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It's also painful to admit what we've let happen to us, the country, and those intrepid souls willing to battle to defend us. My family has served in multiple branches. We have enough medals to start a scrap yard. All the way back, we've fought when called upon to do so. To admit our heart and steel was used by nefarious people for nefarious purposes intended to bring down the very system we believed in is a sort of existential crisis. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that. To face this with unemotional eyes is maybe not something we can expect people to do easily. WWII is the lynchpin to a lot. However, I believe the roots of that great myth lie further back in the financial legacy of country. I think the moneyed interests got their hooks in even before that and thus created the circumstances by which we were drawn into that war and the military-corporate industrial complex that came from it. Knowing all this doesn't make the matter easier. And it doesn't really tell us where to go from here. It may be that those of us interested in freedom will always have an uneasy arrangement in whatever place we live, trying to walk the line between living in the modern world and living what we believe.Originally Posted by anticausal
Just a moment...
Did anyone see Weinstein on Tucker about the Darien Gap? That shit was wild.
Points for the tl;dw crowd:
- The migrations are originating in Ecuador, which has no visa requirement. That means that anyone from anywhere can simply fly to Ecuador and get to America among a sea of people no one is checking on. We could be letting in literally anyone.
- The Central American countries have sort of just decided to wave all these fartknockers on through with the understanding that they aren't staying, they are going to the US. The tight militarized borders mean nothing in this situation.
- This whole madness is going to cause/is now causing both a human and environmental crisis. Anyone who gives a rat's ass about people or the environment ought to be shouting from the roof tops about this and yet, the so called liberals are all about this destruction. Make it make sense. Please. I'll wait.
- The Chinese have their own camp there. They have money though so they don't risk their lives in the Gap. Bret was very careful to parse that he did not think these Chinese were simply running from an oppressive regime. Once they pay their way past the hard part of the Gap they are free to join the throngs entering the US.
- Somebody is building a bridge. There's very little reason for the locals to do it. The foreman of the project didn't know but speculated it was to transport yucca which makes no sense.
- There are numerous African and Middle Eastern people among the Central Americans.
The whole thing was interesting to me. I am in a position where I can listen to audio for many hours in the day, so it wasn't a sacrifice for me to listen to the interview while performing accounting tasks. Happy to answer questions for those with less of that kind of time. I know some people don't like Bret but I don't think he's a liar, by any measure. I believe the man when he says there was a Chinese camp. Ecuador's visa policy is easily Googled. Even if these are the only two facts we can know with certainty that's enough to know that this is going to be a serious problem. On multiple levels and in multiple geographic locations. This is bad. The only up side I can see here is that this has the potential to get so bad so fast that even the dipshits will be able to see it.
