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In the flurry of lawfare aimed at blocking anything and everything that the Trump administration is doing, it’s easy to dismiss any single lawsuit as just more partisan legal obstructionism, but the lawsuit filed by 20 Democrat states against the Trump administration is a major admission.
The lawsuit filed to challenge the Trump administration’s ban on federal benefits going to illegal aliens is being billed as an effort to defend children, but it’s actually an admission that much of the welfare system in Democrat states is actually used to provide services to illegal aliens.
The lawsuit makes a two-fold argument, that individual clinics and providers who offer various government subsidized services including health care and education are incapable of determining who is an illegal alien and that they service so many illegal aliens that they would go out of business if they were forced to stop. The first argument, that distinguishing an illegal alien is a “complex determination that cannot be made by an untrained individual” is farcical obstructionism, but the second argument is deeply revealing and also deeply disturbing.
The lawsuit is led by New York and the press release from Attorney General Letitia James claims that the new guidelines “barring many safety net programs from serving all residents, regardless of immigration status” would cause the collapse of free health and education.
For example, her press release contends that “New York’s 850 community health centers provide primary and preventative care to 2.4 million low-income residents, regardless of insurance or immigration status… without federal funding or reimbursement for treating patients whose status cannot be verified, many centers could be forced to close.”
That claim is backed up by a declaration from State Health Commission James McDonald.
If community health care centers would be forced to close unless they’re reimbursed for providing services to illegal aliens, how many of their patients actually are illegals? The conclusion would seem to be that either a majority or a significant percentage are illegal aliens.
And that taxpayers funding these centers are really funding free health care for illegals, providing a magnet to draw illegal aliens to the United States and then to keep them there.
New York and other states claim that defunding illegal aliens would wreck Head Start. While this is treated as an accusation, it’s actually an unintentional admission. How much of Head Start funding is actually being expended for illegal aliens? And how many Americans are losing out?
An ACLU lawsuit focused on Head Start cited claims from California and Illinois that significant numbers of illegals benefit from these taxpayer-funded programs. That’s a call for urgent reform.
The Democrat states that filed the lawsuits repeatedly admit that they use taxpayer funding to provide services to illegal aliens and that they are suing for the right to go on doing so.
“All families, regardless of their citizenship, deserve access to a high-quality education, adequate healthcare, and community support,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell argued.
Over and over again, attorney generals in liberal states list how much money their states receive to provide educational and health care services, and complain that they will no longer be able to function if they are forced to cut off services to illegal aliens. That suggests these health care and educational programs are really primarily servicing illegal aliens.
The lawsuit by 20 states inverts reality, claiming that cutting off funds to illegal aliens will hurt legal recipients of health and education programs, when it’s exactly the opposite. Americans have been cut off from access to programs because they’ve been overrun by illegal aliens.
It’s not the Trump administration that is killing Head Start or community health clinics, it’s Dems who insist on opening up services meant for Americans to illegal aliens the way that their administrations opened the border to millions of illegal alien invaders who now fill their cities and states, overrun parks, crowd out schools and create massive social services deficits.
The lawsuits argue that the Trump administration is undermining the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act which they usually refer to by the hideous acronym PRWORA, but the whole reason that PRWORA existed was to thin out the welfare rolls, not only of illegals, but of new immigrants. Bill Clinton repeatedly resisted welfare reform, but finally gave in and signed PRWORA after vetoing two previous bills, because opposing welfare reform was unpopular.
Having signed the bill, Clinton quickly took credit for it, claiming, famously and falsely, that it ‘ended welfare as we know it’, but he also double-crossed Republicans by redefining a whole slew of federally funded social services programs as not being “federal public benefits” and therefore exempt. This mangling of reality stood until the Trump administration took it down.
Democrat attorney generals are now arguing that Clinton’s subversion of the stated intent of PRWORA is the bill’s true meaning and that it’s vital that illegal aliens continue being subsidized by taxpayers. So much for ‘ending welfare as we know it’. Welfare is now worse than ever.
In the 90s, Republicans complained about new immigrants going on welfare, now federal benefits are used to subsidize an illegal alien population tens of millions strong.
The final argument being trotted out by Democrats in sanctuary states is that unless we go on subsidizing services for illegal aliens, the results will be worse. Cut off illegal aliens from community clinics and they’ll go to ERs. Stop offering them free medical care and they’ll spread diseases. Stop giving them free educational programs and they’ll become violent criminals.
Open borders Dems want us to believe that illegal aliens are our future and that unless we coddle them, they’ll bankrupt us, rob us and make us sick. None of this is a recommendation.
The obvious solution is to stop coddling illegal aliens and to start deporting them.
And the lawsuit by 20 Democrat states promises us huge savings if we get rid of our illegal alien problem. 90% of Democrat states have admitted that illegal aliens form a sizable part of their social welfare complex. The more of them we deport, the more money we’ll save.
The admissions that 90% of Democrat states have a major illegal alien drain on their federally funded social welfare programs shows why sanctuary states and cities exist, and why it’s incumbent on the federal government to end the corrupt racket taking money from Americans to give to illegal aliens, abusing our charity and using it to bankrupt our country.
The more illegal aliens we deport, the more Americans we can help.
Stop giving them freebies and they will become violent criminals?
That is a case for mandatory sterilization.
We cannot afford to carry such people as this.
Neuter them at the border, then put them up for adoption for liberal democrats, at their own expense. No more freebies at taxpayer expense.
That’s an idea. If they want a visa, they have to get neutered first.
Stop giving them freebies and/or they will become violent criminals? Sounds rather like extortion.
Sounds like extortion is ingrained in their culture.
Many of them already are violent criminals. And as you know it’s Democrats who are trying to stop President Trump from deporting them. Go figure. I know I can’t make any sense of all this other than Democrats hate America as it is and what us to turn into a 3rd world sewer with them in control.
And the 19% cheered !!!
Illegal, legal, or natural born citizen the question still stands —
“What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?” – Thomas Sowell
naturalized citizen or born in USA – What other nation on earth are treating illegal aliens like USA does?
Seems like all western nations –
Hypothetical:
There are some 8+ billion people on the planet. How are democrats going to pay for all of them when the let a quarter of them (2+ billion) into the country?
The answer is obvious and easy. With 2+ billion newly registered democrats, they’ll just vote to tax everyone with a job into poverty in order to redistribute income to make poverty fair and equal for everyone but them.
That use to be called Marxism/communism but nowadays it’s called social justice. Funny how “social justice” never applies to the people at the top. It works the same way for every monarchy, communist, socialist and authoritarian regimes and pseudo-democracies around the world and yes, it works that way here in the good ole US of A.
Marxism comes from religion hence it is infused with magical thinking. Think Mana from Heaven.
As far as the manna from heaven:
Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”
To me, spirituality is like preparation for war, with the outside world, which is designed to destroy you. The moral and ethical principles are a good example, they are guides to behavior which will keep you out of trouble, out of entanglements with the world.
The Thx attempt to create the Capitalist Utopia is naive in the extreme, placing faith in the goodness of the world, like Lenin’s attempt to create a Socailist Utopia.
I said nothing about building a capitalist utopia in my comment. I stated that Marxism is based on magical thinking and magical thinking is harmful to human flourishing and magical thinking comes from religion.
Magical thinking comes from religious FAITH as a means of knowledge. Magical thinking does not come from observing the facts of reality by using reason and logic.
If by capitalist utopia you mean a capitalist dictatorship then Objectivism does not seek to create a capitalist utopia. According to Objectivism capitalism is a socio-economic system where all property is private property and individual rights are defended. These political principles lead to human flourishing. A capitalist dictatorship is a contradiction in terms.
“Rand’s antagonists have unfailingly elected to pay her what is, perhaps, the greatest tribute one can offer to a thinker whom one opposes: they have all felt obliged to misrepresent her ideas in order to attack them.
No one has dared publicly to name the essential ideas of Atlas Shrugged and to attempt to refute them. No one has been willing to declare: “Ayn Rand holds that man must choose his own values and actions exclusively by reason, that man has the right to exist for his own sake, that no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force – and I consider such ideas wrong, evil, and socially dangerous.” – Nathaniel Branden
The “magical thinking” that you mention is called faith. It is being sure of what you hoped for and certain of what you cannot see. Very few people possess this faith because of distractions from the futility of seeking God by rationalism or empiricism that have nothing to do with faith but everything to do with evidence. The just shall live by faith.
“Magical thinking comes from religious FAITH as a means of knowledge. Magical thinking does not come from observing the facts of reality by using reason and logic.”
THX, faith has an object in view, and that object is, or should be, the Word of God:
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
We have the testimony of God’s word and we see reason and logic there:
Hebrews 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
The testimony of the Bible which convinces me it’s the truth and nothing but, is its declaration that man, all of us, is a hopelessly depraved sinner:
Romans 3:10-12: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”
“They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
But, thank the Lord, there’s this other verse:
Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Yes, a large portion of the human population are no good and you can never trust people like them. They’ll always fuck you sooner probably than later.
Best just to avoid them.
Stay stupid, moron.
Obviously I’m not stupid enough to believe that a magical man was born of a magical immaculate conception and magical virgin birth and then after being dead for three days came come back to life and then magically ascended through the sky to a magical utopia in a magical heaven and lives there for eternity playing a magical harp with little magical cherub angels flying around in circles around for eternity.
Save your magical Christian fairy tales for Christmas when Santa and Rudolph come flying through the sky to bring you your magical presents.
I may have no read Ayn Rand, though I tried. The books boring, it worked better than a sleeping pill.
But I put GOD and JESUS to a test 40 years ago. To prove to me THEY are real and no matter what show me the truth.
40 years later THEY most definitely proved to me THEY are real and are still showing me the truth.
I did this all without religion.
Truth my friend. just show me the truth. Philosophy is conversation. I require truth.
You won’t see me in a church on Sundays or a Synagogue on Saturdays.
But if I did go to a Saturday worship in a shul, I would feel so whole unlike I did as a child when I thought, is this are there is? Ritual, dead bones and dust? Even as a child I wanted to know the truth.
Colossians 1:15-17 “Who (the Lord Jesus Christ) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:”
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:”
“And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
Oooo bitter table for one. Magical thinking. I’m so upset.
But you are dumb enough to believe a ranting little ugly old woman, who cheated on her hapless husband, and then kicked Nat Brandon to the curb when he got sick of her crap, would somehow change the world by writing a couple of unreadable books. Guess what, It never happened.
Somehow the shelf life of these three or four books could barely make it into the next century, and have rapidly become irrelevant. Pablum for freshman and guys trying to get laid. They will never become part of anyone’s curriculum at the university level. So Ayny Randy is relegated to the dusty shelves of ARI.
And yet you are stupid enough to keep hectoring us every few weeks with your saved index card missives by the same insipid authors, over and over and over again.
Wuzza mater T? Don’t you get Christmas presents every year? Say hi to Lenny Piehole.
You know what T, you are way more funny when you bitch about rock music, because you such an expert.
Dear THX 1138:
Nowhere does the Bible encourage “magical thinking”.
“Faith”, as described in the Bible, is not blind faith, but rather faith built on evidence and reason.
You would know that THX, if you knew how to read and understand the Bible. Simply cherry picking verses and quoting phrases out of context, as you often do, is neither scholarly nor convincing to those who are much more informed than you are.
Kent
…yet, one apparently is willing to embrace another myth uncritically (i.e., there is no spiritual world), without scientific falsification, and the like.
How consistent is that?
As Newton and others emphasized, we do not know. That is a much different conclusion than “there is not…”
Indeed, there are limits to knowledge, and then there is faith: faith in belief, or faith in non-belief.
Consider also that limits of knowledge made many folks conclude there were only white swans in Australia (Taleb).
Why?
There was no empirical evidence that any other type existed…until black swans were eventually discovered there!
Epistemology can only be based on uncertainty; it can only lead to tentative conclusions? Even science is always tentative….why?….because it is always subject to new discovery.
Finally, that which is mocked is also that which is not fully understood, one might submit.
To Spirit of TJ:
So you are CERTAIN that uncertainty is a certainty? There is no contradiction in that, is there, or is there?
“There can be no such thing as certainty he chatters, blanking out the fact that he is claiming that uncertainty is a certainty.”
“We know that we know nothing,” they chatter, blanking out the fact that they are claiming knowledge—”There are no absolutes,” they chatter, blanking out the fact that they are uttering an absolute—”You cannot prove that you exist or that you’re conscious,” they chatter, blanking out the fact that PROOF presupposes existence, consciousness and a complex chain of knowledge: the existence of something to know, of a consciousness able to know it, and of a knowledge that has learned to distinguish between such concepts as the proved and the unproved.” – Atlas Shrugged
And keep racking up those downvotes. Yu know what’s “magical” Repeating the same stupid anti-religion mantras every week and expecting a different result.
There’s a term for that…..it’s called insanity.
Yeah, I got a bunch of downvotes for trying to point out that his Capitalist Utopia is based on magical thinking, similar to Lenin’s Socialist Utopia being based on magical thinking.
Lenin was a real asshole, wasn’t he? But he was an evil genius. He’s the one who reportedly said “a lie told often enough becomes the truth.” That was very acute…..and very evil.
I wouldn’t have wanted to know the guy, not even to share beers. I think he was seriously fucked in the head.
marxism is atheist – hence becomes the marxist religion
Magical thinking indeed. Such people don’t live in reality and should be thankful that people like us make the world safe for them to indulge in their fantasies and magical thinking. Otherwise nature would impose it’s laws upon them sooner rather than later.
A colleague once told me a joke that one day, a man was trekking through the jungle when he happened to come upon a group of lions. The man immediately dropped to his knees, closed his eyes and started praying “please lord, don’t let those lions eat me!” When he opened his eyes, he looked around and saw that the lions had all dropped down on all four and were also praying “thank you lord for the meal we’re about to receive!”
Now that is funny! They say there are no atheists in a foxhole. Well, it is precisely in a foxhole where a man has to try his hardest to keep his rational mind functioning to find a way to survive that situation. God helps those who help themselves.
THX, where did you get the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”?
I would really like to know.
To Allyn,
I would really like to know why you fail to comprehend the implications inherent in the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”?
Let me spell it out for you — the phrase implies that there are no supernatural miracles, that no supernatural entity is going to save you, that only the hard work of thinking rationally and acting upon rational ideas are going to save you in any situation.
THX 1138:
Exactly! No prayer will countermand the laws of nature. An inviolable rule of nature is that the strong survive, the weak perish. It applies to every living thing on this planet and humans are no exception.
Proof? Case in point: cannibalism.
Fox holes? What is this, WWI?
All of this digital spilled ink and you are no further along that you were yesterday. you have convinced no one of anything.
My faith (your pathetic version of magical thinking designed to insult) stays strong. At least we know you are incapable of clear rational thought, just cheap insults.
I guess this is what happens when you don’t get your way. A temper tantrum always follows.
Marxism is Atheism.
Anyone who has read Das Kapital knows Marx hated religion and was fueled by his hatred for G-d.
Atheism is the fuel of all communism regardless of the useless and irrelevant distinctions of ‘Marxist’ or ‘Leninist’ and so on.
Atheism is the established religion of the Left: It is also the religion of fools who believe everything appears by magic.
Atheists engage in magical thinking all the time.
The most ridiculous form of Atheist magical thinking
… is denying that their religion is responsible for all of the murder and damage done by Atheist regimes over the last two hundred years.
Socialism (the foundation of Marxism and communism) does not stem from religion, but from anti-religious secular humanism which began to have pre-eminence in the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment is characterized by the anti-god religion that you embrace – requiring faith in human nature and reason. Truly history shows this faith is unfounded and without evidence, for humans are not angels.
If I am wrong, then you should have no problem coming up with direct links between socialism and whatever religion(s) you believe gave birth to it.
Marxism and Communism is atheism..
The government monies given to leftist groups is mainly just a scam to support them and their cronies, rather than to provide legitimate services.
It’s money laundering as usual and they don’t want to cut off the gravy train
There was no money laundering going on in the Temple. First of all only the High Priests were allowed in the Temple and it was money exchanging going on in the courtyard. Just like today when you go to another country and exchange dollars for local currency. Hebrews came from all corners of the known world and exchanged their currency for Shekels to buy a sacrifice to be burned on the alter.
The Dem-O-Rats the Globalists/Traitors Dem-O-Rats want total control of America or the North American(Soviet)Union their Americas #1 Domestic Enemies a followed by the UN,CFR
Ask a democrat, if they had a business would they hire staff where most of them did no work whilst stealing money from the company and the working staff? Productive workers would have to work themselves to death to keep the company solvent leading to the quick death of the company. Democrats are purposely pushing the hellish culmination of the Cloward-Piven Strategy for the death of our country.
Like they do in CCP China – there are dorms where the workers live and they get maybe one day off a week and work a whole bunch of hours – That’s life under communism, marxism. socialism dictatorship all the same pig with different shades of lipstick
US Code Title Section 8 makes it illegal to assist illegal aliens. So why aren’t these 19 Dem state governments being prosecuted?
It’s become yet another Trojan Horse inside USA with a payload of undocumented illegals
MuggsSpongedice:
In the big picture (aka, reality) they’re not undocumented illegals, they’re unregistered democrats. Based on the abundance of evidence, it’s a truth that cannot be contested.
I think most of them are registered………..illegally.
Good point. It would seem the Democrats have forgotten their own mantra “no one is above the law.”
world@70:
Democrats have forgotten nothing. Need I remind you that democrats are neither honest or truthful or trustworthy. Thus it is an exercise in absurdity to judge a democrat by what they say. The only reliable measure of a democrat is by what they do when they think no one is looking or they can deflect the blame off of them by throwing someone else under a bus and blaming them.
I trust democrats about as much as I trust a hungry lion to not eat me.
We need to escort these poor folks home so they can access the benefits of their homelands. Quick!
If only there were a creative way to send the entire bill for all this to the Democratic Party….Since the idea of open borders is the brainchild of the Left, then let the Left foot the bill–in full. Why should taxpayers be responsible for the expense?
The DuNCe is broke. They are no better running their own party than they are running states, cities and as we saw in the last administration installed by coup d’etat of rigged and stolen election, nation
This would really concern me if the Great Replacement were real and not just some crazy conspiracy theory dreamed up by far, far, far, very extreme right wing fringe extremists. If I could observe it with my own eyes, listen to Democrats state in their own words that they are lavishing all kinds of benefits like free housing, education, healthcare and stipends on the foreigners at the expense of natives, then and only then would I be concerned.
Come to California 🙂
Well then, each of those states deserves a Marxist Islamist governor to give them a hard reality check.
It’s money laundering as usual and they don’t want to cut off the gravy train. This has gone on for so long and has become so insidious and pervasive it is now a multibillion dollar tax payer dough funneled monster.
It’s a block chain of it’s own. A separate industry ready for an IPO. If this monster has no illegal aliens to feed it, it will go broke and I hope perpetrators of this racketeering scheme invested their money well, because it’s about to crumble.
Not all illegal aliens befitting from these monster racketeering will be removed from god ol’ USA – but enough for these NGOs to go out of business and look, look at all the surplus tax payers will have.
Never enough tax dollars? Because too many filthy hands found ways to tap into the flowing bucks of tax payers.
Just ask Lesko. Remember that guy? All the ways we can tap into the tax coffers and have multiple streams of income.
This article highlights the real flaw in the liberals; they are inveterate rescuers. Dems believe that their lives are useless unless they can rescue the downtrodden, real or imagined. This pseudo altruism is always at someone’s expense The Dems rescue the poor without paying for it with their own finances,
This is illustrated in the game of football. The linemen expend great energy to clear a path for the running backs. When the running back scores, he rarely gives credit to the linemen because he is dancing in the endzone, receiving praise from the fans. The adoration of the crowd is directed towards him while the linemen limp back to the bench to recover their strength.
The pseudo altruism of the libs reveals the obvious fact that they are actively rescuing the downtrodden so they can desperately seek the praise of the masses. I have not seen a blue-collar man or woman receiving any applause for providing healthcare to the trespassers from the south. Nor have I seen doctors or lawyers or bankers receive the applause of the masses. The Dems create the illusion that they have earned all of the money to finance foreigner’s medical expenses.
The sooner American catch on to this game, the sooner this game will end, and the better off America will be. Thankfully the adults are in charge and are calling out these Dem frauds by shutting down their game.
Let’s take care of Americans before we expend our resources to appease the Democrats.
90% is stunning.
Even more stunning is the behavior of Dems and their supporters in Dem states.
I look for ways to avoid any contact with them.
Well said as usual,
but it’s not exactly a surprise.
Without skipping taxes, insurance, and ‘dues’ for some nonsense or another,
… and receiving food stamps (EBT, SNAP, etc)
… and free medical insurance (Medicaid)
… and a disability check (oh, my back hurts … unlike those lazy, stupid gringos)
No one can pay for what illegals have.
To be fair, the new arrivals in the last five years have been subjected to far worse exploitation by the cartels than previous invaders … but that’s only because the cartels were funded by American taxpayers and sponsored by the Democrats.
… hence, the illegals don’t even have any protection at all
… and they’ve flooded the services that usually put them first in line
… which has enraged prior Hispanic arrivals
… who are used to being first in line …
And people then wonder, how come state and federal debt is so massive? I suggest for leftists that they seek a math tutor because they obviously fail to grasp the finite capacity of government revenue. When a government spends more than it collects in revenue, that’s called deficit spending. The extra amount spent beyond government revenue is called debt and in order to spend money the government doesn’t have, it sells debt instruments (bills, notes and bonds). Ironically in order to sell debt instruments, the government needs to offer the purchaser interest on his/her investment. It’s ironic because the government doesn’t have this extra money to spend, so it sells debt instruments but does so by going deeper into debt with attaching interest on this debt!
So despite the above basic rules of government revenue, leftists still demand state and federal governments go into debt to extend entitlement benefits to illegals. The question I have is for what reason? They do understand the further irony that the debt needs to be repaid? In order to find this money a combination of tax increases and reduction of government services would need to be enacted. So in order to extend entitlement benefits to illegals, governments would go further into debt and be required to sell more debt instruments along offering an interest rate to the purchasers of this debt. Just to handle paying off the accumulating interest on the debt both taxes would be increased and government services to citizens would need to be reduced. Knowing all this, wouldn’t it just be easier to cut off illegals from being recipients of entitlement benefits? As I say, this is the conversation that leftists need to have with their math tutor.
I repeat: Lie-beral Demonocrats are NOT qualified to run our country, but they DO KNOW how to run it into the ground ! Their voters are too stupid to realize what they are voting for. It’s a circle-jerk going over a cliff.
Oh, one last point. The final straw in the Democrat’s quiver is to cancel all debt. That was tried in Ancient Rome. The Democrats have also tried it on a small scale, dipping their fingers into the water, such as cancelling student loan debts.
If these 20 states feel so strongly about giving Welfare to illegals, they should use State funds to offer these programs, clinics, etc. I’m sure their taxpayers will be happy to pay more to support these illegals. This way they can keep their gardeners, maids, etc. At least until they’re deported. This will also hasten the financial collapse of these states. Sounds like a win-win to me.
90% of Democrat States have feathers for brains.
When it comes to intelligence who is more Intelligent a Democrat or a Blue Footed Booby?
To THX 1138:
First, thanks for the dialogue. The topic is most interesting. It helps to illuminate.
I believe you ask if it is possible to be certain of uncertainty. That is an interesting issue in which to ponder.
I submit that, based on empiricism, both as a philosophy and as a basis of the modern scientific method (e.g., Newton, Bacon, etc.), our knowledge has grown. Basically, what we once did not know, we know know. What we once thought we knew we, we now know was untrue (e.g. all swans in Australia are white–Taleb).
As we learn more, and as we better understand the “systems of things,” we come to realize there is both probabilities (ergo levels of uncertainties) to our knowledge. We suspect there is new knowledge to be discovered (again, based on empiricism), that is at the moment undiscovered.
Again, that is why science must always be tentative; it is always subject to new discovery, Hence, we always deal with uncertainty.
BTW, let me posit your question another way, back to you: How can one be certain of certainty?
How can one be certain there is no God, and that faith is fruitless? One cannot, unless one ironically holds great faith in unfaith.
The Fools who Free the Lion from the zoo then get themselves eaten