Make Afrikaners Great Again

We’ve cleared space for these desperate, wealthy landowners who can now live where the US citizen child cancer patient used to.

Discuss.

Remember to have your papers in order if you plan on attending this year’s WLOCP.  

Of course, that may be a start, but will not serve as a guarantee against a particularly diligent government.

If we American citizens want to be free from government tyranny, then it seems that we’re just going to have to accept a lot less freedom from government tyranny.  As such, we’re going to need some new mottos.  Some possible suggestions:

Live unfree and then die. 

Please tread on me, really hard. 

Anyone have other suggestions? 

Discuss.

The beatings will continue until you all understand that the Weaponization of the Federal Government is bad and we will not stop the beatings unless and until you are all in full compliance with His directive, or else. 

Discuss.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve appreciated being liberated from much of the equity in your 401(k) plan over the last week.  Fortunately for us, this is exactly what we were promised.  

And the best part was that it was so easy.  Believe me.  Trust me.  Everyone says so.  

These are reliable, serious people. 

I just don’t know how much more winning I can afford.  

Discuss. 

While topics these days are pretty easy to find, the one I chose for the week is, at least to my mind, a serious one and ought to be approached sincerely and with due circumspection: the arrests and detentions, including in El Salvadorian hellholes, of documented and undocumented non-citizens.  

I begin with the presumption that if you apply for and are granted a visa, for whatever reason, travel, education, employment, etc… that due to its very nature you are not here with the full rights of a citizen.  I would expect that if government agents decide that you had breached the terms of your visa that you could be “disinvited.”  In other words, you could be told: “your visa is revoked.  Please catch a flight home by X date or else.”  So long as that departure date was a reasonable one under the circumstances, I would suspect that could be done and enforced even without any sort of due process.  (Often times you aren’t admitted into a country without a departure flight booked, so scheduling with your airline notwithstanding, it shouldn’t be that hard to comply.)  

I would not expect that breach of visa terms to be tied to engaging in some form of political speech, no matter how repugnant that speech may be.  Would I expect terrible treatment if, as a visitor to China, I participated in a protest in the name of the Uyghurs?  Sure.  Its China.  Would I expect a visitor from Denmark to be detained for participating in a pro-Nazi rally?  No, I wouldn’t.  

Nor should you.  This is America.  We have  heretofore protected unpopular and even really stupid speech and we don’t favor or disfavor certain viewpoints nor have we traditionally selected non-citizens for disparate treatment for speaking/writing.  

But perhaps the government can, because of the nature of a visa, decide that certain ideas are disfavored and invite a departure.  Fine, whatever.  That’s not a hill I wish to die on, but not one I would favor building, policing or watching shift with the political winds.  But, again, whatever. What I would not expect is the arrest and detention of a visa holder or of a permanent resident with no showing of dangerousness/necessity at a pre-detention hearing with a judge.  I would not expect a government official to say:  “we put Tourist X in jail because I say they are a danger and no I will not go to court and I will not show my work first. And btw allowing the person to just go to the airport would put lives in danger.  Why?  Because I work for the government and I say so.” 

That sounds like something you would expect in the former East Germany.  

As for non-visa holders, while I certainly would expect deportations of undocumented people, I would not expect people to be thrown into a third-country’s prison based on the word of a bureaucrat with no hearing.  I can’t think of any precedent for that sort of exercise of power from any country to any third country.  

And while I can imagine in theory that there are dangerous criminals for whom there are no pending charges/convictions and no home country to go to, I would expect any government apparatchik in this country to be prepared to show a judge their work before sending any human being into a deep dark hole in a foreign country indefinitely.  

I would have thought that Americans had a basic universal agreement on these basic lets call them human rights. 

Hell, Ann Coulter and I agree on this one. 

But not all agree and it appears that the banality of evil is here and is playing among us.  

I read this article from a conservative publication written by an author who has been penning them most of my adult life, with both amazement and horror.  Rich Lowry is not dumb.  He knows better.  

To say simply, “eh, it’ll sort itself out” is a response lacking in the most basic human empathy or fealty to anything I recognize as American.  The article leaves open the possibility that penning an op-ed might just be enough to justify being jailed and forcibly removed.  The article observes that the Government may have a tough case on their hands, but not a whiff of regard that there is human woman in a prison in the meantime.  

I would suggest this retort better captures what is in the balance here.

Discuss.

Like many of you, save the fringe lefty lunatic losers, I appreciate the transparency of the current administration when it comes to matters of national security.  Maybe there is a law that says:

“Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any …information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be … delivered to anyone. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both” at 18 USC 793(f) but so what? Laws are after all for immigrants to follow.

These leaks are taken seriously, sometimes. So what that an ensign or a private would be in prison for the same activities?  The rules shouldn’t apply to a half-a-trillion dollar cabinet.  After all, what is the point of being rich and powerful if you have to be held accountable to the mere People?  No, what He commands, allows, or does not allow should be the whole of the law, if the president is a member of the Republican Party anyways.

The good news is the view from the south side of the Rubicon is fine and I trust that “they” (the billionaires who run our government and control the information they deign we deserve to have) know what’s best for us far more than we ever could know for ourselves.  Their demonstrable collective competence, infallibility and honesty brings comfort to us all. 

Discuss.

Play stupid games.  Win stupid prizes.

Of course, as we all know, the most dangerous people are the ones without a criminal record. That’s just common sense.   

There is no reason to trust government bureaucrats.  Except of course when it comes to disappearing people.  In that scenario, there should be no questions raised about government infallibility.  

After all they got the “no criminal record” = “really, really dangerous” answer right.  

Discuss.

When rooting out all signs of DEI, well, you just can’t be too careful.  

After all diversity ruins everything.  Baseball.  Football.  Basketball.  America. 

Also, while you’re making it great again, see to it that we honor the memory of a racist traitor and not the war hero who fought on the American side.

Discuss.

Because I couldn’t say it better, I won’t try.

Discuss.