In this world we have our trials
sometimes lonesome, sometimes blue
but the hope of life eternal
Makes all old hopes brand new
And I don't want to get adjusted to this world to this world
I've got a home so much better
and I'm gonna go there sooner or later And I don't want to get adjusted to this world
Lord, I'm growing old and weary there's no place that feels like home
Saviour come, my soul to ferry to where I never more will roam
And I don't want to get adjusted to this world, to this world
I've got a home so much better
and I'm gonna go there sooner or later And I don't want to get adjusted to
this world, to this world
Venezuela’s
Welfare Has Run Out. Now They Want Ours
September 29, 2022
by Ann Coulter
The massive news
coverage of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “political stunt” of sending 50 illegal aliens
to Martha’s Vineyard reminds me of the media’s “political stunt” of referring
to illegals as “legal asylum-seekers.”
Number one: They
broke into our country. They’re illegal aliens. Number two: All asylum claims
are frauds. Every single one.
Asylum is nothing
but a conveyer belt to bring the worst people on Earth to our shores. You say
you turned your own country into a hellhole? Fantastic! Come right in!
No one gets asylum
from a well-run country.
Why would we want to admit people who have
demonstrated the wisdom, foresight and diligence to produce a functioning
society? Rewards await only those who’ve participated in the creation of
complete disaster zones. (Just think of what these great thinkers could do for
our country!)
Take the
Venezuelan illegal aliens whom DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard. Biden’s
press secretary and human kewpie doll, Karine Jean-Pierre, repeatedly referred
to the briefly loved illegals as “people who are fleeing communism, who are
fleeing hardship … desperate people — people who are trying to come here
because they’re fleeing communism themselves.”
How did Venezuela
become communist again?
As The Martha’s
Vineyard Times explained (once the illegals were safely expelled and the island
fumigated), Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis” resulted from that country’s
“complicated political and socioeconomic history.”
Actually, it’s not
that complicated. Poor people in Venezuela voted for it. Oh boy, did they vote
for it.
The ridiculous
peasant Hugo Chavez promised Venezuela’s poor that he would take vengeance on
the rich — “the squalid ones” — and give their stuff to the poor. Millions of
poor people responded: YESSSSS!!!
Beginning in 1998,
and five times after that, the poor came out in droves to support this clown.
Fist pumping! Dancing in the streets! Red shirts as far as the eye could see!
As The New York
Times described it, “To the adoring, impoverished masses who catapulted him to
power, Hugo Chavez Frias is El Comandante, their protector and benefactor, the
bold leader who will wipe out 40 years of inequality and corruption and
redirect this country’s enormous oil wealth to better their lives.”
Chavez basically
promised to deliver the Ta–Nehisi Coates “equity” agenda that’s so popular with
the Democratic Party right now. The poor believed the rich were rich because
they had stolen from the poor. Chavez vowed to take it back. It was sort of a
1619 Project for Venezuela.
As promised, Chavez
proceeded to seize private businesses, farms (by 2011, he’d expropriated 6
million acres of farmland) and golf resorts, telling poor people to move onto
the club greens.
Anybody want
asylum yet? Nope!
Between 1998 and
Chavez’s death in 2013 — whereupon he was promptly replaced with his handpicked
successor, President Nicolas Maduro — Venezuela’s poor voted for him over and
over and over again: in 1998 (80% public approval rating his first year in
office), in 2000 (winning 60% of the vote), in 2004 (59% against recalling
him), in 2006 (winning 63% of the vote), in 2009 (54% voted to make him
president for life) and finally in 2012 (winning 55% of the vote).
Never has any
public been polled more often and returned the same resounding answer.
Well, they’re not
fist-pumping anymore. Instead, Venezuela’s poor are claiming they “deserve” to
access America’s generous welfare state.
Twenty years of
Chavez’s Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE!) produced this: “a country whose
economy has collapsed … malnutrition and disease are soaring [and m]illions
have emigrated to escape the grind of finding enough to eat, of living without
reliable electricity or tap water,” as Bloomberg News put it in 2019.
Venezuela is
sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, and the communists still
couldn’t get it to work.
Who could have
seen that coming??? Oh, anyone with two functioning brain cells. There were
little hints, like Chavez promising his very first year in office “to follow
the path of Fidel,” and describing Cuba as “a sea of happiness, social justice
and true peace.”
Millions of
Venezuela’s poor thought that sounded just peachy, and the rest did nothing.
They act as if this 100% predictable catastrophe was a natural disaster for
which they bear no responsibility.
Yeah, I definitely
want these people as my fellow citizens. They’ve shown solid judgment.
Now that their own
choices have wrecked their country, they demand free admission into ours.
Unless they’re professional baseball players, I’m not seeing what’s in it for
us.
In the kewpie
doll’s press conference proclaiming that these innocent little lambs “deserve
better” (than being sent to a fabulous beach resort), she cheerfully listed the
great heaping portions of welfare being ladled out to Hispanics:
“Our administration
has delivered billions of dollars in loans to Hispanic small businesses,
expanded the child tax credit to provide help to millions of families and
reduce Hispanic child poverty by more than 40%, expanded access to quality
healthcare to thousands of Latino families … And thanks to President Biden’s
student loan debt relief program, almost half of Latino students with federal
loans will see their debts forgiven.”
The Democratic
Party is cribbing Chavez’s lines. And it will work, because the same people who
fell for it last time will be voting for it here.
To be sure, the
Venezuelan “asylum-seekers” aren’t any worse than other members of that
illustrious group. If (when) they are granted asylum, these poor
decision-makers will join:
— Tamerlan and
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombers (sometimes, they’re persecuted
for a reason);
— Ibragim
Todashev, who, along with Tamerlan, slit the throats of three Jewish men in
Boston;
— Beatrice
Munyenyezi, a genocidal Rwandan, who won asylum by lying about being a victim
of the genocide, rather than a perpetrator.
Those are just a
few of our standout asylum grantees. To be fair, the illegal Venezuelans
haven’t killed anybody yet, as far as we know. They’re more like a homeless guy
who shows up on your doorstep after a lifetime of bad choices and demands that
you give him your house.
Perhaps, just this
once, we should defer to the wisdom of our moral betters on Martha’s Vineyard
and tell the Venezuelans: We love you! Now get the hell out.
We
are bizarrely one-tracked in our historical memory. Anything we dislike
is compared to the Nazis. So, when Vladimir Putin actually invaded a
neighbor, he was inevitably likened to Adolf Hitler.
But we don’t have to look far to find an apter parallel.
In September 1939, Stalin seized the eastern half of
Poland. Unlike his Nazi allies, who simply absorbed the territory they
wanted, Stalin made the conquered population vote in sham elections. Two
congresses were established in eastern Poland — one supposedly
representing ethnic Belarusians, the other ethnic Ukrainians. These two
assemblies immediately petitioned to join, respectively, the Belarusian
and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin graciously consented,
and the sham congresses promptly dissolved themselves.
Putin is following Stalin’s playbook, right down to the
hammer-and-sickle flags being hoisted in the towns his troops occupy.
Four Ukrainian regions are now being made to vote on integration with
Russia. There is, however, an important difference. Six months into the
war, Stalin was starting to turn things around. Putin, in contrast, is
losing badly.
Just before the invasion, the impassive tyrant released a
video in which he humiliated the head of his foreign intelligence
service, Sergei Naryshkin. When the terrified spy chief was asked
whether Russia should recognize the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk
republics, he stammered that they might be admitted into the Russian
Federation, only for Putin to snap: “We’re not talking about that.”
Well, he’s certainly talking about it now. The formal
annexation of four Ukrainian regions will allow Putin to claim that
Russian territory is being attacked, justifying both the deployment of
conscripts and, conceivably, a nuclear response.
Neither option would serve any military purpose. The draft
has pushed thousands more Russians into protest or emigration, but it
is of no practical value. Russia already does not have enough weapons
for its regulars. What is it going to give 300,000 reluctant conscripts?
World War Two-era T-34s? And what will be the economic impact of
diverting so many young men from productive work?
The nuclear option (how extraordinary to use that phrase
literally after all these decades) is even harder to justify militarily.
On Wednesday, Putin sent one of his propagandists, former MP Sergei
Markov, onto the BBC to threaten a nuclear strike “against Great
Britain.” Russia, Markov said, would not use battlefield nuclear weapons
but would go straight to ICBMs: “Ukrainians are our brothers, but
Ukraine is occupied by Western countries who make a proxy army from
Ukrainians. It’s Western countries fighting against the Russian army
using Ukrainian soldiers as their slaves.”
It is far from clear how attacking the West would stop
Ukraine from fighting and, indeed, winning. Even if the strike failed —
we presumably have spies and double-agents, cyberdefenses, interdiction
mechanisms, space-based shields — it would mean the end of Putin. The
international community would stop at nothing to convict a man who
attempts global annihilation. Putin’s name would displace Hitler’s as
shorthand for evil.
Even during the depths of the Cold War, there was a
well-understood no-first-strike convention. Until last week, Russia was
clear that nuclear weapons were a final resort, to be used only in the
face of an existential threat.
True, Putin expressed that doctrine with unsettling glee.
“If someone decides to annihilate Russia, we have the legal right to
retaliate,” he told an interviewer in 2018. “Yes, it will be a
catastrophe for humanity and for the world, but we will ascend to heaven
as martyrs, while they will just croak before they know what hit them.”
On another occasion, he asked, “What use to us is a world without
Russia?”
But no one outside the fantasies of some pro-Kremlin TV
presenters thinks that the West is threatening Russia with destruction.
NATO troops have meticulously stayed away from Ukraine. Hence Putin’s
deliberate widening of the nuclear doctrine. Russia, he says, will go
nuclear to preserve its territorial integrity. In theory, that means he
might retaliate against the West if Ukraine recovers any of its lost
lands.
It is possible, I suppose, that Putin has lost his wits
and will pull the world down rather than face defeat. It is even
conceivable that he might get away with it — that is to say, that there
is no posse of sane Russians ready to stop him from pressing the button,
that his nuclear rockets system will work better than any of his
conventional weapons, and that the West’s defenses will fail.
But does it not seem more plausible that we are dealing
with a tawdry, frightened dictator who realizes that he has made a
terrible blunder, can see no way out of it, and is playing for time as
defeat closes in?
It’s been awe-inspiring to see the bottomless generosity of Martha’s
Vineyard residents after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent them 50 illegal
immigrants from Venezuela last week.
WE LOVE YOU, YOU’VE ENRICHED OUR LIVES, NOW GET THE F–K OUT OF HERE.
Unlike angry, white MAGA voters upset about their towns being flooded
with illegals, Vineyard residents would LOVE to be sort of a — what’s
the word? — “sanctuary” for illegals. Really, they would. But that won’t
be possible.
As Lisa Belcastro, manager of the Vineyard’s homeless shelter,
succinctly put it: “We are definitely supplying them with a lot of love
… They need to be off island.” The
illegals “need” to hustle off because “Their immigration appointments
are not here.” (Are their appointments in the Trump-supporting
working-class town they were bussed to?)
In any event, GREAT NEWS, LISA! Nearly half of released illegals
don’t appear for their hearings anyway. And guess what? There are
absolutely no consequences.
(A dozen anti-American websites claim that vast, gigantic numbers of
illegals show up for their hearings, but they’re counting illegals who
are being held in detention.)
On NPR, Vineyard radio host Eve Zuckoff
also began with a testimonial about how “the community rallied”! But
unfortunately, “there isn’t the infrastructure.” What do these great
humanitarians imagine dirt-poor towns in south Texas have in terms of
“infrastructure”?
Every single objection Vineyard residents have raised against the
illegals being allowed to stay is precisely what ordinary Americans —
not privileged enough to live in Martha’s Vineyard — have been screaming
from the rooftops for 30 years. Those 50 illegals represent less than a
millionth of the “enrichment” that’s already been foisted on the rest
of America. (They’re 1/100,000th of the illegals admitted just under
Biden.)
Vastly poorer towns have been forced to turn nearly their entire
annual budgets over to feeding, housing, educating — and incarcerating —
great heaping portions of third-worlders, while douchebags in places
like Martha’s Vineyard (88% white; 3.7% black and 1.7% Hispanic) preen
about their higher morality.
For 20 years, hospitals on the Mexican border have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year caring for illegals — some of whom are driven directly to American hospitals by Mexican ambulances. I have nine kids all with an ailment that they call diseaso expensivo back in Xochitl. And I heard something about free cable?
In 2002, a small community hospital in Arizona serving the Tohono O’odham Nation alone was spending $1.5 million a year treating illegals.
With some border hospitals devoting two-thirds of their entire
operating budgets to illegals, forcing them to reduce staff, increase
rates and cut back services, how about Martha’s Vineyard pony up a
little of its budget on their beloved illegals?
Nah, they’ll just pat themselves on the back for proclaiming the
island a “sanctuary city” before teeing off at the Mink Meadows Golf
Club. Why? Because they’re better than you.
In case ordinary Americans weren’t enraged enough about bossy
illegals and the hypocritical elites who enable them, the 50 Venezuelans
sent to the Vineyard are suing Gov. DeSantis for the indignity
of being flown to a wealthy resort town. (Maybe the media shouldn’t
have spent the last week raving about how fabulously the illegals were
being treated in the Vineyard — at least until they had to get the hell
out.)
The Venezuelans are demanding $75,000
per illegal, which should go over well with Americans living on $40,000
a year, already taxed to support the tens of millions of
poverty-stricken third-worlders living in our country.
But my gosh, the Venezuelans assimilated to America quickly! They break into our country and, Week One: Oy, my back! My back!
Similarly, the 100,000 Somalis in Minnesota assimilated with amazing
speed to scamming our welfare system. The land of Walter Mondale and
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” is now the land of 100,000 Somalis,
helpfully moved there by our State department beginning in the 1990s. In
short order, clean, high-trust, homogeneous Minnesota became a hotbed
of crime, terrorism and welfare fraud.
But surely this is small price to pay to rescue our fellow human
beings from the horrors of Somalia! What’s that? You say the “refugees”
are vacationing in Somalia? Help! Help! Get me out of here! Also, I’ll be needing a government check to fund my trip back to Somalia every winter.
Yes, these desperate “refugees” are cheerfully visiting friends and relatives in the country where they allegedly fear for their very lives! We
only found out they were vacationing in Somalia because they asked for a
break on their government-subsidized rent while they were away.
(Request approved!)
Of course, they weren’t all going back to Somalia. Some were going to Syria to fight for the Islamic State. A 2015 House Homeland Security Committee report
found that Minnesota contributed the most foreign fighters to ISIS of
any state. Two of every four Somali-Minnesotans intercepted at New
York’s JFK airport on route to an ISIS training camp had used federal financial-aid funds to pay for their travel.
This week, the Daily Mail reports
that “Minnesotans” stole more than a quarter BILLION dollars in
pandemic relief funds from the U.S. taxpayer, for such pandemic-related
needs as 20 cars, 40 properties, guns, cryptocurrency, a week at
Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and dozens of luxury items. And this is
interesting: also a luxury apartment in Kenya.
The pandemic thieves appear to consist of one white woman and 46 Somalis:
— Aimee Marie Bock
— Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh
— Salim Ahmed Said
— Abdulkadir Nur Salah
— Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim
— Abdi Nur Salah
— Abdihakim Ali Ahmed
— Ahmed Mohamed Artan
— Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud
— Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir
— Asad Mohamed Abshir
— Hamdi Hussein Omar
— Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi
— Abdirahman Mohamud Ahmed
— Abdiaziz Shafii Farah
— Mohamed Jama Ismail
— Mahad Ibrahim
— Abdimajid Mohamed Nur
— Said Shafii Farah
— Abdiwahab Maalim Aftin
— Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff
— Hayat Mohamed Nur
— Qamar Ahmed Hassan
— Sahra Mohamed Nur
— Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud
— Filsan Mumin Hassan
— Guhaad Hashi Said
— Abdullahe Nur Jesow
— Abdul Abubakar Ali
— Yusuf Bashir Ali
— Haji Osman Salad
— Fahad Nur
— Anab Artan Awad
— Sharmarke Issa
— Farhiya Mohamud
— Liban Yasin Alishire
— Ahmed Yasin Ali
— Khadar Jigre Adan
— Sharmake Jama
— Ayan Jama
— Asha Jama
— Fartun Jama
— Mustafa Jama
— Zamzam Jama
— Bekam Addissu Merdassa
— Hadith Yusuf Ahmed
— Hanna Marekegn
Your loss, Martha’s Vineyard!
Note to Gov. DeSantis: Keep the flights going. Never stop. And in
about three years, remember the words “immigration fraud” and
“repatriation.”
