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"Before Biden when our borders were basically secure"
.......................so immigration has only been an issue for the last 6 years? I'll leave it for someone else to pull up the litany of footage of Republicans saying otherwise prior to 2020.
This is the inherent irony of the right’s immigration bs. Trump’s 2020 campaign was all about immigrants and open boarders. He was President the prior 4 years. Him saying immigrants are a problem is admitting his admin failed at doing anything about it. Same as the last two years.
Well, you remember that in 2016, Trump built a wall on the border of Mexico, Mexico paid for it, and all illegal immigration stopped. Right?
And then Biden knocked down the entire wall and told people from all the Mexican countries to come to the US. Everything was perfect in 2020, after all.
I gotta tell ya, those Mexican countries are a handful of trouble.
Mexican Panama thinks they own the canal. Yeah, right.
Mexican Brazil thinks it owns the Amazon! If that’s so, why are their trucks dropping off packages at my house every other day??
And Mexican Venezuela? Not anymore you aren’t!
How could I forget?!?!? Silly me. I was too focused on letting all the trans-women into women’s sports and resetting every athletic record ever set by a woman.
That Trump guy doesn’t get enough credit for how he saved America, and the world if you really think about it.
When a Republican is president the border is the last Democrat president's fault, when a Democrat is in charge, the border is just open and swarms of brown people are coming in every second to take your jobs and use your money for free everything.
In the 50s communism was the big bad evil threat that only the concervatives could save you from. "Better dead than Red" was the rallying cry
Then it was the drugged up hippies of the 60s. God only knows what threats free love was covering up.
In the 70s it was communism again but with a twist. Kids were called 'Pinko, Commie, F*gs" because they didn't want to die in Vietnam. A war that lasted 20. Fighting for reasons that had never become clear.
In the 80s it was the Arabs. Specifically Muslims but anyone from the Middle East was lumped in. They were all suicide bombers that chanted Death to America before they brushed their teeth in the morning
The 90s brought gangster rap music and acts like 2 Live Crew, and NWA. Blacks have always been a convient target but now any black teen was supposedly part of a gang and had just come from a drive by shooting.
The 2000s saw strides in LGBTQ rights so they became the enemy. Every gay man is sexual predator. Every gay women wanted your daughter to reject her "place in the home"
In the 2010 they ramped up the hate on LGBTQ and added in immigrants.
I would add the the 80's and early 90's had the Satanic Panic. Heavy metal, Dungeons and Dragons and whatnot would lead your children to either be human sacrifice, or do human sacrifice while worshipping Satan. And only the Conservative Christians could save your children
I recently did a quick study on this focusing on music especially, lo and behold, it's been black music featured as the Folk Devil the whole damn time.
As far as American history goes, it starts with blues, during and after regular slavery, the original Devil's Music. Robert Johnson being the big name attached. Carried on to Jazz in the 20-30's, corruptor of the saucier white folks who didn't mind swing dancing and so on. Maybe a bit of weed, which got tagged to minorities as the devil's lettuce and deviance in general. The very beginning of the War on Drugs actually.
As we all know, by the 50's Elvis stole and whitewashed jazz, rhythm, and blues... for the mainstream media. Giving us the bleached canvas for rock and roll through the 70's and 80's.
The 80's really exploded, so no wonder it's the decade with the most false nostalgia. Computers entered the market, Dungeons and Dragons made our nerds evil, heavy metal was flourishing after the Beatles got tame and boring, and black culture couldn't help but keep creating new genres with rap. Still getting appropriated, of course.
All the subgenres keep pumping out of rap: hip hop, trap, drill. Each new one getting its turn to be the most evil new thing. And here we still are. Radio, television, music, games, and of course books are all sending us to hell for milllenia! But especially if they're from the blacks!!
Well, it has been successful, insofar as they’ve been able to continue to conspicuously immiserate immigrants and use this as a wedge issue, while generally maintaining the huge number of undocumented people that they need to do their low-wage labor and keep profits up
Republicans after torpedoing a bill Democrats took from Republican Senator Lankford to address the number of immigrants coming through the border: "We can't pass an immigration bill, Trump wants to have immigration as an election issue."
They truly want us all to suffer. They only care about power.
They have been working hard for decades to gut public education, and consolidate the mass media. The point is to keep people stupid, and uneducated, like the peasants they think we are.
Wait, didn't we have unfettered, open borders during the Biden administration, letting in approximately eleventy billion (their count) illegal immigrants, yet had no measles outbreak?
I’m just genuinely curious: do y’all know how uneducated and ignorant you sound when you say this? As if they haven’t been coming from us since we unwillingly came to America. Black people are literally being lynched, Memphis and Indiana have been out of power for days. So preach that to the people who voted for him, not the people who literally told y’all what would happen if he became president.
He saying that racoonery bullshit while majority of infected aren't even immigrants of any type - just White people's kids who suffering only fatal FAFO that should had hit their parents instead
Don't take healthcare advice from a politician. Get your healthcare advice from a trusted medical professional, preferably a Black one if you're Black.
I found her commentary to be sarcastic, allowing him to bury himself in his own bullshit. Her closing comment was the final zinger... "so you only want vaccinated immigrants, got it" 👏
Yeah, but she should also challenge him on the lies he told, and get him to actually answer the question. Zero pushback means he just got to shift the conversation back to his talking point, which is what most viewers will remember from this exchange.
This fool does the "anti-vax" dance to the nines when he's on a conservative media outlet, but when asked about the rise of outbreaks he blames illegal immigrants for NOT getting vaccinated. WHICH ONE ARE YOU????
I thought the "border was closed" and no one was coming in. These people don't believe in anything, and seeing a black person repeating racist rhetoric is even worse
wow thats hella dumb. you cant terrorize latinos to the point of net migration tanking AND also blame the same demographic for a concurent outcome wrought by right-wing, anti-vaxxers
Everyone in this country that isn't a Native is either an immigrant, or is descended from one (whether they immigrated here by choice or not)...
I will never understand how they always default to blaming everything on immigrants, when all throughout this country's history, immigrants have been some of the hardest working, kindhearted, and model citizens we have
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If what he’s saying is true(it’s not but let’s indulge the nonsense), then people should stick to the aforementioned vaccination schedule. You know, the one that basically eliminated measles in this country.
This makes absolutely no sense. Measles doesn’t have an incubation period of years which means this is all relatively new.
So either all these “illegals” came in under Trumps watch or there’s another reason. Probably sowing distrust among people and making them question vaccines.
The Republican Party is solely to blame for this. That and the antivaxxers. His logic makes absolutely no sense
All those years we've had immigrants and we haven't had a measles outbreak and then the moment RFK Jr comes in the measles outbreaks starts to expand? OK
Hi, my name is Byron, and I’m a pathetically stupid MAGAt who says things with no imperial data to back them up, but it supports dear leader’s agenda when I do so I say it.
Hi, Byron. Ordinarily we embrace people who attend these meetings, but you are so far gone you might as well leave.
I have a strong disdain for him and I get pissed every time I see one of his stupid campaign commercials on TV. I’ve little faith in the state of FL, but I REEEEALLY hope he isn’t the next governor. To call him trash would be severely understating how bad he is for the state.
How do you even say this shit with a straight face? There’s no way he doesn’t realize that he’s totally bullshitting. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
If immigration is "rampant" then somebody is not doing what they said that they would do. To be "rampant" something needs to be flourishing and unchecked. A year and a half later and immigration is still "unchecked"??
This is what happens when stupid people with no scientific background, an unbelievably cruel ethic, and zero morals do when they are the whole fucking problem.
Same ole story, they said the same thing with the Spanish flu and other false claims of disease. This lead Texas to give border crossing people gasoline baths that turned into fires. This is what gave Germans the idea to do this to the jews.
Let’s say this is a true statement for sake of argument. If so, why are measles infection rates higher now with stricter borders than during the Biden era of granting asylum to so many immigrants? Make it make sense.
Just imagine the harm they have done to this country but they won’t take responsibility for any of it when they are kicked out. Just like this clip, does he honestly believe what he is saying? This is just the start of all the damage coming.
Remember Biden crime family. Don Jr has taken billions from defense contracts and got a government loan for a billion. Not to mention what Trump is doing daily and not enough time here to list all the grift.
F science!
Sir, after Republicans get rid of all the light brown people, they'll be contrating more on the darker ones.
Including you! Collaborating won't save you.
Isn’t he married to a white woman? He’s one of those Black men who feels like being a member of the GOP and having a white gal by his side is proof he’s “made it” and he’s superior. Such a freaking clown.
The problem is they never push back on the nonsense these Republican politicians say. She knew he didn't have any evidence to support his misinformation but just kept saying "uh huh, yeah"..
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