A comment on the hysteria preceding last fall's elections (and perhaps a prediction of the fuel for the next "WE NEED A WALL!" fearmongering tweetstorm from the dipshit in chief):
But not a conspicuous word of this from the usual outlets. The above was buried on the back page of this morning's WSJ Section A. That further proves to me that any fear of caravaning migrants was just political fuel, and not any sincere fear of the migrants.
So, here's my harebrained prediction/theory: The new caravan reaches Tijuana and its numbers augment the (I imagine) thousands that are still there after November's caravan reached the border. Conditions become truly untenable and this time there will be even more of an immigrant push to force its way through the border, which will surely be met by more tear gas and pictures of things we'd rather not exist. Maybe a large crowd of migrants actually breaches the border this time, and we'll be treated to video of them running north in I-5's traffic lanes (again).
Both Trump and Pelosi know this and are happy to wait for it to go down. They think public opinion will be swayed/galvanized in their political favor and they'll use that swing to "win" their stalemate. Trump thinks the coming attack on the border will show how much a wall is needed. Pelosi thinks the coming violence (or, least bad scenario, a humanitarian crisis among the migrants) will make the idea of the wall too distasteful to support.
I'm just spitballing here.
War is god
- I read this morning that there's another caravan of thousands forming at the Mexican/Guatemalan border. The new Mexican president (the first leftist Mexican president in something like 70 years) has changed the former policy on such things to essentially welcome the migrants into Mexico with Visas and to assist their travel north to the border (Visas used to take months, now they're being processed within five days; I don't know the details of the alleged travel assistance).
- A smaller "caravan" passed through the border maybe a month ago on its way to our border.
- Through social media, the next large-scale caravan is being organized for February.
But not a conspicuous word of this from the usual outlets. The above was buried on the back page of this morning's WSJ Section A. That further proves to me that any fear of caravaning migrants was just political fuel, and not any sincere fear of the migrants.
So, here's my harebrained prediction/theory: The new caravan reaches Tijuana and its numbers augment the (I imagine) thousands that are still there after November's caravan reached the border. Conditions become truly untenable and this time there will be even more of an immigrant push to force its way through the border, which will surely be met by more tear gas and pictures of things we'd rather not exist. Maybe a large crowd of migrants actually breaches the border this time, and we'll be treated to video of them running north in I-5's traffic lanes (again).
Both Trump and Pelosi know this and are happy to wait for it to go down. They think public opinion will be swayed/galvanized in their political favor and they'll use that swing to "win" their stalemate. Trump thinks the coming attack on the border will show how much a wall is needed. Pelosi thinks the coming violence (or, least bad scenario, a humanitarian crisis among the migrants) will make the idea of the wall too distasteful to support.
I'm just spitballing here.
War is god
