Tag: Politics

High Hurdles

Foreign Affairs, Immigration

Speaking of the Swedes, I see that they’re following their Danish cousins and getting serious about immigration and citizenship:

The right-wing coalition government in Sweden has announced plans to significantly increase the threshold to obtain citizenship in the country, including a prohibition on migrants who fail to learn the native language.

The Swedish Ministry of Justice said this week that a series of new citizenship requirements will take effect by June 6th of this year. The ministry said that the measures will seek to “strengthen the importance of citizenship and increase incentives for individuals to become part of Swedish society, which also strengthens the Swedish community.”

According to the MoJ, the government will require migrants to live in the country for at least eight years to become eligible for citizenship, up from the current five-year standard.

It will also become necessary to demonstrate “self-sufficiency”, with a monthly income of around 20,000kr ($2,250).

Finally, prospective citizens will now have to demonstrate the ability to speak Swedish and knowledge of Swedish society.

All good stuff, and all quite reasonable qualifications to joining what is, after all, one of the more civilized nations of the world.

The only thing I’d add — were I a Swede at that level of power and influence — would be a limit on non-citizen residence to eight years:  in other words, if you don’t become a citizen after eight years, then out you go.  Once again, quite reasonable.

Just Shuddup

Illegal immigrants

Oh FFS, here’s another one piling on:

Wednesday on “CBS Mornings,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said “there’s a loss of public trust” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so some reforms are needed.

Paul said, “I think the nation and the country at large or large parts of the country, have lost trust. You know, I think there’s a loss of public trust in ICE and their officials after seeing what’s been going on in Minneapolis. I think there’s fault on both sides.”

And I think you have your head up your ass.

Item 1:  “Public trust”:  I would bet a considerable sum of money that the “public” — i.e. the people who voted for Trump and his agenda in their millions — have not lost trust in ICE. You’ve fallen prey to the Washington D.C. mindset of letting the constant drumbeat of opposition from the mainstream media cloud your thinking.

Item 2:  “Fault in both sides”:  Let’s allow, as you yourself have in the past, that there are tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country right now, thanks to FuckJoeBiden’s “open borders” policy, people that need to be deported back to  Shitholia  their native countries with some alacrity.  Let’s also allow that Trump has directed ICE to concentrate on getting the worst of these illegals — the hardcore criminals;  the murderers, rapists, violent robbers and drug dealers — as their first priority.  As he has.

Now ask the question:  Did you think that this was going to be easy?  Did you think that these violent assholes were just going to submit meekly to ICE agents and comply with their lawful actions?  Of course they wouldn’t, and haven’t.  They’ve been resisting ICE with all their might — in one case, deserting his own 5-year-old child to make his escape — and at all stages, these criminals have been assisted in their resistance by the efforts of Marxist scum in (surprise, surprise) Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Oh yeah, maybe ICE has lost the “public trust”, in those Marxist hellholes and strongholds.  In the rest of the country, where local law enforcement has been helping ICE remove the cancer?  Not so much.

Senator Paul, I generally have a great deal of respect for you — generally, not always, because sometimes you let your inner libertarian go a little too far.  As you did here.

So STFU, let law enforcement get on with their Augean task of cleaning our national stables of this scum and trash, and stop feeding our enemies — that would be the likes of CBS — with headlines that undermine our national purpose.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

An excellent analysis by this guy:

“Donald Trump is like a shark, in that he must always swim forward or risk suffocation. He, his administration and the media ecosystem that has grown up around Trump’s political persona depends upon action and controversy. In fallow news cycles, Trump steadily loses the initiative and two things happen:  First, the media establishment and the leftist activist machine begin gathering their own critical momentum.  Second, the vast MAGA-adjacent social media sphere must turn to other controversies to keep the clicks and the ad revenue flowing. Both of these work against the forty-seventh president and his purposes.”

Read the whole thing, because I can find no fault with his thesis.

And Another Thing

Elections, Politics

Before we get dragged into another pointless argument with the Usual Suspects, let us remind ourselves what the three purposes of a secure Voter ID card are, namely that you are:

  • a U.S. citizen, and therefore entitled to vote
  • alive, and
  • can only vote once.

It’s really that simple.  Now ask yourself the simple question:  who would be against such a simple concept, and why?

The next step is a lot more, shall we say, punitive.  Considering that the above constitutes one of the principle freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution (i.e. that citizens are entitled to vote), then I would suggest one final step:

Any U.S. House Representative or Senator who votes against this measure should be immediately removed from their position because they have betrayed their oath of office, and must be subject to a recall vote in their state or district.

Frankly, I’m sick of fucking around with this nonsense — fraudulent votes, stolen elections, voter negation and all the rest — and it’s time we put an end to it.  Immediately.

Need Work?

Politics, RINO/GOPe

Then there’s this:

Never mind that you need a fucking roadmap to understand just WTF it is that they’re actually voting on — a rant all of its own, for another time — but my local guy (for whom I voted because he’s very conservative) provides partial context:

Two points:

  • it shouldn’t be this difficult to follow what’s going on in our government sausage-making process, and
  • Insty (whence the above comes) makes the comment about these so-called “Republicans”:  “Need work”.

No, Glenn, they don’t need work.  They need to be fucking ejected by voters, in November 2026.

While all this other stuff about Venezuela and Greenland is going on, ordinary Americans are being systematically fucked and getting their rights trampled on.  And too many Republicans are aiding and abetting this activity for my liking.

Now, a favor from You, O My Readers:  I’m still feeling too buggered by this bloody chest cold to be able to do the research on what this particular piece of legislative bastardy is all about.  Help a poor blogger out, willya, and either send me an email or drop it in Comments.

[exit, wracked by a coughing fit]

Update:  I see that the two Texas Reps who voted against are both fucking liberals:  Jake Ellzey has John Cornyn’s old district — figures — and John Carter is one of those North Austin/Round Rock/Georgetown reptiles.

Self-Reported

Politics

So The Donald has listed his top 3 accomplishments in his first year as POTUS (Part 2):

  • rebuilding the United States’ military
  • securing major investments
  • attaining most-favored-nation pricing for prescription drugs

Yeah, all well and good.  Far be it for me to quibble, Yer Trumpness, but here’s what we need to see in Year 2:

  • clean up the voting rolls, eliminate fraudulent voting and prosecute people interfering with the process — because unless you do that, everything you’ve done and plan to do will be undone by the next bunch of socialists, should they finagle their way back into power
  • start putting people in jail, and by that I mean powerful people who’ve abused their position — e.g. Ilhan Omar (immigration and personal enrichment), Tim Walz (enabling welfare fraud, CCP spy), George Soros (funding insurrection, enabling vote fraud [25 similar nefarious activities omitted for brevity], and bastards of similar sort (e.g. Clintons)
  • include Somali fraudsters in your “top ten” list of groups to deport, along with the drug people, child molesters and so on.  (We’ve brought Africa into the U.S., and are somehow surprised that we’re becoming Africa instead of them becoming Americans?  Grow up.)
  • ditto Muslims of the jihad / radical type
  • do not shrink from revoking U.S. citizenships, especially among anchor babies gone bad and the children of criminals.

There are more (see my Comments section for further ideas, but these will do to start).

And something to ditch:  quit fucking around with Greenland.  Yeah, I know:  “vital strategic importance” yadda yadda yadda, but if you don’t clean up the domestic front, we won’t have anything worth defending and the Commies / Muslims will win without firing a shot.