Guest Post by Eric Peters
Washington just got a little less ugly.
President Trump has fired Obama’s acting attorney general, Sally Yates, over her refusal to enforce the travel/immigration restrictions the new president put into place. Naturally, Obamanauts are going berserk.
Even better!
It’s interesting to note the correlation between dreary leftism and dreary looking people – like Yates.
Her pussy is in no danger of being grabbed.
And her firing makes it a little less likely that our wallets will be grabbed – to pay for the human tsunami of Syrian refugees Yates and others on the left wish to import but not pay for themselves.
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I know a guy who posts oh-the-humanity! lectures on Facebook about “opening our doors” to these refugees. Yet he does not open his doors to them. They are not staying in his guest bedroom, watching TV on his sofa, a plate of his food on their laps.
It is easy to be charitable with other people’s money.
It’s what the left specializes in.
The false kindness of proxy violence.
The guy I mention would never, himself, march over to his neighbors’ house, knock on the door and tell them they must “help” the refugees… while fingering a pistol, prepared to raise and use it if the neighbors say no.
Such people – who preen as moral lions – are physical cowards. They cannot face the violence that’s at the core of everything they demand and so have others exercise it on their behalf.
They are apoplectic now because their hoped-for queen termagant lost to (of all things) a man and one who seems to take the view that America’s pockets aren’t bottomless and that moderating who comes here is not unreasonable.
This unglues the left. Any suggestion of limits or restrictions when it comes to handing out other people’s property is taken as immediate, irrefutable evidence of racism. Which only makes the left even more rubber roomy than it has already shown itself to be.
Most Americans do not hate refugees or minorities. They hate being fleeced to pay for them – and that is a very different thing.
The contretemps over immigration – from Syria and otherwise – would dissipate among the still-sane if it were only a question of immigration. If Jose (or his Syrian equivalent) wishes to come to America, great! We – most people – would not object.
It harms me not at all if a Syrian or Mexican family buys the house next door. This is not what is being objected to – notwithstanding that the left is attempting to paint any objections in exactly this color.
It just ain’t so.
Objection arises because of the costs imposed on local infrastructure, schools for instance. An influx of refugees or migrants means more kids in the school and who is going to pay for the additional teachers, lunches and so on that attend?
It’s a reasonable question, not motivated by “hate.”
Americans are taxed to death already and find they can barely afford “health care” for themselves and their families yet are lectured to by rich DC termagants such as Yates and my Facebook friend that they must accept more and higher taxes to pay for an unlimited tsunami of immigrants.
Mark that.
Have you ever heard or read any “immigration advocate” toss out a number or percent that’s enough? That’s at last, too many?
Never.
There has to be a number, though. Is it 1 billion? 500 million? America can’t house the world. Not physically, not economically. There are limits. Ask the people on Titanic. Only so many lifeboats; not everyone is going to make it. Sad – but life isn’t fair.
It’s interesting that the same people who lecture us about finite resources and the “environmental costs” of things seem to think resources, in this case, are somehow infinite; that the “environment” can handle 400 million or 500 million or maybe even 1 billion Americans. The disconnect is fascinating.
So, again, what is the number?
Yates and those in her camp will not say. They will only say that we must accept – and pay – without limit.
Meanwhile, we must accept all kinds of limits. Which of course, they never do.
They will continue to live behind well-guarded walls, drawing fat government paychecks.
And they wonder why Trump was elected.
“So, again, what is the number?
Lets shoot for 500 million more refugees. That ought to destroy America, which is what they want. We can always take in more #s, if necessary, to complete the job.
I play Warhammer 40K and expected a different topic…..
“Most Americans do not hate refugees or minorities. They hate being fleeced to pay for them – and that is a very different thing.”
I also hate being forced to accommodate and then assimilate into their way of life instead of them being required to assimilate into ours.
An example: My religion of Christianity, the one that is the traditional foundation of America and its values whether you’re Christian or not, cannot even be mentioned in our schools or expressed in any manner by students but theirs can be openly taught to and forced on the students in them.
For me, this goes way beyond anything in terms of money, it goes to the fundamental values and character of our nation as has been seen since its beginnings. Tolerance is one thing, subjugation by what you tolerate is another.
There’s a word that isn’t used often enough, especially in a time when it is so justifiably necessary.
I agree with the author but there is another point. Americans dont want to pay for these people and, if they come, they expect them to be civilized, educated, self-supporting and willing to adapt to our laws and customs, period. No female genital mutilation, no honor killings, no dead goat carcasses in the drive way. They also expect them to have no more children than they can adequately support and educate on their own damn dime.
May as many Obama appointees as possible publicly self-destruct in this manner.
This is clear insubordination – as well as legally indefensible. Since she was fired FOR CAUSE, can her Federal pension be forfeited? If not, why not?
Can she be charged with obstruction of justice? Impeding a Federal investigation? Treason?
Great column, Eric. Great comments. There are about a million more like her marching around demanding who the hell knows what, but just demanding. They are about to pay the tuition for reality 101.
Now he needs to fire 900 state department employees who signed the letter of idiocy.
Government employees need to learn they institute policy as directed by their department, not make it.
But firing the ones that don’t understand that might not be possible since there is probably a Union involved to protect them from it.
If you can’t fire them, can you assign them to janitorial duty or roadwork?
During the Reagan years there were Air Traffic Controllers who thought their union would protect them.
Fire those 900 subversives. Seriously,
Smack that stupid Union down. Some people act
way bigger than their britches. The only way illiterate
families should come in is through sponsorship,
in the form of adoption.
Single men without skills? How stupid is that?
I did not take time to read the article but I saw a headline that stated this woman’s husband was a major Obama donor.
Someone should explain to me how Americans benefit from paying for these refugees who are completely alien to American values and do their best to destroy them.
I live in an upscale White community (~98% White) and it is filled to the brim with suffocating left-liberals. I may be the only true conservative in the entire neighborhood. They hate Trump with a passion but love the Obummer and smiling Trudeau the nitwit. They raise money and food to support Syrian refugees but do not house any of them in their homes. Even charity by liberals has its limits. In fact, they make sure that these refugees are housed outside our lily White neighborhood – dump them in a poor neighborhood – but they sure take pleasure in patting themselves on the back for doing a good deed for the downtrodden masses in the world, unlike that bully misogynist Donald Trump. But when…not if…this White enclave gets overrun by Blacks, Latinos and other wonderful members of the third-world, they will be the first to sell-up and move on to the next White community. However, since they are blinded by ideology and suffer from the disease of liberalism, it doesn’t occur to them that they are running out of oases to hide from the teaming masses of humanity breeding like rats in a city dump. From time to time, I raise these concerns but subjects such as these that go to the heart of their survival are beyond the pale and are immediately shut down. For a liberal, truth is a dangerous commodity that must be suppressed at all cost…otherwise they could be exposed for the frauds they are.
Sounds like the whole state of Vermont, or the white enclaves in Massachusettes or Maryland or Connecticut.
I for one, believe we should fast-track all multi-millionaire latinos who are bilingual and desire to become US citizens under Constitutional law……see, nothing racist about it.
Seriously though, the author makes a good point–I have no issues with immigrants who desire to come here, contribute to our system ( instead of becoming dependents of the system) and honestly want a better life as an American because of our culture being superior. There must be a healthy influx though ( which seems like it should be common sense) that the economy and culture can absorb.
You knowMaryland , even the RINO Republican Governor is proving to be a left winger ! The only reason a republican won the governors office is due to the massive liberal bags of shit have this state so fucked up now that the only real industry left is government . To win a state wide election in MD you need. 2 counties and Baltimore City ! The two counties surrounding D.C. filled with government employees and the city full of welfare recipients ! All people who see private sector earnings as part of their income benefit stream , we own nothing they don’t feel entitled to have you voluntarily surrender to them !
Liberalism is the new “keeping up with the Jones’s”
or call it (phony) virtue signaling. You probably have
a nice home and a sparkling neighborhood, (I lived in
one of those for the schools) but you are stuck with dullards,
bores, and intellectual infants. Consider moving a bit rural,
there are big benefits. For one, the people have more common
sense. For two, more privacy and lower costs. Much lower.
Sorry for the unsolicited advice wdg, please forgive that.
Suzanna
Firing government leaches have just begun , Ihope ! Sounds like there are a 1,000 more working in the state department that need the old heav ho ! Remember in the real world insubornation gets you fired and when you are fired you get your paycheck up to that point your personal property on the job site gets boxed up and you turn in your ID keys etc… get your check and escorted of the property ! Oh 10 , 20 what ever retirement BYE BYE ! Oh sure what ever you put in you get but nothing from the company ! But you can feel proud you stood your ground to attempt to fuck over Americans a little more and make them pay for it ! Parasite !
I think if those who wrote the Constitution could have seen the future, the First Amendment would have read “freedom of Christian religion” instead of just “freedom of religion.” They have no idea what they unleashed.
I don’t think America needs any more immigrants, unless they speak the language (ENGLISH) and have a good skill that is in need and they can make a living off of. Right now we don’t have enough jobs, and particularly GOOD jobs, for the people already here.
Also, America has about 5% of the world’s population but uses about 25% of the world’s resources. So when you take 1000 people from a third world country and plant them here they immediately start using exponentially more of the worlds finite resources.
And is it just me or does it look like she cuts her own hair?