It’s VERY important in this current era of depravity and cruelty to not jump in the mud with swine and become gloatful, mean-spirited, and shitty. It melts your soul and it’s not good for you. However, there are some occasions in life that call for bringing out the fine China, the popcorn, and the champagne-- this is one of them.
Scroll below for the video-clip, but if you’re not familiar w/ Mia Love and why she’s is so emblematic of “conservatives” like her, read on for a brief backgrounder of this true Profile in Courage.
Who’s Mia Love again?
Mia Love was (was!) a profoundly sanctimonious Congresswoman from Utah. Like Kevin McCarthy, she’s really not a terrible human being in “real life”, but conducts herself politically as little more than a gee-golly, servile, two-faced, have-it-both-ways, Democrats-are-achhhually-the-real-racists, Republican Party apparatchik.
tl;dr she sucks, waste of space public official
Some neutral interesting trivia about Mia:
- She joined Mormon church after graduating from college in late 90s
- Her parents are immigrants from Haiti
- Fun: She’s worked as an aerobics instructor & flight-attendant
- She was elected as the 1st & only Congressperson with heritage from Haiti
On paper, she showed up in 2014 as an interesting (but certainly overhyped by right-wing media) Rene Ellmers-style figure. (But with the bonus of no gross Kevin McCarthy rumors/baggage.) For a brief period, there appeared to be an opportunity for her to emerge as a genuinely compelling political force, but as expected with most of these folks she was essentially little more than an empty-vessel doormat on most issues. Her real value/utility was serving as a fresh new face on TV to repeat the usual chatter and help scold and constrain political opponents.
Mia Love: A Profile in Courage, “Shithole countries incident”
It’s really not worth the mental effort to keep track of all this stuff, but you may remember a while back President Trump’s remark “Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?”
He didn’t say that publicly but rather during discussions about an immigration plan with Senators Lindsay Graham & Dick Durban & others. The plan itself was pretty severe— it would slice visa lottery in half with a bunch of other provisions. The Congressional Black Caucus, however, managed to add a provision for the remaining visas to hit some various countries in Africa and also Temporary Protected Status (TPS) countries like Haiti. In addition to Shithole-gate, the President is reported to have said specifically "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out [of the deal]. "
When the shithole hit the fan once the conversation was in the press, Mia Love jumped into action with some good 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"I can't defend the indefensible. You have to understand that there are countries that struggle out there. But their people, their people are good people and they're part of us. We're Americans”
Granted, it’s a pretty toothless/useless statement, but as a far as Profiles in Courage for a Republican member of Congress in 2018, not too bad. A tiny bit normal.
Then it was going down.
MIA HAD A MEETING SCHEDULED TRUMP. TO TALK IMMIGRATION. DACA. TPS. HAITI. ALL OF IT.
Again, the context: HER PARENTS ARE FROM HAITI. IMMIGRANTS. AMERICAN STORY. RISING GOP STAR. LET’S GO MIA.
What does our hero Mia do when she’s face to face with President Trump???
SHE DOES THE MOST KEVIN MCCARTHY-LEVEL SHIT EVER...
To be far more far fair to Mia than she deserves-- she claims she held her tongue in part because she wanted to “work with the President” to ink a deal that dealt with the DACA folks and immigration blah blah (That didn’t quite work out, though, oops.)
[video] Mia Love: A Profile in Courage, “go-backgate”
Poor Mia. She got beat in 2018 and lost her seat. Trump kicked her on the way the way out saying “Mia Love gave me no love and she lost. Too bad." Out of a political gig, Mia went to where all defeated/retired Congresspeople who can’t ca$$$h out lobbying or get some bullshit “board” role like Nikki Haley… CNN.
Boom— the President’s made a ridiculous statement/distraction saying how a bunch of female members of Congress ought to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....”
At this point Mia isn’t even in office. Lucky for her, she can’t lose that seat twice. Mia is unleashed, she lost and has no reason to continue carrying water and obfuscating the obvious.
One would imagine someone as concerned with what “History” will write about her children and herself, she’d be a teeny bit unconstrained when she got a second chance and “History” came knocking again and she’s not even in goddamned Congress lol. But no, actually Mia channeled Kevin McCarthy and it’s pretty incredible. Let’s go to the video (Transcript below this post):
LOVE: Racist is a very, I uh, I take that word incredibly seriously. I’m not in the President’s head. I do not think that these comments help. I am not going to get into whether he is racist, um, I don’t think that those comments help him. I don’t think that the comments help his narrative. I am incredibly frustrated, I continue to be frustrated. I continue to tell my children not to look at these comments, not to behave or react to them. They have to be empowered and not to let anybody, um, determine who they are and how they’re going to behave or what history writes about them.
INTERVIEWER: Congresswoman, [ed note: former], have you ever had anyone to ‘go back’ to a country from which you came or from where your ancestors came from?
LOVE: [ed note: dead air] Have I ever had anybody say that?
INTERVIEWER: Yeah.
LOVE: Um, uh, oh gosh! Um, it- it- I, the country I came from [...]
FUCKING AMAZING.
Obviously we get ourselves into a lot of trouble when we look to Republicans Members of Congress to say—let alone actually do— good things, but even JC Watts seems to know what time it is:
“...this is not a time for us to be afraid of being 'tweeted.' This is not a time for us to suppress our convictions.”
The only these clowns actually seem to treasure or care about is being re-elected and they keep defending and protecting and excusing this mad-king lunatic President. They also reward his behavior with loyalty-- and each and every time they get burned.
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