SubscribeYou have to hand it to the GOP, after all the bitching and complaining about Obama being a socialist, they finally went and actually did something not ’socialist’ but truly fascist - bringing back the old days of guns and illegals and brothels! Yeeeeehaaaw!!!
Spittoon?
My friends and I have a long standing joke where we imitate the Nazis in movies when they ask, “paaapers, papers pleeez.”
Now who would have thunk that joke would come to life to our own country, in this day and age. And so it became when Arizona signed it into law this week, basically allowing cops to pull anyone over for no reason and check their “papers.”
You can’t make it up.
Even worse is that the shape-shifting McCain actually supported this buffoonery and now is being laughed at alongside all the other idiots in that state.
Think I want to visit now that I might just get pulled over for no reason? No thanks, good luck with the tourism at a time when you need the dollars most. And don’t you think all those aliens spend too? They do, about $26b per year.
Please don’t forget all the massive additional law enforcement costs incurred and get your courts ready for all the lawsuits you’ll have to field.
It’s a perfect storm of conservative idiocy, fiscal lunacy and fascist tenets.
This absurd development comes on the heels of an even more ridiculous law they passed earlier that requires all candidates to provide birth certificate before getting on the 2012 ballot.
Put it altogether and one word comes to mind: racism.
There continues to be a faction of the GOP that, at its core, is just a bunch of sore losers, upended even further because they lost to a black man. The Tea Party? Please, if they knew anything they’d be protesting this new law, which goes against all the civil rights these clowns claim to protect. And where are the libertarians?
Point is, will they notice? For so long now they have screamed ’socialism’ at the opposition. What will they do now that real, undeniable fascism has sprung in their own party, own backyard?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Fact is, the silence you hear is the best the modern conservative intellect can muster. Void of dignity, integrity, civic duty – spoiled to the core by a primal need to obstruct for the sake of obstruction and to win by wrecking the country in its entirety. All the world is a hammer.
Yet, even the worst of historical opponents retained a sense of honor while these conservatives have shed it like a molting snake. Truly one must ask, ‘have you no honor, sir? No decency?’
Wither the American landscape, now reduced to its former self by the Old West sensibility reborn this week along dusty towns on the frontier, enforced by the reinstation of Sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse. Spittoon, anyone?
Now that’s progress.
Open Letter to George Will
Mr. Will
I am a great admirer of your work but your piece on Arizona was predictable, I knew your stance even before reading it - you may be the single WHITEST guy in America.
I suspected you would endorse something as un-American as “guilty until proven innocent,” even just to roll your intellectual dice but probably, again, because you actually radiant whiteness, like over-bleached chompers.
Yet, this is inherent ideology for someone such as yourself, no offense, who is white and does not understand the already tedious daily struggle to prove we are “legal’ and not criminals or drug dealers.
I assume you are not followed every time you go to Target, or get funny, frightened looks by simply walking around? Or pulled over for any little issue?
It is a common feeling amongst white people that, for some reason, believe they are entitled to this land above anyone else, even though, they are all descendants of immigrants. As Colbert said, “My great granddaddy didn’t come 4,000 miles to let this place get overrun by immigrants.”
But really, it’s a stupid fiscal move. I am Puerto Rican. The law insures me all the other 6 million Ricans won’t be visiting anytime soon. Not to mention anyone who even remotely looks Latino or who has brownish tones, brown eyes, black hair or likes tanning salons.
Yes, I am guilty as charged, Mr. Will. I am brown and breathing, I must have done something wrong. Or else why would God grant me this color?
And finally, found this to be borderline ridiculous:
How, exactly, are you any different?
This is not about borders or immigrants sir, it is about the mentality that permeates and makes difficult our daily existence and presence in this country. This law complicates our already complicated relationship with white America.
Yes, I may be at a distance but this effects ALL Hispanics. Sorry, but only a Hispanic can understand the distinction, not the whitest human being in this country, huh, George…Will?