Tagged: immigration

Reflections: Titillation as Truth; Flu Fever; Immigrant Independence

The profit motive and the news.– The non-government-owned news media (i.e., the media of a free people) is an industry in which businesses make money by selling you the information that you believe you need. The media therefore has an essential, existential motive to convince you that you do in fact need their information. Whether they will seek to convince you through reason...

The Reports of Terrible Trump Polls Obviously True

Last week, someone leaked internal White House polling that showed Trump in trouble against the Democrats in many contested states, including some that he won in 2016. Trump first claimed there were no such polls — in other words, he lied — and then the GOP circled the wagons and declared that they had some “new” internal polling that showed him doing very...

Trump: A Lying Moron You Can Believe In

One day, Trump says DACA is a “bill of love,” he’ll sign anything Schumer and Feinstein put on his desk, and there will not be a real wall. His idolaters scream “treason.” On Thursday, Trump promises to “build a Great Wall” and complains about immigrants from the “s—hole countries” of Africa and the Caribbean. The cult is in heaven again. In other words,...