Another banner week for white supremacists

New York Times Reports The Trump administration is considering proposals to radically reshape the US refugee system, barring the entry of black and colored refugees around the world while opening borders to whites from South Africa and Europe who claim they are being subjected to political persecution. Trump plans to reduce the number of refugees accepted into the country each year to 7,500, a significant decrease from the 125,000 who were allowed in under Biden administration policies last year. Apparently, these few places are now reserved for white people who profess Nazi beliefs, as both Trump and Vance were keen to defend neo-Nazis in Germany and were apparently planning to bring them here.

None of this is surprising to anyone who has actually listened to what Trump and MAGA supporters have been talking about for years. The Trump administration is an openly white supremacist regime, and they have been acting as such, in word and deed, since he returned to office. These people are afraid of Browning From America, terrified that whites will lose their digital majority in this country in the coming decades, and terrified that the white birth rate will decline.

Welcoming white refugees is simple. It fits perfectly with bombing boats full of innocent brown people, allowing Gestapo style tactics by ICE, taking away birthright citizenship from people who were already born here, sending the military to police brown cities, taking away the voting rights of non-white people, and trying to turn white women into mothers by revoking their reproductive rights. If you believe that America exists for the benefit and glory of white people, and if you believe that non-white people do not “deserve” to be here unless they are working to increase white profits, then everything the Trump administration is doing makes sense. It’s how you revive white supremacy’s rule over this nation if white supremacy is your only true calling.

I’ve lost my ability to be terrified by any of it. It’s not that I’m numb to it. Instead, as Jango said: “I’m more used to Americans.” This is exactly what the majority of white people do. This is what the majority of white people have Always do it Whenever their power is left unchecked. The only reason they are afraid of losing their majority is because they assume that others will do to them what they did to everyone else, once they have the chance.

Of course we won’t do that. Because we are better than that.

The bad and the ugly

• The government remains closed. Trump is offering to bail out the country with $40 billion in federal spending. Wait, no, this Argentina.
• Florida actor Corey Mills had a restraining order taken out against him by his ex-girlfriend. Mills have always been a problem. But so did Florida voters.
• “The Washington Post is running out of readers willing to pay.” Reports Forbes. I don’t mention this as a paper stopper. I’m just putting this here to remind people to unsubscribe from it The Washington Post (And maybe Subscribe to Nation instead of).
• Endorsing alleged attempted rape of Brett Kavanaugh for racial profiling – in a September resolution affirming the government’s ability to arrest any black person who speaks Spanish On suspicion Being an Immigrant – Sheriff Joe Arpaio has Feeling vindicated. He should. His racism was both behind and ahead of its time.
• Speaking of Kavanaugh’s racial profiling decision, ProPublica Reported that more than 170 US citizens were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his decision, Kavanaugh noted that these illegal kidnappings would be a minor inconvenience, but the actual facts show that Kavanaugh was, as usual, lying.

Inspiring takes

• Like everyone else, I read the hell out of this Nation An article about the development of Cybertruck.
• in NationKate Wagner explains why the University of Chicago stopped accepting doctoral candidates in the humanities.
• Liz Day, one of my favorite legal writers, Take a deep dive For all the flaws in the Comey indictment.
• This podcast makes a really good point On the reason for the “No to Kings” protest (another protest will happen on Saturday) It bothers MAGA a lot. Essentially, they thought black people would be on the front lines of the protests, where they could brutalize black people while white people watched comfortably. It’s a little different when the Trump administration has to beat up someone’s white grandmother.

Worst argument of the week

POLITICO I got access To a text thread from “young” Republican leaders (some of whom were 40) where they talked like… Republicans talk when they think only other Republicans are listening. They used racial slurs against non-white people and Jews. Queer women and the LGBTQ community. As is their custom these days, they praised Hitler.

Vice President J.D. Vance, who once likened Trump to Hitler but has now decided that’s a good thing, defended his younger Republican brethren. Vance dismissed all sexism and bigotry as “sexy jokes” and said “I refuse to join the pearl clutching process.”

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I…I don’t have pearls. As I said before, I’m no longer horrified when white people act like white people. But giving these people license for their hatred and vitriol is not a gross thing. It is not a defensible position. It’s just racism.

I was going to dance the whole tarantula dance on Vance’s head, but… NationJoan Walsh beat me to it. I signed everything she said here Joan pointed out that Vance’s wife, Usha, is Indian, and that Vance is defending people who say the worst possible things about Indian women like his wife.

But here’s the thing, Vance knows what Trump knows, and it’s also what Mitt Romney knows and John McCain and every other Republican since Richard Nixon knows: They can’t win without these people. They can’t make the numbers work any other way. So every Republican, every individual, must be nice to these hateful neo-Nazis if they want to win political contests.

Vance is willing to throw his wife under the bus to make sure there is no distance between him and his wife a base Of support. The thing is…so does his wife. Usha was not arrested. She is a partner in this. They both decided that they would rather join the racists and win than stand against them and lose.

It couldn’t be me. I have this thing called “self-esteem.” This is clearly a burden in American politics.

What you wrote

• Well, it looks like the Supreme Court is about to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and allow white state legislatures to take away black political power. I spent two and a half hours listening to their oral arguments and then wrote about them so other good people wouldn’t have to.
• I’ve also written about Trump’s accelerated timeline for withdrawing food stamps. I think the idea that people would have enough to eat this Thanksgiving pissed off the ketchup man.

In news that has nothing to do with the current chaos

If you’ve ever wondered why I don’t live stream or have a YouTube channel — and instead try to do my job and go home — just take one look at what’s happening to Hassan Baker right now.

The famous YouTube personality is over Embroiled in controversy When his dog screamed during a video. Without further information, it looked like the dog had been fitted with a shock collar (I think shock collars are very bad and should not be used).

Baker later clarified that he does not use a shock collar for his dog. He uses a vibration collar (which is a different thing) for hiking, but he didn’t use it that day. I haven’t looked at vibrating collars (my dog ​​basically stays home, sitting on my feet, criticizing my sentence structure, wondering how I can be hired as a professional writer). I understand that this is fine, and I take Baker’s explanation seriously.

Of course I am a normal, rational person. Many are not. The girl reports Since the incident, he has received death threats, in addition to threats to kidnap his dog.

I realize there is a lot of money to be made and influence on the broadcasting circuit. But, at least for now, I can’t. Writing online is bad enough. But at least I have an editor. At least I have the time and peace to think about the words I put out to the world and how I frame them and myself. The broadcast is just…raw. Exposed to. And you expose yourself to a group of people who are willing to take everything you say out of context, while your enemies come after you in bad faith.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go get my dog ​​to stop barking at the squirrels outside our window using my favorite training technique of telling her to “shut the hell up.” Then I will feed my kids a nutritious meal of pizza and mozzarella sticks. I’ll do all of this while drinking a brown liqueur and playing a video game that involves shooting enemies to death with a pistol. But millions of people won’t watch or judge me while I do these things.

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