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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / The Call is Coming From Inside the House, Donald

The Call is Coming From Inside the House, Donald

by John Cole|  December 6, 20183:37 pm| 92 Comments

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During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.

Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Morales’s journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.

Sandra Diaz, 46, a native of Costa Rica who is now a legal resident of the United States, said she, too, was undocumented when she worked at Bedminster between 2010 and 2013. The two women said they worked for years as part of a group of housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping employees at the golf club that included a number of undocumented workers, though they could not say precisely how many. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump or Trump Organization executives knew of their immigration status. But at least two supervisors at the club were aware of it, the women said, and took steps to help workers evade detection and keep their jobs.

“There are many people without papers,” said Ms. Diaz, who said she witnessed several people being hired whom she knew to be undocumented.

This is the most infuriating thing about the demonization of immigrants by Republicans- they all know immigrants, and on a one on one basis, love them, pay them, etc. But they still feel free to whip up the racists and nativists because it helps them politically.

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    December 6, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    Isn’t this how bigotry often works? Strom Thurmond fathered an out of wedlock child with a Black maid and apparently took care of that child and even visited her while she was attending an all-Black college. Yet, he filibustered the Civil Rights Act and was a staunch segregationist. Bigots don’t have to be logical.

  2. 2.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 6, 2018 at 3:43 pm

    This is the most infuriating thing about the demonization of immigrants by Republicans- they all know immigrants, and on a one on one basis, love them, pay them

    .
    No, they don’t love immigrants (or black people or any other minority), they tolerate them as long as they know their place. Think Clint Eastwood talking to that fucking chair at the RNC.

  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 3:46 pm

    Demonizing illegal workers is part of the plan — it means that the illegal workers who are already here can be readily exploited, because if they step out of line, employers like Trump can just have them arrested and deported. Being able to deport workers who inconveniently get injured or sick or start asking for more pay is a feature of their anti-immigrant agenda, not a bug.

  4. 4.

    TenguPhule

    December 6, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    they all know immigrants, and on a one on one basis, love them, pay them, etc.

    By leaving the cash on the bedside table.

  5. 5.

    mapaghimagsik

    December 6, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    I’d say the most infuriating thing about the demonization of immigrants by Republicans is the family separation and those without equal protection of the law. But they don’t love them. They fuck and use them. Maybe a little lip service about how clean the toilet seats are.

  6. 6.

    The Moar You Know

    December 6, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    The NY Times published her name? How nice. She’ll be deported by the end of the week. So will Ms. Diaz.

    Total dick move.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    and took steps to help workers evade detection and keep their jobs

    Dare one say they were being cagey about it?

  8. 8.

    zhena gogolia

    December 6, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    I couldn’t watch any of the GHWB hagiography, but the clip of Trump standing there pouting while everyone else is reciting the Apostles’ Creed is really something.

  9. 9.

    TenguPhule

    December 6, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    @NotMax:

    Dare one say they were being cagey about it?

    Irony.

  10. 10.

    John Revolta

    December 6, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    Trump has got golf trophies?? Like, more than one? I thought Repubs were against participation awards?

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    December 6, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    Whatever.

    Trump says approval rating would be 75 percent without Mueller
    Jordan Fabian

    President Trump claimed Thursday that his approval rating would be 75 percent if it wasn’t for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

    “Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judge’s, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen,” Trump tweeted.

    Trump blasted Mueller’s probe as “Presidential Harassment!”

  12. 12.

    tobie

    December 6, 2018 at 3:58 pm

    Yup, I live near thoroughbred horse farms. I imagine most of the workers taking care of the horses and cleaning the stalls are undocumented. These farms depend on the immigrants’ back-breaking work, and yet the owners vote Republican every time. I guess they think laws only apply to little people, not to them.

  13. 13.

    John Revolta

    December 6, 2018 at 3:58 pm

    Trump has got golf trophies?? Like, more than one? I thought Repubs were against participation awards?

  14. 14.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 6, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    My Yoga teacher ex-friend unironically told me once that the best part about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act was that she gets interesting food to eat. Yes, we exist for your gratification alone.

  15. 15.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 6, 2018 at 4:00 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Bigots don’t have to be logical.

    Facts don’t matter to fascists.

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    December 6, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    Looks like sucker money is coming in to shore up a fundamentally unsound market.

    This prop is going to be coming from “expertly managed” mutual funds and pensions, as well as some schmucks who always fall for the “it’s the bargain of a lifetime” financial sales pitch.

    In 2008, we had a well-intentioned idiot with a rapacious, yet minimally competent financial team, and whichever candidate won, you knew that consequences would be addressed at the bottom rung. Now? A malevolent thug with delusions of adequacy combined with the dumbest economic and diplomatic team this side of the Great Depression?

    The Trump Family meeting the Ural Soviet scenario would be a nonzero possibility in that event.

  17. 17.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ” Trump has got golf trophies?? ”

    probably just as legit as the fake Time magazine Trump cover issues Donnie used to plaster around his properties.

  18. 18.

    Roger Moore

    December 6, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Being able to deport workers who inconveniently get injured or sick or start asking for more pay is a feature of their anti-immigrant agenda, not a bug.

    This. If they actually wanted to do something about illegal immigration, they’d punish employers who hire them.

  19. 19.

    TenguPhule

    December 6, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Looks like sucker money is coming in to shore up a fundamentally unsound market.

    The market can stay irrational longer then you can stay solvent.

  20. 20.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 6, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    @Roger Moore: @Mnemosyne: It’s not just a theoretical or rare thing, either. I read an article some months ago in FTFNYT (IIRC) about this very thing: workers injured on the job, who signed up for workmen’s comp (or engaged an attorney) who were deported pretty much instanter. It was clear that employers’ attorneys were working with ICE to get those folks out of the country where they couldn’t pursue their compensation claims.

    It’s a moral abomination, the way we (as a country) allow this.

    ETA: I see older immigrant men sometimes who have obvious leg issues. It pisses me the fuck off. B/c if somebody like me has a leg injury, he gets medical care and PT, so he can walk again normally. A poor guy? He just has to suck it up. Which of us is more likely to have those leg issues? Me (a programmer) or him (a manual laborer)? Fuck.

  21. 21.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    @TenguPhule: And Trump is mad at Fed chair Jerome Powell for trying to save his sorry incompetent ass.

    The Fed has most power to inject liquidity into system during downturn, and the current Fed Yellen/Powell regime (for Powell is a mini-me Yellen) well qualified to do that (assuming Powelll gets enough no-the-job experience before big shit hits the fan). But Fed will have to get cooperation from Treasury, and that is run by Mnuchin, so hasn’t shown any qualifications for any kind of job yet. We can only hope and pray.

    Edit: sorry, unfair to Mnuchin, He can pose for James Bond-style sexy photos with sheets of smoking hot sexy $$$$$ currency with his pretty wife. So, he has some chops for the job. Well, OK, the photos would have been sexy except Mnuchin was in them.

  22. 22.

    JPL

    December 6, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    What a brave soul Morales is. She knew she would be fired and probably deported, but wanted everyone to know what a hypocrite the president is. His base will just fawn over his large tips, and praise trump for being just a generous man. IOKIYR

  23. 23.

    rikyrah

    December 6, 2018 at 4:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Demonizing illegal workers is part of the plan — it means that the illegal workers who are already here can be readily exploited, because if they step out of line, employers like Trump can just have them arrested and deported. Being able to deport workers who inconveniently get injured or sick or start asking for more pay is a feature of their anti-immigrant agenda, not a bug.

    Nothing but truth.

  24. 24.

    Cermet

    December 6, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    Please, its always about obtaining money with those low life thugs, which is all about obtaining and keeping power. Thugs will sell their own sister to a slave trader if they thought it would enable them to hold onto power. Damning Immigrants is just a means to an end. No more.

  25. 25.

    Schlemazel

    December 6, 2018 at 4:17 pm

    @John Revolta:
    OF COURSE Dump has golf trophies. Just like his Time Magazine covers.

    People who have golfed with him or caddied for him tell stories of hard core cheating. It is who he is

  26. 26.

    Chip Daniels

    December 6, 2018 at 4:19 pm

    The Trumpists are happy to treat them kindly, so long as they can hold the whip hand, and dispense kindness at will.

    When the maid becomes a peer, and speaks to them as an equal, then the Trumps of the world become enraged.

  27. 27.

    PJ

    December 6, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: One of the key factors that people use to argue for and against immigration is its impact on culture (the other obviously being its impact on the economy.) Humanitarian concerns are secondary for many. Most citizens of any country have no personal stake in any particular individual who wants to immigrate there, and why should they – they don’t know them. So, while your yoga friend’s comment was superficial, it is a reflection of what many like about immigration – exposure to, and participation in, different cultures.

  28. 28.

    gene108

    December 6, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    Trump voters don’t care what he does. He’s their white supremacist savior.

    The people, who will be enraged by this already hate Trump.

    @The Moar You Know:

    The NY Times published her name?

    Real dick move. Maybe they can get Presidential Pardons (I keed, I keed).

  29. 29.

    PJ

    December 6, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    @Schlemazel: I heard a story (second hand) from a wealthy businessman, long-time Republican, who couldn’t stand Trump and would never vote for him, because he cheated at golf. Making the rich richer is one thing, but cheating at golf is another thing entirely.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    @Schlemazel

    “Perfect score, sir. 239.”

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    All he had to do was hold the fucking paper up and move his lips while he pretended to read it, but he couldn’t even be arsed to do the bare minimum. Christ, what an asshole.

  32. 32.

    Another Scott

    December 6, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: +1

    Donnie and his minions love “illegal” immigrants as long as they can keep them under their thumbs in positions where they can’t complain.

    Cui bono?

    tl;dr – “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”

    [ETA – I see that Capt. Mnemo is on the same page.]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  33. 33.

    Wild Cat

    December 6, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: That bastard has never paid a price for that racist monologue. I loathe him. He’s so empty he can’t even leave the spotlight. Now he’ll get a pity-fuck Oscar for playing a drug mule.

  34. 34.

    cain

    December 6, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I couldn’t watch any of the GHWB hagiography, but the clip of Trump standing there pouting while everyone else is reciting the Apostles’ Creed is really something.

    I wonder how that is playing in evangelical circles? Will there be anger and then suddenly it will be fine because the mega-church pastors will say it’s because Jesus wanted him to be that way?

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    December 6, 2018 at 4:41 pm

    Some of the well-off people who voted for Trump live in neighborhoods where immigrants are the only ones around who can do tree work and keep the tractors and mowers running on their estates, do the small engine repair and drainage ditch work. They believe ‘their people’ will be left alone.

  36. 36.

    boatboy_srq

    December 6, 2018 at 4:47 pm

    This is the most infuriating thing about the demonization of immigrants by Republicans- they all know immigrants, and on a one on one basis, love them, pay them, etc. But they still feel free to whip up the racists and nativists because it helps them politically.

    This was the reason so many of us laughed at the GOP convention in 96. “Illegal immigration” was one of the leading discussion items – and the event was held in SAN DIEGO. Who, we asked, did they think was driving them to and from the event, making up their rooms, cooking their food, pouring their cocktails, pressing their suits, and generally making the event possible? We wondered how many got short-sheeted, taken the long way to and from the venue, or otherwise treated to petty revenge at the hands of the people they were relying on to get them together so they could plot those workers’ removal.

    At least Dole/Kemp did not get the opportunity to try a national version of Prop 187, or Nathan Deal’s now-infamous HB 87 (which latter item caused Georgia to experience historic harvest failure thanks to a scarcity of agricultural labor).

  37. 37.

    boatboy_srq

    December 6, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    @cain: White heterosexual male (or at least the remnants thereof). Instant pass. Just watch.

  38. 38.

    Chyron HR

    December 6, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    @Aleta:

    They believe ‘their people’ will be left alone can always be replaced.

  39. 39.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 6, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    @PJ:

    One of the key factors that people use to argue for and against immigration is its impact on culture

    The -do- use it. But it’s a false narrative here in America. Scratch any second- or third-generation immigrant and you’ll find an American, wanting all the same things any other American wants. We assimilate fast, b/c (as my Jewish friend Rafe once put it to me): “The American Dream is the most corrosive social force ever imagined”.

    All that great food? I suspect it comes from first-generation immigrants who remember how it was cooked back in The Old Country. Their kids and grandkids, if they open restos, are gonna do the “fusion” versions of those dishes. Kinda like the difference between “Dosa” (upscale Indian resto, “Indian food for white people”, in the words of a relative) and “Udupi Palace” (the real thing).

    Heck if I know how to cook Indian food. And I prefer Thai anyway, mang.

  40. 40.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 4:50 pm

    @cain: Their preacher men have told them that Trump is God’s vessel sent to do justice on earth. Saul was evil too, and had to face God’s justice. Therefore, so what if Trump flunks all their morality tests? God chose him and who are the flock to question?

    Trump thinks Jesus’ earthly teachings are weak and loser, and doesn’t care? US fundies don’t follow the earthly Jesus, or his teachings. That is the previous Dispensation. US fundies follow the Risen Christ, who will come to judge, reward, and punish. No softy love your neighbor stuff for that guy, the Samaritan goes to Hell, no matter how many wayfarers he rescued.

    Of course, that kind of thinking is why many traditional Christian theologians consider End Times fundamentalism as a kind of heresy, assuming anyone cares about that anymore.

  41. 41.

    Aleta

    December 6, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    @Mnemosyne: He’ll blame the Bushes for not putting up a teleprompter. Witch hunt wants to make him look bad.

  42. 42.

    Schlemazel

    December 6, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    On the next hole, a par-3, [Oscar] De La Hoya said Trump hit into some bushes and again went ahead of the other players in his cart. When the rest of the group got to the green, he said Trump’s ball was 3 feet from the hole.

    “And by the way I’m picking it up,” De La Hoya quoted Trump as saying. “It’s a gimme.”

    The former Sports Illustrated and ESPN columnist told the Washington Post that “when it comes to cheating, he’s an 11 on a scale of one to 10.”

    Trump will sometimes respond to a shot he duffed by simply playing a second ball and carrying on as if the first shot never happened. In the parlance of the game, Trump takes floating mulligans, usually more than one during a round. Because of them it is impossible to say what he has actually shot on any given day, according to 18 people who have teed it up with Trump over the last decade, including SI senior writer Michael Bamberger, who has done so nine times.

    Reilly told The Washington Post about an afternoon when Trump wrote down scores he didn’t actually achieve on his scorecard, conceded putts to himself by raking the ball into the hole with his putter rather than striking it properly (“He rakes like my gardener!”), and even called a gimme — something a player might claim for a two-foot putt — on what should have been a chip shot.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 4:55 pm

    @Chetan Murthy

    Heck if I know how to cook Indian food

    First, gather together individual portions of 132 herbs and spices…

    ;)

  44. 44.

    scav

    December 6, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    @cain: It’s an article of faith that evangelicals and their chosen are pre-forgiven. Hardly a surprise.

  45. 45.

    Mike in NC

    December 6, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies.

    Eww. A Presidential Medal of Freedom may be in her future.

  46. 46.

    Doug R

    December 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    @John Revolta: I am sure his trophy is for most Mulligans.
    Think of the golfing scene in Goldfinger.

  47. 47.

    Gvg

    December 6, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    You know, when I read the snippet about Ms. Morales having worn an American flag pin given to her by the Secret Service when Trump visited….I thought this was going to be about tapes and transcripts and microphones. Pity.

  48. 48.

    Aleta

    December 6, 2018 at 5:03 pm

    @Chyron HR: In this case I think they see them as their possessions.

  49. 49.

    John Revolta

    December 6, 2018 at 5:05 pm

    @Schlemazel: So I heard a joke:

    Jared, Ivanka, Pence and Mother were walking around at Bedminster when they heard a commotion behind some bushes. They ran back there and found Cheetolini laying on the ground dead, with Melania standing over him with a golf club.
    “Jesus Christ, Mel!! What did you do? It looks like you whacked him about twenty times!!!”
    “Well, guys, you know, I mean we’re all friends here, right?…………..just put me down for a six.”

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    December 6, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    Same WaPo:

    According to an investigation by Mother Jones, Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, brought foreign models to the United States to work, despite the fact that they were in the country on tourist visas, a violation of the law. “Two of the former Trump models said Trump’s agency encouraged them to deceive customs officials about why they were visiting the United States and told them to lie on customs forms about where they intended to live.” They were crammed into small apartments for which the agency charged them exorbitant rent and had other expenses deducted from their fees, leaving them with little income and the constant knowledge that they could be sent out of the country at any moment. “It is like modern-day slavery,” said one model.

    No one’s going to go to the police with a rape or battery charge against T or friends at a party they had to go to without pay.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    @Mike in NC

    They left out the part about placing the complimentary Big Mac, perfectly centered – or else – on the freshly fluffed pillow. //

  52. 52.

    trollhattan

    December 6, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    @Schlemazel:
    When Trump play chess, every piece is queen!

    “Ha-ha, I beat you in five moves. Loser!”

  53. 53.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    @Mike in NC: And after Trump makes his house staff a kind of praetorian guard and puts them in the military, she gets a purple heart. And, hey, why not Medal of Honor. Trump hires only the best people, except the one who go bad and say mean things about him. Like that slob flunky Cohen, who Trump barely know who he was anyway.

    Was what she said good or bad? Who can say? Depends on how it plays with his base. If they don’t notice, Trump might not either.

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    December 6, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    @John Revolta:
    I approve this message.

  55. 55.

    PJ

    December 6, 2018 at 5:10 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: Sure, obviously most immigrant groups assimilate, and the culture they bring becomes Americanized, as they do. But for that first generation, and the Americans that experience that culture for the first time, it’s not just a novelty, it’s an expansion of their experience, even in as everyday a way as food. (Where I grew up in Nowheresville, ethnic food meant Italian and tacos from Jack-in-the-Box. They didn’t even have a Chinese restaurant. Now there’s not only decent (but not great) Indian and Thai food, they even have a Hindu temple a half mile from what used to be the only intersection with a stoplight. That’s a positive change for me, and for many people, I think.)

  56. 56.

    germy

    December 6, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance.

    Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?

    — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 6, 2018

  57. 57.

    boatboy_srq

    December 6, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    @Aleta: Sweatshop modeling. That’s a new one.

  58. 58.

    Jay

    December 6, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    @The Moar You Know: @JPL: @gene108:

    Both of the “former illegals” who came forward for the FTFNYT story are now landed immigrants.

    As long as Miller doesn’t get to revoke Citizenship and Landed Immigrant status on the basis of Blood Quantum or some other spurious bs, like having used social services of any kind while “illegal”, they are safe enough for a POC in Trump’s America.

    They might still get fired, but it’s not like there’s a shortage of shit to clean up in America, they’ll probably do okay or better than working for The Insane Clown POSus.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Immigrants to the US always end up adapting their food to what’s available and — if they open a restaurant — to local tastes. That’s why corned beef and cabbage is actually an American Irish dish, not Irish. Corned beef is what their Jewish immigrant neighbors in the tenements cooked, and it was cheaper and easier to get than the pork they used for the Irish dish.

    Oh, and ketchup (catsup, whatever) is Chinese fish sauce with the fish taken out.

  60. 60.

    Gvg

    December 6, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    Ok I read the story. These women approached the times on purpose. They are mad at Trump and the way he talks about immigrants. They expect to lose their jobs and possibly be deported. At least one has a lawyer. This story is a fuck you to Trump and some of the management at the property.

  61. 61.

    Jay

    December 6, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    @Doug R:

    You can get any minor trophy you want at any Value Village for $0.75 and any engraver will make and install a new nameplate for $5.

  62. 62.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    @PJ: But I think immigrants themselves assimilate far more rapidly now than in previous eras. Everyone who comes here as a kid, or born to immigrants, wants to pick up English asap and learn it well.

    In the past, families spoke little English for decades. There is history of that in my own family. During the Civil War, third and fourth generation Swiss-German speakers had to have translators to understand Union forces who tried to explain to them that a war was going on and their little town would get wrecked up good and proper if they didn’t help with defenses, and maybe some three months enlistments would be cool. Had to find a translator who knew English and their weird little Swiss-German micro-dialect.

    Benjamin Franklin complained about German immigrants who spoke German as their daily language for generations.
    Same thing happened to Chinese in California in early 20th century, as soon as whites quit beating the crap out of them when they had the nerve to leave the ethnic ghettos whites tried to designate for them. The kids learned English asap.

  63. 63.

    Schlemazel

    December 6, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    @PJ:
    MN is often criticized (by local GOP assclowns) for being open to immigrants. We have the largest Hmong community in the US and large East African groups now. I am not 15 minutes from great Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, BBQ, Somali, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Cuban and I am probably missing a few. Now its true there are some mediocre joints out there so you can’t trust all of them but the variety adds to French, Italian, German and Chinese we have had for years

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    Ohio Mom

    December 6, 2018 at 5:28 pm

    @Gvg: Wow. They are brave and selfless. They really do deserve medals (as someone upthread suggested).

    Here’s hoping their actions are not in vain.

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    Schlemazel

    December 6, 2018 at 5:29 pm

    @jl:
    I’m a child of the 50 & 60s who went to school with many first & second generation kids. immigrants mostly spoke to old language, Kids were bilingual and grandkids English only. That mirrors the kids I work with today

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    Mike in NC

    December 6, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, brought foreign models to the United States to work, despite the fact that they were in the country on tourist visas, a violation of the law.

    Good grief, is there any end to the endless scams this turd has pursued during his deplorable career? Did “management” of these models possibly include behind closed door “interviews” with Fat Bastard that may have included enticing them to disrobe?

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    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 5:33 pm

    @Schlemazel

    Used to hoard pennies when living in the area to save up enough for a killer diller of a meal once or twice a year at Charlie’s.

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    MomSense

    December 6, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    Maine desperately needs more immigrants. Our population isn’t big enough to support the infrastructure needed for a state of our geographic size. We are also the oldest state in the country. It’s a big problem.

  69. 69.

    Schlemazel

    December 6, 2018 at 5:39 pm

    @NotMax:
    Never ate there or Murry’s. Probably should try Murry’s just to say I have. OTOH I can buy prime & do them perfectly at home so dead cow is not something I go out for

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    Jay

    December 6, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    @jl:

    ReThugs react to imaginary Immigrants and Refugee’s, not actual ones.

    All the ReThug fears, resentments and anger are to completely imaginary constructs, from immigration to EMP weapons or the Iranian Republican Guard.

    The only resentment and fear that they hold on to that is real, is that their “sucess” will be a some point, be recognized as being a sperm lottery winner or the result of being a mediocre White Male coasting on 200 years of Institutionalized White Male Privledge.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    @Schlemazel

    Dunno if Forepaugh’s is still around in St. Paul. Ate there gratis right before it opened (proto beta testing). The onion rings were hands down the best ever.

  72. 72.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @jl:

    That changed by the late 19th century. My grandfather came here as a toddler from Italy and didn’t speak Italian. And he refused to allow his kids to learn Italian in the 1940s/1950s because they needed to be Americans and speak English.

    I had a friend in high school who was a second-generation immigrant from India. Sometimes she and her mother would bicker in front of me, with her mother speaking Hindi (I think) and my friend replying in English. ? Never anything serious, just exasperated mother vs teenage daughter stuff.

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    @jl:

    Actually, thinking about it further, what probably changed was the development of mass media, particularly radio. Immigrants who didn’t understand English were at a major disadvantage in the radio era (later the movie and TV era) because other people would know things before they did. It was less of a problem when newspapers were the primary mass medium because you could get a newspaper that was published in your native language.

  74. 74.

    Skepticat

    December 6, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    @Aleta:

    According to an investigation by Mother Jones, Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Model Management, brought foreign models to the United States to work, despite the fact that they were in the country on tourist visas, a violation of the law.

    This reminds me of the line that tRump’s first and third wives prove that there are indeed some jobs that Americans just won’t do.

  75. 75.

    Ladyraxterinok

    December 6, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @cain: Evsngelical churches do NOT say the Apostles Creed.

    In the 40s and 50s as kids in a SoBapt church in OK, we were taught that SoBaptists don’t say creeds–‘No creed but the Bible!!’ This left the long-lasting impression that creeds were another Catholic nono.

    Don’t remember now when I first read a copy of the Apostles Creed.

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    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 7:01 pm

    @Ladyraxterinok: Thanks for info on that. I don’t know the details of the attitudes of different Protestant sects on creeds. Being from the frozen chosen mainline Presbyterian flavor, I know we do say a version of the Apostles creed. But then, Presbys are second in line, after Lutherans, in being suspect denominations secretly in cahoots with the devil, stalking horses for the RC church and Judaism. So, probably makes sense from that perspective that Presbys mouth that kind of sinister incantation stuff.

  77. 77.

    boatboy_srq

    December 6, 2018 at 7:21 pm

    @Mnemosyne: A lot of the change you describe stems from the “acceptability” of later waves of immigrants and their desire to join the society they had entered. Southern Europeans (Italians, Greeks, Slavs, Poles) each had their own difficulties fitting in, because prior waves of immigrants held higher social standing, the good jobs, the best houses/neighborhoods &c. Being perceived as “Other” was no longer the asset it had been for the earlier groups, which condition you hint at in your family’s experience. This is true also of groups arriving in multiple waves: Louisiana might be proudly French-founded and respected for its history, but French arriving a century or so after Louisiana was founded, and in parts of the US well removed from the Gulf of Mexico, had scant welcome. Old Spanish colonists in Florida, California and other territories merged into US society comparatively easily: later arrivals did not.

  78. 78.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 7:45 pm

    @boatboy_srq: The support Hispanic Californios was necessary for an easy admission of California to the Union. So in 1849, the whites had to meet them at least halfway, and had to merge with, to accommodate, them. But 30 years later when the whites had enough power, the Californios were cordially told to go to hell.

    But then, they sure had the nerve, had the insolence to invade the place first.

  79. 79.

    J R in WV

    December 6, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    …the clip of Trump standing there pouting while everyone else is reciting the Apostles’ Creed is really something.

    I have to admit, had I attended, I wouldn’t have been reciting any religious nonsense either. We were invited to attend a Christmas Eve mass a friend conducted at a small and rural church. It was crowded, and everyone but wife and I took communion.

    I thought it would be totally inappropriate for a couple of pagan heathens to share in a sacred religious rite we don’t believe in. But after that, we got stared at big time… Still wouldn’t do it. Didn’t do it at aunt’s funeral mass, either, nor did my dad.

    Sorry if the religious among us were offended, but I just don’t believe in it. In fact I disbelieve strongly in it. So it goes.

    Of course Trump doesn’t believe in anything, and was too stupid to even know he was expected to recite with everyone else, and his wife wasn’t willing to clue him in.

  80. 80.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    Well, communion is different than following along with the service. You’re not supposed to take communion unless you’re a member of that denomination. In fact, there’s a little message printed in the Catholic missals informing non-Catholics that they should NOT take communion.

    If for some reason you ever feel like walking up there without causing a fuss, you can cross your arms over your chest and the priest will bless you instead. Otherwise, just move out of the way of the people who go for communion and try not to block them when they go back to their seats.

    Which is a long-winded way of saying that, unlike you, Trump claims to be a Christian, so he can fucking well do the bare fucking minimum rather than making it obvious that he doesn’t give a shit about the religion he claims he believes in.

  81. 81.

    NotMax

    December 6, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    @J R in WV

    Until this thread I’d never heard of the Apostle’s Creed. (Really, truly.)

    Now, the Apollo Creed…

  82. 82.

    zhena gogolia

    December 6, 2018 at 8:27 pm

    @J R in WV:

    But he pretends to be a Christian.

  83. 83.

    zhena gogolia

    December 6, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I think it’s only Catholic churches that tell people they’re not supposed to take Communion unless they belong to the denomination. In our church anyone can take communion if they want to.

  84. 84.

    jl

    December 6, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Strict conservative Presbyterians have the same nonsense of not taking communion unless you have all your denominational paperwork in order. The big mainline Presby denominations go out of the way of inviting anyone to take communion, I guess to make sure people know they can if they want.

  85. 85.

    Stuart Frasier

    December 6, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    I’m not sure where the notion corned beef isn’t Irish came from. It was a major export of Ireland as early as the 1700s.

  86. 86.

    Stuart Frasier

    December 6, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    1600s, that is.

  87. 87.

    Ruckus

    December 6, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @jl:
    The not speaking english as immigrants is a lot more recent than Ben.
    My ex is Chinese-American, her parents moved here about 70 yrs ago and didn’t speak english to the end. Mom could swear just fine in Chinese though. Ex asked me how I knew, told her, you don’t need a translator for someone speaking like that in any language. Just a note – later on mom was pretty good, made me ride in the family limo when her husband passed. Hugged me after her other daughter’s wedding reception. Only took about 15 yrs though.

  88. 88.

    Mnemosyne

    December 6, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    @Stuart Frasier:

    Here’s an article from Food & Wine that explains it and includes additional links:

    https://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/complicated-irish-history-corned-beef

    Short version: corned beef was a luxury food for the export market, so ordinary Irish people couldn’t afford to eat it. Remember, Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Potato Famine because it was far more profitable than the impoverished local market.

  89. 89.

    Mike Dixon

    December 6, 2018 at 10:42 pm

    Come on everybody. Of course Trump is a good golfer. He plays four days a week and it’s the only thing he’s actually good at.

  90. 90.

    Stuart Frasier

    December 6, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    As your link says “While categorized more as an urban myth, it is also said that the Irish began to love corned beef again thanks to their Jewish neighbors.” I grew up in Ireland. We are corned beef there. The only American thing about it is the association with St. Patrick’s Day.

  91. 91.

    Stuart Frasier

    December 6, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    Ate, that is. Anyway, there are a lot of urban legends around food.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    December 7, 2018 at 1:37 am

    @Stuart Frasier:

    Well, I don’t want to re-start the Great Pizza War of 2018, but I will say that foods get passed back and forth between countries way more than people like to admit. Corned beef became popular in Ireland when the country became more prosperous after independence and because American tourists expected it.

    (Short version of the Great Pizza War: it started in Naples, was brought to America, spread widely, and then was imported back to parts of Italy that didn’t originally have it but American tourists expected it. There’s kind of a common theme here.)

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