[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
See, earlier, May 30, 2020: Even Right Abandoning Accused Minneapolis Cop—But They Shouldn't
The incoming new administration will, with high probability, face three major crises in the next year or so. China will probably invade Taiwan. The stock market bubble will burst and the economy will contract at exactly the time that the Democrats, seeking to Elect A New People and subjugate the Historic American Nation, open the borders and amnesty 20-30 million illegal aliens.
And then there’s the Derek Chauvin trial.
Chauvin, you'll recall, is the former Minneapolis Police Officer charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. Jury selection for Chauvin's trial begins March 8th, so this is pretty immediate.
Three other police officers who were present at the scene when Officer Chauvin succeeded in restraining Floyd have been charged with lesser offences of the aiding-and-abetting sort:
[Minneapolis Judge Peter] Cahill [Above left] previously ruled in November that it was in the best interest of justice that all four cops be tried together, saying this would allow the jury to have "all of the evidence and the complete picture of Floyd's death." But the persisting realities of COVID-19 seem to have changed his mind.
Derek Chauvin to Stand Trial Separately From Other Cops Charged in George Floyd’s Death, by Ishena Robinson, The Root, January 14, 2021
There follows some stuff about the physical limitations of the largest courtroom in the justice center. It's not big enough for all the lawyers and supporting staff needed when trying four defendants, without violating COVID-19 restrictions.
Uh-huh.
It didn’t take long for Joe Biden to put his mark on the U.S. workforce. After 15 straight months of year-over-year decline, the immigrant workforce population (legal and illegal—government data doesn’t distinguish) jumped by a shocking 509,000 year-over-year. We are not surprised. This spike in immigrant workers, coming as it does before Biden has actually taken office, reminds us of the early “Trump Effect,” when net immigration slowed dramatically before Mr. Trump was in the White House or had a chance to do anything.
This is particularly worrying because the economic rebound went into reverse in December. Employers laid off 140,000 workers according to the BLS. This is the first net decline in payrolls since last spring’s mass layoffs. The U.S. economy still has about 10 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic began.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7%, down sharply from its high of nearly 15% in April but still close to double the 3.5% rate in the same month a year earlier.
Looking for (comparatively) good news? You’ll find it in the “other” employment survey, of households rather than businesses.
Our analysis of the December Household Survey finds:
This means that the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, fell to 114.5 from 114.7 in November, a 0.2% drop.
So immigrant displacement of American workers, which had been creeping back up, has stalled.
For now.
[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
See, earlier, May 30, 2020: Even Right Abandoning Accused Minneapolis Cop—But They Shouldn't
The incoming new administration will, with high probability, face three major crises in the next year or so. China will probably invade Taiwan. The stock market bubble will burst and the economy will contract at exactly the time that the Democrats, seeking to Elect A New People and subjugate the Historic American Nation, open the borders and amnesty 20-30 million illegal aliens.
And then there’s the Derek Chauvin trial.
Chauvin, you'll recall, is the former Minneapolis Police Officer charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. Jury selection for Chauvin's trial begins March 8th, so this is pretty immediate.
Three other police officers who were present at the scene when Officer Chauvin succeeded in restraining Floyd have been charged with lesser offences of the aiding-and-abetting sort:
[Minneapolis Judge Peter] Cahill [Above left] previously ruled in November that it was in the best interest of justice that all four cops be tried together, saying this would allow the jury to have "all of the evidence and the complete picture of Floyd's death." But the persisting realities of COVID-19 seem to have changed his mind.
Derek Chauvin to Stand Trial Separately From Other Cops Charged in George Floyd’s Death, by Ishena Robinson, The Root, January 14, 2021
There follows some stuff about the physical limitations of the largest courtroom in the justice center. It's not big enough for all the lawyers and supporting staff needed when trying four defendants, without violating COVID-19 restrictions.
Uh-huh.
It didn’t take long for Joe Biden to put his mark on the U.S. workforce. After 15 straight months of year-over-year decline, the immigrant workforce population (legal and illegal—government data doesn’t distinguish) jumped by a shocking 509,000 year-over-year. We are not surprised. This spike in immigrant workers, coming as it does before Biden has actually taken office, reminds us of the early “Trump Effect,” when net immigration slowed dramatically before Mr. Trump was in the White House or had a chance to do anything.
This is particularly worrying because the economic rebound went into reverse in December. Employers laid off 140,000 workers according to the BLS. This is the first net decline in payrolls since last spring’s mass layoffs. The U.S. economy still has about 10 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic began.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7%, down sharply from its high of nearly 15% in April but still close to double the 3.5% rate in the same month a year earlier.
Looking for (comparatively) good news? You’ll find it in the “other” employment survey, of households rather than businesses.
Our analysis of the December Household Survey finds:
This means that the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, fell to 114.5 from 114.7 in November, a 0.2% drop.
So immigrant displacement of American workers, which had been creeping back up, has stalled.
For now.
Main Stream Media coverage of the Mostly Peaceful Save America/ Stop The Steal march at the U.S. Capitol has focused on the “domestic terror” that led to Trumps second impeachment [Trump Impeached Again, by John Eligon and Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times, January 13, 2020]. But something unnoticed happened on the stage where President Trump allegedly incited “insurrection”—a little-known, newly-elected congressman from North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn, had a turn at the mic. He is touted as “new face” of the post-Trump GOP, younger, and more reasonable, without all the Trumpist baggage. And, to his credit, he didn’t vote to impeach Trump. But he’s another GOP Establishment stooge who loves nothing better than proving his anti-racist, pro-immigration bona fides.
Just 25 years old, Cawthorn—paralyzed waist-down in a terrible 2014 car wreck—also spoke at the Republican National Convention in August. On January 6, he enjoyed that coveted speaking slot after Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. His speech appears to have been memory-holed, as it has proven nearly impossible to find online except for his introduction, which Cawthorn posted on Twitter.
American Patriotism will never be silenced! Honored to speak out in defense of the Constitution! pic.twitter.com/bS05aU4XDb
— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) January 6, 2021
I was there, however, so I can report this: Cawthorn discussed the need for a new Republican Party, with new faces and new ideas, presumably just like his. But that’s not as important as what he said before…and after.
"The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack."
So alleged Liz Cheney, third-ranking Republican in the House, as she led nine GOP colleagues to vote for a second impeachment of Donald Trump. The House Republican caucus voted 19-1 against impeachment.
House Democrats voted lockstep, 222-0, to impeach in an exercise the solidarity of which calls to mind the Supreme Soviet of Stalin's time.
But is what Cheney said true?
Earlier: US Capitol Protest: Ruling Class Tantrum Shows Americans We Must All Hang Together
Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days, he had them pegged for “a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it’s not enough.” Not enough? He also said they were “domestic terrorists.” Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “Squad” leader Cori Bush and plenty of others agreed that they were domestic terrorists. Even the mayor of Orlando says so, and DC mayor Muriel Bowser called the occupation “textbook terrorism” so that clinches it.