Posted on 06/02/2019 5:59:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Three major developments happened over the weekend. All bode well for President Donald Trump and that dirty word "nationalism."
You know what "nationalism" really means? It's pretty simple. You're a patriot. You love your country and your family. You want to keep your children safe at night. And you don't want your country or culture to commit mass suicide. I call that common sense.
Recently, I reported Trump-like candidates were winning all over the world. Don't look now, but it happened again.
Nationalism routed globalism all over Europe this past weekend. Trump-like nationalist candidates swept to victories in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands.
And guess who was in the middle of it all? My friend Steve Bannon, former Trump campaign architect. Bannon was in Paris on Monday to celebrate nationalist victories across the continent. Bannon is bringing the Trump mindset to the entire world.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron's party suffered an embarrassing defeat to nationalist Marine Le Pen.
In the U.K., Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage won a landslide victory in the EU Parliament, leading a Trump-like party that was established just six weeks ago. Amazing.
It also appears likely that Boris Johnson, the Trump-like former mayor of London, will emerge as the new prime minister of Britain.
In Italy, Matteo Salvini's nationalist party became one of the leaders of the EU Parliament, winning an astounding 28 seats.
Bannon and new EU political stars Salvini, Le Pen, Farage and Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban are in talks to form a team of international nationalist leaders.
Why is this happening? To paraphrase former Bill Clinton campaign guru James Carville, it's all about open borders, stupid.
Liberals, leftists and assorted socialists, communists and globalists have left the borders open all around the world. But the citizens of each country -- at least the ones who love their country -- want the borders secured.
We want walls. We want extreme vetting. We support and value immigration -- but only for immigrants with talent, skills and education who will contribute and assimilate, not for immigrants who come illegally, demand welfare from cradle to grave and spew hatred at us while they plot our destruction.
The second development of the weekend was The Hill reporting that three political election experts with great track records have produced separate models for the 2020 election. All three predict a Trump reelection. Of course they do. It's about the open borders, stupid.
Finally, we learned last weekend that a nonprofit group, We Build the Wall -- which raised more than $20 million to fund Trump's wall -- actually completed a nearly mile-long section on private land near El Paso, Texas. Private citizens built a serious border wall in a matter of days. This new wall will shut down $100,000 per day of drug smuggling.
Who led this remarkable group? Bannon, Kris Kobach and triple amputee military vet Brian Kolfage. Bravo. Proof the wall will get built -- even if Trump voters have to fund it themselves.
It's all about the open borders, stupid.
Every year 1.5 congressional seats are changed because of illegals and our faulty interpretation of the constitution
Their first act upon stepping on our shores is to violate our laws. First, this teaches them the wrong lessons (i.e., they can break laws with impunity and be rewarded for it) and second it sends the wrong message to them that the country is weak and passive.
Perhaps. That tactic seems to be working for them in other areas.
<><> In France, President Emmanuel Macron's party suffered an embarrassing defeat to nationalist Marine Le Pen.
<><>In the U.K., Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage won a landslide victory in the EU Parliament,
leading a Trump-like party that was established just six weeks ago.
<><>It appears likely Boris Johnson, the Trump-like former mayor of London, will emerge as the new prime minister of Britain.
<><>In Italy, Matteo Salvini's nationalist party became one of the leaders
of the EU Parliament, winning an astounding 28 seats.
“Proof the wall will get built — even if Trump voters have to fund it themselves.”
That is very interesting and good news. All this time I had been thinking that I had co-equal power, and that is zero power, with Trump, to stop the invasion of our country. But maybe we have more power.
Trump only has power to stop invasions on the other side of the globe.
The list goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population)
7) demonstrate English proficiency to acquire citizenship and pass civics test.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to self-deport.
Also consider reciprocation of the laws of the countries of origin of the illegal aliens. For example, Mexico doesn’t allow land ownership or voting to immigrants, and doesn’t honor birthright citizenship like its citizens expect from the U.S. We should offer the same deal to them.
Ha ...even those with talent and who contribute still hate us. I work with one. It’s all about hating on whites, especially white males.
The liberals have been trying to boil the frog ‘slowly’. They have been working this for over 50 years —remember the Immigration Act of ‘86? We were supposed to get a wall and serious enforcement in exchange for a ‘one-time’ amnesty. Yeah, that never happened.
I think we can thank Obama for our present situation. Without the election of Obama, we would NEVER have had Trump. It took Obama to convince the mid-western blue-collar workers that the Democrats do not deserve their votes.
For myself, I voted for Trump because I felt like he couldn’t possibly be worse than Obama. I have been pleasantly surprised.
(...at how much Trump has been able to accomplish.) He may even come to belong in that pantheon of greatest presidents in history —Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theordore Roosevelt.
Where are they again?
(Mt. Rushmore)
I worked with many people who emigrated to the US from all over the world. I constantly heard how great it was in the home country and how crappy it is here.
I guess it depends upon where/who you work with. I worked as a programmer for an rent-a-oil-rig-outfit and out of a team of 22, there were only three native-borns, including me.*
Lunchtimes were always an education as some innocuous comment would set off the discussion for the day - like the quality of rice and dried beans in this country.
After everyone told related tales of how it went down in their country, the conversation almost always ended with "You people don't know how lucky you are."
*IIRC Indonesia, Ethiopia, Iran, UK, Venezuela, Argentina and Armenia, to name a few. :-)
The people I worked with were mainly in software development and operations from China, India, Russia, Ukraine, France, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Israel, UK with a smattering of Indonesians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Brazilians, Koreans, and Mexicans.
It certainly wasn’t a universal comment. Looking back at all the people I worked with, it was nowhere near a universal viewpoint. Probably those that complained about the US stood out to me and tainted everybody else. I did meet a lot of people from ex-communist Bloc countries who were REALLY happy to be here. In further retrospect, it was those who had socialist or communist leanings who really stood out and made me the most angry.
Aside: I met a very nice young and well-educated woman from Ghana a couple weeks ago at the checkout at Walmart. She described the weekly market in her village there where everybody came out to do their weekly shopping and was comparing it to shopping at Walmart. It was an interesting contrast.
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