Comments on: The Ratcatcher

By: JuliB

JuliB — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:28:05 +0000

I was re-reading the Book of Deuteronomy the other day and came across the description of the disagreement between Moses and the Jews. This was when they complained about leaving the food and security of Egypt behind to be ‘free’ to wander and starve in the desert. The desire for security over freedom for most people seems to be a part of us.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:00:20 +0000

boxty: You don't seem to understand that a person can be against immigration and not have a particle of interest in liberty. Trump loves Kelo. He wanted Fox to ban Rich Lowry and the FCC to fine him when he felt Lowry had said something mean about him. He blamed Pam Geller for provoking the attack at her free speech movement cartoon contest. He is generally interested in wielding executive power and in big government. Trump's focus on limiting immigration has to do with jobs (the economy), crime, and with keeping US culture stable. Not with liberty.

By: junior

junior — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0000

As a California native (I live in LA County), I can tell you that California is very odd. And I don’t mean in a “Those liberals sure are strange!” sort of way. Maybe it’s the amazingly good weather. Maybe it’s something else. But the voters as a collective whole sometimes seem schizoid.

It’s hard to explain.

By: geokstr

geokstr — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:15:43 +0000

Boxty:

I agree with you about the effects of open borders, but CA isn’t a great example because they went over to the Dark Side a generation ago. Even open borders per se are not the greatest danger, it’s making the invaders citizens and giving them the right to vote.

Note how Cruz’ rejected amendment to the Gang of 8 was political anethema to the gang and its proponents because it denied a path to citizenship, and therefore also the 20-30 million reliable new Democrat voters that would make this a one-party country.

The Marxists are well aware that the Obama regime has pissed off a lot of people so they’re desperate for those votes. The death of Scalia has put us in even greater danger, and watch for extreme pressure from the Marxist Leviathan to seat an Obama nominee. It’s another possibility for them to get at those votes even if they lose in November.

By: boxty

boxty — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:43:41 +0000

AVI: If we continue to allow open borders then the Democrats will have a permanent majority and America as you’ve known it and all the liberties you hold dear will be dead. Free speech? Dead. Second Amendment? Gone. Presumption of innocence? Not any more. You will never see an end to Obamacare or partial birth abortion. The list goes on. See California for an example of what open borders will mean for you.

By: ErisGuy

ErisGuy — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:09:48 +0000

This was the Bewegung, the movement, that restored my friends and bewitched them.

In other words, the cultural transformation (“The Movement” against “The Man” = all the rascals) that wrecked America in the 1960s has been reborn as Donald Trump?

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:30:35 +0000

Lurch – let me just find a place to put these loaves of bread down and I’ll answer you.

boxty – anything that can be fixed without our troops getting killed is not an existential threat. Immigration can be fixed with a couple of fences, better computers, and more border patrol agents. Hillary Clinton can be fixed by putting her on trial and sending her to prison. ISIS can’t, a nuclear-armed Iran can’t, Putin can’t, China can’t, North Korea can’t. Get the difference?

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:14:52 +0000

@ boxty – I see no evidence that it’s an existential threat, nor even close. In Europe, with a higher percentage of worse refugees, worse elites, and no experience of assimilation, it might be becoming an existential threat. Yet even they are only on the path.

Illegal immigration is bad and I don’t like it, but there’s a lot of ruin left in us yet. Therefore, extreme measures and rhetoric are not called for.

By: boxty

boxty — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:21:18 +0000

Give me a break, Richard. Whose name should they shout at a campaign rally? ¡Jeb! ¡Jeb! ¡Jeb!?

If you guys really think that Trump supporters don’t love liberty and just want a strongman, then you truly have your heads in the ground. Trumps #1 selling point has always been immigration. What you don’t seem to understand is that open borders is the death of liberty. That is the existential threat we face right now. I really question your wisdom if you don’t get that point.

By: geokstr

geokstr — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:57:27 +0000

Neo:

After confronting these cretins for 6-7 months on Breitbart, I find “Trump2016!” to be even more common.

Plus that they reserve their most scornful, venomous comments for other Republican candidates, mostly Cruz, with an occasional criticism of Hillary, Bernie or other Marxists almost as an afterthought.