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Scott Sheffield's avatar

The photo reminded me of a group wearing Burkas and swimming at Virginia Beach. In another life I owned a kayak touring company, two couples from ( Iran I believe) rented two tandem boats. The women wore Burkas covering every thing but their eyes, the men shorts and flops. Yes the women paddled like hell and the men sat there smoking cigarettes. No I’m not joking.

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Robin P's avatar

I used to belong to a health club that had this awesome water aerobics class - the class got invaded by two pregnant Muslim women swaddled in tan shrouds head to toe with only their faces showing who showed no caution about what the effect of yards and yards of waterlogged fabric might do to their safety in the water.

It was sad, frankly, to see them keep pulling their sleeves over their arms during the exercises and how they needed ample team help to pull them out of the pool after each session.

One by one we all dropped out because they always needed help and there were always emergencies with them getting these shrouds caught in drains, tangled, whatever - the class was a mess after they joined.

The club cancelled the classes because their shrouds were safety hazards instead of risking a lawsuit based on “racism” or whatever. Not only that, they maxed the child care room out by putting in eight and ten children apiece and then no other member could bring their kids to exercise.

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Scott Sheffield's avatar

Not long ago…on the hottest day of the year I was walking the River walk in downtown Richmond. I pasted two couples, both women were in burkas … solid black with a rectangular slit for their eyes. The look on their husband’s faces gave me the creeps.

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Naveen's avatar

That feels like a mini invasion!

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Charles Russell's avatar

Hilariously serious! I hereby dub this “Coulter’s M/Ad Libs” …would love to see this technique applied to other public policy ridiculousness

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Naveen's avatar

I'm sure Bali does a better job protecting their culture than America does. According to liberals America has no culture because that's RACIST!

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David Silverberg's avatar

Brilliant.

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Ed Borghi's avatar

If Trump gets elected he should hire 87000 ICE agents instead of 87000 IRS agents and buy or rent 10000 busses along with renting thousands of acres of land to build tent cities. Then round up all the illegals and deport them. People call him a Nazi so let him behave like one. Pay people to turn in illegals, go house to house in obvious areas and ask for "your papers", raid places of employment, farms, ranches, etc. Then employ large military aircraft to bring them home. Any country who will not accept their people should be cut off from all aide. Continued refusal should be handled by dumping them in their country of origin by any means necessary.

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Jeff Jaeger's avatar

this is BRILLIANT!

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Tolerance Is Lazy's avatar

Ann, the American Mistress of Analogy.

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mike's avatar

Love reading your stuff but wish it was under the byline of one of my representatives as he lobbied for a piece of legislation to halt all immigration.

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Thorn's avatar

Ann, didn't you know? Only non-whites have the privilege to be outraged over tourism. If a White person dares to express concern about immigration, he/she will be immediately branded as racist.

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East Coast Rando's avatar

Nicely done, Ann.

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Anthony Brewer's avatar

I'm sorry, Ann, but as Bush 43 told us in "Out uh Minny, One: Portrits of Amurica’s Immergrints" that America is not for only one type of person but should be open, as Ronald Reagan once said, to “anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

Maybe you should get some art supplies and crank out some of your own fever-dream, LSD-skewed portraits of these True Americans and learn how we can't live without their contributions. Remember what it was like when you couldn't find authentic Somali groceries anywhere? Do you really want to go back to those days?

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-2021/president-george-w-bush-out-of-many-one.html

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Robert Francis Poh's avatar

Bullseye, as usual, Ann.

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Stacey Morris's avatar

Of course! This is a great argument to use with pro-immigrants...

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Kevin Murphy's avatar

I read the article and it made me want to go to Coney Island this summer!

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Julie Ainger's avatar

Yep. Thank you Ann for astute clarification of words of what is happening in America.

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