[LI] Message from MSNBC to you hicks out in the sticks: the people who gave us Le Pen, Brexit and now, Trump represent the "real problem." Unlike we city dwellers, you don’t "mix" and "get along together" with people from "cosmopolitan cultures."
That was the word from MSNBC contributor and Daily Beast Editor Christopher Dickey, speaking from Paris with Joy Reid today. Discussing the hold that President Trump has placed on immigration from seven named countries, Dickey began by claiming that people in Europe, especially in European governments, "think Trump has lost his mind."
Then there was the obligatory Hitler allusion: in Europe "they remember what fascism was like. In the United States, we’ve been spared that--at least up until now."
Then came the pièce de résistance--Dickey’s swipe at the great rural unwashed: "the voters who cast their ballots for Marine Le Pen, for Brexit, for Donald Trump, they’re not the people who are part of those cities, those cosmopolitan cultures where people mix and get along together. That is the real problem. That’s the divide we need to watch."
Sounds like regular people in any rural area and small to mid-sized town/city in middle America. We mix and get along together because it's our way of life. Most folks just want to feed, cloth and house their families and know that their neighbors want to do the same.
It shouldn't really be that difficult to understand.
We don't have ghettos or slums in which to hide the 'undesirables' from our view, so we really can't relate to what you're saying there Mr. Dickey.
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They don't take losing with any dignity or class, do they?
[Breitbart] Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards quickly turned political Sunday night as presenters and winners repeatedly spoke out against President Donald Trump’s executive action this weekend to temporarily ban immigration from some countries. Ashton Kutcher opened up the show Sunday night with an enthusiastic pro-immigration message.
"Good evening fellow SAG-AFTRA members and everyone at home, and everyone in airports that belong in my America," Kutcher opened the show, to rapturous applause from the Hollywood stars in attendance.
"You are a part of the fabric of who we are, and we love you, and we welcome you," Kutcher added.
#17
The rabid and frantic bleating of the hollywood sheep have no meaning outside their own circles. As they start to realize that the nation really doesn't give two rat turds about them, they will return to their addictions and rehab cycles.
[American Thinker] A warm, sunny Saturday a decade ago, there was a Hispanic festival in our small town, a bedroom community for illegal aliens seeking day labor jobs in the nearby wealthy suburbs. It was a sanctuary city at the time. No problem with the festival itself. The music was lively and the food tasty. And don't the Irish have St. Patrick's Day, and the Italians Columbus Day?
While wandering around the festivities, I noticed a table with three nice ladies in front of a "Register To Vote" sign. Curious about its presence at a festival where the bulk of the crowd was either illegal alien day laborers or legal non-citizens, I went over to inquire. Before I spoke, one of those nice ladies asked me if I was registered to vote.
Wanting to see where this would go, I said no, and asked how to sign up. A voter registration form was thrust in my hands. The very first item on these forms, in Virginia and the rest of America, was "I am a citizen of the United States of America," with YES and NO blocks to check.
"Don't I need to show you some proof of citizenship?" I asked. She replied "no." I asked her how she could verify that I wasn’t lying. Sensing she might be on a slippery slope, she called over a supervisor from the Registrar's Office and told the woman of my concern. The official told me they never checked citizenship status because I would be penalized if I lied. Really? So I asked her how she would verify my truthfulness, or those of the dozens of new voters being registered that day. Defensively, she replied that they checked all registrations for accuracy at the Registrar's Office when they were turned in.
I called the Registrar Monday, and asked if they do indeed verify citizenship status. I was told that they didn't unless someone made a specific complaint against an individual applicant.
Forward to our next local election, where the illegal alien presence and an unlawful day labor site were THE issues, I noticed that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in their purple tee shirts, and their local spinoffs were canvassing the town. I followed them for awhile as they went to homes and neighborhoods where the illegal aliens concentrated, and watched them exit each home or apartment with a new handful of voter registrations.
Ten years later, nobody at the Registrar's Office is checking citizenship.
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Read the rest of the whole thing. How Virginia went form Red to Blue and how sanctuary cities help in the shift. The only thing missing is the link to Soros.
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[Herald Sun] There has been hysterical media condemnation of Donald Trump's decision to refuse visas to travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries, including Iraq, for the next 90 days.
But why was the Left silent when the Obama administration refused to issue visas to Iraqis for six months?
Journalists are also questioning Trump's choice of seven countries from which immigration and visits will be suspended for 90 days, while vetting procedures are checked. Some journalists suggest Trump is corrupt - being driven by vested interests. But, once again, the same seven countries were singled out by President Barack Obama's administration for special security precautions. The choice was his, not Trump's, and no one in the media complained.
#1
Selective outrage has always been a hallmark of the Democratic Party and LLLs everywhere but they've really taken it to a whole new level since Trump won the primary.
Because to a certain mindset Christian in America equals white supremacist, no mo uro. Seriously, I saw that today on Facebook, posted by a gentleman who is the son of very successful Jamaican immigrants, a man who had been a successful wartime photojournalist in Afghanistan and the Middle East -- and therefore should have known better.
[Detroit Free Press] We knew this was coming. But that doesn't allay any of the moral stain associated with it.
The latest bend in Donald Trump's careening turn as the president of America is a long-promised brace of executive orders on immigration, signed by Trump on Wednesday: Trump has directed the Department of Homeland Security to begin work on a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a signature policy promise in his election campaign, strengthened Immigration and Customs Enforcement's efforts to deport illegal immigrants, and promised to strip federal grant money from "sanctuary cities" that offer safe harbor to illegal immigrants.
That's just Trump's latest. Already this week, the president has -- this list is by no means inclusive -- worked to hobble the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, stop U.S. funding to organizations abroad that counsel women about the option of abortion, withdrawn from the Trans Pacific Partnership, and peddled new falsehoods about voter fraud.
And it's only been five days. America's byzantine immigration system requires reform. But not like this.
Some Trump supporters had interpreted that campaign promise -- "build a wall" was a regular chant at Trump rallies -- as rhetoric symbolic of an uncompromising stance on immigration, rather than a literal wall.
Neither the wall or the ban have anything to do with immigration. They have to do with border security.
Holding a visa or green card is not a guarantee what you would be allowed it - the officer at the port of entry can refuse entry for any reason.
Hate crimes against Trump supporters, but let's not quibble over details and hate facts.
peddled new falsehoods about voter fraud.
Based on the number of precincts in the Detroit recount where the number of votes did not match the number of actual ballots, that is either delusional or lawyerly parsing.
IOW, the tens of millions of people supportive of policies that secure borders and enforce existing immigration laws are deplorable racists.
Embrace tolerance!
[Huff Poo] Celebrities are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to standing up to human rights concerns under President Donald Trump.
Singer Sia has vowed to match up to $100,000 in donations to the American Civil Liberties Union to support the nonprofit’s efforts in protecting not only immigrants but also LGBTQ rights. Hours later, longtime Trump critic Rosie O’Donnell matched the "Chandelier" singer’s pledge in a tweet Saturday that carried the same "Resist" hashtag.
Sia - help our queer & immigrant friends. send me your donation receipts for the @aclu & I will match up to $100K https://action.aclu.org/donate-aclu?ms=web_horiz_nav_hp ... #RESIST
#3
Don't see how this is an ACLU concern. Foreign nationals aren't covered by American laws or Bill of Rights. Heck, citizens travelling abroad aren't, either.
Don't believe me? Challenge a customs search on the grounds they need a search warrant.
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All right, Madame Albright and Blossom,
If Moslems en masse are so awesome,
Remove the sharia
From Sunni and Shia,
And maybe we won't wanna toss 'em.
#6
That other one! With the gigantic honker? On TV? Seems like I've walked in on or out of hundreds of episodes in dozens of rooms... gotta watch one sometime.
[Barley a Blog] Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. --The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, Section, 212(f).
President Donald Trump’s moratorium on the entry of all refugees into the United States, and "an order for ’extreme vetting’ as a condition for entry for some foreign citizens," is constitutional. This is old hat; discussed, too, in my book, "The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed." (June, 2016).
No fan of the executive order, constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley says he disagrees with his "colleagues at George Washington University Law School and other law schools that the order is clearly unconstitutional":
...Courts are not supposed to rule on the merits of such laws but their legality. I think that the existing precedent favors Trump.
First, this is not a religious ban. When it was first discussed on the campaign, it was described as a ban on Muslims. This is not a religious ban. It certainly can be opposed as having that effect but there are a wide array of Muslim countries not covered by the ban and would not be impacted by the restrictions. A court cannot in my view treat this order as carrying out a religious ban as it is currently written. (Trump’s comments that he wants to prioritize Christians could raise more compelling arguments of religious discrimination).
[DAWN] MORAL policing appears to have become the new normal on Pak campuses, and apparently one of the most effective ways that morality can be upheld is to keep young men and women apart. A report in this paper on Saturday gave a glimpse of the gender segregation being practised at some institutes of higher education. At times this follows an unwritten agenda, at others there are codes of conduct and fines -- even strong-arm tactics -- to enforce it. At the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... University in Lahore, where the Islami Jamaat-e-Talaba ...The Islamic Students' Organization: the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, where young Moslems are trained into the arts of street fighting... is the flag-bearer of the moral police, girl students are compelled to sit at the back of the class -- which is not much better than making them sit at the back of the bus. This approach extends to other aspects of campus life as well: some canteens are out of bounds entirely for girls, while at others their seating is located behind a curtained-off area. At another institute, each gender has its own entryway and couples detected sitting together are fined Rs5,000 each.
It was not very long ago when universities treated their students as adults with the capacity to make decisions -- whether right or wrong -- based on the values that had been inculcated in them. Even when campus administrations sometimes introduced bizarre rules to prevent student fraternisation, these were treated with levity. After all, at this stage, young people are on the threshold of stepping out into the real world, a complex place where gender segregation is rarely the norm and impossible to achieve without sacrificing productivity and efficiency. Institutes of higher learning thus offer valuable opportunities for students to learn to interact with people of the opposite gender -- in other words, learn how to conduct themselves in society. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... a blinkered, authoritarian worldview has overtaken many campuses, and administrations are either afraid to challenge ideologically conservative student groups or they share the same thinking. Building walls between students on the basis of gender is not the way to foster a healthy attitude to life.
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[LI] California lawmakers have dived deeper in the pool of progressivism, apparently to swim away from the red states responsible for the election of Donald Trump as President.
Between bitterly threatening to build our own satellites and clinging to sanctuary city policies, state lawmakers are now weighing a fun, new revision to state identification cards: A third gender option.
State Sen. Toni Atkins’ bill would add a non-binary gender marker option for driver’s licenses, birth certificates, identity cards and gender change court orders. The San Diego Democrat says SB 179 would also simplify the process for changing one’s gender on those documents.
...SB 179 would end the requirements that a person get a doctor’s sworn statement and appear in court even if no objections have been filed when petitioning to change their gender on official documents. The bill would also allow minors to apply for a gender change on their birth certificate.
California would be the first state in the nation to enact social justice rule-making related to gender identity.
"As a person who identifies as transgender and is non-binary, this piece of legislation is important to me on a personal level," [Jo Michael of Equality California] said during a press conference on the bill. "For the first time, Californians could have accurate gender markers that truly reflect who we are."
The federal government does not offer a third gender option for official documents such as passports. The issue drew national attention in November when a federal judge asked the U.S. State Department to reconsider its decision to deny a passport to a Colorado resident who does not identify as male or female.
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"For the first time, Californians could have accurate gender markers that truly reflect who we are."
What a bullshit statement. The CURRENT IDs already HAVE "accurate gender markers"--what THEY are seeking is complete and unscientific bullshit regarding their "feelings". Just make the third gender choice "special snowflake" and be done with it.
#4
Could remove gender from all categorization. Already effectively removed it from marriage, bathroom use, and 'criminal ID description.' By most metrics it seems to have been removed from womens' basketball.
h/t Instapundit
[Guardian] Liberal Americans like to think we know the answer to a lot of things ‐ including why those who live outside liberal bubbles chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Small-town people, we liberals think, are Republican people. At their best, they are pious, respectful, and conservative; at their worst they are smug and self-righteous, small-minded and yet capable of broad prejudice. People in the hinterlands, we think, are just different: all the adults are church-going puritans with a neatness obsession, and all the kids long to escape and finally be themselves.
But there’s another way of looking at it, and it is just this: small towns are dying.
Donald Trump doesn’t really reflect the moral values of middle America. He is a consummate city slicker, a soft-handed, foul-mouthed toff who lives in a 58-story building and has been identified with New York City excess his entire life. But people in rural areas are desperate these days. Many of them chose Trump, despite his vulgarity and his big-city ways, because he promised to make them "great again".
Watching movies won’t help you to understand this. You need to see the thing itself. And what you will discover, should you choose to undertake this mission in the part of the midwest where I come from, is this: ruination, unless the town you choose to visit has a college or a hospital or a prison in it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[LI] Message from MSNBC to you hicks out in the sticks: the people who gave us Le Pen, Brexit and now, Trump represent the "real problem." Unlike we city dwellers, you don’t "mix" and "get along together" with people from "cosmopolitan cultures."
[Detroit Free Press] We knew this was coming. But that doesn't allay any of the moral stain associated with it.
[Huff Poo] Celebrities are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to standing up to human rights concerns under President Donald Trump.
[DAWN] MORAL policing appears to have become the new normal on Pak campuses, and apparently one of the most effective ways that morality can be upheld is to keep young men and women apart. A report in this paper on Saturday gave a glimpse of the gender segregation being practised at some institutes of higher education. At times this follows an unwritten agenda, at others there are codes of conduct and fines -- even strong-arm tactics -- to enforce it. At the
