Monday, January 22, 2018

Stephen Miller And The Bullhorn Racism Of Republicans And The Trump Regime


Morally rotted- out Republicans are working overtime to weaponize racial animosity in falsely framing the discussion around the continuing resolution and Dreamers/ DACA.  Since the vast majority of Americans (87%) want to keep Dreamers in this country, Republican white nationalists have decided to ignore the popular case for Dreamers and are going directly to flogging racist stereotypes that have nothing to do with extending protections to people who were brought into this country as children. Surprise, surprise!

Specifically, you may have seen this vile piece of racist misdirection from "Donald J. Trump for President" (or you may just want to take our word for it and skip it):




On Sunday's talk shows, when confronted with this steaming pile of un- American crap, former Koch brothers executive and current Man Baby's legislative affairs director Marc Short offered a mealy- mouthed non- disavowalKoch- coin- operated spineless weasel Rep. Paul "Lyin'" Ryan didn't have the courage to denounce the ad either. The lesson, once again, is that we should expect nothing less from the neo- fascists busily dividing us and undermining our democracy.

Meanwhile, Charles Pierce also offers his pithy review:
This thing makes the Willie Horton ad from 1988 look like Live From Lincoln Center. It is the equivalent of all those one-minute speeches from the House—unmoored from the facts, sailing aloft on hot rage and molten ignorance, and that is the state of play as the first business day of the shutdown comes along. There is madness abroad in the land. There are those who can coin it into advantage, which makes it effective, but no less mad.
So, with this level of mendacity to deal with, in addition to the ignorant Man Baby (a.k.a., "Cadet Bone Spurs")who's apparently swayed by the last person to see him, hopes for a resolution are as dim as Man Baby himself.  It's being reported in fact that Man Baby's staff are desperately trying to keep him out of the debate to avoid further damage to their distract and misdirect campaign.

One of the last people to see Man Baby when it comes to immigration is that vicious malignancy Stephen Miller. Yesterday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham identified him as a specific reason why a deal on Dreamers/ DACA continues to get sabotaged:
"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere," the senator told reporters.
In a statement attributed to White (Supremacist) House spokesperson Hogan Gidley (!), but sounding an awful lot like Miller's puerile "I'm rubber, you're glue..." mentality, Huckleberry's words were tossed back at him:
"As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we're going nowhere. He’s been an outlier for years,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Sunday night, according to several reports.
Sounds like we have a new candidate for the White (Supremacist) House's Adult Day Care ("Now, Hogan! Play nice! No taunting Lindsey!").

Make no mistake:  white nationalist Republicans want as little immigration as possible, and as for those already in the country who are contributing to making America better and stronger, they want them out. They'll stoop to the most blatant misdirection and racist tactics (with help from their Russian handlers -- see below) to achieve that goal, as we're now seeing in plain sight.

9 comments:

donnah said...

Stephen Miller, he of the most punchable face, is an absolute disgrace. As sleazy as anyone in the White Supremicist movement, his position in our government is a stark gut punch to every honest, caring, welcoming member of the country. I would hope that he finds his path out of the White House asap, but Trump and his Cabinet seem to embrace the ugliness and hatred.

Not only is this an administration made of terrible racists, but cowards and liars as well. That TV ad is disgusting and shameful. Pence is a mealy-mouthed silent partner who travels behind the scenes, spouting Republican rhetoric and bald-faced lies. There is no end to the chain of despicable characters!

I'm encouraged by the numbers in the Womens' Marches this past weekend. I hope it motivates our Congress critters to take a stand against the villains in the White House.

W. Hackwhacker said...

donnah -The best way for Democrats to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory this fall is to go squishy on their principles. Let's hope, as you say, motivators like the Women's March keep them focused on doing what's right.

donnah said...

Agreed. So with the vote going on now, are they caving or prolonging? If this vote is a step that just extends the funding for the shutdown until Feb 8, can the Dems still stand tough for DACA? 'Cause McConnell is a lousy liar and his shady wording doesn't really qualify as a promise to hold a vote on the 9th for the safe delivery for the Dreamers.

If the Dems cave on the big ticket, I am going to be furious.

W. Hackwhacker said...

Without knowing the details, on the surface it looks like they caved. Even if McConnell allows a debate and vote, the House Republicans would NEVER let it onto the floor. Attaching it to a must- pass spending bill was the Dems best chance... Let's see how it plays out.

donnah said...

I think the Dems put a six year CHIP extension in this, so I'm good with that. What I wish is that the Democratic Party Headquarters would put their own truth-telling ads on the air to explain what the Republicans are trying to do and how the Democrats have the best interests of the American people in mind.

They really did have to reopen government offices and end the shutdown. I'm from an Air Force Base city and it would put us in a world of hurt. Personally the shutdown doesn't affect everyone, but on the basis of how it affects the economies across the board, people would be hurt.

I hate to concede even an inch to the Republicans, especially Mitch McConnell, but I'm hoping it's a three week long game tactic. We have to remember that we aren't holding the majority of anything and we have to be patient. But the messaging needs to be out there, that the Dems are saving peoples' lives. I want my donations to the Democratic party to go for that type of messaging.

W. Hackwhacker said...

Yes, I was about to say the CHIP funding (and taking it off the table as a bargaining, uh, chip) is a big positive. Also, totally agree with your desire for the Dems to get to work on their messaging - they've got 3 more weeks now. Some Dems (Tim Kaine) are saying there's at least a decent chance they can get a DACA bill passed that will then go to the House, where it will be on Ryan and his Krazy Kaucus to act.

I went through the shutdown in 1995/96 that lasted a month, so I know it's not a good thing.

Let's continue to hope -- and fight-- for the best.

donnah said...

Amen! And it's nice to find a blog that's not panicking and screaming about the Dems caving and being spineless. I am usually as pessimistic as the next person, but the incessant negativity serves no purpose. We can't rely on the mainstream media for news because they skew everything out of our favor.

Dems are the minority, and we have done pretty well, I think, in keeping on task. Perfect, nope. But I don't want the absolute purists making demands that just can't be met. We are okay, not great, but okay. And that's so much better than the Republicans are.

Thanks for being a decent place to come and chat.

Infidel753 said...

I agree. Congressional Democrats have shown plenty of fortitude so far -- unanimously voting against ACA repeal and tax "reform", for example. So it's not that their default stance is to cave under pressure, as some blogs are implying. Holding out and keeping the government shut down would have hurt real victims.

Also, if the shutdown had gone on the political effects would probably have veered into negative territory. New polling showed that the margin by which the public blames Republicans more than Democrats had shrunk to 41%-36%, much less than the 48%-28% in the widely-cited earlier poll, and that even though a majority of the public favors helping the DREAMers, they mostly oppose shutting down the government to do so.

The shutdown had put Democrats in the position of having to offend either the political center or the radicals among their own base. They did the smart thing and chose to risk offending the radicals. Now it's the Republicans who are in that position. They can alienate the political center by doing nothing to save DACA and producing an endless stream of news stories about deportations and broken families, or they can pass something and infuriate the knuckle-dragging Trumpanzees.

Definitely best to wait on the eventual outcome before passing judgment.

W. Hackwhacker said...


donnah - it's hard not to run around with your hair on fire in this dystopian atmosphere, but we try (sometimes we fail though). Thanks.

Infidel - good points. I do wish that, in their messaging over the next 3 weeks and beyond, they could reinforce the fact that we're talking about Dreamers - children who came to this country, know no other home, and are contributing -- and point out the inherent racism of the Republicans framing this as "illegal immigrants."