It depends what the meaning of “happening now” is
Let’s see if we can get this straight: it’s okay for people on the left to post old photos of things that happened during the Obama administration and claim they’re current and insinuate that they’re new and particular to the Trump administration, and then get all outraged, ignoring when the photos were taken.
And by the way, what’s so outrageous (“like something out of a horror movie”) about a transport bus with infant safety seats in it? If illegal aliens arrive here with infants and those infants need transporting—the buses are used to take kids and parents on field trips, and to medical and court appointments—what’s the beef? I suppose the left would rather the kids not have the proper safety seats?
The propaganda machine grinds on.
Propaganda is all they’ve got.
(True, they’ve got a whole lot of it….)
VDH with another incisive column:
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/victor-davis-hanson-true-threat-americas-civil-liberties-its-law-breaking-intelligence
The Left is functionally insane.
The Left is not “insane” at all. They want power and they know how to get it. Propaganda never deals in nuance or subtle distinctions. It deals in headlines, which even though they may entirely false — and known to be false — it takes a moment to refute them, and those moments of thought are bypassed for immediate emotional effect.
“The Rich have stolen all the money. It’s unfair.” Well, nobody likes the Rich. And there’s a lot, on the surface, to dislike. On from there to: “Me and my friends will make everything fair.” Just the word “fair” being used in the headline is all many will get. Details? No one wants to hear about the details. And there you go.
That’s just one. It’s worked, and worked, and worked again. The history of this stuff doesn’t matter, and takes a few moments to explain.
Let’s just react.
A friend on the left was quite upset by the separation of children from their parents at the border and saw it all as Trumps doing. I didn’t challenge it but couldn’t help but wonder how ICE or the Border patrol had managed to lose track of 1500 children since Trump was elected. I couldn’t help think that this latest horror was another example of collateral damage by the unwieldy federal bureaucracy. In the 90s I was shocked at Waco and Ruby Ridge thinking Clinton and Janet Reno has somehow intentionally unleashed a bunch of idiots. I’m far less sure of that now coming to believe that bureaucratic idiocy is a progressive and self metastasising phenomena. What was exceptional about the Obama presidency was that the idiots enthusiastically cooperated with Obama and his political appointees ‘without a smidgen of corruption’.
“…grinds on….” and on, and on.
Rather incredible, actually.
Would be entertaining were it not so pathetic….and cancerous for everyone involved.
But the show must go on (apparently until it simply seizes up and dies). Here’s a rather amusing blast from the past (courtesy of Instapundit):
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/
I got as far as the line “For instance, according to data compiled by the UK Guardian,” and was, for some unaccountable reason, overcome wth a vision of a house of cards collapsing.
Yes, that’s a particular humorous phrase.
(Should be either, “…according to so-called data compiled by the UK Guardian…”
or,
“…according to data invented by the UK Guardian…”)
To be sure, though it’s perfectly understandable—and probably recommended for maintaining the health of one’s gut bacteria—by quitting prematurely, you missed a lot of the juicier nonsense.
Keeping in mind that keepers of the flame (particularly the bright lights in Britain’s Labour Party) still, and for the most part emphatically, agree with most if not all of this drivel, striving as they are towards achieving a more equal society (well, they certainly got that right….).
This information was out there back when it was happening (hence, the newly discovered reports from 2014). Only people paying attention saw this and were horrified, and the Left dismissed them as racists.
A few items I haven’t seen mentioned related to the hot, new concern over illegal immigrant minors being separated from their parents:
— Obama *encouraged* Central & South American parents to send their kids over the border unaccompanied. I fail to understand how Obama broadcasting this invitation is not worse than families separated by ICE upon arrival. Obama was luring these kids with the promise that they can then use their presence here to ensure the later legal immigration of their parents, siblings, etc.
— Because these kids were unaccompanied from the get-go they were sexually abused by their escorts (coyotes, cartels), while in temporary placement facilities in the US, and/or in their foster care placement. As in: most of them were abused, not just a fraction of them.
— The Obama admin, in conjunction with the ACLU, demanded that Catholic Charities (large contract to run temporary placement facilities for these minors) provide birth control and abortions to these unaccompanied minors.
https://tinyurl.com/y7b8p3cy
It was sick when Obama was doing it and we need to stop whatever is left of his program.