That's a cruel Photoshop; the original is below:"Don't forget to pack a snack, Donald, you know how cranky you get." pic.twitter.com/8B0znfCrY5— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 9, 2018
Here's the original photo by Tom Brenner, NY Times:https://t.co/jroFwpectm pic.twitter.com/ul2z84qvYV— Virgil (@abtnatural) April 9, 2018
And this was fun:
In the world of carrot-and-stick diplomacy, Mr. Bolton is a stick man. “I don’t do carrots,” he has said. https://t.co/EPTrVTlUti— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 9, 2018
— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 9, 2018
And below the fold, some more Dinesh fail.
This one actually starts out with a case in which he wasn't as wrong as most people thought he was:
In the sense that "settler" and "immigrant" don't mean exactly the same thing.America is not a nation “built by immigrants.” It is a nation built by settlers that subsequently attracted millions of immigrants— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 6, 2018
In that sense North America was settled by hunter-gatherers 17,000 to 14,000 years ago. Then the first immigrants began to arrive. https://t.co/K0DZ6MQgfb— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
It would be idiotic to suggest that every white person in North America in 1776 was a settler and everyone who arrived thereafter was an immigrant. The Continental Congress announcement that "the United States" now existed didn't suddenly change the definition of everyone.— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
The "building" of the nation didn't take place overnight. It took centuries and immigrants by your definition, and slaves or involuntary immigrants (would you insist the first slaves were settlers?), were there for most of it.— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
But then linguistically what he doesn't understand, or refuses to understand, is that while not all immigrants are settlers, all settlers are immigrants:
But by a more normal definition of "immigrate", all white people in North America are certainly immigrants or the descendants of immigrants since the 16th century (I'm including New Spain)... pic.twitter.com/MFo1iC5MAm— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
... unless you cherry-pick the definition, insisting only the "especially" part is legitimate for "immigrate" and only definition 2b counts for "country. pic.twitter.com/mDhd3HOmuk— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
Which, to be sure, would be a typical Dinesh dick debating move.— Smash-Mouth Liberal (@Yastreblyansky) April 8, 2018
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