This being the age of conspiracy theories and political dirty tricks, I thought I would do a little speculating of my own. The fact is, the Republicans, including Trumpelstiltskin, don’t have many ‘real’ issues with which to confront Joe Biden for 2024 besides ‘wokeness’ and illegal immigration. Inflation is dropping and is currently about 3 percent, which is getting closer to the Fed target of 2 percent. The price of gas has dropped over one dollar a gallon over the last year. The stock market is near record highs which means everyone’s 401Ks and investment portfolios are looking rosier. There has been something like fourteen million jobs created under the Biden administration and unemployment is at historic low levels. That includes a significant increase in domestic manufacturing jobs because of the incentives offered companies under this administration. And there are substantial amounts of money being spent on infrastructure projects.
Given all of that, the Republicans must find something to rail against Biden for and the two biggies are wokeness and immigration. Coincidentally, there are record numbers of migrants at our Southern border these days. Or is it really a coincidence? I wonder if there is any possibility that this surge in immigrants is being encouraged by outside forces either directly or indirectly.
If I were Vladimir Putin, who has a track record of sowing division in this country, and I wanted to help Trump and the Republicans, one of the things I would do is get some operatives to stir things up in Central America and encourage, bribe, cajole, or force people to move north to the U.S. and try to cross the border. It can’t be that hard to do for people who are well versed in this type of pot stirring. Perhaps the disbanded Wagner force is looking for a new gig! I certainly have no facts to back up this speculation, but it just seems like an awfully interesting coincidence.
These are also the kinds of things I would not put past people like Roger Stone, the infamous Republican dirty trickster, who was pardoned by Trump. This is exactly the kind of thing his perverted little mind would come up with. Again, I have no facts to implicate Stone or any other Republican operative, but it just seems like an odd coincidence that illegal immigration is peaking at the exact time it becomes a leverage point for Trump and the Republicans.
One would like to think that such things are beyond the realm of possibility in a democracy like the United States once claimed to be. However, if we look at some of the very recent Republican shenanigans, it becomes plausible, if not probable. There have been repeated efforts to gerrymander the hell out of Republican controlled states so there is no conceivable way the Democrats could win control. There has been a spate of election laws passed under the guise of ‘election integrity’ which are thinly disguised attempts to suppress the votes of those more likely to vote Democratic.
There was the minor little insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to try to keep Trump in power. That was accompanied by the false elector scheme cooked up by some of Trump’s cronies and backed by Trump himself. More and more of that is coming to light and every time a new revelation sees the light of day it shows just how insidious a plot it was and how many high-level Republicans were involved.
So, if anyone is naïve enough to think that Putin or some other foreign entity or some Republican dirty tricksters such as Roger Stone cannot possibly be behind this record-breaking surge of migrants at the border, you have clearly not been paying attention the last few years. The bottom line is simply, the next time you hear anything about the immigrant surge at the border, ask yourself, “Why? Why is this happening now?”
Unfortunately, the Democrats sometimes seem to think this political bout should be and is being fought according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules of boxing and it will be honestly officiated by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Republicans clearly adhere to the saying, “There are no rules in a knife fight, “and act like they are in a knife fight rather than a boxing match. They are also counting on the Supreme Court to allow them to bring their knife into the ring. Either opponent can still win the fight, it’s just going to get very messy before it’s all over. And America’s reputation as a beacon of democracy will be irreparably tarnished.
