Now if they could just take this lesson and apply it to the rest of the 'information' that is supplied by the media environment they have immersed themselves in.
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These people are going to go home and be proud of how they defended the border and tell everyone about it.
"Immigrants stopped coming because we were there! See?! It works!"
"Lisa, I want to buy your rock."
Wasn't there some scammer that was selling pieces of the border wall? Like you could sponsor a piece of it and have your name on it?
personalized vanity stones with family names and little messages being used to stop families at the border is actually hilarious
"From the Johnsons. Peter, Debbie, and little David. - we're hate-filled!"
or one with their pets pawprint "my Pepper is just as racist as I am!"
"Thoughts and prayers -- for your death."
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The last time they tried a Civil war they failed, and destroyed their own economies in the process. That time, they had some of the best generals available. This time they have Boebert and Trump to lead them,
"Best generals available" might be a bit of a stretch. That's a bit of the Lost Cause mythology still wrattling about the internet.
https://history.info/did-you-know/general-lee-offered-command-union-army/
Lincoln offered Lee command of the Union Army.
Lee almost took it too, he didn't want to secede but he felt like he was betraying his fellow statesmen in Virginia. People forget that before the civil war people didn't think of themselves as Americans, they thought of themselves as citizens of whatever state they were from.
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On the contrary, I think your comment is a bit of a stretch in the other direction. Leaving variances in talent among individuals aside, the officers on both sides were broadly comparable because they had all gone through the same West Point training and were colleagues in the same chain of command, with the same strategy and doctrine, until the Southern ones turned traitor.
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I assume ending this comment on a comma was intentional but even if it wasn't it's perfect
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Republicans are mentally defective.
Republicans are mentally deflective.
FTFY
¿Porque no los dos?
MAGA convoy confused by red laser pointer
I'm surprised any of them even made it to Texas, considering how hard they descended into paranoia and fear.
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confused Trumpanzee noises
Trumpanzee
Oh, hell yeah. I’m gonna do use this wherever I can now.
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Wait… wasn't there a huge invasion of South American immigrants about to hit our border in 2020? What ever happened to them? And what about the roving bands of Antifa attacking small towns?
These fucking idiots believe whatever the fuck is fed to them. They don't remember all the times that info was wrong and realign. That's why they're dangerous: they aren't operating on even the appearance of facts.
It's like they didn't expect any of these losers to actually get off their asses and see for themselves that it's bullshit. Whoops.
Not that it matters for the rest of them. They're too far gone.
Ah yes, the infamous iMmIgRaNt CaRaVaN.
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Mission accomplished!!
Now have them try to land on an aircraft carrier. Just put a big ski jump at the edge of the dock. I am sure they will make it .
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Let's tell them that there's a border invasion at the site of the Titanic wreckage
My first thought when I read the title was
Is this the onion?
Somehow I think they are confused about a lot of stuff.
I don’t know what I expected. I can tell you it’s not as bad as what I thought.
Which is it you stupid?! How did civilization get this way? I can’t take it anymore.
How did civilization get this way?
Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn't happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.
So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.
In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.
The most connected period in human history also produces the dumbest humans, apparently.
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meanwhile, I ran into some moron from another country trying to tell me, an American, about how 26 US state governors have stood against the government and are "amassing troops at the texan border."
Fucking hilarious if it weren't so fucking sad and dangerous.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/meidastouch/
Got a better source than meidastouch?
It's mostly an embedded clip from MSNBC; clicking the linked article can be informative!
I'm also not sure what bias you are accusing Meidas Touch of in the headline (since we know you didn't get any further than that)? Is it the part about the maga convoy being confused? We know they are easily led from one moral outrage to another without really understanding the issues.
The part about there not being an invasion at the border? It's obvious there isn't anything of the sort happening, because the people that are claiming it's happening are the same ones who just said that they refuse to do anything about it for a year, until (they hope) Trump is president.
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I think anyone associated with "maga" spend most of their lives in a state of confusion.
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This amounts to an anecdote. This is the live national television equivalent of a tweet, and then someone wrote an article about the "tweet" this bumpkin made. There is no actual reporting done, no fact-checking (in before someone objects, "But wait! there were no facts to check!"), no following up with other sources. I doubt very much the "source" would agree with her characterization here. This is a nothingburger, and I have to agree with that guy getting spamdownvoted that this source is dogshit, while merrily disagreeing that MBFC is worth even half a turd.
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Fuckin biiiiiiiiiitches.
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