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Yes, we're talking about Trump's immigration comments but no, you don't have to worry about your kids hearing bad language. Today, Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer great news in the automotive industry as Fiat Chrysler announces it is investing a billion dollars in Michigan and planning to add 2,500 jobs to build Ram pickup trucks again. This follows earlier news that Toyota and Mazda will team to build a $1.6 billion plant in Alabama and employ up to 4,000 people. They also recoil at President Trump's attitude towards people in deeply troubled nations, noting that it's fair to point out there are many horribly corrupt and crime-ridden nations in various parts of the world and re-evaluate immigration policy but deeply wrong to suggest those people have no value. At the same time, many Trump critics suggest that diversity is what makes America great, and Greg and Jim set them straight. And they shake their heads as Nancy Pelosi dismisses congressional immigration negotiators as "five white guys" - including her top deputy among House Democrats - as she called for more diversity in the group.
Hosted by Greg Corombos and Jim Geraghty
Discussion (6)
You both projected your stuff onto the president. You added a whole lot of things to what he said that he did not say.
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"deeply wrong to suggest those people have no value...." Oh yeah, he didn't say that. We look to alternative, right wing media as a respite from the cloying, crying "You're a racist racist who uses RACISM!!" brand of "journalism" we get from 90% of the media. Stop virtue signaling.
And re "every group has gone through this..." Good. That's the VERY necessary hazing process this country calls "assimilation." That way, people can leave their bad habits back in the home country and become good "WASPy" Americans- regardless of their actual ethnic and racial background.
Don't believe me? Compare American Catholicism & Judaism with the real McCoy back at The Vatican [as evidenced by contraception usage] or on the shtetl ["Reform" Judaism......it's kind of like a hobby!]. Might it be that the Catholicism so despised and the Judaism so mistrusted in mid 19th Cent America was moderated- mostly to our benefit- by being surrounded by Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Unitarians and Congregationalists for a century?
Greg touched upon this but what is often left out of those misty-eyed recollections of Ellis Island is that MILLIONS of immigrants went BACK to their country of origin because they couldn't hack it here and no doubt thought we were too mean and nasty.
Most people's commitment to "diversity" extends no further than food.
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Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi have been rivals. They ran against each other for Minority Whip in 2002, and apparently have never made up since. I wonder if Pelosi made the "five white guys" comment as a dig at Hoyer.
Regardless of her intention, Pelosi's comment reinforced the meme that Democrats hate straight white males - just as Trump's [outhouse] comment reinforced the meme that Republicans hate non-straight white males, regardless of his intention.
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