How Much of This Will Get Reported?

Greetings from a mountaintop in the middle of nowhere. I’m technically on vacation, having not taken vacation last week. But the news waits for no one and this is all worth passing on to you, because I suspect a lot of it will be mentioned briefly in passing so the press corps can check a box, but not dwell.

First, it looks like the Biden Administration is giving up on Florida as a swing state and acknowledging it is not in play. Coupled with that, they are making kissy-face with dictators.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitian and Cuban migrants and asylum-seekers who try to come to the U.S. by boat will not be allowed to enter the country. Even if asylum-seekers establish fear of persecution, they will be resettled in third countries, Mayorkas said.

While the Biden Administration does not want a wall at the southern border and is stockpiling children in cages (notice how no one cares about that anymore), people fleeing the chaos of a communist dictator in Cuba and the chaos of Haiti will be turned away.

Water walls are good. The actual walls are bad apparently. We should always take in the Cuban people fleeing communism. They fly our flag in protest. The situation is different from the Southern border. But even if it is the same, should we not house these people as we are doing along the southern border? Why treat these people worse?

Also, the Iranians have attempted to kidnap someone from inside the United States. You would think the Biden Administration would take swift action against a foreign state attempting to kidnap someone from the United States. If Trump were President, you know there’d be an American response. But Biden wants a deal with Iran so bad, the federal government is treating it as just a law enforcement matter.

Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg

What are they even talking about? This is about a US journalist that Iran was going to kidnap off US soil. Have they lost their minds? How desperate can you be to save a flawed nuclear deal that kidnapping Americans is just some law enforcement matter of no concern to State?

Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi

State Department comment on Iran’s Masih Alinejad kidnap plot: https://t.co/0edXjEISQ8

We’ve gone back to head patting dictators — something the left abhorred when Trump was doing it to the North Korean despot. But Iranian and Cuban dictators get head pats from the left because deals for the sake of deals are far preferable to actual security.