My guess is anyone who graduated high school or certainly college is likely to have in their basement or bookshelf a copy of Marx or one of the many left-leaning books of the 60s and 70s which were part of college history, poli sci, philosophy, even religion, curriculi then...including Chip Roy, or some old classmates will 'remember' him as having said something back then that was,, or could be construed as, sympathetic to some part of a socialist view - so watch out Mr. Roy, they'll be coming for you, too.
Not sure what the hell they are so worked up about regarding admitting immigrants with socialistic views, since NO immigrants are being admitted--except some white South Africans. However, I get it that this is part of the greater push to deport as many people as possible.
"...restructure or advocate the restructuring of economic and social relations to reduce class distinctions" is just code for "We mean to keep our heritage American birthright to ensure class distinctions." It's important to remember that Texas was part of the Confederacy in the Civil War, not the Union. Should we be surprised at a Chip Roy when that state has an AG like Ken Paxton?
Even accepting that this is a message bill and not a real legislative proposal, it's telling that Roy believes that there is a significant market for an obviously unconstitutional frontal attack on content-based speech and association. He's a moron, but is he wrong? I used to think that this kind of thing, from the cutesy acronym to the vicious content, was laughably idiotic, but I'm not laughing now.
i used to think morally bankrupt assaults on the constitution like this one were a result of blindness. now i think it's arrogance.
i used to be amazed that the republicans would scatter so many precedents around for any democrat who managed to win an election to use against them. now i think they're sure they have the tools to keep a dem from ever winning again.
well the fate of their hero, orban, should make them wonder. so maybe they think that any democrat who did manage to win would be too decent (they call it weak) to pick up the political weapons they're leaving lying around.
we need a win like hungary's, and then we need to move, as magyar is, to make sure this can't happen again. no middle-of-the road dems should dare to make excuses for 'finding middle ground' with lethal trolls like this guy.
The Trump Administration has dropped the number of emergency refugee visa's from 100,000 a year to 7,500 a year. Currently about 99% of those are going to White South Africans.
All this does is to confirm my longstanding opinion that the Dunning-Kruger cognitive bias is alive and thriving in Texas. A whole state full of people whose world view is limited by their incompetence and lack of relevant life experience. They're the polar opposite of people I've known, lived among, and shared life experience with in California, Massachusetts, New York, and a few other places I've resided or traveled among here in the United States or in Europe.
Chip Roy rhymes with "good ol' boy". There must be something in the air, land, or water wherever Congressman Roy hails from that makes them so susceptible to acting like their avatar, President Donald J. Trump; saying all the willfully hurtful and stupid stuff that pops into their pea brains at any hour of the day or night. How they can style themselves as believing Christians cannot be rationally explained. These people clutch their Bibles the way in which a wealthy, elderly dowager might clutch at her string of pearls while finding herself alone on a dark city street, with no cab in sight. Sadly, those holy Gospels bound between stout covers will not protect their owners from themselves. In Congressman Roy's case there is also that element of shamelessness and insouciance to the point of recklessness in saying out loud what our parents and adult relatives sought to keep out of our conversational vocabularies as middle school children, after one or another of our outre elders, typically inebriated after a family holiday get-together sounded off. SNL's Drunk Uncle was a long-standing shtick that drew laughs; but the down-and-dirty stuff made us all wince.
That's the kind of guy Chip Roy comes off as being. The fact that he's a Member of Congress is all the more chilling, because he represents a segment of his constituency who have only coarsened our national dialogue over the past two decades. It's long past due to call these men out whenever they sound off. Like President Trump, their bullying behavior needs to be called out, each and every time it appears, if for no other reason than the children we are raising deserve better examples in our time to emulate.
A significant number of immigrants to the United States from the 1880s to the 1920s - I mean in the millions - were economic socialists, joining labor unions which had social democratic ideologies along the lines of the social democratic parties and unions of Europe. Not communist, which was distinct (Bolshevik, pro-Soviet), but socialist and democratic. A blockhead like Chip Roy is probably both ignorant of that, and would say that those millions of immigrants who went on themselves, and through their children and grandchildren to build America and contribute so much to its economy and culture, should have been turned away, or deported. What he advocates is unconstitutional.
Roy clearly doesn’t understand that there are MANY forms of socialism on display world-wide, some of which are vastly more successful than Trump’s perverted version of “democracy.” Of course, it would be inconvenient to his storyline to acknowledge that truth, so better to just keep spewing lies and hate. Glad I don’t live in Texas. 😳
My guess is anyone who graduated high school or certainly college is likely to have in their basement or bookshelf a copy of Marx or one of the many left-leaning books of the 60s and 70s which were part of college history, poli sci, philosophy, even religion, curriculi then...including Chip Roy, or some old classmates will 'remember' him as having said something back then that was,, or could be construed as, sympathetic to some part of a socialist view - so watch out Mr. Roy, they'll be coming for you, too.
Not sure what the hell they are so worked up about regarding admitting immigrants with socialistic views, since NO immigrants are being admitted--except some white South Africans. However, I get it that this is part of the greater push to deport as many people as possible.
"...restructure or advocate the restructuring of economic and social relations to reduce class distinctions" is just code for "We mean to keep our heritage American birthright to ensure class distinctions." It's important to remember that Texas was part of the Confederacy in the Civil War, not the Union. Should we be surprised at a Chip Roy when that state has an AG like Ken Paxton?
This is a perfect example of white, male grievance! I've had it up to here with the fake narrative they scream about. Chip Roy is a fool!
Thanks, Will!
Even accepting that this is a message bill and not a real legislative proposal, it's telling that Roy believes that there is a significant market for an obviously unconstitutional frontal attack on content-based speech and association. He's a moron, but is he wrong? I used to think that this kind of thing, from the cutesy acronym to the vicious content, was laughably idiotic, but I'm not laughing now.
“any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party.”
Totalitarian? So, that includes Republicans?
So just as JFK announced he was a "Berliner" -- we need to state, I am a Democratic Socialist proudly!
I am Spartacist!
Including our Democratic Socialist Mayor here in Seattle! Roy is not only a racist apologist, he is out of touch with "real Americans".
This effing guy
This effing guy
i used to think morally bankrupt assaults on the constitution like this one were a result of blindness. now i think it's arrogance.
i used to be amazed that the republicans would scatter so many precedents around for any democrat who managed to win an election to use against them. now i think they're sure they have the tools to keep a dem from ever winning again.
well the fate of their hero, orban, should make them wonder. so maybe they think that any democrat who did manage to win would be too decent (they call it weak) to pick up the political weapons they're leaving lying around.
we need a win like hungary's, and then we need to move, as magyar is, to make sure this can't happen again. no middle-of-the road dems should dare to make excuses for 'finding middle ground' with lethal trolls like this guy.
Perhaps they are trying to elimiate migration from those democratic socialist contries in Europe too?
The Trump Administration has dropped the number of emergency refugee visa's from 100,000 a year to 7,500 a year. Currently about 99% of those are going to White South Africans.
I look forward to the day these idiots ideas are used against them
All this does is to confirm my longstanding opinion that the Dunning-Kruger cognitive bias is alive and thriving in Texas. A whole state full of people whose world view is limited by their incompetence and lack of relevant life experience. They're the polar opposite of people I've known, lived among, and shared life experience with in California, Massachusetts, New York, and a few other places I've resided or traveled among here in the United States or in Europe.
Chip Roy rhymes with "good ol' boy". There must be something in the air, land, or water wherever Congressman Roy hails from that makes them so susceptible to acting like their avatar, President Donald J. Trump; saying all the willfully hurtful and stupid stuff that pops into their pea brains at any hour of the day or night. How they can style themselves as believing Christians cannot be rationally explained. These people clutch their Bibles the way in which a wealthy, elderly dowager might clutch at her string of pearls while finding herself alone on a dark city street, with no cab in sight. Sadly, those holy Gospels bound between stout covers will not protect their owners from themselves. In Congressman Roy's case there is also that element of shamelessness and insouciance to the point of recklessness in saying out loud what our parents and adult relatives sought to keep out of our conversational vocabularies as middle school children, after one or another of our outre elders, typically inebriated after a family holiday get-together sounded off. SNL's Drunk Uncle was a long-standing shtick that drew laughs; but the down-and-dirty stuff made us all wince.
That's the kind of guy Chip Roy comes off as being. The fact that he's a Member of Congress is all the more chilling, because he represents a segment of his constituency who have only coarsened our national dialogue over the past two decades. It's long past due to call these men out whenever they sound off. Like President Trump, their bullying behavior needs to be called out, each and every time it appears, if for no other reason than the children we are raising deserve better examples in our time to emulate.
A significant number of immigrants to the United States from the 1880s to the 1920s - I mean in the millions - were economic socialists, joining labor unions which had social democratic ideologies along the lines of the social democratic parties and unions of Europe. Not communist, which was distinct (Bolshevik, pro-Soviet), but socialist and democratic. A blockhead like Chip Roy is probably both ignorant of that, and would say that those millions of immigrants who went on themselves, and through their children and grandchildren to build America and contribute so much to its economy and culture, should have been turned away, or deported. What he advocates is unconstitutional.
Roy clearly doesn’t understand that there are MANY forms of socialism on display world-wide, some of which are vastly more successful than Trump’s perverted version of “democracy.” Of course, it would be inconvenient to his storyline to acknowledge that truth, so better to just keep spewing lies and hate. Glad I don’t live in Texas. 😳