Not all families of course. If you're a young American man from Compton looking at life in prison on a three-strikes count, nobody is suggesting you be allowed to keep your family together. And quite frankly, nobody in the media or across the punditocracy much gives a shit.
If, on the other hand, you're a young woman from Honduras arrested for entering the US illegally, Americans will rise up in their hundreds of thousands to march for your right to keep your family together.
What gives? A whole lot of politicking, that's what.
The anti-Trump media are ecstatic to have discovered a fresh beatin' stick with which to pummel the Orange Ogre. Yup, Trump's ICE goons are tearing families apart... the barbarity, the horror!!!
The humanitarian prerogative of keeping families together is a very recent discovery on the part of America's opinion makers. It's a rather selective empathy. It doesn't apply to those millions of marginalized Americans ensnared in the prison-happy judicial system, nor does it apply retroactively to anything that may have happened in the Before Trump era. Here's a recent story at VOX (hardly a pro-Trump media outlet) comparing immigration policy today with the Obama era, when Americans of good conscience neither knew nor cared about what happened at the border.
And let's never forget former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's profoundly compassionate insights into the deaths of half a million Iraqi children back in the Clinton era. I suppose that's different; those children have long been reunited with their families in Paradise.
Speaking of Albright, here's her acceptance speech at the Atlantic Council's 2018 Freedom Awards
gala last week, where she was honoured for her lifetime achievements for "liberal democracy" and Empire. Truly an inspirational porridge of sanctimony and bafflegab!
But it does prove that a few thousand, or a few hundred thousand children are no big whoop one way or the other in the over-arching sweep of American Exceptionalism.
Unless of course their narrative can be harnessed in the cause of "the resistance."
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Progressives for Trump
The Farm Manager has been more than a little chagrined with this Trump thing. According to her, only an idiot or a delusional could root for Trump in this most fabulous race for the White House.
Not that she's for Hillary. No serious feminist could possibly be for Hillary.
In spite of what Madeleine Albright may think.
Hillary is the can-do candidate for the war machine. That's who "feminists" should be voting for?
I think not.
We're at a point in this campaign where it looks like Hillary is going to triumph over Bernie. I'm a little sad about that, because Bernie talked a lot of nice talk. Social democracy and all that shit.
So when Hill trumps Bernie, what's left for the so-called progressives?
Well, sorry to say, the only other candidate rattling the establishment cage other than Bern would be Donald Trump.
Now, Trump doesn't exactly talk a lot of social democracy. But if you look at his track record, he's got a pretty good set of bona fides marking him as a mainstream Manhattan liberal. Rich Manhattan liberals are famous for championing gay rights, abortion rights, Palestinian rights, civil rights of every stripe, left rights, etc and so on.
They are the quintessential liberals! Thats where Donald Trump comes from.
That's why every liberal in America should celebrate Mr. Trump's hijacking of the GOP!
And vote for Trump!
Not that she's for Hillary. No serious feminist could possibly be for Hillary.
In spite of what Madeleine Albright may think.
Hillary is the can-do candidate for the war machine. That's who "feminists" should be voting for?
I think not.
We're at a point in this campaign where it looks like Hillary is going to triumph over Bernie. I'm a little sad about that, because Bernie talked a lot of nice talk. Social democracy and all that shit.
So when Hill trumps Bernie, what's left for the so-called progressives?
Well, sorry to say, the only other candidate rattling the establishment cage other than Bern would be Donald Trump.
Now, Trump doesn't exactly talk a lot of social democracy. But if you look at his track record, he's got a pretty good set of bona fides marking him as a mainstream Manhattan liberal. Rich Manhattan liberals are famous for championing gay rights, abortion rights, Palestinian rights, civil rights of every stripe, left rights, etc and so on.
They are the quintessential liberals! Thats where Donald Trump comes from.
That's why every liberal in America should celebrate Mr. Trump's hijacking of the GOP!
And vote for Trump!
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Rice lobby gaining traction
Reuter's has this morning offered an impressive hagiography of UN Ambassador Susan Rice in the context of the still unofficial campaign to have her step into Hillary's shoes as the next Secretary of State.
That's a position, referred to as "foreign minister" in most countries, that presents the second most visible face of a nation to the rest of the world, next to the head of state.
That's why a certain amount of scheming inevitably goes into the selection of a foreign minister, or secretary of state. It is no accident that Israel chooses to send the raving lunatic Lieberman into the world on it's behalf. He makes Netanyahu look calm and reasonable by contrast.
And that's why Canada employs the oafish dolt John Baird in the same office. It is utterly impossible not to underestimate the man, which immediately gives the Canadians an advantage when engaged in any kind of bilateral negotiations. The other side immediately concludes that this will be a cake-walk, and only later realizes that the rest of the delegation are serious people with above average IQs.
There has been a preference in America for female secretaries of state in recent years, and it's not because the job title is "secretary". It's because of that same disarming effect that Baird has on his opponents. The hapless Milosevic could never take Albright seriously for the simple reason that she was a woman, and look where he ended up.
Susan Rice could very well be a highly effective Secretary of State, and the Reuter's article gives a good overview of the reasons why. It also debunks the "Benghazi affair" as the fabricated wedge issue that it is. They do not, however, broach the real reason why Susan Rice will never be America's face to the world.
She's black.
There are too many bitter old white guys in Washington chafing at the reality of a black President. Susan Rice has zero chance of getting past the Senate confirmation hearings.
That's a position, referred to as "foreign minister" in most countries, that presents the second most visible face of a nation to the rest of the world, next to the head of state.
That's why a certain amount of scheming inevitably goes into the selection of a foreign minister, or secretary of state. It is no accident that Israel chooses to send the raving lunatic Lieberman into the world on it's behalf. He makes Netanyahu look calm and reasonable by contrast.
And that's why Canada employs the oafish dolt John Baird in the same office. It is utterly impossible not to underestimate the man, which immediately gives the Canadians an advantage when engaged in any kind of bilateral negotiations. The other side immediately concludes that this will be a cake-walk, and only later realizes that the rest of the delegation are serious people with above average IQs.
There has been a preference in America for female secretaries of state in recent years, and it's not because the job title is "secretary". It's because of that same disarming effect that Baird has on his opponents. The hapless Milosevic could never take Albright seriously for the simple reason that she was a woman, and look where he ended up.
Susan Rice could very well be a highly effective Secretary of State, and the Reuter's article gives a good overview of the reasons why. It also debunks the "Benghazi affair" as the fabricated wedge issue that it is. They do not, however, broach the real reason why Susan Rice will never be America's face to the world.
She's black.
There are too many bitter old white guys in Washington chafing at the reality of a black President. Susan Rice has zero chance of getting past the Senate confirmation hearings.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Why Susan Rice will never be Secretary of State
There are all manner of rumors afloat that Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice will step into Hillary's job next year.
It ain't gonna happen. Why?
There's a huge residual racist rump in the American populace that has a great deal of difficulty with the concept of a black man leading the most powerful nation on earth. They'd shit themselves at the thought of the most powerful woman in the world being black too.
While I'm not saying that most middle-aged white dudes are racist, I will venture that most racists are middle aged white dudes. And while they couldn't quite muster the critical mass to put their man in the White House yesterday, they do control a rather robust institution in Washington; the Senate.
Susan Rice is a long-time Madeleine Albright protege and as such has taken on a couple of her characteristics, namely she knows everything and she is always right. That in itself puts a lot of people off, especially white male people who have to work with her.
Her stellar career has hit its most perilous speed-bump yet in the past month or so, as she has become the fall-gal for the Ambassador Stevens debacle.
The same corner of the media that has worked tirelessly to make that tragedy some sort of a cover-up will work just as tirelessly to make it synonymous with Susan Rice.
She has zero chance of passing the Senate confirmation hearings.
It ain't gonna happen. Why?
There's a huge residual racist rump in the American populace that has a great deal of difficulty with the concept of a black man leading the most powerful nation on earth. They'd shit themselves at the thought of the most powerful woman in the world being black too.
While I'm not saying that most middle-aged white dudes are racist, I will venture that most racists are middle aged white dudes. And while they couldn't quite muster the critical mass to put their man in the White House yesterday, they do control a rather robust institution in Washington; the Senate.
Susan Rice is a long-time Madeleine Albright protege and as such has taken on a couple of her characteristics, namely she knows everything and she is always right. That in itself puts a lot of people off, especially white male people who have to work with her.
Her stellar career has hit its most perilous speed-bump yet in the past month or so, as she has become the fall-gal for the Ambassador Stevens debacle.
The same corner of the media that has worked tirelessly to make that tragedy some sort of a cover-up will work just as tirelessly to make it synonymous with Susan Rice.
She has zero chance of passing the Senate confirmation hearings.
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