#POTUS#Biden is planning to make a visit to the southern #border on Thurs, acc/to 2 people briefed on the plans, traveling to Brownsville, #Texas, on the same day that #Trump has scheduled a border trip.
#Trump plans to deliver remarks from the border to highlight the #immigrationcrisis & lay #blame at the feet of Biden.
Trump is will highlight #crimes committed by #migrants in #NY & in other #cities, as well as the arrest of a Venezuelan #undocumented#immigrant in the recent high-profile killing of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia
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"We are fourteen years into the implementation of Obamacare and somehow, we aren’t facing a nationwide shortage of burial space to store all the bodies from the death panel’s reign of terror.
You remember the death panels, don’t you? …
The right-wing fearmongering doesn’t just go to ten, it goes all the way to ten thousand, every time.
This is not new and not just some Trump-era thing."
Who'd have ever thunk it? The much-ballyooed convoy of "God's Army" types to defend the southern border from hordes of invaders turns out to haver been "primarily a MAGA grifting opportunity for those in the biz."
~ Nicole Lafond
Lots of blowsy talk, loads of hot air, conspiracy mongering, immigrant bashing, and much ado about nothing. But always, always, the grift is primary with these folks.
"The economy is booming, crime is down, inflation is down, and while his approval rating is underwater, these things are all good news for Democrats – especially President Joe Biden. So, if you might be wondering why the right is once again trying to bend the national discourse to their preferred topic of immigration – with a healthy assist from the New York Times, as usual – that’s why."
"The Taylor Swift crisis is every bit as fictional as the 'border crisis,' or as the supposed crisis of election integrity which Trump used as the pretense for his coup attempt. Wild nonsense which attracts eyeballs has become the GOP brand."
"What they are doing now repeats their playbook from 2018, when late in the fall they sparked an uproar over a 'caravan' heading toward the border. With little to excite their voters, the story dominated the airwaves late in that election. …
Of course the caravan coverage disappeared the day after the election ended. Mission accomplished."
:Just look at exit polls out of Iowa that found 40% of Iowa Republican caucusgoers were most concerned with the southern border (versus only 30% for the economy.) This is an absurd notion considering the southern border is nowhere near Iowa."
Understand that we are up against a #whiteSupremacist#cult in November 2024. Millions of #Americans have decided that the #Nazis were right, and their #ideology should reign supreme in the #UnitedStates. This isn't #fearmongering. This is the #reality we are facing. Voting Blue is the only hope we have of preserving our #republic. If we fail, we'll never again have another opportunity to #vote.
In #JesseWatters' world, the #homeless aren't #victims of circumstance, but architects of their own downfall, undeserving of #empathy or assistance. It's a narrative that's as convenient as it is #cruel, absolving society of any responsibility to address the issue while scapegoating those who are most affected by it.
Scrolling through these local news reports may lead you to conclude that the country is in the grip of a crime wave. This is certainly the conclusion found across conservative media, including #Fox News primetime fixture Sean #Hannity, who on Oct. 6 declared that a Democrat-enabled #violent#crime wave is “wreaking havoc across #America.”
An era of rapid globalization and cultural change, many individuals feel a sense of unease and displacement. Christian nationalists exploit these feelings of insecurity offering a false promise of stability and a return to traditional values By capitalizing on fear and nostalgia they manipulate public sentiment to gain support for their cause. #Trump famous for his #lies and #fearmongering
#Emmer (MN), the #House maj whip, was elected as the #GOP pick on a 5th ballot in an internal race that drew 9 #Republicans. It’s not clear, however, that he has enough support to be elected on the House floor. To prevail, Emmer would need a majority of the full chamber.
Emmer, who has been in #Congress since 2015, previously chaired the #National Republican Congressional Cmte — the House campaign arm — for 4 yrs.
#MikeJohnson has also called for more oversight of the #aid sent to #Ukraine — totaling >$60B to date. In Feb, following a House Armed Services Cmte hearing on the topic, he tweeted that American taxpayers “deserve to know if the Ukrainian govt is being entirely forthcoming & transparent about the use of this massive sum of taxpayer resources.”
Nina Burleigh quotes Juliet Jeske, author of Decoding Fox, on how Fox keeps its viewers in a constant state of rage and anxiety about a non-existent crime wave in Democrat-led cities:
“They move it around: LA, Seattle, Chicago, it’s always a Democrat-led city. Sometimes it’s all of California. The joke is that as much as they praise Florida, every city there has much higher crime rate than New York."
"'They just push nonsense. It’s all about scaring people.'
Crime in America was much higher in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, but the visuals weren’t available in the pre-I-phone years. Today, crime is down, imagery is up. 'Fox will get a clip, especially if a Black person is doing something bad on the subway, for example, and play it for three days like a national news story.'"
"Fox will not tell its viewers is that gun violence is far worse in Red States. Residents of any MAGA state should be afraid, but not of blue cities. Trump won every state in the top ten states for firearm mortality, except for one, New Mexico: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Wyoming, Alaska, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky."