25% tariff on goods coming in from Mexico announced

[volpri]

If you are paying coyotes thousands of dollars to smuggle you across two borders - you’re not a true refugee, you’re an opportunist. The real victims and exploited could never afford to pay that. Hell, half of US Citizens probably couldn’t come up with thousands of dollars.

Listen to Ed Calderon from Tijuana on Joe Rogans podcast - the Mexican citizens themselves are sick and tired of the caravans. These people are not poor and they have an agenda. Hell, the Caravans complain about being fed rice and beans and tortillas! I guess they want steak and fish and Dos Equis.

ROFLMAO...NOW DOS EQUIS ....thats a winner.

 

[volpri]

You're a smart guy. I don't know if you have *ever* posted something market-wise or trading-wise with which I have had an issue. But the most *complex* of trading/investments is still simple enough to be coded.

International Relations (no matter how realpolitik it may be when up close) is not simple. It is (to quote myself) "...long-lensed, involved, filled with subtleties and nuance, based [in] strategic thinking, clothed in solid principles.
The solution is Statecraft."

That is not a quick nor a simple answer, and so you get the last word to clang an objection. But the fact remains that the current path to isolationism denies the stabilizing influence we had amongst our enemies and our friends, and we now face a more-unstable world, populated by enemies who play us like a fiddle, and friends who have seen the severed ties and have taken their loyalties elsewhere. Ponder that -- it's a fucking disaster.

Isolationism throughout history, anywhere on the globe -- lessens the country that practices it. Without exception.

Defense is always more expensive.

ROFLMAO...we are the ones that have been played for decades by the rest AND our own politicians. NOW that is ending..stopping..and globalists are crying...boohooing. The answer is actually quite simple. JUST STOP THEM FROM COMING IN! No nuances..no long lense...no subtleties...no strategic thinking...no solid principles..no statecraft. JUST STOP THEM ....FLAT OUT.

 

[volpri]

Letting illegals earn money in the US is ok and we should just let them be here? Why do we even have laws then? Remind us, where did you learn your moral and ethical values again? Did you by any chance get your online degree from the Boleros del Mexico University?

ROFLMAO Man i need a Dos Equis..

 

[volpri]

From this post and others, it's plain you don't get it.

The way to cure termites in the back bedroom is not to close the door.

Well it certainly isn’t opening the door an welcoming them on in with a cup of coffee and donuts and then spreading them throughout the house with matchbox cars and trains. LOL

 

[Cuddles]

How the left lost the constitutionally designed and agreed vote. It's pathetic to complain for 3 years now how the popular vote was won when everyone clearly agreed to the rules of the game beforehand, nobody had an issue with the rules. Change the rules next time before the election if you don't like the rules

Obama wasn't running though

 

[GRULSTMRNN]

Heard of Synecdoche?

I think you know exactly what I was trying to bring across. You have this habit to dance around issues but never quite get to it because either you are involuntarily distracted and sidetracked or because you are not confident to speak on the topic because you know that logic would defeat your feelings and convictions on the topic and hence you rather divert.

Obama wasn't running though

 

[Cuddles]

Heard of Synecdoche?

I think you know exactly what I was trying to bring across. You have this habit to dance around issues but never quite get to it because either you are involuntarily distracted and sidetracked or because you are not confident to speak on the topic because you know that logic would defeat your feelings and convictions on the topic and hence you rather divert.

OK, were the rules of the game in the constitution to allow foreign dark money into key geographic areas, reaching millions with unaccounted propaganda and potentially sway the votes of a few thousand in an election won by 50k votes? And yes, I have been intentionally 'dancing' around political arguments because this is not the section for it.

 

[GRULSTMRNN]

Then why not shut up and enjoy your politics forums if you have nothing of substance to add here? On ignore. I really have no interest to engage with time wasters

OK, were the rules of the game in the constitution to allow foreign dark money into key geographic areas, reaching millions with unaccounted propaganda and potentially sway the votes of a few thousand in an election won by 50k votes? And yes, I have been intentionally 'dancing' around political arguments because this is not the section for it.

 

[Cuddles]

Then why not shut up and enjoy your politics forums if you have nothing of substance to add here? On ignore. I really have no interest to engage with time wasters

surprise, surprise, a triggered snowflake

 

[neke]

I am not American

Other than statisticians nobody in their right mind wants gdp derived from illegals and undocumented workers. So to boast our rape statistics are we also saying that only rapists who rape a lot are good rapists because they push the number up?

For someone that is not American, it sure sounds like you have a beef in the game. On what ground are you bringing your circuitous, irrational comparison to the argument?