OPINION:
New York Mayor Eric Adams just returned from Rome for a field trip to learn how to deal with the exploding Biden migrant population residing illegally in his city. He met with the pope.
There is no telling what Pope Francis told the mayor, but the answer should have been pretty clear.
Since about the 840s, the Vatican has protected itself by erecting massive stone walls surrounding the city — welcoming all, but requiring all visitors to enter through big beautiful gates controlled by the pope himself.
Elegant, simple and pretty smart, if you think about it. No word yet if Mr. Adams learned the right lesson.
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Back in the USA, still struggling with the invasion of illegal Biden migrants staying rent-free at some of New York City’s finest addresses, Mr. Adams tried to ignore the real problem and find some kind of silver lining to a problem that his party refuses to solve.
“How do we have a large body of people that are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards?” Mr. Adams pondered when asked about the chronic shortage of lifeguards at the city’s public pools.
It was a fair question, one that might be obvious to anyone trying to actually solve an actual problem. Which meant it was kryptonite to the political experts who attacked Mr. Adams for somehow being racist — though nobody wants to explain exactly how this is racist.
Certainly, the city officials sitting with Mr. Adams agreed with him in the moment, nodding vigorously as if in church when the preacher says something particularly deep and illuminating.
Who knows? Maybe they are not sending their best swimmers. But Mr. Adams should be commended for trying to solve a problem in a thoughtful way that benefits — even saves the lives of — New York City’s nonswimming population.
Already, the Biden password for getting into the USA illegally is “permiso.” Perhaps Mr. Adams should drop leaflets in Mexico advising new waves of border crossers who want free access to New York City to say, “Si, puedo nadar.”
Yes, I can swim.
And to further expedite the process, President Biden could instruct Border Patrol agents to issue swimming licenses to all illegals who successfully swim across the Rio Grande and maybe provide swimming lessons for those who require water wings to get across.
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It looks like we might actually see a presidential debate after all. President Biden issued a desperate ultimatum to former President Donald Trump this week for two debates — moderated, of course, by Mr. Biden’s shameless defenders in the left-wing media.
Anytime you see an incumbent politician demanding to debate the challenger, you know the incumbent is in deep trouble. This comes as polling shows Mr. Biden’s effort to jail Mr. Trump rather than face him in an election is backfiring badly.
Mr. Biden and his Democratic allies have concocted no fewer than five court cases designed to distract, humiliate, bankrupt and even jail Mr. Trump. Yet polls show that the trials only seem to help Mr. Trump and solidify his bona fides as an outsider agent of change for Washington.
The current case in New York, orchestrated by Democratic prosecutors and argued by Mr. Biden’s No. 3 man from the Department of Justice, was designed to humiliate not just Mr. Trump but his entire family.
Yet now it is Democrats who are desperate to distance Mr. Biden from the trial. CNN pundits from Anderson Cooper to James Carville are repeating absurd talking points that Mr. Biden had nothing to do with the prosecutions.
Um-kay.
Just goes to show how badly these dishonest and disgusting court cases have backfired politically.
Voters realize that Mr. Biden’s use of the judicial system to attack his political enemy is not really an attack on Mr. Trump. It is an attack on our judicial system and every freedom-loving American who cherishes our judicial system.
And voters are ready to punish somebody for it.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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