for so many years, we could assume an immigration/assimilation model that had held for over 200 years, yes even back before nationhood - people came here and assimilated with each other in the cities and the farms. One could grant citizenhood to new arrivals with a high degree of confidence that they and their children would take a path leading to Americanization.
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That is no longer true. Islamic religion and culture call for adherents to NOT assimilate, to convert or kill non-Muslims. This is uncomfortable to discuss but must be discussed. Immigration from the middle east must be managed differently.
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We have a luxury, a blessing, in that we can see what failure to manage Muslim immigration has done, and continues to do, in the nations of Western Europe. We have an object lesson unfolding before our eyes.
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Is Trump's approach best, arguably of course not. But are we lucky to have a president finally doing something to change the arc of this problem, to do something about? UNarguably YES.
So let's focus on how to achieve the goals, and avoid blocking the changes we need to make as a nation.
"Islamic religion and culture call for adherents to NOT assimilate, to convert or kill non-Muslims." You are describing extremists of EVERY religion, including Christian Nationalists, Hindu Nationalists, & the like. These broad generalizations to brand an entire group of believers, or non-believers like I am, do NO ONE any good. America is better than that. There IS an America better than this current crop in charge. THEY are not the patriots they like to think they are. And we shouldn't play into false narratives, whether in Europe or here.
I would like to believe in that more, but Europe's experience seems to contradict. I think caution is called for based on what we keep seeing with our own eyes. Not every culture can be trusted to come here wide-eyed and eager to become American. The experience of European nations is very concerning.
Every family, or individual, that arrives here will be hesitant, careful, timid, suspicious even, but that's what assimilation is - give 'em time. It takes time to learn, to assimilate, to understand the "new" world. Maybe the parents won't, but like all who came before, the children, and their children, and so on, most will come to accept, live, and enjoy what America has to offer. And the more WE accept them, the easier it gets, for everyone. Thanks.
Civicus downgraded the United States’ civic space rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed,” citing a sharp erosion of fundamental freedoms under a year of Trump-era actions—including militarized crackdowns on protests, expanded ICE deployments, restrictive laws, surveillance and harassment of civil society, suppression of campus speech, pressure on journalists, threats to revoke broadcast licenses, lawsuits against media outlets, defunding of NPR and PBS, and the launch of a government-run propaganda outlet—warning that these developments reflect a systematic attempt to weaken dissent, undermine independent media, and restrict civic participation across the country.
Our framers weren't as smart as you pretend. Allowing immigrants whose world view stifles freedom for women and lesbians and Jews should be kept out of 2025 USA. We have enough of our own problems keeping freedom alive.
Trump is part of a family that emigrated to the US and loves the KKL.
The US was built by immigrants, something Comrade Krasnov fails to understand. In any EU member state, there is more democracy than in the US.
The US will become a neo-Nazi state. And this is happening with Russia's support. Just as it happened with the rise of National Socialism (the authentic Nazis) before WWII, when Stalin supported Hitler in Germany.
Cheeto Will Preside Over The Currency Failure Of The Dollar
Alasdair Macleod, a British banker,broker, and writer at GoldMoney, has been a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and writes on his Substack channel(https://bit.ly/4oLi5Ar) about the failure and end of fiat currency system In his interview with an Aussie counterpart (https://bit.ly/4rEI8vz) his soundly based predictions is a good listen to warn of the impending currency failure of the dollar
Current inflationary numbers reflect on the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar now given in the price of gold 6% of what it was in 1971 when a Republican took us off the gold standard Put another way, the dollar buys only 6 cents of what the dollar could buy 54y ago When the US was on a gold standard post WWII inflation held steady at 1% and economies flourished
Now central bank/Fed policy is controlled by macroeconomists/Keynesians who see a metallic standard backing a currency as no longer part of the currency system even though a metallic standard is written in the Constitution
What will it look like when there’s a currency collapse? Bond yields will start rising above 5%, banks will foreclose due to margin debt, equity markets will collapse due to margin calls(estimated to be $1T), living standards will suffer horribly…food costs spiral, home loss or mortgages become worthless
Cheeto will preside over this economic catastrophe and much like his response to the COVID crisis, he and his Nazi regime will not know what to do and will devastate not only the US but the Western global economy Cheeto’s anti science approach to dealing with the virus will prove to be as blundering and bungling when it comes to this next crisis
Its time we return lady liberty to France. Maybe erect a statue of hitler
for so many years, we could assume an immigration/assimilation model that had held for over 200 years, yes even back before nationhood - people came here and assimilated with each other in the cities and the farms. One could grant citizenhood to new arrivals with a high degree of confidence that they and their children would take a path leading to Americanization.
.
That is no longer true. Islamic religion and culture call for adherents to NOT assimilate, to convert or kill non-Muslims. This is uncomfortable to discuss but must be discussed. Immigration from the middle east must be managed differently.
.
We have a luxury, a blessing, in that we can see what failure to manage Muslim immigration has done, and continues to do, in the nations of Western Europe. We have an object lesson unfolding before our eyes.
.
Is Trump's approach best, arguably of course not. But are we lucky to have a president finally doing something to change the arc of this problem, to do something about? UNarguably YES.
So let's focus on how to achieve the goals, and avoid blocking the changes we need to make as a nation.
"Islamic religion and culture call for adherents to NOT assimilate, to convert or kill non-Muslims." You are describing extremists of EVERY religion, including Christian Nationalists, Hindu Nationalists, & the like. These broad generalizations to brand an entire group of believers, or non-believers like I am, do NO ONE any good. America is better than that. There IS an America better than this current crop in charge. THEY are not the patriots they like to think they are. And we shouldn't play into false narratives, whether in Europe or here.
I would like to believe in that more, but Europe's experience seems to contradict. I think caution is called for based on what we keep seeing with our own eyes. Not every culture can be trusted to come here wide-eyed and eager to become American. The experience of European nations is very concerning.
Every family, or individual, that arrives here will be hesitant, careful, timid, suspicious even, but that's what assimilation is - give 'em time. It takes time to learn, to assimilate, to understand the "new" world. Maybe the parents won't, but like all who came before, the children, and their children, and so on, most will come to accept, live, and enjoy what America has to offer. And the more WE accept them, the easier it gets, for everyone. Thanks.
Civicus downgraded the United States’ civic space rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed,” citing a sharp erosion of fundamental freedoms under a year of Trump-era actions—including militarized crackdowns on protests, expanded ICE deployments, restrictive laws, surveillance and harassment of civil society, suppression of campus speech, pressure on journalists, threats to revoke broadcast licenses, lawsuits against media outlets, defunding of NPR and PBS, and the launch of a government-run propaganda outlet—warning that these developments reflect a systematic attempt to weaken dissent, undermine independent media, and restrict civic participation across the country.
Shouldn't that be ILLEGAL immigrants?
Our framers weren't as smart as you pretend. Allowing immigrants whose world view stifles freedom for women and lesbians and Jews should be kept out of 2025 USA. We have enough of our own problems keeping freedom alive.
Trump is part of a family that emigrated to the US and loves the KKL.
The US was built by immigrants, something Comrade Krasnov fails to understand. In any EU member state, there is more democracy than in the US.
The US will become a neo-Nazi state. And this is happening with Russia's support. Just as it happened with the rise of National Socialism (the authentic Nazis) before WWII, when Stalin supported Hitler in Germany.
Trump also wants to end birth right citizenship. The case is at SCOTUS now.
And once was unthinkable, is now totally possible under the current SCOTUS.
Cheeto Will Preside Over The Currency Failure Of The Dollar
Alasdair Macleod, a British banker,broker, and writer at GoldMoney, has been a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and writes on his Substack channel(https://bit.ly/4oLi5Ar) about the failure and end of fiat currency system In his interview with an Aussie counterpart (https://bit.ly/4rEI8vz) his soundly based predictions is a good listen to warn of the impending currency failure of the dollar
Current inflationary numbers reflect on the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar now given in the price of gold 6% of what it was in 1971 when a Republican took us off the gold standard Put another way, the dollar buys only 6 cents of what the dollar could buy 54y ago When the US was on a gold standard post WWII inflation held steady at 1% and economies flourished
Now central bank/Fed policy is controlled by macroeconomists/Keynesians who see a metallic standard backing a currency as no longer part of the currency system even though a metallic standard is written in the Constitution
What will it look like when there’s a currency collapse? Bond yields will start rising above 5%, banks will foreclose due to margin debt, equity markets will collapse due to margin calls(estimated to be $1T), living standards will suffer horribly…food costs spiral, home loss or mortgages become worthless
Cheeto will preside over this economic catastrophe and much like his response to the COVID crisis, he and his Nazi regime will not know what to do and will devastate not only the US but the Western global economy Cheeto’s anti science approach to dealing with the virus will prove to be as blundering and bungling when it comes to this next crisis