Four observations:
1. Full-up military operations by US...crossing the border and hitting cartel strongholds....every single week.
2. Massive chaos starting in Mexico, with the President likely leaving/disappearing.
3. Mexico government in 2025.....unstable and under collapse.
4. At least 2-million Mexicans attempting to cross the border because of the gov't collapse.
First, let me say....I've been around the globe, and stepped through some 2nd world countries, and briefly stopped at a 3rd-world country or two (Honduras, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
So I have a decent idea of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world status.
Back in 2000, if you'd suggested the US was walking toward 3rd-world status....I would have laughed.
In 2010, on the suggestion....I might have agreed that several parts of the US....were 2nd world status and were becoming no-go cities (like Memphis or some parts of Atlanta, or a quarter of Chicago).
2024? Yeah, I can probably get into a car...spend a year traveling around the US, and find thousands of examples where it seems third-worldish in nature.
I noticed this AM....Florida is drafting up a law to say you can't camp-out on public property (streets, parks, etc). They've reached a point where they are fed up on the third-world image.
Another thing I noticed this AM....NY governor talking about a draft law...if you've been convicted of a assault (felony)....you'd be forbidden from using the city subway system. How this would work? Unknown. But obviously, enough voters are now in some state of fear....that leadership has to react.
The key ways you know you are in a 3rd-world country? Well....you have a economic system collapsing....where people sleep in parks. You have people failing to pay on their car loans....with repossession occurring. You have storefronts closing.
You also have political instability....where a significant amount of the public no longer believes local, state, or federal governments function correctly.
You will also notice health services stretched out and not being able to perform at the advertised level.
High mortality rates? Well....if you gaze around at drug-related deaths....these are escalating throughout the United States.
The perception that public safety no longer exists? Add onto that....the lack of trust in the police or the public prosecution system, or the judges.
The feeling that you might be in some cult-like society? I heard this mentioned the other day....how someone felt the crowd they hang around....were saying a lot of nonsense and BS.
The trouble is....if you did feel it was a third-world country....where would go and feel 'safe'?
Just makes me wonder....what idiot dreamed up this and signed off.
In the last couple of days, it came out that the Biden administration flew in 320,000 migrants over the past year....without telling anyone much.
Math?
I assume that they used medium-sized planes...figuring 200 passengers each....meaning that 1,600 flights took place. Meaning 4.4 flights a day took place. Course, if they left from some Mexican airport...into Houston, there might be 8 flights in one single day.
Who picked up the 320,000 at the airport? Unknown.
Did they fly into Air Force bases? Unknown.
Were asylum papers given? Well....unknown.
Who was in charge? Unknown.
Who paid for the flight? Unknown, but I'd take a guess....it's in the range of $200,000 per flight....leaving the US hub empty, and flying back for the 2nd pick-up.
This getting attention? Yeah, and here's the thing....if you go and ask President Biden...he doesn't remember much of anything.
Why they didn't use a Greyhound bus service? Another unknown.
Airport management aware of this? I doubt it.
Reaction? I can list twenty states...that if they find out about this, and that they each have around 8,000 migrants roaming Nashville or Little Rock....they will all hire up buses and send the migrants to Chicago, NY City or Denver.
A bigger mess? Yeah, no doubt.
The chart here ONLY covers 'visits' since January 2024.
I would imagine if you used 2020 numbers and compared to today....each is one-third down.
So why?
Skepticism? I think if you privately chatted with folks....more than half of the people you know....aren't readily buying into the 'brand' or message that the networks are putting out.
If you asked over Joe Rogan, Twitter or the podcast folks? Yeah....their message is trusted at a higher level.
So here's the 'problem'....each was paying a high sum of money for their crew to pump out a 'message'. If that isn't working....wouldn't you dump your crew?
My ten humble bits of advice:
1. Make mistakes, then learn from them.
2. If something sounds bogus or BS....it probably is bogus or BS.
3. Don't under-estimate rational thinking.
4 Decision time? Prioritize the solutions.
5. There should be no limits on moderation.
6. If you start out at minimum-wage work, and three years later....you still work there....something is wrong with your attitude.
7. If you come to suddenly realize you are in the presence of low-IQ folks....don't get freaked-out. Just ease yourself out.
8. If you have this feeling of propaganda being 'fed' to you....it probably is propaganda.
9. Having a high level of skepticism.....is worth developing.
10. If you hang around with dumbasses....you probably will end up as a dumbass yourself.
I sat this afternoon and viewed a Pete Buttigieg quote: "We need to make sure people understand the good that is coming their way because of the president's leadership!"
Polling to confirm Pete's comment? Well....the poll guys say just 18-percent of Americans share the President's success.
The other 82-percent? From less-so....to serious aggravation.
It is this reason that I suspect by June/July....Joe Biden will ease out of the race and leave the doorway open for Michelle Obama.
Can Ms. Obama really pick up this mess and do much? I suspect if you lined up thirty-odd positions that the White House has engaged upon....she will not move much beyond the assigned policy positions.
In this fashion....Michelle Obama is screwed on rebuilding confidence in the nation. If she agrees that everything Joe Biden did was successful....the bulk of society (even Democrats) will just sit there....laughing over the 'change' that she wants to engage upon.
As for Butigieg? VP-material? Well....yeah....I could see him getting the call, and people mostly laughing over that.
