Posted on 08/12/2016 11:35:43 PM PDT by HarborSentry
Like many of us, Ace of Spades is fed up with the #NeverTrumpies and the GOP's basic dishonesty.
But first, let's start off with Peggy Noonan at the paywalled WSJ, who recognizes that the elites are, well, elite:
From what I've seen of those in power throughout business and politics now, the people of your country are not your countrymen, they're aliens whose bizarre emotions you must attempt occasionally to anticipate and manage.In Manhattan, my little island off the continent, I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often identify with, or see a connection to or an obligation toward, the rough, struggling people who live at the bottom in their countries. In fact, they fear them, and often devise ways, when home, of not having their wealth and worldly success fully noticed.
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I close with a story that I haven't seen in the mainstream press. This week the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson reported that recent Syrian refugees being resettled in Virginia, were sent to the state's poorest communities. Data from the State Department showed that almost all Virginia's refugees since October “have been placed in towns with lower incomes and higher poverty rates, hours away from the wealthy suburbs outside of Washington, D.C.” Of 121 refugees, 112 were placed in communities at least 100 miles from the nation’s capital. The suburban counties of Fairfax, Loudoun and Arlington—among the wealthiest in the nation, and home to high concentrations of those who create, and populate, government and the media—have received only nine refugees.
Some of the detachment isn't unconscious. Some of it is sheer and clever self-protection. At least on some level they can take care of their own.
Noonan is talking about the elites. It was probably Democrat-elites making those particular decisions, but it still relates to the larger issue of immigration, which was the straw that broke the GOP elephant's back.
Again, as she says, the elites see the rest of us as “aliens whose bizarre emotions you must attempt occasionally to anticipate and manage.”
Isn't that #NeverTrump? Yes, of course it is.
They nominated amnesty-pusher John McCain in 2008, and then told us we had to bite the bullet for them even though he was often against us in the Senate. But now, when Donald Trump is nominated — based on the one issue that they've continually betrayed us on — those same elites refuse to bite the bullet for us.
That brings me to Ace's piece. It's long, but it's well worth the read. Here are a few choice pieces:
If you're not going to admit, for example, that you disagree with the Tea Party on ideological grounds, and yet you still wish to undermine them, you have no choice left but to simply attack them on a personal level.And this is even more biased than simply -- honestly, forthrightly -- stating your ideological position on a matter!
What, to you, is more offensive and ugly -- that the media disagrees ideologically with the Tea Party's commitment to reducing spending and government, or that, refusing to express their ideological objection honestly, they seek to paint every Tea Partier as racist and violent by carefully suggesting only the misspelled and ugly signs from a Tea Party rally? Strongly implying "Only ignorant, stupid racists could support this nonsense"?
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Thus, John McCain, rather than honestly objecting to the parts of the Tea Party movement he disagrees with, or honestly expressing his opinion that we need a bigger government than Tea Partiers think we need, resorts to personal attacks: They're Wacko-Birds. They're Hobbits.
Ace then shows us the “Complete the Danged Fence” campaign ad that McCain ran, back when he wanted us to believe that he believed in a border wall. Naturally, he wasn't willing to call people “racist” for it then.
So here we are, with 20% of the party refusing to support the Republican nominee, largely because he holds a “racist” position that that same 20% was too cowardly to announce to be racist previously.
It is stunning how many #NeverTrumpies are willing to jump on these fake accusations of racism. It is as though they've COMPLETELY forgotten that we've had to deal with this sort of thing when Democrats accused the Tea Party of it. They were easy to bat down back then because claims made to sell to low-level Democrats are no match for a serious debate.
But how did the #NeverTrumpies miss that? Well, some of them didn't believe in the Tea Party other than as a means to manage the voters. They just weren't paying that close attention. For the rest, it's even more simple: The #NeverTrumpies have been reduced to defending their own line. With only a few exceptions, many are not trying to persuade actual Trump supporters.
Great post thank you
Part of Noonan’s comment aren’t well thought out. From the comment of refugees NOT sent to Fairfax or Arlington....I’d challenge anyone to find adequate or affordable housing in either ‘county’. When you start talking rent in a 2-star apartment complex in Arlington....you are talking for a 2-bedroom place....a minimum of $1,100. It’s a joke if some government dimwit tried to settle a thousand refugees into Fairfax and then had to budget the first year out, and discover that these people would never be able to afford anything in the county after the gov’t subsidy ran out.
Actually, I think the whole problem of who, where, when, what and why with regard to these refugees isn’t really a 100% government action.
What happens is Obama and the State Department decide on how many, and the DHS green lights and fast tracks that many through the vetting process (which really doesn’t exist). Then, the refugees are turned over to CONTRACTED Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who are largely quasi-religious and profit oriented it seems. They get a negotiated price for each refugee they ‘settle’.
The NGOs the go through the painstaking task of finding the cheapest alternative and least tempestuous place in which to dump the refugees in the middle of the night. THAT is how it works.
This is why I suggested weeks ago Syrian refugees be placed in tents on the golf courses in gated communities. That would put an end to it.
The NeverTrumpers may think they will once again be in control when the smoke clears. They are delusional. If any of them can be found near the seats of GOP leadership when the smoke clears the GOP is dead.
There’s plenty of people on Section 8 housing n those cities. Who do you think works those jobs Americans simply Wont Do. The cheap labor express wants them all here to keep their costs down and get the rest of us to support them.
Us ‘build-the-wall racists’ amount to 80-85% of the population, and lead in virtually every demographic (56% in “Hispanic’ category FYI).
Trump figured it out, then USED it ONLY ‘cause the man DOESN’T NEEEEED $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to get the nomination. Funny that, riding a popular issue the rest won’t touch. There are other issues the ‘open borders’ HATE as well—Trump doesn’t—fancy that.
Be happy down there with the 15% Uniparty + RINOs. Good riddance, I say.
Pray to God you assessment is accurate.
Trump should do this by executive order on day 1.
Are there any FReepers with the ability to send stuff to the Trump campaign so that it will actually be eyeballed?
I am sure the Trump folks get every good idea we come up with.
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