Were supposed to be angry but were supposed to come together and not vilify our likely standard-bearer… and so on. How about a dose of honesty?
I should probably give up bloggingor at least community service.
In the only two blogposts that I have had time to write since the new year began I have spectacularly wasted my time. One effort was a bid to publicize the case of an Iranian Christian who had emigrated to Germany only to find herself and her flock (for she claimed to be a minister) threatened with death by refugees". I was instructed to cease and desist by the Reverend after my scribbles began to draw attention (a worry that hadnt seemed to dissuade her from denouncing Diskriminierung in the streets of Frankfurt and posting the diatribe on YouTube). In retrospect I admit that I didnt think through what kind of helpother than generous donationswas being solicited. I had been swept away by a lady in distress. In fact Germans of the fully mainstream variety are being harassed in their own cities by their own countrymen at least as brutally as this female immigrant pastor". (Cf. the experience of Dr. Lother Gassmanns family related in a letter to Peter Homes. Family groups including women children and grandparents participating in a peaceful demonstration on behalf of their traditions were pursued by gangs of leftist thugs as the police melted into the woodwork: the demonstrators red balloons made them easy targets as they fled to train depots.)
Now the pastor in distress" adventure reminds me of the year I coached a baseball team on the wrong" side of town. Upon protesting games scheduled late on school nights I was shouted aton two separate occasionsby younger men with probably fifty pounds on me. Turns out that the cash taken in by the concession stand was substantially supplementing their income tax-free.
So last week in this space I try to plug William Gheens Americans for Legal Immigration PAC which was teetering on the verge of insolvency despite a membership in the tens of thousands (two thirds of which professes Trumpista sympathies). Well whaddya know? ALIPAC managed to squeak by at the eleventh hour... and then the next morning Mr. Gheen threw its collective support behind Donald Trump. Foolish me! I thought we were trying to get the word out about Marco Rubio!
The French verb tromper by the way means to deceive". But if Trump is a master-chameleon he remains just one among a vast cast of impersonators imposters and con artists surrounding us. Trust at any level and in any venue has become almost impossible to muster.
I marveled therefore at the stunning gullibility of Mr. Gheens very polite reply to my letter informing him that I could no longer support ALIPAC. His insurmountable antipathy to Ted Cruz he claimed was rooted in a document published eleven years ago and signed by Heidi Cruz among many others. The odious publication at issue Building a North American Community" dared to suggest that we might halt the flood of Mexicans across our border by easing commercial exchanges between the US Mexico and Canada in such a way that working conditions and safety would improve south of the Bravo. You may recall that Rick Perry had also promoted this initiative (displaying a Trump-like affection for Eminent Domain along the way) before recognizing its political toxicity. I didnt care for the plans details personally; but the notion of helping to settle down Mexicos corrupt and incompetent political scene has merit it seems to me.
But not to Mr. Gheen apparently. While ALIPAC appreciates Cruzs promises to also enforce immigration laws and campaign focus on illegal immigration revelations that his wife Heidi Cruz is a signatory to the Council on Foreign Relations document Building a North American Community disqualifies anyone in the Cruz family from occupying the White House." The Heidi Peril is so great that we are better advised to trust a man who unveiled his touchback amnesty" only seven monthsnot eleven yearsago.
Is this naivet? Is it naivet when an octogenarian and worldly-wise Pat Buchanan writes of entrusting Supreme Court nominations to Trump Yet surely a President Trump hearing the clamor of those who elected him to find a Scalia would be responsive?" Oh surely so Patrick! After all Mr. Trump has ever shown himself to be sensitive to the will of his constituents! Well okayhes never had any constituents; but we may rest assured that he would be thus pliable after election for dutifully humbly yielding to the claims that his supporters have upon him is among the mans most prominent virtues...
No wait... what? Donald Trump?
At the very least I should be able to console myself that I am not the most gullible fool on the planet. Both Mr. Gheen and Mr. Buchanan are far more brilliant than I and they believe implicitly that Trump will cut no deals regarding his border fence. They perhaps even believe that whatever construction company is awarded the contract will have no connection to Trump.
No. Wait.
Wait. Look at the states that Cruz won on Super-Tuesday: Texas (large Hispanic population) and then Oklahoma and Alaska (large Native American population). Then look at the SEC statesVirginia South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennesseethat many of us thought might break for Cruz but which Trump dominated. And place Arkansas on the edge. What outline is the map sketching for us?
I realized after publishing my previous post that I had begun to make a point and then backed away from it. I remarked that Trump voters in NC had identified the Syrian refugees as a preemptive concernthis despite the fact that there are few such refugees on American soil at the moment and many more exigent concerns that a thoughtful person should have (such as the abuse of Constitutional powers that allows a tyrannical president to shuttle refugees around at will and the corruption of a Congress that will not halt such abuse). Why would Trumpistas throughout the South be so obsessed by expatriate Syrians; and why were they so fed up with illegal Mexican visitors for that matter that four years ago they abandoned surging Georgian heavyweight Newt Gingrich like an ebola-infected rag when he spoke of showing clemency to long-time residents with clean records?
I really dont know Mr. Gheen at all; but why have I so often been forced to defend Pat Buchanans demography is destiny" comments over the years? Why does he make them? Arent Christians supposed to believe in free will and arent Americans supposed to believe that every man and woman is naturally endowed with an attraction to self-governance? Whats the big deal about DNA?
Understand this. I get the general dismay at our social collapse and I share it. Theres reason for any civilized person to resent our invasion from the south. I happened to watch an episode of Homicide Hunter this week that I will briefly recap as follows. Idiot Sister is found brutally murdered in a public park and though her body has substantially decomposed the stick projecting from a certain bodily cavity leaves no doubt that she was also brutally raped. When Grieving Sister is informed she and Clueless Daughter are duly distraught. Idiot Sister was of such diminished capacity that she was never left alone ordinarily but Grieving Sister had been forced to take the late shift on that fateful night. Clueless Daughter confides to Detective Kenda that her moms Creepy Boyfriend has a key to the house and would sometimes feed Idiot Sister alcohol on a lark. Since alcohol was found in the corpses system Kenda looks up Creepy Boyfriend at a local pool hall and bar where he and Scumbag Sidekick spend most of their lives. Both admit that they went to Grieving Sisters digs on the night in question but they also insist (surprise) that no one was home. Scumbag went somewhere else to flop and Boyfriend slept it off on a couch. Dead end.
A few weeks later however Scumbag Sidekick is wounded in the leg and his Hapless Cousin shot dead in the parking lot of the same pool hall/bar. Kenda gets a lead on the shooter and takes him into custody at the house of… Clueless Daughter who turns out to be Hothead Shooters wife! Hothead explains that he had meant to exact revenge for Idiot Sisters murder and had killed Hapless Cousin (arrived in the US only two days earlier) by accident. It becomes clear at last that Creepy Boyfriend and Scumbag Sidekick both thoroughly soused had found Idiot Sister alone in the house plied her with booze taken her to the park to rape her and then shut her up permanently. Yet Kenda can round up neither of the perps; for Scumbag has disappeared upon discharge from the hospital and Boyfriend has returned to the land of his fathers. Eventually years later Scumbag turns up dead. Boyfriend also has a rendezvous with justice. Unable to stay away from the land of infinite generosity he is detected working a Social Security scam. The SS office informs him that several checks stolen from him by an identity thief (nice touch!) await him downtown he takes the bait and the taxpayer is now supporting him in the slammer.
All characters in this drama were from Mexico and few if any seem to have been full and legal American citizens. Such grotesque stories used to occur once a year or even once a decade in many of our municipalities. Now they are commonplace. People are angry and they want it to stop.
Yet please understand this too. Im as sick as you are of being called a bigot a racist a Klansman and a Nazi because I dont like Barack Obama or because I think voters should be legal citizens with valid IDs. I want to punch somebody in the nose on occasion. Remember I watched a couple of healthy muscled-up black men scam their local Little League and cripple childrens scholastic performance at the same time. I dont need any lectures on the victimizing of the oppressed by the privileged.
But in my less naive moments I can smell the odor of ancient rotting attitudes in the breath of the Trump mob. To some of them at least Cruz is one of those"just as he is a filthy Castro-hating Cuban to the Far Left. And the Near Left has always always had this much in common with the Far Left: it picks bad guys villains black hats. It identifies and stigmatizes those without whose presence everything would be fine again". Smokers soldiers gun-owners... conservatives businessmen religious people... whites blacks Mexicans. More and more I am suspecting that some of Trumps dazzling riotous support comes from those who usually vote Democrat and who recognize in him the familiar old Colonel Gloridays who clambers upon the soapbox and denounces those strangers whove moved in on the edge of town. As I studied the immense line snaking out the door of my polling place on Tuesday I saw a shockingly diverse mix. Theyweare supposed to be angry this year. Thats what weve been told over and over. But angry about what? About the murder of constitutional government by a privileged eliteor about the snitching of our goodies by Johnny-come-latelys?
I know whats making me really angry at the moment: that all those charges of being a bigot racist Klansman and Nazi flung at my side of the political divide will become a little bit justified if Donald Trump is allowed to step over here.
Were supposed to be angry but were supposed to come together and not vilify our likely standard-bearer… and so on. How about a dose of honesty?
I should probably give up bloggingor at least community service.
In the only two blogposts that I have had time to write since the new year began I have spectacularly wasted my time. One effort was a bid to publicize the case of an Iranian Christian who had emigrated to Germany only to find herself and her flock (for she claimed to be a minister) threatened with death by refugees". I was instructed to cease and desist by the Reverend after my scribbles began to draw attention (a worry that hadnt seemed to dissuade her from denouncing Diskriminierung in the streets of Frankfurt and posting the diatribe on YouTube). In retrospect I admit that I didnt think through what kind of helpother than generous donationswas being solicited. I had been swept away by a lady in distress. In fact Germans of the fully mainstream variety are being harassed in their own cities by their own countrymen at least as brutally as this female immigrant pastor". (Cf. the experience of Dr. Lother Gassmanns family related in a letter to Peter Homes. Family groups including women children and grandparents participating in a peaceful demonstration on behalf of their traditions were pursued by gangs of leftist thugs as the police melted into the woodwork: the demonstrators red balloons made them easy targets as they fled to train depots.)
Now the pastor in distress" adventure reminds me of the year I coached a baseball team on the wrong" side of town. Upon protesting games scheduled late on school nights I was shouted aton two separate occasionsby younger men with probably fifty pounds on me. Turns out that the cash taken in by the concession stand was substantially supplementing their income tax-free.
So last week in this space I try to plug William Gheens Americans for Legal Immigration PAC which was teetering on the verge of insolvency despite a membership in the tens of thousands (two thirds of which professes Trumpista sympathies). Well whaddya know? ALIPAC managed to squeak by at the eleventh hour... and then the next morning Mr. Gheen threw its collective support behind Donald Trump. Foolish me! I thought we were trying to get the word out about Marco Rubio!
The French verb tromper by the way means to deceive". But if Trump is a master-chameleon he remains just one among a vast cast of impersonators imposters and con artists surrounding us. Trust at any level and in any venue has become almost impossible to muster.
I marveled therefore at the stunning gullibility of Mr. Gheens very polite reply to my letter informing him that I could no longer support ALIPAC. His insurmountable antipathy to Ted Cruz he claimed was rooted in a document published eleven years ago and signed by Heidi Cruz among many others. The odious publication at issue Building a North American Community" dared to suggest that we might halt the flood of Mexicans across our border by easing commercial exchanges between the US Mexico and Canada in such a way that working conditions and safety would improve south of the Bravo. You may recall that Rick Perry had also promoted this initiative (displaying a Trump-like affection for Eminent Domain along the way) before recognizing its political toxicity. I didnt care for the plans details personally; but the notion of helping to settle down Mexicos corrupt and incompetent political scene has merit it seems to me.
But not to Mr. Gheen apparently. While ALIPAC appreciates Cruzs promises to also enforce immigration laws and campaign focus on illegal immigration revelations that his wife Heidi Cruz is a signatory to the Council on Foreign Relations document Building a North American Community disqualifies anyone in the Cruz family from occupying the White House." The Heidi Peril is so great that we are better advised to trust a man who unveiled his touchback amnesty" only seven monthsnot eleven yearsago.
Is this naivet? Is it naivet when an octogenarian and worldly-wise Pat Buchanan writes of entrusting Supreme Court nominations to Trump Yet surely a President Trump hearing the clamor of those who elected him to find a Scalia would be responsive?" Oh surely so Patrick! After all Mr. Trump has ever shown himself to be sensitive to the will of his constituents! Well okayhes never had any constituents; but we may rest assured that he would be thus pliable after election for dutifully humbly yielding to the claims that his supporters have upon him is among the mans most prominent virtues...
No wait... what? Donald Trump?
At the very least I should be able to console myself that I am not the most gullible fool on the planet. Both Mr. Gheen and Mr. Buchanan are far more brilliant than I and they believe implicitly that Trump will cut no deals regarding his border fence. They perhaps even believe that whatever construction company is awarded the contract will have no connection to Trump.
No. Wait.
Wait. Look at the states that Cruz won on Super-Tuesday: Texas (large Hispanic population) and then Oklahoma and Alaska (large Native American population). Then look at the SEC statesVirginia South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennesseethat many of us thought might break for Cruz but which Trump dominated. And place Arkansas on the edge. What outline is the map sketching for us?
I realized after publishing my previous post that I had begun to make a point and then backed away from it. I remarked that Trump voters in NC had identified the Syrian refugees as a preemptive concernthis despite the fact that there are few such refugees on American soil at the moment and many more exigent concerns that a thoughtful person should have (such as the abuse of Constitutional powers that allows a tyrannical president to shuttle refugees around at will and the corruption of a Congress that will not halt such abuse). Why would Trumpistas throughout the South be so obsessed by expatriate Syrians; and why were they so fed up with illegal Mexican visitors for that matter that four years ago they abandoned surging Georgian heavyweight Newt Gingrich like an ebola-infected rag when he spoke of showing clemency to long-time residents with clean records?
I really dont know Mr. Gheen at all; but why have I so often been forced to defend Pat Buchanans demography is destiny" comments over the years? Why does he make them? Arent Christians supposed to believe in free will and arent Americans supposed to believe that every man and woman is naturally endowed with an attraction to self-governance? Whats the big deal about DNA?
Understand this. I get the general dismay at our social collapse and I share it. Theres reason for any civilized person to resent our invasion from the south. I happened to watch an episode of Homicide Hunter this week that I will briefly recap as follows. Idiot Sister is found brutally murdered in a public park and though her body has substantially decomposed the stick projecting from a certain bodily cavity leaves no doubt that she was also brutally raped. When Grieving Sister is informed she and Clueless Daughter are duly distraught. Idiot Sister was of such diminished capacity that she was never left alone ordinarily but Grieving Sister had been forced to take the late shift on that fateful night. Clueless Daughter confides to Detective Kenda that her moms Creepy Boyfriend has a key to the house and would sometimes feed Idiot Sister alcohol on a lark. Since alcohol was found in the corpses system Kenda looks up Creepy Boyfriend at a local pool hall and bar where he and Scumbag Sidekick spend most of their lives. Both admit that they went to Grieving Sisters digs on the night in question but they also insist (surprise) that no one was home. Scumbag went somewhere else to flop and Boyfriend slept it off on a couch. Dead end.
A few weeks later however Scumbag Sidekick is wounded in the leg and his Hapless Cousin shot dead in the parking lot of the same pool hall/bar. Kenda gets a lead on the shooter and takes him into custody at the house of… Clueless Daughter who turns out to be Hothead Shooters wife! Hothead explains that he had meant to exact revenge for Idiot Sisters murder and had killed Hapless Cousin (arrived in the US only two days earlier) by accident. It becomes clear at last that Creepy Boyfriend and Scumbag Sidekick both thoroughly soused had found Idiot Sister alone in the house plied her with booze taken her to the park to rape her and then shut her up permanently. Yet Kenda can round up neither of the perps; for Scumbag has disappeared upon discharge from the hospital and Boyfriend has returned to the land of his fathers. Eventually years later Scumbag turns up dead. Boyfriend also has a rendezvous with justice. Unable to stay away from the land of infinite generosity he is detected working a Social Security scam. The SS office informs him that several checks stolen from him by an identity thief (nice touch!) await him downtown he takes the bait and the taxpayer is now supporting him in the slammer.
All characters in this drama were from Mexico and few if any seem to have been full and legal American citizens. Such grotesque stories used to occur once a year or even once a decade in many of our municipalities. Now they are commonplace. People are angry and they want it to stop.
Yet please understand this too. Im as sick as you are of being called a bigot a racist a Klansman and a Nazi because I dont like Barack Obama or because I think voters should be legal citizens with valid IDs. I want to punch somebody in the nose on occasion. Remember I watched a couple of healthy muscled-up black men scam their local Little League and cripple childrens scholastic performance at the same time. I dont need any lectures on the victimizing of the oppressed by the privileged.
But in my less naive moments I can smell the odor of ancient rotting attitudes in the breath of the Trump mob. To some of them at least Cruz is one of those"just as he is a filthy Castro-hating Cuban to the Far Left. And the Near Left has always always had this much in common with the Far Left: it picks bad guys villains black hats. It identifies and stigmatizes those without whose presence everything would be fine again". Smokers soldiers gun-owners... conservatives businessmen religious people... whites blacks Mexicans. More and more I am suspecting that some of Trumps dazzling riotous support comes from those who usually vote Democrat and who recognize in him the familiar old Colonel Gloridays who clambers upon the soapbox and denounces those strangers whove moved in on the edge of town. As I studied the immense line snaking out the door of my polling place on Tuesday I saw a shockingly diverse mix. Theyweare supposed to be angry this year. Thats what weve been told over and over. But angry about what? About the murder of constitutional government by a privileged eliteor about the snitching of our goodies by Johnny-come-latelys?
I know whats making me really angry at the moment: that all those charges of being a bigot racist Klansman and Nazi flung at my side of the political divide will become a little bit justified if Donald Trump is allowed to step over here.