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Guest Contributor – Glenn W – 08AUG2025 – What Counts

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I’m very interested to see how this plays out. I worked for the Census Bureau for six years and who got counted in the decennial census was always very contentious. After every census the Bureau would be sued by several states who believed their population were undercounted (states always want to maximize their population to get the maximum number of congressional seats). The Census’ position always was that the Constitution states that they are to count the number of “persons” in each state without any other qualifiers. There is a historical basis for this since slaves were not citizens and they were to be counted (the 3/5 rule would be mute otherwise). Of course slaves were here legally. I suspect the legal folks at the Census Bureau are scrambling right now and I don’t know how they are going to officially react. We live in interesting times for sure.

Re-Counting the Census

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Wow.  Can he do that?  I guess he can.  This may turn out to be a really big deal.  How much might California’s population decrease if illegal aliens are discounted.  A million?  Three million?  Maybe more?  What if all of a sudden there are more people in Texas and Florida than New York and California?  Not to mention all the illegals in Illinois, Virginia and New Jersey.

So, this is Trump swinging for the fences.  I can’t imagine that the same federal judges that have challenged him on every executive order and every action he takes won’t write injunctions against this.  They may slow him down but I think the Supreme Court may back him on this if he can make the case that illegal aliens are being counted in defiance of the intent of the census to count how many Americans need representation in each state.

I listened to a little bit of a podcast where James Carville was freaking out over this and he said that if the Democrats can get the White House and both houses of Congress in 2028, they should immediately declare DC and Puerto Rico states and add six seats to the Supreme Court in order to claw back control of the federal government.  I took that to mean that he’s in a panic.  Trump is fighting gerrymandered fire with fire.  Massachusetts has been 100% Democrat for ages.  The Supreme Court has said that gerrymandering is not within their purview.  Since racial gerrymandering is no longer allowed, it’s only natural for the red states to copy states like Massachusetts and maximize the number of Republican house seats they can manufacture.

Trump is playing hardball and he’s doing it while he has the maximum clout he’ll ever have.  Could it backfire?  Not really.  It could fail to get all he’s looking to get but it’s not like the Democrats could ever get any angrier than the already are.  And this is the moment when the Democrats are as unpopular as they’ve ever been or maybe ever could be.  So, this is the time to strike.

We are living in very turbulent times.  We have elected Trump because the other Republicans were useless and dishonest.  We’ve hired a pragmatist who doesn’t like losing.  It certainly behooves us to back his play.  Any Republican wringing his hands or whining about alienating the Democrats is not to be listened to.  In fact, these are the people we must replace.  Trump has a vision of how to defeat the leftist political movement.  It entails restoring prosperity to the American middle-class and eliminating as much of the bureaucracy and the NGO’s that leech money and power from the federal government at the expense of the tax payers.  He is dead right.  Defunding USAID and other slush funds that feed the Left is brilliant.  Recounting the census is also brilliant.  He is doing everything he can to allow the real majority to get the government they want.  If he keeps up like this, it won’t be enough to add him to Mt Rushmore.  We’ll have to put him on the million-dollar bill (which will have to be added to circulation to allow for buying Starbucks coffee in a few years).

Mamdani and the Midterms

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It looks like the next wave of Democrat politicians, the ones that will displace Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and even Kamala Harris are much more openly radical.  The more mainstream edge of this new wave are people like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.  They are communists but they are too stupid to actually figure out a strategy to put their absurd theories into practice.

The new wave is like Zohran Mamdani.  They unapologetically want to set up soviet style demand economies by expropriating money and property and giving it to the people who don’t work but will vote for him.  This is a major change.  And there are more of these people out there.  Omar Fateh is the Minneapolis version of Mamdani.  He’s challenging the already incredibly left-wing mayor Jacob Frey.  Both of these men plan to turn large cities (well Minneapolis is large, New York is gargantuan) into socialist experiments complete with real property seizure and redistribution, municipal grocery stores (that we assume would allow you to pay according to your means and take according to your needs) and mental health agents replacing police to move away from that whole crime and jail thing.

You have to ask yourself, “How can any of this possibly go wrong?”  Alright, stop laughing.

I think the timing of this is almost perfect.  It’ll be about a year after Mamdani’s election that the Congressional midterms will occur.  I’m guessing a year should be enough for total chaos to envelope Gotham City.  I won’t guess at how Minneapolis will fare.  It’s a very odd place and I don’t think the mayor is actually in charge the way he is in New York.  But New York’s fate should be enough to clue in the rest of the country about how well the Stalinists are able to handle large scale American government.

What I’m guessing is that the break down in law and order will be instructive.  I assume Trump won’t make anything easy for Mamdani.  He’s already threatening to cut off social funding for things like Medicaid and Medicare where he can show that illegal aliens are receiving benefits from the local and state governments.  Letting Mamdani’s administration sink under the weight of its own excess welfare benefits would prove the point that quixotic socialist boondoggles are a recipe for disaster in a megalopolis like New York with an enormous poor population that can’t be fed through taxing the rich and middle class.

Now maybe I’ll be proven wrong.  Maybe Mamdani is the future.  Possibly all along we’ve missed out on how giving away free stuff to anyone who doesn’t want to work is really the optimal strategy for running a society.  And in addition, getting rid of the police and the courts and the prisons will seamlessly transition us from a human society with crime suppressed by these listed means, into a utopia where everyone is good and just and crime doesn’t exist.  Well, I’m willing to take a bet on it.  If Mamdani is elected and doesn’t back out of his current positions I’d bet a hundred bucks that things will explode into chaos in less than a year.  And by chaos, I mean the Democratic party in New York will be screaming to impeach Mamdani and crime will become completely unmanageable.  Only time will tell but I’m feeling confident.

You Can Take it to the Bank

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If I need another reason to sing the praises of Donald Trump, here it is.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-prepares-executive-order-fine-banks-dropping-conservative-customers-over-political-views

I have been hearing this for the last five years.  Banks and other financial institutions like PayPal and Stripe deny service to conservatives based on nothing but their political or social views.  In fact, this happened to Trump himself when Biden got into office.

And it’s not as if Bank of America would do this to someone and then the debanked individual could go to Chase Manhattan or another bank.  It was coordinated so that these people had no options.  They wouldn’t have a bank and they couldn’t do business.

“The issue arose earlier this year when Trump accused Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan in January of not offering banking to conservatives during the World Economic Forum.   “You’ve done a fantastic job,” Trump told Moynihan during a question-and-answer session, “but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank – and that included a place called Bank of America… They don’t take conservative business.”

Moynihan did not respond to Trump’s remarks regarding fair banking for conservatives during the forum. A Bank of America spokesperson denied the bank has closed accounts for political reasons and said they “welcome conservatives.”

“We serve more than 70 million clients, and we welcome conservatives,” the spokesperson told FOX Business. “We are required to follow extensive government rules and regulations that sometimes result in decisions to exit client relationships. We never close accounts for political reasons and don’t have a political litmus test.””

Now some of this attention has to do with crypto-currency.  And Trump is heavily involved in crypto.  But his emphasis on people being de-banked for social and political beliefs means these banks will be forced to justify anyone they debank.  And for the next three years at least, any conservatives de-banked will get an attentive ear from the Trump administration and this should make all the difference in the world.

Of course this isn’t just an American problem.  I read a while ago that Nigel Farage was de-banked in England.  Here’s a guy who might end up the next prime minister of the UK and he’s not even allowed to bank in his own country.

But it just goes to show you that the corporate entities that supposedly adhere to the American Constitution really only believe in power and money (in that order).  When the George Floyd riots and COVID irrupted they bent the knee and served the interests of the Democrats and the Deep State because they knew that was where the power was.

The only way these institutions will ever live up to their responsibilities is if the occupant of the White House forces them to.  And that brings me back to my praise of Trump.  When W was in the White House conservatives were told they had a friend in him.  But the abuse from government agencies and corporations never even slowed down.  RINOs and Democrats don’t give a damn about us.  That we’ve learned.  Trump does.  And for that he has my gratitude.