There is some unsettling stuff flying around this morning. You know, the Presidential spokesperson is in a tough position, and I feel for her. The COVID thing is tiresome now, not that it wasn’t before, and unaccompanied minor kids are being held in the same facilities that have been used for a decade. I am uncertain how to describe them directly, as are many, but as soon as the new words and phrases are available the Socotra Editorial Team will be all over them. We are standing down for nothing, or better said, standing up for something though we are not quite sure for what at the moment.

It is complex. “Illegal Aliens” is now a prohibited term, from what I understand, and the proper words are something else much less ominous. I looked it up. I think it is “undocumented migrants,” which better describes people who are illegal aliens in most of the rest of the world, including the one in which they are currently looking for documents.

The new word might be “unaccompanied juveniles without documents,” or something, since the were accompanied for a while, but not now. There is some process involving undocumented parents- or rather, parents who have some documents but not others- using coyotes to send their children across the border as some sort of bargaining chip for other people who are lacking the pieces of paper necessary to remedy the unfortunate confusion about their citizenship.

I stand with the President on this. I don’t think anyone should turn anything over to four-legged furry immigration. As a military veteran, I am also happy that the new Secretary of Defense has embarked on a two month “Stand Down” to search for extremists and supremacists in the uniformed service of this country. At least I think it is this country, though our armed forces apparently are prepared to support some other country that does not currently exist, or exists in some manner that two months of intense thinking will solve.

It is a pleasure to live in interesting times. We also have the idea that we can create trillions of dollars of new cash without debasing the pittance the government is handing back to those of us on Social Security, which with social distancing seems a lot less secure than when they took the money away from our paycheck when the money was worth more.

Oh well- one can only expect a little confusion as we learn the new language and find some unity in all this divisiveness. I was interested that Mr. Xavier Becerra, the nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, has no experience in public health, but some great resume bullets as California’s Attorney General. He has even taken on the Little Sisters of the Poor, a known religious order. That gives me confidence we will have some great litigation experience in the Department that distributes funds being wildly printed over at the Fed.

I have pals who seem to think this is a good idea. We are making some real progress, since much of this has been tried several times and failed miserably. We now have the right people to actually make it work like they imagine it should.

It is a pleasure to live in these historic times, and that is a fact.

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