Here’s an idea - how about a Dignity Act that treats Americans with some dignity? Oh, I mean the “Dignidad Act” because using a Spanish word in its official title compounds the indignity of this blatant rejection of everything Republican voters voted for. A real Dignity Act would ship every single illegal alien back to his, her, and especially their homeland. But normal Americans are expected to suffer indignities, to bear the burden of the Third World, and to shut the hell up.
Something like 20 republicans have signed onto this abomination. Now, Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar, the alleged GOP congresswoman from Florida's district 27 pushing this, is getting all the play for two reasons: She’s a Cuban American five but a DC eight, and is therefore telegenic, and she has a remarkable capacity to lie to our faces. “This is not amnesty,” she insists relentlessly.
It’s totally amnesty, but in her defense, we are now in a world where words mean nothing in and of themselves and morph in meaning as necessary to support the narrative du jour. “Victory” and “defeat” mean nothing.” Genocide” means nothing.
“Racism” is the OG of word-flexing - it too essentially means nothing, except (like all these Gumby words) that we or things we support are bad because they choose to apply an inapplicable label to them.
This thing is ridiculous. It’s not amnesty, she says, but it lets illegal aliens stay here. Oh, and they get lawyers we pay for to help them. And if they got deported previously, we have to bring them back. Commit a crime here? Awesome - Bienvenidos, amigo, you get to stay. Apparently, we need illegal aliens to commit the crimes American criminals don’t want to commit. And all that’s just scraping the fetid surface of this cesspool.
But, they argue, what about the dignity of the people who…ignored our laws and took our money? Who the hell cares about a bunch of lawbreaking foreigners? If you want dignity, try not being a criminal and, in most cases, a bum stealing our tax money and our Social Security numbers.
So, you’re an illegal alien, and you get rewarded for illegal aliening. And while there’s no pathway to citizenship in it, these proponents are salivating for that as the next step. This tees it up, intentionally. It’s amnesty on steroids. If it walks like dung and quacks like dung, it’s dung - this nightmare legislation would have to improve exponentially to qualify as a duck.
But why now?
This stupidity got some play a while ago and was soundly mocked, and its proponents went radio silent for a while. But what got them to pipe up now? This is perhaps the worst time for it to happen for Republicans - you have a regime media-fueled furor over this just as we are going into a historically tough midterm cycle with plenty of other headwinds. After all, Trump’s dedication to closing the border and deporting the teeming masses of Third-World aliens whom President Gumbo invited into the USA was one of the key things that unified his diverse coalition. That coalition is currently having growing pains as the weak on war contingent has a collective spazz at Trump daring to whack our generational enemies in Iran.
Is this an op? Are these people trying to disenchant and further demoralize our voters? There’s nothing that will break the coalition like Trump somehow supporting something like this, but even the idea of nearly two dozen Republicans backing this insane proposal to morph America into Managua is one of those things that confirms people’s worst suspicions about the GOP.
Maybe they think it will help in their districts. It’s unclear why New York pseudo- Republican Mike Lawler of district 17 would back this, other than his natural tendency to cause problems (he was the guy who forced a SALT deduction increase in the Big Beautiful Bill). Are his softcon voters in love with illegals? Maybe. Or maybe he’s just being a jerk as usual. Two California Republican U.S. Reps, Young Kim of district 40 and David Valadao of district 22, are also sponsoring it.
They have huge Hispanic populations, and maybe they think they need it. I am inclined to give them a pass; you got to do what your district wants. But there are a couple of Indiana reps who are sponsoring it. What the hell? Gosh, with Republicans like that, maybe the Indiana legislature was right not to gerrymander more GOP seats. But more likely, they are sucking up to ag interests who love serf labor, and the ruin of American culture be damned.
Now, perhaps the principal backers of this initiative - this has the Chamber of Commerce’s prints all over it - think that this is their best shot. Maybe they think Trump is weak. After all, he’s being buffeted nonstop as he does the hard and necessary things (like kill our enemies and deport illegals) that everyone else is too weak and feminine to do.
Could it be possible that this might be the opening salvo in the dreaded “Comprehensive immigration reform” we’ve been hearing the tofu-spiked of the GOP beg for the last couple of decades? It’s the grand compromise where we give them amnesty, and they promise cross-my-heart pinky swear to totally seal the border forever. It’s the hamburger today; they will gladly repay us on Tuesday. Remember, the get-tough part never happens. Do you think the judges who let the wife-beating, human-trafficking, Tren de Agua Maryland man avoid deportation are suddenly going to switch gears just because of some comprehensive compromise? Yeah, sure. We’ve been missing the kick on that Lucy’s football since they rolled Ronald Reagan 40 years ago.
There are a lot of sissy conservatives who would love to support this thing, but they fear their voters. It’s only when they sense enough others being ready to rollover that they will join the festival of submission. Maybe that’s what the Amnesty Caucus is hoping for - to use the regime media to create a narrative that this is unstoppable.
But it’s not. There’s one thing in our favor, besides the heroic opposition of stars such as Rep. U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill (TX-26) who read the bill and has been highlighting its lowlights. There’s Donald Trump. He knows his voters, and he hates to lose. This would be the ultimate loss, a complete capitulation that would have his enemies gleeful at his total humiliation.
Does that sound like the Donald Trump we’ve known for the last decade-plus? He’s not going to destroy his legacy as he destroys our country. Fight back against this garbage, but don’t worry. We are keeping our dignity.
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