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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chris-christie-calls-donald-trumps-immigration-plan-too-simplistic/
"The idea of, you know, building a wall, kicking everybody out, and ending birthright citizenship all sounds appealing in some respects to some folks. But I just think it's a very complicated problem. And it needs someone who understands how to do a complicated and nuanced solution to that problem," Christie said [...]
Fuck nuance. And fuck those who are relativists and excuse-makers who try to use the concept to moderate on what is unequivocal. dam_reservoirs and fussycrackwitch are obviously commies. ISIS is obviously an Islamic terrorist organization. We obviously can build a fucking wall. Trump is popular right now because about a sixth of us in this country are tired of mealy-mouthed pussies.
"Appealing in *some* respects"?!? In what respects is it *not* appealing, to build a wall, kick out the illegals, and stop the madness? Presumably he means such things are unappealing to Leftie Republicans.
"Now what I said was if we wanted to have comprehensive immigration reform, I'd be willing to listen to anything. But the truth of the matter is that that's not something we should be being focused on. That's an applause line," he added.
When two paragraphs up he said:
And I think the difference here in my approach is they know that I'm a guy who knows how to enforce the law," he said.
Umm, what good is it to us that you know how to enforce the law, when you think it's not something worth focusing on?
And everybody knows by now that "comprehensive" reform is code for shifting the policy Leftward. In this case, an all-of-the-above approach of giving us both amnesty and not securing the border.
Why is Christie running? (Or Jeb for that matter? Or fucking Lindsey Graham?) Why is he even in the GOP? Mark Steyn said something to the effect that Republican establishment candidates are good choices because they give such great concession speeches. So Christie's big plan is to alienate the Conservative base and appeal to the big donations class of the party? I.e. raise a lot of money and get no general election votes? I guess how that strategy and inevitable outcome is a good thing is "nuanced".
p.s. Megan Kelly *is* a bimbo. I saw (part of) some segment when Dinesh D'Souza was on, talking about some of the very real shit that was happening to him. That guy has been watching and writing about Leftie trends in America going back to at least the 90's "Illiberal Education". As I recall he basically said what everyone knows, that amounted to saying that Obama is basically an American communist. And then Miss "hee hee look at me I have my own TV show!" immediately laughs and says that's crazy. Dinesh was floored. He's a (admittedly biased) researcher, she's a fake-blonde airhead "TV personality". I guess Roger bumped mutt-faced Greta out of prime time because she's not a breezy enough blonde. Next he should ditch the ditz and put Shannon Bream in that spot. She's guest-hosted the Brett Bair nee Brit Hume news hour and done so credibly.
p.p.s. I got side-tracked there. What I want is someone who'll forget about how "complicated" or "nuanced" a problem is and just start doing the obvious things to address it. And it's 2015 in America, Constitutionality is no longer a problem, when we have assholes like Roberts and Kennedy who'll lick their fingers and stick them in the wind to decide what would be best for whichever way the country is veering at the time.
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It is nuanced in that it will cost a ton of money, fly in the face of the whole Christian "love thy neighbour" and "brothers keeper" bits and IT WON'T WORK!
Look at the number of tunnels that Israel deals with and their border is like 1/10th the length of ours. The drug cartels already have lots of experience in tunnel building.
Or there will be the European solution, where they all just s shift to boats -- and I don't mean poking around the corners in Texas and Southern California. I mean 6,000+ miles of Atl
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fly in the face of the whole Christian "love thy neighbour" and "brothers keeper" bits
If there is a switcheroo I love it's how we are supposed to despise theocracy on the exhale, and then immediately inhale the Sermon on the Mount as a political treatise.
People don't scale. The Almighty showing up in person to preach to a group of people in earshot about "loving their neighbor" means literally what it says. When you can find where Jesus wrote, well, anything in a political vein, let me know. (The Gospel actually includes one instance of Jesus writing at all.)
Explore the Gospel. It really i
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People don't scale.
That's bullshit. Why are there so many of us then? Only racists and human traffickers and gullible idiots want borders. The whole concept is entirely racist, bigoted, and all the other nasty things. Why do you want to live like animals? Is it because you idolize the alpha and want to be him? Or you want to protect your privilege and status? Those are prime motivators. And you seem very motivated to keep the status quo.
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Hear wisdom: the "political deadlock" that we decry in DC is due to the fact that the unscalability of people has a conceptual similarity to the way you can't take your little desktop script, throw it on a server, and expect it to serve Big Data to a big crowd.
But please, keep insulting me: it makes you look smart.
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Who's insulting you? Not me... How is saying you want to protect the status quo and pine for a return to the antebellum south an insult when you do exactly that? You're taking it way too personal. You're just part of the herd. That's nothing to be ashamed of, so why do you deny it?
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Only racists and human traffickers and gullible idiots want borders. The whole concept is entirely racist, bigoted, and all the other nasty things.
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Who's insulting you?
Well, I wasn't exactly encouraged by your quoted diatribe, let's say. The fact that you neglected the substance of my post entirely is also noted.
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Exploring the Bible and deriving your own individual truth is a defining characteristic of Protestantism.
One the one hand, I don't really consider myself Protestant per se. On the other hand, the Roman Catholic church, it must be said, has an outstanding crap filter in place. Furthermore, it doesn't take much historical analysis to show that, absent said crap filter, "christianity" recycled a whole bunch of heresy when it crossed the Atlantic to North America.
All I can say is come on down to my church and offer feedback on how much "individual truth" has been generated. All non-zero values are wrong.
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government pork spending!
Well there you go. It "creates jobs". Who cares about scorching the planet? It only matters that we are king of the mountain. Everybody else can take a hike.
That's the attitude in a nutshell. We are living a global Jim Crow that can only be sustained through eternal warfare.
If we ever want to stop living like chimps, the walls will have to come down. There is no way around that. Only then will man approach holiness. In the meantime there is no shortage of poo to fling.
And, the rheto