[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

"Pete Hegseth Is Right for the DOD"

"Why Our Constitution Secures Liberty, Not Democracy"

Woodworking and Construction Hacks

"CNN: Reporters Were Crying and Hugging in the Hallways After Learning of Matt Gaetz's AG Nomination"

"NEW: Democrat Officials Move to Steal the Senate Race in Pennsylvania, Admit to Breaking the Law"

"Pete Hegseth Is a Disruptive Choice for Secretary of Defense. That’s a Good Thing"

Katie Britt will vote with the McConnell machine

Battle for Senate leader heats up — Hit pieces coming from Thune and Cornyn.

After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning

Vivek Ramaswamy, Dark-horse Secretary of State Candidate

Megyn Kelly has a message for Democrats. Wait for the ending.

Trump to choose Tom Homan as his “Border Czar”

"Trump Shows Demography Isn’t Destiny"

"Democrats Get a Wake-Up Call about How Unpopular Their Agenda Really Is"

Live Election Map with ticker shows every winner.

Megyn Kelly Joins Trump at His Final PA Rally of 2024 and Explains Why She's Supporting Him

South Carolina Lawmaker at Trump Rally Highlights Story of 3-Year-Old Maddie Hines, Killed by Illegal Alien

GOP Demands Biden, Harris Launch Probe into Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Grayson Davis

Previously-Deported Illegal Charged With Killing Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nurse in Horror DUI Crash

New Data on Migrant Crime Rates Raises Eyebrows, Alarms

Thousands of 'potentially fraudulent voter registration applications' Uncovered, Stopped in Pennsylvania

Michigan Will Count Ballot of Chinese National Charged with Voting Illegally

"It Did Occur" - Kentucky County Clerk Confirms Voting Booth 'Glitch'' Shifted Trump Votes To Kamala

Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'wholeheartedly' Endorses Donald Trump

Liberal Icon Naomi Wolf Endorses Trump: 'He's Being More Inclusive'

(Washed Up Has Been) Singer Joni Mitchell Screams 'F*** Trump' at Hollywood Bowl

"Analysis: The Final State of the Presidential Race"

He’ll, You Pieces of Garbage

The Future of Warfare -- No more martyrdom!

"Kamala’s Inane Talking Points"

"The Harris Campaign Is Testament to the Toxicity of Woke Politics"

Easy Drywall Patch

Israel Preparing NEW Iran Strike? Iran Vows “Unimaginable” Response | Watchman Newscast

In Logansport, Indiana, Kids are Being Pushed Out of Schools After Migrants Swelled County’s Population by 30%: "Everybody else is falling behind"

Exclusive — Bernie Moreno: We Spend $110,000 Per Illegal Migrant Per Year, More than Twice What ‘the Average American Makes’

Florida County: 41 of 45 People Arrested for Looting after Hurricanes Helene and Milton are Noncitizens

Presidential race: Is a Split Ticket the only Answer?

hurricanes and heat waves are Worse

'Backbone of Iran's missile industry' destroyed by IAF strikes on Islamic Republic

Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump

IDF raids Hezbollah Radwan Forces underground bases, discovers massive cache of weapons

Gallant: ‘After we strike in Iran,’ the world will understand all of our training

The Atlantic Hit Piece On Trump Is A Psy-Op To Justify Post-Election Violence If Harris Loses

Six Al Jazeera journalists are Hamas, PIJ terrorists

Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general

Iran's Assassination Program in Europe: Europe Goes Back to Sleep

Susan Olsen says Brady Bunch revival was cancelled because she’s MAGA.

Foreign Invaders crisis cost $150B in 2023, forcing some areas to cut police and fire services: report

Israel kills head of Hezbollah Intelligence.

Tenn. AG reveals ICE released thousands of ‘murderers and rapists’ from detention centers into US streets


Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Mexican Invasion
See other Mexican Invasion Articles

Title: Derb To Trump: Break Bad, Donald! Use M[oratorium] Word!
Source: VDare
URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/derb- ... bad-donald-use-moratorium-word
Published: Aug 15, 2015
Author: John Derbyshire
Post Date: 2015-08-15 15:32:09 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 1863
Comments: 11

We’re so used to hearing Leftist lunacy from the mouths of show-business airheads, it’s refreshing to know that there are those willing to give a word of praise, or at least semi-praise, to Donald Trump even among the glitterati. Or perhaps it’s not surprising; you could make a case, I suppose, that Trump himself is a glitterato … glitteratus, whatever.

Leaving that side, let’s just relish these words from a TV actor whose last hit show I greatly enjoyed. Quote:

There’s something so refreshing about shaking up that world that is all about being handled and here comes this loose cannon who has terrible ideas and would be a horrible president, but there’s something great about his “I- don’t-give-a-shit” attitude that really kind of keeps others honest. I think it’s a surprise benefit to the country, actually.[ Bryan Cranston: ‘Something So Refreshing About Donald Trump’,by Charlie Spiering, Breitbart, August 14, 2015]

That was Bryan Cranston, a/k/a/ Walter White of the TV show Breaking Bad. Yeah, it’s a back-handed compliment—”Terrible ideas”? What, like enforcing the people’s laws on immigration and settlement? “Horrible president”? Compared to whom? Barack Obama? — but Cranston has grasped something: a whole lot of citizens have had it with the timid, mealy-mouthed, don’t- offend-anyone mumblings of our bought-and-sold professional pols.

Donald as Walter White and the GOP as Hank the brother-in-law … except the Stupid Party is even slower on the uptake than Hank was.

As a Trump supporter, I wish he’d start doing a little work on the gravitas thing. But then, again as a Trump supporter, I’m glad to see that neither the Thursday, August 6 debate nor his Friday follow-up about Fox’s Megyn Kelly seems to have dented his support.

Polls at midweek showed Trump ahead of the rest of the GOP field both among likely GOP primary votes nationally and among likely Iowa caucus-goers.

(And there’s this just in, from the Deep South: Donald Trump leads Alabama primary poll, by Howard Koplowitz, AL.com, August 13, 2015.)

So the archangel Gabriel has not yet sounded the Last Trump. The Donald marches on. We’re already hearing him called the Teflon Don. That’s the tag that used to be attached to late Mafioso John Gotti because of the feds’ inability to make charges against him stick. At last they did make something stick, and Gotti died in jail.

So Teflon works…until it doesn’t. That’s just by way of a caution to Trump and his handlers.

Meanwhile, however, Trump is doing the Lord’s work shaking up the GOP side of the 2016 campaign. There were the professional pols in the August 6th debate, reading the focus-group-tested answers from their shirt cuffs; and there was Trump breaking the rules of genteel politics, rattling the GOP teacups and refusing the cucumber sandwiches.

The reason we Trump supporters like the guy so much is precisely that following the rules has gotten us—us patriotic conservatives—nowhere.

Following the rules got us eight years of George W. Bush, who gave us Open Borders, missionary wars, and “When somebody hurts, Government has got to move.” Then it got us eight years of Barack Obama, who gave us Open Borders, Amnesty for foreign scofflaws, radical-left Supreme Court justices, and eighteen trillion dollars of debt.

Maybe if we knock over a few teacups and throw the cucumber sandwiches around, we’ll get some conservative policies at last. Hey, it’s worth a try.

So Trump is king of the GOP jungle. But if Trump is Cecil the Lion, who’s going to play the part of Dr. Walt Palmer?

First in the audition line is the GOP Establishment. Bigfoot Establishment commentator George Will and former George W. Bush staffer Michael Gerson this week called for the party to purge Trump. National Review has been running anti-Trump diatribes for a month now. Make no mistake: What my VDARE.com colleague Peter Brimelow calls “Conservatism, Inc.” hate the guy and want him out of the race.

However, there are two problems with that: mutually exclusive problems, but problems none the less.

If Trump is scrubbed from the GOP roster, then he will either run as an independent, or else he won’t.

If he runs as an independent, his supporters, who really like him, and who would otherwise mostly be GOP voters, will vote for him anyway, handing the Presidency to the Democrats 1992-style.

If Trump is tossed out of the GOP and decides not to run as an independent, leaving the GOP ticket to some lackluster Chambers of Commerce sock puppet, disgruntled Trump fans will tune out and stay home on election day, as they did when Romney ran in 2012, again delivering the Presidency to the party of Amnesty, public-sector unions, and Al Sharpton.

So minus Trump in the GOP field, the betting is on a rerun of either 1992 or 2012. Pat Buchanan, in a brilliant column this Thursday, referred to the 1992 scenario as “the Samson Option.”

Trump should tell the GOP that if it disrespects him and his followers, then he is prepared to do as did the biblical hero Samson, when, blinded and mocked by the Philistines, he pushed the pillars apart and brought the temple down upon the heads of them all.

The Republican Establishment will understand that.

With respect to Pat, I’m not sure they will. This is, after all, the Stupid Party we’re talking about.

One more quote from Pat:

Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that a record 42.1 million immigrants, here legally and illegally, are in the U.S., a population explosion being driven by Mexicans still flooding across the border.

Is it “xenophobic” to ask if Americans approve of this historic change in the composition and character of the country they love?

Is it outrageous to ask whether there is a correlation between this massive infusion of unskilled and semi-skilled labor from the Third World, and the stagnant and falling wages of native-born Americans?

The Establishment GOP answers to Pat’s questions are: Yes, it’s xenophobic, and yes, it’s outrageous. Now shut up and vote.

We may be at the end of the era when attitudes like that win elections for the GOP

I don’t know how all this is going to play out, and nor does anyone else. I’m glad Trump’s in the race, and I’m glad he’s doing what he’s doing. It needs doing.

Here’s this week’s suggestion for Trump from Radio Derb.

Sir: You’ve opened up the immigration issue, which was badly in need of opening up. Now go for some focus. Pick a particular aspect of the immigration issue and hammer on it.

My suggestion: an immigration moratorium. Just get the word in circulation: a moratorium. You can spin it positive: “We’ve taken in a lot of people this past fifty years, let’s take a breather so they can assimilate, as happened 1924-65 …”

Something like that.

A moratorium on immigration: Come on Donald, get the M-word in play!

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.

#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

A moratorium on immigration: Come on Donald, get the M-word in play!

It would be very smart politics for Trump to throw down on this. The GOP and CoC would be livid. But all the other GOP candidates would have to respond to it.

A wall and a moratorium. And no citizenship for illegals ever.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-08-15   18:59:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: TooConservative (#1)

"A wall and a moratorium. And no citizenship for illegals ever."

Wait, wait. And a bounty on every illegal -- man, woman, and child. Round 'em up and put them in railroad cars. Uh, no. Shoot on sight. That's better.

Trump needs to say this. He must. This has to be part of his anti-illegal immigration plan or Too Conservative will say he's not being tough enough.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-08-15   19:57:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: misterwhite, TooConservative, *Border Invasion* (#2)

Round 'em up and put them in railroad cars. Uh, no. Shoot on sight.

During Operation Wetback, Ike Eisenhower shipped many illegal aliens deep down south to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It's a long walk back.

Hondo68  posted on  2015-08-15   20:34:01 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


Replies to Comment # 4.

#5. To: hondo68 (#4) (Edited)

During Operation Wetback, Ike Eisenhower shipped many illegal aliens deep down south to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It's a long walk back.

Mostly, they just fled once they knew Ike was going to deport them. They did actually self-deport.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-08-15 21:13:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: hondo68 (#4)

"During Operation Wetback, Ike Eisenhower shipped many illegal aliens deep down south to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico."

That was a different era. When Presidents had balls. His predecessor dropped two nukes on Japan. Big balls to do that.

Nowadays, Presidents are criticized for retaliating after our country is attacked. Ooooh. Look how much it cost. Some of our soldiers died. The rest of the world hates us.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-08-15 22:06:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


End Trace Mode for Comment # 4.

TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Please report web page problems, questions and comments to webmaster@libertysflame.com