The Proud Illegal Immigrant Problem

I almost made this an Ethics Quiz, but I ultimately decided that I know the correct answer. The right course of action is clear. Derek Guy, above, and all long-time illegal immigrants who come forward to say, “I’m illegal and I’m proud” are ficks. And their candor should place them at the top of the deportation list.

I pay no attention to fashion, fashion mavens, and fashion world news, and I don’t have a lot of respect for those who do. So I was blissfully unaware of Derek Guy’s existence [“Derek Guy, also known as Menswear Guy, who is well-known on on X for his men’s fashion tips and analysis…”] and that he has been thrilling the Trump Deranged for his mockery of J.D. Vance’s and the President’s attire. Nevertheless, the completely trivial celebrity posted this screed on Twitter/X that has “gone viral,” as they say…Don’t worry, it ends eventually:

Well.

The thing is full of every rationalization, straw man, appeal to emotion and unethical spin that you and I have ever seen regarding open borders and illegal immigration. In no particular order…

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Message to Simone Biles: “Shut Up and Vault!”

It shouldn’t matter than cute little Simone Biles isn’t very bright. She’s a talented gymnast, and has parlayed that skill into a fortune, a brand, and enough fame to last her a while. There was that choking episode at the 2020 Olympics, but never mind: she’s won enough championships and medals to qualify as one of the all-time greats.

Unfortunately, Biles, like so many other jocks and celebrities,, has let her popularity and acclaim in a very narrow field go to her head. She thinks she has something to contribute to national debates that have nothing to do with floor exercises and the balance beam, and she doesn’t. I’d love to know what books, if any, Biles has read while being essentially a full time gymnast since she was knee-high to a praying mantis. The fact that she never attended high school (she was home-schooled) and eventually got a college degree from a non-profit, online college doesn’t mean Simone necessarily is lacking in critical thinking skills, but her engaging in a name-calling battle with Riley Gaines—the former competitive swimmer who has become a critic of trans men who still have to shave every morning throttling girls and women in women’s sports because they can— does.

To begin with, Gaines is smart, articulate and knows her topic. Biles’ contribution to the debate has consisted of social media posts the equivalent of “Oh yeah?” and “Well, I’m better at my sport than you were at yours, so there!” Here’s one…

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Incompetent Elected Official of the Month: Minnesota State Rep. Kaohly Her

And, may I add, what an idiot!

It’s bad enough that she has a name that automatically thrusts us into an Abbott and Costello routine [“Who?” “Her!” “Who’s Her?” “She’s Her!” “Of course she’s a her, but who is she?” “Her!”], but the fact that she also appears to have no compunction about lying, rationalizing law-breaking and making a fool out of herself along anyone silly enough to support her makes Her one more example of what’s wrong with Minnesota, the Democratic Party, and the advocates for illegal immigration.

During a debate on the Minnesota House floor that touched on illegal immigration, Her announced that she entered the United States as a child illegally. “I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” she said.

Oh! That’s interesting: that means that she can’t hold elected office legally, that she shouldn’t be on a ballot, and that she can’t even vote in elections, much less on bills. The fourth-term lawmaker’s confession “ignited a firestorm in right-wing media,” The Minnesota Informer writes. I guess Democrats and progressives don’t care if an elected official isn’t holding office legally as long as she votes their way, just those racist conservatives who are sticklers for details like citizenship. One of her Republican colleagues in the House, Rep. Walter Hudson, called for Her to be investigated. What a meanie! A state rep admits that she’s in the state illegally, and this Fascist wants to have her kicked out of the legislature. Xenophobe!

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Ethics Dunce: Fox News

If Fox News isn’t going to insist on accurate terminology over Axis propaganda and false narratives in our broadcast news, who will?

I just watched a Fox report from Los Angeles in which the reporter repeatedly referred to ICE arresting “immigrants” and “migrants.” Whoever it was should be disciplined, and, ideally, fired. I regard the use of those cover-words as deliberate complicity with the Axis media’s disinformation campaign, not only to demonize ICE, but to confuse the dimmer members of the public regarding what is happening and why it needs to happen.

This rhetorical sloppiness plays into the hands of partisan liars and open border activists like the disgusting Becky Pringle, featured in the previous post. It is also undermining the President’s immigration policies and law enforcement efforts. The current polls suggest that a clear majority of the public oppose the President’s deployment of the Marines to riot-torn Los Angeles, and that is the direct result of news media bias and public ignorance reinforced by incompetent or dishonest journalism.

Fox News, to be blunt, is barely a tolerable news source because its biases somewhat counter-balance the flagrant biases of the rest of our so-called “journalists.” It is equally lazy, imprecise, misleading and unprofessional as the rest, and in some respects more so: anyone who can watch ten minutes of “Fox and Friends” without their brain requesting permission to leave the room is a prime candidate to work as an intern at a bait shop. Fox New allowing its reporters to follow the progressive-dictated script to confound the issues in the Illegal Immigration Ethics Train Wreck is unethical and unforgivable.

These are illegal immigrants. They have no right to be in the country. They did not build the United States, and they are not being “scapegoated.” It their families suffer when they finally have to face the metaphorical music, that is their fault, not the fault of law enforcement. The reason that ICE has to employ draconian methods is 75% the responsibility of the Biden Administration for refusing to enforce the law for four years, with the rest of the blame lying with previous administrations and greedy members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who want to keep exploiting illegals to keep their costs artificially low.

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Unethical Quote of the Week, In So, So Many Ways: Becky Pringle, National Education Association President

“We know what this administration is doing, so we are saying to Donald Trump and all of his allies, we will not, we will not scapegoat immigrants, we will not—the people who have built this country—we will not stand by and allow you to do that.”

—-Becky Pringle, President of the NEA, declaring her union’s support for open borders and illegal immigration while demonstrating dubious critical thinking skills.

Pringle just got up at a microphone and screamed all of that, and more. There’s a video here that I can’t embed; I have to say that I am suspicious that YouTube does not yet have a video of the hysterical display and that Pringle’s rant has not been more prominently shown on broadcast media. For it is tey another clip that will make a wonderful campaign ad for Republicans. Here is more of her craziness: I could have picked almost any sentence as an “unethical quote”:

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What Is the Ethical Significance of ABC Firing Terry Moran?

ABC News today essentially fired senior correspondent Terry Moran after he wrote derisive comments on social media, as Ethics Alarms discussed here. Moran had already been suspended for making gratuitous personal comments about the character of Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, and President Trump, using the term “world-class hater” to describe each.

Moran had worked at ABC News for 28 years, and his contract was up for renewal.

“We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran, and based on his recent post — which was a clear violation of ABC News policies — we have made the decision to not renew,” the network said in a statement. “At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.”

Riiiight.

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What Is “The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn?” It’s Not This….

Wow. It’s fascinating, isn’t it? Here’s a guy I have never heard of (and don’t particularly want to know more about) claiming that silly Democrats (his pals and ideological colleagues, obviously) need to learn to talk to dumb, ignorant Americans—you know, like the ones they thought they could fool for four years with a fake President and could convince that Donald Trump was really a new Hitler—by communicating with them like and through other morons.

That’s what the New York Times deems worthy of an op-ed.

Here’s a gift link to the essay, though trust me, it isn’t worth your time to read all of it: I read it so you wouldn’t have to. Michael Hirschorn, a Hollywood progressive, really and truly thinks that it isn’t the Left’s batshit crazy extreme and unethical policies that alienate so much of the public, but their way of explaining them. But that isn’t a new (stupid) theory at all: throughout the “Biden” administration, Democrats kept telling anyone who would listen that things were really, really great, and the problem was “messaging.” Which meant “We need more believable liars.” Which meant “These idiots will believe anything as long as we know how to fool them.”

No. The problem was and is that the whole party and the progressive radicals who occupy it suck. But Hirschorn obviously doesn’t know that, because he’s one of them. It isn’t that the Democrats are wrong to try to “reach young men,” whom they have vilified, insulted (“Believe any woman who claims to have been sexually insulted, because the man she accuses probably did it!”) and discriminated against for decades, it’s that they are going about it all wrong. Hirschorn might as well be the Ringo Kid with Democrats in the role of Sheriff Bart…

Here are some tells from the piece:

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From the Res Ipsa Loquitur Files: This Is How Unhinged the Axis of Unethical Conduct Has Become…

Yikes.

This is a propitious time to state, for the record, that the Ethics Alarms criticism, indeed condemnation, of what the 21st Century American Left and the Democratic Party has mutated into is not a partisan activity but an objective, non-partisan, and ethical one. I would take the exact same position regarding any party (I am a registered Independent) that jumped the Ethics Shark to the extent that Democrats have since at least 2012.

Readers of long-standing here will recall that I vociferously wrote though almost all of 2015 and 2016 that I would debase myself by voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election until it became obvious that her party was cheating, manipulating the nomination process and media coverage to an extent that showed its contempt for democracy and the American people. I announced that an unethical party was at least as great a threat to the nation as an unethical, unqualified President (that was Donald Trump). I did not vote for either. By 2020 and of course 2024, he was no longer unqualified, and that the Democratic party was corrupt and untrustworthy was beyond debate.

The conduct of the Axis of Unethical Conduct (the resistance, Democrats and the news media) following Trump’s upset election only reinforced my belief, which has since become certainty. It has now been almost a decade of escalating totalitarian objectives and tactics emanating from the Axis. Its conduct and rhetoric revealed by the Los Angeles riots appears to be the apotheosis of its stunning ethics rot. I have written in previous posts that there is only one ethical side to the issue in LA, and that those who are incapable of seeing that fact are almost clinically deranged, frighteningly indoctrinated or unfixably stupid. Every day, indeed almost every hour, since the rioting started four days ago has supported my analysis.

Res ipsa loquitur means, “The thing speaks for itself.” The items I am listing and discussing below should speak for themselves, but I’m going to do a little speaking for them anyway.

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The Astounding Ethics Void of California Democrats In 6 Tweets…

The President has sent in the Marines.

Good. 

Trump is not going to let the Left hold an encore of the George Floyd Freakout riots. Illegal immigrants do not have the same sympathetic appeal as black Americans, even criminal black Americans like George Floyd. “Illegal Immigrant Lives Matter” just isn’t catchy.

Also good: that MSNBC is freaking out. The Left is determined to narrow its appeal to Americans who like riots and support illegal immigrants.

Yes, only Sen. Fetterman among Democrats has the integrity to call the riots in Los Angeles what they are. Next, I’d like him to admit that his party caused this, with its illegal “sanctuary cities,” its deliberate failure to enforce immigration laws and secure the border, and its romanticizing of illegal immigrant status.

The Mayor of LA is saying that “we” will not stand for  the government enforcing its laws, but “we” will stand for the rights of rioters to burn and destroy unimpeded.

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Ethics Dunce: The 100-Year-Old Psychotherapist

Yes, this topic again: the aging professional who lacks the courage, integrity and common sense to “hang it up” before too much harm is done.

Ethics Alarms had explored the issue with judges (Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, among others), baseball players (Albert Pujols, for example), lawyers (Rudy Giuliani), actors (Bruce Willis), singers (Joni Mitchell, and so, so many others) and Presidents of the United States. It’s always the same tragic tale with different details: someone who has always been remarkable at a difficult, powerful and often high-profile job can’t bring herself or himself to retire with dignity, even when it should be obvious that age is leaching their abilities from them.

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