Posted on 10/31/2018 5:03:33 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Well, now we know why he was transferred. – Infamous Boston Gangster Whitey Bulger was transferred to a new, maximum security prison in Virginia on Tuesday. There, he was beaten to death by several mob-connected inmates before 9:00 a.m. That’s some security right there.
Another media narrative epic fail. – Despite the best efforts of our fake news media to lay the blame for the fake pipe bomber solely at President Donald Trump’s feet over the last week, a new poll taken by the ultra-leftwing Huffington Post shows that only 24% of Americans believe he bears much of the blame for the incident, whatever it really turns out to have been. On the other hand, 50% of Americans believe he bears “no blame at all” for the actions of a steroids-addled nutjob.
Which only proves that at least half of Americans still have their wits about them.
What, you thought Hollywood would actually reform itself? – Here’s how you can tell the whole #MeToo movement has had no impact whatsoever on the depraved Hollywood culture: Currently in the works are both a major Showtime mini-series and a feature film starring Charlize Theron about the Roger Ailes scandal at Fox News, but there are zero projects in the works starring nobody about piggish big Hollywood muckety-muck Harvey Weinstein.
What does this tell us? It tells us that despite his current situation, Weinstein retains major influence in Tinseltown, and people there are still afraid to cross him. One gets the feeling that if a movie is ever made about Weinstein and his escapades, it will be cast as a light-hearted comedy starring Kevin Spacey and Meryl Streep, and produced by…wait for it…Harvey Weinstein.
And now a word from the @GDBlackmon Twitter feed:
David "Beto" Blackmon @GDBlackmon Unbelievable. Disgraceful. Makes me want to applaud Trump's trade war.
Yashar Ali 🐘 ✔ @yashar This is a sin, an absolute sin. There are so few rhinos and tigers left in the world. I am heartbroken.
“China ends 25-year ban on using rhino and tiger parts in medicine”https://twitter.com/i/moments/1057060075049639936 …
7:58 PM - Oct 30, 2018 1 See David "Beto" Blackmon's other Tweets Twitter Ads info and privacy Sometimes it really is difficult to think of China as a “civilized” society.
On this whole “birthright citizenship” thing… – Never in the history of the fake media beclowning itself have so many inhabitants of our fake media beclowned themselves as they did on Twitter yesterday over this “birthright citizenship” deal. It seemed as if every fake journalist in America felt the burning need to get on Twitter and sternly and sagely announce that President Trump’s planned executive order would never work because, and I quote, “birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution!” Why, it’s almost as if they had all gotten a talking points memo from the Democrat Party or something. Go figure.
The only problem with their joint talking point on the issue is, it isn’t true. Again, go figure.
Look, the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves (about 99% of whose previous “owners” happened to be Democrats, but I digress) and their progeny. Not only did the 14th Amendment have literally nothing to do with the children of illegal immigrants, the congressional record makes it crystal clear that it was specifically intended to exclude them:
“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to persons who are ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
As I replied to one semi-conservative Texas-based journalist who had displayed rank ignorance on the subject, “There is far more involved here than the 14th Amendment. There is 150 years of case law, 150 years of congressional action, and 150 years of administrative interpretations at play as well. If you’d stop your virtue-signaling for a few minutes, you might figure that out.”
But hey, virtue-signaling to liberals is the favorite passtime of semi-conservative journalists on Twitter, so naturally that particular journalist was unable to stop.
The reality of the current government policy regarding birthright citizenship for anchor babies of illegal immigrants is that it is exactly that: An administrative policy. It is an interpretation by past presidential administrations that has never been tested in the federal courts.
President Trump, for better or worse, apparently intends to test it, and with the new, presumably-conservative majority on the Supreme Court, he might win. But more to the point, even an immigration dove like Sen. Lindsey Graham believes the current policy is wrong, and he announced yesterday that he plans to introduce a bill that would correct it. “Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship,” Graham said in a statement. “I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the elimination of birthright citizenship.”
“The United States is one of two developed countries in the world who grant citizenship based on location of birth,” Graham continues, “This policy is a magnet for illegal immigration, out of the mainstream of the developed world, and needs to come to an end.”
It is a bad policy that offers perverse incentives that encourage illegal immigration. It is a policy with no true firm basis in the law, zero actual basis in our constitution, and it needs to end if we are to ever restore some semblance of order to our system of legal immigration.
Given all of that, you can expect to see journalists in Texas and nationally to continue making fools of themselves over the issue on Twitter. They obviously can’t help themselves, and truly enjoy doing it.
It’s a clown show out there. Be careful, and vote Republican.
That is all.
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If “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” does not mean “allegiance to” and only deals with requiring people to follow the laws of the land in which they are currently standing, then why was the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 necessary?
Indians were arrested for crimes BEFORE 1924, because they had to follow the laws of the United States, but they were NOT citizens, because they owed allegiance to a different entity (their Tribe)!
The “pipe bomb story” sure went down the memory hole fast, didn’t it?
Faster than a Vegas shooter.
What, you thought Hollywood would actually reform itself? – Here’s how you can tell the whole #MeToo movement has had no impact whatsoever on the depraved Hollywood culture: Currently in the works are both a major Showtime mini-series and a feature film starring Charlize Theron about the Roger Ailes scandal at Fox News, but there are zero projects in the works starring nobody about piggish big Hollywood muckety-muck Harvey Weinstein. What does this tell us? It tells us that despite his current situation, Weinstein retains major influence in Tinseltown, and people there are still afraid to cross him. One gets the feeling that if a movie is ever made about Weinstein and his escapades, it will be cast as a light-hearted comedy starring Kevin Spacey and Meryl Streep, and produced by…wait for it…Harvey Weinstein.
Great verb: BECLOWN
“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to persons who are ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”
That needs to be repeated every hour of the day until the USSC clears up what WE all know.
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