HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 !!! With a Final Look at Democrat Cynicism about the Wall, the North Korean Initiative, and Some of President Trump's Accomplishments

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! IN OUR LAST BLOG FOR 2018, LET'S BE CLEAR -- CORRUPTION BREEDS CORRUPTION. It even seeps down into the public pronouncements of Swamp Creatures eager to keep the southern US border open, in the form of lies that are clearly deliberate -- or that flow from lips ruled by brains that do not care or cannot read what the real facts are. This particular corruption shakes Americans' faith in their constitutional system, and eventually the system will fall apart and junta backshish will rule -- unless we step up and call out every lie, every contortion, every deliberate baseless attack on the Republic and its laws and President. • • • WALLS DO WORK. Yes, walls do work. But, ProgDem leaders -- Pelosi, Schumer and Co. -- and their propagandist media continue to tell us that walls don't work. • Saying walls don't work may seem like petty corruption. But consider its ramifications. Jack Hellner of American Thinker did just that on Sunday. Hellner began with this : "Frequently when President Trump says something, the media follow his statements with three words : 'with no evidence.' For example : He says there are criminals and terrorists in the caravan and they say that he has no evidence, even though there is plenty of evidence from government agencies. Yet when Democrats frequently say walls don't work, I never see the words 'with no evidence' following the statement. It appears to me that journalists never seek examples and when they know that barriers do work." • Hellner gives example of walls that work -- prison walls; fences around swimming pools required by law; gated community walls; the White House walls; Israel's wall; the Vatican's wall; and the most obvious of all modern walls, the Berlin Wall. Hellner asks : "If walls don't work, why did the Berlin Wall have to come down to give people access and freedom?" • All evidence aside, Nancy Pelosi continues to prattle cynically about walls not working. Pelosi says it's immoral to have the wall as if she is an expert on morality. Hellner says "Jerusalem had a wall during Jesus time," laying waste to Pelosi's "immoral' argument against walls. • AND, the ramification of saying walls don't work or are immoral is that, says Hellner, "many politicians, mostly Democrats, have given people from other countries the idea that they were entitled to come across our border illegally and so have endangered their children. That is immoral." We could add to Hellner's list the experience of Hungary, which built a fence around its border, and two days after its completion illegal immigrant arrests dropped 99%. • It is also a CYNICAL LIE. Pelosi and her ProgDem Swamp Creatures care more about allowing illegal aliens to enter the US than about the safety and welfare of US citizens. THAT is IMMORAL. It is immoral because Pelosi and every other politician ever elected in the United States takes an oath of office to enforce the laws of the United States. To harken back to our blog last Saturday, the reality is that Democrats don't give a damn about protecting Americans because they do not understand -- or they cynically reject for political purposes -- the morality of taking an oath and then deliberately breaking it. To take Nancy Pelosi as a leading example of this "morality is what I say it is" attitude, Pelosi is from California and Hellner reminds us that "the California Constitution requires state politicians (Pelosi is a federal office holder, but still….) to protect the safety of its people, so where do the Democrats get the idea they should allow illegal aliens to roam freely when many are obviously criminals?" The answer is that they "get the idea" of letting all illegal immigrants enter the US because they have rejected any notion that the 2,000-year-old virtue of telling the truth under oath and then supporting that truth still applies to them -- that is relativist morality in its purest form. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and most of the media are pretending that, somehow, she has all the power here even though she only has the House. While Trump has been attempting to negotiate, Pelosi and other Democrats have been resting. Pelosi has been playing at a luxury resort in Hawaii. How would the media react if Trump was playing in Florida while Democrats were trying to negotiate? • What will happen in January? Nancy Pelosi will appear in the halls of Congress, all suntanned from her luxury holiday in Hawaii and as the new Speaker will tell her Democrat slaves to pass a bill with no money for a border barrier. The bill will go to the Senate where I hope hope that it will die. AND, when -- or if -- the complaining federal workers, journalists and long-suffering Americans who support the Democrats come to their senses, they should lobby Pelosi and the Democrats to vote for a a wall -- a fence -- barrier (call it by whatever relativistic notion suits Pelosi). Democrats have have done just that before. Presto ! Government will reopen. All Pelosi has to do to defend her funding of the wall is use Senator Obama's words from 2006 : "The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws." Got that , Nancy??? • • • A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE VALUE OF WALLS. Former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan, armed with statistics on “Fox and Friends” last Wednesday that Pelosi is wrong, that the wall is effective, and that it is more necessary than ever before, as droves of migrants storm the southern border. • Homan quoted Pelosi : “First of all, the fact … that he [Trump] says, ‘We’re going to build a wall with cement, and Mexico’s going to pay for it’ while he’s already backed off of the cement -- now he’s down to, I think, a beaded curtain or something, I’m not sure where he is.' " Pelosi said Trump’s concern that criminals, terrorists, and diseased immigrants cross illegally into the United States amounts to him “being a fearmonger” : “He talked about terrorists coming in over that particular border, which wasn’t so. He talked about people bringing in diseases and all the rest of that, which wasn’t so. He’s using scare tactics that are not evidence-based, and it’s wrong,” Pelosi said, without supporting evidence. • Homan called these statements : “100 percent wrong. Allow me to educate Mrs. Pelosi. As far as crime coming across the border, ICE arrested 138,000 criminals last year. These are people who entered the country illegally and committed crimes against the people of this country.” • Then Homan corrected Pelosi about the value of walls : “Every place a wall or barrier has been built, it has resulted in decreased illegal immigration, decreased drug smuggling. One hundred percent of the time, it has proven effective.” • Homan also outlined the security threats that cross the American border : “Look at the rest of the data on the border, where arrests of MS-13 [gang] this year are up 118%, the seizures of guns -- for God’s sake -- are up almost 200%. There’s your data. Look at it. You can see why we need a wall,” he said. "ICE arrested more than 10,000 gang members in 2018, more than 2,000 of whom belonged to MS-13. Under former President Barack Obama in 2014, ICE arrested less than 1,600 gang members. Every day, ICE arrests convicted and suspected murderers, child rapists, and drug dealers who come illegally to the United States. ICE made 2,000 arrests for homicide, 11,000 for weapons violations, and 12,000 for sexual assault in 2017." • Homan also said migrants bring contagious diseases such as “tuberculosis, measles and chickenpox.” In one case he worked with, a single migrant infected with a rare form of tuberculosis cost taxpayers and put public health in danger : “We had to work with CDC and Texas Department of Health to find a way to treat this gentleman, so we kept him locked up for months at great taxpayer expense. Imagine if that strain of TB were to get released into the American society.” • HERE is the most important FACT about the wall -- President Trump has not backed down on his demand for $5 billion in border-wall funding : “I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open,” he said, according to The Hill. “I can tell you, it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it. I’ll call it whatever they want.” • • • ARE DEMOCRATS REALLY FOR CRIME, DRUGS, AND DISEASE?? Deroy Murdock, a New York-based Fox News contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research, has one answer : “ 'The Democrats don’t want to let us have strong borders -- only for one reason. You know why? Because I want it,' said President Donald J. Trump Wednesday, to the laughter of US troops at Iraq’s Al Asad Air Base....Democrats seem determined to stop the president’s plans for a southern-border wall as revenge for beating Hillary Clinton. They hate Trump’s guts more than they love America. In Fiscal Year 2018 alone, federal officers apprehended 396,579 illegal-aliens on the southwest border. The Left loves the fact that those who were caught and released, and others who break into America undetected, likely will become future Democrats. So why give President Trump this win?" • Murdock then says : "So, as Democrats just say, 'No!' to President Trump’s wall, they are colluding in several serious, deadly ills. Until they support a wall : Democrats just say, 'Yes!( to fentanyl. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that it seized 1,377 pounds of fentanyl in Fiscal year 2017, much of it on the southwestern border. This equals some 208.2 million lethal doses of this staggeringly potent opioid, which is at least 50 times stronger than morphine. Surely plenty of it was smuggled past CBP and onto America’s streets. Democrats just say, 'Yes!' to heroin. CBP captured 4,579 pounds of heroin in FY 2017, enough to kill 69.2 million men. Democrats just say, 'Yes!' to human trafficking. The National Human Trafficking Hotline received 7,572 reports of such exploitation in 2016, much of it along the southern frontier. That’s 37% above 2015’s 5,544 complaints. UNICEF and World Without Exploitation said that traffickers 'take advantage of children and their families by extorting them with threats and false promises.' Democrats just say, 'Yes!' to rape. 'Young women and girls face extraordinary risk of sexual violence on the journey to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security reports. 'Sixty to 80 percent of the women and girls who cross Mexico to get to the US border are raped along the way.' Democrats just say, 'Yes!' to MS-13.On Dec. 20, Border Patrol agents near Nogales, Arizona, arrested a 24-year-old Salvadoran member of the bloodthirsty Mara Salvatrucha street gang, AKA MS-13. This previously deported felon broke afresh into America. Two days earlier, Border Patrol officers caught a previously deported Honduran MS-13 gangster as he forded the Rio Grande, into Eagle Pass, Texas. MS-13’s motto is 'Kill, rape, control.' Its members also treasure decapitation. A wall would have slowed or stopped these two thugs, as well as MS-13’s 228 violent animals captured by the Border Patrol in FY 2017." • The answer seems evident that Democrats want these evils to continue. They should remain on their current course because they prefer to let these horrors continue instead of supporting the hated President Trump. • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS OTHER ISSUES PERKING ALONG. These issues are progressing because Democrats have few ways to stop the President in foreign affairs. Reuters reported on New Year's Eve that : "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a 'conciliatory message' to US President Donald Trump amid stalled nuclear negotiations, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on Monday. Kim’s 'letter-like' message to Trump was delivered on Friday through an unspecified channel, the newspaper reported, citing an unnamed diplomatic source. The report did not include details about the substance of the message but said they related to US-North Korea talks. On Sunday, the office of South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said Kim had sent a letter to his counterpart in Seoul saying he wants to hold more inter-Korean summits next year to achieve denuclearization of the peninsula....Pyongyang’s state media has credited Trump for his “willingness” to continue dialogue but has also slammed the State Department for tightening sanctions. The stalled negotiations had an impact on inter-Korean ties, including Kim’s unrealized plan to visit Seoul this year as agreed their summit in Pyongyang in September. The Chosun Ilbo report also said Kim wrote in the letter to Moon that he would come to the South 'in the near future' after giving a New Year address on Tuesday. Kim’s New Year address provides a rare public appearance for the young leader and is closely watched by neighboring countries as it is seen setting the tone for his domestic and foreign policies. According to Moon’s spokesman, Kim said in the letter to the South Korean president that he was sorry his previously planned trip to Seoul this year did not take place, expressing his 'strong resolve' to make it happen while monitoring the situation. • In a Christmas message to President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the President that Moscow is open for dialogue. That will certainly bring out the dimwits in Congress who pass for Russia experts and we can be sure they will all sing the same prepared song -- this is "proof" that President Trump "colluded" with Russia in order to be elected. Drivel. Pure Progressive drivel. • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. As the year ends, let's take a look at President Trump's accomplishments in his first two years as President -- selected Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court; ended the fraudulent and disastrous climate agreement; killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal; actually cleaning up the VA instead of just talking about it, with 850 incompetents fired already; decreased illegal immigration by 54%; restricted the immigration of people who hate us from predominantly anti-American countries; canceled 876 Obama era regulations; froze all federal hiring except for the military; approved the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline; ordered federal agencies to cut two regulations for every new one they propose; issued an Executive Order asking the DOJ and Homeland Security to withhold “Federal Funds, Except As Mandated By Law” from sanctuary cities; canceled Obama and Clinton's promise to bring hundreds of thousands of Syrian Moslems to the US; started on the wall; reinstated the Mexico City Policy; gave little girls their restrooms back; stopped the trans-sexual madness and allowed the military to put its actual job above political correctness; DESTROYED Obama's JV ISIS TEAM; put the left's/Fake New's anti-America, anti-Constitution bias so clearly on display so that even the blind can see it; enabled America to become energy self sufficient by unleashing our own energy industry; created a soaring stock market and record employment -- now if we can only get the Federal Reserve to halt its own particularly dimwitted policy of raising interest rates to crush the recovery; actually began the dismantling of Obamacare; shut down Obama's “Operation Choke Point” that was designed to infringe on Americans' Second Amendment rights; pardoned Sheriff Arpaio who was prosecuted for ENFORCING our border laws; reduced federal jobs by 11,000 in six months; halted visas for government officials of countries who will not accept their criminal illegals back. AND, announced the pullout of 2,000 US troops in Syria. • Not bad for a President who has ZERO help from the Swamp and its ProgDem leadership. Just imagine what President Trump could do with even a little help from the Washington establishment elites. • • • DEAR READERS, I wish you a very Happy New Year. If you are out on New Year's Eve, be careful and above all, don't drive after drinking -- I want to see all of you back here healthy and happy on Wednesday evening, January 2, 2019, when we return and take a look at how Casey's 2018 predictions fared, and make some new ones for 2019. • And, as the last bit of news from Caseypops in 2108, how about this piece of fantasy -- Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren said Monday she is filing paperwork to launch an exploratory committee for President, taking her first major step toward a 2020 run for the White House. Here we go -- Pocahontas for President !!??? • HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE and thank you all for being with me in 2018.