My View by Silvio Canto, Jr.: 02/20/25

Thursday, February 20, 2025

The Pope and immigration plus other current events

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Don't touch my favorite program

Don't touch my favorite program: Over the last few weeks, we've learned that the federal bureaucracy is out of control or doing crazy things such as sending Social Security checks to dead people or financing trans operas in faraway places. We don't know if it's….

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We hear a lot about the Democrats lost in the wilderness. Well, it's easy to stay lost when you defend expenditures like these. Where is the Democrat who will challenge the public-sector unions and say that this is crazy? Where is that Democrat? He or she could become a relevant…
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 20, 2025

Over the last few weeks, we’ve learned that the federal bureaucracy is out of control or doing crazy things such as sending Social Security checks to dead people or financing trans operas in faraway places. We don’t know if it’s corruption or incompetence. My guess is that it’s a bit of both, but the jury is still out on the final verdict.

So what are the Democrats doing or reacting to this? Well, so far, the Democrats have decided to lie with the bureaucrats.

How is this playing outside of Washington D.C.? Not well according to Ruy Texeira:

Over time, Democrats have been hemorrhaging working-class voters, including and especially in the last election. A resolute, unconditional defense of government bureaucracies does not appear to be a promising route to getting them back in our current populist era.
But oddly, Democrats seem to have decided that hitching their wagon to government bureaucracies is just the ticket they need to storm back against Trump and GOP. Nothing illustrates this better than how they’ve mounted the barricades to defend USAID and each and every dollar it spends.

By the way, Mr. Texiera has been warning Democrats for years. He once predicted that Hispanics would create a Democrat majority, but now he is warning them that they are creating a permanent minority. I guess that open borders, on demand abortion, and having men steal young women’s trophies will do that to you.

Texeira is correct. Watch the Democrats defend USAID without stepping out of the box and seeing all the crazy stuff that taxpayers are paying for. Wonder how many taxpayers are doing their taxes today and watching Elon Musk reveal how we are spending money? As David Alxerod said: “[How did] the party of working people become a party of elite institutions?“

We hear a lot about the Democrats lost in the wilderness. Well, it’s easy to stay lost when you defend expenditures like these. Where is the Democrat who will challenge the public-sector unions and say that this is crazy? Where is that Democrat? He or she could become a relevant national figure in the age of Trump.

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Happy # 77 Jennifer O'Neill

We say happy birthday to Jennifer O'Neill who was born in Rio de Janeiro on this day in 1948.

We remember her face all over US TV commercials and in the movie "Summer of 42".

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We remember Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)

We say happy birthday to Sidney Poitier, a great actor of the 20th century. He was born in Miami on this day in 1927 and died the first week of 2022 at age 94.

Portier was in some of the greatest movies of the last 50 years, as we see in this biography:

By the end of 1949, he was having to choose between leading roles on stage and an offer to work for Darryl F. Zanuck in the film No Way Out (1950).
Poitier's performance as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles, each considerably more interesting and prominent than most African American actors of the time were getting.
Nevertheless, the roles were still less interesting and prominent than those white actors routinely obtained.
But seven years later, after turning down several projects he considered demeaning, Poitier got a number of roles that catapulted him into a category rarely if ever achieved by an African American man of that time, that of starring leading man.
One of the films, The Defiant Ones (1958), gave Poitier his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Five years later, he won the Oscar for Lilies of the Field (1963), the first African American to win for a leading role. Poitier maintained activity on stage, on screen, and in the burgeoning Civil Rights movement.
His roles in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and To Sir, with Love (1967) were for their time landmarks in the breaking down of social barriers between African Americans and whites, and Poitier's talent, conscience, integrity, and inherent likability placed him on equal footing with the white stars of the day.
He took on directing and producing chores in the Seventies, achieving success in both arenas. Although he has reduced the frequency of his roles in recent years, he remains one of the most respected and beloved figures in American cinema of the twentieth century.