Wednesday, October 31, 2018

14th Amendment was NEVER meant to confer citizenship on children of illegal aliens

"Does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!"
Republicans, particularly elected ones, but quite honestly ALL Americans of every political stripe, would do well to educate themselves on the original intent of the Framers to more accurately understand what the 14th Amendment was actually proposed and ratified for...
CR: Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin ripped Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for his response to President Trump’s statement that he plans to issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Ryan claimed the 14th Amendment creates the birthright citizenship and that therefore such an executive order would be unconstitutional.

“There’s been no law passed that conveys birthright citizenship onto illegal aliens. There’s been no Supreme Court decision that definitively confers birthright citizenship onto illegal alien children. Nobody’s a hundred percent certain how this came to be. But everybody seems to be a hundred percent certain that the president can’t fix it. … Well, does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!”



Levin replayed a clip from his show in 2015, in which he laid out the stated purpose of the 14th Amendment and read Senator Jacob Howard’s explanation.

“‘This will not of course include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens … but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship.’ … Is it not plain English? Is he not as clear as can be that it does not include aliens, it does not include foreigners. … The republican basis for citizenship is consent! Consent of the country! You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States.”

“What is the bottom line here? Let’s number this: They wanted to make certain that former slaves would be treated as citizens of the United States, because certain states were still resistant. … They exempted Indians, because Indians still, certainly back then, were often considered citizens of particular tribes. But these actually were very forward-looking individuals. They specifically excluded aliens and foreigners.”
Once again, Democrats used to understand this!



Moreover, the Civil War Amendments, also known as the Reconstruction Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves by banning the archaic institution of slavery, defining citizenship to include these newly cemented freemen, and ensuring their voting rights along with all Americans. It is a farce and an offense to pretend that the same specific amendment bestowing the privilege of citizenship upon a freed people brought here not of their own accord (and the generations springing from them) would also somehow apply to the children of those illegally entering our country of their own volition!

Pretty common sense stuff to understand, but for politicians who'd muddy the waters and sell our sovereignty down the river for damn-near slave labor and illegal votes.

Unlike Obama, Trump's not proposing to rewrite law via an executive order. On the contrary, he's proposing to ENFORCE ORIGINAL INTENT backed up by an executive order. Lot of difference there that the leftist media won't tell you, and that some Republicans, like the Speaker, don't seem to understand.

Perhaps Levin's further discussion with Daniel Horowitz will shed much needed light on how birthright citizenship is not lawful, as well as why Trump is right to end it...



Related link: Nothing, not even birthright citizenship, trumps consent of the nation

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Fed up with the media always blaming us? Mark is...

THIS NAILS IT once again...
Monday's Mark Levin Show: The media in our Country and their progressive groupthink are absolutely disgusting, pushing their agenda within hours. It’s sickening that the media is blaming the mass murder of American Jews by a sub-human killer on rhetoric instead of on the killers hateful actions. Shame on them! For eight years the U.S. was, in effect, at war as President Obama’s Administration treated Jews, the nation of Israel , and its Prime Minister with utter contempt. The Obama Administration armed Israel’s enemy with a millions in cash as part of the Iran Nuclear Deal. President Trump however, has been a friend to Israel. In fact, the sick synagogue shooter made statements that Trump was too friendly with the Jews and had too many around. Yet the media will have you believe that the 11 precious human beings that were killed because of Trump. There were 14 mass murders during Obama’s tenure did any mass media outlet blame his rhetoric for those killings? While Trump hasn’t prosecuted journalists like Obama did, he does push back on the media calling them out by name. They’re simply trying to bring down this Administration because they believe they are a power unto themselves. When was the last time Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Rachel Maddow or Andrea Mitchell did a story on Anti Semites like Louis Farrakhan, whom they hold up as legitimate. Why don’t they get to the bottom of all that anti-semitism?

CR: LevinTV host Mark Levin opened up his radio show on Monday evening by discussing the media’s attacks on Trump in the wake of the tragic weekend shootings in Pittsburgh.

“I am so sick and tired of the media in this country — even more than the politicians. The groupthink, the progressive agenda … absolutely out of control. Absolutely disgusting,” Levin said.

“The media are politicizing this mass murder of American Jews by this subhuman cockroach in Pittsburgh. Shame on them! Shame on them! Just when you think the media have reached a low point, they go lower,” he added. He also commended the “brave men in blue — police officers — who ran into that synagogue.”

Levin explained that it is absurd to claim that Trump is stoking anti-Semitism, pointing to the pro-Jewish and pro-Israel records of the president and his cabinet. He also noted the previous administration’s extreme hostility to Israel and took the legacy media and leftist political operatives to task for their coziness with virulent anti-Semites such as Louis Farrakhan.
Related links: Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers refuses to politicize shooting for CNN’s clicks and views
Atrocities are not political human shields to stifle policy debates
The best way to heal America is to remember how to leave each other alone
Mark Levin takes down the media’s Pittsburgh synagogue ‘political hit job’

Monday, October 29, 2018

Fed up with the media always blaming us? Rush is...

THIS NAILS IT yet again...
RUSH: It’s so damn predictable. No matter what happens… We get up every day, events happen, and we listen to the media blame us. We listen to the media and we watch the media blame us or politicize everything, requiring us to speak up in defense and thereby acknowledge their silly premise that they put forth.

...whenever there is any kind of violence, any kind of uprising, any kind of chaos, the first instinct that the Drive-By Media has — and when I say Drive-By Media, it may as well be saying the Democrat Party.

The first instinct they have is to try to find a way to link whoever committed the bad deed to the Republican Party or the so-called conservative movement. And, of course, now it’s blame Trump. Everything — everything at all, whatever it is, blame Donald Trump. Blame me. Blame you. Blame anybody that supported Donald Trump. And, frankly, I’m worn out with this reaction. I have had it! I am fed up with it!

It’s been this way for years. There were shoot-ups during the Obama administration, there were mass murders, and at no time did the Drive-By Media ever try to link any of it to Obama. And yet people have forgotten. Was it inflammatory to say that Republicans were gonna be responsible for millions of deaths if Obamacare was not passed into law? Anybody remember that? I sure as hell do because I was fed up with it then! ...

Literally everything! That’s why none of this stuff ever gets fixed. It’s why none of this stuff is ever gonna get resolved until this politicization of everything stops. In other words, you have some guy who’s been mentally ill for 10, 15 years and then decides to take action. And all of a sudden, it’s the fault of a political party or it’s the fault of a president. It’s so predictable, ’cause they hate the president; they’ll do anything they can to get rid of him.

They spent two years trying to get rid of him. They failed to get rid of him. They’re fit to be tied over their failure. They’re ratcheting up this anger. We’re getting so far away from the notion that whoever did it is the person that did it. We’re getting to the point where in this country (because we politicize everything), nobody’s responsible for what they do. Whatever anybody does is because of the politics of the Republican Party or the conservative movement, as far as the Drive-By Media is concerned.

It’s not because somebody is mentally ill, disturbed. Who knows what’s been going on in their lives? The media doesn’t care about that except to the extent they can link it to Trump. Well, I, for one, am fed up with it. I am sick of this reaction to every freaking event. Even the weather! We can’t even get away from it with the weather. Extreme weather happens? It’s our fault! ...

Now, it gets to the point that if the media wonders why they’re in such ill disrepute right now, it’s because of this!

Nobody believes what you say! Nobody trusts what you’re saying. It’s so obviously politically charged. It’s so obvious that your passion about this is what you can do with it politically. The guy that shot up the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh… I know this place well. I lived there. Not Squirrel Hill, but I know where it is. The guy that shot this place up hated Donald Trump. Donald Trump was too big a Jewish supporter.

His daughter converted to Judaism before marrying Kushner. He moved the American embassy to Jerusalem. This guy thinks Trump is part of the sellout to worldwide Jewish people, and yet the media is blaming Trump. They’re saying (sputtering), “Well, Ivanka and all that? That’s just a disguise! You know, they just did that to cover up Trump’s real anti-Semitism.” Donald Trump’s maybe one of the best friends Israel and Israeli Jews have had in the Oval Office in I don’t know how long. ...

You’d be hard-pressed to find more virulent anti-Semites than in the Democrats’ base. Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa (the “anti-fascist” group). They are all virulent anti-Semites. Code Pink even went so far as to try to help Iran smuggle guns past the Israeli blockade into Gaza! They called it the Gaza flotilla. You can look it up. Now, what’s Code Pink’s motive? Code Pink simply hates America. Whatever America does, if it has an ally that aligns with Israel, Code Pink is gonna be oppose it.

So they end up being anti-Semitic, anti-Israel. Code Pink, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa. That’s the Democrat voter base! It’s never talked about, never pointed out. So we get up every day and we look at things and people that we admire or like under unending attack and assault. Everything is being politicized for the express purpose of advancing the Democrat Party and left-wing agenda, and so we arise to defend.

And as we stand and rise to defend, they come at us and accuse us of aggressively being whatever it is they want to convince people that we’re being. So, see, we’re just supposed to shut up. When Obama’s IRS starts savagely mistreating conservative groups, we’re just supposed to sit there and take it. When Obama’s attorney general, Holder, decides he’s not gonna prosecute the New Black Panther Party for obstructing polling places in Philadelphia?

We’re just supposed to understand that this is to make amends for all of the racism and transgression of the past. Eric Holder says, “We kick ’em!” Obama says, “They bring a knife; we bring a gun!” Bernie Sanders supporters shooting up Republican baseball practice? Nobody goes after Bernie Sanders. In fact, the Democrats, the Drive-By Media tried to defend the shooter, claiming that his insanity was reasonable, given that Donald Trump was president!
RUSH: Did you love it when Trump said, “I have toned it down. If you want me to tone it back up, I will.” Donald Trump was elected to be different. Donald Trump was elected because people were fed up with politics-as-usual. I’m gonna tell you this: People fed up with politics see the Democrats and the media politicizing everything. It’s not going to send people running to the Democrat Party. Quite the opposite of what the media thinks.

See, the media and the Democrats obviously think that a majority of the American people want to see the country the way the Democrats do, through a lens of everything being political. And people don’t want to see it that way. The Democrats and the media are telling Trump to tone it down, but they tone nothing down themselves. What was it the mayor of Baltimore said to protesters? (summarized) “We need to give them space to destroy. We need to stand back and let them get it out of their system.”

They say nothing when Republicans are gunned down. They abuse power to hide Hillary’s crimes to fix elections, to run silent coups against a duly elected president. So the left wants Trump to tone down his efforts at self-defense! That’s what Trump is doing. He’s assaulted. He has said countless times, “If I’m hit, I’m gonna hit back.” When Trump is blamed for the actions of a lunatic, he’s told to be more dignified, remain silent, be like Mitt Romney would be. Be reserved and so forth.

Supposed to sit back, let Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa wreak havoc? ...

The left needs to tone down all of these political stunts that are, in many ways, designed to provoke a reaction from people because they utilize abuses of power and character assassination. The character being assassinated is just supposed to sit there, just supposed to take it. That’s how you get ahead in Washington. If you’re under the gun, you take it. You sit there and take it and realize it’s just politics. “Don’t take it personally, Judge Kavanaugh. Don’t take it personally.

...never supposed to fight for himself. Trump, ditto. He’s not supposed to stand up to this. But that’s who Trump is. They’re not used to it. They thought they would have sent Trump packing. A year and a half ago, they thought they’d be rid of Donald Trump, and they still aren’t.

Related links: The Drive-Bys Are Driving Voters to Trump
The Attempt to Destroy Donald Trump Has Made Us Suspicious of Everything
NBC: If Americans Are ‘Fed Up’ and ‘Mean It’, They’ll Vote Against Trump/GOP
ABC: Trump ‘At the Center’ of All the Political Violence Right Now
DERSHOWITZ: OBAMA, CLINTON, AND ELLISON SHOULDN’T BE CONDONING FARRAKHAN’S ANTI-SEMITISM

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Bombs away? Discussing Dem shenanigans...

BOOM, baby! Desperation doesn't even begin to describe what the Leftist fools are doing, but it's certainly a start. And I think this gentleman elegantly expresses the much needed discussion of the week to work out the plausible bomb hoax, the illegal invasion heading our way, and the biased media coverage...



I don't think his initial immigration solution is 'dumb' at all. We do NOT need to take them in, but we will need the cooperation of our neighbors to the south, which can understandably be frustrating.

Anyway, for the most part, well said, sir, well said.

#VoteRED
#JustDoIt

ADDENDUM: Stealing the thunder of black conservatives, or just folks in general who are disenchanted with the socialist lean of the Democratic Party? Fake, setup or real, this remains midterm distractions...



Related link: Media ignores largest ever black conservative summit

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The illegitimacy of both the invasion mob and the new Democratic stance

Speaking of mobs, and scheduled for midterm mayhem no less, it has been reported over the past few days that the migrant 'caravan' (better known as an invasion MOB) headed for the US has surged to 7000 and growing!
The caravan consisting primarily of Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States has swelled to an estimated 7,000.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has pledged to close down the U.S.-Mexican border and is requiring any who plan to seek asylum in the United States to apply in Mexico first.

Fox News reported Monday that the caravan — which numbered about 1,600 at the beginning of its trek from northen Honduras — had grown to anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 people. An NBC report put the number at 7,000.

The Mexican government had agreed last week to stop the caravan at its southern border with Guatemala, but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers.
And I'm still shaking my head at how our media just scoff at the blatant PAYOFFS caught on camera, and either outright ignore them or just attempt to explain them away!



With early voting ensuing and the midterms just around the corner, it's difficult not to suspect this could be occurring at the behest of likely, but untraceable, Soros funds & Democratic socialist allies abroad and here at home (remember, VP Pence informed us that this invasion was organized by leftist groups in Honduras, financed by Venezuela, and sent north to challenge our sovereignty!). Following their failed Kavanaugh derailing, and preceded by the latest bomb charade (maybe more on that later), these folks will do anything to fundamentally transform America BACK to their dystopia.

Adding to that, as the media attempts to dispel concerns of terrorists infiltrating these groups, it's been reported that Bangladeshis have been sighted in the migrant mob...WHAT?!
A Spanish language reporter who has spent weeks embedded with the migrant caravan said in a Friday report that people from Bangladesh had joined the mass of people trying to cross from Guatemala into Mexico.

Univision correspondent Francisco Santa Anna reported from the bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico. The bridge has been packed with thousands of migrants demanding access to Mexico, with the ultimate goal of crossing the border of the United States illegally. The caravan has now swelled to many thousands.

The Bangladeshis, he said, were detained in an immigration facility, though it’s not clear what happened to them after their detention.

“Yesterday when we were traveling through Guatemala, we noticed people from El Salvador and even people from Bangladesh,” he continued. “Can you imagine what they had to do to get here? They infiltrated themselves in this caravan and tried to cross with the crowd. That would have benefited them greatly.”
Not to mention MS-13 gang members who already exist in the region, but there could be even worse...
Homeland Security officials said Tuesday that among the thousands of migrants heading for the United States border are some “gang members” and people with “significant criminal histories.”

Department spokesperson Tyler Houlton said on Twitter that the caravan, 7,000 migrants strong by some estimates, includes citizens not only of Central American countries, but also of the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and “elsewhere.”

“.@DHSgov can confirm that there are individuals within the caravan who are gang members or have significant criminal histories,” another tweet read. He did not offer more specifics.
The statement by the DHS reinforced an earlier tweet from President Trump, in which he maintained that the caravan included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.”
All of that, including the media campaign to smear Trump over this invasion, instead of a concern for the well being of American citizens, was covered on Tuesday's Mark Levin Show:
This isn’t a caravan of immigrants, it’s an invasion! The media and its appendage, the Democratic Party, are framing the narrative claiming that President Trump is driving a message of fear and lies about these foreigners marching from central America to America. In fact, some “reporters” went as far as keeping the story solely on Trump and their propaganda about “fear-mongering” clearly turning a blind eye to the impending invasion of thousands of people at our southern border. While the media blames Trump for scaring people, the real fear lies with MS-13 which is a genuine threat to urban communities across America.

CR: Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio program, LevinTV host Mark Levin lit into the liberal media — particularly CNN — for calling President Trump’s immigration stance “fear-mongering.”

“Some of them are actually called reporters and anchors and hosts. Does this sound like news to you?” Levin said.

Levin also called out the senior White House correspondent for ABC News for twisting the migrant caravan story and insulting the large population of Americans who understand the seriousness of illegal immigration.

“This is also an attack on you, you see, because you’re so stupid that the president is able to cause you to be fearful and scared. You’re so stupid you can’t process what’s actually taking place. And besides, it’s only 0.06 percent of all undocumented people already in this country. The irony is that there’s so many illegal aliens in this country” that the caravan of thousands marching toward our southern border “is simply no big deal,” Levin said.

“It’s MS-13 that stokes fear, not the President of the United States.”
It's become virtually unnoticeable how much the mainstream media are the Democrats, and the Democrats are the media these days. Look no further than each's influence on the other in this singular issue. However, there was a time, not so long ago, that even Democrat, YES, Democratic leaders, thought illegal immigration was a dangerous phenomenon and would not have stood for this invading mob, as opposed to how both (or one in the same) seem to invite it now...


At 1995's SOTU address, Bill received a standing ovation from BOTH sides of the aisle for this delivery!
"We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."


In 2005, then-Sen. Obama seemed to take an even tougher stance...
"We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country."
Think he meant "to become citizens of this country," but nonetheless, WOW...



Then as president, he even thought as late as 2013 while pushing comprehensive immigration reform that real reform meant stronger borders, putting more boots on the Southern border to reduce illegal crossings, as well as establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship...
"a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally."


And beyond the last few Democratic presidents, how about the rational words of these Democratic leaders?!

Harry Reid in 1993:



Chuck Schumer in 2009:



Bernie Sanders in 2007:



Hillary Clinton in 2003:



...and in 2015 during her failed presidential bid:



...and many, many others can be found repeating similar sentiment. Then hypocrisy happened, and now both they and their media have flipped:



So were the rational stances they used to take only words, just words?

You'll no longer hear a reasonable Democratic utterance to this INVASION as that of the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan:



In stark contrast, as Levin points out, "[today's] Democrats want to change the citizenry because that’s the way to change the electorate. If you oppose this destruction of our country, our system of commerce, or our system of healthcare you’ll be labeled a racist, xenophobe or misogynist. They will not debate the issues because their ideology is illegitimate and they know it!" And I'd add, if you oppose this destruction of our country, you'd better recognize the hypocrisy of this party, along with the arrogancy of its media, and instead STAND UP to VOTE against it over the next few weeks!

Related links: BWAHAHAHA Trump retweets video of Obama saying we can’t allow illegals to POUR into our country!
Democrats' caravan problem just got worse: Varney
The Left Goes Full Open Borders

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Of matches, the mob, and a much needed routing

“The Democrat Party deserves to lose in the single biggest electoral landslide defeat in my lifetime because of the actions they’ve taken just in the last month!” ~ RL
As Levin has repeated numerous times throughout the past weeks, months, and even years, there's nothing that can be done to appease the Left; we simply have to CRUSH THEM politically at the ballot box. And the freakish behavior exhibited throughout the Kavanaugh confirmation certainly proved that for those who hadn't fully come to this realization. The politicians behind this mob mentality must be ROUTED in the midterms!
RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Do you think that the Democrats in the Senate, the Democrats in the media, do you think all of these deranged, psychologically out of whack protesters are just gonna say, “Well, we gave it our best shot. We’ll wait ’til they nominate somebody else and try to destroy them”? Or do you think that they will continue in their effort to wipe Kavanaugh out and destroy him? Believe me, choose door No. 2. Especially if these clowns win the House, they are going to immediately mount two things: Impeachment of Trump and, therefore, impeachment of Kavanaugh!

Because if Trump shouldn’t have been there in the first place, then his nominee should not be, either. This is not going away. There’s only one way that it might. And it’s a huge long shot, and it is this. And by all rights, by all that is just, by all with a world in which God is present, the Democrats ought to have their rear ends handed to ’em in these upcoming elections, by all that’s just, by all that’s decent, they ought to be wiped out.

This ought to be the biggest midterm landslide defeat any party has ever experienced. This party deserves to be punished at the ballot box like no party ever has! And in a decent and just world, that’s exactly what happened, would happen. And if… Right now the Democrats are expecting this gigantic blue wave where they’re gonna win the House and Pelosi’s already talking about being speaker. They’re even dabbling about the possibility of winning the Senate.

And then they’re telling everybody what they’re gonna do. And I’m telling, you better, if they do win both of those seats, you better get as much active enjoyment out of our current economy and your current liberty and freedom as you can. Because they are going to start immediately erasing it by raising taxes, raising corporate taxes, committing this country to all kinds of worldwide climate change garbage that is going to redirect American resources.

They’re gonna reenact the Obama agenda, and they’re gonna put it on steroids, and that’ll mean wiping out all of these trade deals, all of these new jobs. The Democrats want government to be front and center in everybody’s life. They want every voter to think whatever they have came from government, came from Democrats. It didn’t come from you. It doesn’t come from your hard work. It doesn’t come from your self-reliance. It comes from them.

And you’re gonna learn it and love it and live it, by golly, by gosh, or else you’re gonna be punished. This party deserves to be so soundly defeated in November that we haven’t seen anything like it. If they lose. If they do not win the House, if they do not win the Senate, if they lose seats in both, then that might make some of the leaders of the party rethink their current strategy.

But if they win based on this, it’s gonna get even worse than it’s been, this politics of personal destruction is going to be amplified, and every Republican is gonna be targeted and every political media opponent is gonna be targeted. If they win with this kind of behavior and treatment of people and turning American principles upside down like “innocent ’til proven guilty,” if they win doing this, whew. New Zealand! Is the coast open?
Related links: Republicans needed a midterms miracle. Could Brett Kavanaugh be it?
The Kavanaugh effect on the midterm elections
Poll: Kavanaugh Hearing Galvanized Republicans, Erasing Dem Enthusiasm Edge
Polling shows potential for Senate Republican upset victories

We've got a couple of dichotomies running concurrently. On one hand, and one side of that hand I might add, there's the effectiveness of what President Trump and the majority of Republicans just accomplished (Exhibit A: I’m An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats’ Treatment Of Kavanaugh); while on the other side of that hand rides the remaining complacency of what one would hope is the few (Exhibit B: Complacent conservatives should learn the Murkowski lesson). Then, not even on the upper extremities, but let's say the left foot, is more of what a lost American political party -- formerly known as Democrats, who now refer to themselves more as progressives and have rapidly devolved into socialists these days fomenting violence -- has to offer. And YES, this kind of language absolutely incites mob rule, and they knowingly invite it:
source: TRS
source: TRS
Aren't these the very same people who preached CIVILITY when they were in power just a short few years ago?! And now they've utterly lost it. So...think it'd be beneficial for the country and the vast majority of its citizenry to go with the Prez on this one in November:

Related links: Yes, It’s A Mob.
The New Face of the Democratic Party: Mob Rule
As Democrats Push Mob Mentality, Media Repeatedly Insist There's No Such Thing As A Democratic Mob