Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Run To The Border

First, I'm trying to reconcile that frame, with this one: So either she's doing it in response to pressure (finally!), or she first made the wiser decision to visit the countries these people are fleeing, to try to start with the root of the problem. Or would you prefer the efforts of the former guy? The ones that shamed us before the nations? And truthfully, I like the way she handled the issue with Lester Holt:

“I’ve never been to Europe,” Ms. Harris said to the NBC anchor Lester Holt when pressed about why she had not visited the border as part of her work addressing migration. “I don’t understand the point you’re making.”
Harris is going to El Paso:  a Democratic stronghold, political birthplace/home of Beto O'Rourke, site of the massacre in a Wal-Mart when a crazed Trump supporter from Dallas came down to "stop the invasion."  Apparently that's the wrong part of the border.
Not a chance in hell Trump was going to be there with Gov. Absent anyway.  They'll go out on to somebody's property on the river where crowds won't gather and hoot at them for being bigots and fools.  But it does point up the foolishness of the entire "Why haven't you been to the border yet?" conversation.  El Paso?  Somewhere around Del Rio (where Abbott was most recently)?  That border is almost 2000 miles long, and runs through New Mexico, Arizona, and California, as well as Texas.  Hell, as the crow flies it's almost 700 miles from El Paso to Brownsville, on the Gulf Coast. 

How the hell does a visit to El Paso, or to Del Rio, constitute a visit to the "border"? The problems in the Valley are not the problems in the Trans-Pecos are not the problems in Baja California.

The bullshit we get so worked up about is such:  bullshit.
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