Either way, it’s no longer the time to be talking about doing things “the right way,” because either the right way is the problem or nobody wanted to do things the right way.
Van Hollen's stunt was just dumb. Nothing but TDS. Does he know how much of a tool he looked like? What was he trying to accomplish except to perform a part in a play? Going to El Salvador to meet with an (ex) illegal alien gang member? Really?
The democrats and the media (I repeat myself) are so nutters about Trump that they are defending the indefensible. 95% (or more) of America is glad that guy is gone and the democrats are crying about it?
Honestly, that's one of Trump's gifts this time around and he's doing it perfectly. He's getting onto the majority side of "80/20" issues (trannies, illegal aliens, government grift) and the media and the democrats are instinctively and unwisely taking the other side by default because they can't bring themselves to agree with Trump. It's completely nuts.
I'm honestly skeptical of his association with MS-13. What I find more intolerable are his domestic abuse accusations. I wouldn't find it surprising the Democrats would make a gangbanger into a victim, but someone with domestic abuse accusations? I thought that was a red line for the Left? What happened to "Believe All Women?"
I often wonder what Kilmar was thinking in that picture with Van Hollen.
Here's this gang banger from Central America who snuck into the country, apparently smuggled illegal immigrants around for his construction foreman, beat up his wife, and after 10 years, finally got sent back to El Salvador... and now a US Senator is having tea with him and calling him a political prisoner?
I would love to know what he thinks of the whole charade.
Well written Max. I especially like how you put into words the ‘emotional blackmail’ part. The insidious lying and manipulating of the Left to impose their tyrannical, and quite frankly evil, ideology on us has to be exposed. I will be reposting this part IV.
As of what to do about this situation, I agree with the current administration on what they are doing. Will it be enough? I don’t think so. The ideological divide is to great at this point. I have liberal friends, and there is just no reasoning with ANY of them on what I would call common sense issues. IMO, the country needs to be divided into Red and Blue states , each side governing their own, while maintaining military and economic ties as one country. To avoid a coming armed conflict, it most likely needs to be done. How it is done? Above my pay grade. But once the Left started coming after our children? Enough is enough with the lunacy.
Malcom Gladwell did an interesting podcast a while back on how to solve immigration. It basically boiled down to border security being too strict. Instead of Mexicans coming over to work for a while, then going back home at the end of a growing seasons or after they made enough money for a whole, they stay up here because it is relatively harder to get across the border than it used to be. All that apparently came about because a general who had been in charge of trying to keep the NVA out of South Vietnam approached immigration the same way, instead of seeing if there were other solutions.
Now, I haven’t done my own checking into that, but I think the current discussion illustrates that there is little appetite anymore for stepping back from rigid thinking and positions and looking for some alternatives to current policies. I bring this up because everyone is so locked into their current thinking that there never is any room anymore for looking at those alternatives because everything is viewed as a zero-sum game. It then means that ideas becoming increasingly obsolete and so do responses to crises. That is the kind of thing that leads to crises with no apparently solution.
We've already tried a lot of that - guest worker visas, pathway to citizenship. It either doesn't work, or nobody in Congress is serious about implementing the policy. The simply reality is, one side is fully committed to unrestricted immigration. They wouldn't accept even a pathway to citizenship policy that doesn't involve legalizing every last illegal in the country, criminals included.
The slate needs to be wiped clean. It'll take a while, but it needs to happen. Once it does, we can discuss ways to make it easier for people to legally come to America. But re-establishing order comes first.
Van Hollen's stunt was just dumb. Nothing but TDS. Does he know how much of a tool he looked like? What was he trying to accomplish except to perform a part in a play? Going to El Salvador to meet with an (ex) illegal alien gang member? Really?
The democrats and the media (I repeat myself) are so nutters about Trump that they are defending the indefensible. 95% (or more) of America is glad that guy is gone and the democrats are crying about it?
Honestly, that's one of Trump's gifts this time around and he's doing it perfectly. He's getting onto the majority side of "80/20" issues (trannies, illegal aliens, government grift) and the media and the democrats are instinctively and unwisely taking the other side by default because they can't bring themselves to agree with Trump. It's completely nuts.
I'm honestly skeptical of his association with MS-13. What I find more intolerable are his domestic abuse accusations. I wouldn't find it surprising the Democrats would make a gangbanger into a victim, but someone with domestic abuse accusations? I thought that was a red line for the Left? What happened to "Believe All Women?"
I often wonder what Kilmar was thinking in that picture with Van Hollen.
Here's this gang banger from Central America who snuck into the country, apparently smuggled illegal immigrants around for his construction foreman, beat up his wife, and after 10 years, finally got sent back to El Salvador... and now a US Senator is having tea with him and calling him a political prisoner?
I would love to know what he thinks of the whole charade.
He probably thinks Van Hollen is a sucker he's got wrapped around his finger.
Well written Max. I especially like how you put into words the ‘emotional blackmail’ part. The insidious lying and manipulating of the Left to impose their tyrannical, and quite frankly evil, ideology on us has to be exposed. I will be reposting this part IV.
As of what to do about this situation, I agree with the current administration on what they are doing. Will it be enough? I don’t think so. The ideological divide is to great at this point. I have liberal friends, and there is just no reasoning with ANY of them on what I would call common sense issues. IMO, the country needs to be divided into Red and Blue states , each side governing their own, while maintaining military and economic ties as one country. To avoid a coming armed conflict, it most likely needs to be done. How it is done? Above my pay grade. But once the Left started coming after our children? Enough is enough with the lunacy.
Malcom Gladwell did an interesting podcast a while back on how to solve immigration. It basically boiled down to border security being too strict. Instead of Mexicans coming over to work for a while, then going back home at the end of a growing seasons or after they made enough money for a whole, they stay up here because it is relatively harder to get across the border than it used to be. All that apparently came about because a general who had been in charge of trying to keep the NVA out of South Vietnam approached immigration the same way, instead of seeing if there were other solutions.
Now, I haven’t done my own checking into that, but I think the current discussion illustrates that there is little appetite anymore for stepping back from rigid thinking and positions and looking for some alternatives to current policies. I bring this up because everyone is so locked into their current thinking that there never is any room anymore for looking at those alternatives because everything is viewed as a zero-sum game. It then means that ideas becoming increasingly obsolete and so do responses to crises. That is the kind of thing that leads to crises with no apparently solution.
We've already tried a lot of that - guest worker visas, pathway to citizenship. It either doesn't work, or nobody in Congress is serious about implementing the policy. The simply reality is, one side is fully committed to unrestricted immigration. They wouldn't accept even a pathway to citizenship policy that doesn't involve legalizing every last illegal in the country, criminals included.
The slate needs to be wiped clean. It'll take a while, but it needs to happen. Once it does, we can discuss ways to make it easier for people to legally come to America. But re-establishing order comes first.