Goofy ‘God’s Military’ convoy on Texas border reveals Trump’s MAGA motion is only one lengthy con
It’s time for non-brainwashed Individuals and the media at giant to just accept one thing: former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA motion” is a tissue-paper tiger.
This was on vivid show in Texas over the weekend. A much-ballyhooed convoy of MAGA patriots descended on a city close to the southern border, ostensibly prepared to guard America from what right-wing politicians like Gov. Greg Abbott cynically, dangerously and falsely name “an invasion.”
The “God’s Army” convoy was supposed to be a mighty pressure of 700,000 or extra folks from each nook of America. It wound up being perhaps a pair hundred automobiles parked at a rural ranch in Quemado, Texas – principally a Trump rally with no Trump, however with loads of hucksters selling MAGA merch and grifting the simply grifted.
MAGA was promised a Texas border ‘invasion,’ however it wasn’t there
Some truly visited the border in close by Eagle Cross, Texas, and had been stunned to not witness the invasion that they had been promised.
Convoy-goer Misty Gregory told CNN: “It’s not what I anticipated, however then once more I don’t know what I anticipated. I can inform you it’s not as dangerous as what I believed, in order that’s form of eye opening in itself.”
Abbott and about a dozen different pro-razor-wire GOP governors had been in Eagle Cross on Sunday, hollering and whatnot. Some residents said the latest invasion of Trump supporters from the convoy had been downright scary.
“We’re continually being instructed that we’re being invaded, and that by no means felt true till as we speak, when the convoy got here to city in anticipation of the Governors’ occasion,” Jessie F. Fuentes of Eagle Cross told WOAI Channel 4. “That is political theater by outsiders. The truth is that it has introduced harmful, violent teams into our lovely, peaceable metropolis. Eagle Cross is safer than most cities in America when you have a look at crime statistics. That is only a truth. We don’t recognize these staged occasions that dramatically misrepresent our actuality on the border and that invite extremist teams that pose an actual hazard to folks in our neighborhood.”
In Texas, the MAGA motion once more reveals its impotence
So God’s Military’s foot troopers got here, in underwhelming numbers, and achieved little past exhibiting everybody how tragically gullible they’re and making the locals twitchy. That’s MAGA in a nutshell: loud, threatening and, in the end, impotent.
Trump received the presidency in 2016, and he hasn’t received a factor since. He’s the face of this supposedly forceful political motion, however the motion mirrors its creator, a loudmouth con artist who over-promises and infrequently delivers a factor.
The wall? Mexico paying for the wall? The border disaster fastened? Nope, nope and nope.
Why politicians take motion: Fixing the border crisis is bad for Trump and good for Biden. That’s the problem.
The ‘God’s Military’ convoy, like all issues MAGA, was a grift
MAGA is and all the time has been a con to line the pockets of Trump and others who noticed a swath of Individuals ready to be fleeced. The truth that our border isn’t now lined with massive, robust, gun-toting patriots prepared to defend America in any respect prices is no surprise.
MAGA says: “WE ARE COMING BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS!” Then MAGA delivers a crowd that resembles a small county honest on a gradual day, populated by a mixture of conspiracy theorists, indignant xenophobes and barely befuddled hangers-on who didn’t get what they had been promised.
Bipartisan border invoice reveals precise try to deal with the disaster
On Sunday in Washington, DC, a bipartisan Senate bill to address the border crisis was launched. It’s a severe piece of laws that includes about $20 billion in border funds. It deserves robust consideration, however the Trump loyalists within the Home have already declared it dead-on-arrival.
After the Senate invoice was launched, President Joe Biden said: “The US Senate has performed the arduous work it takes to achieve a bipartisan settlement. Now, Home Republicans need to determine. Do they need to resolve the issue? Or do they need to hold enjoying politics with the border?”
Oh, they’ll undoubtedly need to hold enjoying politics with the border. As a result of that’s what Trump – the MAGA king – has told them to do.
Individuals deal with MAGA like an unstoppable pressure, however it’s not
However they’re being cowed by a weenie motion that’s all smoke and mirrors. There are loud influencers who puff up the energy of MAGA, and there are, sadly, many within the political press who purchase in and amplify that perception.
However MAGA, no less than since Trump first took workplace, has been a losing movement. It’s not unstoppable. It’s not a 700,000-person convoy of devoted citizen-soldiers descending on Texas in a present of pressure.
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It’s a comically disorganized and ineffective parade of con artists and the conned, drifting from one apocalyptic grievance to the subsequent.
The border is a severe concern. However God’s Military and Trump and his slavish enablers within the Home should not severe folks.
MAGA, for all its bluster, is a joke with no punchline. The earlier folks acknowledge that the higher.
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