J.D. Vance: ‘America Is Not Just an Idea – It Is Our Homeland’
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance has been selected as Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
Border Hawk does not endorse political candidates, but we can and should analyze what they say and promote.
How is J.D. Vance on the “National Question”?
The National Question is complex of issues including immigration (legal and illegal), citizenship, and national identity.
Vance’s marriage to a non-Christian, a daughter of Indian immigrants, has been questioned. Does that make him more sympathetic towards mass immigration of Asian Indians and others?
I don’t know.
But I have been impressed with National Question-related statements Vance has made in recent years.
It seems that J.D. has thought about these issues more than most politicians.
Vance has only been in the Senate since last year but has a 90% rating from NumbersUSA.
A recent Alternet headline declared that “JD Vance called Native Americans the ‘enemy’ and Indigenous Peoples Day a ‘fake holiday.’”
What’s that all about ?
“Indigenous Peoples Day” is a fake holiday, with its only purpose being to replace Columbus Day.
As for “the enemy” quote, Vance was talking about “enemy territory” in the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795). In that war, the U.S. military under General Anthony Wayne fought a confederation of Indian tribes. (Full disclosure: one of my ancestors fought under Wayne in that conflict.)
Vance was speaking out against the cancellation of General Wayne by taking his name off a national forest in Ohio.
Kudos to Vance for defending American heritage.
In a recent Senate hearing, Sen. Vance questioned Fed Chair Jerome Powell on the effect of immigration on the wages and housing costs of Americans.
“[R]ather than bringing in a large number of new immigrants, why not try to boost wages in a way that brings some of those workers off the sidelines?” Vance asked.
In Vance’s acceptance speech at the GOP convention, he talked about the U.S. being “flooded” with “illegal immigrants” so “citizens had to compete with people who shouldn’t even be here for precious housing.”
“We won’t import foreign labor, we’ll fight for American citizens,” Vance pledged.
That sounds good.
JD Vance’s full RNC speech…America is not just an idea, it’s our homeland.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 18, 2024
Just before the 20 minute mark he introduces his mum ??
if only his memaw, who raised him, could see him now. pic.twitter.com/gjD8edvhYp
Vance highlighted his Appalachian family heritage. His family hailed from one of the ten poorest counties in the United States, and yet, its residents are looked down upon by the media, who call them “privileged.” [Hint: It’s because they’re white.]
Vance took on the ‘America as an Idea’ concept:
“One of the things that you hear people say sometimes is that America is an idea. To be clear, America was indeed founded on brilliant ideas like the rule of law and religious liberty, things written into the fabric of our constitution and our nation, but America is not just an idea.
“It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation. It is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers, but when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms. That’s the way we preserve the continuity of this project for 250 years past and hopefully 250 years into the future.”
Vance discussed two sides of that equation – his wife Usha, daughter of Indian immigrants, and his ancestral cemetery in eastern Kentucky in which he plans to be buried.
Speaking of his Appalachian folk, Vance pointed out, “They are very hard-working people, and they are very good people, the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back even if they cannot afford enough to eat, and our media calls them privileged and looks down on them. But they love this country not only because it is a good idea, but because, in their bones, they know that is their home, and it will be their children’s home, and they would die fighting to protect it. That is the source of America’s greatness.
“Now that is not just an idea, my friends, that’s not just a set of principles, even though the ideas and the principles are great. That is a homeland. That is our homeland.”
Once again, Border Hawk cannot endorse candidates.
But it’s encouraging to see a VP candidate who recognizes that America is not just an idea, it’s our homeland.
In Vance’s own words, “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.”
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US Military Admits It Spread Disinformation About China’s Covid Jab
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Pentagon Admits It Spread Disinformation About COVID Vaccine – Report
The US military has admitted that it ran a clandestine campaign aimed at discrediting China’s Sinovac vaccine in the Philippines and across Asia and the Middle East, Reuters has reported.
“It is true that the [Department of Defense] did message Philippines audiences questioning the safety and efficacy of Sinovac,” Pentagon officials wrote to their Filipino counterparts in a letter dated June 25 and reported by Reuters on Friday.
According to the document, the Pentagon admitted that it “made some missteps in our COVID related messaging” but assured Manilla that it halted the operation in late 2021 and has since “vastly improved oversight and accountability of information operations.”
The operation in question began in 2020, after China announced it would distribute Sinovac shots in the Philippines free of charge. In an effort to counter this public relations boon for Beijing, the Pentagon ordered its psychological operations center in Florida to create at least 300 fake social media profiles to disparage the Chinese vaccine, a Reuters investigation revealed last month.
“COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!” read a typical post created by the psyops team, while another stated: “From China – PPE, Face Mask, Vaccine: FAKE. But the Coronavirus is real.”
Military officials involved in the campaign knew that their goal was not to protect Filipinos from an unsafe vaccine, but to “drag China through the mud,” a senior officer told Reuters.
The propaganda campaign soon spread beyond the Philippines, according to the report. Muslim audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East were told that Sinovac contained pork gelatin, and was therefore “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law. The campaign forced Sinovac to release a statement insisting that the shot was “manufactured free of porcine materials.”
The Pentagon has not publicly acknowledged the letter to the Filipino military, and the governments of the US and the Philippines refused to comment on the matter to Reuters.
Last month, however, a Pentagon spokesperson told the news agency that the US military “uses a variety of platforms, including social media, to counter those malign influence attacks aimed at the US, allies, and partners,” and claimed that Washington was only responding to a Chinese “disinformation campaign to falsely blame the US for the spread of Covid-19.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry told Reuters that it has long maintained that the US spreads disinformation about China.
In the Philippines, Reuters’ report prompted an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In a hearing last month, Senator Imee Marcos, who leads the committee, called the Pentagon campaign “evil, wicked, dangerous, [and] unethical,” and suggested that Manilla investigate whether it can take legal action against Washington.
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Does Disney’s Dramatic Decline Reflect Growing Public Opposition To Woke Activism?
The participation of major corporations in the molding of cancel culture should not be overlooked.
While many people assumed that companies were “bending the knee” to progressive activists, the opposite was actually true. Woke movements are a minority within western populations and have no boycott power. There’s never been any reason for businesses to be afraid of them.
In fact, without the support of companies like Blackrock, Vanguard, Google, Facebook, Twitter and many others the cancel mob would have little to no power. The situation seems to be changing, or the damage seems to be minimized. One corporate entity reflects this shift more than any other, and that’s Disney.
A lot has happened in the US in the past several years, so much in fact that it might be hard to remember how close the country came to total disaster under the dictates of the progressive hive. The political left had been accumulating social influence with the aid of international corporations, NGOs and government officials since at least 2016. However, after the Biden Administration took office and pandemic hysteria went into full swing, the activists sought to flex their cancel culture muscle in a big way.
The result was a dystopian frenzy in which mass censorship was rampant and speaking out in any way against official narratives might get you booted from social media and even fired from your job. Leftists called it “consequence culture” as a way to justify their behavior, but the consensus was that this was thought-policing on an Orwellian scale. The assumption by leftists being that they are the virtuous arbiters over what words and beliefs should be punished. No one voted for them to do this job.
The smell of blood was in the water and, as with all dystopian societies, certain non-compliant people were made into examples to frighten everyone else.
UFC fighter and actress Gina Carano was one of those people. Carano says she was harassed by Disney management to add “pronouns” to her social media bio to “prove her support for trans lives”. After the actress made an online joke by listing her “pronouns” on Twitter as ‘beeb bop boop’, the company brought pressure to bear in an attempt to force Carano into silence.
Her eventual removal by Disney was heralded by the political left as a great victory and a display of the cancel mob’s power. If they could destroy the career of a Hollywood celebrity then there was a good chance they could destroy the life of almost any average conservative.
Disney then engaged in a slow boil of the theater-going public with DEI propaganda. Many suspected Disney was removing white, straight and male characters from the majority of their productions on purpose. As it turned out, that’s exactly what they were doing.
The pendulum appears to be swinging back on Disney, however. With the help of Elon Musk, Carano has pursued an effective civil suit against the company and a recent court decision blocked attempts by Disney lawyers to have the case dismissed. The lawsuit will be going to trial.
The vast majority of Disney content from films to streaming series have been met with box office failure and audience disinterest. In 2023 alone, Disney had only one film that made a significant profit (Guardians Of The Galaxy) while spending a billion dollars on multiple box office flops (not counting marketing costs). Not one Disney+ series was met with audience acclaim. Streaming subscriber numbers sank.
Disney has consistently used its immense corporate power to legitimize the woke mob. Are they finally getting hit with the karma they deserve?
After Disney publicly declared war on the state of Florida and conservative efforts to stop gender identity indoctrination in public schools, the company was put on notice. They have since been exposed in numerous cases participating in far-left propaganda efforts including implanting LGBT messaging in children’s content.
Disney was also exposed by a VP on hidden camera for DEI practices and race discrimination against white male actors and corporate employees.
Disney’s secret agenda is not so secret anymore. They have been thoroughly defeated by the state of Florida and Ron Desantis in civil court and the company has lost their Reedy Creek autonomy. Disney stock has been hovering near 5-year lows since 2023. Their brand is essentially destroyed and their content is treated by most consumers as radioactive. The sheer size of Disney and their holdings means that they have the capital to survive for years without public support, but the company has already started cutting employees in mass layoffs, including 14% of Pixar in May. Not a good sign.
Is the karmic hammer finally swinging back to hit Disney in the face after nearly a decade of woke bullying? It seems that way. But the bigger question is, does Disney’s decline reflect a larger national move away from the woke mob and cancel culture in general? Are Americans finally fed up with progressive pearl clutching and DEI? This seems to be the case. Disney fueled cancel culture for years only to find themselves canceled in return.
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Church Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing
A series of disasters, including Gulf Coast hurricanes, California wildfires, Midwest flooding, and severe thunderstorms, combined with post-COVID construction cost increases, have severely impacted the insurance industry.
As a result, according to Insurance Journal, companies like Church Mutual, GuideOne, and Brotherhood Mutual, which insure churches, have seen their reserves shrink and have dropped high-risk churches to cut losses.
And just think, that doesn’t even account for “activists” taking their rage to destroying churches…
Hundreds of United Methodist churches in the Rio Texas Annual Conference lost property insurance last November, leaving officials scrambling.
Over six months later, some churches found new insurance at higher costs, while others remain uninsured, said Kevin Reed, conference board of trustees president.
Reed noted the conference had about a month’s notice before their property insurance was canceled, which wasn’t enough time to secure new coverage, leaving local churches to fend for themselves.
“We have not found a good solution. It continues to be a significant problem for our churches,” he said.
The report says that United Methodist churches in Iowa have also lost insurance following severe weather, according to the Iowa Annual Conference.
Rev. Ron Carlson, the conference treasurer, said both small rural and larger churches were affected. The conference urged churches to proactively check their insurance instead of waiting for renewal offers.
The UMC’s Book of Discipline requires full replacement and liability insurance for church buildings, which Carlson noted is not feasible for some. The conference is working to address what happens to these uninsured churches.
Finding new insurance is challenging since churches are a high-risk, niche market. They are open to the public, serve various age groups, run social services, and often have large, expensive buildings with little oversight, said Charles Cutler, president of ChurchWest Insurance Services.
“Because of the First Amendment and the separation of church and state, ministries are largely unregulated. And unregulated businesses are difficult to underwrite,” Cutler said.
The church insurance market, like the broader industry, has faced significant challenges recently, according to the report.
Supply chain issues and rising construction costs post-pandemic have increased rebuilding expenses, leading insurers to hike rates. Natural disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, and severe thunderstorms have further strained insurance companies’ reserves, causing AM Best to review Church Mutual and downgrade Brotherhood Mutual’s ratings. GuideOne was only stabilized by a $200 million investment from Bain Capital.
The high-risk nature of insuring churches, combined with pressure from reinsurers to reduce coverage, has left many congregations struggling.
Churches, already dealing with declining memberships and donations, now face skyrocketing insurance costs. The situation has forced some to cut programs, delay essential maintenance, or even contemplate closing.
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