11mo ago

MAGA Convoy Confused By Lack Of 'Invasion' As They Arrive At Border

www.meidastouch.com /news/maga-convoy-confused-by-lack-of-invasion-as-they-arrive-at-border

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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.
- 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."
- Lol, "lesson." As if this would teach them anything .That's cute.
  
  As if they had the capability to learn. That was beaten out of them with a bibble before primary school.

But, of course, it won't occur to them that this is because their Republican masters are lying to them.
- At this point they'd rather forsake god as a socialist than believe the Nazi...ahem...”Republican” party can do wrong.
  
  Oh they already do.
  https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak

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.
  
  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.
  
  I haven't seen that part disputed? To my knowledge there was a very good reason Lee was the superintendent at the US Military Academy and was even offered a Union command before Virginia seceded, and this pattern holds with his underlings too. A lot of Confederate victories were beating odd against bigger Union armies.
  
  When the upper threshold for greatness available to you is a 3/10, a 2.5 looks pretty good.
  
  Wasn't their general first helping to lead the Union army before Virginia turned against the Union and he turned with them?
  
  I love "wrattling". kind of a wrestling-meets-defective-machinery.
  
  Well it doesn't help it any that "lost cause" is 100% what some of our elected officials are spouting currently
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy#:~:text=The%20Lost%20Cause%20of%20the,and%20not%20centered%20on%20slavery.
  
  That part of the mythos is fairly accurate.
- I assume ending this comment on a comma was intentional but even if it wasn't it's perfect
  
  It was an error. I should have ended with the '...'
- The U.S. government has a professional army. They have nothing. And when the vast majority of the country lives paycheck-to-paycheck, you're not going to get a lot of (male, obviously, 'cause ladies is too fragile) bodies on the front lines when people can barely feed their kids on two incomes. Not without a draft. Good luck with that, Texas.
  
  I dont think you know about the rednecks in Texas. They all have guns and have played Call of Duty. That makes them enough of a trained militia in their eyes to make a go at it.
  
  Presumably they'd be expecting a bunch of folks in the US military with roots in Texas to defect and join them.
  
  Now I wonder. Does Texas even have the ability to draft people into its own "army?" I'm sure they'd have plenty of volunteers itching to fight "the gubment," but the Selective Service my friends were a part of was for the US military.

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.
  
  Who, Texans?

confused Trumpanzee noises
- Trumpanzee....that's brilliant!
- Trumpanzee
  Oh, hell yeah. I’m gonna do use this wherever I can now.

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.
- They have the memories of goldfish. Remember Jade Helm, where supposedly Democrats were going to put Republicans in Walmarts converted into concentration camps? When that didn't happen, did all those MAGA idiots who believed it say, "huh. Maybe I should rethink things?" No, they just forgot it was even a thing they said was going to happen within a day or two.
  
  I saw a cop bodycam video with someone who was talking about (jade jelm) that during the time it was supposedly happening / about to happen. Absolutely stunning.
  The guy who chased an officer in the Capitol on J6 (Douglas Jensen) reportedly kept asking FBI agents if they knew who Q was or if they were in on the op. I think he was confused why they weren't a part of it or some such drivel. These people mostly have the lowest media literacy and ability to work through logic. They are 100% id-driven. The small amount that think rationally run the grift at the top, such as Bannon and that ilk.
  I didn't know anything about JH until sometime last year. Here's from Wikipedia:
  Jim Shea of the Hartford Courant wrote that the conspiracy theories included: a "psychological operation aimed at getting people used to seeing military forces on the streets" so that they do not realize when an invasion actually takes place; an international operation aimed to seize people's guns; recently closed Walmarts used by the military to "stockpile supplies for Chinese troops who will be arriving to disarm Americans"; and a military plan to "round up political dissidents" and "remove key political figures" who may be against the imposition of martial law.[17] Other theories have described Jade Helm 15 as a "secret plot" to impose martial law, confiscate firearms, invade Texas, and institute "total population control."[18]
  Seriously, who the fuck can believe this stupid shit? We're gonna have a foreign power come take your guns? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
  Conservatives have only enough thought to register emotions. No ability to question a narrative.
  
  I guy I worked with says he stayed up all night holding a loaded AR when "BLM protesters were going to break into houses in small towns across America" and then said it was a good thing he did it... after absolutely nothing happened... anywhere...
- Ah yes, the infamous iMmIgRaNt CaRaVaN.
- 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.
- They are walking here. Imagine for a second that you had to walk to the store...be honest, we're Americans, it would take years. You would probably never make it back home if it was winter, at night or full summer. It's a trek. Now imagine walking from guatemala (prenounced watemalla). They are coming 😁. And when they get here, they're going to dangerously tired. So dangerous in fact that we just gotta send people there.... To help.
- Well obviously it was stopped before it could be a problem! /s
- Genuinely reminds me of the Orc Army led by Dragons in Gothic 2.

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 .
- set parade on -tickertape -flags

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.
- the morons have connected through no fault of their own; stupidity has been enabled.
  
  Not just enabled. Weaponized.
- Connected? We've never been more divided
  
  Connected as in technologically.
- China’s gonna collapse any day. Look at Gaza. Democrats are not immune.
  
  If you're protesting the gaza genocide you're clearly working for Putin to... um distract from Ukraine? Hey wait a minute...

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.

Imagine doing research
- In a way they did... just a very unnecessary, expensive, personal data collection method.
- I wonder how bad the filter bubble is for some people. Like "relevant search results" or articles in their preferred news media. And trained cognitive biases. There is a lot of deliberate effort from the fascists and careless ignorance from tech companies to make it this way.

Convoys are sooo 2020.

Fuckin biiiiiiiiiitches.

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.
  
  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)?
  If only someone had provided a link that would have answered that question, you know, in the post you replied to. I guess you were the one who couldnt get that far.
- I love how the supposed "law and order" types are out here screeching "calling crimes crime is extreme leftist bias!"
- Laugh at the stupid convoy hicks! Get some clicks!
  
  I'm all for laughing at them.
  Just give me a reputable source with factual information.
- Meidastouch is gaslighting propaganda, the liberal version of OAN
  
  There are definitely more reputable sources for information than either of them, thats for sure.

I think anyone associated with "maga" spend most of their lives in a state of confusion.
- Perpetual confusion with anger and fear. I mean, these people are mad at rainbows and afraid they're going to rape a someone with a penis.

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.
- This amounts to an anecdote.
  it's an interview with one of the people that traveled there based on the "news" they consumed. It's not just 'an anecdote', it's a first person source from someone at the location who is part of this group that went there.
  This isn't just a 'my uncle once saw xyz', you are mischaracterizing the context.
  Also, in regards to MBFC,
  Overall, we rate MeidasTouch Left Biased based on the negative portrayal of Donald Trump and Republicans and the promotion of Democratic candidates. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of transparency with funding
  dOgShIt!!!!!
  this isn't a great "article" in general to post, but you're being extreme
  
  Oh my bad, I see where I went wrong. I thought an anecdote was "not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research." Now that you've provided me with the correct definition about your uncle, it's clear I was mischaracterizing this unreliable personal account unsubstantiated by facts or research as anecdotal. How silly of me to have made such a stupid, obvious mistake, and how arrogant of me to attempt to correct someone else without checking myself first. what was i thinking

BAITED!
- Get out! Baitin here!

MAGA Convoy Confused.
All that needed be said.

They probably also believe that the earth is flat. Or that an exiled Nigerian prince wants to bequeath them billions in exchange for helping him smuggle his inheritance out of the country.

Crossings have increased, but it’s not an invasion.

Welp, I'm adding that to my video collection in preparation for 2024 election bullshit.

surprised pikachu

https://youtu.be/akrF8X0KgGg
I'm not saying a convoy is the answer lol. But there is a border crisis.
- The "border crisis" is made up. If we opened our borders, suddenly there wouldn't be a "crisis" anymore and the vast majority of Americans would see no change in their day-to-day lives.
  America needs to stop worrying about non existent issues and focus more on taking care of their citizens.
  
  If you watched the video, I think you wouldn't be replying to me like this.
  Your point was like the core fucking focus of the video.
  There's a crisis because people need to cross illegally to start the asylum process. Instead of it being more accessible.
- I see what you're doing here, but I'm afraid you were doomed the moment you linked a 23 minute video. People don't have that kind of attention spans for their own family, let alone a stranger trying to make a point on the internet.
  
  There's literally a border crisis. A huge one. Anyone saying otherwise is too blind to see the trees for the forest.
  I didn't make a mistake posting a video. Others made a mistake making huge assumptions and slinging shit immediately. I'm not responsible for others jumping the gun.
- That's a great video.
- It's not an army of people storming the gates to take over the country it's individuals or families trying to climb a wall or swim across a dangerous river and risking death to try and escape a bad situation or make a new life for themselves. Or in regards to legal immigrants struggling to be processed it's an issue with a lack of resources allocated to them. Maybe some of them are criminals but contrary to popular belief most criminals that deal in border crossing either have a way of getting through the border "legally" or don't have to cross the border themselves at all. And it's the "criminals storming the gates" style of border crisis that these people in the convoy are imagining.

The Crisis in New York does not exist, ignore the over flowing shelters and streets.
- No one is fixing houselessness so why are you bringing it up in a thread about a border crossing?
  
  Because they are trying to distract with a shitty whataboutism argument.
  
  Also, if anything, Texas is potentially contributing to New York’s homeless problem by spending millions of dollars busing migrants and dropping them off at the city without any support. If these are “invaders”, then Texas is aiding the “enemy” and conducting economic warfare against the city.
  
  Maybe they’re suggesting the MAGAians should’ve convoyed to New York instead and volunteered at some shelters, helping the least amongst us like their Bible says.
  Context from behind the NYT paywall:
- What is a convoy of retired hillbillies driving down to Texas going to do to fix that? Do you think if they go down there and start a-shootin' Messicans that somehow all the undocumented immigrants in New York will dissolve into puddles on the sidewalk?
  
  Just like vampires, if you kill the Master the underlings turn into US citizens.
- You mean the New York that has a fascist cop (but I repeat myself) as a mayor? The New York whose local Dem leadership is probably the second most conservative and corrupt from lack of competition after that of Chicago? That New York?
- It appears you commented in the wrong thread 🌠
  
  I comment just to say I like this emoji choice.

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