For Me, But Not For Thee

 Still unclear about the concept:

In Nebraska, where 58 percent of voters broke for Trump, cattle ranchers are expressing hesitation over the plan due to the impact it would have on their workforce. 

“Feeding, cleaning pens, walking pens, pulling sicks, processing, whatever it is,” Jerry Kuenning told Nebraska TV. 

Kuenning said he supports many pieces of Trump's MAGA agenda, including enforcing immigration laws, but said the deportations are poised to wreak havoc on agriculture. 

“I'm of the opinion we'll create a real void if they're sent home,” he told the station. “Addressing that they need to be legal but [the] problem is where's the line to go to be legal.” 

Gov. Jim Pillen along with more than two other governors signed a letter promising to cooperate with the Trump administration and use state law enforcement and National Guard to enforce immigration laws.

There’s an old joke I can’t repeat in the original, about competing football teams where “our black boys” are “gettin’ beat up by their n——-s.”

I don’t repeat it to be offensive, but to underscore the sentiment of the Nebraska rancher. Immigrants should be rounded up and deported, but our immigrants should get visas (“get legal”) because Nebraska ranchers need these immigrants.

Irony? What’s that? 

The irony is, the people who told that old, racist joke knew the irony of the joke. That’s what made it funny to them; or made the point of the jibe. It’s self-aware in a way that Nebraska rancher isn’t.

So many people think they alone deserve special dispensation.