Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

Posted on | June 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrats and Media Are Lying: Behind the Phony ‘Family Separation’ Propaganda

The media headlines are deliberately misleading:

Nielsen becomes face
of Trump’s border separations
— Politico

All four living former first ladies
condemn Trump border policy
— NBC News

Less Than One-Third Of The Public
Supports Family Separations
— Huffington Post

The myth being promoted by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) is that the so-called “Trump border policy” is something new. This is a media-manufactured fiction — a hoax — ginned up for partisan political purposes. If the public opposes the current policy, this may be because the media have intentionally published disinformation about the policy. Here is a New York Times article from July 2014:

Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking
It was one of the final pieces of legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush, a measure that passed without controversy, along with a pension bill and another one calling for national parks to be commemorated on quarters.
“This is a piece of legislation we’re very proud to sign,” a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, told reporters on Dec. 23, 2008, as the president put his pen to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, named for a 19th-century British abolitionist. “This program has been very effective around the world in trying to stop trafficking in persons.”
Now the legislation, enacted quietly during the transition to the Obama administration, is at the root of the potentially calamitous flow of unaccompanied minors to the nation’s southern border.
Originally pushed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers as well as by evangelical groups to combat sex trafficking, the bill gave substantial new protections to children entering the country alone who were not from Mexico or Canada by prohibiting them from being quickly sent back to their country of origin.
Instead, it required that they be given an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing and consult with an advocate, and it recommended that they have access to counsel. It also required that they be turned over to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the agency was directed to place the minor “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child” and to explore reuniting those children with family members.
The Obama administration says the law is partly responsible for tying its hands in dealing with the current influx of children. Officials have suggested that the White House might seek flexibility in the law’s requirements when it asks Congress to provide emergency funds to contend with the latest immigration crisis, a request that could come as early as Tuesday. About 52,000 minors without their parents have been caught at the Southwest border since October [2013].

The problem is caused by this 10-year-old law, which passed Congress with the kind of good intentions that pave the road to Hell. The flaws in this law have been recognized — indeed, the liberal media and the Obama administration complained about it — for more than four years.

In a press release Monday, the White House said:

Following the 2014 child migrant crisis, Republicans sought repeatedly to close “catch-and-release” loopholes that incentivize child smuggling and endangerment. As early as October of last year, President Trump sent a letter to Congressional leadership in which he specifically asked lawmakers to “amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVRPA)”. Yet Congressional Democrats continue to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to close loopholes that would put criminal child smuggling organizations out of business.

Congress failed to act, and the Trump administration has tried to enforce existing law while preventing smugglers from exploiting the loopholes. Democrats and their media allies have orchestrated a dishonest propaganda campaign to create the false impression that President Trump has caused a problem which he is in fact trying to solve.

Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are complaining about a “crisis” at the border which they have helped caused, and which is only continuing because Democrats don’t want to fix the problem.

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lies, Damned Lies, And Democrats/Never Trumpers
Twitchy: Sean Spicier Shares His Plan For Keeping Families Together At The Border, And The Left Just Can’t Deal
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Beats Jimmy Kimmel In Charity Basketball Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Whoa! Phat Edition
American Thinker: A Guide To Spygate, also, They’re Calling You Stupid. That’s Right – You.
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Chuck Schumer Says Trump Is “All Cattle, No Hat”
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXIV
Da Tech Guy: Five Second Rule, also, The Unspoken Truth – It Was Obama Who Weaponized The Government, And The Media That Let Him Do It
Don Surber: Laura Bush Shows The Democrats’ Desperation, also, Three Years Ago Today, The Experts Beclowned Themselves
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Woman’s Got Seoul
First Street Journal: KY Dem House Candidate McGrath Calls Voters Un-American, “Enemies Of America”
The Geller Report: Muslima On Portland (ME) Police Force Resigns After Charges Of Assault, Battery, And Resisting Arrest, also, German Pol Predicts Merkel’s Ouster By End Of Next Week
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Privacy Overwatch
Legal Insurrection: Trump Says Germans “Turning Against Their Leadership” On Mass Immigration, also, Legal Insurrection Semi-Annual Fundraiser
Power Line: A Civil Rights Commissioner Weighs In On Children At The Border, also, Does Trump Have “Dictator Envy”?
Shark Tank: Democrats Fear Nelson’s Loss To Scott
Shot In The Dark: The Wrong Lesson? also, Toxic Social “Justice”
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere, also, Memory Monday – Second Week Of June 1918
The Jawa Report: Note From Iran – Annihilate Da Yahood
The Political Hat: Just When You Thought The Rotherham Rape Gang Scandal Couldn’t Get Any Worse
This Ain’t Hell: 2@LT Robert Keown Comes Home, also, Veteran Cemetery Vandals Identified
Victory Girls: Trump Haters Go Full Godwin On Migrant Kids In Detention Camps
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Will Decide Whether Excessive Fines Clause Applies To States
Weasel Zippers: Almost 60,000 DACA Recipients Arrested At Least Once Since Program Began, also, 22 People Shot In NJ But Since It Doesn’t Fit The Narrative…
Megan McArdle: The Game Theory That Explains Our Country’s Mass Psychosis
Mark Steyn: Munich, also, The Dissolution Of The People

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Monday: Shakira Law And The Rock Sharky

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“A wave of the Fendy’s fingers sent the man from the room…’Meanwhile, be thou my guest and I shall call in women who know a little of the rock sharky and we shall dine on sweetmeats and dates’…The dancing girls, as promised, did not stumble much, although considering in how many directions they shook their bodies, it was a marvel that they did not…The dancers wore petal skirts and halter tops, except for the boys, of course, who wore only white cotton sirwals. The Fudir found his pulse quickening to the rock beat, the tinkling zills, and the undulating bodies of the dancers…”

-from Michael Flynn’s The January Dancer

I like to joke about people whose grasp on Islamic ideas is so loose that they can’t tell the difference between sharia law and Shakira, a Colombian pop star of Lebanese descent who has been known to delight her fans by performing the raqs sharqi in concert, and it follows that if Shakira Law were imposed upon us, she might require that all women do the dance. Let’s face it, there are some women who would benefit from the exercise. But now that I have scarred you for life by making you imagine Lindy West undulating to Middle Eastern music, let me make amends by presenting Shakira doing the dance of her ancestors.

I don’t care if she plays the zills or not, that there is hot.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, Morning Mistress, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #286, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is next with Rule Five Fleecing The Rubes Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Cheers, Dexterity, Miss Iraq and Miss Israel, National Bourbon Day, Flag Day, Corn on The Cob, Seat Belts Are Important, Elastigirl, Ann Margret, and Bloomsday.

A View From The Beach has Down by the Bay, Donna D’Errico, “XXPEN$IVE”, Never Enough!, . . . In the Sky with Diamonds, 2500 Bare Naked Ladies Can’t Be All Bad, Antonia Okafor Wants Freedom from Swimsuits, Your Morning Physics Lesson and This Hurts Just Watching.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nicole Mitchell Murphy and his Vintage Babe is Karen Steele. At Dustbury, it’s Kira Kosarin and Vanessa Hudgens.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!
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Category: Rule 5

SPLC Busted for Lying, Pays $3.3 Million

Posted on | June 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

Let’s talk about sweet cosmic justice:

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has apologized for including the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism group, and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, in its Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. “Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” the SPLC wrote in a statement. The SPLC will also pay a $3.375 million settlement to Quilliam that will be used to fight “anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” according to a Quilliam press release. “We were able to fight back against the Regressive Left and show them that moderate Muslims will not be silenced,” Nawaz said in the release.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Racism

Preferences Are Not Oppression

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

The last time I paid attention to Lindy West was in February 2017, when I mentioned her role in the 2015 #ShoutYourAbortion campaign, which was about ending the “stigma” of abortion. You see, your belief that some things are good (e.g., human life) and other things are bad (e.g., murdering babies), that there is a difference between right and wrong — between good and evil — is a problem for the “progressive” Left:

The totalitarian can never be appeased.
If you give Hitler the Sudetenland today, next he will demand the rest of Czechoslovakia, and after that, he’ll begin threatening Poland. Likewise with feminists — grant them everything they demand today, and tomorrow they will return with a new list of demands. Feminists have an appetite for power that is ultimately insatiable. . . .
What does feminism share with the occult? Both are about seeking power. Study the life of Aleister Crowley (or Madame Blavatsky or Marion Zimmer Bradley or any other prominent figure in occult movements) and the pattern is clear. What the occultist craves is a lawless power in defiance of the natural order, for the satisfaction of selfish desire. . . .
What is the basis of authority in a godless society? Power.
By power, the rich shall rule the poor and the strong shall rule the weak. The majority can impose its will upon everyone or, by capturing the influential centers of power — in media, in academia, in politics and in the courts — a decadent elite can subvert constitutional law and thereby gain the power to rule by seemingly “democratic” processes.

Feminists are anti-Christian, attacking religion to undermine our sense of morality, in order to arrogate to themselves unlimited power, and so Lindy West wishes to erase the “stigma” of abortion. Q.E.D.

In May 2016, Lindy West published a book, Shrill, which rode a tidal wave of critical acclaim to bestseller status. What does she say in this book? A Tumblr blogger has some quotes, including this one:

“America’s monomanical fixation on female thinness isn’t a distant abstraction, something to be pulled apart by academics in women’s studies classrooms or leveraged for traffic in shallow ‘body-positive’ listicles — it is a constant, pervasive taint that warps every single woman’s life.“

Really? How is it that America (evidently unique among all nations) stands accused of a “monomanical fixation” with being thin, while at the same time we’re experiencing an obesity epidemic? And does Lindy West actually believe this “warps every single woman’s life”?

My daughters are not fat. My two daughters-in-law are not fat. My teenage sons’ girlfriends are not fat. If their lives are being “warped” by a “monomanical fixation,” they haven’t mentioned it. Some people are just naturally thin, more or less, and thus suffer no hardship because of the general preference for thinness. “Fat feminism” is a movement organized to convince us that our normal preferences are wrong. If you think a skinny woman is more attractive than Lindy West, your preference oppresses Lindy West, in much the same way (and for much the same reason) that she considers “stigma” against abortion oppressive.

Whatever she wants is “social justice.” Whatever you want is wrong. Lindy West is a feminist, and therefore is beyond criticism, and anyone who disagrees with her is beneath contempt, der untermensch.

Some people have advantages in life. If I could throw a 95-mph fastball, I’d be a millionaire, but my lack of major-league baseball skills does not make me a victim of oppression. Similarly, skinny girls benefit from the general preference for thinness, and fat women are disadvantaged, but this is not oppression, it’s just the way life is — and no amount of feminist rhetoric will alter this reality of human life. All that will be achieved by such rhetoric is to encourage unrealistic beliefs and self-defeating behaviors that lead to disappointment and failure. Speaking of which, here is another quote from Lindy West:

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness, when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time — that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity towards conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in water where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”

Who is raising “every woman to believe that [women] are insignificant”? And why does Lindy West associate this with “conservatism”? In point of fact, she knows nothing about conservatism or child-raising, for that matter. She is from the liberal cocoon of Seattle and she had an abortion the only time she ever got pregnant. Her prejudice against skinny people, who she imagines only remain thin by “starvation,” is as irrational as her prejudice against men and their allegedly “narrow interests.”

Are my daughters and daughters-in-law “shackled by shame and hunger”? Are they unjustly deprived of their “power and potential”? Only in the irrational self-pitying worldview of perpetual victimhood (to call feminist ideology what it is) is it possible to take these claims seriously.

Feminists still don’t understand why Trump won and, as Vox Day says, “SJWs always double down.” Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 has only inspired feminists to believe that if they just intensify their activism — becoming angrier and more extreme in their anti-male rhetoric — they’ll win next time. May God give them the disappointment they deserve.

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Category: Sex Trouble

The Democrat Immigration Agenda

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

The White House sent me this press release:

RESULTS OF CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS’ DANGEROUS IMMIGRATION POLICIES

“We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders.” – President Donald J. Trump

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS’ FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY: Too many American families have been permanently separated from loved ones lost to illegal alien crime.

· Open border laws and policies are responsible for the permanent separation of too many American families whose loved ones have been lost to illegal alien crime.

· President Trump has met with family members whose loved ones have fallen victim to illegal alien crime.

o Juan Pina was permanently separated from his daughter after she was strangled, raped, and murdered by an illegal alien.

o Laura Wilkerson was permanently separated from her son, who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien classmate.

o Jamiel Shaw, Sr. was permanently separated from his son, who was tragically murdered by an illegal alien gang member.

· Congressional Democrats have repeatedly voted against common sense immigration legislation that would help make our communities safer.

o In 2017, 174 House Democrats voted against legislation that would have helped ensure aliens associated with a gang are not admitted into the United States and would have empowered officials to more effectively remove those already here.

o In 2017, 166 House Democrats voted against Kate’s Law, named after Kate Steinle who was killed by a previously deported illegal alien with a lengthy criminal history.

o In February 2018, Senate Democrats blocked legislation that would have cracked down on dangerous sanctuary cities.

OPEN BORDER POLICIES: American communities have suffered from illegal alien crime and illegal drugs flooding our country due to open border policies and immigration enforcement loopholes.

· Drugs have flooded across our porous borders, poisoning our communities, and costing American lives.

o The Southwest border is a major source of illegal drugs entering the United States.

o Most heroin entering the United States is produced in Mexico, and production levels there continue to rise.

· A total of 57,820 known or suspected aliens were in Department of Justice custody at the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, 60 percent of whom were aliens with orders of removal.

· A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found nearly 3 million criminal arrest offenses tied to incarcerated criminal aliens, including 25,000 homicide offenses.

· Transnational gangs, such as MS-13, take advantage of our open borders and the loopholes in our immigration system.

o MS-13 and other gangs have bolstered their ranks by exploiting the influx of Unaccompanied Alien Children entering the United States.

Democrats and their media allies are portraying President Trump as responsible for the suffering of innocent people, This is dishonest propaganda, intended to shift the blame away from Democrats, who did nothing to solve the immigration problem during the eight years of Obama’s presidency and seek to scapegoat Trump for their failure.

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Immigration

Tip: Pentagon Covering Up Fact That Female Officers Nearly Sank Navy Ship

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 13 Comments

The USS Fitzgerald after a deadly collision with a freighter in June 2017.

An anonymous email came in over the transom this morning:

Hi, Stacy.
During the early weeks after the USS Fitzgerald was speared by a lumbering Philippine container ship, it was noteworthy that the captain and a couple of admirals were publically named, but not the actual officer in charge, the officer of the deck. (OOD) The other person who should have kept the Fitz out of trouble is the person in charge of the combat information center, the Tactical Action Officer. That individual is supposed to be monitoring the combat radar, which can detect a swimmer at a distance of two miles.
Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out. The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!
Another fun fact: In the Navy that won WWII, the damage control officers were usually some of the biggest and strongest men aboard, able to close hatches, shore up damaged areas with timbers, etc. The Fitz’s damage control officer was also a woman, and she never left the bridge. She handled the aftermath of the accident remotely, without lifting a finger herself!
Look it up: The OOD was Sarah Coppock, Tactical Action Officer was Natalie Combs. . . .
When I noticed last year that they were doing all they could to keep the OOD’s name out of the headlines, I speculated to my son that it was a she. Turns out all the key people (except one officer in the CIC) were female!

Indeed, I did some searching, and Lt. Coppock pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty. Lt. Combs faced a hearing last month:

In an 11-hour hearing, prosecutors painted a picture of Lt. Irian Woodley, the ship’s surface warfare coordinator, and Lt. Natalie Combs, the tactical action officer, as failing at their jobs, not using the tools at their disposal properly and not communicating adequately. They became complacent with faulty equipment and did not seek to get it fixed, and they failed to communicate with the bridge, the prosecution argued. Had they done those things, the government contended, they would have been able to avert the collision.

That two of the officers — Coppock and Combs — involved in this fatal incident were female suggests that discipline and training standards have been lowered for the sake of “gender integration,” which was a major policy push at the Pentagon during the Obama administration. It could be that senior officers, knowing their promotions may hinge on enthusiastic support for “gender integration,” are reluctant to enforce standards for the women under their command.

This was the story of Kara Hultgreen, the Navy pilot who died in a 1994 F-14 crash. Investigation showed that Hultgreen had been allowed to proceed in her training after errors that would have meant a washout for any male pilot. But the Clinton administration was pushing for female fighter pilots, which resulted in a competition between the Navy and Air Force to put women into these combat roles. It is not necessary to believe that (a) women shouldn’t be fighter pilots, in order to believe (b) lowering standards for the sake of quotas is a bad idea. Of course, you may believe both (a) and (b), but it is (b) that gets people killed.

It seems obvious that the Pentagon (and the liberal media) sought to suppress full knowledge of what happened to the Fitzgerald in the immediate aftermath of the June 2017 incident that killed seven sailors, in the same way the details of Kara Hultgreen’s death were suppressed. It took investigative reporters like Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times a lot of hard work to find out what actually happened to Hultgreen. Let’s hope other reporters will dig into what’s happening in our military with the “gender intergration” agenda at the Pentagon now.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!