wanted further evidence that the United States Armed Forces is not really in the business of protecting the United States as such, well, here you go.

All this is very bad and a bill will come due.

This is why it's so infuriating to see little tiny, useless bureaucrats attempting to destroy him (UPDATED)

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Stephen Green, writing in Instapundit:

I’d add that SpaceX built the incredible Mechazilla “chopstick” tower in a few months for what was probably in the ballpark of a couple hundred million dollars — and it performed flawlessly on the first-ever catch of a rocket. That the rocket happened to be the biggest and most powerful to ever fly is almost beside the point.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is years late building an ordinary launch tower for NASA’s doomed SLS rocket and is charging taxpayers $2.7 billion for the privilege.

UPDATE: I used the Gulliver’s Travels picture to illustrate Musk being tied down by useless Lilliputians, then later in the day I discovered that Musk himself has used the same metaphor to describe what the bureaucrats are doing to our once-great country, not just him. I’d say it was a case of great minds thinking alike, but it’s really a dull mind coincidentally thinking like a genius.

They're getting desperate (UPDATED)

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“But It wasn’t supposed to be this way!”

And the response:

And Time’s a liberal rag.

Marc Benioff, who has owned Time since 2018, criticized the Democratic nominee on Sunday while pointing out that ex-President Donald Trump and President Biden — before he dropped out — both sat down for interviews during their campaigns.

“Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris — unlike every other Presidential candidate,” tweeted Benioff, who is best known as the founder of Salesforce.com.

Well, the seller lived up to its name

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Out of town builder Flippin’ CT listed its project at 14 Sinoway Road in Cos Cob for $1,499,777 (cute) and has sold it for $1.560 million. It couldn’t have sold without a C/O, so I guess this passed muster, but I’m curious how an 0.11-acre lot in the R-7 Zone could be built out to 2,111 sq.ft. The FAR ratio in this R-7 zone is 0.36m ), this lot comprises 4,792 sq.ft, yielding a maximum footage of 1,724 sq,ft. I assume the finished third floor was put into the calculation by the builder, but when did that become legal? Understand, I think the entire FAR scheme was/is a huge error, and I don’t like it, but these houses built to exceed the limits intrigue me.