What the hell just happened with Steven Miller???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think if Miller wanted to deliver talking points to racist, xenophobic idiots he did a good job.

Fortunately, he also reminded the rest of us why no one really gives a shit what racist, xenophobic idiots say.

There's no solid policy here (there doesn't need to be!). It's just a distraction from the fact that Trump can't deliver and lied his ass off when he pretended he could.

If you could share with us the racist and xenophobic aspects of what Miller said, that would be great. Waiting anxiously to be enlightened by you.

Well, referring to Acosta as "cosmopolitan" wasn't a random word choice. It's a Stalinist anti-semitic slur that's been picked up by the alt-right.

Seriously, have you ever heard anyone, in any other context, accuse someone of being "cosmopolitan"?

He kept dropping his white supremacist code words. He can't help it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan

miller is jewish, acosta is the gentile!

But it was stupid on miller to use the cosmopolitan thing - in fact it was the opposite. Acosta showed utter narrow mindedness and a lack of education (JMU) when thinking that UK & Australia have the bulk of english speakers. In terms of english speakers at a business-english level, India has magnitudes higher than entire populations of UK + Australia.

Only a provincial person wouldn't know that. [/quote

I know Miller is Jewish. He's David Duke's favorite Jew!

[Anonymous]

For those of you defending Miller and this policy, please read this article in the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/03/acosta-versus-miller-a-lurking-ideological-conflict-about-the-statue-of-liberty/

You are defending rhetoric that is purposefully appealing to the Alt-Right base.

That makes you a Nazi sympathizer. An before you go off on me, understand, silence is complicity and I will not remain silent.

This is nothing more that promoting the views and ideals of white surpremeicsts.

[Anonymous]

the cosmopolitan thing is stupid. it's precise provincials (of whom there are many many in the US compared to other countries) who believe only brits and aussies speak english.

other than than, miller was correct.

[Anonymous]

Acosta is an entertainer. NOt a journalist. He lives in a bubble.

By almost a 3-to-1 margin, Pennsylvanians say they want legal immigration -- that has been averaging around one million a year -- reduced to a half-million or less. That is the preference of nearly all demographic groups, including Pennsylvania's Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Union Households, Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants and those of other religions and no religion, and residents of major cities, suburbs, and rural areas, according to a survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research of 1,000 Pennsylvanians likely to vote in next year's midterm congressional elections.

The results suggest that support from Pennsylvanians across the political spectrum for cutting immigration likely had an impact on President Trump winning the state in 2016 and that support for less immigration would likely continue to be reflected at the polls in 2018.

Pennsylvanians would achieve the 50% reduction by ending "Chain Migration" and the "Visa Lottery":

- 64% of Pennsylvanians support ending “Chain Migration”--- eliminating the extended-family categories and limiting family-based immigration to spouses and minor children. Pennsylvanians also support by a 2-to-1 margin ending the “Visa Lottery” that randomly gives out lifetime work permits to foreign citizens.

- Even if it causes prices to rise, 66% of Pennsylvanians favor employers paying higher wages to attract American workers over the government continuing to automatically give out around a million lifetime work permits to new immigrants each year.

- 75% of Pennsylvanians say that rather than providing businesses with so many foreign workers each year, businesses should be "required" to try harder to recruit Americans facing high poverty and unemployment rates, including Black and Hispanic Americans, and younger Americans of all ethnicities without a college degree.

https://www.numbersusa.com/resource-article/pennsylvania-2017-poll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if Miller wanted to deliver talking points to racist, xenophobic idiots he did a good job.

Fortunately, he also reminded the rest of us why no one really gives a shit what racist, xenophobic idiots say.

There's no solid policy here (there doesn't need to be!). It's just a distraction from the fact that Trump can't deliver and lied his ass off when he pretended he could.

If you could share with us the racist and xenophobic aspects of what Miller said, that would be great. Waiting anxiously to be enlightened by you.

Well, referring to Acosta as "cosmopolitan" wasn't a random word choice. It's a Stalinist anti-semitic slur that's been picked up by the alt-right.

Seriously, have you ever heard anyone, in any other context, accuse someone of being "cosmopolitan"?

He kept dropping his white supremacist code words. He can't help it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan

miller is jewish, acosta is the gentile!

But it was stupid on miller to use the cosmopolitan thing - in fact it was the opposite. Acosta showed utter narrow mindedness and a lack of education (JMU) when thinking that UK & Australia have the bulk of english speakers. In terms of english speakers at a business-english level, India has magnitudes higher than entire populations of UK + Australia.

Only a provincial person wouldn't know that.

Focusing on English is so dumb. We have never done that in our history and there is no need to start now. Acosta was right to call him out for that. BTW "Cosmopolitan" was not the only alt-right dog whistle Miller was blowing. That performance was for the base.

+1. Apparently that really random bizarre aside about the poem on the Statue of Liberty is some creepy neo nazi shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Acosta is an entertainer. NOt a journalist. He lives in a bubble.

By almost a 3-to-1 margin, Pennsylvanians say they want legal immigration -- that has been averaging around one million a year -- reduced to a half-million or less. That is the preference of nearly all demographic groups, including Pennsylvania's Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Union Households, Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants and those of other religions and no religion, and residents of major cities, suburbs, and rural areas, according to a survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research of 1,000 Pennsylvanians likely to vote in next year's midterm congressional elections.

The results suggest that support from Pennsylvanians across the political spectrum for cutting immigration likely had an impact on President Trump winning the state in 2016 and that support for less immigration would likely continue to be reflected at the polls in 2018.

Pennsylvanians would achieve the 50% reduction by ending "Chain Migration" and the "Visa Lottery":

- 64% of Pennsylvanians support ending “Chain Migration”--- eliminating the extended-family categories and limiting family-based immigration to spouses and minor children. Pennsylvanians also support by a 2-to-1 margin ending the “Visa Lottery” that randomly gives out lifetime work permits to foreign citizens.

- Even if it causes prices to rise, 66% of Pennsylvanians favor employers paying higher wages to attract American workers over the government continuing to automatically give out around a million lifetime work permits to new immigrants each year.

- 75% of Pennsylvanians say that rather than providing businesses with so many foreign workers each year, businesses should be "required" to try harder to recruit Americans facing high poverty and unemployment rates, including Black and Hispanic Americans, and younger Americans of all ethnicities without a college degree.

https://www.numbersusa.com/resource-article/pennsylvania-2017-poll

Vast swaths of Pennsylvania are a sh*thole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if Miller wanted to deliver talking points to racist, xenophobic idiots he did a good job.

Fortunately, he also reminded the rest of us why no one really gives a shit what racist, xenophobic idiots say.

There's no solid policy here (there doesn't need to be!). It's just a distraction from the fact that Trump can't deliver and lied his ass off when he pretended he could.

If you could share with us the racist and xenophobic aspects of what Miller said, that would be great. Waiting anxiously to be enlightened by you.

Well, referring to Acosta as "cosmopolitan" wasn't a random word choice. It's a Stalinist anti-semitic slur that's been picked up by the alt-right.

Seriously, have you ever heard anyone, in any other context, accuse someone of being "cosmopolitan"?

He kept dropping his white supremacist code words. He can't help it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan

miller is jewish, acosta is the gentile!

But it was stupid on miller to use the cosmopolitan thing - in fact it was the opposite. Acosta showed utter narrow mindedness and a lack of education (JMU) when thinking that UK & Australia have the bulk of english speakers. In terms of english speakers at a business-english level, India has magnitudes higher than entire populations of UK + Australia.

Only a provincial person wouldn't know that.

This is one of those stupid talking points that conservatives make that makes you all look ridiculous. Jim Acosta knows perfectly well that people in many countries speak English. He was making a quick point. You look dumb going on and on as if he literally didn't know that. Just go back to the Hannity boards and tell it to your equally dumb brethren.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Every time I see Miller, I think he's some sort of B team Bond villain.

[Anonymous]

He has dead shark eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Acosta is an entertainer. NOt a journalist. He lives in a bubble.

By almost a 3-to-1 margin, Pennsylvanians say they want legal immigration -- that has been averaging around one million a year -- reduced to a half-million or less. That is the preference of nearly all demographic groups, including Pennsylvania's Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Union Households, Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants and those of other religions and no religion, and residents of major cities, suburbs, and rural areas, according to a survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research of 1,000 Pennsylvanians likely to vote in next year's midterm congressional elections.

The results suggest that support from Pennsylvanians across the political spectrum for cutting immigration likely had an impact on President Trump winning the state in 2016 and that support for less immigration would likely continue to be reflected at the polls in 2018.

Pennsylvanians would achieve the 50% reduction by ending "Chain Migration" and the "Visa Lottery":

- 64% of Pennsylvanians support ending “Chain Migration”--- eliminating the extended-family categories and limiting family-based immigration to spouses and minor children. Pennsylvanians also support by a 2-to-1 margin ending the “Visa Lottery” that randomly gives out lifetime work permits to foreign citizens.

- Even if it causes prices to rise, 66% of Pennsylvanians favor employers paying higher wages to attract American workers over the government continuing to automatically give out around a million lifetime work permits to new immigrants each year.

- 75% of Pennsylvanians say that rather than providing businesses with so many foreign workers each year, businesses should be "required" to try harder to recruit Americans facing high poverty and unemployment rates, including Black and Hispanic Americans, and younger Americans of all ethnicities without a college degree.

https://www.numbersusa.com/resource-article/pennsylvania-2017-poll

Vast swaths of Pennsylvania are a sh*thole.

It bothers me to no end that Republicans go on and on about free markets this and pro business that but then get upset that businesses go with cheap labor. Pure capitalism is cruel. The bottom line always wins! Cheap labor is better for the bottom line. I also know plenty of people out of work but they refuse to hustle to get a new job. It isn't because there isn't jobs; it's because it is perfect and isn't dropped from the sky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was either the worst-executed deflection in the history of WH Press briefings or a total train wreck.

Alexandra Petri did a pretty good reconstruction of it, "Ask a reasonable question, get a stupid answer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/08/02/stephen-miller-and-sarah-huckabee-sanders-ask-a-reasonable-question-get-a-stupid-answer/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you defending Miller and this policy, please read this article in the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/03/acosta-versus-miller-a-lurking-ideological-conflict-about-the-statue-of-liberty/

You are defending rhetoric that is purposefully appealing to the Alt-Right base.

That makes you a Nazi sympathizer. An before you go off on me, understand, silence is complicity and I will not remain silent.

This is nothing more that promoting the views and ideals of white surpremeicsts.

Agreed, it was clear with his word choices, his talking points, and who he called on at the end--he said he'd do one more question, then when that one didn't tee up his rant, he said he'd do one more and just happened to call on Acosta to make sure he would get a question that would let him get all the rest of the Alt Right / Nazi talking points in.

We had someone stand at a podium in the White House and argue that the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty isn't reflective of American values.

All of you defending this guy are disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Miller was eloquent and right on target, refuting Acosta and Thrush all along the way with their "petty" and "narrow" questions and continued interruptions.

Only Steven Miller himself could think that.

Hi Steve. Been midnight tokin' again?

You all know his name is Stephen, right? Not Steven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Miller was eloquent and right on target, refuting Acosta and Thrush all along the way with their "petty" and "narrow" questions and continued interruptions.

Only Steven Miller himself could think that.

Hi Steve. Been midnight tokin' again?

You all know his name is Stephen, right? Not Steven.

Is the phonetic pronunciation any different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was either the worst-executed deflection in the history of WH Press briefings or a total train wreck.

Acosta is an arrogant a''hole. He got schooled. Come to Fannie Mae in herndon, go to third floor, and test the English knowledge. It is bad. They provide English improvement classes. But the guest worker is cheap and replaceable. Has NOTHING to do with skills shortage, a high school grad could do software testing. It is all about cheap and disposable labor. Completely twisting the original 1990 law.

How have we come to this , when leading journalists demonstrate little knowledge of what they are reporting about and pushing for changes to screw US citizens????

What does ANY of that have to do with cutting the green card and refugee quotas in half?
You want to increase illegal immigration? Make legal immigration even harder and more complicated.