"God's Army" convoy proves MAGA is just one LOOOONG con
And MAGAts are more than happy to play along with the grift
What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?
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George Carlin once warned America to “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” If he were alive today, he’d marvel at how Donald Trump’s MAGA movement exists as daily proof of his cautionary statement.
The “Take Back Our Border” convoy was supposed to bring 700,000 angry truckers to our southern border. It was meant to be a show of anger at Joe Biden’s impotent immigration policy, what with illegal Brown People and fentanyl pouring over the border and into the US.
Except that’s not quite what happened.
It’s time for non-brainwashed Americans and the media at large to accept something: Former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA movement” is a tissue-paper tiger.
This was on vivid display in Texas over the weekend. A much-ballyhooed convoy of MAGA patriots descended on a town near the southern border, ostensibly ready to protect America from what right-wing politicians like Gov. Greg Abbott cynically, dangerously and falsely call “an invasion.”
The “God’s Army” convoy was supposed to be a mighty force of 700,000 or more people from every corner of America. It wound up being maybe a couple hundred vehicles parked at a rural ranch in Quemado, Texas – basically a Trump rally without a Trump, but with plenty of hucksters selling MAGA merch and grifting the easily grifted.
If we learned- or, for us “non-brainwashed” types, confirmed- anything over the past few days, it’s that most MAGAts have the intellectual agility of a damp sponge. Unable to think critically, addicted to Right-wing media, and conditioned to swallow whatever Orange Jesus vomits forth as Gospel, Trumpers will automatically assume and believe the worst, no matter how ridiculous it might be.
Their hero said it; therefore, it’s true and cannot be questioned.
For the few Trumpers who did make their way to Eagle Pass, what they found was very different from what Fox News and the Right-wing Echo Chamber had been feeding them for the past few months.
That invasion of violent, drug-smuggling Brown People? Yeah, not so much….
Convoy-goer Misty Gregory told MSNBC: “It’s not what I expected, but then again I don’t know what I expected. I can tell you it’s not as bad as what I thought, so that’s kind of eye-opening in itself.”
Abbott and about a dozen other pro-razor-wire GOP governors were in Eagle Pass on Sunday, hollering and whatnot. Some residents said the recent invasion of Trump supporters from the convoy had been downright scary.
By all indications, the invasion of Trumpers and rabid Right-wing “shoot first and ask questions later” GOP Governors have been far more unsettling than the “invasion” of illegal Brown People. By the time the migrants reach Eagle Pass, they’re generally exhausted and grateful that they’re alive and on American soil.
They’re not looking to kill or force fentanyl on anyone; they just want to be safe, sheltered, and have the opportunity to put their lives back together.
“We are constantly being told that we’re being invaded, and that never felt true until today, when the convoy came to town in anticipation of the governors’ event,” Jessie F. Fuentes told WOAI NBC News Channel 4. “This is political theater by outsiders. The reality is that it has brought dangerous, violent groups into our beautiful, peaceful city. Eagle Pass is safer than most cities in America if you look at crime statistics. This is just a fact. We don’t appreciate these staged events that dramatically misrepresent our reality on the border and that invite extremist groups that pose a real danger to people in our community.”
Eagle Pass is a small border town wholly unused to an invasion of craven political opportunists looking to use it as a background for pushing their inhumane agenda. “[S]taged events that dramatically misrepresent our reality” has to be a real pain in the ass for the townspeople, who never asked to be used by Gov. Greg Abbott or any of the other Right-wing idjits.
These political opportunists care nothing about Eagle Pass or the people who live there. Except for its value as a backdrop, Eagle Pass means nothing to any of the zealots looking to capitalize on the humanitarian crisis on our southern border.
It IS a humanitarian crisis, which seems to be lost among those on the Far-Right looking to make political hay off the suffering of those whose only “crime” lies in looking for a better life.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has used the border to burnish his bona fides as an America First patriot willing to do whatever it takes to keep Brown People from crossing the border illegally. He’d order the Texas National Guard to shoot illegal immigrants if he could, but he doesn’t want the Department of Justice charging him and/or Texas National Guard soldiers with murder.
He seems nice, eh? Mama must be fairly beaming with pride….
Gov. Abbott has only one top-of-mind concern- his political future. He wants to be the heir to the leadership of MAGA Nation, and he wants to show that he can be gratuitously cruel, hateful, and heartless enough for the job.
Ah, but Gov. Abbott is a “Christian,” so he’s good, yeah?? All he’s doing is precisely what his Lord and Savior would do.
The sad thing is that he’s hitched his star to a born loser.
Trump won the presidency in 2016, and he hasn’t won a thing since. He’s the face of this supposedly forceful political movement, but the movement mirrors its creator, a loudmouth con artist who overpromises and rarely delivers a thing.
The wall? Mexico paying for the wall? The border crisis fixed? Nope, nope and nope.
Honestly, though, it’s never been about fixing the border. It never has been and never will be. All the MAGA movement has ever been is a vehicle for sucking the wallets of MAGAts dry…and MAGAts have been willing accomplices to their fleecing.
MAGA is and always has been a con to line the pockets of Trump and others who saw a swath of Americans waiting to be fleeced. The fact that our border is not now lined with big, strong, gun-toting patriots willing to defend America at all costs is not surprising.
MAGA says: “WE ARE COMING BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS!” Then MAGA delivers a crowd that resembles a small county fair on a slow day, populated by a mix of conspiracy theorists, angry xenophobes and slightly befuddled hangers-on who didn’t get what they were promised.
The traveling country fair will sell a bunch of t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, and other cheap tchotchkes and assorted crap stamped with “MAGA” in various iterations.
Vendors will make bank, and some of it will funnel back to Donny Diaperfull and speakers like Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin. The biggest accomplishment of the “God’s Army” convoy will be to drain the bank accounts of too many gullible Trumpers.
Yes, a fool and their money are soon parted, and a MAGAt and their money are parted sooner than most.
And while Congressional Republicans will continue engaging in a surfeit of mental masturbation intended to make it look as if they want to fix the problem at our southern border, in truth, they want no such thing.
No, they want to run on the “broken” border this fall and blame it on the President. They could fix it, but they don’t want to hand Joe Biden anything even faintly redolent of a victory. And so they’ll pretend they’re up in arms over the President’s “refusal” to work with them on solving the problems at the border…when, in fact, Speaker Mike Johnson has made it clear that any bipartisan bill coming out of the Senate is DOA in the House.
Oh, they’ll definitely want to keep playing politics with the border. Because that’s what Trump – the MAGA king – has told them to do.
But they are being cowed by a weenie movement that’s all smoke and mirrors. There are loud influencers who puff up the strength of MAGA, and there are, sadly, many in the political press who buy in and amplify that belief.
But MAGA, at least since Trump first took office, 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 show of force.
It’s a comically disorganized and useless parade of con artists and the conned, drifting from one apocalyptic grievance to the next.
The border is a serious issue. But God’s Army and Trump and his slavish enablers in the House are not serious people.
MAGA, for all its bluster, is a joke without a punchline. The sooner people recognize that the better.
“[A] joke without a punchline.” I couldn’t come up with a better description of the MAGA movement if you promised a weekend alone with the Swedish Bikini Team.
There’s nothing serious about MAGA. They have no ideas, plans, or suggestions for how they want to move America forward. They have nothing positive to add to the public discussion.
MAGA is a chaos generator that is constitutionally incapable of formulating solutions. They live to apportion blame but will never be able to fix anything. They excel at tearing things and people down, but they will never lift anything or anyone up; doing something positive is the sort of hard work MAGA is incapable of.
What MAGA has is a pile of grievances, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Christofascism, and a virulent fear and hatred of anyone not like them getting stuff they don’t have. It’s not about a rising tide lifting all boats. No, they’d happily sink every damned ship in the harbor as long as they could ensure people who aren’t like them aren’t getting stuff they can’t get.
These aren’t people capable of improving things. They’re too focused on dragging others down to their level to even think about making the world a better place. These are the people who show up at Trump rallies wearing “FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!” t-shirts. There’s no compassion, kindness, or love in their hearts.
To their way of thinking, America is the property of those who look, act, think, and believe as they do- White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals. All others need not apply. Their “Christianity” is based not on the Gospel or the idea of trying to live a Christ-like life but on worshiping America as having been granted “most favored nation status” by God Almighty.
We hear from too many MAGAts impassioned discourses about our God-given rights, like the 2nd Amendment. Our “God-given gun rights” are now an article of faith among the radical Far-Right…but where in the Bible has God granted Americans the right to own firearms? How is the owning an AR-15 a “God-given right?” How can openly carrying a weapon of war on America’s streets (as long as you’re a White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual) be considered a “God-given right?” when our men and women in uniform can’t do the same on military bases?
Go ahead…I’ll wait….
I’ll save you a lot of time and effort- you won’t find it. Anywhere. Not in the Old Testament or the New…and I’m not even a biblical scholar. I’m an atheist, yet even I know enough about the Bible to know “God-given gun rights” is a farce. It doesn’t exist except in the over-cooked imagination of self-righteous MAGA Proudly Intransigent Gun Control Foes ©.
Wir sind SEHR gefickt….
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How long til the OED classifies MAGA as a rare form of disease? Glow Sticks! 🤣
This whole thing would be funny if it weren't so pathetic: all these MAGAtruckers sitting around in slack-jawed stupefaction wondering where the invasion is. "Did we take the wrong exit?"