Trump’s second favorite blonde bimbo was spouting again on her Fox TV show the other night, denigrating all those who aren’t white for mucking up her nation. Laura Ingraham really can’t see how the US can survive if all these brown people keep coming to these shores and messing up her mall. It’s not just illegal immigration she’s against; she also speaks out against legal immigration if those legally accepted aren’t pasty white.
This racist bimbo picks out two particular targets for her ire. The first is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the Democratic candidate for the House who won an upset victory in her primary. As would be expected Ingraham’s first target is a brown woman and as her second target, a really bad guy named Juan Vasquez who the Philadelphia mayor refused to deport when he was picked up for a crime mainly because ICE was being so Gestopoish. Vasquez went on to rape a child, proving that bad guys should be whacked whether they are immigrants or not.
Basically Vasquez is scum just like a lot of people born here in the USA are scum; just like many in our current government are scum and whether or not he is an immigrant has nothing to do with that. What is significant here is Ingraham is also scum for taking this racist point and running with it. I have no idea what the ethnic derivation of the name Ingraham is but it doesn’t sound Native American and I don’t believe Blonde Bimbo fits the category. If my observation is correct that means that Laura or one of her progenitors came here just like Mr. Vasquez. Her people got on the boat earlier than Mr. Vasquez but the distinction between Vasquez and almost everyone else is behavior not timing. Most of Vasquez countrymen who have come here have acted like law-abiding citizens. Vasquez acted like an animal.
Ingraham makes a big deal about those who think like her, not getting a say in the change in national demographics. They absolutely did. The fact is that white plantation owners were completely at fault for the change in our demographics. The blacks didn’t come here on a Disney cruise. They we dragged here in chains by those same white Americans that Ingraham is trying to tell us didn’t have a vote in their coming here.
Aside from the principles upon which our country is based there are other reasons why immigration is important to our wellbeing. The main one is economic. . It seems that Laura and her ilk ain’t been birthin’ babies at a rate sufficient to support the economy, social security or Medicare. That, in basic English, means we need more people. The only way to get them considering the sad lack of white schtupping and the fact that slavery is now illegal is through immigration. The best way of course is, legal immigration but our immigration laws are so broken that they almost demand illegal immigration. If congress would, for once, do their jobs and pass functional immigration laws maybe, just maybe, we could put in place a working system that would encourage legal immigration instead of making it so impossible that people just ignore it.
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Donald Trump came out with a self- promoting report this week on our 4.1% GDP for last month. For a change he was speaking truth but because he is who he is, he just couldn’t leave it at that, proclaiming that it was the biggest jump in decades. Of course he was lying again. It was the highest level of GDP since 2014 under Barak Obama who had at least 5 other months that were better. The biggest in decades! That’s just Trump. He has no concept of truth and little interest in finding out what it is, unless, of course it benefits him.
But it isn’t just Trump and finance. It’s everyone associated with Trump and everything they talk about. Look at Rudy Giuliani a former mayor of NYC who has fallen so low he is no longer recognizable as his head sinks into what used to be his neck. Poor old turtle-like Rudy scrambles around from one TV show to another babbling about Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
A month ago Giuliani was praising Cohen as an honest man, an upstanding member of the community and now that Trump has broken with Cohen, Giuliani calls him a liar who has always been a liar. Really, Rudy, even when you were praising him as being such an honest guy?
So maybe Cohen is a liar and maybe he’s not but either way Giuliani has lied about him, just as Donald Trump Jr. has lied about his involvement with the Russians and the infamous June 2016 meeting with them, or the way Kellyann Conway has lied about everything she spoke of as counselor to the President, just like Sara Sanders does now as press rep. This is an administration surrounding a liar and that fact has forced all of its members to become liars in order to protect him. The problem? Government can’t work that way. If we and other nations can’t rely on the word of our leaders then no one is able to decide how to act or react to what is being said and nothing gets done. We end up with a government that is frozen in an iceberg of lies and the world ends up ignoring us and going its own way without us.
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We look at the Trump administration’s inability to function and we are struck by the fact that it’s sheer incompetence that is a mitigating factor to the evil it projects. When they tried to inflict the Muslim ban it failed numerous times only because no one in the White House could figure out how to write the order correctly. Now the President’s latest attempt to show his non-human side has failed and is becoming a continuing open wound because of stupidity and incompetence that is evident in the fact that no one thought about what would happen to those children who were wrenched from their mother’s arms. No one set out any plan for the reunification of the families, something that had to be the inevitable aftermath of splitting them up.
When the Trump administration decided that the way to slow the flow of both legal and illegal immigration, and to get the funding for their ridiculous wall, was to begin tearing children from their parents, no one bothered to ask, how would they do that? Or much more importantly, how would they undo it? So, in their gross stupidity they just forged ahead and created the disastrous catastrophe that exists today. Weeks after they were caught and exposed as monstrous violators of these peoples human rights, the White House still hasn’t been able to put all these families back together and they have finally admitted to their incompetence. They have asked the ACLU to step in and do what the United States government can’t: put these sundered families back together.
We all know the UN is pretty much useless but it is definitely time for them to charge the Trump administration with a series of human rights violations in this matter. Not to get too far from the point, how pathetic is the Trump White House? They can’t even set their own criminal stupidity straight so they have to call an outfit they hate; the ACLU, which stands for every principle that the Trump criminals violate. How humiliating, how absolutely pathetic. Macho Trump, groveling before all those super liberals for help in fixing the mess he created. It’s a perfect picture of the bringing of Trump’s ego to heel. It’s too bad it had to be brought about through the horror perpetrated on these families.
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We all know that Donald Trump is a liar and a criminal and now we see that he is also the world’s biggest hypocrite. Trump’s in-laws; his wife’s mother and father have just become citizens – using “chain migration”, a system that Dim Donald has fought to the death to eliminate. But it’s okay for Melanie’s parents to use it because they’re related to him and so nothing should stand in the way of their desires, but fuck everyone else.
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Trump and Mueller! It’s fascinating. Will he or won’t he? All the conjecture this past week or so has been about whether Trump will sit down with Mueller or his investigators and interestingly enough all the pressure from the Right is for the President to avoid this meeting like the plague. Why? If he has nothing to hide; why not?
Well, there’s this little problem. Trump lies. Not just little white lies, Trump lies about anything and everything he talks about. And, oh yes, Mueller indicts liars so no one in his camp wants Trump anywhere near Mueller. Rudy “The Turtle” Giuliani has gone on record that the perjury trap is set for the President. But why would a trap work if the President told the truth? What a concept! The truth, whoever heard of such a thing?
Right Wing media is just as set against any meeting for the exact same reason. I watched some dim blonde on Fox blabbering about how the president couldn’t appear before Mueller or his people because he would get himself in trouble. This is an out and out admission by the Right that Trump is nothing but a liar and a criminal and not good enough at either to keep himself out of jail. It also says he’s not able enough to distinguish between truth and lies to actually be able to carry on an adult conversation. Trump’s inability to tell the truth does not make Mueller’s questioning a perjury trap. It just makes Trump a dumb liar.
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Down in Georgia this week a 6’3” 250 pound police officer tasered an 87 year-old woman who was cutting dandelion greens for a salad. The officer and his partner answered a call about the woman, who does not speak English trespassing and cutting greens, Both officers drew their weapons when the spied this brutal lawbreaker and her knife. When the woman didn’t drop the knife as ordered because she didn’t understand the command, one of these dumb assholes tasered her, knocking her to the ground. This is an 87 year-old woman. How big a threat can she have presented to these fools that they would do that to her?
But that brings us to the reason for this column. Much has been made about American police and their prejudice against the black and Hispanic communities. There is certainly something in that but even more important is the fact that despite pretty good salaries, police departments across the country have been hiring unqualified people for years. The cop who tasered this old woman should never have been a cop. He’s too stupid to make the kinds of decisions that a man with a gun must make in the interest of public safety. This clown should be fired immediately not for any violation of departmental rules but because he’s too stupid to carry a gun.
For too long we have allowed our police departments to be populated by the least able of our citizens. It’s almost traditional in most small towns that the kids who couldn’t get into college or get good jobs become cops. That has to stop. The line that allows participation must be raised. Cops are mostly well paid and this is important because of their constant interactions with the community. Those same interactions are the reason we need smart people in uniform and why we should get the cops like this one jobs hauling bricks.