Mmm mmm, weasel stew!
Fredrick Douglass on immigration:
I submit that this question of Chinese immigration should be settled upon higher principles than those of a cold and selfish expediency.
There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally with yourselves, now and forever. I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity, and when there is a supposed conflict between human and national rights, it is safe to go to the side of humanity. I have great respect for the blue eyed and light haired races of America. They are a mighty people. In any struggle for the good things of this world they need have no fear. They have no need to doubt that they will get their full share.
But I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other essential human rights to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men.
He just keeps getting better!!
Great guy Fredrick Douglas. Big League. He’s going to be even more. The opposition party (the Media) won’t tell you but we’ll be hearing a lot. At least until March.
I bet that comment from Douglass was in response to the love he got from T and Clueless Spice yesterday.
Will his lawyers plead he has diminished mental faculties and therefore should be exempt from punishment?
Remember “It’s the economy stupid” from Carville? Well to Trump and all those who he brought into the WH “It’s the words stupid.” Trump and Co are not in campaign mode they haven’t even begun to understand the complexities of governing and words from the government mean something.
And dare I say it, well yes I will “Trump the reason you are sued and lost so many times is because it’s the words, lack of control, and vocabulary, stupid.”
“Although Trump’s supporters say the travel ban is not based on race, numerous statements by the president and his closest advisors reveal that it was designed to target Muslims. Those statements are evidence of the true motive of the travel ban.”
Last time I checked “Muslim” was a religious affiliation, not a race. I assume the same rules apply but as it stands that needs some explanation to avoid sounding rather ignorant if not offensive.
Resign now, Spicer, or face Trump’s “you’re fired” squad.
Where does Trump get that crap about hardly any Xians getting in, and why has it not been discussed and challenged?
Yes, yes, yes!!! Words matter!!! And we’ve got a stupid and ignorant person in office who just spouts off.
And to think people criticized Secretary Clinton for choosing her words so carefully.
Betting pool, anyone? Who will be the first Trump administration official to dive of the cuckoo ship?
Well, Trump attends church, i.e. The Church of the Poisoned Mind.
So if a refugee claims to be a Christian, what are they going to do? Administer a test? Ask them to quote Trump’s favorite passages from “two Corinthians”?
And could Trump even pass that religious litmus test?
I’m SURE it’s somebody else’s fault…it couldn’t POSSIBLY be The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight!
Forget not being on the same page, these people aren’t even reading the same book. Mostly because, as Samantha Bee has noted, Trump can’t read
“One million people have come into this country. That’s not a ban,” Spicer said at the White House daily press briefing. “A ban would mean people can’t get in."
“Seven thousand universities didn’t get mailed bombs. That’s not a bombing,” Ted Kaczynski said at his arraignment. “A bombing would mean nobody didn’t get bombed.”
“Hundreds of federal agencies have gone about their business unspied-on by me. That’s not espionage,” Aldrich Ames said at his parole hearing. “Espionage would mean I knew everything.”
“Two hundred million Americans live and work at places other than the Watergate. That’s not a break-in,” Richard Nixon said from the Oval Office. “A break-in would mean I stole everyone’s psychiatrists’ files.”
I look forward to seeing how Guiliani squirms when put under oath. It would be a lovely thing if his loose lips are what finally make the case against Trump.
The semantics around the order, and what it does, has been subject of intense debate, both legally and politically since it was signed late Friday with no advance notice.
The Muslim Ban will amount to a victory lap, driven in a bus. The people who made the whole thing possible, the small number of immigrants whose lives and dreams are shattered, will be thrown under. Rabid Rumplovers will feel good. There will be no measurable impact on national security.