DACA & the wall, Charlottesville conspiracy theory, global warming and military readiness

I woke up yesterday and Shrillda the Hutt still was not president.  Life was good.  At about 10 a.m. I got wind of some news about PDJT making a “deal” with Chuck and Nancy on the border wall and DACA.  I was disappointed, but Shrillda the Hutt still was not president, so I carried on.  By 4 p.m. news of the whole story being fake news started percolating and Shrillda the Hutt was still not president, so some order was restored to the galaxy.

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth with regard to PDJT’s supposed “deal” with Chuck and Nancy on the border wall and DACA. Because I kicked in that extra $5 on Election Day to Trump’s campaign, apparently just enough to turn the tide, PDJT personally sent me this one-of-a-kind e-mail:

Doug,

There’s been a lot of noise today and a lot of rumors.

Let me set the record straight in the simplest language possible…

...WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO HELP STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND KEEP AMERICA SAFE.

Apparently, liberals in Congress and the mainstream media need one more reminder that building the wall is non-negotiable.

So please, sign our petition to demand that we BUILD THE WALL.

Thank you,

Donald J. Trump
President of the United States

That seems pretty clear to me. He also said that we’d have the wall or we’d have nothing.  I assume that means nothing on DACA. 

Okay then, we’re going to have the wall, but what about DACA?  I don’t know.  My sense is that PDJT is onto something when he says, “Who wants to kick out kids who are educated, working, serving in the military, paying taxes etc. brought here illegally through no fault of their own as children?” My guess is only the most hard-core immigration hawks.

I look at opposing DACA as akin to black racists blaming me for the sins white guys I never knew and was never around to oppose or support.  It should not be permitted to tar me with the “white supremacist” brush because of anything my parents did or didn’t do.  Same with DACA.  The kids were brought here through no fault of their own, have grown up here and may know nothing other than being American.

PDJT should use the same tool for DACA as he did for his famed non-Arab Arab ban executive order on immigration from terror sponsoring countries – extreme vetting.

Here’s what that would look like in Lex’s world:  Okay DACA kids if you want to come out of the shadows, step right up and get an extreme vetting in exchange for a green card.  Anyone with a brush with the law is gone.  Anyone with MS13 tattoos is gone. Anyone who came in the last 3 years and is over the age 16 is gone.  Anyone who does not come forward in the next 6 months and has a brush with the law is gone.  No chain migration will be permitted for those subject to the law. Once registered, congratulation here’s a green card.  You are not a citizen.  You cannot vote.  You will be deported if you do not obey our laws.

Honestly, it’s hard to believe that Demo-Dopes and Rat establishment Republicans would settle on such a common sense law.  After all, common sense is an uncommon virtue in Caligula, D.C.

But hey Mr. & Mrs. America, things are not that bad.  Shrillda the Hutt still is not president.

Lex’s hare-brained conspiracy theory not so hare-brained
On the Monday post after the riot, Lex opined that George Soros was probably funding both sides of the Charlottesville riot.  Since then there have been stories of at least two of the “white supremacist” leaders having ties to the Occupy Wall St. movement.

Now Congressman Dana Roharbacher says that the left got Civil War re-enactors to act like “white supremacists.”  I don’t know how you convince a thinking human being to “act like a white supremacist?”  I could understand the Civil War re-enactors being upset by the removal of the statue based on it being a historical touchstone to something that they obviously have a great deal of interest in.  I cannot understand how you convince them to act like white supremacist in the process or demonstrate how that would help their cause.

None-the-less something stinks to high heaven about the whole Charlottesville BS.  Most damning to me is that the police didn’t keep the two groups separated.  It seems to me that would be policing 101.  If there was a calculated decision to let the two groups clash, the people responsible for that decision –Gov McAuliffe, mayor, police commissioner/chief etc. - have blood on their hands. 

Turns out that Cuba – not PDJT – is to blame for Irma
Jenifer Lawrence blamed PDJT’s election for Hurricane Irma hitting the US.  Irma took an unexpected turn and hit the barrier islands of Cuba causing it lose some energy.  So, Jenifer, does that mean the whole thing was actually Castro’s fault?  

Better to be warm and have money than cold and broke
Lefty Libs insist Harvey and Irma were caused by global warming.  Okay, for fun I’ll play along.  First, I’d rather be warm than cold.  Next, if policies to lower the temperature increases energy costs, I’d rather be warm and have money than cold and poor.  Cold kills.  Poverty has killed more people than anything in human history. 

But Lex you will surly die in a hurricane if you don’t support the global warm-mongering position.  So you’ll be warm, rich and dead. 

No, I don’t think so.  Irma ranks about 7^th in all time hurricanes to hit FL.  So hurricanes are not getting stronger or more frequent, but actually staying about the same in frequency and strength for as long as they have been tracking such things. So I may well die in a hurricane, but that likelihood is no more probable today than it was 100 years ago.

Dope Homer (AKA Pope Francis) is an advocate for the poor, so much so that he wants to create more of them.  Homer is an ardent global warm-monger.  As such perhaps we can assume Homer wants higher energy prices to reduce greenhouse gasses.  That move has the unintended, or perhaps intended, consequences of creating more poor people.  The signers of the Paris Accord admitted that the accord would have zero effect on the climate through the foreseeable future.

Military mishaps
Military aircraft crashes, US Navy ships running aground and bashing into civilian cargo ships, Amtraks catching fire and burning the crew and occupants, what’s going on with today’s military?  

First, military training is inherently risky business.  Think about it, you have thousands of predominantly high testosterone young men running about at high speed for long hours at night in bad weather etc.  That’s sort of a recipe for bad things to happen.  During 20 years in Marine Corps artillery, I saw my share of serious injuries and death. Some were just plain stupid.  Others were just tragic mishaps.  Not unavoidable but they were not the result of stupidity, negligence or malice.

The current spate of mishaps had John McCain blaming it on a lack of funding.  I think that’s the smallest part of the problem.  It's like walking past the poor people’s house that looks like crapola. You make comment about it and your Dope social justice warrior friend calls you white supremacist and says their property looks like $h!t because they are poor.  What, they can’t pick up the trash out of their own front yard because they are poor?

Money is only part of the problem.  Here’s the real problem.  As noted in the a post several under, the armed forces leadership under The Empty Suit was more interested in social justice BS than war fighting.  It’s that simple.  The leadership is to blame.  There needs to be some simple test for anyone above the grade of O-2 or E-4.

Are you more interested in: A) warfighting; B) Social; Justice C) Both A and B; D) Money for a college education

If your answer is anything other than answer A, get the f*ck out before you get someone killed.