For years, the mantra on the left was “reimagining” everything from policing to free speech to defense. Reimagining often was a synonym for defunding or limiting the subject matter. Now, Georgetown Law Professor Sherally Munshi and others are attacking border enforcement as “ethically indefensible.” Munshi calls it “defamiliarizing” the whole concept of borders, which she and others in higher education now find morally reprehensible.
Munshi’s talk, “Unsettling the Border,” is an example of how radical many law faculties have become. She is by no means a standout in such theories. While schools have purged their ranks of conservative, libertarian, and dissenting faculty, there is no limit to faculty writing on the far left.
Munshi insists that “there is nothing natural or inevitable about the United States’ contemporary borders.” She mocked the whole notion of “the so-called border crisis.” Millions of unvetted people just walking over the border is not a crisis… at least not for the country. It is failure in ourselves; “a crisis of imagination.” Accordingly, she is calling for reimagining or defamiliarizing borders:
“Our task, as I put it, is to unsettle the border, to defamiliarize, disenchant, and recontextualize it by critically evaluating the historical processes, the legal developments, the discursive formations that naturalize and legitimate the border.”
It is, of course, racist to want to have secure borders:
“Rather than redress the fact that the international border regime is practically unsustainable [and] ethically indefensible, majorities in the whitest and wealthiest nations are embracing an increasingly authoritarian form of nationalism and exclusion.”
Borders, according to Professor Munshi, are just a construct “within the American imaginary, the southern border divides white from indigenous, purity from heterogeneity, civilization from savagery, settler from Indian.”
Of course, this reimagining of borders will have to extend back a tad further than the American founders. The concept of the nation-state with sovereign borders was recognized in documents like the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. It was credited with maintaining a Westphalian peace with nations able to maintain their own territory and governing systems. That, in turn, allowed nation-states to form international bodies and further stabilize global relations.
I have heard other faculty present papers along these same lines, dismissing the very concept of border enforcement as racist, privileged, or archaic. It is far more rare to hear conservatives on campuses arguing for border enforcement and deportations. It is even less common to find such advocates on both faculties.
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values.
The problem is not that there are radicals teaching at law schools, but that most faculties seem to run only from the left to the far left.
Perhaps it is time to . . . wait for it . . . reimagine or defamiliarize law school faculty appointments.
The Democrats are done! Trump has eviscerated them, great days ahead America!
Can’t get cocky. Full speed ahead. Don’t let them regain their footing. Disrupt their funding and their narratives at every opportunity
International Labor Unions decided back in the 1980s to denounce the whole idea of borders. These are hard-core socialists, who, looking at a nation like the US recognize that we will never be a socialist nation. However, a way to transfer wealth from affluent to poor is to move migrants from poorer countries into richer ones. That was the “breakthrough” in strategy these labor unions adopted 40 years ago. And, the consequences are no different from socialism — incentives to work hard and improve systems are weakened, and crime and dependency increase.
America will never be a socialist nation???
Are you out of your ——- mind?
Look around you at all the acts of communism that exist in diametric opposition to the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance.
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “general Welfare” – ALL or THE WHOLE WELL PROCEED through governmental provision of security and basic infrastructure – omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same Article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Further, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual,” James Madison.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure.
Jonathan: Does it really make sense why DJT would impose 25% tariffs on Canada when most undocumented immigrants and fentanyl come across our southern border? In January only 13.6 grams of fentanyl were seized at the Canadian border and our northern neighbor has invested $900 million to enhance their border security.
I have friends in Canada who think DJT may have more PERSONAL reasons for the same tariffs on Canada as on Mexico. For starters, DJT does no like Trudeau on a personal level. Like the fact that Trudeau has stood up to DJT saying things like “Perhaps what [Trump] wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us. That’s never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state”. But other world leaders have said some nasty things about DJT and he hasn’t imposed tariffs on them. So that can’t be the only reason.
Then DJT was mad that Trudeau, age 53, was famously photographed giving Melania a European-style kiss on the cheek at the 2019 Group of 7 meeting in France. But then DJT likes to kiss and fondle the wives of other men so that can’t be the only reason. But what about DJT calling Trudeau “two-faced” for appearing to mock DJT at a meeting of NATO leaders. But, again, European leaders mock DJT all the time without repercussions.
Canadians say DJT is mad, not because of all those perceived slights but something more visceral and more personal. In 2016 DJT had a deal for a 65-story hotel and condos in Toronto. Instead the deal went to other investors who didn’t want the “Trump” brand on the building. Canadian investors also sued DJT over being misled about the deal. Then another DJT branded hotel in Vancouver failed in 2017–partly due to massive public protests. Vancouver’s mayor said at the time: “Trump’s name and brand have no more place on Vancouver’s skyline than his ignorant ideas have in the modern world”.
Could these bad real estate experiences be the real reason DJT is pissed off at Canadians? Same reason DJT wants to take back the Panama Canal–a bad real estate adventure in Panama City when DJT got kicked out by new investors? Makes perfect sense. DJT is a sociopath and narcissist. He holds personal grudges forever and that drives many of his otherwise unfathomable actions. It’s all about retribution and vengeance for his real estate ventures that failed.
Any one have a better explanation for why DJT is going after Canada with tariffs?
Mr. Stupid, I agree with you! I think Trump should let in all the fentanyl that he can, and maybe within a year or two we can help every drug addict in America shuffle off this mortal coil! If we could only increase the Kill Rate from 80,000 per year to 800,000 per year, think of all the savings! In 2 or 3 years, we could be drug free in America!
If Dennis were an element he would be found in the transition metals on the periodic table, he would be somewhere amongst the denser elements minus a few electrons from his valance shell…
The Toronto banks have been used as a money-laundering conduit to route the fentanyl profits back to China. (See TD Bank). Even the CBC has run stories on how lax the penalties are. Until Canada’s money-laundering laws get updated to reflect the damage done, expect more pressure.
If I recall the Clinton Initiative uses Canadian banks as their primary source. Why does George Soros control Ukranian banking?
# Maybe usa participation in nato should be reimagined, Mr. Stupid.
Justine has cozied up to the PRC and they have infiltrated Canada. Same with Mexico. The PRC sidesteps USA tariffs by making 95% of a product in the PRC and assembling the last part in Canada and Mexico. The product get the favored status of our favored neighboring countries.
My best guess is they will make a deal to kick China out and have Canada-USA-Mexico tariffs against the PRC. That will help weaken the PRC encroachment of our country and our waters. That is also why Trump named it the Gulf of America. It gives notice to adversaries that they are too close to us.
Who is against bring manufacturing back on our shores? I am tired of buying cheap Chinese products.,I go out of my way to avoid them.
E.M.
Great comment! And thank you for pointing out how stupid Mr. Stupid really is.
Screw Her ! – Americans can’t afford to be American anymore.
And it’s because of Her and her wondering multitude that contributed nothing to the State, just take take take.. There’s nothing left here.
We need more Borders to keep Her and her Horde out. Gated Communities are necessary because of Her and her ideologies. There are several other Continents on Earth for Her to play her game. Leave US in peace, We are absolutely fine without You, Go Away Sherally Munshi.
# For Ms. Munchy it’s all the fault of colonialism and slavery. Why does India use it’s own people as slaves? It’s because the British once had a colony there for spices.
Zelensky was humiliated like how Nazis humiliated Jews:
https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/105/jews-are-humiliated-in-occupied-poland/
Hysterical (and very silly) comments like this from the military industrial complex mean a deal for peace is near. Keep it up, paid shill, it gives us hope.
Trump is the king of projection, so when he accuses Zelensky of starting World War 3,
that means that Trump intends to start World War 3.
^^ Paid DNC troll. Ignore. ^^
Did I touch a nerve?
OldManFromKS,
They are just ever so butt hurt of all of the MAGA winning!! Trump handed the Democrats their butts last night! And everyone knows it!!!
Ultimately, Trump humiliated his asinine self, along with yapping lap-dog Vance.
The only ones humiliated were Vance & Trump. It was quite embarrassing to see the President act like WWIII was imminent when Russia can’t even take out a 4th rate military using obsolete NATO equipment like Ukraine’s. The joke’s on you, you’re just blind to see it.
That’s what I meant. Trump and Vance only humiliated themselves in their
attempt to humiliate Zelensky. And then there was that guy who
made fun of Zelensky’s outfit. That wasn’t necessary. Those
were the words of a class clown. Talk about disrespecting the Oval Office!
He gets cleaned up for Vanity Fair. He’s been promised riches. He said he’ll wear a suit better than yours.
Jon fetterman…
^ Paid DNC troll. Ignore. ^
If that’s the situation, Ukraine certainly won’t need our help to win the war against Russia.
FREE Derek Chauvin!
Someone should send a half dozen undocumented migrants to squat where Professor Munshi lives. Consistent with Munshi’s argument about national borders, private residences are an indefensible form of exclusion practiced by rich people.
Learn the truth about Ukraine
https://x.com/i/status/1896192766184657274
Russian bots gonna bot.
MIC bots gonna bot
How is it any skin off your nose if someone wants to root for Team Ukraine? So what? Why is this such a problem for you? Why should you be allowed to root for Team Russia without having to fight for Russia?
“Root” for a “team”? So it’s all one big game to you. You let the mask slip and we see how ugly you are.
We want peace, we want the bloodshed to stop, we want to avoid WWIII and nuclear war. We want America to be solvent. We think practical solutions, realpolitik, is the most likely to achieve that.
Trump and Vance should persuade Putin to get out of Ukraine.
Then the bloodshed will stop.
Why don’t they attempt this?
Wow, doubling down on your game of pretend. You’re a MIC shill, we all see right through you. I hope your corporate overlords withhold your pay for this week on grounds of stupidity and incompetence.
JFK put a blockade around Cuba in the Missile Crisis; he didn’t want the USSR on America’s doorstep.
NATO is right up to Russia’s doorstep, which Putin, like JFK, advocated against.
https://x.com/i/status/1896192766184657274
Because no sane person thinks a dictator can be “persuaded” to give up land he conquered.
If that’s how you want to spin an innocent metaphor, whatever. I would expect a villain to do something like that. Whatever it takes to posture. A demon claiming the moral highground is an oxymoron.
Says the a’h0le making money off the slaughter of millions. Unlike you I want the bloodshed to stop. If that makes me a demon in your eyes then you live in opposite world.
The man who started the bloodshed, Putin, can also stop the bloodshed.
Why don’t you write a letter to Putin politely asking him to
get his soldiers out of Ukraine, and to stop launching drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, so that your dream of stopping the bloodshed can become a reality.
^ sealioning ^
No you don’t. You play that game, but what you want is Russia to win. Because if you wanted peace and end to the bloodshed, we’d be sending NATO troops into Ukraine and telling Putin to get back his country and pay reparations. It’s called Peace Through Superior Firepower. Instead, you wring your hands and play games on the Internet for Team Putin.
Thank you for siding with me, MosesZD.
Idiots side with idiots.
I think Russia already won…Moe!
I don’t think there’s too much that anyone can do about it at this stage. Clinton, Bush’s, Obama, Trump and Biden blew it long ago. Russia would never have invaded if they just had not tried to get Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. Please tell us what is it in America’s interest to fund another countries war? Especially when that country is corrupted beyond repair? It’s basically a Civil War that will end when we quit funding it. Over a million dead…
“I think Russia already won…Moe!”
Neither Russia nor Ukraine can call it a win, no matter the settlement. It will not be enough to justify the war. Both Russia and Ukraine were degraded.
Russia is a nation in decline, and the Ukraine war probably sped that decline up. Ukraine’s infrastructure has taken a hit that might take over a decade to correct. I wonder what their birth rate will be after the war.
Biden created the failure in the Afghanistan withdrawal and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Will war break out with Egypt v Israel? Egypt has amassed many tanks, artillery and soldiers in the Sinai in violation of its treaty with Israel. I don’t think war will occur, but if Biden had remained, the likelihood of war would be significantly greater.
Exactly Mr. Meyer
No one ever wins a feudal blood debt.
But when your enemy, feudal or not, kills women and children with pleasure and at will, there are only two choices: fight or die. So it is with the Hamas terrorists and Israel. Israel tried a complete move out of Gaza, giving the Gazans their land and infrastructure while providing water and electricity. What did the Gazans do? They put Hamas in power, whose charter calls for the death of all Jews and the removal of all Jewish lands.
When they finish with the Jews, who is next? Look at their charter and records obtained by the FBI for the Holy Land Trials, “the death of the West from within.”
Only fools cannot see the writing on the wall and choose not to look at the abundant evidence. Even the Arab nations have designated the Muslim Brotherhood (including Hamas) as a terrorist organization.
I don’t disagree with anything you said however have you considered they see Israel as Israel sees them? There is no winner in death, only death and more death.
Traveler, I am glad we agree. Israel sees Gazans as human. That is proven every day. Gazans come over the border for medical treatment. Israel places their own troops at risk rather than indiscriminately killing Gazans. Look at the hostages and their appearances as concentration camp victims. Look at the Hamas prisoners in Israel, well-fed.
Israel is the one who protected Hamas’ major hospital at their own risk. They provided generator service to it and patients while Hamas was trying to prevent the hospital from receiving that electricity. Do you not see Hamas terrorists surrounding themselves with women and children as shields?
The kill rate of civilians by the IDF is a fraction of the kill rate of civilians in the American army. As I said before, the war could have been over in a week if Israel had not restrained and protected women and children who, in many cases, are terrorists themselves.
The choice for Israel and the Jews is to fight for survival or die. The Choice for Hamas has always been a cessation of war with their families reaping the rewards of peace, or terrorism. Hamas and, unfortunately, most of the people chose terrorism.
In short, it is simply not true that “Hamas sees Israel as Israel sees them.” Hamas does not see Israelis as humans, and far from trying to protect civilians in Israel, it is trying to kill them. So . . . Traveler is mistaken on that point.
Hamas is a genocidal death cult. Hamas values death, both the death of Israelis, and the death of Palestinians. Israel values life. They are as different as night and day.
The death cult – valuing the death of both sides – is also a feature of Iran’s ruling theocracy. They cannot be deterred, even with nukes. Why? They want war, including nuclear war. They even want to be nuked as long as they can nuke others. Sounds crazy, right? But it makes sense in light of their theology, per which the 12th Imam (who has been alive but concealed since the 800s) will only emerge from hiding when there will be mass carnage, chaos, and apocalyptic war on earth. So it is a fairly logical step for them to believe that if they create those conditions – apocalyptic war – that will lead to his emergence and his bringing of a golden age.
Wow! You are good, Oldman. Thanks for elevating the discussion into a textbook version for study. I find it challenging to get this point across to Traveler. You might have better success with that.
Genocidal cult is a proper phrase for Hamas, which leads us to Iran and whether or not they can also be considered a genocidal cult. Iran is Shi’a, while Hamas is Sunni. These Islamist groups fight one another but can work effectively with one another to destroy their enemies, any non-believer in the Profit Mohammed.
Based on the 12th Imam you mention, Shi’a should be more dangerous, but there is more rationality in the Iranian government than exists in Gaza. We were familiarized with the 12th Imam when Ahmadinejad, a sincere believer in the 12th Imam, was the political leader.
That leads to the question of how rational the Iranian government, which probably has some nuclear bombs today but lacks a successful delivery system, is. They are likely more rational, but an emotional outburst from the leadership could trigger actions from the ‘death cult.’
Traveler assumes Israel is an appendage in world affairs. Sometimes, security analysts overlook morality in favor of strategy. Additionally, the younger ones can be significantly influenced by older generations in the State Department and elsewhere who hold anti-Semitic views. Traveler’s guide is Douglas Macgregor, who older government analysts likely influenced.
Instead of Macgregors archaic thinking, Israel is a pivotal power that restricts any expansionist Islamic power access to Cyprus, Greece and the rest of Europe. We saw this most clearly when Israel responded to the Iranian attack. I want Traveler and others who might hate Israel to recognize Israel’s strategic value.
# it’s most likely to attack Ethiopia and the mega dam. It won’t last long.
S. Meyer,
Well said.
OldManFromKS,
Well said!! Only cowards who hide behind anonymorn and thousands of miles from the war want more war. Wanting peace is not the same thing as siding with Russia but anonymoron is just to stupid to see that.
Zelensky isn’t the one lengthening the war.
Putin is.
Putin lengthens the war every day that he keeps his tanks and soldiers in Ukraine.
Putin could stop the bloodshed by getting out of Ukraine.
Trump and Vance should persuade Putin to get out of Ukraine.
That should stop the bloodshed.
You people are insane for the backwards way in which you see it.
Are you demons?
Trump and Vance live in the real world and seek realistic solutions, unlike you with your worthless moralizing.
Or perhaps you’re a paid shill of the military industrial complex.
Putin is a murderous war criminal terrorist dictator. As Ronald Reagan said, you don’t retreat from what terrorists threaten, you kill them.
Except you can’t equate terrorists to a nation armed with nuclear weapons.
There are now several hundred thousands of dead Russians and a few billion of rubles worth of destroyed military equipment as a result of the war Russia has fought. What exactly do you think that President Trump and Vice President Vance.could use to sway Putin to”give up” the spoils of this War? Spoils that cost his Russian countrymen their sons, brothers and fathers lives. Please enlighten us all as to what one of the nuclear weapons holding nations with one of the largest standing armies would consider? Maybe Trump could say Pretty pretty Please?!
Finish off their economy just like Reagan did to the USSR, child.
LOL
Russia has more natural resources available than any other country. China and Europe consume their resources readily. Russia’s economy is growing and stable, Russian people aren’t like Westerners that need a new car and every new gizmo. As long as they have some vodka, they are good.
This sounds a lot like, “Just teach rapists not to rape”, “Just teach thieves not to steal”, etc. It doesn’t work that way. Putin is a murderous dictator and a paranoid xenophobe. He is not going to be “persuaded” by anything Trump or Vance could say.
What would Munshi have to say about Hadrian’s Wall or the Great Wall of China?
#74. What would munshi have to say? A lie is what she’d say. She’s an opportunistic liar.
Most likely…
As a Canadian I’m all in on belt tightening and taking America down into a deep recession with us as your incompetent and grotesque president, Donald Trump, drives you American lemmings off a cliff. It’s not the optimum, but China wants our oil, forestry products and manufactured goods. Trump is leading the crusade to let China take over as the world’s leader from Europe, to South America, to Africa. Keep the insulting threats coming Donald. You done effed up.
With America incapacitated, why would China pay you for anything it wants from Canada, because of that innate traditional Chinese sense of ethics and morality?
Mao killed up to 80 million for what? For nothing; for ideology alone.
China is a faux nation, a paper tiger, that will soon be in abject imbalance-cum-collapse due to its gross population miscalculation.
I’m gonna take a wild guess that you are a complete idiot who has been “sustained” by inefficacious Canadian “public healthcare”—it’s free because that’s what it’s worth, you bozo!
You need to stop cheating your neighbor and lose your sense of entitlement to “free stuff.”
“Mao killed up to 80 million for what? For nothing; for ideology alone. ”
What makes you think a Canuck will care about that? Canada has begun to use GOVERNMENT assisted suicide (MAID) to cull those deemed too old, too frail, or too crazy from its society. That is who is being targeted today. Who knows what groups that initiative might be expanded to tomorrow? Those with unpopular political opinions, perhaps? 80 MM is a high bar, but the way that the Canadian government is going, it might be attainable.
Assisted Dying: BC Hospice Society Offers ‘Do Not Euthanize’ Kit as Unprompted Offers of MAID Grow
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/assisted-dying-bc-hospice-society-offers-do-not-euthanize-kit-as-unprompted-offers-of-maid-grow-5783683
“Amid news that some Canadians have been asked, unprompted, if they wish to seek euthanasia, a B.C. group has developed a “defence kit” for people to ensure they don’t get pressured into receiving medical assistance in dying (MAID).”
The Canadian government has mismanaged immigration for so long that it’s basically impossible to buy a house in Canada unless you’re wealthy. Pierre Poilievre is their best hope for brining sanity back to the public sector. Right now their woke Marxist son of Castro is so incompetent that it totally sucks to live in Canada. It is a nation with vast potential being held back by bad governance. If they can’t figure out how to vote for better quality leadership then they deserve what they get.
#74. Canadians see Americans as fleas always running there when war breaks out. It’s a huge border but Canada dislikes invaders so it’ll patrol. There’s an opening in Maine that needs closing.
# china’s looking for markets. They don’t need imports. Xi needs to understand he has a 1.5 billion domestic market.
# sweetie, the people are so dishonest they’ll simply put made in America on everything.
Canada is a beautiful country but it sucks to live there right now because its government has screwed things up so badly. Try buying a house in Canada right now, it’s just about as likely to happen as getting good quality treatment in a timely manner from the socialized health system. Try having freedom of speech in Canada, being a right-leaning news outlet, try protesting draconian vax mandates if you’re a trucker supplying the people with their needed goods. You’ll get debanked or if your a grandma in Ottawa the mounted police will have their horses trample you.
I personally disagree with tariffs on Canadian goods but honey pie you’re all wet. Your last best hope is that your fellow voters elect Pierre Poilievre and that he starts implementing Trumpian policies sooner than later.
Says the oldmanfromkansas who’s about to be pushed to the edge of losing his house. Say goodbye to affluence not because of Canada, but because of the incompetence of your president.
Not even close. Try a little harder next time.
Yep, Americans will get mighty thirsty for some whiskey. Canadians grow their wheat on usa land that someone sold them. That needs investigation.
We prefer corn liquor or tequila ya hoser!
Oh yea, Soy boy Castro Jr is gonna take down America. You Canucks are lost, too much cold weather…enjoy your summer, the month of July … and tell your Snowbirds to stay home.
# China was allowed to sell products under Obama. Obama needed to get cheap goods to Americans fast. China will eventually get a self sustaining domestic economy but is struggling. It has all necessary resources but is new to capitalism.
“As a Canadian I’m all in on belt “
As a Canadian, an XY woman, and a Rhodes Scholar, you don’t know sh1t. The money flows out of the US while we pay for tariffs or their equivalent at rates higher than our own. Since the trade balance is 7:1 in favor of other nations, the suffering will be most significant outside the US and in this “crazy” tariff war, we may see lower tariffs across the board. You can’t see that because you have a Democrat brain that has never been used.
# Xis error is not focusing on his domestic economy and markets. He doesn’t have the hang of it, yet.
OT
KJ Smith is quoting Abraham Lincoln.
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“Oscars: Actress KJ Smith Suggests Black Americans ‘Start Looking Into’ Moving to Africa Due to U.S. Political Climate”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: KJ Smith attends the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theat
“Actress KJ Smith bizarrely suggested that the black community “start looking into” moving to Africa due to the political climate in the United States during a red carpet event at the Oscars on Sunday evening. After being asked if there is something she wishes “is there something that you wish was talked about more within our community,” Smith replied, “Understanding our roots,” adding, “I think it’s really important.” “I think we’re not trapped here,” BET’s Sistas star continued. “With the political climate that’s going on in the United States of America, we are not trapped here. There are places that we can go.” “There are countries that are receiving us back — citizenship back — with open arms, and I think that it’s time for the black community, as a whole, to start looking into those resources,” Smith added.
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“If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1896293907044184450
“Actress KJ Smith Suggests Black Americans ‘Start Looking Into’ Moving to Africa Due to U.S. Political Climate””
She should lead the way. I wonder how many high-budget films are currently being cast in Nairobi or Somalia?
Munschi (and her ilk) should be shipped of to some marginally livable desert island, where she can argue with the sea about borders until her larynx gives out. On a more practical level, there is no authorization in the Constitution for Federal government to be involved in any way, shape or form, with education. Trump, therefore, should immediately terminate Federal funds going not only to universities that fail to comply with his Executive Orders, but to all colleges and universities, without exception. Let the chumps sending their offspring to these absurd institutions foot the entire cost of employing morons like Munschi, and see how long that lasts.
Or back to India? Sure…
In other speech-phobia news, Canadian MP is trying to bar American comedian from the whole country because he dislikes terrorism and the killing of Jews by Hamas.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/comic-michael-rapaport-slams-canadian-lawmaker-attempting-get-him-barred-from-doing-standup-country
“he” being the comedian .
The Canadian MP apparently likes Hamas so much she can’t abide anyone criticizing that demonic evil organization.
Instead of returning terrorists to Hamas in exchange for hostages, the terrorists should be released in Canada.
#74. She has a fundamental misunderstanding of what Americans mean by “equal” and renders it as, if you don’t look like I look then you don’t belong . The border problem only exists because the people illegally crossing the border are brown.
She then thinks equality has become an idiom of colorblindness instead of essence.
That’s as far as I’m going with it.
Is it true there are more 3rd world nations in the southern hemisphere? The north star, Polaris, is a big image in the northern hemisphere. Do southern hemisphere people know it exists?
Many have a “fundamental misunderstanding” of what the men at the top of this page, the American Founders, clearly and unequivocally legislated was to be the population of the nation they established.
To wit,
Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
Yes, they were very intelligent and the proof is all around. 😂
#74. There’s also the use of the word “personhood” in her writing. She’s also saying immigrants have personhood that isn’t American but is their own ethnic personhood. Americans want to see personhood in America as specular aka as mirror like. She uses specular. It’s annoying for her because Hindu Americans are different from Christian Americans but meet the requirements of citizen and their personhood can’t be reduced to skin color.
It annoys her she says and it’s morally reprehensible. She doesn’t explain the morally reprehensible idea with a philosophy .
East Indian populations have a very high tolerance of dishonesty and lying among other immoral behaviors . The moral philosophy behind that is unkn.
On another topic, last night somebody commented on another thread, about trannies in the military, and how it wasn’t a good idea. Somebody else replied that the IDF was okay with it, and would pay for surgeries and hormone treatments. Just came across this story, on Free Republic, about how the IDF is investigating some of its failures on Oct.7. I wonder if the DEI push had anything to do with it???
Here is one of the stories, an excerpt and a link:
On the morning of October 7, 2023, some 215 Hamas terrorists stormed into the Israel Defense Forces’ Nahal Oz base, located just 850 meters from the border with the Gaza Strip. The troops stationed there were unable to defend the facility, and it quickly fell to the terrorists, who murdered dozens and abducted others.
Military investigators described the battle at the Nahal Oz base as one of the IDF’s biggest failures on October 7, as it highlighted that even a site where 162 soldiers — 90 of them armed, though only 81 were combat soldiers — were deployed was unprotected.
The base served as an army post for combat soldiers, due to its proximity to Gaza, as well as a command center for the Border Defense Corps’ 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, whose female members operate surveillance cameras looking toward the Strip.
Hamas knew exactly how vulnerable the base was
The base — unlike an actual IDF border post — was not built to defend against a ground attack: The perimeter wall had gaps and holes in it; and the shelters, as well as the war room from which the surveillance soldiers operated, were designed to withstand rocket fire but not a ground attack.
The base had one soldier on guard duty that morning, at the entrance to the base facing away from Gaza. Two guard posts in the base facing toward the Strip were not manned and rarely were.
Hamas knew all of this.
The terror group had collected intelligence on the Nahal Oz base over the years, using drones, soldiers’ social media posts, and IDF publications in the news media.
A document from early 2023 with Hamas’s information on the Nahal Oz base was found by the IDF in Gaza during the ground offensive. The level of detail in the document could compete with IDF special operation dossiers, the IDF’s probe found.
Hamas knew how many troops were deployed at the Nahal Oz base normally, and that on weekends there would be half that number, the document showed. The terror group understood when the best time to attack was, how long it would take for the IDF to send backup troops to the base, and what the best routes to take to reach the base were.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/systemic-failure-how-nahal-oz-base-850-meters-from-gaza-yet-utterly-vulnerable-fell-to-hamas/?utm_campaign=most_popular&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=5
Floyd look at the 1973 war, where the young soldiers defended the area until the reserve forces could get there. Syria has 1,400 tanks, and Israel has 180 tanks. Syria has 30,000- 40,000 troops, and Israel has 6,000, primarily young raw recruits.
Those kids held the heights for four days. In an earlier comment today, I, too, wondered whether the strength of the Israeli military was diminished. I am sure you know, but in Israel, conscripts ~18 and a few more years make up the Israeli army. Israel counts on its seasoned reservists to leave their jobs and fight.
There was a story about one neighborhood, where three Hamas paraglided in. There were 25 security people there already, and then 12 IDF showed up. The terrorists killed 17 people because of snafus between the security people and the IDF. Two terrorists got away. Almost like a Uvalde situation. Same with the base attack – no practice runs. I am sure the IDF will get to the bottom of it all. Something like 40 investigations going on.
Yes, and there are also stories of individual Israeli’s driving into the action to save lives. Something went very wrong and I believe it came from the political left in Israel and perhaps America. I am hoping Trump can help sort these things out.
I think so too. I have a problem believing that the attack was a surprise to people in Mossad, or the higher ranks/intelligence officers in the IDF. Not something this big. Maybe somebody let it happen, figuring that the cost on Israeli lives was worth it for some other reasons.
Conspiracy theory at this point, but stranger things have happened. I am not alone however, on this. From the NYT. This is an excerpt, and a lot more detail at the link:
Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
“Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.
The plan also included details about the location and size of Israeli military forces, communication hubs and other sensitive information, raising questions about how Hamas gathered its intelligence and whether there were leaks inside the Israeli security establishment.
The document circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders, but experts determined that an attack of that scale and ambition was beyond Hamas’s capabilities, according to documents and officials. It is unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other top political leaders saw the document, as well.
Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint.
But a colonel in the Gaza division brushed off her concerns, according to encrypted emails viewed by The Times.
“I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary,” the analyst wrote in the email exchanges. The Hamas training exercise, she said, fully matched “the content of Jericho Wall.”
“It is a plan designed to start a war,” she added. “It’s not just a raid on a village.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
Floyd
Do you mean kind of like a Jewish version of 9/11? That out of the blue attack that no one saw (/s) that gave the federal government the Patriot Act, war upon war, and the Industrial military complex trillions of taxpayer dollars…
That was me who said it, or rather my father that it was a bad idea. I agree with him, and if the IDF wants to do it, then that is their business. Although, it looks like they would have been better off concentrating on “war fighting”, and not accommodating trannies and gays and furries and whatevah! This base was like what, a half-mile from Gaza, which was run by Hamas, and the soldiers were not all armed??? That was stupid.
In case you are unaware, Israel has a significant problem with its judicial system where their Supreme Court enters into things they should have no business in. It is a leftist court that appoints its own members. This system hamstrings any administration that wishes to keep Israel strong.
I was not aware of that. I did read somewhere that not everybody was happy with trannies in the IDF, but that was years ago.
Incoherent. And your point is? Trannies-in-the-military bears how, exactly? How ’bout a topic sentence? Geez!
“Just came across this story, on Free Republic, about how the IDF is investigating some of its failures on Oct.7. I wonder if the DEI push had anything to do with it???”
Alternatively, could some of those failures have had something to do with this?
Netanyahu’s office acknowledges having not passed along warning hours before Oct. 7 attack
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/netanyahus-office-says-memo-detailed-suspicious-hamas-activity-pre-oct-7-was-not
I would not go so far as to claim suspicion that not passing along the warning in a timely manner might have been deliberate by someone with an incentive to provoke as drastic a reaction as possible, but it does cause me to wonder if that is possible.
We need to “familiarize” (not defamiliarize) ourselves with the differences between those immigrants who sincerely pine for America because of all that it stands for, -and those who come to America, pretending to pine for all it stands for, but in reality and once cozily settled, attempt to subvert and destroy its foundation in favor of a unified global imperialist vision more to their liking and advantage.
“A DISCORDANT INTERMIXTURE MUST HAVE AN INJURIOUS TENDENCY”
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“Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom?”
“If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
@Lin, let me do you one better for a long comment! 🙂
Mushdi and The Tower of Babel
From Wiki:
The Tower of Babel[a] is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis (chapter 11) meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures.[1][2][3][4][5]
According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language migrates to Shinar (Lower Mesopotamia),[b] where they agree to build a great city with a tower that would reach the sky. Yahweh, observing these efforts and remarking on humanity’s power in unity, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other and scatters them around the world, leaving the city unfinished.
The phrase “Tower of Babel” does not appear in Genesis nor elsewhere in the Bible; it is always “the city and the tower”[c] or just “the city”.[d] The original derivation of the name Babel, which is the Hebrew name for Babylon, is uncertain. The native Akkadian name of the city was Bāb-ilim, meaning “gate of God”. However, that form and interpretation itself are now usually thought to derive from Akkadian folk etymology applied to an earlier form of the name, Babilla, of unknown meaning and probably non-Semitic origin.[9][10]
Per the story in Genesis, the city received the name “Babel” from the Hebrew verb bālal,[e] meaning to jumble or to confuse, after Yahweh distorted the common language of humankind.[11] According to Encyclopædia Britannica, this reflects word play due to the Hebrew terms for Babylon and “to confuse” having similar pronunciation.
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What Mushdi, and the whole “open borders” crew are up to, ultimately, is to turn humanity into one culture and one language, with one group of people in power. AKA Globalism. That is something that you see foreshadowings of back in The Day The Earth Stood Still – that humanity acts as one. That is a very dangerous thing. Look at Europe, and notice how the EU is morphing into totalitarianism. You can get locked up for speaking your mind, or for even having the wrong thoughts.
Imagine that on a worldwide scale. One government means eventually the wrong people get into power, and the human race is toast. Imagine Kim Jong-un as the world leader. Or Keith Starmer. Or Sam Brinton. Or Hitler. Or Stalin. Or Mao. Or Pol Pot.
Having various nations and countries and cultures, acts as a brake to that. That is why “Europe” is mad at J.D. Vance, and Trump. They are not going along with the New Tower of Babel. Neither is Putin. Or Orban. Or Romania. Or Iran. Secondarily, the Globalists are trying to knock the United States out of the picture, and put in the more pliant sorts, like Hillary and Obama who will go along with their schemes.
Floyd: I literally burst out laughing at your throwing in of Sam Brinton, very funny, mi amigo.
On a more serious note, Munshi is of course well aware that the 1947-1950 territorial establishment of India represented the forced reality of the need to create TWO entities- India and Pakistan-, based on irreconcilable animus between Hindus (India) and Muslims (Pakistan). So much for welcoming cohabitation….
Yes, and isn’t there that whole India – China kerfluffle over Kashmir,or something. Several border wars involving India IIRC.
Sam Brinton was not really a stretch. Remember Caligua?
# remember Herbert Hoover? Re-imagine if he had the freedom to be unclosetted.
PS: am making up words using prefixes. Spoons become unforks.
” the need to create TWO entities- India and Pakistan.”
In this country, we fear the relocation of large numbers of illegal immigrants and, in other countries, the movement of large numbers of people. We need to remember that with the establishment of the borders for India and Pakistan, around 10-15 million people were relocated in a year, and most occurred in months.
# Isn’t Hinduism fatalistic predestination? Social mobility isn’t possible. They make no claims to all men are created equal nor freedom of religion.
What is your point?
“with one group of people in power. AKA Globalism. “
Very good Floyd. You took what some believe is a complex problem and made it simple. Sam Britton steals luggage; globalists steal freedom.
The problem with sexual weirdos, is that things can get out of Han pretty quickly!
“In the Han Dynasty
Very often the eunuchs encouraged and made worse political factions, which damaged the unity of the government. Eunuchs are charged with playing a major part in the fall of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE). During the 2nd century CE, in particular, a succession of weak emperors were easily manipulated by the eunuchs at court. In 124 CE they even put their own child candidate on the imperial throne. They gained more imperial favour and further entrenched their position in 159 CE by helping Emperor Huan settle a family succession dispute. In gratitude, the emperor awarded a noble title to five leading eunuchs.
The eunuchs’ even greater power ultimately resulted in government officials and students banding together and staging protests in 166 and 168-169 CE. The eunuchs would not be put off so lightly though and they instigated a wave of purges which saw many of those involved in the protests imprisoned and 100 executed. The luckier officials, students, and intellectuals who had spoken out against eunuch power were merely excluded from ever holding public office. In 189 CE events took an even more brutal turn. The eunuchs murdered the ‘Grand General’ He Jin after it was discovered he had plotted to assemble an army to himself purge the eunuchs. The general’s followers exacted immediate revenge by killing all the eunuchs in the palace. With this power vacuum there then ensued a civil war for control of the empire, with the result that the Han fell and the Wei dynasty was established in 220 CE.
Eunuchs manipulated the Tang court & created divisions amongst the government officials.
In the troubled final years of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) the eunuchs once again played a prominent role, this time in the downfall of emperors. Following rebellions in the provinces by renegade military commanders, the imperial court was eager to strengthen its position and so created a new palace army in the mid-8th century CE. The eunuchs were put in charge of this new force and soon began to create problems of their own for the emperor. Just as in previous eras, eunuchs manipulated the court, created divisions amongst the government officials, and by the 9th century CE, even began to enthrone and murder emperors. One emperor authorised an official purge of the eunuchs in 835 CE to try and claw back some power but before the plan could be executed the eunuchs wiped out over 1,000 of the conspirators and anyone else they remotely suspected of trying to usurp their power. As a shocking demonstration to any future conspirators, three chancellors along with their families were publicly executed in one of the marketplaces of the capital, Chang’an.
Later History
From the early 15th century CE the eunuchs set up their own mini-bureaucracy at court where they could ferret away paperwork and filter out the input of government ministers in state affairs. It even included a secret service branch which could investigate corruption or identify suspects who might plot against the status quo and imprison, beat, and torture them if necessary in the prison the eunuchs had created for that purpose. At the end of the century, this eunuch-led apparatus had grown spectacularly to 12,000 employees, making it the equal of the official state bureaucracy. By the latter stages of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE) there were some 70,000 eunuchs, and they had established almost complete domination of the imperial court. During that period four infamous dictators – Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian – were all eunuchs.
The power they held and the political intrigues they often stirred up resulted in the eunuchs becoming infamous, and they were especially unpopular with Confucianist scholars. Huang Zongxi, the Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianist thinker here sums up the general view of eunuchs in Chinese history: “Everyone has known for thousands of years that eunuchs are like poison and wild beasts” (in Dillon, 93).
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1109/eunuchs-in-ancient-china/
@Floyd
Floyd, you and Squeeky are indeed ‘white nationalists’, and you absolutely make things harder for the rest of us. You did not win. Common sense did, and common sense does not ascribe to your particular ideology. You have zero justification for feeling ’emboldened’ in your less desirable beliefs. Sorry, but it’s true. You are also a minority. That is not what November was about. Enjoy your bubble, but do not for a second presume you speak for anyone but yourself, because you don’t.
So what? Any difference between me and the Brown Nationalists in Mexico? Or the Black Nationalists in Africa? Or the Yellow Nationalists in Japan?
But don’t worry. Old White Nationalists like me are dying off as the years go by, and then people like you can live in Sweet Peace and Harmony with all sorts of mutts from other places! Heck, you can move to Germany and live in a place like that right now! Beware of the Audis and Mercedes-Benz’s though. . . You might want to take a “crash course” in that!
Thanks Floyd. You provided some fascinating history. When one is in a life-and-death situation, one doesn’t have the right to compromise the lives of others based on DEI. Till now, I thought Israel screened their military and decided on assignments based on maximum protection of the land. This doesn’t mean that any individual should be excluded because of sex, race, etc; instead, it means that one does a careful evaluation.
I would have thought they did too. I read a story this morning, from 2017 – bipolar, cutting behavior, etc in new recruits in U S Military:
“Army lifts ban on cutters, mentally ill and drug abusers to meet recruiting goals.”
“McCain outraged by Army waivers for self-mutilation.”
These were among the headlines after a recent USA Today investigation revealed that people with a history of bipolar disorder, depression and “self-mutilation” are among those who could secure waivers to enlist in Army under a policy change implemented this summer.
The change was apparently unknown to members of Congress who learned about this from media reports. Sen John McCain was quick to respond. The Arizona Republican said he and other members of the Armed Services Committee had no idea about the waivers.
“Are desperate recruiters willing to entrust anyone with life-and-death responsibilities?
The gunman who killed more than two dozen people in a small church outside San Antonio in early November had previously “attempted to carry out death threats” against military superiors during his time in the Air Force, according to a police report.
No one wants that guy on their military base. ”
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/2017/11/21/army-recruiting-soldiers-mccain-waiver-ernst-cutting-mental/880371001/
Apparently, depression is a problem too –
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-021-03526-2
# it’s Munchi! Get the name right…
IIRC, the Furry Freak Brothers were fond of her family…
# yes, social psychology has all the moves. Screw up the language is one requirement.
I tried to find a bio on Ms. Munchy but couldn’t find one. I presume she has reasons for her hate and destruction. Racism is one and the unacceptable Hinduism and turbans. All men are created equal and freedom of religion just wasn’t true. Somehow she got stuck here.
Jonathan: Well, DJT’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China finally kicked in today and the effects were immediate. The DOW dropped 600points. The Fed Bank in Atlanta predicts GDP will go down -2.8% in the first quarter.
And what are the long term effects of DJT’s tariffs? 63% of our vegetable imports come from Mexico. 60% of our crude oil comes from Canada. And a lot of US new cars are made in Mexico and Canada. Economists predict a $2,920 increase in the price of a new car here if the tariffs continue. So from groceries to gas and new cars Americans are going to feel the impact from DJT’s insane tariffs. The University of Michigan indicates consumer sentiment dropped 10% in February. A WP/Ipsos poll shows shows Americans oppose DJT’s tariffs on Canada–64% to 31%.
And our three largest trading partners are not taking DJT’s tariffs lying down. They are standing up to DJT’s bullying. China is putting tariffs on a variety of US made products. Mexico says it will put steep tariffs on cars made in their country and destined for the US market. Canada is not only hitting back with a boycott of US products but it is also making cuts to crude oil and lumber exports to the US. Chrystia Freeland, who is running to replace Justin Trudeau as the next PM, says she will put 100% tariffs on Teslas. That should get Elon Musk’s attention!
Speaking of “Defamiliarizing” did you see the latest personality who is ditching her Tesla? Its “Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark”. In a bold move with a lot of publicity Cassandra Peterson is donating her Tesla to NPR–but not before giving it a new paint job. Her car now has a sign on the side that reads “Elon Sux”. Peterson posted a photo of her Tesla up on a car carrier with her standing in front holding a chain saw. Priceless! So Peterson now joins a long list of former Tesla owners who have ditched their “Swasticars”.
P.S. Tesla sales in Europe dropped 59.3 % in January. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy!
Elvira lost me when she came out of the closet.
@Floyd
Floyd, you are a prejudiced idiot. She may be in the dark, but that is all. Your further implications are offensive and stupid. It erases all of your other opinions. Grow up. She has a right to speak her mind regardless of your disagreement.
Your time is over just as sure as Obama’s is, and she is free to speak just as much as you. If I met you on the street I would likely walk away. Stop thinking November was some kind of conservative victory – it wasn’t. And your prejudice is just as unwelcome as it has always been to the rest of us. Really: you need to accept that the hard right is just as dead as the hard left. The rest of us are taking the country back. Be left behind if you insist, because you will be, you are a bigot, and that never leads to anything good. The rest of us do not agree with you, not even a little bit, and we will block you, too.
James, I am definitely prejudiced. I am not sure that I am an idiot. I may be, but maybe not.
But whatever, you are free to follow the dictates of your own conscience! If you are want to move to the inner city in Baltimore, or to a place like Jackson, Mississippi, then by all means, do so! You have my blessing! Property values are low, and you can live cheaply!
You want to fly on an airplane, where the pilot looks like Admiral Rachel Levine, then have at! I wouldn’t, but then again, I am prejudiced, so I have a good excuse.
While you think that you are calling me bad names, what I hear is, “Floyd, you’re smart! You’re smart!”
Thank you!
#74. Elvira’s Tesla was underperforming, Mr. Stupid?
Dennis Prager had it right. Some things are so stupid that only a college professor can believe them.