11/12/19: Another day, another dose of the fabled Trump Math. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, the president swears daughter Ivanka has created 14,000,000 jobs since he took office.
No doubt his audience is stupefied by this news.
Stupefied, for sure, since Bureau of Labor Statistics
indicate that since Trump took office, only 6.5 million jobs have been added to
the U.S. economy.
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Stephen Miller. |
TRUMP MATH is often bad. Stephen Miller is always
often insidious. The trusted White House aide and architect of the Trump
administration immigration policies, is once again in the news.
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Miller likes to hype the “white genocide” or “great
replacement” myth.
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According to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), leaked emails show that Miller promoted…surprise…white nationalism.
Miller dodged public comment Tuesday, but White House Press Lacky Stephanie Grisham said the SPLC was nothing but “an utterly-discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization.”
So, reporters wondered, was she saying Miller’s emails were fine? Grisham admitted, lamely, that she hadn’t seen them.
The SPLC had, and said the source for the more-than 900 emails was Katie McHugh, a former writer and editor at Breitbart. She had communicated regularly with Mr. Miller in 2015 and 2016. McHugh was 23 when she started at Breitbart in 2014 and was fired three years later, after she posted a series of anti-Muslim tweets. She has since renounced her ties with the far-right.
(Miller has not.)
In September 2015 Miller sent McHugh a book recommendation. She should read The Camp of the Saints, which might inform her writing. As summarized by Hatewatch, an arm of the SPLC,
Notably, “The Camp of the Saints” is popular among white
nationalists and neo-Nazis because of the degree to which it fictionalizes the
“white genocide” or “great replacement” myth into a violent and sexualized
story about refugees.
The novel’s apocalyptic plot
centers on a flotilla of Indian [from India] people who invade France, led by a
nonwhite Indian-born antagonist referred to as the “turd eater” – a character who literally eats human feces. In one
section, a white woman is raped to death by brown-skinned refugees. In another,
a nationalist character shoots and kills a pro-refugee leftist over his support
of race mixing. The white nationalist Social Contract Press plucked the 1973 book from
relative obscurity and distributed it in the United States.
Miller wasn’t done offering McHugh help. In October 2015 he sent her a story he found on a white nationalist website, VDARE. That site “traffics in the ‘white genocide’ or ‘great replacement’ myth, which suggests that nonwhite people are systematically and deliberately wiping white people off the planet.”
All kinds of racist bugaboos.
Miller had all kinds of racist bugaboos he wanted to share. It upset him when Amazon pulled Confederate symbols for sale, just because Dylan Roof posed with the Rebel flag before shooting nine African Americans to death at a Charleston, South Carolina church. Miller suggested McHugh aggregate stories of crimes committed by non-white immigrants. He was enthusiastic when McHugh agreed to do a story on Chris Harper-Mercer, a college student who killed nine at his school in Roseburg, Oregon. Could McHugh emphasize the fact the killer was “mixed race?” Miller lost interest when it turned out Harper-Mercer espoused white supremacist beliefs.
It’s impossible to miss the drift of Miller’s pro-white, anti-everyone else thinking. (Trump loves him, of course.) Miller has long been a fan of writers who hate Muslims. He liked to send McHugh links to InfoWars, a website which claims the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was faked. He cited the Immigration Act of 1924, holding it up as a model of good legislation.
Interestingly enough, it
was a model Hitler praised too.
In fact, let’s let President Calvin Coolidge explain from the grave why that 1924 law was so necessary and wise.
There
are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental
reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or
blend. ….Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as
great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.
In fact, according to SPLC, a review of all those hundreds of
emails found no “examples of
Miller writing sympathetically or even in neutral tones about any person who is
nonwhite or foreign-born.”
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SINCE WE’RE on the topic of racists and racist policies, let’s hear it for President Trump! The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to his effort to end the DACA program once and for all. Court watchers believe the five conservatives justices are inclined to allow the Trump plan to go forward. And that means 797,297 “Dreamers,” as they are called, may soon be eligible for deportation.
The rules for acceptance in the DACA program are strict. Applicants must have come to the U.S. before age 16, must have been living here since June 15, 2012, must be in school, have graduated from high school or earned a GED, or have been honorably discharged from the Coast Guard or U.S. armed forces, and must have a job.
A person covered under DACA loses protection if they have serious misdemeanors or felonies on their record.
“Some are very tough, hardened criminals.”
All individuals covered under this Obama-era program were brought to this country illegally, but at an age where they had little say in the matter – or no say at all, since many were too young to talk at the time. They settled here and grew up thinking of themselves as Americans.
That means it’s time for a hateful Trump tweet:
Many
of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are
very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal
right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn,
a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!
Later, Trump cites Lou Dobbs, who claims that 53,792 DACA recipients have criminal records. I think, in Lou’s mind, that proves we should deport all 797,297 “Dreamers.” And toss their bags over the border fence, as they leave.
By the way, that would mean 8% of DACA recipients have criminal records vs. 29.5% of all American adults.
