Jon, thanks for writing this very intelligent and, I think, workable solution to the immigration issue. It is one of the best summaries of the issue I've read in some time.
Well done. Indeed, particularly well done. And it must be encouraging for you to see what appears to be an uptick in the number of comments.
Too many thoughts, which are not all that random, for me to pick up on more than a handful of them (five, so exactly a handful), for of them touching upon rhetorical or personal asides, not your central substantive points.
1. A friend, in a recent discussion, referred to the "vicious fight "between the MAGA base and the Tech Bros as a fight between paleo-MAGAs and the neo-MAGAs. Clever, I think.
2. Your refer jokingly to your "painstaking research," citing your review of the appropriate Wikipedia entry. Bless Wikipedia, as I know you do. No matter how obscure the topic, Wikipedia will almost surely have an entry, sometimes extensive, sometimes not so much, but virtually always sourced in the footnotes. And where the entry is insufficiently sourced and supported, Wikipedia owns up to it, up front, and ask for additional authority. It's a fantastic resource, and I have only a vague idea of how the suits at Wikipedia manage it all.
3. Your family story isa moving one, bearing some resemblance to my own, but yours is the more impressive on the whole. One of the differences is that for three of my four grandparents, the "old country" (which is what my paternal grandmother called it) was the Ukraine.
4. One of my minor political fantasies, I have hugely greater ones, is that the University of Pennsylvania, revokes The Wicked Man's, see Psalm 10: 2-11, Wharton degree, citing his having secured admission fraudulently, having cheated his way to his Wharton degree, and having brought shame and disgrace upon the University for being the racist nativist neo-fascist that he is (shame and disgrace in part because he brags about having graduated from Wharton frequently). The fantasy works almost as well if the matter of the revocation comes up before the University Board of Trustees and the motion to revoke the degree becomes the subject of months long debate and controversy on the campus, some violence even, resulting substantial publicity but the motion to revoke the degree is ultimately defeated by a Board vote of 10-9, leading to further protests by the anti Wicked Man forces, faculty resignations, and a drop in undergraduate applications. Sounds like I have in for Penn. Which I don't; it's a fantastic place. But I really really hate The Wicked Man, who is a Sick Fu**, among other things.
5. Your tribute to the Haitian community is recognized and embraced. But if I were grading on a reasonably strict standard your set of "random thoughts," and then ones qualified further by your saying you know little if anything more about the immigration terrain than the average person, so that grading on a strict standard is unfair, I'd have to mark you down for paying insufficient attention to how deeply racist and nativist are the views of the paleo-MAGAs immigration on immigration.
Great ideas Jon, all we need is 219 Congresspeople and 51 Senators who are more interested in legislative governance than click management and we might see that, along with budgeting in regular order and the occasional foray into resolving decades old Authorizations for the Use of Military Force.
Tom's right, of course, but, as you properly note, hope springs eternal.
Jon:
Your ideas make too much sense to ever be adopted (and more's the pity that could be true).
Tom
Hope springs eternal, to coin a phrase.
It also springs "infernal." :-)
Jon, thanks for writing this very intelligent and, I think, workable solution to the immigration issue. It is one of the best summaries of the issue I've read in some time.
Well done. Indeed, particularly well done. And it must be encouraging for you to see what appears to be an uptick in the number of comments.
Too many thoughts, which are not all that random, for me to pick up on more than a handful of them (five, so exactly a handful), for of them touching upon rhetorical or personal asides, not your central substantive points.
1. A friend, in a recent discussion, referred to the "vicious fight "between the MAGA base and the Tech Bros as a fight between paleo-MAGAs and the neo-MAGAs. Clever, I think.
2. Your refer jokingly to your "painstaking research," citing your review of the appropriate Wikipedia entry. Bless Wikipedia, as I know you do. No matter how obscure the topic, Wikipedia will almost surely have an entry, sometimes extensive, sometimes not so much, but virtually always sourced in the footnotes. And where the entry is insufficiently sourced and supported, Wikipedia owns up to it, up front, and ask for additional authority. It's a fantastic resource, and I have only a vague idea of how the suits at Wikipedia manage it all.
3. Your family story isa moving one, bearing some resemblance to my own, but yours is the more impressive on the whole. One of the differences is that for three of my four grandparents, the "old country" (which is what my paternal grandmother called it) was the Ukraine.
4. One of my minor political fantasies, I have hugely greater ones, is that the University of Pennsylvania, revokes The Wicked Man's, see Psalm 10: 2-11, Wharton degree, citing his having secured admission fraudulently, having cheated his way to his Wharton degree, and having brought shame and disgrace upon the University for being the racist nativist neo-fascist that he is (shame and disgrace in part because he brags about having graduated from Wharton frequently). The fantasy works almost as well if the matter of the revocation comes up before the University Board of Trustees and the motion to revoke the degree becomes the subject of months long debate and controversy on the campus, some violence even, resulting substantial publicity but the motion to revoke the degree is ultimately defeated by a Board vote of 10-9, leading to further protests by the anti Wicked Man forces, faculty resignations, and a drop in undergraduate applications. Sounds like I have in for Penn. Which I don't; it's a fantastic place. But I really really hate The Wicked Man, who is a Sick Fu**, among other things.
5. Your tribute to the Haitian community is recognized and embraced. But if I were grading on a reasonably strict standard your set of "random thoughts," and then ones qualified further by your saying you know little if anything more about the immigration terrain than the average person, so that grading on a strict standard is unfair, I'd have to mark you down for paying insufficient attention to how deeply racist and nativist are the views of the paleo-MAGAs immigration on immigration.
Best regards, as always.
rel
Great ideas Jon, all we need is 219 Congresspeople and 51 Senators who are more interested in legislative governance than click management and we might see that, along with budgeting in regular order and the occasional foray into resolving decades old Authorizations for the Use of Military Force.
Tom's right, of course, but, as you properly note, hope springs eternal.