… and Stephen Miller thinks that the reason why Donald Trump insulting President Obama is okay and the four Congresswomen insulting President Trump is not, is because there’s a “fundamental distinction between people who think we need to lean into and strengthen America’s core values, whether it be our constitutional values, the rule of law, the principles of Western civilization, or people who think we basically think we need to turn America into Venezuela.”
Constitutional values? Like the right to privacy? The right to not undergo unwarranted searches and seizures without due process of law?
The rule of law? Like, actually needing to go before a court and prove charges before you impose consequences?
And then there’s the fact that Venezuela is a Western country, and Karl Marx a Western political philosopher.
So, yeah, it’s dog whistles all the way down. For Stephen Miller and his followers, “constitutional values” means “white men in charge, as the Founders intended.” “Rule of law” means “Do what the President says.” And “Western” means “White.”
…And I’m kind of weirded out that it was Fox News, of all media organizations, that challenged Miller on Trump’s tweets. What funhouse mirror did I step through this week?
Part of the fallout from ICE/CBP and other agencies ramping up deportation/refusal of travel is that Mexico is going to react, too.
Yesterday was the first time I was called out in three years over “you can’t rent an apartment in Mexico without residency”, because I’d accidentally left my visa at my apartment in TJ. No more just waving people through.
My visa is current, so luckily I’d already stated I’d only stay overnight and cleared up the “misunderstanding” that I was there to “look at an apartment” of my friend’s to rent.
A little shady, I know, but I’m current, it was late, and my cats hadn’t been fed since the morning.
TBH, my grandparents never really relaxed on this point after WWII when their respective countries were liberated. They were always total freaks about having everything in order for border crossings, and just in general.
It’s definitely rubbed off on their kids and grandkids, but I really miss when it was something for my friends to tease me about.
Well, we can at least hope that this will split the right-wing vote for the upcoming election.
Of course, if it does, odds are that the Conservatives will try to re-absorb the PPC and, as a consequence, shift even further right themselves, which might be even worse than the Conservatives getting power and the PPC being buried in a landslide early.
Without a constitution and Bill of Rights, the apartheid legal system designated black South Africans as second-class citizens without basic rights, such as the right to vote, freedom of speech and movement, and due process.
I thought it designated them as citizens of the Bantustans rather than South Africa…? thus using the logic of anti-immigrant laws and violence to punish a native underclass.
