‘It’s That Simple’: Mark Meckler Says The Only Way To Secure The Border Is By Invading Mexico | Right Wing Watch
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Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional …
    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
      131·
      10 months ago

      I’d expect this invasion to go about as well as Iraq and Afghanistan did. On top of that it would alienate most of the population of Northen Mexico who are very Pro USA due to their economic integration with the US economy.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
        6·
        10 months ago

        They’re coming up from Guatamala, Honduras, El Salvador, etc. Mexico is having the same issue that the US is. I don’t know why it has gotten so bad down there that people are fleeing in such high numbers, but if we want to reduce unlawful immigration,new will need to take action down there, before they start coming north, rather than stopping them at the border.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      If he gets back in, why not end the world before his second term is up? He can’t get re-elected so no need to show the level-headedness, restraint and tact he’s known for.

      Invade Mexico, get bogged down in a forever war with more convenient flights home while on leave. Tell the world that now we’re cool with kicking down your neighbor’s door to break their stuff. Russia Russias all over the internet about it because Ameri-Ukrainian bio-engineered super soldiers or something, the CCP invades Taiwan (everybody else is doing it, why can’t we?), probably a bunch of other conflicts that won’t hit the front page while the adults are squabbling. Iran steps up their attacks on the US while Russian and Chinese money and materiel flood into Mexico to support their defense. Red-hat chicken-hawks too old to get drafted eat it up, approval ratings outside the echo chamber take a nosedive. Now faced with the possibility of losing an unpopular war, Donnie can either accept it with grace or knock down all the sandcastles on the beach on the way out and be The Last President. Which do you think he’d choose?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        I am honestly terrified that if he gets in and finds out he’s dying he’ll decide to take the world with him.

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Now I’m imagining that he’s back in office and just arrived at the realization that he’s mortal rather than the terminal illness scenario you probably had in mind. Overgrown toddler having an existential crisis tantrum with the capability (in theory, at least) to launch nuclear strikes.

          I’m scared too, not only of what he’d do but what it’ll mean about us if we put him back in there.

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Not sure I’d watch that movie, the characters are unrealistically stupid and cartoonishly evil without a good explanation (other than lead which has been brought up elsewhere) written into the plot.

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
            41·
            10 months ago

            tell the story from the perspective of a high school math teacher.

            i think you can get 4 or 5 books out of it, or maybe 2 or 3 seasons on netflix before you are cancelled.

            i want .05% in perpetuity. payable in dogecoin.

            edit:

            spoof breaking bad. name him Mr. Grey (Gregory Grey), and give him an alter ego named goedel.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    If Trump gets elected, I unironically expect us to be at war with Mexico before the 2028 election. He is absolutely going to latch on to this idea like a fucking leech.