Althouse: Running/simplicity/immigration.

November 1, 2019

Running/simplicity/immigration.

A NYT video:

18 comments:

chuck said...: Sounds like a Super Bowl ad. What was the joke?; 11/1/19, 10:36 AM
Temujin said...: Great video. Although, if they were trying to slip in an argument for allowing millions of people to just come in illegally, that argument was not made. But it's a nice story about one good man.; 11/1/19, 10:39 AM
Lucid-Ideas said...: Memo runs
Memo runs far
Memo shouldn't be here
I wouldn't do in Memo's country
What he does here
Memo has some talent
Memo's talent could make him successful
Successful enough
To WORK HARD to be here
Fucking legally
We would love for you to be legal Memo
Ask the NYT to sponsor you
But nah...that's not useful to them
You're useful to them
As a stupid pawn in their goal
To make us forget you shouldn't be here
Work harder Memo
Earn being here
Instead of just running; 11/1/19, 10:44 AM
readering said...: Great name.; 11/1/19, 10:51 AM
Lucid-Ideas said...: Reminded me of

See spot
See spot run
See spot do tricks
See spot be a good boy
See spot sit
Good spot good
Good boy
See spot be a useful pawn
Be sympathetic to spot
Because we said so
Good citizen good
Now sit; 11/1/19, 10:57 AM
tim in vermont said...: Illegal immigration is exactly the same as immigration because you are not allowed to use the word “illegal.”

It’s all so simple!; 11/1/19, 11:01 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Running is something I miss every day- I fully understand his addiction to it. It is one of the most common dreams I have these days- being out on the running path for a 6-12 mile run on a cool dry day.; 11/1/19, 11:06 AM
Automatic_Wing said...: Considering how many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans live here, the paucity of Mexican-origin public figures is quite interesting. Who are the big Mexican celebrities? George Lopez? The pockmarked guy from the Machete movies? There aren't a lot.; 11/1/19, 11:37 AM
Harsh Pencil said...: This video wants me to get back to running, especially since I have the same shirt Memo is wearing (at least I think he's wearing the Boston Marathon 2013 shirt. Yeah, the one where to a-holes blew up pressure cooker bombs.) But he's right. Just run and don't give up. Somehow I have to get back to this.; 11/1/19, 11:39 AM
William said...: He's a decent guy. I'm glad he has a useful life and that his journey has found a safe harbor.....What are the chances that the NYT would feature an article on an illegal immigrant who was not worthy or useful. Such immigrants exist.; 11/1/19, 11:51 AM
Wince said...: I mustn't've got the Memo.; 11/1/19, 12:11 PM
RNB said...: Marie Kondo is an illegal immigrant?; 11/1/19, 1:37 PM
Bilwick said...: "Considering how many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans live here, the paucity of Mexican-origin public figures is quite interesting. Who are the big Mexican celebrities? George Lopez? The pockmarked guy from the Machete movies? There aren't a lot."

Certainly not a lot in the pro-freedom camp, sort of surprising given how screwed up a country Mexico seems to be. Mexican-Americans seem like other "liberal"-favored victim groups (Blacks, Jews, Gays, Women) who have been the victims of statism, yet always fall in lockstep to support the more statist candidate in any election. A friend of mine used to teach ESL to Cuban immigrants in NYC, and he said that "liberals" hated the Cubans because after their experience with Castro, they tended to anti-socialist.; 11/1/19, 1:48 PM
Sebastian said...: He runs fast, therefore illegal immigration is OK?

Or is the argument that America is such a great country, even illegals can run faster as they age than they did when they were young in miserable backward Mexico?

But sorry Memo: once you have intensified your training to serious competition prep, you will get slower with age.; 11/1/19, 2:31 PM
tim in vermont said...: "he said that "liberals" hated the Cubans because after their experience with Castro, they tended to anti-socialist.”

Which is why Obama started sending them back to Cuba.; 11/1/19, 2:54 PM
Fernandinande said...: I'm inspired to not go to the gym - thanks, Memo!

Which reminds me, why does Mexico do so poorly in the Olympics?

Because all the Mexicans who can run, jump and swim are in the US.; 11/1/19, 2:58 PM
n.n said...: Why so Pro-Choice? Legal immigration to mitigate the progress of legal corruption and dysfunction. Emigration reform to mitigate the progress of immigration reform and collateral damage at both ends of the bridge and throughout. For example, Turkey addressing illegal immigration at their southern border. Mexico, too. El Salvador rejecting shared responsibility, and accepting personal responsibility for her citizens. Libya as well, before, ostensibly, social justice progress rendered it a shithole. Finally, immigration should not exceed the rate of assimilation and integration before planned parenthood.; 11/1/19, 4:21 PM
kappy said...: I love Memo and the video. I hope one day we can reform our immigration laws so that it is easier for people like Memo to come to our country legally ...; 11/2/19, 9:10 AM