@wbir Whatcha goin’ do? Might as well call Ghostbusters ‘cause those “conservatives” in Washington that you voted for ain’t doin’ Jack shit. Nada, not a damn things in four years of their reign as your Representatives. pérdida de un Vito!!!
I live in South Texas. I have watched our border for years. The one thing that really pisses me off is when some MAGA cult member who has been drinking from the right-wing propaganda hose for years tries to tell me what I have experienced, what I have lived. Here’s the reality…
Under Obama/Biden the border was its most peaceful in 20+ years. When Trump took office everything blew up, caravans, disgusting detention centers in shopping centers, horrific child separations. A paper quagmire that the Biden administration is still sorting out. Nobody working for Trump was serious or had a plan. They just escalated cruelty and didn’t do any of the paperwork. Like everything Trump did it was inept, incompetent, more harm than good.
Trump’s entire administration was a series of incompetent missteps. Covid, body bags, billions in misplaced or stolen stimulus, 8 Trillion added to the deficit, stock market crash, rising inflation, security breaches, loss of classified documents, fake electors scheme, the ridiculous, violent, seditious insurrection at the capitol. All of the above while his corpulent ass golfed over 365 days out of four years.
Don’t come on my timeline trying to impose your artificial reality that Obama (Black man bad!!!) caused the border crisis and the fantasy that the border was secure under Trump. There’s a difference between what Trump says and what he does. He has always been all talk and no action.
Right wingers today are manipulating the gullible, using footage that was taken months ago and screaming “invasion!”. It’s important to remember that Republicans want it to be crazy, they need it to be crazy. That’s why they blocked the most significant border reform legislation in decades. They can’t complain about Joe Biden if we fix the problem. I for one am tired of our border culture being used as a political piñata by hacks that don’t understand it.
The border can not be closed. If it is closed it has a negative impact on US GDP of $2 Billion a day. Families live on both sides of the border. People cross the border everyday, each way, to go to work, school, volunteer.
Right wing ignorance supposes that the Mexico side of the border is a no-man’s land. It’s not, our border cities are half in the US and half in Mexico, divided only by a checkpoint. They are communities. Unfamiliar to some, but a way of life for us. Non-nuanced black and white thinking is why Republicans keep losing elections. Ignorance about the border, ignorance about women’s health, ignorance about the fascist threat that they are so hellbent on putting back in the White House so he can do more damage to our economy, security and standing in the world.
Do me a favor. Understand that reality is nothing like the Russia-fueled disinformation that is constantly spewed by Fox, Newsmax, OAN and all of the fear monger podcasts. It’s all nonsense. Life here isn’t perfect but it isn’t a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie either. Life in South Texas is peaceful and pleasant and nothing like the hellhole depicted on Right-Wing Propaganda outlets. Neither is the rest of America.
Don’t be like this guy below, a “Christian” that has the nerve to call me a liar, when his entire worldview is built on a steady diet of lies and fear from the media puppet masters that control him. If you want to comment on the border, come see it with your own eyes. When the drunken MAGA “take back our border” people came down here they couldn’t find any migrants to threaten. So after making a mess in our yards and our streets, they left. And we cleaned up after them. Migrants aren’t as messy.
If you want to make a difference, call your Congressperson and tell them to support the bipartisan border security legislation. Get these National Guard members back to duty and out of our streets, hotels and coffee shops… end the congestion caused by Greg Abbott’s desperate audition for VP.
Quit spreading the Republican lie that the border is in crisis.
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Alabama governor, Kay Ivey, signs anti-DEI bill into law!
"My administration has and will continue to value Alabama's rich diversity, however, I refuse to allow a bad actors to push their LIBERAL political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe."
BREAKING: MAGA failure Senator Katie Britt gets brutally shredded by her hometown newspaper for her deeply bizarre, roundly mocked response to President Biden's State of the Union address.
"Don’t adjust your television. What we saw wasn’t an AI deepfake. That was Katie Britt. That speech happened. But don’t call it real," begins the ruthless piece by columnist Kyle Whitmire.
The editorial appeared on https://t.co/4QfMCEkje9, the website for the publisher of The Birmingham News and The Huntsville Times.
"The junior Senator from Alabama gave up being genuine a while back, and on Thursday night, her phoniness rose to the surface in full view of millions of Americans," Whitmire went on.
He explained that there is no single quote from Britt's disastrous speech that "can convey the strangeness of it" but said that "the mismatched emotions, the smiles in the wrong places, the jaw clenched when it shouldn’t have been" came together to create an "indescribable weirdness."
Whitmire went on to say that that it felt like "postmodernism, avant-garde performance art" or even "an involuntary behavioral science experiment."
"Katie Britt glitched out on national television and left millions of Americans asking what the heck they just watched," he wrote, perfectly encapsulating what many of us felt watching last night.
"All she had to do was look into the camera and read, but she tried to do more. Too much more," he went on, slamming the disturbing attempt to turn her into "America's mom."
Instead, wrote Whitmire, Britt ended up coming across as "the aunt who’s been spending too much time on Facebook, and if you don’t change the subject soon, she’s going to tell you about sex dungeons beneath the pizza parlor."
And it wasn't just the deeply off-putting delivery of the speech that felt wrong, it was the content itself, which Whitmire compared to something "written by ChatGPT."
Whitmire then pivoted to slamming Britt for whining about "illegal immigration and the border," observing that it was "as phony as her smile" because in reality she voted to kill the bipartisan border bill because Trump ordered her to.
He then by ripped into her for pretending to care about sex trafficking while supporting an avowed sexual predator for the presidency.
Whitmire then capped it all off with a simple question that crystalized just how fake Britt came across: "Was she ever real?
Incredibly well said!
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