IT'S UNLIKELY TO TURN OUT WELL.

The incoming government appears to be receptive to asylum-seekers arriving in the United States, ostensibly  to foster some notion of "racial equity."

The Biden administration's immigration plan is not designed to improve the United States of America. It's not intended to make Americans happier or richer or more secure or more united. You might think those would be the aims of every government policy ever but no, not in this case. The point of Joe Biden's immigration plan is "racial equity."

Now, we've got to be completely honest with you, we're not exactly sure what that means. But as of tonight, it sounds a lot like punishment. Mass immigration, explains Joe Biden, isn't something that will make your life better. It's something you deserve.

It's also likely to crash straight into the Law of Unintended Consequences.  California governor Gavin Newsom took a break from flouting his own quarantines to name California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate.  That involves box-ticking.  "Padilla, a son of Mexican immigrants, will be the first Latino senator for California, where Latinos represent nearly 40% of the state’s population."  Live by diversity, die by diversity.  "When Harris officially resigns from the Senate, there will be no Black women serving in the chamber. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., will then be the only Black U.S. senators."  From my perspective, the ancestry of the junior senator from California is less relevant than the politics (predictably delusional) of the junior senator from California.  But what do I know?  "Newsom’s move could also be seen as him thumbing his nose at the Black Lives Matter movement, which called for a Black woman to fill Harris’ seat in a “non-negotiable” demand that emphasized why Senate representation by an African American woman is so important." Gotta love those non-negotiable demands, and it gets better.

It all added up to seemingly reinforce the common political and patriarchal narrative that men get to decide that women must wait patiently for their turns at the back of the line. The fact that the decision was made by a white man, in particular, only hammered home that point even more. While Harris decidedly shattered the glass ceiling back in 2017 when she became just the second Black woman senator in the United States’ history, Newsom at least partially rebuilt it Tuesday, critics suggested.

Interesting. The governor's chromosomes are more important than his dubious policies, now? And people of Central American extraction are over-represented in the Senate? "There was also the case being made that there are already a relatively substantial number of Latinos in the Senate, so why not try to balance out representation by keeping at least one Black woman? Besides, that single representation would still be fewer than the six Latinos, including a woman Democrat with Nevada Sen. Catherine Marie Cortez Masto."

Pass the popcorn, the posturing is going to be amusing.