Magats are the folks who would have supported Mad King George, and worked against the founding of our country. Their only claim to be Americans is by their birthplace, as they don't support the democratic principles of that created the USA.
When in high school--in Santa Monica, CA--Stephen Miller wrote a letter to the local newspaper in which he complained bitterly--*bitterly*--about having to listen to the daily announcements in Spanish as well as in English.
These people are truly evil! I wonder what would happen if we didn't report their rants! What good does it do to see and hear it? It's sickening. I suppose the good it does is to mobilize the rest of us, if that's what's happening.
Understood, Nancy. But not seeing evil doesn’t mean evil does not exist. Covering our eyes and ears to the venom spewing from so many edifices of our fellow citizens does not make it less poisonous to those who do see it and hear it. What Adrian is doing is exposing the rot to sunlight, which is said to be the best disinfectant. I share your distaste, but to ignore the little turds all over the floor doesn’t mean our house isn’t full of rats. We have to look. We cannot turn away.
MAGA is the last gasp of the white guy. They are terrified of strong women, especially Black and Brown women. They are too lazy to work. Karma is coming for their sorry asses. She has big plans!
This “birth tourism” isn’t a problem, and is a strategic rhetorical deflection from the real reason and vision the nativists wanted birthright citizenship written out of our Constitution. They actually want to be able to deport brown families without messy family separation. This real motive for stripping the national definition of citizenship is quite vile.
There is a conveyor belt on which wealthy Chinese give birth in US territories like Guam and the Marianas, then go home. I take offense at that. Moreover, it is a problem for immigrants generally, including refugees, who are tarred with that same brush.
Can we take a moment to look at the history of anti-immigrant sentiment in our country because, people, this is nothing new. This is what the Stephen Millers of their time said about these immigrant groups:
What exactly is the reason why Miller and Davis apparently think that they are better than new immigrants? Miller’s family has not been here long, and as for Davis…well, I have seen picture of him and have read some of his stuff. There is nothing ideal there.
It is incredible that MAGA thinks that it has a chokehold on this “heritage American” BS. They also claim the word “patriotism.” They have no right to co-opt either. None of us do. Actions speak louder than words, and from where I sit, these folks have a twisted idea of what this country should be. They are dangerous, unstable fools.
Could an immigrant's child, born in the USA, sit in judgement of you, Stephen Miller? Why, yes, and with more honest appraisal and decency that you have ever had anywhere in your rotten soul. In fact, a super-majority of Americans, ALL descended from immigrants, sit in judgement of you. We're hankering to see the day that you, Stephen Miller, and the likes of Matt Walsh, and Sean Davis lead the column marching toward either longterm imprisonment, banishment, or a firing squad. Because you do not deserve to live freely anywhere on the planet. You all are violently insane and dangerous.
Stephen Miller should bear in mind that in the Russian shell where his grandparents immigrated from, any gentile could kill a Jew and/or start a pogrom and kill lots of Jews and all that would happen would be that Jews would be dead. That is why his grandparents left.
Immigrants have always been our country's backbone. Stephen Miller and some MAGA are racist. They want an all white America. Boring and stupid aim. We will in the future revamp immigration policy, I hope, so the path to citizenship and guest workers reflect our country's true values, not bigotry.
Clearly Miller is a sick person. It would be interesting to know what happened to him as a child. Watch his speech for student council in high school where he complains student shouldn't have to pick up after themselves because there are janitors. It's cringe worthy and it does not get a good response. Even then, people got the ick vibe from him.
As someone with so much power in this administration, perhaps a little in-depth investigation is needed. No doubt there are things in his past the, at the very least, would be an embarrassment and worthy of public discourse and a discussion of who he is, why he holds his views and why he commands so much power in the administration. An expose, so to speak, on an important person in America.
Thanks for this excellent tho' extremely troubling article. SometimesI I think with this dangerous heat wave tomorrow that if everypme om the WH would (well Iwon't write down my thoughts about that but I'm sure y'all can guess.
Magats are the folks who would have supported Mad King George, and worked against the founding of our country. Their only claim to be Americans is by their birthplace, as they don't support the democratic principles of that created the USA.
When in high school--in Santa Monica, CA--Stephen Miller wrote a letter to the local newspaper in which he complained bitterly--*bitterly*--about having to listen to the daily announcements in Spanish as well as in English.
These people are truly evil! I wonder what would happen if we didn't report their rants! What good does it do to see and hear it? It's sickening. I suppose the good it does is to mobilize the rest of us, if that's what's happening.
Understood, Nancy. But not seeing evil doesn’t mean evil does not exist. Covering our eyes and ears to the venom spewing from so many edifices of our fellow citizens does not make it less poisonous to those who do see it and hear it. What Adrian is doing is exposing the rot to sunlight, which is said to be the best disinfectant. I share your distaste, but to ignore the little turds all over the floor doesn’t mean our house isn’t full of rats. We have to look. We cannot turn away.
You're right, of course!
Thanks Nancy, it’s the old adage, ‘even a stopped clock….’
I haven't flown my flag since DJT was reelected. I can't. We the People have been unable to stop MAGA from destroying everything.
This week at the Court reaffirms that, because the ideologues on the Court won't give up.
If America is a country for only Whites, then why is the flag Red, White, and Blue?
I took my flag down the day after the 2025 election as well. I hope the day comes where I’ll be able to raise it again.
And FYI, some of my ancestors arrived on the second sailing of the Mayflower. They were fleeing religious repression in Europe. How quaint!
MAGA is the last gasp of the white guy. They are terrified of strong women, especially Black and Brown women. They are too lazy to work. Karma is coming for their sorry asses. She has big plans!
Any day now. It's been ten years... I just hope Ms. Karma didn't get disappeared and we don't know about it yet. :-(
Many are incapable of doing the kind of thinking that work now demands. They can't accept that they are... Inferior.
This “birth tourism” isn’t a problem, and is a strategic rhetorical deflection from the real reason and vision the nativists wanted birthright citizenship written out of our Constitution. They actually want to be able to deport brown families without messy family separation. This real motive for stripping the national definition of citizenship is quite vile.
There is a conveyor belt on which wealthy Chinese give birth in US territories like Guam and the Marianas, then go home. I take offense at that. Moreover, it is a problem for immigrants generally, including refugees, who are tarred with that same brush.
Can we take a moment to look at the history of anti-immigrant sentiment in our country because, people, this is nothing new. This is what the Stephen Millers of their time said about these immigrant groups:
Irish - ape-like, drunkards criminals, racially inferior Celts
Italian - mongrels, not fully white, genetically predisposed to crime
Greeks - unfit for citizenship, diseased, racially degenerate
Jews - racially alien, not white, parasitic, subhuman
Asian - unassimilable, subhuman, a threat to American civilization
The letter Miller's uncle sent in to Politico always rewards a re-reading:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/
Thanks! I wondered what his background was. He is really full of self-loathing, isn't he?
What exactly is the reason why Miller and Davis apparently think that they are better than new immigrants? Miller’s family has not been here long, and as for Davis…well, I have seen picture of him and have read some of his stuff. There is nothing ideal there.
It is incredible that MAGA thinks that it has a chokehold on this “heritage American” BS. They also claim the word “patriotism.” They have no right to co-opt either. None of us do. Actions speak louder than words, and from where I sit, these folks have a twisted idea of what this country should be. They are dangerous, unstable fools.
Could an immigrant's child, born in the USA, sit in judgement of you, Stephen Miller? Why, yes, and with more honest appraisal and decency that you have ever had anywhere in your rotten soul. In fact, a super-majority of Americans, ALL descended from immigrants, sit in judgement of you. We're hankering to see the day that you, Stephen Miller, and the likes of Matt Walsh, and Sean Davis lead the column marching toward either longterm imprisonment, banishment, or a firing squad. Because you do not deserve to live freely anywhere on the planet. You all are violently insane and dangerous.
He certainly has an unrealistic view of his superiority.
Stephen Miller should bear in mind that in the Russian shell where his grandparents immigrated from, any gentile could kill a Jew and/or start a pogrom and kill lots of Jews and all that would happen would be that Jews would be dead. That is why his grandparents left.
Immigrants have always been our country's backbone. Stephen Miller and some MAGA are racist. They want an all white America. Boring and stupid aim. We will in the future revamp immigration policy, I hope, so the path to citizenship and guest workers reflect our country's true values, not bigotry.
Correction -- by now, anyone clinging to MAGA is, indeed, racist.
I understand your statement, but very obviously many MAGA are just too stupid to seek or listen to the truth. Disinformation has them cowed.
They aren’t going batshit, they always have been!
Clearly Miller is a sick person. It would be interesting to know what happened to him as a child. Watch his speech for student council in high school where he complains student shouldn't have to pick up after themselves because there are janitors. It's cringe worthy and it does not get a good response. Even then, people got the ick vibe from him.
As someone with so much power in this administration, perhaps a little in-depth investigation is needed. No doubt there are things in his past the, at the very least, would be an embarrassment and worthy of public discourse and a discussion of who he is, why he holds his views and why he commands so much power in the administration. An expose, so to speak, on an important person in America.
Plus, there was the episode in which he seemed to have painted his head so as to not look bald. Who does that? Who thinks that might follow anyone?
A friend of mine had him as a student as an undergraduate. You would not be surprised to learn he was a bleep back then, too.
Telling that Miller is anticipating the need for his lawyers to use strikes on the people of color sitting on his eventual jury.
Thanks for this excellent tho' extremely troubling article. SometimesI I think with this dangerous heat wave tomorrow that if everypme om the WH would (well Iwon't write down my thoughts about that but I'm sure y'all can guess.
From listening to all this far right bullshit, it boggles my mind that 30- 40 % still support this!