Here....we pulled out this old fainting couch for you...
Posted on 02/24/2018 5:24:25 PM PST by MarvinStinson
President Trump's speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference started out as a relatively tame performance touting signature accomplishments such as tax cuts and judicial nominations, but it took an ugly turn as he moved to the topic of immigration, broadly painting those who come here as a result of the lottery system as "horrendous."
The context was that Trump was lambasting Democrats for not agreeing to his terms as part of an immigration deal. Though they're willing to give him funding for the wall, he said, they won't budge on other issues, such as chain migration and ending the visa lottery.
Kali Uchis Breaks Down "After The Storm" Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads "Think of a lottery," Trump then said. "You have a country. They put names in. You think they're giving us their good people? Not too many of you people are going to be in the lottery." He then pointed out to the CPAC crowd and continued. "So we pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous. And we don't understand why."
Now, it's one thing to say, it would be preferable to decide immigration based on merit than by random chance, as Trump went on to argue. But it's another thing to speak of lottery winners as a group as bad people. Now, I'm getting some blowback from Trump supporters on Twitter, arguing that Trump was merely calling the lottery a horrendous system. Go back and reread what he said or watch it again. He was not referring to the lottery as horrendous. He wasn't even saying when you have a lottery, there's a risk that some people being let in won't be as deserving as others who happened to lose out, thus making a merit-based system superior.
He said, mockingly of other countries, "You think they're giving us their good people?" Then he said, "We pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous." Key point — not some of them turn out to commit crimes, but, "they" — broadly speaking — "turn out to be horrendous."
Also worth noting: those who believe the U.S. should draw a harder line on immigration have traditionally argued they are critical of illegal immigrants, who by their very presence in this country already broke the law. But Trump in this context is speaking about people who followed the legal process to enter this country. Yet he calls these people "horrendous."
To hammer his point home, Trump then repeated a ballad he has occasionally recited at rallies called, "The Snake." It tells the story of a "tender-hearted woman" who rescues a snake only to have the snake bite and kill her.
There was a great controversy last month over whether Trump, during a meeting with Democrats on immigration, referred to some places as "shithole" countries. But this isn't some private meeting where Trump's defenders can deny he said something. Trump's ugliness on Friday came in his public statements before a large conservative audience, that, sadly, cheered him on.
As noted previously, Trump's rhetoric on immigration is a stark contrast to Ronald Reagan, the man who for decades was the hero of CPAC-goers, routinely invoked by speakers to the point of parody.
"They came to build," Reagan said in 1980, speaking in front of the Statue of Liberty about immigrants' contributions to our country. He went on to say, "They brought with them courage, ambition and the values of family, neighborhood, work, peace, and freedom."
At the end of the ballad Trump performed, when the lady asks why the snake bit her, the snake responds, "Oh shut up, silly woman ... You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in." Indeed, everybody knew who Trump was when he was taken in, they are being reminded now, and his disgusting words were met with ravenous applause.
It's heartbreaking to witness the darkness that movement conservatism has descended into.
As I understand it, Trump was, like Reagan, also addressing legal immigrants: in this case, those who came in via the Lottery.
“They came to build,”
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Muslims come to destroy and conquer for Allah.
NeverTrumper Open Border Types.
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Bush League Republicans
He had to be exhausted - psychically, mentally and spiritually - think of the week he's just been through....and the year he's been thru and the forces against him, as evil and vicious as any in history...and he knows they gave to be scheming on how to take hi, out - like they did JFK
He had to be exhausted - psychically, mentally and spiritually - think of the week he's just been through....and the year he's been thru and the forces against him, as evil and vicious as any in history...and he knows they gave to be scheming on how to take hi, out - like they did JFK
He probably wrote this before he even heard the speech.
Klein is a pussy.
5.56mm
This author has a good resume. Too bad he threw it away.
That's what one calls a warning label.
Loved the speech. Sent RSBN a donation I was so enthused.
Do what I do . Don’t read the leftist author , skip right to comments . Saves time and blood pressure .
Tripe like this article certainly would be an insult to any educational institution that excreted him.
Legal vs illegal is not the most important distinction.
Third world vs first world is more important.
Most hispanic immigrants are legal. Yet they are, collectively, poison. Every state that has enough of them has gone over, forever, to the Democrat column of the Electoral College. CA, NV, CO, NM, VA - now permanently in the anti-American basket, electing people like Kamala Harris who seeth with hatred toward our homeland.
I would rather have a million illegals from Poland and Ireland any day over a million legal, green-card holders from Mexico.
Here....we pulled out this old fainting couch for you...
With almost 40 years of hindsight, we can say that Reagan was mostly wrong on this issue. He was wrong to sign the 1986 amnesty, and he didn’t appreciate just how divisive and corrosive it would be over time to flood the nation with foreign migrants. It has had a disastrous effect on national cohesion. Part of being a conservative is to conserve policies that work and discard failed experiments. Mass-immigration is a failed experiment, and unless it is reined it, the future will be rather grim for “America” as a coherent nation.
Horrendous
Yeah. The only problem was that I could have injured myself laughing and cheering.
Might have driven off the road.
You want to see darkness, look at the Democrats, you nut,
He’s still an idiot.
This is a joke right? Anyone with a brain should understand he didn't mean every single person. Geezuz..These people are perpetually butt hurt. How much are they paying grammar boy to look for gotcha words"?
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