2) This decision needs to be understood as official misconduct of the very highest order. It isn't merely Trump using the military to “play politics,” which frames the issue too euphemistically.
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1) An important point is getting lost in all the discussion of Trump’s decision to send troops to the border to “protect us” from the migrant caravan. And we need to recapture it. A thread follows.
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3) Trump is using the military as a prop to sustain the monstrous and reprehensible campaign fiction that destitute migrants hundreds of miles away pose a national emergency.
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4) It is *precisely because* this is such an absurd and monumental falsehood that he is sending in troops. Trump *needs* to do this, in order to create imagery on voters’ televisions that makes that fiction *appear* real.
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5) Former military officers are now on record with
@washingtonpost calling this out for what it is. One says the depiction of the migrants as an “invasion” is fantasy. Another bluntly asks whether the military is being used for “political purposes”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-election-eve-border-mission-puts-the-military-in-partisan-crosshairs/2018/11/02/880dd048-deb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.29199929030e …pic.twitter.com/dD5YNl25cY
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6) A military report debunks Trump’s biggest lies. It concludes only 20% of migrants will arrive at border. As for Trump's claims about “middle Easterners” and “tough fighters," The Post concludes: “The assessment does not support any of those claims.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/army-assessment-of-migrant-caravans-undermines-trumps-rhetoric/2018/11/02/78b9d82a-dec0-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.4202b187fbeb …
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7) This isn’t just Trump. Many Republican incumbents and candidates are all in with this agitprop effort to whip up xenophobic panic for the express purpose of energizing the GOP base. Ask yourself: How many of them have objected to sending in the military to feed that panic?
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8) Some argue that the caravan presents serious issues that must be addressed. True, but there are answers to these problems (though the problems are difficult ones). The point is, what Trump is doing makes solutions *harder* to achieve, not easier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/26/president-trump-has-found-his-reichstag-fire/ …pic.twitter.com/P7uyT793vX
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9) Because of all of these things, Trump’s decision is absolutely ripe for serious Congressional scrutiny. As I’ve reported, if Democrats take back the House, that’s exactly what it will get:https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1058107461750702081 …
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10) We have still not found language adequate to capturing the deep saturation of lies, hate, racism, xenophobia, and corrosive bad faith that we’re seeing from the Trump presidency, which in all kinds of ways are being enabled by his party: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/11/02/trump-floats-a-new-absurdity-to-support-his-latest-hate-narrative/ …pic.twitter.com/OZQKCHJpwc
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11) This is not the conduct of an actor in a democracy. And we need to call it out as such. No more euphemisms. No more dancing around the lies, racism, hate, demagoguery, and nonstop agitprop deception flooding out of official channels. No more. FIN
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I have long thought that Trump would like to create a "national emergency" so that he could instate martial law and restrict Americans right. Perhaps this is his warmup. I am glad the military is opposed and I certainly hope they refuse to shoot anyone throwing rocks.
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Mattis doesn't seem opposed though, publicly claiming that the military doesn't participate in stunts, which this of course is.
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no fan of mattis - he's compromised - but i have a feeling trump has said some truly deranged shit that makes this look mild. like i am certain mattis had to tell him troops would not open fire on the caravan and walk him through it.
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Frankly, I’m amazed he hasn’t ordered the shooting of protesters.
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no joke: my guess is he floated bombing the caravan to mattis and this was the "talk down" option
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Trump has been looking for his Reichstag Fire since he took office.
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My own impression is that Trump probably found 9-11 to be a distressing day only because he viewed it as a lost opportunity.
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Actually, in the immediately aftermath of the attacks, he boasted on air that since the towers had fallen he now owned the tallest building (40 Wall Street) in the Financial District. I shit you not.
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Pix of the troops placing razor wire near the border in the Rio Grande valley near Brownsville surfaced abt 8pm last night. TX & NM are "uneasy" abt it. Was missed by all msm. Report with caution. This could be troop mission. May not end well for free ranging animals either.
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Aw, geeze, if they're messing around in the Rio Grande Valley I have a sinking feeling it going to mess with migratory birds. Lots of threatened and endangered birds pass through there.
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All kinds of animals. Hope the migrants realize how nasty that wire is & that the border guards don't eff with them & shut down the legal entry bridges like they did last time. We need to have eyes down there. Anybody know anybody?
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They don’t care about animals, endangered or not... domesticated or not. They don’t care
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