Losing face with your friends? Try picking on the new kid on the block.
Published by punkass marc August 11th, 2007 in Bush is a cockIn the immortal words of Barry Goldwater, it’s hard out here for a pimp.
Despite pimping their unfounded fears and their unjust wars and their ignorance-as-education agenda, The Powers That Be haven’t had much luck sexing up their Q Scores. In fact, they’re more unpopular than ever. Old friends are threatening to form their own cliques, and making new friends is next to impossible when everyone in school knows all they like to do is run around the halls giving tittie twisters to anyone who isn’t as rich, white, or dude-ish as them.
So what should you do when you need to score a few easy points with the “in crowd?” Why, pick on the new kid in front of the whole class, of course. That way, everybody knows what a big man you are.
It seems the Halliburton Boys have been studying their ’80s movies, because yesterday they got their bully on and threw one nasty sucker-punch:
The news of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration Friday was delivered by Bush administration officials with a verbal finger wag, a warning carried out after Congress’ failure this summer to pass legislation that would have also included more lenient reforms.
Starting as early as next month, employers would face tougher sanctions for hiring illegal workers, federal contractors would have to use special software to confirm employee identities and plans for beefing up the U.S.-Mexico border with more fencing and Border Patrol officers would kick into gear — the best measures available under existing immigration law, officials said during a Washington news conference.
I bet this kind of tough-talk coverage of their actions makes them want to go out and wax their chests and legs and make Patrick Swayze faces in the mirror.
But did it work? Well, yes and no. The other kids seem to enjoy watching the unfair fight, but they’re well aware of the motivations behind it:
“If they’re trying to make another effort at amnesty in the fall, then this is a pretty smart thing they’re doing,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a Virginia-based organization that helped engineer a fierce grass-roots campaign in June to defeat a bipartisan Senate bill that would have offered legalization to undocumented immigrants.
“Perhaps they’re trying to build their credibility” among conservatives “and swing a few votes over their way,” Beck said. “But, we’ll take the good moves for the wrong purposes.”
Yeah. Intentions are for bitches! I can see why Georgie Boy wants to impress these dudes so much.
But who are they, really, and what is this club “NumbersUSA” of which the article speaks? Sounds like one hootenanny of a good time! Maybe these are the kinds of jocks who also like to do math competitions in their spare time.
Let’s find out:
Oh. This is just a whole gang devoted to picking on new kids. I get it now.
I wondered why Bush, Rove, and Cheney were buying those cool black unis.
1925-1965= “no time in history when immigrants were so welcomed”? Will someone tell him about the mass deportation of over 500,000 Mexicans, many American citizens, during the Great Depression because They’re Taking Our Jobs? Or Yellow Peril? Internment?
Another lying racist. I’m shocked.
I read something about this in an AP snippet in my morning rag today, while my eyes were still half glued shut with slumber.
My only thought on this is, fine, let the people who keep screaming about illegals ruining country get what they have been begging for. Let them see for themselves how much the economy depends on exploiting the defenseless.
I highly doubt anything will come of it but a lot of chest thumping from Bushco and a lot of whining from those whose job it is to exploit labor without compunction while they and the administration continue to support the endless victim blaming and race baiting that allow the exploitation to continue.
As long as Bob Blue Collar believes that the Mexeecins are staging a subtle coup d’etat on his precious privilege, then no alliance will be made to improve the lot of the common citizen. The irony is that the illegal represents the shadow of helplessness that blue collars feel everyday, fear so much and told everyday is a fault of their own and not one of national policy or culture.
Newest thing immigrants are being blamed for: The bridge collapse in Minnesota.