The Right And The Border!

Publicity stunt. The Texas National Guard standing at the Rio Grande River.

President Joe Biden is underwater in polls. His hardline stance on Israel and his handling of many issues have soured on voters. Democrats are trying to shape the focus on Donald J. Trump, Republicans and their extremist rhetoric.

Every election year where it involves the federal offices, Republicans whip up fear about crime, migrants, drug cartels, shoplifting, homeless encampments, Black teens, Muslims, China and socialism.

The former president vows political revenge and the Republicans are planning Project 2025 which ensures a permanent majority. Republicans who are not favorable politically are plotting for a change to the U.S. Constitution.

If Republicans control 35 states, they can call for a Constitutional Convention to draft amendments that could strip away already settled issues.

Trump has already called for an immediate removal of immigrants who are in the country past their legality. He wants to end birthright citizenship and repeal the Affordable Care Act. He also wants to have Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Hunter Biden, former president Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, E. Jean Caroll, Fani Willis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin, Chrissy Teigen, MSNBC hosts and Liz Cheney locked up.

Texas is the only state where the U.S.-Mexican border is mostly the Rio Grande River. 

Portions of the border enter both sovereignities.

There are Native Americans reservations in Texas. They sit on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Texas has rugged terrain and desert. A monsoon can really affect the land and disrupt the border. If they build a border wall or disrupt nature, it could put the region at risk of devastating damage.

Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Arizona are expected to pick up a congressional district come the 2030 U.S. Census. Republicans will continue to push partisan gerrymandering despite the Supreme Court advocating for fair redistricting.

California, Arizona and New Mexico have Democratic governors. The states have Democratic senators. One senator is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. 

Democrats have concerns but not the hair on fire rhetoric Republicans been spewing.

Republican governors from Utah, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, South Dakota, North Dakota, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada, Virginia, Tennessee, Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, Alabama, Nebraska and Alaska back Texas governor Greg Abbott's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court and President Joe Biden. 

“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border,” read the statement, signed by almost every Republican governor.

This show of support comes as Texas has mobilized considerable resources at the U.S.-Mexico border, such as the Texas National Guard and state troopers, in an approach that has often clashed with the operations of the federal Border Patrol.

This ongoing standoff between Texas and the federal government has unfolded through a series of legal and political challenges. The state is currently embroiled in court battles over its use of razor wire and floating buoys at the border, and the controversy has fueled conflict surrounding immigration legislation in Congress.

The border is not an issue. The issue Texas should be worried about is gun violence.

Abbott continues to place razor wire, shipping containers and obstructions on the Texas land and shore line. He also continues to use the Texas National Guard to block access. Texas authorities and U.S. Border Patrol Agents continue to destroy water and food stations placed by volunteers and humanitarian workers. Abbott continues to ship migrants to New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago and Martha's Vineyard.

Former president Donald J. Trump has told Republicans to block the bipartisan bill to deal with the U.S.-Mexican border. He wants revenge and wants Republicans to deny Biden a victory.

A border wall is a monument to white supremacy. The United States and Israel have not learned from the Berlin Wall situation. It divides us. Mexico could impose sanctions and the Global South will hold America responsible for deaths. They will push for less American influence.

The border wall nonsense is a rhetoric of 19th Century propaganda. The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because Mexico refused to recognize the Treaties of Velasco, signed by President Antonio López de Santa Anna after he was captured by the Texian Army during the 1836 Texas Revolution. The Republic of Texas was de facto an independent country, but most of its Anglo-American citizens who had moved from the United States to Texas after 1822 wanted to be annexed by the United States.

Texas Republicans want to declare independence from the United States. Also threats of a civil war could be invoked through the rhetoric of Trump, Abbott and Republicans. 

It has been a constant propaganda grift whenever a Democratic president is in office.

A convoy of hundreds of far right extremists plans to head to the Texas border to stop migrants crossing into the country from Mexico.

The group, called "Take Our Border Back," is organizing on Telegram and now has more than 1,600 followers.

One of the group's organizers described them as "God's army" in a planning call, according to Vice.

Biden on Friday pressed Congress to embrace a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested the compromise on border and immigration policy could be “dead on arrival” in his chamber.

The Democratic president said in a statement late Friday that the policies proposed would “be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.” He also pledged to use a new emergency authority to “shut down the border” as soon as he could sign it into law.

Biden’s embrace of the deal — and Republican resistance — could become an election-year shift on the politics of immigration. Yet the diminishing prospects for its passage in Congress may have far-reaching consequences for U.S. allies around the globe, especially Ukraine.

The Republicans could have solved the problem when George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump were in charge. They only do this nonsense when Democrats are in charge.

Why do the Democrats do worse at marketing? 

Why do the Republicans use fear and xenophobia to score political points?

Come to cities in the Midwest and all you see are vacant buildings. Businesses closing up shop and folks tagging abandoned properties. With community centers closing, malls enforcing curfews, Saturday morning cartoons extinct, schools are consolidating due to budget cuts and among other issues, teens are resorting to criminal acts like the Kia Boyz and TikTok challenges.

Republicans are stripping away food aid from poor and need families. They are pushing for laws to outlaw transgender children from receiving medical care. They want to impose more stricter laws when it comes to voting. They want more Americans upset over issues that don't affect their lives. I mean crying about the border doesn't stop fentanyl from coming into the United States. Fentanyl is killing white people more than people of color. More Americans are not going to church on Sunday. Work is exhausting and more Americans are not getting rest and taking vacations.

So instead of working to solve problems, Republicans rather use their only muscle: their tongues. Their tongues are not drafting bills. It is only pandering to white nationalism.

Republicans can't govern.