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Dems Suddenly Oppose Illegal Immigration

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Dems Suddenly Oppose Illegal Immigration

¿Por qué son tan racistas?

Jim Treacher
Jul 29, 2022
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Remember when the Democrats told us illegal immigration was good? “This is a sanctuary city” and “People aren’t illegal” and all that? Remember how they called you a racist for caring about what’s happening on our southern border? You’ll never guess what happened when they got a taste of their own medicine.

At first, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was like:

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Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser
“Washington, DC is a sanctuary city. We protect the rights and humanity of all our residents, and our #DCValues and our local culture are guided by a celebration of diversity and inclusivity." #thread See full statement below ⬇️
Mayoral statement on Washington DC's commitment to protect the rights and humanity of all DC residents.
7:56 PM ∙ Jul 18, 2018
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“We must send a message loud and clear to the President and Congress that we are not a country of fear and cruelty...”

That was then. This is now:

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Reuters @Reuters
Washington mayor requests troops to aid with migrant arrivals from Texas and Arizona reut.rs/3zjn5V0
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3:55 AM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
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Mark Segraves @SegravesNBC4
BREAKING: DC @MayorBowser requests @DCNationalGuard activated indefinitely to help migrant busses arriving in DC. Calling it a “humanitarian crisis” that has reached a “tipping point” with 4,000 migrants so far. Requesting DC Armory be used as processing center. @nbcwashington
4:08 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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Troops? Soldiers? Armories? To deal with undocumented immigrants? How racist. This was a round world the last time I checked. A border is just a line on a map.

PEOPLE ARE NOT ILLEGAL!!!

Bowser’s message: “Of course we want you here. We just don’t want you here.”

There’s a lot of that going around these days:

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NBC News @NBCNews
Biden administration authorizes completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, where four wide gaps make it among the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.
nbcnews.toBiden administration to fill border wall gaps near Yuma, ArizonaPresident Joe Biden halted new border wall construction after he took office but has since made closing the gaps just south of Yuma a priority.
5:58 AM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
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So much for “Give me your tired, your poor,” etc.

But look on the bright side, DC residents:

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At least AOC won't need to commute.
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Mark Segraves @SegravesNBC4
BREAKING: DC @MayorBowser requests @DCNationalGuard activated indefinitely to help migrant busses arriving in DC. Calling it a “humanitarian crisis” that has reached a “tipping point” with 4,000 migrants so far. Requesting DC Armory be used as processing center. @nbcwashington
4:33 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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Day 334 of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
12:06 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022

Oh, Joe Biden is doing just fine. Why do you ask?

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Charlie Spiering @charliespiering
"Does that make any sense to anybody or is it just me?"
7:36 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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They keep propping him in front of the camera and juicing him up to keep him awake enough to read his lines:

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𐐨𑀨𞤮𐓰ᧉ𑈙ᡶ @abcdentminded
What the fuck did they do to joe between these two shots
9:35 AM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
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But they don’t want him answering questions. Especially about the recession we’re clearly in, no matter how he denies it:

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Greg Price @greg_price11
Joe Biden says that the economy is doing perfect, says "That doesn't sound like a recession to me," and then leaves without taking questions.
5:16 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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Why throw a rope to a drowning man when you can just explain that it isn’t really water?


What you’re about to see is homophobic because it’s both accurate and funny:

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The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
Tucker Carlson: “We had a vote ... the new name for Monkeypox Is now officially, and we’re declaring it: Schlong COVID.”
1:17 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
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After Americans just spent two years being mask-shamed and vaccine-shamed and scolded about every public sneeze and cough, after moms were branded grandma-killers for wanting to take their kids to the zoo, we’re supposed to care about some gay guys’ feelings because anal sex is spreading a horrifying plague?

Go pox yourself!


Last month, Nicholas Roske plotted to kill Brett Kavanaugh because of a Supreme Court decision that hadn’t happened yet. Roske had further ambitions:

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The Hill @thehill
Kavanaugh suspect said he wanted to kill more Supreme Court justices, officials say trib.al/NHHEgPz
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9:37 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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And the journos don’t really care, because they’ve decided Kavanaugh is their enemy. If they’re willing to accuse him of rape with no evidence whatsoever, why would they care if somebody murders him?


Here’s some more stuff to read:

  • Freddie deBoer on why Gawker still sucks

  • Collin Anderson at the Washington Free Beacon on why Stacey Abrams still sucks

  • Sasha Warren at Scientific American on why you shouldn’t eat so much protein because it’s bad for the planet or something


Every generation must have its own crappy, embarrassing made-for-TV biopic about Marilyn Monroe.

Back in the ‘90s there was HBO’s Norma Jean & Marilyn, with Ashley Judd playing Monroe before she was a star and Mira Sorvino after. They both got nekkid, but otherwise it was not very good.

And now we have this:

Once again, a furr’ner comes over here and takes one of our jerbs.

I don’t really care because I don’t have Netflix anyway (no service that carries Cuties will get a dime of my money), but this is just cringeworthy. Ana de Armas has been good in everything I’ve seen her in, from the thankless role of a naked hologram in Blade Runner 2049 to kicking ass in Whatever That Last Bond Film Was Called. She’s gorgeous, she can act, and her resemblance to Monroe here is uncanny. But she just can’t seem to shake her Cuban accent.

Not for lack of trying. As de Armas told The Sunday Times last year:

“I tried! It only took me nine months of dialect coaching, and practicing, and some ADR sessions. It was a big torture, so exhausting. My brain was fried.”

I admire the effort, but it didn’t work. She doesn’t sound like Marilyn Monroe. She doesn’t even sound like someone impersonating Marilyn Monroe. She sounds like a Cuban lady with a sore throat.

Which is racist, apparently. All the wokes are screaming, “Who cares what she sounds like?” I wouldn’t care, except she’s supposed to be playing Marilyn Monroe. Everybody knows what Monroe sounded like, and she didn’t have a Cuban accent. Or British, or Australian, or French, or Tanzanian, or Russian, or any other foreign accent. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, and she sounded like it. If you’re portraying her and you talk in a way she never talked, it destroys the illusion. You have failed.

Hank Azaria can’t play Apu on The Simpsons anymore, and he was forced to grovel for forgiveness because he was so funny for 30 years. That role was racist, because Azaria is white. But this role isn’t racist, because de Armas is Cuban.

Idris Alba can portray a Norse god, but a white actor isn’t going to pass the audition to play a Wakandan.

Can you imagine an Anglo actor playing a dead Cuban celebrity in 2022? When Aaron Sorkin needed somebody to play Desi Arnaz, who did he pick? A Spanish guy who was at least a decade too old for the role. (Sorry, friend-o.) If an age-appropriate white American actor had played Arnaz, everybody would’ve screamed racism. Yet somehow it’s racist to notice that de Armas can’t do an American accent, no matter how hard she tries.

Couldn’t they hire a Monroe impersonator to dub in her voice? Couldn’t they run it through some sort of fancy computerized deepfake de-accentizer or something? Why am I always the one who needs to think of these things? Why won’t anyone listen to meeeeee??


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Alex in MN
Jul 29, 2022

On Immigration, I checked: Schadenfreude is spelled the same in Spanish. Catching Bowser in her hypocrisy is wonderful. Biden isn't doing nearly enough on The Wall. "At least AOC won't have to commute," is priceless.

I truly wish someone would tell us just how often Biden is given meds. Daily? Twice a day? Special suppositories if he speaks after 5:00? My God, what a wretched Presidency.

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Doug Pratt
Jul 29, 2022

I like the "more stuff to read" links. If it catches your attention, it's worth a look. And a properly snarky comment.

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