OK, I apologize. I’m in physical pain and I don’t do painkillers, so I’m irritable.
The way this works now is this. People show up at the border by the hundred thousands. They do it because there’s no alternative. They can’t apply from their homes and without disrupting their lives. That option doesn’t exist for almost anybody. Did you know that? Did you know that our system is set up to force people who want to immigrate to quit their jobs, sell their property, leave their children (or take them on a very perilous journey)? We actually engineer the situation with those detention camps, etc because we have not created an alternative. We spill crocodile’s tears about it when this could be solved tomorrow with great ease. This makes me so angry. When I emigrated to Canada, nobody forced me to schlep across continents and sit in a detention camp for weeks. The process was long, yes, but while it took place, I was living in my home, making money at my job, and not being molested and exploited by human traffickers. This is what I want for migrants into America. And for wanting that, I’m routinely excoriated as an immigrant hater. It’s extraordinary.
OK, moving on. Currently, migrants arrive at the border. There are so many of them that nobody can do anything beyond shipping them around the country and assigning them a court date sometime in the distant future that they are supposed to attend and start the process of demonstrating that they are eligible for immigration. Most of them never show up for that court date. Many don’t even understand what it means because they don’t speak the language in which they are informed about the court date.
Now please reread the preceding paragraph and tell me when exactly the vetting of these migrants for criminal antecedents is supposed to happen. How do we find out that a migrant is a Colombian Ted Bundy or a Guatemalan MS-13 gangster? Exactly, we don’t. In the process that I propose (and which has existed in other countries for decades), the vetting of criminal records happens while the applicant lives at home. This means that he has zero opportunities to commit crimes in the country where he wants to emigrate. Doesn’t it make sense to find out if one is a criminal before letting them in?
There are no wars going on in Central America right now. There are no totalitarian regimes. The crime rates have been dropping dramatically. There’s literally nothing going on that necessitates the removal of over a million people a year from their countries and their urgent transportation to the US. So why are we dragging these people over by the million so that they can sleep on the floor of Logan Airport, etc when they could be sleeping in their beds at home? My only explanation is that watching these spectacles of abjection makes us feel good.
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I hate to share this info with you when you’re already suffering, but Trump has chosen Vance as his VP
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Yeah, I’ve seen. A victory for our woke brethren. They deserve it because they aren’t idjits.
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My only quibble is about “There are no totalitarian regimes.” I would say that Nicaragua is currently a totalitarian state. Cuba and Venezuela are also totalitarian, though they are not in Central America.
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Nicaragua has some authoritarianism but it’s not a place where millions are in imminent danger of extermination. Neither are Cuba and Venezuela. Life there is inconvenient but that’s all.
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What has Vance done to be described as woke ?
You reviewed his “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis“ and it didn’t seem woke in the least:
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He isn’t. The sainted Usha is. She’s very left-wing, and he’s completely in thrall to her.
The dude is weak and he’s controlled by the Sorosy wife and her family. He described that very honestly in the book.
Yes, the book is good. But so what? Between Usha and Kamala, I’d choose Kamala.
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And here is the Soros-inspired litigation conducted by the lefty law firm that employs dear Usha:
The firm’s pro bono representation includes:
Challenging the constitutionality of Los Angeles County’s bail schedule policy and securing a preliminary injunction, halting enforcement of the bail schedule and eliminating cash bail for individuals on most low-level, non-violent offenses.[36][37]
Challenging the conviction of C.J. Rice—a Philadelphia man who a federal court found had his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated before being convicted of attempted murder in 2013. The conviction was overturned.[38]
Challenging San Francisco’s policy of towing lawfully parked vehicles without a warrant, solely due to unpaid parking tickets. The California Court of Appeal ruled San Francisco’s towing policy violated the Fourth Amendment and the California Constitution.[39]
The Bruce family, which successfully intervened in a taxpayer action attempting to prevent Los Angeles County’s return of the beachside property known as Bruce’s Beach—a Manhattan Beach resort in Los Angeles County, California—to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, who lost the property through a racially discriminatory condemnation action 100 years ago.[40]
Families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who reached a $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington.[41]
Kenneth Walker III, boyfriend of the late Breonna Taylor, who reached a $2 million settlement with the City of Louisville to resolve lawsuits Walker filed stemming from the unlawful police raid that led to Taylor’s death in 2020.[42]
You can’t make this shit up.
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While I question her poor choice to work for this law firm, law firms take on a lot of cases. I wouldn’t necessarily judge her personal politics by litigation other employees at her law firm work on. I don’t know much about her though so there may be many other reasons to be suspicious of her. As of now though my biggest concern with Vance is foreign policy, and I think that’s all on him.
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She’s very left-wing as he explained openly in his book.
Yes, he’s also terrible on Ukraine, like every Usha in existence is.
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For what we have spent just on handling the criminals we could start to build Ellis Islands on the Mexican border, as well as three more at major airport hubs.
Then, between the fines (think tobacco settlement $) on NGOs at the billion $ level (bonus: they cease to exist: Not just for your local small business anymore!) and the moving all of ICE personnel from expensive cities to flyover country they’d pay for themselves.
Dream big while you are fantasizing Miss Clarissa. The horrorshow you describe is a feature, not a bug for the U.S. and E.U. oligarchs.
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I have no idea what you said but thank you for “Miss”. 🙂
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He’s good on immigration, good on DEI. I’ll take it.
Also, this. I hate this notion that america is an “idea,” an “experiment,” blah blah. Fuck that shit. It’s so refreshing to hear this from a politician.
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Yes, I also think that regardless of what he wrote in the book and the cases his wife or her law firm have worked on, his voting record is what we should go by, and I’m happy with it.
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I’m happy you are happy. Some of us tend to expect more than empty slogans that cover up Soros plans but keep feeling happy.
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Don’t worry. Vance was a good venture capitalist who worked at Mithril Capital for a year and cofounded Narya Capital, both Peter Thiel projects with his financial backing. He has also invested in Rumble.
As a reminder, Peter Thiel is a massively successful business man that parlayed his initial success with Paypal into Palantir Technologies, an initial angel investment in Facebook, Clearview AI, and the Founders fund which made initial investments in AirBnB, and SpaceX, among many others.
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As somebody correctly said on Twitter, economically Vance is Liz Warren with a beard.
What this Thiel dude has to do with any of it is an absolute mystery but OK.
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Here’s an example:
https://x.com/GavinBade/status/1812950510372012246?t=oATREuMR5fr6xpH_y-ZJNQ&s=19
Lord have mercy on our souls. This is anti-American socialism. I’m sure darling wifey is ecstatic.
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I heard that the RNC speeches today are heavy into denunciations of “corporate greed.” Took all of 3 minutes.
This is very disappointing.
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I begin to think condemnations of ‘corporate greed’ from either side of the aisle are just code for: “Let’s blame the character of the people running the business, because this excuses us from reforming the laws and tax codes that they are exploiting to strip-mine the middle classes”.
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Absolutely. Liz Warren used “corporate greed” to explain inflation. It’s clearly a monstrous lie. The inflation has roots in the irresponsible actions of the federal government. But how convenient to blame “greed” because there’s no specific person responsible for “greed.” No policy needs to be introduced, nobody needs to lose their job or take any responsibility. It’s greed that’s to blame. Like bad weather. Nothing that can be helped.
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Exactly: “You’re a bad person” has no policy implications.
“Inflating currency benefits corporate interests and the investment class at the expense of workers” suggests some very obvious policy to fix things.
We actually have legislation on the books dating from the late 70s *mandating* that our currency regulators shoot for 0% interest in the currency, which would be fair for business, and good for people who have to work and save money for the future instead of living on the interest of their investments. They have never done it. The law laid out no criminal or professional penalties for *not* doing it, so… predictable results.
Nobody proposes that we just go and follow the law we already have, or install some teeth on it so that the FED is motivated to do so.
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Devaluing the dollar seems like it would make inflation worse because the purchasing power of Americans outside of jail is decreased. And my money doesn’t go as far as it used to.
/not an economist.
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Of course. This is going to unleash a worse inflation than we’ve seen until now. We depend profoundly on the dollar being strong and being an international currency tender.
This is one of many measures proposed by the husband of a very progressive woman that are aimed at weakening America. But he said something pleasing about DEI, so he gets no scrutiny.
People are very easy to dupe.
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Yes. I read that and all I could think was:
Crap. We were so close to being able to buy a house. Rug’s been yanked out again.
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I really hope you manage to buy before it gets worse. This is very unfair how people are being squeezed and told they mustn’t notice.
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“No really the economy’s GREAT!”
Yah, sure. Grrrrrriquisimas!
Just got the notice that our rent’s going up. They must like us, because it’s only a $75/mo hike, not the $200/mo they definitely could have gotten in the current market.
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Thiel is the guy from whom Vance derives much of his personal fortune from, directly or indirectly, and who was a major donor to his 2022 campaign.
The Hillbilly Elegy money is a drop in the bucket compared to that.
Whether you believe that would influence what policies Vance would actually put in place or push Trump to put in place is something else. *wink*
What’s not to love?
Peter Thiel is a self described “economic libertarian”, who co-authored a book called The Diversity Myth, and is the guy who bankrupted Gawker.
He also wrote “The Education of a Libertarian” for the Cato Institute. He has a PAC called Free Forever which says it’s “committed to limiting immigration, ending wars and adding jobs for working-class Americans.”
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I’m still not seeing the Soros connection. So far all we have is that his wife works in a law firm that does pro bono work for the “oppressed”, which surprise surprise every white shoe firm needs to do to acquire legitimacy. “Sure we are soulless monsters who fight on behalf of mega corporations but did you see how we fought this case for free for someone who was put in jail for jaywalking? Aren’t we compassionate?” This is all standard stuff.
What has he said that reminds you of it? He’s even railed against legal immigration (H1-B abuse) despite coming from a silicon valley background. I see no evidence of wokeism coming out of the guy and I’m happy to be corrected.
As for the RNC, I agree, it’s stupid. The teamster guy didn’t even mention the “I” word. And talking about corporate greed is so tiresome.
But:
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