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CSotD: Overseas Ideas From House
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to permit 140,000 refugees to settle within the US, a quantity that swelled to about 1,000,000 as boat folks and different escapees got here to our shores. My recollection of the occasions was that, whereas not everybody right here was thrilled on the inflow, the one overt racist response of any magnitude was amongst shrimp fishermen in Texas.
Now we’re anticipating Afghan refugees and, as Joe Heller suggests, we don’t appear prepared for them, and I’d recommend that organizational plans ought to be the least of our issues, as a result of, whereas we had been removed from good again within the Nineteen Seventies, our most vile racists had been nonetheless dwelling underneath rocks, in a world earlier than Hate Radio, Fox Information and the open sewers of social media.
We’re seeing some pushback. The Albany Times-Union wrote a forthright editorial in response to Elise Stefanik’s overtly racist assault on immigrants.
However, whereas it’s good that they stood as much as her despicable feedback, it’s distressing that they needed to. Maybe the explanation Vietnamese refugees didn’t face a lot open hatred was that we had been making an attempt to place behind us the blatant, hate-filled rhetoric of politicians who had defended a dying Jim Crow.
It might be good to suppose that, a couple of years from now, we’ll be twice as good as a result of we wish to overlook the appalling proponents of “Alternative Principle” like Stefanik, Tucker Carlson and their ilk.
However that nice want doesn’t assist the Afghans right now, does it?
This Rico Schacherl panel is reassuring within the sense that it’s good to see that employees — even ones in fits and ties — are being as shamelessly exploited in South Africa as they’re right here.
I’ve timed my life properly. I entered my teenagers simply because the British Invasion hit, spent them within the coronary heart of the 60s and exited to maturity simply because the Beatles disbanded, which was loads of enjoyable, however the true grasp stroke got here in reaching retirement a few 12 months in the past, not solely simply earlier than the pandemic struck however simply because the financial system on the whole and newspapers particularly had been doing a face plant.
I’m no genius, nor am I alone: In case you haven’t been moving into the depths of the present labor scarcity, a part of it stems from folks in my demographic who’ve mentioned to hell with it and aren’t curious about doing thrice the work for two-thirds the wage.
What I discover fascinating is the quantity of people that aren’t sufficiently old to retire however who’ve found methods to desert the creeping meatball anyway.
Fixed Readers have heard this quote from “Warfare and Peace” earlier than, however it’s significantly apt right here, as a result of Pierre spends three-quarters of that large novel wandering round making an attempt to determine what to do together with his life, coming into into a foul marriage and all types of silly distractions, till he turns into a POW and is compelled to endure Napoleon’s horrific retreat from Moscow, at which level there isn’t a additional place for foolishness.
Later, he displays upon it:
In case you are provided an opportunity to do thrice the work for two-thirds the pay, I like to recommend, as an alternative, that you just take a barefoot stroll in blizzard circumstances, on a menu of weak barley soup and rancid horseflesh.
In the meantime, amongst younger lordlings who’ve by no means been compelled to march via the snow, Morten Morland notes that Prince Andrew has been served with a summons to seem in a US court docket by a younger lady who was rather a lot youthful again within the days when HRH was hanging round with Jeffrey Epstein.
Not that he could possibly be extradited over a civil lawsuit, thoughts you, however it’ll preserve him over there and never over right here, and that’s one thing.
Another little American women acquired an opportunity, to not sue the person who sexually assaulted them, since he’s already ruined, however to testify in Congress in regards to the individuals who failed to guard them, together with the FBI.
There have been a number of cartoons in regards to the futility of all of it, however Lee Judge (KFS) doesn’t make any predictions about precise outcomes. He merely celebrates their testimony in opposition to a system that didn’t care, and didn’t strive.
“Ladies’s” gymnastics have, over the previous a number of many years, changed into sexualization of pre-pubescent little women, and I’d additional be aware that we’ve identified about Nadia Comaneci’s sexual abuse by her coach for many years, which ought to make the experiences of our personal Olympic standouts hardly a shock.
And but we’re shocked, shocked.
I agree with Choose that their frank testimony is value celebrating, if it results in a world by which, in the words of James Thurber, “It isn’t really easy to idiot little women these days because it was.”
Juxtaposition of the Antipodes
In the meantime, on the southside of the globe, we’ve managed to piss off the French — which is just too straightforward to brag about — by promoting some nuclear-powered submarines to the Aussies and, together with Britain, creating an alliance largely devoted to opposing China’s ongoing territorial claims within the South China Sea, which has pissed them off, too.
The French are upset as a result of Australia canceled a $30 billion deal to have them build subs, and has withdrawn its diplomats from Britain and the US, however we must always keep in mind that those fries were invented in Belgium and are solely referred to as “french” because of the way they’re cut.
I didn’t say it was related. I simply suppose we must always bear in mind it.
Nonetheless, I be aware with some sense of hegemonic guilt that individuals in Australia learn about Subway, which raises the query of whether or not we’re promoting them 0.3048-metre-longs?
By no means thoughts — Brian is on it.
In truth, changing the Aussies again might be his contribution to the deal.
Lastly right now, my first response to Mr. Boffo was that they’ve eliminated the Circles of Loss of life from most playgrounds as a part of the Attorneys’ Warfare on Enjoyable.
My second response was that I’m glad I acquired to go to the Enjoyable Home at Hershey Park earlier than the legal professionals ruined that, too.
Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno face the Circle of Loss of life, and extra — all with a definite lack of social distancing, at the least till the top.
