“We’re not savages; we’re not animals; we’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans. ” Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican activist whom the NFL is really going to let headline its Super Bowl half-time show, where he promised to wear a dress and attack President Trump.
Olivia Dean, the British soul artist who won the Grammy for best new artist, said she was accepting the award “as a granddaughter of an immigrant…I’m a product of bravery, and I think those people deserve to be celebrated.”
The distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, of course, is incomprehensible to these people.
Gloria Estefan called on Latinos to “lift our voices” in opposition to policies that she labeled “inhumane.”
Yeah, it’s inhumane to enforce the law.
Kehlani, winner of the Grammy for best R&B Performanceclosed her speech by calling on others present in the room “to join together as a community of artists and speak out against what’s going on.”
When speaking to an already biased crowd that doesn’t care about facts, it’s assumed that everybody agrees what “what’s going on” means. She also said, “Fuck ICE.”
Shaboozey, after accepting the Grammy for best country duo/group performance irrelevantly extolled immigrants, who “built this country — literally.”
Great, thanks for that information. Did you know Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes?
Meanwhile, another controversy was seeded by M.C. Trevor Noah, who stated as fact that Donald Trump visited Epstein’s island. There is no evidence of that, and the statement meets the definition of defamation, unless it is agreed that lying about the President is immune from liability. I don’t think that is settled law, though I suspect a lawsuit, which Trump threatened on Truth Social, would be thrown out. But it wouldn’t be frivolous.
Ethics Alarms 
Ketanji Brown Jackson should recuse herself from every case involving native americans, land ownership, citizenship, immigration and border protection. And just about any other topic else she yucked it up with in den of miscreants.
Well this is a maddening page break. Again – wall of words is preferable to this.
I’ve been seeing twitter progressives fawning over Jackson’s Grammy appearance.
I just realized they are going to give her the RBG celebrity treatment to gloss over her dismal inadequacies.
Progressives will love her because they’re told to love her.
Something is up with the WordPress formating today. Your posts aren’t all on one page, and split between multiple pages, having to click to a 2nd page. Some less than astute readers might glance over the fact that you’ve written more than what is on “page 1”.
https://ethicsalarms.com/2026/01/28/alert-wordpress-changed-its-page-break-system/
It’s a WordPress “improvement.” See Michael West’s link to my explanation.
I’m just going to say the change is terrible, and I suggest giving up on splitting posts at all. Just make every post a single page.
I’m not going to add anything you haven’t observed yourself but feel the need to vent.
The previous option made sense to me. Clicking to read the rest of it opened the entire post in a single link with comments at the end. The placement of the page numbers, the lack of a link to view as a single page, general lack of clarity.. it’s fucking shit and the programmers who added this should be ashamed of themselves.
There are times when it does seem that the world is just full of solutions looking for problems.
IT departments really should have a sign posted “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!)
Alas, no chance of that.
“improvement” in quotes is right. I don’t like the new page break format. Plus, you used to be able to click on the post title and see everything on one page. That doesn’t work any more. Even when you click on the title you still get the “1 2 ..” at the bottom.
Posted my comment just after Phlinn – He gave more detail.
And the celebrity-obsessed among the Trump Deranged just nodded their heads and shared those sentiments with all their bubble-headed social media friends.
The clip I saw showed wild applause when Eilish made her pronouncements. That is more concerning than the musings of some pop star following on John Lennon’s footprint about politics and war and God knows whatever else popped into his post-Beatles music career.
Then, there is a San Antionio federal judge iissuing a blistering opinion against Trump and his immigration policy and/or enforcement action:
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/g-s1-108168/5-year-old-liam-ramos-ice-order
jvb
I saw that as well, John. Is that judge known as an out-of-control lunatic? Has he ever been censured by anyone? Is he the chief judge in his district? Unbelievable. Are they going to appeal his order?
A judge who cites Bible verses and the Declaration of Independence to support his ruling? I’m surprised he didn’t throw in “The New Colossus” as well.
I wonder which of those musicians will be the first to display a true act of contrition for his/her own personal theft by moving everything out and gifting the property back to the original tribal owners.
Eilish…? Estefan…?
Anyone?…Bueller…?
Yeah, I didn’t think so, either…
When’s Estefan going to give South Florida back to the Anglos, oh like yours truly, that were all displaced when all the Cubans hopped over from Cuba and set up shop there?
Half of them don’t write their own songs and the other half have “borrowed” inspiration from prior musicians’ works.
jvb
Ask the performers if they would be willing to not have the government enforce copyright law protections. Illegal immigration is the equivalent of deriving monetary benefits from using that which belongs to others.
I can argue that if I run a bootleg radio station and play their music without compensating royalties I am simply trying to make a better life for myself and it is not harming them.
Check and mate!
This is my favorite quote from Billie Eilish, who said:
And, as grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything, but that no one is illegal on stolen land.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “What a maroon!” People like Eilish have self-awareness lower than the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I’m told she lives in an expensive estate in California — which, by her definition, is just as “stolen” as the rest of America.
Yet I don’t see illegal aliens camped out on her property. After all, by her lights, they have an absolute right to be — paying for stolen property doesn’t make it not stolen, right?
Entertainers are among the most stupid people on the planet, in my considered opinion. Based on the Grammy Award comments I have seen, none of them could pass a 5th grade history exam, and they probably think “critical thinking” is some form of white supremacy.
Part of me wants to say, “Shut up and sing,” but honestly, I think it is better for them to speak out and reveal themselves as fools so we can mock and laugh at them, and also at the idiots who showed or tuned in up to watch a bunch of midwit singers opine laughably about a subject they know absolutely nothing about.
Regrettably, there are too many people out there who will consider their nonsensical virtue-signalling as wisdom.
Finally, my dear mother is rolling over in her grave at now-constant F-bombs from people for whom such an utterance would have been career-damaging only a decade or two ago.
Dammit, I was got by the page thing. I looked up and thought Jack had omitted that quote, but it was on the other page.
Oh well, that’s what I get for having such a short memory — I thought I read it but couldn’t find it and forgot about the “improvements” to WordPress.
“Fuck” seems to have been sanitized and disinfected somehow and is now the equivalent of “crap” or “screw.” Much as “suck” is now completely acceptable (at least among morons) and has no connection whatsoever with “suck my dick.”
The eternal question — Sanitized by who?
Nobody asked me! 🙂
https://youtu.be/_42tJgX_S48?si=TTjmmdb1f7CuIKuv
I thought it funny and unfortunate at the same time. Certainly true it is a versatile word … ;-(
I’m sure you’ve heard of the “Sovereign Citizens” movement – generally right-wing anarcho-libertarian types who peddle absurd pseudo-legal theories, claim they’re not subject to taxes, make up their own passports and license plates (on home printers if they have the werewithal, in crayon if not), and I’m various other ways deny the legitimacy of the US government)?
I view claims such as “nobody is illegal on stolen land” to be left-wing versions of the same thing. The quality of the legal argumentation is much the same, and they’re still centered on denying the legitimacy of the US government. The only substantive difference is that only one brand of extremist is being platformed by major cultural institutions.
“Cretinish Applause”. Wow. Well, just ignore them, then. There is no point in arguing with true believers or cretins, uh, idiots.
A solid argument could be made that no person is illegal. I know, Merriam Webster acknowledges the term “illegals” can be used to refer to persons in a country who do not have the documentation for legal entry or residence. But, MW also says the term often is disparaging and offensive, which calls into question whether it is ethical to use that term when other terms not disparaging and offensive could be used. Simplicity over ethics, I guess.
Many who do not have that documentation were invited in by our government and have been denied documentation by bureaucratic inefficiency. Doesn’t matter, they’re still illegals, right?
Those to whom Bad Bunny refers are not savages. They are not animals. Some, perhaps most, are aliens in one usage of that term. The implication that many of the people referred to are treated as if they are savages or animals is not unreasonable.
Dean’s statement is innocuous, but since she said ‘immigrants’ we can leap to the assumption that she and these people do not distinguish.
Estefan may well have been thinking, not of enforcement, but of the manner of enforcement, some of which clearly has been inhumane.
Kehlani’s call for people to join together reminded me of a number of things Trump said on J6. Certainly, some on the far right took “fight like hell” to heart and acted on it. But, that’s not as bad as asking people to speak out about what’s going on.
Shaboozey just might believe that Superior is inferior, considering that Michigan, Huron, and Georgian Bay all are part of one huge lake with at least three names. Shaboozey might also believe that immigrants built America, but, helped in large measure would be more accurate.
The statements from the stage at the Grammys are not surprising, nor is the critique here, and the certainty with which they are made suggests there will be no listening to opposing views, much less consideration of them.
Not in good faith, it can’t. You know very well that the term is merely short for “illegal immigrant”, that nobody is actually asserting that these people are somehow illegal in their very existence or personhood. That some people claim it’s derogatory or offensive is neither here nor there; it’s a transparent attempt to weaponize the language of civility to demand that the plain truth be banished from public discourse.
The claim that no person is an illegal immigrant is a flat lie. The claim that opponents of uncontrolled immigration are somehow claiming their existence or personhood are illegal is a flat lie. There is no way to “consider” such arguments, only to refute them outright.
Sometimes your impulse to be contrary leads you into thickets of illogic. There is no way to equate deliberately conflating immigrants with illegal immigrants, which has been an obvious rhetorical trick for many years, with factual criticism. You end up sounding like EC, who insists there are two legitimate points of view when there are not. Saying that “no one is illegal” is like saying “there are no illegal drivers”—it’s nonsense, and it does not deserve being called anything but. The open borders clan thinks any enforcement is “inhumane.” There is no “humane” way to take resisting criminals into custody and detain them forcibly before deporting them. Are they being beaten by truncheons? Waterboarded? Pack in barrels with fat Lithuanian midgets?
Someone should ask what Gloria is talking about: I’ll bet that she thinks it’s inhumane to ever arrest and deport an illegal who has been here a while and raised a family. It’s not. As Baretta so sagely said, “Don’t do the crime in you can’t do the time.”
”Many who do not have that documentation were invited in by our government and have been denied documentation by bureaucratic inefficiency. Doesn’t matter, they’re still illegals, right?”
But the entire premise “We are here on stolen land” is actually the most relevant part. It is a statement designed to establish an absolute illegitimacy, isn’t it? It is one of those now common terms against which no one can refute. If you state such a thing, and the entire audience claps in agreement, they show themself to have aligned with an absolute absurdity of reasoning. Isn’t it true that such “thinking” is really the outstanding issue? If they think in those terms, then it stands to reason they might believe many other absurdities.
There is however a curiously meshed absurdity that can be compared: that the invasion and conquest of modern Palestine and the assertion that it was and even could be legitimate. You also have to suspend or modify logic to ‘believe’ that the reenactment of historical occupation, condoned (ordered?) by a God is in our present justifiable. To do so you have to bend both logic and reasoning and perform amazing backward rhetorical flips and pirouettes …
Back to the topic: the illegal immigration situation is a vastly consequential demographic crisis that was created by policy decisions of the REPUBLICAN establishment. Not by the former Left-Democrat sector (that opposed illegal immigration quite strongly). This is a fact.
I was thinking this morning (maybe a dangerous thing, but anyways…) about Eilish’s statement again…”no one is illegal on stolen land.” Is this suggesting a broader notion that committing a crime (even a relatively small one, such as “breaking and entering” into the country) is not really a crime? What other crimes on “stolen land” are now null and void? Theft? Arson? Vandalism?
If I walk up to Gloria Estefan, accuse her of living on stolen land, then set her car on fire, have I committed a crime? If no one on stolen land is illegal, doesn’t that include me as well?
If I discover a man in a stolen car and I shoot him, have I committed a crime? That man was on “stolen land,” so to speak.
Just asking…
Joel; once you stop expecting it to make sense, it’ll make perfect sense.
PWS
Joel,
While I like the challenge of, “So if the land is stolen, anything goes?”, I can get over the following problem I have. I would want to ask, “Wait, how does allowing millions more people who have no claim to the land help the people from whom the land was stolen? Isn’t that just making the problem worse?”
Argh! Can’t! Can’t get over!
The “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land” crowd feels that the Third World has a right to migrate to Europe, and commit crimes against people!