Don’t Cry for Me, Rachel Maddow

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

The latest artificial hysteria cranked up by the Offendedness Cartel — re: detention of juvenile illegal immigrants — is the most nakedly sentimental appeal yet by the party out-of-power, a.k.a. “the Resistance.” I have a solution: instead of holding these children in some sort of jail-like facility until their identity can be sorted out, just give each one of them an honorary masters degree in Diversity Studies from Harvard and let them, for God’s sake, go free in the world’s greatest job market. Before you know it, we’ll have the next generation of Diversity and Inclusion deans, and America will be safe from racism, sexism, and Hispanophobia.

I won’t waste more than this sentence in arguing that official policy for the treatment of juvenile illegal immigrants is exactly what it was under Mr. Obama, and Mr. Bush before him. I didn’t hear Paul Krugman of The New York Times hollering about the various federal agencies acting “like Nazis” back in 2014, or 2006. You’d think that ICE officers were taking these kids out behind the dumpster and shooting them in the head. No, actually, the kids are watching Marvel Comics movies, playing video games, or soccer, and getting three square meals a day while the immigration officials try to figure out who their parents are, or how to repatriate them to their countries-of-origin if they came here without any parents — say, with the assistance of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. By the way, these make up the majority of kids detained in the latest wave of mass border crossings.

Actual political leadership among “the Resistance” is AWOL this week. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer failed to offer up any alternative legislative plan for sorting out these children differently. One can infer in the political chatter emanating from the Offendedness Cartel that immigration law is ipso-facto cruel and inhuman and that the “solution” is an open border. In theory, this might play to the Democratic Party’s effort to win future elections by enlisting an ever-growing voter base of Mexican and Central American newcomers. But it assumes that somehow these newcomers get to become citizens, with the right to vote in US elections — normally an arduous process requiring an application and patience — but that, too, is apparently up for debate, especially in California, where lawmakers are eager to enfranchise anyone with a pulse who is actually there, citizen or not.

Krugman of The Times really hit the ball out of the park today with his diatribe comparing US Immigration enforcement to the Nazis treatment of the Jews. As a person of the Hebrew persuasion myself, I rather resent the reckless hijacking of this bit of history for the purpose of aggrandizing the sentimentally fake moral righteousness of the Resistance. It actually diminishes the meaning of the Nazi campaign against European Jews. I daresay that commentary like Krugman’s will only serve to amplify a growing resentment of Jewish intellectuals in this country — including myself, increasingly the target of anti-Jewish calumnies and objurgations. You’d think the Mr. Trump had offered to blow up Ellis Island the way the Resistance is pulling down statues of Thomas Jefferson.

One also can’t fail to notice that this latest hysteria was ginned up the very same week that the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in congress about the gross and astounding misconduct in the executive suites of those sister agencies — literally a bastion of the Resistance (or Deep State bureaucracy). Some kind of giant worm is turning in that circle of the three-ring-circus US politics has become. A lot of the characters who politicized the FBI — turned it into a chop-shop for election campaign shenanigans — will be headed for grand juries and some of them maybe even jail. It may be the sort of jail in the federal system that offers ping pong and bocce ball, but it won’t be the same as practicing law on K Street in a wainscoted office with coffered ceilings and lunch of poulet chasseur sent up from the brasserie downstairs. Those confined will have plenty of time to commiserate with the kids from south-of-the-border who were dragged into the USA one way or another by people who didn’t care what happened to them, or reckon on it if they did care.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

MAD COW
Love to see the tears on her

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

Greetings,
You’ve got to be a Chinese gymnast to twist in so many directions at once for this to make sense in your head if you are a liberal. I keep asking people that are freaking out and screaming that we have concentration camps why they were not upset about it when it was 2.5x worse under the previous administration. Crickets.

I then ask these people if they feel foolish for blovating over something that has been going on for 10+ years without any notice from them before. I also ask what is to be done about the 80% that come with no parent. Should they just be turned loose so as to end up as sex slaves?

This issues, more than any other has proven to me that it is impossible to talk to these people and there will be no peace until one side or the other is machine-gunned into a ditch. It is us or them.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

NickelthroweR, you are so right. When my blue friends start bitching about what Trump is doing to these poor Mexican kids, I say he is doing the exact same thing that Messiah Obama was doing for 8 freakin’ years. That leads to a tirade about how I’m a Trump supporter, even though I didn’t vote for him, and I’m Putin’s best friend.

So while it seems impossible to talk to these wingnut Liberals, we must continue to quest to educate them. Even if they will never learn, continually pissing them off is worth the effort.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

These kids are big business to church organizations like Catholic Charities,Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Church World Service and others .

Always follow the money on any issue that gooberment has its hands on…there you’ll find the real story

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Wonder if JK realizes that he is becoming alt-right…

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Where is the human rights council from the United Nations or the World Court in The Hague condemning the actions of the parents and the children’s home nation and holding all the above responsible for the cost of caring for the children that were so mistreated by the traditional care givers by dumping them at the US border and abandoned them .
We are Americans and will not tolerate child abuse by any one ! As a nation of laws we are doing what we can to help and remedy the situation . If CNN liberal assholes are so bothered by this situation how about passing the hat or volunteer to go to the border and help these children with medical care open up your wallet or shut your mouth criticizing those actually doing something to help improve the situation . Remember many of the adult and some minor illegals are already guilty of crimes besides entering our nation illegally !

Martin brundlefly
Martin brundlefly

With all the folks looking to adopt kids, i say have at it. We have better parents waiting here. Thanks for bringing them the child they needed.
Aaaannnd, pedophiles are second in line for the leftovers.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It kills me that nobody gave a shit when I said Obama was the deporter in chief, deporting millions willy-nilly. All of a sudden, Trump is a monster for doing the same thing. It’s like BIG NEWS. Meanwhile, the stuff you don’t hear about, the encirclement of China, the wooing of NK (Jong Un will one day align with China and Trump will tweet bloody hell) the planned invasion of Venezuela (for the oil and not the chirren) and other crap coming down the pipeline while the screaming bobbleheads weep in their cry closets about white genocide.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Stormy was told she was going to be a figurehead….she mistook it for giving head .

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