I wanted to sit with the Mamdani July 4th comments for a while before reacting to them.
I think here is my ultimate problem: (And it's not a perfect metaphor, but I think it's a basically accurate one) An immigrant-- especially one who comes from neither a European nor a Christian background like Mamdani, has to come to America like a new Christian comes to Christ.
You make your spiritual breakthrough when you understand that you are bringing nothing to the party. It's not "Jesus+my awesome works"-- it's just Jesus-- he already did everything. You just need to show up and honor him.
Nothing in the background of someone like Mamdani contributed in a meaningful way to the building of America from a small set of colonies hugging the Eastern seaboard to the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. That's not a moral or personal flaw of Mamdani's. But it is what it is.
My family has been here since the mid-to-late 19th century-- far less time than some and with far less distinguished contributions than others-- but enough time to have contributed to a meaningful way to the building of modern America.
I still absolutely "didn't build that" myself but I'm the rightful inheritor of some of those who did. Mamdani is demanding to share in and even define my inheritance--an inheritance that just doesn't belong to him.
Mamdani's been a citizen for less than a decade. He has nothing to add to the understanding of America. His job right now is just to show up and honor it-- not to formulate new doctrines about it's meaning.
In a few generations, his story and the story of his family may well be part of a new American story-- but he's not there yet, and there are no shortcuts to getting there. That's hard-- personally and on the ego. And not too many immigrants are capable of it-- which is why we need a closed border right now. But in theory, I can welcome someone from any background capable of accomplishing that very difficult task.
As Stephen Tonsor once memorably said in a different context:
"It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far.”
Mamdani hasn't even joined the church yet.
And he's trying to tell the pastor what to say in his Sunday sermons.
And that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Democrat MI Congressional candidate Shelby Campbell on 4th of July:
“Once you learn the real history of America, you stop celebrating all the holidays. White people just changed the narrative to make it seem like they were the victim.”
A man who worked at Roebling Books & Coffee, a far-left bookstore chain in northern Kentucky, went missing last month, prompting messages from the store and community asking for help. Some people suggested Todd Garland was killed for being "LGBTQ."
It turns out that Garland fled the country after the Covington Police Department raided his home regarding a child s—x crime investigation. He was found dead in Paris, France.
Roebling Books & Coffee hosts drag queen story hour events, promotes the DSA and held training to help illegal migrants evade law enforcement.
A GoFundMe campaign to cremate Garland and bring his remains back to the U.S. says the proceeds would benefit a children's camp he liked. https://t.co/8VF5jRaL1z
MAJOR UPDATE: The muslim nurse in Texas who posted a video saying how she wouldn't treat patients if they watched Fox News has been TERMINATED following our report.
Thank you, @utmbhealth, for your swift action.
No nurse should be denying care to patients based on political beliefs.
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He did the budget with an $8bn bailout and delaying pension payments? Commie Mamdani put the NYC budget on Klarna LMAO.
Don't let communists run your city, folks.
This is how politicians and their families launder money. Nobody wants a book from Dr Biden. But some commie NGO that got taxpayer money from the admin can’t pay the kickback with a check. So they buy 100K books and burn em. The one-time bulk buy charts it for a week, then 💨
We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying, too...
But they are still lying.
The same people who screamed hysterically on tv every day that anyone who criticized Obama was a racist are now supporting a Congressional candidate (Darlia Avila Chevalier) who is against interracial marriage.
A lot of you owe us an apology.
Only 13 Democrats out of 259 in Congress put their signature down opposing socialism.
That’s 5% of the Democrats in Congress.
Another way to look at it is 95% of Democrats in Congress refused to oppose or outright SUPPORT socialism. Face it: Socialists run their party now.
BREAKING: President Trump vows to eradicate what he calls a "horrible thread of cancer" quietly moving through the nation, issuing a stark warning against the rise of communism in America.
"We have a country that's just the hottest. It just is so hot and I'm working really hard to make it even better. We're going to get rid of some of the flaws. We're going to make it even better."
"But the biggest thing we have to do is we have to stop this, this horrible thread of cancer that's permeating our country called communism."
"an inheritance code"
Look out - Gavin is planning to abolish the step-up in basis inheritance rule that allows you to inherit a parent's house without being forced to sell and give him all your money.
All that boomer housing equity is about to be clawed out from under you by these communist dipshits
100% correct. When I was at the Del Rio, TX Haitian bridge camp in 2021, many of the Haitians told me they had been living in Chile & Brazil for years before coming to the US illegally for economic (not safety) reasons. The Haitians were dumping & tearing up their Chilean documents at the river’s edge hide this fact from the US so it wouldn’t hurt their fraudulent asylum claims.
The idea that all these Haitians came directly from Haiti after an earthquake or assassination is false. Many of them were living happily and safely for years in South America until Biden’s open border policies became too attractive to pass up. Others also flew into the US via Biden’s CHNV mass parole program which was supposed to be for only 2 year humanitarian parole grants. Of course, most never left.
🚨 HELL YES! The resolution committee for the South Dakota GOP just voted IN FAVOR of censuring John Thune
This is Thune’s HOME STATE.
He’s in BIG trouble in 2028 if he doesn’t get the freaking SAVE America Act passed!
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!
Great work @ScottPresler!