Carlson/Weinstein Video on Immigration

~ Clarissa

So I watched the Tucker Carlson / Bret Weinstein video on the migration crisis. I have to say, it’s a nifty manipulation trick. It’s even kind of cute.

There’s no need to worry about the tens of millions of “desperate peasants” [direct quote] from Central America, says Tucker. Instead, let’s worry about the very scary 150 Chinese dudes Weinstein saw in Panama. The Chinese dudes will come to the US, change the electoral map, and penetrate into the US army. That’s the real danger.

Note the manipulation on the level of the language. “Desperate peasants” versus “military-age, hostile men.” Who scares you more? The answer is obvious. And that’s the whole point.

The mysterious Chinese dudes in Panama aren’t sleeping on the floor of the Logan Airport. They are not receiving welfare payments in the billions in New York, clogging up the public school system in Texas, or causing an outlandish number of traffic accidents everywhere. They aren’t selling fentanyl across the street. But let’s concentrate on them because they might become a problem at some future time. As an added bonus, there’s nothing anybody can do about them while they are all the way in Panama, and that’s great because it’s crucial never to do anything about immigration.

You know when I lost the modest interest I had in Nikki Haley? When she was asked about fentanyl overdoses and she started to talk about China. China hasn’t been part of the US fentanyl crisis for the better part of a decade. It no longer even supplies ingredients to the cartels to make fentanyl. Fentanyl is a 100% Mexican problem. But we are not allowed to say “Mexico.”

Weinstein and Carlson obediently avoid mentioning Mexico. Instead, they prattle on about China, which has become a code word for “let’s not do anything about the migrant crisis.”

In the meantime, the electoral map has already been changed in states like California and soon Texas without any assistance from China. But we should forget all about it and concentrate instead on some future issue that might arise.

I watched the video in good faith, hoping to hear something about what’s actually causing the problem with the Southern border. Instead, I heard the same old pablum we are getting from Nikki Haley, Joe Biden, and the rest of them. Not a word was said about the actual issue (which I explained on this blog six times this year alone, and won’t repeat because it’s getting boring).

Here’s the video if people are interested:

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6 thoughts on “Carlson/Weinstein Video on Immigration”

    1. fwiw, I know Carlson has his own agenda here, but I think Brett is trying very hard to be honest about it– and says, basically, there’s a lot going on there, we need *more* people reporting on it and comparing notes, to truly understand what it is, he doesn’t think he’s got the whole picture, etc.

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      1. I think they are both honest. Tucker, at least, is sincerely preoccupied with the impact that this constant trampling around has on nature. I respect that.

        Weinstein, I believe, is also honest. But he’s been so dinged by COVID that he can’t get off the subject and tries to bring it into every conversation.

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    2. It isn’t the lack of caring about the issue that’s the problem. Voters overwhelmingly express the desire for less immigration and have done so for at least 20 years.

      The problem is that there’s no conversation about what is causing all this and how it can’t be solved. Tucker has a gigantic platform. He could have brought this message to millions. But no. There’s never a good time to talk about it.

      As a result, Biden is managing to sell the proposed “border security bill” to half of the country as a serious attempt to solve migration. The other half knows that it’s being lied to but is given no arguments to offer against it. Instead we hear the utterly inane talking point about how “no new legislation is needed because Biden already has everything to solve it.”

      This is absolutely 100% a legislative issue. And yes, the needed legislation will end up in front of the Supreme Court. But without this crucial legislation (which is in no way related to the current bill) nothing will happen. The current bill actually expands the definition of a refugee when what we need is to dramatically shrink it. Do people even know about this? Is this “no new legislation is needed”?

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