Now they are burning the city on their way out:
Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year…
The House passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, negotiated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) A majority of House Republicans voted for the measure, which fully funds Obama’s refugee resettlement operation, all Mideast immigration programs, Sanctuary Cities, Obama’s continued executive amnesty for DREAMers, and the resettlement of illegal aliens within the U.S. interior.
In perhaps a display of loyalty to Ryan, three-fifths of the Republican conference supported his legislation, and even gave him a standing ovation following the bill’s passage.
In passing this legislation, the House has approved funding for the issuance of nearly three hundred thousand visas to migrants from Muslim countries in the next year alone…
As a result, Ryan’s House-passed omnibus will bring in nearly 300,000 Muslim migrants in the next 12 months alone, including roughly 170,000 who will be permanently resettled within the country. In a December 3rd letter to administration officials, Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz explained that the permanent resettlement of 170,000 Muslim migrants will be on top of the already huge inflow of temporary Muslim migrants…
Notice how since Trump showed up, this drives us to action much more. We have adapted to the idea that somebody should fight for us, and victory is within reach. Before, we might have been enraged, but there was a fatalism about the idea. Now, we begin thinking about how best to destroy what is left of the GOPe after Trump wins. We want to take action – right now, and we know we are going to kick ass somehow.
Trump’s best bet is to create a rallying cry of “Burn it all down,” or better yet, “Delenda Est,” and follow it with a solemn promise to campaign every two years for a full slate of non-establishment candidates throughout the House and the Senate, so electing Trump becomes analogous to striking a deathblow to the machine. If he can morph the choice between him and Cruz into eradicating the GOPe, or giving it a lifeline to continue, he might stand a better chance than he already does. He would probably draw in a load of Democrats and independents who hate the system as well. In fighting the machine, it would be like allying himself against an enemy with a 15% approval rating.
When the GOP tries to rally around Cruz, to defeat Trump, they would just be making Trump’s point for him. At this point, be it Apocalypse or Trump, it is clear that America will never be great again, until the GOPe is purged from this nation.
The only thing I know for sure is, it will happen.
Apocalypse cometh™
A truism among libertarians like myself is that both parties are useless and not in favor of freedom or morality. But I think this highlights something more. I think in the end we have a one-party system made up of a group of elites in Washington, D.C., who believe they can make the best decisions for a vast territory of hundreds of millions of people, and whose relationship to each other is not opposition but mutual camaraderie in a quest to pillage, lie, and steal as much as they possibly can before any collapse.
I agree.
What I really don’t get is… why? What do they think they will gain from this? AC, you’ve made the point about r-selected folks introducing predators into the environment instinctually, but what are these people actually telling themselves? In their heads, what’s the narrative.
I mean, if I were in charge of a ridiculously prosperous civilization that enabled me to live a life of unearned luxury indefinitely, I would do everything I could to shore it up at every turn. A rational parasite wants the host to get fat and comfortable, not lean and angry. How can they benefit from making sure that the lynch mobs target them first, instead of just riding the wave of populism now? Being the first to convert brings many advantages.
Vox once pointed out that the left gets enraged when he refers to his being a genius, and is obsessed with denying even the possibility that he is bright. However when he hears other people say they are geniuses, he doesn’t care, because as a genius he knows there are others out there like him, and it is not at all impossible the person saying it is one. He went on to say you can judge someone’s IQ by how mad they get at other people’s genius.
That is because Vox’s reaction is what a secure person would feel. If you are an idiot, and you see a genius describe his own brilliance, you take it as a personal insult. If you are a genius, and you see another bright person highlight their brilliance, it is just normal.
I think the people who make up the GOPe are threatened by the idea of great Americans making America great, in the same way idiots hate thinking about other people smarter than them. The GOPe wants full control – but not by being awesome themselves. They want to fall into backroom deals that make them millions, get handed board memberships, and see their virtues extolled by an awed nation, all while doing nothing and fucking the odd secretary here and there. To such characters, the very ideal of America in our minds, where greatness rises, and political machinations count for nothing is anathema. The idea of honest competition is anathema. And the idea of someone other than them in full control is really anathema.
I suspect they are going whole hog into the immigration route explicitly to try and flood the nation with non-Trump voters of low intellect, whom they will easily be superior to. Let’s face it, if we flooded this nation with a few million more Donald Trumps, Jeb Bush will look like even more of a mental retard to all of them. But if we flood the nation with a few million third world basket weavers who left school in the second grade, and Jeb promises them free straw to make more baskets, suddenly he is a god and Trump looks like a mean, evil person.
The GOPe is merely the rabbits of the Republican Party, and I see this as a mark of their desperation, as the nation turns K, the party turns even more K, and Trump shows up at exactly the wrong moment to rally those forces. It is a blatant move to disenfranchise their own voters, because they don’t like how they are voting.
Wait until the budget collapses in a few years, and the money is gone. Then they really won’t like how the nation votes.
It’s just… why would you dynamite the only thing keeping you rich, fat, and safe from lynch mobs? They have to know that turning America into Brazil Norte will not only hurt the base but destroy their futures and those of their children. It’s so blindingly irrational. Even if you’re an evil bastard with no principles whatsoever, siding with the winning team is a no-brainer. Patriotism and greedy self-preservation both support a wealthy, prosperous America.
People have seen the same thing for ages. “Better a Prince in Hell, than a pauper in Heaven.” They mean that literally. If everything is all fucked up, but they can look over and see someone else more fucked up than them, and utterly miserable, they take solace. If everyone is blissful, and they look over and see everyone else happy, there is no solace to take. It implies that their psychology needs solace, because it will be miserable no matter what the surrounding circumstances.
My guess is your experience with Narcissists is limited, and I am glad. But if you run into one, you will be scratching your head a lot as you try to wrap your brain around that one.
In terms of individual behavior, I think my ‘yellow-blindness’ theory might help explain it. Take the standard situational awareness scale and rip out Condition Yellow, Also, Orange should probably be changed to Pink but that’s something to go into later.
To the yellow-blind/r-selected mind, the ability to recognize and process threats while remaining calm is inconceivable. This is why they constantly confuse threat recognition with fear and hate: it is exactly where they will go themselves if they acknowledge a possible threat. They know that, and being terrified of that possibility, take the alternative: refuse to acknowledge the threat.
You know the old saying that the simplest solution is probably correct. Maybe they’re being blackmailed. Wouldn’t need all of them. Maybe 20 or 30 at the top that pressure the lower ones. The less Senior could be blackmailed with the odd one night stand with a prostitute. I’m not saying I know this for a fact but in a post you have later I have links to investigations that the intelligence service stopped that highly suggest something going on. Even the dimmest bulb in the Republican party knows mass immigration will disenfranchise his constitutes and him eventually.