Everything Is Stupid

Originally Posted 6/20/2018

By: Nick Huftel

Midway through June of 2018 the unthinkable had happened. Trump was having a pretty damn good year. Sure he has the tact of a lead pipe and his Twitter feed seems to be managed by the love child of one of those AIM bots that you could find on Ebaums World and a random word generator….. but real talk doe… as someone who didn’t see this coming…. its been a good year. The economy is humming, the regulatory climate is improving, Obamacare is effectively gutted, the Iran deal is a footnote in history, even Kim Jong Fatso sees the writing on the wall. Now of course this has more to do with what Trump is not doing than anything he is doing but, hey, its better to be lucky than good.

This is all of course a disaster for America. By America I am of course exclusively referring to the delusional and self-absorbed left. The screeching reached a fever….. and then a dull…… and then a dying pitch. The left’s ox was getting gored and the center was losing interest. There were butterflys floating around Hiroshima in less panic.

Like all disasters this required an immediate and dramatic response. Whether or not that response makes sense is not important. All that matters is that a crisis must be manufactured and it must be blamed on Trump. Extra points if it can be used as an excuse to use the left’s favorite “R word”. The Tar and Feather brigade, frustrated after coming up empty for months in the Russia probe, believes it has made a master stroke. A stroke that not only plays on the heart strings of matriarchal social media feeds but also has suspended the higher brain function of the entire population.

There are kids…. in Walmarts…. who don’t want to be there. Even worse they are being separated from their parents. *gasp* *hiss* *virtue signal* Shockingly enough I am not talking about the aftermath of divorce court but rather the children of parents who, uncreatively, are trying to request asylum after being caught breaching the border illegally.

It turns out that individuals who breach the border illegally are required to to taken into custody while their case is being adjudicated. If they request asylum they still must be held while their claim is analyzed. Sure they could just go to a port of entry if they had a legitimate claim and wouldn’t have to risk this treatment but hey, never let facts interrupt a good narrative. Think about it though. When you were a kid and got caught with your hand in the cookie jar was your first impulse to fess up…. or lie like an ugly rug?

For nearly 20 years children were held in lockup with their parents after being caught breaching the border together. Near the end of the Obama administration the ninth circus court of appeals ruled that children can not be held in custody as a deterrent to illegally crossing the border. The administration was faced with a bad bit of law and a tough decision. Enforce the law and BRIEFLY separate children from their parents while their case is being handled, push for a change in the law, or cowardly abdicate the responsibilities of the Executive Branch. What did they choose? Come on. Anyone who has heard the phrase chicken bleep knows where this is going….. Or maybe they listen to Mark Belling…. Anyway. They kicked that can down the road and left this little land mine for the next guy.

Now put yourself in the shoes of a prospecting illegal. Bring your kid and have a get out of jail free card or don’t bring the kids and risk deportation….. Moral hazard anyone?

Enter Trump. Think he is going to enforce the law rather than flout the law just to make people who value feelings over facts feel good? Is a duck’s ass water tight?

So now for years our government has been housing illegal immigrant children and now they are joined by some other kids that are temporarily separated from their parents while their cases are being processed. This really isn’t that interesting. Kinda sad but not interesting. The left has seized on this sadness and used it to claim that the Trump administration and all Republicans are……. wait for it…….. RRRRRRRACIST. Yeah I know. You just had to pick your jaw off the floor. Turns out originality isn’t a strength for the leftist playwrights. Now here we are. Stuck in a classic…… Mexican Stand Off. Seriously tho, this stuff kinda writes itself. We have a bad law and a bad court case combined with proper enforcement leading to an ugly situation. Any reasonable human being would respond with a change in the law and an unreasonable one would stand in the way of that change. Ted Cruz has introduced a law that would correct this problem, Paul Ryan is pushing it through the house and Democrats are vowing to stand in the way of it.

Do nothing in the stand off and let the Dems kill you slowly. Try to pass a fix and they try to stop you and then kill you. Kill them and they make you the bad guy.

After all, why solve a problem when you can perpetuate it and use it to burn your enemy?

Still think the Democrats give a crap about those kids?

*hint* Pass the bill with unanimous GOP support any leave the pathetic Dems writhing in a pool of their own proverbial blood. They will some how still try to make you look bad but that will be about as successful as Mueller.