{"id":102423,"date":"2016-07-26T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102423"},"modified":"2016-07-26T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:28:50","slug":"fact-checking-donald-trumps-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102423","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The other day PBS ran a fact-check on Donald Trump\u2019s acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

\nTRUMP: \u201cMy opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian (refugees). \u2026 She proposes this despite the fact that there\u2019s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

THE FACTS: Trump persists in making the bogus claim that the U.S. doesn\u2019t screen refugees. The administration both screens them and knows where they are from. The Department of Homeland Security leads the process, which involves rigorous background checks. Processing of a refugee can take 18 months to two years, and usually longer for those coming from Syria. Refugees are also subject to in-person interviews and fingerprint and other biometric screening.<\/p>\n

For all that caution, U.S. officials acknowledge that the Islamic State group could try to place operatives among refugees. Last year, FBI Director James Comey said data about people coming from Syria may be limited, adding, \u201cIf we don\u2019t know much about somebody, there won\u2019t be anything in our database.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what is it\u2013paragraph 1 or paragraph 2? The former makes Trump sound like a paranoid xenophobe, alarming people over nothing. The latter makes him sound like a responsible statesman, concerned about preventable evils.<\/p>\n

* The notion that our hyper-efficient government does rigorous ANYTHING is laughable. Is this like the \u201crigorous\u201d testing that drivers undergo by our crack DMV agents (or is that agents ON crack?) before they are permitted to drive on the public highways? When Homeland Security transfers the AA clowns running airport security to immigrant screening do they suddenly lose 100 lbs. and gain 30 IQ points?<\/p>\n

How do you do a \u201crigorous\u201d screening on someone from Syria \u2013 do you call ISIS up and ask to search their databases? Do you send researchers to the Hall of Records in Homs (which is probably a pile of charred ashes at this point anyway)? A lot of the \u201cSyrian\u201d refugees in Europe aren\u2019t even from Syria. You show up at a refugee camp and you give them some tale of woe \u2013 I fled for my life with only the clothes on my back and I have no documents whatsoever.<\/p>\n

But the takeaway is supposed to be \u201cTrump = bogus\u201d \u2013 you really aren\u2019t supposed to read past the 1st line.<\/p>\n

* Remember, the Left is importing vermin for the dual purpose of 1) virtue signaling that they are morally superior to non-leftist whites because they embrace the Other and 2) humiliating non-leftist whites by forcing them to endure this infestation in their own homelands. It would be hard to virtue signal from a funk hole. I think the Left will hang in there as long as they can.<\/p>\n

My own experiences with and observations of MENAs has been overwhelmingly negative. They are arrogant and ignorant in equal measure. I\u2019m sure they have every intention of usurping their Leftist hosts. But they have two considerations with the white populace. Dhimmitude is best practiced on living infidels and they need white expertise to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n

I think white Europeans\u2019 s two enemies both have good reason to keep whites alive. Then again, the Left and their pet vermin seem almost entirely impervious to reason.<\/p>\n

Interesting times may well be end times.<\/p>\n

* First we hang the Pope, then we rally around the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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