The Biden Administration’s open-border policy over the past four years has been dangerous to our country in several different ways. Of course, one of the most obvious is that Biden’s policy encouraged hardened criminals, including murderers, rapists and child traffickers, to stream into the country and prey on American citizens.
It should come as no surprise to TTAG readers that when members of the vicious Venezuela gang Tren de Aragua crossed the border, they didn’t come here just for the free phones, taxpayer-funded lodging and to pursue the American dream. Most will remember that gang members took over some apartment buildings in Colorado. In fact, they came to ply their trade of violence and terror in a more criminal-friendly environment.
According to a recent ABCnews.com report, in late January, 10 members of associates of the Venezuelan gang were indicted on charges of running a nationwide gun-trafficking scheme in New York City.
An announcement by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz stated that of those arrested in the plot, two were taken into custody in Texas and Florida. Four others were taken into custody in New York in an operation in which a city police officer was injured during the arrest.
“As a result of our investigation, 34 dangerous weapons are now off the streets, and we are dismantling this gang as it attempts to establish itself locally,” Katz said. According to Katz, the organization had intentions of taking the gun-trafficking scheme internationally, which, of course, is also illegal.
According to the ABCnews.com report, the group used the telephone app WhatsApp to communicate about the gun sales, and some of those sales were made in broad daylight in parking lots or by hiding guns in trash bags.
Of course, President Donald Trump’s views on the border are vastly different than Bidens, and his actions since inauguration day have proven him to be serious about getting violent criminals out of the country as quickly as possible.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested at least 30 Tren de Aragua members since the president’s crackdown on illegal immigrants in the country, and also MS-13 members in the country illegally and members of a Haitian gang.
Trump’s efforts at stopping criminals from entering the country have been no less successful. The success of that endeavor is easily demonstrated by a single week in late January.
On January 29, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks posted on X: “In the past seven days, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 4,577 individuals attempting to enter the country illegally, a significant 55% decrease from the previous week’s 10,281 apprehensions. This trend indicates that our enhanced border security measures produce results …”
You make too much of it. Since it was only a few apartment buildings I’m sure it has been only a few guns smuggled.
The “friends”, “neighbors” and “residents” the people of Denver welcomed.
The “Surprise” would be that the Venezuelan gangsters, mainly the Tren de Aragua, are ONLY trafficking guns in The US.
TdA is being *specifically* targeted for removal to Gitmo…
isn’t even one too many? or are you for illegals
“Do you hear yourself?” Vance replied. “Only ‘a handful’ of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem? Not Kamala Harris’s open border?”
Hey Tally…
“Whoosh” above is 100% correct. You missed the satirical humor of Shire-Man’s post. Do you not get any news? Or maybe you get your news from only liberal sources? Or maybe satire is difficult for you?
Just sayin’.
Don’t think they walked here. USAID?, NGO’s?, definitely tax payer funded ‘free rides’. A question that I have is who paid for all the rent a mobs a few years ago, most likely the same funding source to sow doubts fed by the favored media outlets.
Not only did they help to facilitate the movement of illegals into our country, but they promoted the idea of them coming here!
These recent revelations make it clear that there is even less support for modern left wing ideology than previously thought. They got more and more people on board by making it look like it was the “consensus” or dominant ideology. It was a carefully crafted, government-funded illusion.
I have no doubt a lot of tax money in various permutations was funneled to getting enough illegals up here to bump our population numbers up just enough to not lose more than one Congressional seat from the last census and keep them up here to keep some of the failing businesses and hime prices afloat. Going to suck for a lot of people when they have to go home but fully expect our stabbing attacks to be cut by 75%
Interesting, your train of thought here. You could very well be entirely correct!
It was a carefully crafted, government-funded illusion.
Certainly true but do not for a second underestimate the number of people who will reflexively support policies that are “nice”.
The percentage is high enough that the Left need not win over (or bribe) many more people to gain that illustrious and coveted “majority” in a plebiscite.
The truth is that most Democrat positions do, numerically, have more support than do the Right’s positions. It’s the outcomes where the Left loses support badly.
But on that front do not discount the power of a short attention span or a faulty memory.
It’s also worth noting that a large percentage of the people who reflexively support Left leaning policy tend not to vote frequently, or at all.
This is a place that the Left has now spent at least 35 years working tirelessly to “get out the vote” as their registration drives fail to produce election results. I do not doubt that one day they will find a way to gain a significant edge in this area, and we should be watchful for that.
The truth is that most Democrat positions do, numerically, have more support than do the Right’s positions.
Yes, but no. It’s an illusion. They only have support for perceived positions because they lie about everything. KJP had an impossible job as the WH Press Sec. because all of their positions are indefensible. I can’t think of a single winning issue for them. Trump made Republicans the party of labor, the common man, and common sense. He did that without abandoning, or pretending to abandon (as the Dems have done) capital. Democrats abandoned the common man in pursuit of capital and power.
How many people have been following the Dem’s lead because it was perceived that they were the party with power? We’re already seeing many powerful allies drop the Dems because all they want is to be on the winning side. They were using USAID to craft an illusion of worldwide support for their insanity.
Recall that they pretended like the 2020 election wasn’t close due to the popular vote total. It took FOUR DAYS to call that election that “wasn’t close.” The truth is, Biden only won by about 40k votes in a handful of swing states! That’s it! And in every single swing state, there was unexplained shady activity. You flip half of that 40k, and you have a different winner. It was another illusion!
All they have is lies. Sure, it has worked for them, but it isn’t sustainable.
I can’t think of a single winning issue for them.
On the Left, abortion. On the Right, DOGE no touchy Social Security because grandma and cliffs.
See how easy this is?
How many people have been following the Dem’s lead because it was perceived that they were the party with power?
Some, but mostly it’s because they were, and still, are perceived as being the “nicer” party.
This isn’t supposition here, Dude. It’s backed by mountains and mountains of data from people who’ve studied it for many decades.
Like it or not, you’re a political junkie, defined as “you pat attention to the policies and outcomes or likely outcomes of those policies.
Most people, the vast majority, are not. They prefer sportsball. I say that all the time because it’s a known statistical fact. The breakdown for this comes out in the statistics as being 80-85% not political junkies.
They either pay no attention outside of a couple months every four years or they dip their toes in by reading headlines and consider themselves informed. The latter, obviously, being the more dangerous.
That makes people like us a 15-20% minority. Which, by the by is one of those things I’ve banged on about for a number of years now… for a reason.
Among those who do not pay attention it is a known and demonstrated fact that they tend to follow two trends. Those things perceived to be majority positions and those things perceived to be “nice”.
This is how you “manufacture consent” as Chomsky put it.
I hate to tell you this, but it is you who is the minority. You always have been. That’s simply because you pay several standard deviations more attention to goings-on in the politics/policy realm than the vast majority of people do.
The illusion here is that you’ve shifted the culture. Sorry to tell you this, but it’s a 100% fact. You’ve won a battle, not the war and, no offense intended, but the attitude you project in the comment above is exactly the same one that got us here and one that I point out all the time; thinking that winning a battle means the war is over and we can go home.
You haven’t met serious resistance to Trump or Elon yet because the Left is shell shocked and Trump’s Gish Galloping them rather intelligently.
You will see that resistance. You can take that to the bank. You can already see it starting with the cherry picking of a Judge in NY who’s ordered DOGE not to look at Treasury information for a week.
Or you can look at how Anonymous and the NY Mag editor came out with statements on the same day. Odd dovetail, no? She wants the DOGE employees doxxed and Anon pops up within a few hours talking about doing some digital dirty work? Pardon me for not believing this is a coincidence.
You’ve landed some good shots, to be sure, now is not the time to even think you’ve won or are close to winning. Now is the time to press your advantage while you have them on their backs in the sand.
Fail to do this and keep the pressure on at every level (that means work from the grassroots btw) and they’ll claw back what you’ve taken from them. They’re already talking tactics to do this, like having state AGs go after DOGE employees for anything they can because the “kids” can’t work from prison.
One of the mistakes I made early in learning how to talk to a group was assuming slightly above average intelligence and attention span to “educated” groups. This led to a valuable learning moment of anyone you encounter in academia let alone the workplace is about the same gamut you will encounter in Walmart or your local sketchy waffle house. Ended up being the reason I use commie to describe the overwhelming majority of democrats and neocons. Is it fully accurate? Fuck no but everyone understands what I am trying to say regardless of cognitive function above abnormally low abilities. There is another poster on this site that uses a similar oversimplification which if properly presented could be effective but……yeah not the best delivery or ability to discuss.
There’s a reason the Left chooses to use emotional manipulation to get what they want.
Emotional manipulation does not rely on the intelligence or knowledge level of the target.
You can, therefore, take someone who knows nothing about Topic X, and even just heard of Topic X 10 seconds ago and *give* them an opinion on it. One they’ll defend for reasons they don’t even understand.
The same thing is true for both stupid and smart people.
There’s a reason I tried to use car advertising as the example for this. It’s the same principle. Most people of any age can’t change their own oil but, fuck man, there’s a lot of people out there who will die on that Ford vs. Chevy hill all day, every day, for example.
This is why the Left loves “nice”. It’s a psychological manipulation via emotion for the vast majority of the population.
More people watch the Superbowl in any given year than vote in three consecutive elections. That’s the level you’re at here.
Oh, yes, you’ll love this SAFE:
h-t-t-p-s-://www.frontiersin.org/journals/big-data/articles/10.3389/fdata.2024.1452129/full
Except for the tism sorts they are largely immune to it and absolutely invaluable in cutting through the noise to the lack of message………not that I hired one of my analysts for exactly that reason……..or him being unaware of NY enough to put IPSC on his resume.
Strych thank you for that link…….it is weird seeing stuff that was well underway back in 2012 in various states of definition but better late than never. Either way have that bookmarked to read throughout the week.
While I tend to agree, you don’t really need the ‘-tism folks to deal with propaganda, you just have to recognize what it is so that you know it when you see it. Once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it and you’ll see it in various forms basically everywhere.
The best trick they’ve pulled is to lie in popular culture about how propaganda *looks* and how it works while telling the story that it only works on stupid people. Since you’re not stupid, it doesn’t work on you! Obvs!
The result is, as you’ve seen right here on TTAG, loads of people who truly believe themselves immune as they fall for it hook, line and sinker when two tines of the fork are deployed, which they always were.
And forks can have more than two tines too, the question is who controls the handle and it ain’t you or anyone you want controlling it.
As for that paper… oh, man… that rabbit hole goes DEEP once you know the terms to look for. That’s probably the best paper for a slightly-below-the-surface look *at a glance*. It’s definitely a topic that can ruin someone’s life.
Lol strych I am still reading through some of the religious based link you sent me and playing connect the dots with modern ceremonies and rituals and how they relate to propaganda. And recognized or not I know damn well it can effect me. The fork is an apt description for the multiple level attack. With that said useful to have a trusted coworker who requires smug anime faces to begin to have an emotional response to misleading information.
And people say anime is useless, fake, gay and lame. Lol!
That religious stuff has put me at odds rather badly with quite a number of people.
Given the nature of those particular issues and the general ignorance of self-identified Christians, I might be counted as rather lucky that most Christian denominations stop short of issuing something like a fatwa against an individual.
Devious doesn’t begin to describe that stuff but it does provide an excellent example of the common 2A claim that “the real weapon is between your ears” because literally everything can be weaponized if you think about it.
And you probably don’t want to know where, or how far, it goes if you get away from the links and move over to the paper copies commonly known as “books”.
But it is fantastic ground for a fight if you’re even remotely schooled in actual Christian theory/theology/philosophy because most of the attack vectors that the Left prefers are used nearly exclusively by people who are not at all schooled in the topic, or philosophy in general, making it rather easy to call bullshit on their claims with a quickness.
actually mentions russian election interference i/ r to 2016, muller etc.
Glowie publication regarding glowie tactics. May need to filter out the propaganda to learn about the propaganda.
Apologies, the quotation from me followed by the request for a link made me think you wanted a link specifically for the quote… my bad for misunderstanding.
As suggested, if that was what you wanted you ain’t looking for a link, that would be a medium sized personal a library.
As for the link SAFE is discussing, I honestly don’t remember which one I sent him as I have a load of them based on various angles for various discussions so I’d just be guessing if I picked something at this point. Heck, it took me 14 hours to remember Joe R’s name because at this point I’m basically running on coffee.
It’s therefore best to ask him about it, I’m sure he’d be happy to repost it.
If you actually want some books, I can give you several titles to start you off, though some of them may require pre-reading of old philosophers first.
It’s a heck of a knotty topic and some of the gnostic Christian and mystic Jewish stuff is pretty out there. Then there’s the history of how it became *rediscovered* at the end of the Enlightenment or during the Romantic period.
Some of the scholarship on non-canonical stuff is also often, uh well, quite frankly offensive to those who are not expecting it. The basically impeccable scholarship on Lilith being a good example.
I know you don’t like it when people appear to be disregarding the threat. That isn’t happening. I’m merely making observations. The abortion issue is a perfect example. It is NOT a winning issue. Okay, it sort of is, but that was my point. It’s only a sort of winning issue for them because they hide and distort the truth. If it’s so popular, then why do they have to do that? Also recall that both Joe and Kamala were so insecure about the issue that they lied about it on the 24 debate stage. Okay, the Puppet may have thought it was the truth, but that’s another story.
I love talking to “pro-choice” people and discovering that they’re actually pretty weak when it comes to being “pro-choice.” I won’t get into it, but almost no one wants a late term baby to be chopped up in the womb. That’s a good starting point.
I’m currently watching a Netflix show. Obviously, it’s full of left wing propaganda. (It’s a decent show – don’t judge me lol.) It began around the time Trump was elected, so it’s even worse than most things coming out today. HOWEVER, as they were trying to normalize abortion, like it was a choice of removing a possibly unwanted mole, they called the clump of cells a baby!! Oh really? It’s a baby? Interesting! I know. I know. The big time adherents admitted that many years ago and want to normalize baby murder. That still doesn’t sit well with the normies, so they have to dance around the issue…because it isn’t a winning issue.
But it is fantastic ground for a fight if you’re even remotely schooled in actual Christian theory/theology/philosophy…
Link?
The abortion issue is a perfect example. It is NOT a winning issue. [For them.]
I’m not going to bother with a long analysis of this.
The simple fact is that it’s not about being “right” or “wrong” as the Right likes to think. It’s about optics and politics, which are decidedly not on your side.
Which is why when the public is asked a generic question on pro-life vs pro-choice, you lose 54-41.
Yes, it is true that completely unrestricted abortion loses 35-50 as compared to placing restrictions on the procedure.
The issue here is that you’re not battling on the latter ground, you’re battling on the former unless you can yank the conversation to the latter territory. This is something the Right has done exactly none of.
The Right, further, shows zero understanding of the situation or how a debate actually functions. Nor have they shown any interest in learning about this.
Ergo, I’m forced to look at the 0-456,281,213 record that the Right has on this issue and conclude that without major changes, not yet imagined never mind proposed, the right will simply end up 0-456,281,214 in the next fight.
As I’ve noted previously, your best person on this is a mid-20’s Catholic Cartoonist on YouTube who virtually no one has ever heard of. Yet he can articulate this in a manner that not a single other anti-abortion person can and can lay out a battle plan to drag the left into the deep water and drown them.
Generally speaking, while it should be a winning issue, this is an area where the Right will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory repeatedly and then complain about it and there’s no reason to think the next time’s any different because they have done none of the prep work required to actually change the outcome.
Link?
To what?
The writings of Abelard? Luther? Aquinas? Bernard of Clairvaux? Baxter? Horne? Witsius? Pope? Ockham? Boice? Flavel? Augustine?
Or do you want links to the essentially non-existent Leftwing analysis of such things which is non-existent because they’ve never even heard of these people?
Would you prefer links to lefty Youtubers making arguments that actually entirely misunderstand Christian doctrine and, instead, caricature said doctrine for reasons that entirely center on emotional manipulation of their audience?
I’m reasonably confident you already know those arguments. They’re mostly the ones trash talking a “sky daddy” and anyone who believes in such nonsense while making fun of the religious as backward, uneducated rubes with an anxiety disorder.
Which is kinda the point I was making.
These know basically nothing about Christian doctrine past a few one-liners, which they consider to be zingers, about selected Bible verses or some idiot from TBN. Actual teachings of the Church(s)… over time… yeah, not so much.
Even the smarter ones of them, when cornered by the aforementioned Catholic Cartoonist, end up looking like fools talking out their ass. Because they are.
SAFE just said you gave him a link to something. I thought you were referring to that.
I know who you’re talking about. He’s funny.
Crap, I replied in the wrong spot. My response to you is ^above^.
… who paid for all of the Rent-a-Mobs?
Well, George Soros’ Open Society alone contributed $220 million to BLM and other “minority justice” groups in 2020, and that’s only the reported portion – it’s anyone’s guess how much additional made it’s way through shadow contributors.
Unfortunately, not even a lost election will make the attendant waste of money over the last 6-plus years (from BLM, thru Covid, and all the way through the entire 4 years of President FuddleNuts’ tenure) to matter more than a drop of water in a bucket, when it comes to Soros’ money.
And old man Soros isn’t doing too well these days, but he has already taken care of his succession plan. George Soros could croak any day, but his son has control of his entire organization (along with the same world-view of his father), so we have to think a lot smarter.
Ultimately? Kinda looking like the US taxpayer did via USAID.
What, you think that “soft power” strategy we use overseas just magically showed up at home for no reason?
Surprise! DJT proclaimed(executive order)he’s going all out protecting 2A. He has a particular distaste for JB Prickster so if he goes after ILL annoy I’ll care🙄 “Interesting times”.
Abandoning law and order invites criminality? Maybe someone should write that down so we don’t forget in a few years.
I know, right?
As has been pointed out many times.
If you have to write it down, you’re already losing.
Criminals criminal. They criminal even worse when like minded left-wing politicians and left-wing ‘progressives’ protect them and are willing to serve up a population victim-pool for them.
Ahhh yes, the left-wing death cult – using your tax dollars to let you or your family die for their cause, how very ‘progressive’.
But, but, the Mexican President said the problem was the gangs getting guns coming across the border from the US and proliferating through Central and South America.
She didn’t say anything about the Central and South American gangs running gun operations in the US.
You think maybe she is not being entirely truthful?/sarc
of course she’s not being truthful, she’s an avowed mar- xist soc -ialist and their whole thing is about not being truthful.
And Mexico still wants it’s lost territories back: California, Arizona, and Texas.
Wanting isn’t getting.
Not only is wanting not getting, Mexico is going to have to figure out how they’re going to take California with the US military in there and all up in Gavin Newsom’s business as we conquer California!
We have a lot of work ahead of us. After the invasion, we’ll need to remove the illegal state and local juntas, put the children in re-re-education camps so that they can be made into useful members of society one day, and imprison the people who have defrauded California for the last 50-70 years.
With a lot of hard work, eventually we’ll make Cali a nice and pretty US Territory. Statehood is way far off though. I think maybe Puerto Rico, Canada, and parts of Mexico will reach statehood before the 3rd world peoples of California. But we can all have hope, can’t we? And can you imagine the celebrations when Cali gets snapped off into 3 and becomes the 53rd, 54th, and 55th states of the union? It will be a happy time!
One day California and Illinois and New York might be actual states instead of a tin-pot dictatorships.
Cut our funding via crooked grants you will see shit get real within a month.
Well, she’s from a party that, historically, gets massive support directly from the cartels, so…
Betcha Holder’s involved.
No doubt
So far I am getting what I campaigned for.
Indeed and the RNC continues asking for donations.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Soros still has more money than God. This has always been a money game, and that’s not going to magically change in your lifetime.
Learn how the world’s levers and pulleys work. Then use your knowledge.
Or do nothing, and get what the song tells you: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
My ears are still ringing from the 2112 tour concert.
i’ve got floaters from the tubes/ sensational alex harvey/ horslips/ pat travers. and i forgot to cap the bota so in the alley line crush i got soaked in cribari. we mde a circle around one of the pfeiffer bro’s so’s he could puke up oj and grain.
ATF Caught Using Facial Recognition To Identify Gun Owners.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kemymhp5SCs
BREAKING: Elon busts Wall Street Journal with hands in the “big balls” DOGE cookie jar! (note – other research to add more context: so far only 1% to 2% of the ‘funding’ has been audited by DOGE, and thousands of instances of fraud, waste, abuses, and illegal activities by democrats with funds, have been discovered. There were a lot of mainstream left-wing media outlets that got millions in taxpayer dollars for everything from ‘subscriptions’ to funding censorship and disinformation programs in media outlets and on social media led by the Biden admin. Further, the ‘grants’ funding is only the tip of the iceberg – there were millions routinely transferred to other government agencies that was then given to anti-gun groups disguised as ‘research’ by the govt agency by listing the anti-gun groups as ‘contract employees’ so it would look like ’employee’ work of the agency and not show up in grants and look like a normal inter-government funding use instead of the funding being shown going to the anti-gun groups)
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WccEeffoTc
USAID’s Sloppy Trysts With Politico Pales in Comparison to This Scheme.
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Yet, this sordid relationship is about to exit the news cycle because of an even greater effort to establish a quasi-state-media operation, as exposed this week. If you’re not familiar with Internews Network, you should. A half billion dollars was devoted to this propaganda experiment. Its work was done secretly, a red flag if anyone saw one. Wikileaks has more. Another red flag is that the headquarters for this operation is an abandoned office building:
…”
h ttps://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/08/usaids-sloppy-trysts-with-politico-pales-in-comparison-to-this-scheme-n2651911
h ttps://x.com/wikileaks/status/1888072129327083979?mx=2
The Murdochs are still milking the (now myth) WSJ history of being a reliable conservative business focused right of center publication. That ended when P OS Murdoch purchased the joint. Its more like USAToday.
hint – Fox News is back to PRETENDING to be right of center (after years sucking the toes of OBiden).
More Details Emerge in Self-Defense Shooting Inside San Antonio Barbershop.
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Nancy says right after he pistol-whipped the customer, the would-be robber ordered him onto the ground and started to Zip-Tie him. He was about to tie up the customer’s legs when the customer – still on his knees – pulled out his own gun, swung around and shot the robber at least three times.
‘It was impressive,’ Nancy said. ‘It was like he was Agent 007.’
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According to Nancy, the customer was supposed to be at the salon earlier in the evening, but he told her that he was running late because he had stopped by his house to get his gun.
‘I don’t know if he already felt that something was going to happen, but he went to his house and said, ‘I’m going to get a haircut, but I came for my gun.’, she told News4 San Antonio, adding, ‘He’s my hero.’
The heroic armed citizen hasn’t given any interviews of his own to the media, and we may never learn his identify or what prompted him to detour to his house and get his handgun before heading to the barbershop.
…”
h ttps://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/02/08/more-details-emerge-in-self-defense-shooting-inside-san-antonio-barbershop-n1227616
what the heck was he doing without it?