Yes, yes, I did one on him yesterday. But today he went seriously strange, even for himself, and so I had to share. We just don’t have one person in the news enough to come up to Elon’s level, so we need to take our news where we find it. This guy makes even less sense than Trump does. Saying he’s racist is easy, but it’s what’s *behind* that which is impossible to winkle out. Much obliged to Raw Story:
Days after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling that struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order, Miller posted on X that if you believe a foreign government could sail a hospital ship to the edge of US waters, “deliver a hundred babies to foreign moms, then promptly sail back,” and that each child “is American for life, you don’t believe in nationhood at all.” The rant echoed the birth-tourism case he made on Fox News, where he floated a “hard look” at barring pregnant women from the country.
Birth-tourism? Oh, brother. He comes up with the weirdest ideas. If there really were such a thing, we’d be inundated. Yes, it does happen, but if everyone wanted to be American citizens, they would figure out how to do so. Stephen is getting bent over something ridiculous. He also shouldn’t worry because he’s throwing all these people out of the country!
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller kept up his attacks on birthright citizenship with a far-fetched hypothetical, and critics lined up to ridicule it. Miller’s post predictably led to quick backlash. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger asked sarcastically, “What about our hospital ship that we sent to Greenland? It happened, right?” Bulwark journalist Sam Stein quipped, “Well. When you put it that way.” Internet personality Damin Toell pointed out that under the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent, and still after this week’s ruling, babies born aboard foreign government ships in US waters are already exempt from birthright citizenship.
So again, what’s the big deal? It can’t be that easy, but he hates immigrants, so to him, it is that easy. He repeats the same things over and over. He sets impossible quotas. Most of the country hates him. He’s ugly. He has a wife who is just as much of a racist. He’s procreated. He’s boring. There is nothing to like about this man. Not to us.
Others flipped Miller’s logic back on him. National security journalist Marcy Wheeler called his “perverted little fantasy” no more real than it was for the century and a half since birthright citizenship was codified. //// Academic Alonso Gurmendi argued that “any citizenship rule can be made to sound absurd like this.” //// And journalist Zaid Jilani went furthest, sarcastically asking: “What if a mom catapults over the US-Mexico border and from 500 feet in the air pops a baby out, ties a parachute to it and lets it fall gently to the ground. Does that baby deserve citizenship, lib?”
The administration has vowed to keep fighting, though some analysts say the ruling nearly went the other way. Independent estimates put actual birth tourism at a tiny fraction of U.S. births.
Perverted little fantasy. Now that is a marvelous way to describe Stephen’s thinking. Apparently, birthright citizenship is not for everyone, only the people he approves of. Does everyone need to be personally screened by him? It would certainly keep Miller busy. Then we wouldn’t have to listen to him nearly as much. Ahh, blessed silence.
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Given what you allude to about said short Stephen, being “… Most of the country hates him. He’s ugly … He’s boring. There is nothing to like about this man…” It seems he’s perhaps nothing but a bald, vile, cude runt, that thinks he stands tall amoungst his cult. It also sounds like he’s a practising racist, potty-mouth shit-head. Eventually it’s not going to end well for the little brat.