In The Mailbox: 12.20.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 20, 2019 | 2 Comments

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: So What If Pete Buttigieg Likes To Hang Out In Billionaires’ Caves?
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Drops Chuck Todd’s Old Tweet Defending Comey & Steele Dossier Right On His Head
Louder With Crowder: CNN Explains Why Voters Are Moving Toward Trump & Away From Democrats
According To Hoyt: Toxic Femininity
Monster Hunter Nation: December Update Post
Vox Popoli: The Secret Federal Stasi, also, Not 4GW…Yet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Christmas Holiday Edition
American Conservative: Impeachment Is Already Backfiring On The Democrats
American Greatness: Iowa Man Gets 17 Years For Burning LGBTQ Flag
American Power: The Queen’s Speech Introducing Boris Johnson’s Tory Government
American Thinker: The Justice Department’s High Crimes & Misdemeanors
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five UFO Kookery News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Doctor Threatened By State Security For Exposing Deplorable Hospital Conditions In Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 20
Cafe Hayek: Grammatically Impeccable, Technically Imprecise, & Economically Impossible
Da Tech Guy: The Democrat Debate – Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Da Tech Guy On The Radio This Sunday Morning
Don Surber: Suddenly, Liberals Are Christian, also, Highlights of The News
The Geller Report: Jihad Reps Omar & Tlaib Make “Top Ten Antisemites” List, also, Study Says Immigration Will Dramatically Shift Electoral College In Favor Of Democrats
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Deb Frisch – Arrested
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Official – National Lampoon 2.0 Is Woke On Steroids, also, “Appalling” Authors Punch Back Against PC Scolds
Legal Insurrection: Biden Says He’s Willing To Sacrifice Hundreds Of Thousands Of Blue Collar Workers For Green Economy, also, Yang Zings 2020 Democrats – “Stop Being Obsessed With Impeachment”
The PanAm Post: Venezuelan “Opposition” Supports International Financial Aid For Maduro Regime
Power Line: Is It Really About The Supreme Court? also, No Relief From Ilhan Omar
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Less Expensive Canadian Rx Drugs Coming To Florida
Shot In The Dark: Slap A Layer Of “Feminism” On It
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Friday FGS
Victory Girls: Cadets Cleared After Media Freaks Out Over Circle Game
Volokh Conspiracy: An Impeachment Counterfactual
Weasel Zippers: CA Gov Newsom Lashes Out At Trump For Not Helping With Homeless Crisis Democrats Created, also, New CNN Poll Shows Trump Surging, Leading In Battleground States As Economic Satisfaction Soars
Mark Steyn: Snowed Up With Horse Out, also, Home For Christmas

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In The Mailbox: 12.20.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 20, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.20.19 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
EBL: Vintage Christmas
Twitchy: Rosie Meme-Gloating Over Day 2 of Trump’s Impeachment Does NOT Go Well For Her
Louder With Crowder: J.K. Rowling Sides With Woman Fired For Saying Transwomen Aren’t Women

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Anti-Porn Crusade, or, Why The Sudden Interest In The Welfare of Straight White Men?
American Conservative: Five Most Hyperbolic Impeachment Moments
American Greatness: Durham Zeroing In On Brennan’s Role In Russia Hoax
American Power: Pelosi’s Impeachment Disaster
American Thinker: Secretary Hillary Clinton & The Deep State – A RICO Criminal Conspiracy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Hot Peppers News
Babalu Blog: What “Universal Healthcare” Really Looks Like In Socialist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Slow News Day
Cafe Hayek: “Progressive – Not!”
CDR Salamander: DDG-1000 Is Worse Than Even I Predicted – No, It’s THAT Bad
Da Tech Guy: How Well Do You Understand The Bill Of Rights? also, Shut Down The FISA Court
Don Surber: Democrats Impeach, America Yawns
First Street Journal: Good News From New Zealand!
The Geller Report: American Airlines Mechanic With ISIS Ties Pleads Guilty To Sabotage, also, Several Dead In Terror Attack On Russian Intel Agency HQ In Moscow
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Sanctuaries
Hollywood In Toto: DVD Autopsy – Christmas With The Kranks, also, Blacklist Script Shows Barron Stopping Trump’s Presidency
JustOneMinute: Real Men (And Women!) Of Genius
Legal Insurrection: Murder Turtle Sneers – Dems “Too Afraid” To Hand Senate “Shoddy Work” On Impeachment Articles? also, Rep. Tlaib Posts Giddy Video On Her Way To Vote For Impeachment
Power Line: 90% Of Virginia’s Counties Now 2A Sanctuaries, also, Impeachment Without A Crime
Shark Tank: Radical Leftist Enviro Group, Trump Foe Continues To Side With Brian Mast
Shot In The Dark: Civics Education
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas (Day 8)
This Ain’t Hell: Ty Hampe – The Rest of The Story, also, Putin Opines On Trump Impeachment
Victory Girls: McConnell Roasts Impeachment In Senate Speech
Volokh Conspiracy: Crossfire Hurricane – What Went Wrong At The FBI?
Weasel Zippers: More “What The Heck Is Nancy Pelosi Saying?“, also, ABC Report – The Bipartisan Vote Was Against Impeachment
Mark Steyn: Getting A Jump On Next Decade’s Russia Investigation, also, Dog Whistling for Christmas

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The Cargo Cult Mentality

Posted on | December 20, 2019 | Comments Off on The Cargo Cult Mentality

One of the basic mechanisms of human culture is emulation, or as my parents used to call it, “Monkey see, monkey do.” Children will tend to emulate whatever behavior they see, which is how peer pressure operates: If your teenager’s friends start acting in ways that you disapprove, you can expect your child to emulate this misbehavior, whether it involves sexual promiscuity, substance abuse or criminality: “Monkey see, monkey do.” And if parents don’t exercise discretion in terms of what their children are watching on TV (or consuming via the Internet), it’s possible that your child could be drawn into very dangerous behaviors by the same principle. This is how, for example, the transgender cult has spread among adolescents by “social contagion.” Indeed, even terrorism is spread by the process of “monkey see, monkey do” emulation, which is why violent radicals post videos of their atrocities and publish “manifestos” on the Internet, justifying their violence and urging others to take up their extremist “cause.”

To understand how emulation operates, it helps to study the so-called “cargo cults” that proliferated in the South Pacific in the 20th century:

A cargo cult is a belief system among members of a relatively undeveloped society in which adherents practice superstitious rituals hoping to bring modern goods supplied by a more technologically advanced society. These cults . . . were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced Western cultures. The name derives from the belief which began among Melanesians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that various ritualistic acts such as the building of an airplane runway will result in the appearance of material wealth, particularly highly desirable Western goods (i.e., “cargo”), via Western airplanes.

To say that Pacific island societies were “relatively undeveloped” is a euphemism; they were primitive backward people who, when first encountered by European explorers, lived in a Neolithic stage of development far behind that of Mesopotamia in 1,500 B.C. That natives of Melanesia were at least 3,000 years behind Western civilization is simply a fact, but facts are now racism. Nevertheless, the point about cargo cult thinking is that these primitive islanders were unable to comprehend the advanced social and economic systems that produced, e.g., steam-powered ships, airplanes and the manufactured goods that the white man’s mechanical contrivances delivered. Utterly ignorant of how and why “cargo” had been produced and transported to their remote islands, the natives were understandably mystified when the arrival of “cargo” was interrupted. So they resorted to imitative rituals by which they believed the return of “cargo” might magically be reinstated.

The 21st-century American might laugh at these primitive superstitions, except that similarly ignorant “monkey see, monkey do” behaviors can be observed in our own society every day. My favorite example is the teenage boy who observes that girls are interested in athletes. The star basketball player in high school is popular with the girls, and so lower-status teenage boys — including the ones with zero athletic aptitude — will often emulate the athletic boys in terms of their attitudes, manners and clothing. This is why you see so many dorky suburban white boys wearing Nikes, NFL jerseys, etc., slouching around and speaking in a rap-influenced slang: “Wazzup, bruh?” These behavioral styles are an attempted imitation of popular black athletes. The clumsy adolescent white boy lacks the essential substance of the black athlete’s appeal, yet superstitiously believes (in cargo-cult manner) that he can obtain popularity by performing a superficial imitation.

The pioneering sociologist Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) was the first systematic attempt to explain how status displays (e.g., conspicuous consumption) operate to communicate class membership among social elites. Most people never learn to think critically about such status-display behaviors, so that their emulation of the “elite” is thoughtless and unconscious. This behavior often takes the form of displaying symbols of wealth (e.g., designer-label clothing or luxury automobiles) as if mere possession of these symbols meant the same thing as actually being wealthy. Driving the same car or wearing the same clothing brands as a movie star, a software entrepreneur or a professional athlete is not the same as having millions of dollars in the bank, but we often see people who don’t seem to grasp this fact. The young guy with a $45,000-a-year job driving around in a new Cadillac Escalade wants to impress people by pretending to have wealth he doesn’t actually have. His luxury SUV is a status symbol, but the status he’s attempting to display is an illusion, if he’s leasing this vehicle for $1,800 a month (nearly half his annual income) while living with his mother. This is a cargo-cult type of behavior, and is in fact quite the opposite of behaviors that actually produce wealth. A young man who hopes to become wealthy would be best advised to live within his means, preferring to put money in the bank rather than engaging in ostentatious displays of a luxurious lifestyle. Nevertheless, we often see young people go deeply in debt to indulge their appetite for status symbols, and this cargo-cult mentality can also be witnessed in acts of criminal stupidity:

A bank employee from North Carolina is accused of stealing $88,000 in cash from the bank’s vault, then foolishly posing with the stacks of dough on his social media pages, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina.
The man, Arlando M. Henderson, was arrested by the FBI on Dec. 4 in San Diego — but not before dropping $20,000 on a down payment for a Mercedes-Benz, the indictment alleges.
Henderson, 29, had access to the bank vault and allegedly stole money from deposits made by customers on at least 18 occasions over the past year. He then made cash deposits into an ATM near his workplace.
But the glory didn’t last long — especially after he shared images of his riches on Facebook and Instagram. In several posts, he can be seen grinning with massive wads of cash. In one, he poses next to his new Benz.
“I make it look easy, but this s–t really a PROCESS,” a caption from an Aug. 4 post read.
In another, he wrote, “Looking at my brand thinking this how I got rich.” . . .
Henderson has been charged with two counts of financial institution fraud, 19 counts of theft, embezzlement and misapplication, and 12 counts of making false entries, which carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine, per count; and transactional money laundering, which carries a penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Flashing actual stacks of money is the crudest possible status display, and I can 99.9% guarantee you that anyone who does something like this on social media is engaged in some kind of criminal behavior. People who obtain wealth by honest means are not prone to such shameless ostentation, and this kind of cargo-cult behavior exhibits a level of stupidity that is not usually compatible with economic success.

Category: Crime, Culture

Democrats Aren’t Hitler, But . . .

Posted on | December 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrats Aren’t Hitler, But . . .

Trying to avoid Godwin’s Law here:

One of the basic methods of propaganda is reversal — make an accusation against your enemies that is so blatantly false as to be the exact opposite of truth. This technique has become known as “the Big Lie” because of a passage in Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: “In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses … more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
Hitler claimed that “the Big Lie” was a trick of the Jews, who had used it to falsely blame the German high command for defeat in World War I; Hitler, by contrast, blamed the Jews “and their fighting comrades, the Marxists” for Germany’s defeat. Of course, Hitler’s so-called “stab-in-the-back” myth of why Germany lost in 1918 was false; the German army was simply incapable of winning once the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies, and it was the German high command’s authorization of unlimited submarine warfare that had brought America into the war. Thus even in his now widely cited description of “the Big Lie,” Hitler was engaged in the propaganda technique that he pretended to deplore — reversal, or what is known in psychology as projection.
Americans so far have been fortunately protected by our Constitution from outright totalitarianism, but this protection does not make us safe from propaganda. When I was a schoolboy in the 1970s, my teachers as early as eighth grade taught us to recognize the techniques of propaganda, including the “false dilemma” fallacy and “glittering generalities.” Evidently, not every student gets such lessons, an educational deficiency that probably explains why some people believe what is broadcast as “news” on CNN and MSNBC nowadays. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

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In The Mailbox: 12.19.19

Posted on | December 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: This Was Completely Predictable
EBL: Nancy & Her Giant Impeachment
Twitchy: WaPo Issues Statement About Reporter’s “Ill-Considered” “Merry Impeachmas” Tweet
Louder With Crowder: Michelle Wolf Said Having An Abortion Made Her Feel Like God

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I Know A Good Place Where They Serve Nice Drinks
American Conservative: Universal Basic Income – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
American Greatness: Nunes Says FBI Director Wray’s Lies About FISA Abuse Memo Hurt The GOP In The Midterms
American Power: After General Election, Social Democracy On The Way Out In The UK
American Thinker: Operation Mockingbird’s Racist Destructive Lies
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Sense Of Community News
Babalu Blog: Pete Buttigieg Announces Outreach To Latinos Using Socialist Revolutionary Slogan
BattleSwarm: Important Safety Tip
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Red China’s Fleet Isn’t Waiting
Da Tech Guy: Some Quick Drudge Flip Thoughts, also, Morning After Impeachment Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Impeached. So What?
First Street Journal: The House Of Representatives Impeaches President Trump
The Geller Report: Husband Of House Judiciary Democrat Paid $700K By Ukrainian Oligarch, also, Watch As Crowds Of Illegals Flood DMV To Get Driver’s Licenses In NYC
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Is Tulsi Gabbard The Least Insane Democrat?
Hollywood In Toto: The Best Films Of 2019 – And A Joker Shall Lead Them, also, The Force Is Not With The Rise Of Skywalker
Legal Insurrection: While Everyone Was Focused On Impeachment, The 5th Circuit Cut The Legs From Under Obamacare, also, NY Judge Tosses Paul Manafort State Fraud Case
Michelle Malkin: Stop The Ilhan Omar/George Soros Liberian Amnesty Christmas Giveaway!
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s FARC Peace Deal A Smokescreen For Corruption, also, The Death of Venezuela’s Interim Government
Power Line: Conservative St. Olaf Students Swatted In Firearms Hoax, also, Media/Academic Ignorance Turned Up To 11
Shark Tank: Trump To Target Mucarsel-Powell, Other FL Democrats
Shot In The Dark: Adding Insult
The Political Hat: The Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 7
This Ain’t Hell: Haste Makes Waste, also, Wednesday FGS
Victory Girls: How Will History Judge Democrats’ Impeachment Antics
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rules Federal Flooding Of Homes During Hurricane Harvey Is A Taking, also, Fifth Circuit Declares Individual Mandate Unconstitutional, Punts On Whether Rest Of ACA Must Fall
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Compares Impeachment To Battle Of The Bulge, also, Dem Rep Hakeem Jeffries Compares Impeachment To Ending Slavery
Megan McArdle: How A Law Aimed At Uber & Lyft Is Hurting Freelance Writers
Mark Steyn: The Non-War On Non-Terror, also, A Nickel In The Change Purse

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The Return of the Big Yellow Button

Posted on | December 19, 2019 | Comments Off on The Return of the Big Yellow Button

In October, fearing that perhaps some of our readers were nearsighted, I decided to create an enlargement of the PayPal “donate” button, and was gratified by the response. Mrs. McCain has spent the past three weeks in a swing state with palm trees, helping care for our oldest daughter and her newborn son — our fifth grandchild — and my wife is due to fly home Friday. So I’m expected to have enough cash to cover the bills and therefore must once again rattle Ye Olde Tip Jar.

Meanwhile, our family is gathering for the holidays. My red-headed son Jefferson has returned home from his senior year of college, and my Army son Bob showed up this morning to go deer hunting with his twin brother Jim. My brother Kirby got some photos of this brotherly reunion.

You can click on any of those photos to view them full size. My youngest son Emerson is currently on a church mission trip to Honduras and won’t be back until Christmas Eve, but it was good to have the three older boys together, although the deer sadly decided not to join them. But still the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

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Trump Unites Republicans

Posted on | December 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

In Wednesday night’s “historic” impeachment vote — the cable news people keep repeating that word, for some reason — not a single Republican member of the House voted “yea,” whereas there were three “nay” votes in Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus: Minnesota Rep. Collin C. Peterson and New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew voted against both articles of impeachment, while Maine Rep. Jared Golden voted for the “abuse of power” charge, but voted against charging President Trump with “obstruction of Congress.” Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is running for president as a Democrat, voted “present” on both articles.

What does this mean? It means Bill Kristol is once again proven wrong. Last month, the #NeverTrump ex-Fox News pundit claimed, on the basis of “private conversations,” that some Republicans in the House would vote in favor of impeaching the president. Oops.

What is the “evidence” about which Republicans “refuse to care”? Like Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters and CNN’s audience, Kristol apparently still believes Donald Trump is a Russian agent who “stole” the election, and where is the “evidence” to support that paranoid conspiracy theory? If Bill Kristol is ever right about something, let me know. He’s got a Harvard education and zero common sense, but I digress . . .

If Kristol was wrong about the House vote, certainly he must be dismayed by the prospects in the Senate, where it would take a two-thirds majority (at least 67 senators) to convict and remove the President from office. That’s in the Constitution, and in yesterday’s phony “debate” in the House, Democrats repeatedly claimed that impeaching the president was about defending the Constitution, which is an obvious lie. Democrats are against the Constitution — they are against freedom of speech, against freedom of religion, against the “right to keep and bear arms,” against the Electoral College, etc. Basically the entire Constitution is wrong, according to Democrats but . . . ORANGE MAN BAD!

Contrary to lectures by, inter alia, noted constitutional scholar Maxine Waters, the President’s authority to conduct diplomacy is practically unlimited and, whatever your opinion about U.S. policy toward Ukraine, there was nothing unconstitutional about Trump’s July request that the newly-elected Ukrainian president “do us a favor” by investigating the corrupt activities of Hunter Biden and Alexandra Chalupa. No Democrat ever wants to talk about what Chalupa was doing in 2016, just like they never want to talk about whether President Obama authorized the FBI’s illegal surveillance of Trump’s campaign. To those who have bought into the “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory, any discussion of these subjects is — you guessed it — Russian propaganda, so that Democrats (and Bill Kristol, but I repeat myself) are living inside an echo chamber where all “evidence” points to Moscow, including the evidence that points in the opposite direction. But once again, I digress . . .

Impeachment has united Republicans in support of Trump, and nowhere is this unity more solid than in the Senate, where Mitch McConnell seems determined that the Democrats’ bogus ginned-up charges against the president will get a fair (but brief) hearing before being dismissed with the contemptuous ridicule it so richly deserves. As might be expected, Nancy Pelosi is not happy about this:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats may wait to send their articles of impeachment against President Trump to the GOP-controlled Senate, for fear that they are incapable of holding a fair trial.
Pelosi held a press conference on Wednesday following the House impeachment vote and was asked what would qualify as a “fair trial.”
“We’ll make a decision as a group, as we always have, as we go along,” she replied.
Pelosi was then asked about possibly withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate until they get certain reassurances, and the Speaker refused to give a direct answer.
“Again, we’ll decide what that dynamic is, but we hope that the resolution of that process will be soon in the Senate,” she said.
Pelosi proceeded to read a statement from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., about impeachment procedure and used it as an example of what she considers to be an unfair process.
“Let me tell you what I don’t consider a fair trial,” she told the crowd of reporters. “This is what I don’t consider a fair trial — that Leader McConnell has stated that he’s not an impartial juror, that he’s going to take his cues, in quotes, from the White House, and he is working in total coordination with the White House counsel’s office.”

Folks, you couldn’t make this up. According to Nancy Pelosi, it is wrong for Republican senators to support a Republican president. This fits neatly into the general pattern of Pelosi’s San Francisco-based belief system, where it is simply wrong for anyone to vote Republican. Her district is 100% urban and the median income is $111,717; Hillary got 77% of the 2016 presidential vote in Pelosi’s district. By contrast, Mitch McConnell represents the Commonwealth of Kentucky with a rural population of 1.8 million (23%) and a median income of $48,375, where Trump got about 63% of the vote. There are more Democrat voters in McConnell’s state than there are Republican voters in Pelosi’s district, so that she can (and does) completely disregard Republican opinions. In her part of California, “Antifa” thugs routinely perpetrate political terrorism against Trump supporters, and Nancy Pelosi refuses to condemn this violent suppression of opposing voices. Pelosi does not recognize the legitimacy of Trump’s election because she considers all Republican voters to be evil. The 1.2 million Kentucky citizens who voted for Trump are wrong, and their votes should count for nothing compared to the 275,000 Californians who voted to elect Nancy Pelosi — such is the cult mentality behind this impeachment. Meanwhile, in Michigan:

President Donald Trump reacted live to the results of the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, during an epic long two-hour rally with supporters in Michigan.
“They don’t even have any crime, this is the first impeachment where there’s no crime!” Trump said to the crowd of supporters at his campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan after learning that House Democrats had voted to impeach him.
Trump referred to the “very dark era” of history when President Richard Nixon was impeached and said it was remarkable that the feeling this time around was much different.
“I don’t know about you, but I’m having a good time, it’s crazy,” Trump said as the crowd of supporters cheered. . . .
Trump ridiculed Democrats for the partisan vote, even losing support from Americans despite their best efforts to make their case in a series of House hearings.
“I’m not worried. I’m not worried. Because it’s always good when you don’t do anything wrong, you get impeached,” Trump said. “That might be a record that will last forever.” . . .
“I know one thing, Americans will show up by the tens of millions next year to vote Nancy Pelosi the hell out of office,” Trump said as the crowd cheered wildly.
Trump spoke for two hours at the rally, highlighting the work he was doing to help rebuild states like Michigan with more jobs, stock market records, and better trade deals. He also spoke about reviving the auto industry, praising companies like Ford who recently announced a $1.45 billion investment in the state.

Oh, and here’s a little love-tap for the #NeverTrump gang:

Notably, the Trump rally was held inside the congressional district of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, a former libertarian Republican who left the party over his opposition to Trump and was the only non-Democratic vote on the articles of impeachment.

Yeah, f–k you, Justin. Enjoy your upcoming retirement from office.