Friday, November 28, 2025

AI Exploitation of Immigration

 How the GOP justifies the 2025 deportation phenomenon using the memories of the Mariel Boatlift.

    Current events stories often frame immigrants, particularly those who are non-white or from specific regions, as an "invading" force, a "flood," or a "threat" to the culture, safety, or economy of the host nation.

    This rhetoric taps into primal fears of the "outsider" and triggers anxieties related to identity, loss of control, and survival (e.g., fear of losing jobs, cultural norms, or national security). Metaphors like "invasion" replace complex reality with a simple, urgent crisis.

    Instead of presenting comprehensive data, narratives focus intensely on isolated, sensational stories of violence or crime allegedly committed by an immigrant. These anecdotes are presented as representative of the entire population.

    This triggers anger and a sense of moral outrage and betrayal. It uses the vividness of a single, negative story to create a cognitive shortcut, making the audience believe that the threat is widespread and imminent. The fear is amplified by suggesting that authorities are not protecting the "us" group from the "them" group.

    Emotional stories are used to assign blame for existing societal problems (like economic hardship, strain on public services, or crime) directly to immigrants.

    This redirects frustration and anxiety away from complex systemic issues and toward a simple, identifiable target. By framing immigrants as the cause of suffering, it mobilizes resentment and the belief that removing the scapegoat will resolve the community's problems.

    Language in these stories is often highly dramatic, using words that suggest an immediate and unmanageable breakdown of order (e.g., "overwhelms," "chaos," "crisis").

    This generates panic and anxiety, leading people to demand immediate, often drastic and punitive, policy changes, which they may otherwise rationally reject. When a person is in a state of high anxiety, they are more likely to rely on emotional reaction than rational consideration.

The overall goal is to make the audience feel that the issue is not a matter of policy, economics, or law, but an emotional, moral battle for the survival of their way of life, justifying hardline anti-immigration positions.

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Photo Op

 

Smugglers don't use open boats or travel in broad daylight. These runs were staged by clandestine operatives who paid the boatsmen to operate in the Caribbean just so the US Armed Forces could get a picture. Probably not told they would be killed.

 

The CIA owns the boats. They buy the drugs. They recruit the smugglers. 

The American people pay for it all just so Trump can justify his WAR ON DRUGS. Meanwhile, cargo ships with tons of cocaine and fentanyl continue to get through. All this is a photo op.

Monday, August 18, 2025

Militarism of local police

 


The 1944 Surplus Property Act provided for the disposal of surplus government property. The 1033 Program was created in 1990 under George H. W. Bush. in the War On Drugs.

The Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO) program transfers excess Department of Defense (DOD) property to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. 

In May 2015, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13688, limiting and prohibiting the transfer of certain types of weapons and equipment to law enforcement agencies through the 1033 Program, including large-caliber weaponry, tracked armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and camouflage.  On 28 August 2017, President Donald Trump rolled back Executive Order 13688, effective immediately. 

On 25 May 2022, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order 14074, addressing police reform. Section 12 prohibited or limited to specific uses the transfer of a number of military items, including firearms of .50 caliber or greater, silencers, bayonets, vehicles without a commercial application, explosives, weaponized drones, and long-range acoustic devices. The order also increased application and certification requirements for law enforcement agencies seeking materiel. Section 12 applied to the 1033 Program and other federal equipment transfer programs.  "For security reasons [1033 Program record] information is not subject to public review".  

A multi-billion dollar industry exists to provide ammunition, armor and safety equipment for the military products that are distributed to local enforcement.