tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post9132011345975188318..comments2023-08-29T01:27:13.772-07:00Comments on Magpie's Asymmetric Warfare: I, Too, Know a Keynesian When I Hear One!Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-32576998427928048702017-08-07T04:27:47.520-07:002017-08-07T04:27:47.520-07:00The difference is there's no evidence that ill...The difference is there's no evidence that illegal migrants are committing crimes at a higher rate than other groups. I've seen studies that claim the rate is lower. Whereas suicide bombings are politically motivated, illegal immigration to the US is economic. Migrants cross the southern border to work in agriculture, meat packing and other menial occupations. Employers have benefited from this for decades.<br /><br />Who would Trump's wall hurt? The local wildlife.<br /><br />If there were a program for migrant workers, they would use it to enter the US legally and earn income for their families back home. Nobody wants to risk their life sneaking across a desert. If there were a crackdown on employers, so that the opportunity to work in the US dried up, then they wouldn't cross the border in the first place.<br /><br />Israel's wall and their preexisting checkpoints control the movement of Palestinians to Israel and internally, from one occupied area to another. The latter is not comparable with Mexico/US. The Israeli occupation harms all Palestinians, with the exception of collaborators.<br /><br />The terrorism label is applied for political and ideological reasons. The UN recognizes the legitimacy of armed resistance against occupying forces:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_IPeter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-4713946966674720452017-08-06T14:41:43.016-07:002017-08-06T14:41:43.016-07:00What connection would be highlighted?
The wall was...What connection would be highlighted?<br />The wall was paid for by Israel (read: American taxpayers). The wall was built to stop suicide bombers. How many suicide bombings have illegal immigrants carried out?<br /><br />The Great Wall of China would be a better comparison in terms of scale and purpose. But we live in a world of 7.5 billion people with improved transportation and communication networks. We should have outgrown the need for enormous walls.<br /><br />Trump's base is more extensive than racists and bigots. It includes rural poor who hate affluent city dwellers, and affluent voters who hate the poor. Trump is no ideologue.Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-23683597602852857412017-08-06T11:37:11.992-07:002017-08-06T11:37:11.992-07:00Because his base doesn't like Jews?
Who paid ...<i>Because his base doesn't like Jews?<br /><br />Who paid for Israel's wall would have been the next uncomfortable question.</i><br /><br />While granting that some of his supporters are racist, of the anti-Semitic/white supremacy variety, it's not clear that fits his entire base. Whatever their attitudes towards Asians, blacks, and hispanics, it's not evident all his supporters dislike Jews, Bob. <br /><br />Breitbart, for instance, seems quite openly pro-Zionist. I think that's no mere posturing: there are Jews in The Donald's inner circle and among his gazillionaire mates. More telling, he is not universally feared in Israel. Quite to the contrary, he and Bibi get along mightily well. Likud voters like him, too.<br /><br />Which brings me to another thing. Jews aren't universally immune to racism or to bigotry in general.<br /><br />For that matter, in his talk with El Prez The Donald himself claims the Cuban community's support. I don't know about the exact figure he quoted (84% of the Cuban vote, I think), but I believe him on that. There are plenty right-wing extremists among Latin Americans living in the US. They, like Jews, aren't immune to bigotry.<br /><br />No, I'm thinking more about anti-Trump gentile liberals and liberal Jews feeling too reluctant to highlight the connection The Donald-Israel. The financing of the Gaza wall, for instance.<br /><br />Speaking of which:<br />https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170805-im-going-to-build-you-a-brother-says-trump-to-israeli-apartheid-wall/Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-56345044912051920362017-08-06T03:40:25.647-07:002017-08-06T03:40:25.647-07:00Because his base doesn't like Jews?
Who paid ...Because his base doesn't like Jews?<br /><br />Who paid for Israel's wall would have been the next uncomfortable question.<br /><br />Mexican politics has been described as a family affair, literally. It's also a devoutly Catholic country. No shortage of saints. Even the drug lords and criminals have saints they can pray to!Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-145922052079487932017-08-05T05:01:49.223-07:002017-08-05T05:01:49.223-07:00Why didn't he sell a crackdown on employers of...<i>Why didn't he sell a crackdown on employers of illegal migrants?</i><br /><br />That's a very good question.<br /><br />Another good question is why nobody mentions that The Donald's wall-building inspiration comes straight from Bibi Netanyahu and the Gaza wall? The Donald spoke with El Presidente about that.<br /><br />Incidentally, El Presidente himself may not be a saint either.<br /><br />The Narco and the Prez<br />http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-narco-and-prez.htmlMagpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-66497565430622556652017-08-05T04:00:18.714-07:002017-08-05T04:00:18.714-07:00Why didn't he sell a crackdown on employers of...Why didn't he sell a crackdown on employers of illegal migrants? More effective than a wall, but too mundane?<br /><br />Spitting on Mexico is perhaps the most valuable trinket he could have given these bigots. And they bought it!Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-2046569263969037552017-08-05T01:29:34.546-07:002017-08-05T01:29:34.546-07:00:-)
They call that demagoguery.
The Donald never...:-)<br /><br />They call that demagoguery.<br /><br />The Donald never considered the bloody wall really that important, which didn't stop him from selling it to the public as super important.<br /><br />He never really expected the tough hombres to pay for the wall, which didn't stop him from selling to the public the idea.<br /><br />The point is to sell trifles, trinkets to the public, pretty much like the Conquistadores exchanged mirrors, beads, old clothes, for gold from the Indians.<br /><br />I don't want to sound obsessive, but try this old post:<br /><br />Keynes' "National Self-Sufficiency".<br />http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2016/01/keynes-national-self-sufficiency.htmlMagpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634628224045926034.post-34563505145127353502017-08-04T09:07:36.365-07:002017-08-04T09:07:36.365-07:00Behold The Donald playing 4 dimensional chess.Behold The Donald playing 4 dimensional chess.Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.com