Jesus Christ already just stop. STOP IT. We are the party of the Real Truth. So be the truth.
FACT #1: A wall keeps more people HERE then keeps people OUT
In order to address a problem, you need to address the incentive. The incentive to come to the United States is to work in our massively lucrative economy. It’s worth the risk of entry, the risk of deportation, the risk of being of abusive employment with no access to the protections and benefits offered to Citizens and legal residents. Once you erect a wall, you make it harder to leave but the incentive to come here remains the same. Since there is no adjustment to the INCENTIVE, there will be no adjustment to the PRACTICE.
FACT #2: GOP businesses employ most of the illegal immigrants
The GOP fantasy CandyLand game is to pretend illegals run across the fence-less border to soak up unemployment benefits, vote three or four times per election, and occasionally rise out of their hammocks long enough to work as a nanny or cook in a Hollywood Elite mega-mansion. The TRUTH is illegal immigrants staff GOP-run, publicly traded, Big Business Agricultural farms, slaughterhouses and remote fracking oil wells. They work 12-14 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week, to send sub-minimum wages back to their families, and they do it without a single complaint BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO WAY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. Meanwhile, MAGA hat wearing fuckfaces gobble down oxies and stab meth-heroin-fentanyl cocktails into their neck while bitching and moaning about how the brownskins take all of their jobs and soak up all the free, blue-state-paid-for federal disability and unemployment benefits they are ironically bankrupting all by themselves, with no additional help.
The GOP KNOWS THESE FACTS. That’s way the DON’T TALK ABOUT THEM.
By ignoring THE FACTS and playing by their rules, we hand them exactly what they want:
THEY GET TO KEEP THE CHEAP, ILLEGAL LABOR HERE, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY THROWING THE RACISM RED MEAT TO THEIR BASE.
It’s infuriating to watch. We hand it too them on a silver platter. That’s why when you see men like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity, they seem so vile and smug. They know they’re doing it, and they’re rubbing your face in their shit.
So here are your Talking Points Memo for “the wall.”
- A WALL keeps illegals HERE. Even the conservative Cato Institute knows that.
- The GOP fiercely defends illegal labor at all costs. It is a peculiar institution in a way, like modern-day slavery. There exists a subset of the population that is not equal. It’s “good for business.” (read: it’s good for the CEO and shareholders, NONE of whom are illegal immigrants, that is).
- It does NOTHING to STOP drugs or TERRORISM. This is so obvious it needs no further explanation.
The phenomena that is the putrid, rat-filled and pestilent existence of Trump, is that he is a media-aggregating entity. Everything he does is A/B testing towards this existence. He’s been testing this Great GOP Hypocrisy on twitter and elsewhere since 2014 or before. What they want to figure out is how far can the move the goal posts. I’ll leave you with this quote to show you how far they’ve come.
“You don’t build a 9-foot fence along the border between two friendly nations.” — Ronald Reagan
OK I lied, one more point (when choosing the picture for this diary): The MAGA-fueled racism their hypocrisy allows for is mind-boggling. Terrified children are being ripped from their crying mothers. This is happening in YOUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW.
Go donate to the 2020 Dem candidate. DO IT NOW.