Steve Balich Editors Note: The U.S. meddles in foreign elections, most notable Obama in Israel. Foreign Countries try to influence our elections just as we do to them. There is no surprise to me and most people. Trump said he miss spoke but probably has a hard time trusting his intelligence agency's understanding their bias. Knowing the emails of Hilary, the Bleached Hard Drives, the selling of 20% of our uranium to Russia, DNC fixing the election defeating Sanders, the FBI investigations based on false information paid for by Clinton to Russian operatives, Former head of the DNC Debbie Schultz giving classified information to a foreign operative that has disappeared; and on and on with no answers or prosecution. It seems Certain people and groups are above the law.
June 8, 2018
Mexico launches a new round of meddling
in US elections
For all the talk about Russia
meddling in our elections, the real meddler, Mexico, is at it again.
The Mexicans have
launched a series of retaliatory tariffs not on products from their country
that have been subject to tariffs, such as steel and aluminum, or any import
they perceive to be under-tariffed in its own right, but on American goods
produced in regions that supported President Trump. The Mexican
government is specifically striking out at Trump voters.
Vox, which seems to like
this sort of news, has the report:
Five days after President Trump imposed a new set of heavy tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports,
Mexico hit back, announcing its own set of sweeping tariffs on US pork, steel,
cheese, bourbon, apples, and other goods.
According to Mexican officials, they specifically chose to target
goods from Republican strongholds, to hit Trump's party where it hurts ahead of
the midterm elections.
Overall, the new penalties will affect about $3 billion worth of US goods. The
tax rates vary depending on the product, but most of them are high: There's
a 20 percent tariff on US pork shoulder and
legs, and some bourbons and cheeses will be hit with 20 to 25 percent taxes.
So they're using trade
to change our politics and force us vote differently.
While I am no fan of the
tariffs, and certainly don't think the leftist, anti-American steelworkers
union deserves any succor from Trump, I am even less of a fan of Mexico's
politicized tariff moves, targeted at specific voters, punishing those it
disagrees with to make them pay – and, by extension, boosting leftists, the
same leftist Democrats its own illegals are known to vote for.
Can't you just see
them? Slinking around, poring over trade statistics, looking for the
actual addresses of U.S. manufacturers of goods bought in their country, maybe
even sending their spies or "diplomats" to these counties to gather
intelligence, and then matching these places of manufacture to a database of
U.S. counties that voted for President Trump? That's what they did.
Mexico has done amazing
amounts of meddling in our elections, particularly the last one. It
was the only nation that openly advertised to its nationals to come over to its
diplomatic consulates (not places U.S. nationals are allowed to go to) and
register to vote in U.S. elections, something that in California undoubtedly
led to a lot of Mexican nationals voting and the resulting cancelation of
Americans' votes, meaning the disenfranchisement of American
voters. That's a foreign policy objective for them.
California, understand,
does not check if voters are illegal and on its voter signature form and has
slyly changed its "I certify I am a U.S. citizen" to "I certify
I am a U.S. resident" to avoid prosecuting illegals for
voting. Mexico knows this well. With Mexico registering
the voters of what is not its own country, but a foreign country, you can bet a
lot of illegal voting has come courtesy of the Mexican government.
The Mexicans also had a
government-linked entity run ads in their own country urging their nationals to
encourage their American relatives (not distinguishing citizen from
non-citizen) to vote here in the U.S. – for Democrats, of course.
This is unacceptable
behavior. President Trump should tell Mexico's leaders that if they
don't cut it out, they can expect plenty of retaliation on that front from the
CIA's finest in their upcoming elections, and maybe they aren't going to like
it. Retaliation for meddling, just as for tariffs, can go both ways.
For all the talk about
Russia meddling in our elections, the real meddler, Mexico, is at it again.
The Mexicans have
launched a series of retaliatory tariffs not on products from their country
that have been subject to tariffs, such as steel and aluminum, or any import
they perceive to be under-tariffed in its own right, but on American goods
produced in regions that supported President Trump. The Mexican
government is specifically striking out at Trump voters.
Vox, which seems to like
this sort of news, has the report:
Five days after President Trump imposed a new set of heavy tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports,
Mexico hit back, announcing its own set of sweeping tariffs on US pork, steel,
cheese, bourbon, apples, and other goods.
According to Mexican officials, they specifically chose to target
goods from Republican strongholds, to hit Trump's party where it hurts ahead of
the midterm elections.
Overall, the new penalties will affect about $3 billion worth of US goods. The
tax rates vary depending on the product, but most of them are high: There's
a 20 percent tariff on US pork shoulder and
legs, and some bourbons and cheeses will be hit with 20 to 25 percent taxes.
So they're using trade
to change our politics and force us vote differently.
While I am no fan of the
tariffs, and certainly don't think the leftist, anti-American steelworkers
union deserves any succor from Trump, I am even less of a fan of Mexico's
politicized tariff moves, targeted at specific voters, punishing those it
disagrees with to make them pay – and, by extension, boosting leftists, the
same leftist Democrats its own illegals are known to vote for.
Can't you just see
them? Slinking around, poring over trade statistics, looking for the
actual addresses of U.S. manufacturers of goods bought in their country, maybe
even sending their spies or "diplomats" to these counties to gather
intelligence, and then matching these places of manufacture to a database of
U.S. counties that voted for President Trump? That's what they did.
Mexico has done amazing
amounts of meddling in our elections, particularly the last one. It
was the only nation that openly advertised to its nationals to come over to its
diplomatic consulates (not places U.S. nationals are allowed to go to) and
register to vote in U.S. elections, something that in California undoubtedly
led to a lot of Mexican nationals voting and the resulting cancelation of
Americans' votes, meaning the disenfranchisement of American
voters. That's a foreign policy objective for them.
California, understand,
does not check if voters are illegal and on its voter signature form and has
slyly changed its "I certify I am a U.S. citizen" to "I certify
I am a U.S. resident" to avoid prosecuting illegals for
voting. Mexico knows this well. With Mexico registering
the voters of what is not its own country, but a foreign country, you can bet a
lot of illegal voting has come courtesy of the Mexican government.
The Mexicans also had a
government-linked entity run ads in their own country urging their nationals to
encourage their American relatives (not distinguishing citizen from
non-citizen) to vote here in the U.S. – for Democrats, of course.
This is unacceptable
behavior. President Trump should tell Mexico's leaders that if they
don't cut it out, they can expect plenty of retaliation on that front from the
CIA's finest in their upcoming elections, and maybe they aren't going to like
it. Retaliation for meddling, just as for tariffs, can go both ways.
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