Posted on 08/03/2017 12:33:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
How many IQ points do you lose from Trump Derangement Syndrome or similar conditions of blind political rage?
I was asking myself that while listening to the stupefying question asked of Trump adviser Stephen Miller by CNN's Jim Acosta at Wednesday's White House press conference. Miller had been explaining -- with a level of clarity and specificity not often seen at these events -- the immigration proposal being proffered by Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and now being backed by the president. The press audience appeared impatient with these details, however, waiting to pounce as it almost always does.
And the pounce came from Acosta, who was irked the proposal listed some level of facility with the English language as one of the new preference points for possible immigration applicants. Wasn't that de facto discrimination in favor of people from the UK and Australia (read: white skin privilege)?
Earth to Acosta: As of 2015, there were 54 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language. These include India (population: 1,247,540,000), Pakistan (199,085,847), Nigeria (182,202,000), the Philippines (102,885,100), Tanzania (51,820,000) and Kenya (45,010,056) among, obviously, many others. In China (population 1.39 billion), almost all school children begin English in the third grade. In Japan, South Korea and Singapore, it's also mandatory beginning about the same time.....
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I sat and watched the exchange between Miller and Acosta. Miller (the WH ‘geek’) gave a 3-star response (he probably isn’t the guy who should have confronted Acosta on this). But he did put it in the right prospective.
To spin this....if I were Trump...I’d have two or three transalators standing by in the next WH press meeting, and I’d allow questions to come in the native language of some Quebec news journalists (French), Portuguese (Brazil), and Koreans. I’d let Acosta and the rest know that taking this to some fake agenda is fine, but we could have fifty percent of the future questions of the press conference in foreign languages and make this kinda interesting. And no, I wouldn’t even bother with Spanish....I’d take five or six steps beyond that. Maybe even bring in some native American Indian journalists as well.
Nah, they were dumbed down long before Trump came along.
Lot of them born that way.
Acosta thinks our laws come from the Statue of Liberty. Like it’s a statue of a babylonian god and high priests divine messages from it or something.
The man is not a reporter, he is not a "journalist". He is attempting to debate the present administration at every turn. Let him debate from the other side of the White House fence.
We hear rumors that Miller is the guy who wrote much of Trump's great speech in Poland. Regardless, he's truly a great communicator and a precious gift Jeff Sessions bequeath to Trump early on in the race for the Presidency.
I'll bet Miller and Bannon sat down over a couple beers and rehearsed parts of this upcoming confrontation. They probably figured Acosta would be the reporter they needed to take down. And Acosta walked confidently into the trap they set for him.
As in so many Trumpian victories, just when the reporter thinks he's super smart and has the MAGA guy cornered, the Trumpian pulls a Jujitsu move and reporter suddenly finds himself flat on the floor being laughed at.
Miller called Acosta's view "cosmopolitan". Wow, what a word choice! It's exquisite partly because the word is somewhat vague. It's hard to criticize someone you label as being cosmopolitan. In fact, "cosmopolitan" could in some sense be viewed as a compliment.
And yet, the word allow Miller to get his point across -- "Your view is elitist, Acosta. You're aloof and ignorance of the way legal immigration works". And he might have added: "A cosmopolitan is too high-browed to understand a Deplorable. :- )
So I very much enjoy Stephen Miller. He's a true MAGA warrior.
The democrats have been dumbing people down for years, using the schools to indoctrinate instead of educate. The results are every where.
Nice deconstruction.
I enjoyed Miller dismantling Acosta. I can’t believe Eric Bolling thought there was something inappropriate about it...huh?!
Whom among the Great Immigration descendants didn’t hear the tales of ‘the long trip’ and how their households DEMANDED English only, “We’re Americans now...”?
Acosta and his retarded brethren have NO problems with:
- Govt documents in more than one lang (that apply ONLY to U.S. Citizens...aka voting)
- People living here 20+yrs and STILL can’t order water in English
- Courts\hospitals\etc. needing TRANSLATORS
...and the list goes on.
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