Funny, before the election I recall lefties muttering the caravan must have been a Trump setup because it made the open borders crowd look so bad. Why would the pro-migrant crowd engineer a crisis that played into Trump's hands? THIS is why. THESE are the "optics" they wanted.

This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."
There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?
It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."
The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.
It's the most cynical political strategy ever conceived because its success relies on the compassion of the targeted populations - the same people the Left endlessly accuses of selfish greed. They KNOW their superficial critique of Western civilization is bunk. They count on it.
For the Left, this is all about the will to power. They have the will and the means to overthrow the existing order. They'll do whatever it takes to win. They're counting on their targets lacking the will to fight back and defend their sovereignty.
The groundwork for that strategy was laid by attacking the moral structure of sovereignty: teaching targeted populations to despise their own culture and national identity. The first step in sapping the will to fight is bleeding away the enemy's sense of righteousness.
So here we are: An angry mob assaults the border with some women and children in tow. The Left is straight up telling you that fighting back and defending the border is immoral, equivalent to a Nazi war crime. The morality of using force in the service of the law is under attack.
And without force behind it, the law becomes a battlefield where the will to power is tested. Do you want your sovereignty as badly as your adversaries want to take it away from you? They have calculated that you do not. /end

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Handy guide for Dominic Raab and other Brexiteers, and for anyone keen to replace our EU trade with trade with the rest of the world on WTO terms...


You can't magic away the vast distances involved. Clue: we fly in only 1/192th of our trade compared to the amount that arrives via sea


But even if you invented a teleporter tomorrow, WTO terms are so bad, so stacked against us, that a no-deal Brexit will be a total economic disaster


And while the Brexiteers fantasise, real jobs are being lost, investments are drying up, companies are moving assets to the EU27 or redomiciling. All already happened and happening right now, not in some mythical


Of course, there are many, many myths that Brexiteers perpetuate that are total fiction. You've seen a couple of them already. The thread below busts a whole lot

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