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From Business Insider:
Mark Abadi
Fox News commentator Eric Bolling harshly criticized White House adviser Stephen Miller for his altercation with a CNN reporter at Wednesday’s press briefing.
“Listen, he’s a brilliant guy, he’s a great policy adviser,” Bolling said on “The Fox News Specialists.”
“He is not a communications person. Don’t put that guy in front of the cameras again.”
At the briefing, Acosta questioned whether the White House’s new immigration policy, unveiled earlier on Wednesday, was “trying to change what it means to be an immigrant” by favoring immigrants who spoke English and had higher levels of education and job skills. In his question, Acosta cited an inscription on the Statue of Liberty that reads “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Miller fired back at Acosta, launching into a testy back-and-forth that lasted several minutes.
“I don’t want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty and lighting in the world, it’s a symbol of American liberty lighting the world,” Miller said. “The poem that you’re referring to was added later. It’s not actually part of the Statue of Liberty.” …
For Bolling, Miller’s spat was a distraction from an immigration policy he praised as “really, really important for the country.”
“The message gets stepped on because everyone is going to play that interchange with Acosta instead of talking about how great this immigration policy is,” Bolling said.
Of course the media would be talking about how great the new proposal to cut legal immigration is if only the White House had put out there somebody who would have totally conceded that the Emma Lazarus’s poem is the Zeroth Amendment. The media love immigration restriction!
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There are people who would be more likely to support the policy change if it was presented by someone likable and charismatic instead of Miller. Miller comes off as an awkward guy.
Also my understanding is that Trump thought his initial appearances a few months ago were good, can't see how he'd dislike this one either.
Wow! Halfwit Eric Bolling has harsh criticism for Miller! Because the “substantive” criticism of Bolling is worthy of citation. Naturally, of course, him being a (former) commodity trader, and that makes you important!
With so much “friendly” fire it is a wonder that Trump gets anything done.
“The message is stepped on because you made a reporter who was pushing the opposite message look bad.
Our side doesn’t win press conference arguments, let alone news cycles about historical trivia, sirrah! We lose arguments and never get across the big message anyway.”
Do put that guy in front of the cameras again! And make this THE issue in 2018! Make every Democrat and every Republican declare him or herself in the primaries as well as in the general election. A new Contract with America.
Somebody who's well spoken, who actually has the understanding and confidence of the President, and knows his portfolio, is soooooooo much better than what we've seen out of the Administration so far. Between him and John Kelly, this Administration just might start to pull its head out of its ass.Replies: @Boethiuss, @anonguy
That poem by the gift shop is about “wretched refuse”. Are we really going to import the world’s “wretched refuse” because of a stupid poem?
Great point. Miller was sensational. Today’s been my proudest day as a Trump voter.
https://twitter.com/WillWindsorRise/status/892887921623158784
Exactly. I say get this bill out into the open. Find out who the traitors are.
The Trump administration should adopt an internal policy of always referring to the Statue of Liberty by an incorrect name, thus prompting journalists to “correct” them.
Miller: “The Statue of Libertinism was built…”
Journalist: “you mean Statue of Liberty…”
Miller: “sorry, what?”
Journalist: “Liberty! It’s the Statue of Liberty! Sheesh!”
Likewise, they should start saying incorrect things about history that will need “fact-checking”. For example:
Miller: “The poem wasn’t added until the Civil War.”
CNN headline: “FACT-CHECK: Poem added in 1903!”
The new contemporary plaque for Lady Liberty should read:
My new best guess as to why George Soros is bankrolling these immigration efforts is that he is best buddies with the Gogolak brothers whose corner on the soccer style NFL placekicker market was destroyed by undersized little white bread American boys.
translation:
SHUT IT DOWN
THE GOYIM KNOW
Bolling? Isn’t that a Pocohontian surname? Edith Bolling Wilson and Nancy Davis Reagan were descendants of the young princess.
Is Eric?
Emma Lazarus wanted cheap maids. What she didn’t want was low-class Ashkenazim invading her Sephardic paradise in Newport.
Spencer is right.
Furthermore, more Asians will mean more PC. Not because Asians are naturally PC but because they are naturally more ‘conservative’. Such disposition is more servile and respectful of authority, and the authority in the West is currently very PC. So, Asians will become teachers pets of PC. Look at all those Asians in Ivy Leagues and Canada. Total PC tards with hostility against whites.
Asian mentality isn’t primarily racial or even class. It is status-obsessed.
Under Confucianism, it was more honorable to be a middling scholar than a rich merchant.
Better to be respectful than rich. As Asians have weak individual sense of self, they are far more sensitive about how others perceive them. Status is about perception and rank than real substance in terms of power or wealth.
Well, if we *must* have immigrants, better they have weak individual senses of self and are desirous of respect. Because, once we in the Alt-Right regain the culture completely, then they will do as *we* say. Including go back to Asia because we told them to, hopefully.
Wow, Bolling is way off base. Miller batted Acosta down w/the truth. Great communicator. He both communicated esteem for the Statue of Liberty and what it really stands for and slayed the supposedly objective reporter’s absurd opinion that the poem added later is the basis for all American immigration policy.
Great point. Miller was sensational.
He wasn’t particularly brilliant on substance but good in style and personality. He pushed back in manner of offense is best defense. Don’t be pushed into a corner and then try to squeeze out.
When prodded, push back hard. And push and push and push. Never let the other side have momentum or upperhand.
Politics isn’t just about ideas but about style and manner. Always push back and always push back hard.
The apologetic style that became de rigueur among white politicians became so damaging. It’s like all those white politicians cowing before BLM thugs or arguing from position of guilt and weakness as the accused.
No, don’t play the defendant. Play the role of prosecutor.
Exactly. That's been the problem of conservatives for far too long. We're so used to being told we're in the minority that we get defensive. Never never ever get defensive. Put them on the defensive. Make them feel stupid, insecure, and ridiculous. Make them feel like the are part of an ignorant minority. Make them feel like they're on the wrong side of history.Replies: @Mr. Anon
On those occasions when I’ve seen Stephen Miller on TV, his speech is always direct, concise, elegant, and – of course – right. He speaks much more clearly and intelligently than most anyone else you see in a public forum nowadays. He clearly is a smart dude. I’d like to see him speak more. But then, mine might be a minority opinion. The average FOX viewer clearly doesn’t have very high standards.
Bolling is right, Miller was awful in that press conference. He knows all the good arguments and idiot Acosta has none, but the CNN reporter is suave, has a reassuring baritone and a full head of hair, and knows how to talk to a television audience and make them nod along to his platitudes.
Miller is nervous, balding, has a halting delivery — allowing hecklers to break up his flow, having to repeat himself four (!) times before he felt he could go on — and generally comes across to Mr. and Mrs. America as a high-strung character, a crank — the kind that makes people at town hall meetings roll their eyes as soon as he starts toward the microphone.
The worst of Miller’s mistakes? Using the word “cosmopolitan” in derogatory fashion. When boomers hear “cosmopolitan”, they think of the old Mastercard commercial.
“So worldly, so welcome” — remember? Being called “cosmopolitan” is high praise, it evokes memories of travelling in style! Stephen, when they call you “nationalist”, the comeback isn’t “cosmopolitan” but “globalist”. (Also, “cosmopolitan” was and is still being used by the antisemites as a dog-whistle to denote Jews, and only Jews, long before this ((( ))) business; most normal people are unaware of it, but you’re still giving the media ammo to tar you with that brush.)
"LOL" -- re Acosta, throughout I was thinking 'Someone tell that prattling pansy to STFU already'.
Anyway, re immigration, not to mention public policy in general, it's time -- way past time, actually -- for substance over style, wouldn't you say?Replies: @yyrvjh
Who cares about this idiot CNN guy's baritone voice? Take it to the opera! The truth is the truth, nonetheless. Bald guys aren't always wrong, either - one bald Fascist, Mussolini, 80-odd years ago, and you put it on all bald guys. Check your hairy privilege, bitchez!Replies: @Clark Westwood
From liberty to giverty.
In other news the mayor of Gotham has said he doesn’t want Batman fighting crime anymore.
Stephen Miller just rattled off a lengthy list of arguments destroying every tired open borders argument the Left has been spouting for the last two decades. I thought we were having an earthquake today. Turns out it was just Miller pushing the Overton Window another 500 yards to the right.
He wasn't particularly brilliant on substance but good in style and personality. He pushed back in manner of offense is best defense. Don't be pushed into a corner and then try to squeeze out.
When prodded, push back hard. And push and push and push. Never let the other side have momentum or upperhand.
Politics isn't just about ideas but about style and manner. Always push back and always push back hard.
The apologetic style that became de rigueur among white politicians became so damaging. It's like all those white politicians cowing before BLM thugs or arguing from position of guilt and weakness as the accused.
No, don't play the defendant. Play the role of prosecutor.Replies: @Wilkey
Politics isn’t just about ideas but about style and manner. Always push back and always push back hard.
Exactly. That’s been the problem of conservatives for far too long. We’re so used to being told we’re in the minority that we get defensive. Never never ever get defensive. Put them on the defensive. Make them feel stupid, insecure, and ridiculous. Make them feel like the are part of an ignorant minority. Make them feel like they’re on the wrong side of history.
Given that CNN correspondents, like Jim Acosta, don’t even pretend to be real journalists anymore, why doesn’t the White House just de-credential them. They can sit around their studio and interview each other, if they like. But clearly they aren’t asking probing questions on behalf of their viewers, so why should public officials waste their time by taking CNN’s questions?
Exactly. That's been the problem of conservatives for far too long. We're so used to being told we're in the minority that we get defensive. Never never ever get defensive. Put them on the defensive. Make them feel stupid, insecure, and ridiculous. Make them feel like the are part of an ignorant minority. Make them feel like they're on the wrong side of history.Replies: @Mr. Anon
Exactly. Liberals are the real faith-based party. Make them own it.
Oh God.
Sounds like something a quirky computer translator would come up with.
Seriously, how could a journalist write that without thinking, “Oh, hang on, he meant enlightening the world”?
Stephen Miller just rattled off a lengthy list of arguments destroying every tired open borders argument the Left has been spouting for the last two decades. I thought we were having an earthquake today. Turns out it was just Miller pushing the Overton Window another 500 yards to the right.Replies: @silviosilver
And still no nearer to heaven.
I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but even more poignant expressions have been made over the decades, to no lasting avail. The press is masterful at turning these statements around, using the opportunity of their expression to emphasize why and how we’ve all “moved on” from the mindset which led to them – and thereby further entrenching existing (“anti-racist,” pro-immigration) attitudes.
Then again, things that can’t last forever, don’t. Maybe the ascension of the Trumps and Millers and Bannons means we’ve turned a corner.
Miller just added a brilliant phrase to the discourse:
“[your] Statue of Liberty law”
“*Statue of Liberty poem law*”.
It is logically interchangeable with Steve’s “Zeroth Amendment” but simpler and more direct in its ridicule, more immediately comprehensible to a larger audience.
Who knows if he came up with it on camera or had it prepared to spring at the right moment. It is a great tool that I hope to see re-used at every opportunity. Bravo.
Stephen Miller, Narrative Killer.
A recent, crude rather than “masterful,” example that Sailer retweeted:
And therefore Miller is wrong about everything, now and forever. Inviting in the world’s refuse is a good idea. Checkmate!
"*Statue of Liberty poem law*".It is logically interchangeable with Steve's "Zeroth Amendment" but simpler and more direct in its ridicule, more immediately comprehensible to a larger audience. Who knows if he came up with it on camera or had it prepared to spring at the right moment. It is a great tool that I hope to see re-used at every opportunity. Bravo.Stephen Miller, Narrative Killer.Replies: @silviosilver
Gives a whole new meaning to “poetic justice,” doesn’t it.
O/T: Was there an announcement on this site that Chris Brand (of g-factor notoriety) died in May of this year? I checked entries for May and June but didn't see any anything. I thought it would be fitting to mention it.
Shouldn’t the New Americans at least be able to read aloud the Most Important Words in America?
It’s a lateral move for White genocide, really. The working class has already been smoked, now it’s time for the middle class to take the pipe.
We can’t argue from race, that’s totally out the window. We can’t argue from culture/heritage like Huntington and Buchanan because that leads inevitably to race, which is racist. All we are allowed to argue from is economics. Can they convince the entire Republican Senate and their donors that this will be good for the economy (GDP)?
Does it even matter, though? I guess a heavily Asiatic America is marginally better than another Latin American failed state. But we’ll still have 10s of millions of underclass blacks and Hispanics. The future looks crazy.
Miller is nervous, balding, has a halting delivery -- allowing hecklers to break up his flow, having to repeat himself four (!) times before he felt he could go on -- and generally comes across to Mr. and Mrs. America as a high-strung character, a crank -- the kind that makes people at town hall meetings roll their eyes as soon as he starts toward the microphone.
The worst of Miller's mistakes? Using the word "cosmopolitan" in derogatory fashion. When boomers hear "cosmopolitan", they think of the old Mastercard commercial.
https://youtu.be/FnNq-UGhVrc
"So worldly, so welcome" -- remember? Being called "cosmopolitan" is high praise, it evokes memories of travelling in style! Stephen, when they call you "nationalist", the comeback isn't "cosmopolitan" but "globalist". (Also, "cosmopolitan" was and is still being used by the antisemites as a dog-whistle to denote Jews, and only Jews, long before this ((( ))) business; most normal people are unaware of it, but you're still giving the media ammo to tar you with that brush.)Replies: @eah, @Achmed E. Newman, @Clark Westwood, @anonguy
the CNN reporter is suave, has a reassuring baritone
“LOL” — re Acosta, throughout I was thinking ‘Someone tell that prattling pansy to STFU already’.
Anyway, re immigration, not to mention public policy in general, it’s time — way past time, actually — for substance over style, wouldn’t you say?
It's a culture war as much or even more than politics. The other side does not see President Trump as a defeat, but as a speed bump on their road to victory. Trump is the last, forlorn hope of we who resist the social justice warriors, the racial grievance mongers, the subsidy milkers and rent-seekers, the one-world esperantist billionaires, the poison-ink spillers in ivory towers and news rooms. They have had decades to entrench themselves in sinecures and well-fortified positions. They know there will not be a civil war if Trump is impeached. Impeachment is not imminent. But they are furiously working toward that goal. Their Plan B is to keep President Trump but hamstring him so that he cannot carry out the agenda he was elected for. They are making progress there, too. (See Russia sanctions and 98-2 vote in Senate.)
Though ‘wretched refuse’ is extremely hateful and derogatory to new immigrants; perhaps you need a less hardcore racist poem to replace it.
The autistes shall inherit the Earth! Meekness has been replaced by lack of social skills which enable one to dismiss the fear of losing social standing by not clapping hard or long enough for the prevailing orthodoxy!
That is almost too clever.
a “monumental injustice” from the Pedestal branch of government (the zeroth branch).
Acosta was citing precedent from the Supreme Monument.
I thought Miller knocked it out of the park and I agree w others that it was one of the best days so far in the Trump admin. Reducing legal immigration, what in God’s name?!?! This is awesome. Yes Miller’s delivery is a little halting and he is sort of balky and jumpy, but he will only get better and he is a brilliant guy who has better command of facts than anyone in the room. The guy is GOOD. He kicked Acosta through the uprights from the 40-yard line and could have gone out another 15 yards!
Mr. Aon asked:
That’s easy to answer: journalists making fools of themselves attacking Trump is one of the biggest assets Trump has. I myself am rather lukewarm towards Trump, but I do have to admit to more than a bit of Schadenfreude at seeing guys like Acosta being publicly disembowelled.
A “monumental injustice,” haha, that’s great. Wish I thought of it.
+ 1000! (assuming we had tiny thumbs to click on)
What I don’t understand, with all these smart guys in the administration, is that no-one seems to have connected Russia with North Korea. They are neighbours. The strategic benefits of a friendly relationship with Russia could not be clearer. The Chuck Schumer/MSN game of ‘get Trump because Russia’ has made the world less safe. The consequences of US domestic politics may be beyond what anyone can apologise for.
I guess to each their own but I thought he was funny & witty. Sure he’s not a communications guy but he seemed effective in communicating his point of view well enough to get the Twitteri and cable news guys going.
Also my understanding is that Trump thought his initial appearances a few months ago were good, can’t see how he’d dislike this one either.
Most of what I have seen in the rightosphere is about how Miller totally pwned that dude from CNN. I don’t think it was that decisive but for God’s sake get that guy in front of a camera again.
Somebody who’s well spoken, who actually has the understanding and confidence of the President, and knows his portfolio, is soooooooo much better than what we’ve seen out of the Administration so far. Between him and John Kelly, this Administration just might start to pull its head out of its ass.
So far, there's been a theme with this Administration that either we get Ivanka and Jared calling the shots, with their social and business interests, or it's a bunch of extras from My Cousin Vinny. Hopefully, we and the President can appreciate that our options ought to go beyond that.
That being said, no one is immune to the corrupting forces of DC. I'll be interested to see how it goes for Kelly.
Trump likes Marines, that is for sure.Replies: @Jack Hanson
Miller is nervous, balding, has a halting delivery -- allowing hecklers to break up his flow, having to repeat himself four (!) times before he felt he could go on -- and generally comes across to Mr. and Mrs. America as a high-strung character, a crank -- the kind that makes people at town hall meetings roll their eyes as soon as he starts toward the microphone.
The worst of Miller's mistakes? Using the word "cosmopolitan" in derogatory fashion. When boomers hear "cosmopolitan", they think of the old Mastercard commercial.
https://youtu.be/FnNq-UGhVrc
"So worldly, so welcome" -- remember? Being called "cosmopolitan" is high praise, it evokes memories of travelling in style! Stephen, when they call you "nationalist", the comeback isn't "cosmopolitan" but "globalist". (Also, "cosmopolitan" was and is still being used by the antisemites as a dog-whistle to denote Jews, and only Jews, long before this ((( ))) business; most normal people are unaware of it, but you're still giving the media ammo to tar you with that brush.)Replies: @eah, @Achmed E. Newman, @Clark Westwood, @anonguy
This is why people like me (with a clue, that is) didn’t want women to be able to vote. It was a big mistake, and we need to all admit this.
Who cares about this idiot CNN guy’s baritone voice? Take it to the opera! The truth is the truth, nonetheless. Bald guys aren’t always wrong, either – one bald Fascist, Mussolini, 80-odd years ago, and you put it on all bald guys. Check your hairy privilege, bitchez!
Somebody who's well spoken, who actually has the understanding and confidence of the President, and knows his portfolio, is soooooooo much better than what we've seen out of the Administration so far. Between him and John Kelly, this Administration just might start to pull its head out of its ass.Replies: @Boethiuss, @anonguy
And one more thing. I’ve had my fill of Jared and Ivanka. With yesterday’s press briefing and the appointment of John Kelly, we can hope the President has as well.
So far, there’s been a theme with this Administration that either we get Ivanka and Jared calling the shots, with their social and business interests, or it’s a bunch of extras from My Cousin Vinny. Hopefully, we and the President can appreciate that our options ought to go beyond that.
To paraphrase Rocky, Eric Bolling still thinks this is a damn show. He doesn’t get that it’s a damn fight.
Fox news should never put Eric Bolling in front of the camera again.
Tucker Carlson has the highest rated show on Fox because he, like Stephen Miller, constantly challenges the mendacious establishment narrative.
Miller is nervous, balding, has a halting delivery -- allowing hecklers to break up his flow, having to repeat himself four (!) times before he felt he could go on -- and generally comes across to Mr. and Mrs. America as a high-strung character, a crank -- the kind that makes people at town hall meetings roll their eyes as soon as he starts toward the microphone.
The worst of Miller's mistakes? Using the word "cosmopolitan" in derogatory fashion. When boomers hear "cosmopolitan", they think of the old Mastercard commercial.
https://youtu.be/FnNq-UGhVrc
"So worldly, so welcome" -- remember? Being called "cosmopolitan" is high praise, it evokes memories of travelling in style! Stephen, when they call you "nationalist", the comeback isn't "cosmopolitan" but "globalist". (Also, "cosmopolitan" was and is still being used by the antisemites as a dog-whistle to denote Jews, and only Jews, long before this ((( ))) business; most normal people are unaware of it, but you're still giving the media ammo to tar you with that brush.)Replies: @eah, @Achmed E. Newman, @Clark Westwood, @anonguy
I’m thinking more like Ted Baxter being skewered by Murray on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
This is another one of those cuck-test events. The cucks are all running around talking about how Miller is bald or fidgety or a big meanie. What they are really signalling is they are afraid they will be called racist if they oppose immigration.
As I keep saying, the Trumpening is more about destroying the old order than anything else. Now the wrecking ball will swing through the cuck-o-sphere, with regards to the national question.
Billing does have a point. Miller should not have let Acosta hijack the press conference into a debate. He should have pointed out the fallacy in Acosta’s question with one response, then cut off the jerk’s sputtering indignation and moved on to the next opponent’s question. That’s what Trump would have done.
That said, it was soooo much better than what we've seen before I almost hate to mention it, it seems like such a small quibble. Miller was forthright, not belligerent unless provoked, composed, and commanded his brief. I almost don't even care what policies the Administration supports, if the Administration can project that going forward in its public statements, it will go a long way toward persuading the American people that the Keystone Kops aren't running things.
Personally I think his exchange with Thrush was much bloodier.
Of course, all the hand wringing here just underlines why most of you guys need to stay away from politics.
"LOL" -- re Acosta, throughout I was thinking 'Someone tell that prattling pansy to STFU already'.
Anyway, re immigration, not to mention public policy in general, it's time -- way past time, actually -- for substance over style, wouldn't you say?Replies: @yyrvjh
Ha ha, that’s a good one. Was an election ever decided on “substance”? Acosta doesn’t have his job because of affirmative action, he has it because he is very, very good at what he does: brainwashing the masses on behalf of Big Corporate, which pays CNN’s bills. He is a fool and a shill who couldn’t prevail in a fair debate, but he is well-trained to say words tested in focus groups to be impactful, knows how to play to the camera and Stephen Miller does not.
It’s a culture war as much or even more than politics. The other side does not see President Trump as a defeat, but as a speed bump on their road to victory. Trump is the last, forlorn hope of we who resist the social justice warriors, the racial grievance mongers, the subsidy milkers and rent-seekers, the one-world esperantist billionaires, the poison-ink spillers in ivory towers and news rooms. They have had decades to entrench themselves in sinecures and well-fortified positions. They know there will not be a civil war if Trump is impeached. Impeachment is not imminent. But they are furiously working toward that goal. Their Plan B is to keep President Trump but hamstring him so that he cannot carry out the agenda he was elected for. They are making progress there, too. (See Russia sanctions and 98-2 vote in Senate.)
Absolutely. “Look Jim, I know there’s a back-and-forth with members of the press and I know you probably have some followup questions, but I’m going to finish a sentence before you start talking again, if that’s ok with you.”
That said, it was soooo much better than what we’ve seen before I almost hate to mention it, it seems like such a small quibble. Miller was forthright, not belligerent unless provoked, composed, and commanded his brief. I almost don’t even care what policies the Administration supports, if the Administration can project that going forward in its public statements, it will go a long way toward persuading the American people that the Keystone Kops aren’t running things.
Miller totally pantsed Acosta, there is no other way to spin it.
Or, you know, he could do what he did and highlight that the media is an arm of the DNC, blow holes in the maudlin rhetoric of muh statue poem, and generally drop kick the Overton a few more inches right.
Personally I think his exchange with Thrush was much bloodier.
Of course, all the hand wringing here just underlines why most of you guys need to stay away from politics.
Yeah, that damn Stephen Miller, barging onto the scene with his damn hifalutin “logic”.
We’re communicatin’ here!
I think this sort of approach to handling the press is strategically sound. When you opt for a good, cordial relationship with the press, the public assumes that the press is a neutral arbiter of facts. Obviously this is not true; and it gives the press immense power as they can spin news in such a way that is damaging to you without the public appreciating that they are biased.
On the other hand, if you turn every WH press conference into an angry debate, a few things become obvious: 1. the press is not neutral. 2. the press is not terribly intelligent. Both of these are true, and good for the public to know.
Make press conferences into policy debates. Different people have different reactions to that exchange but what I saw was an overpaid, prettyface, midwit CNN anchor exposed as a mediocrity by a very smart Jew, and freakin’ I loved it.
Who cares about this idiot CNN guy's baritone voice? Take it to the opera! The truth is the truth, nonetheless. Bald guys aren't always wrong, either - one bald Fascist, Mussolini, 80-odd years ago, and you put it on all bald guys. Check your hairy privilege, bitchez!Replies: @Clark Westwood
It was a big mistake. Women in general are too ready to give up freedom for security.
Tucker Carlson has the highest rated show on Fox because he, like Stephen Miller, constantly challenges the mendacious establishment narrative.Replies: @Barnard
Bolling went from giving stock picks on Saturday mornings during Bulls & Bears to eventually becoming a FOX News host and pundit. I don’t know what makes him more knowledgeable on immigration policy or Stephen Miller’s performance in front of the lying press than the average FOX viewer.
Hilarious. Who speaks for the Zendejas brothers?
Anyone who is woke understands that the revolutionary war was waged by blacks, Muslims and white women against the British cisgendered white patriarchy with the battle cry of “open those borders! We need cheap labor and women need hunky migrants.” That is why the blue coats called themselves the resistance. Only Emma captured the truth.
Isn’t that what it always was?
Miller is nervous, balding, has a halting delivery -- allowing hecklers to break up his flow, having to repeat himself four (!) times before he felt he could go on -- and generally comes across to Mr. and Mrs. America as a high-strung character, a crank -- the kind that makes people at town hall meetings roll their eyes as soon as he starts toward the microphone.
The worst of Miller's mistakes? Using the word "cosmopolitan" in derogatory fashion. When boomers hear "cosmopolitan", they think of the old Mastercard commercial.
https://youtu.be/FnNq-UGhVrc
"So worldly, so welcome" -- remember? Being called "cosmopolitan" is high praise, it evokes memories of travelling in style! Stephen, when they call you "nationalist", the comeback isn't "cosmopolitan" but "globalist". (Also, "cosmopolitan" was and is still being used by the antisemites as a dog-whistle to denote Jews, and only Jews, long before this ((( ))) business; most normal people are unaware of it, but you're still giving the media ammo to tar you with that brush.)Replies: @eah, @Achmed E. Newman, @Clark Westwood, @anonguy
My ears perked up at that. Good thing it wasn’t “rootless cosmopolitan”.
But the funny thing was Acosta was sitting there like a doe-eyed child repeating his naive belief in a received wisdom fairy tale. He didn’t seem in the least cosmopolitan which implies a lively mind, open mind rather than a dogmatic one, by a classic definition anyhow.
I’m pretty sure I learned that in grade school, but that was decades ago.
Somebody who's well spoken, who actually has the understanding and confidence of the President, and knows his portfolio, is soooooooo much better than what we've seen out of the Administration so far. Between him and John Kelly, this Administration just might start to pull its head out of its ass.Replies: @Boethiuss, @anonguy
John Kelly is a stand-up guy to the bone, I know that from personal experience long ago when he was a junior officer on his first tour.
That being said, no one is immune to the corrupting forces of DC. I’ll be interested to see how it goes for Kelly.
Trump likes Marines, that is for sure.
Two words: Buy guns.
etter to be respectful than rich. As Asians have weak individual sense of self, they are far more sensitive about how others perceive them. Status is about perception and rank than real substance in terms of power or wealth.
Well, if we *must* have immigrants, better they have weak individual senses of self and are desirous of respect. Because, once we in the Alt-Right regain the culture completely, then they will do as *we* say. Including go back to Asia because we told them to, hopefully.
That being said, no one is immune to the corrupting forces of DC. I'll be interested to see how it goes for Kelly.
Trump likes Marines, that is for sure.Replies: @Jack Hanson
The Marines and the Border Patrol are Trump’s hard coup insurance.
This can’t be said enough.
Carlos Slim.
Well said, anonguy.
The word I like to use is “parochial”.
We have the most parochial “cosmopolitans” ever. They get a BA but have absolutely no idea about history, about cultures, about biology, about what actually builds and maintains civilization. They really seem to believe these “everyone’s the same” fairytales and believe that people from other races, cultures and civilizations actually want to be just like SWPLy white liberals. Apparently they have no values, ideas, ideals and impulses of their own. (The only these loons don’t think are just like themselves areat don’t are those damn deplorables with their pickup trucks and gun racks.) Really our cosmopolitan good-thinkers are some of the most ignorant people on earth. Truly the most parochial “cosmopolitans” ever.
And nationalist and conservative writers and spokesmen need to keep banging that point home.
In both cases, their experience left them with decidedly different views than those of the "cosmopolitan" bubble.
How many of our rulers have *never* lived outside one of Murray's "superZIPs"?
Anthony Daniels / Theodore Dalymple spent years working as a doctor in Africa and in British prisons. Victor Davis Hanson has spent his life among Mexican farmworkers in glamorous Fresno, CA.
In both cases, their experience left them with decidedly different views than those of the “cosmopolitan” bubble.
How many of our rulers have *never* lived outside one of Murray’s “superZIPs”?
The “jobs” argument that Stephen Miller makes is the worst argument for restricting immigration. I passionately support sharply restricted immigration for political and cultural reasons. But those are difficult to talk about in public.
From strictly a labor market perspective, I actually support global rights of humankind to compete for jobs and improve their lives. Miller cites a Borjas study which I agree with, but that shows relatively minor impact on specific groups American workers. I agree with America first, but this loss is too minor. Other Americans benefit with access to new sources of labor. Labor markets are elastic. I actually agree with the pro-immigration types when it’s strictly an issue of jobs on a free market.
Humans identity strongly with various ethnic, religious, linguistic, and tribal affiliations. The modern liberal mindset may not like this but that’s how it is. It’s not reasonable to ask some groups, specifically the incumbent citizens of US and Europe to simply hand over full voting membership rights to complete strangers and in many ways abandon their identities for absolutely nothing. And especially when rival tribal groups are vying for power through demographic voting contests rather than free market exchanges, it’s completely against the interest of incumbent groups to simply give voting rights to rival groups. This issue is the big one, but it’s difficult and possibly suicidal to discuss this publicly.
Two other pro-immigration-restriction arguments that are more easy to publicly discuss:
– Welfare. Previous President Obama championed individual and group equality as a primary federal concern. On this basis, it is obviously against the interest of incumbent residents to invite the global poor into the country as part of this coercive equality system. Stephen Miller did briefly cite this.
– Secondly, people create culture. Immigrants import their culture with them. Some people are fleeing dysfunctional cultures and it’s quite justified that current residents of US+Europe don’t want that.
It looks as if soon we might not have Eric Bolling to kick around any more:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-host-sent-unsolicited-lewd-text-messages-to-colleagues-sources-say/ar-AAprlTk?li=BBnbcA1
Both sentences reeks of nothing but lügenpressing fear and self-loathing projection.