Goodbye Golden State?

For John, BLUF:  I wouldn't like another socialist state on our border..  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Shattuck: #CALEXIT would be a truly golden idea

If they want to leave so bad, go ahead, let ’em

From Opinionaiter Tom Shattuck, The Boston Herald, 3 August 2017, Thursday last.

California could secede from the United States.  Signatures are being hurriedly gathered for a 2018 ballot initiative that would begin the process of independence for the Golden State.

Awesome.  Break a leg.  I wholeheartedly endorse “#Calexit” and here’s why you should too.

Read the article for Mr Shattuck's reasons.

As for myself, I would be sad to see California go.

For those who think that it will never happen, I say that there are a lot of things that will never happen until they do.

For those who think that we, as individuals, can do nothing, I ask if they even bothered to write a note to their Representative (Niki Tsongas) or Senators (E Warren and Ed Markey)?

Regards  —  Cliff

Be Careful of the Ctrl-Left

For John, BLUF:  Yes, Immigrant Sarah Hoyt is more "American" than second generation Cuban-American Jim Acosta.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Mr. Acosta, Can You Hear Me Now?

From PJ Media, on 3 August, we had this tirade by American Author Sarah Hoyt.

Here is the lede plus two:

There is one thing the ctrl-left and the alt-right agree on: it is impossible to change cultures.  If you're born into a culture, all your genetic predispositions make it impossible to change your eating habits, your language, much less your manners, your planning, and your ability to think as a member of this new culture.

But the hardest of all is language, which is virtually impossible to change, which is why we pay for bilingual education for children of Latin immigrants born in the US and sometimes third generation in the US.

Because, you see, the best you can achieve in terms of learning a foreign language is the sort of halting, broken speech such as children and toddlers.  In fact, if your children and grandchildren don't mate with English speakers, your family will never learn to speak the language and will remain an undigested cultural lump in the midst of your adopted culture forever.

Here is where it gets both funny and pathetic;

This is so much an article of faith on the Ctrl-Left that I had to monitor my kids like a hawk, all through elementary school.  If I got caught up in a book and wasn’t paying attention, my kids got put in bilingual education.  In Spanish.  Since they’re half Portuguese, the “compassionate” teachers thought it would be easier for them to do their homework in a related language.  Note that even if I had taught them some words of Portuguese — since the only time they heard me speaking Portuguese was the weekly conversation with my mom on the phone — neither of them learned the little I tried to teach.  Oh, they can both swear fluently in Portuguese.  They heard that too — their father speaks no Portuguese, and they are utterly immersed in an English-speaking society.  Robert was reading books published for grown-ups when he entered kindergarten; Marshall complained that his teacher patronized him in pre-school.  Yes, in those words.  And yet, while I was finishing Darkship Thieves for its first round of submissions, Robert spent two weeks in Spanish as primary language classes before he got fed up enough to complain to me.

The only thing that finally made the befuddled products of our teacher training system stop inflicting Spanish on my children was my mock serious explanation that they were offending my culture, due to how often the Portuguese and Spanish were at war throughout history.  And I barely managed not to burst out laughing until I was outside the school.

Then she goes after the Alt-Right.

Finally, she winds it up with this flourish:

You have insulted everything I am and believe in, in every way possible.  Given any self-consistency in your beliefs, you want to eliminate the country and culture I moved to, the country and culture I chose for me and for all my descendants.

You’re not just wrong, Mr. Acosta.  You are the enemy of everything American, of the very idea of a melting pot, where people come to BE American and become part of the culture, and claim for them and their descendants the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Unfortunately for you there are people like myself from all parts of the world who came here determined to build and uphold America and all she stands for.  And we will even do it in English.

Can you hear us now?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Jim Acosta the Racist Apologist

For John, BLUF:  He is so caught up in his Cosmopolitan world view that he has grown ignorant.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Can there ever be too much mocking of CNN Reporter Jim Acosta?

Absolutely, but we aren't there yet.

Jim Acosta, Racist Apologist for White Privilege

This is a very short piece in PJ Media, by Mr David Goldman, 3 August 2017.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

"Missed it by that much!"

For John, BLUF:  I bet Bill wasn't surprised.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From back on 18 October 2016, by Pollster Stuart Rothenberg.

Trump’s path to an electoral college victory isn’t narrow.  It’s nonexistent.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

The Cosmopolitan Class

For John, BLUF:  WVA is a nation in LATAM, or So Stu Rothmann Thinks.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Helpful context for Trump’s rally from a pro: West Virginians are angry, easily misled, lots don’t speak English

This is from Brett T, at Twitchy, yesterday.

Here is the lede plus one (And then a bunch of Tweets):

On a night like Thursday, when President Trump was scheduled to headline a rally in West Virginia, you know the hot takes are going to be coming in fast from all directions, but who’ll go the extra distance to really stand out?

Stuart Rothenberg, senior editor at Inside Elections, went all out in sizing up the people of West Virginia, many of whom wouldn’t make it in as immigrants under the Trump administration’s policies, which are in clear violation of that Emma Lazarus poem.

Here is the Tweet that kicked it all off:

Stuart Rothenberg @StuPolitics
Lots of people in West Virginia can't support themselves or speak English.
7:49 PM · Aug 3, 2017

And then some words of wisdom from Erielle Davidson @politicalelle:

Why Trump won--

Because Leftists talk about Americans outside of urban areas as if they were some lesser class of people. https://twitter.com/stupolitics/status/893264193046138880 …

Which is replicated in various forms throughout the post—This is how Trump won.  To win in 2018 or 2020 the Democrats are going to have to be more inclusive.  Stomping their foot and declaring (or talking as though) a bunch of Americans are deplorable isn't going to cut it.  And, when California drops out of the Union and we get the State of Jefferson it is going to be harder.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff