The headline is my crack at showing the proper level of civility apparently required when pointing out to certain of our fellow citizens that they are monsters — a notion to which I, along with some of my leftist fellow travelers, cry, “Bullshit! With a capital SHIT!”
[I]t is simply too comical to be lectured about social decorum by a party whose members shouted “You lie” at a President during a State of the Union address and made Donald Trump their party leader. But even that is really beside the point. What does matter is where we draw the lines of what’s legitimate and what’s not. Most of the civility talk isn’t about any real red line, any boundary that is critical to the kind of free society we want to preserve and build. It’s more a wet blanket meant to tsk-tsk legitimate protest and legitimate resistance to corrupt government, misrule and injustice.
As often happens in Trumpworld, new, more damning details keep coming out. For example, parents separated from their children were offered reunification in exchange for signing a deportation order. The decision to prosecute asylum seekers has meant pulling prosecutors off actual drug cases to instead persecute people who, if found guilty, will have misdemeanors on their records.
In case anyone cases about the actual immigrants, it helps to know who’s coming and why. The demographics have changed dramatically in recent years. In 2000, the year illegal entries peaked, 98% were Mexican. Now almost half are from Central America.
One reason the Trump gruppenführers officially deny that the policy is intended to deter immigration is that such a position would be a clear violation of human rights treaties that we have not only signed but pushed on other nations.
And, because no scandal is complete without liberal self-flagellation, it has been noted that Barack Obama’s record on immigration is checkered at best. It also has been noted that his statement on this issue was very little, very late.
My best evidence that conservatives are stupid: They ignore what happens to every “hero” they elevate. A decade ago Glenn Beck starting his meteoric ascent. Today he’s walking out of interviews when he’s asked about his crumbling media empire.
If anyone still cares, Roseanne Barr took her pitiful-me act to Israel, where she gave a self-pitying interview to a RWNJ rabbi. Between emotional breakdowns, she explained that she thought Valerie Jarrett was white, and a threat to Israel. As my Sarcastic 8-Ball says, “Yeah, and I’m the pope.”