Remember the color of Mexico being that orange-yellow haze? I think it was Breaking Bad when that really hit a height of ridiculous. But I was thinking about the US perception of Mexico and how that’s really come from the “top” down. We share one of the busiest borders in the world, trade billions of dollars every year, and collaborate on things that actually make life better for both countries. But instead of talking about that, politicians keep selling this TV version of reality, all to score points with voters who’ve never even thought about why so many people cross the border in the first place. Let’s flip this script.…
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Wow! It’s been a wild ride recently. Biden and Trump’s indisputably worst ever presidential debate, SCOTUS doing the thing they’re being paid for, Project 2025 finally getting decent traction in democratic circles so they understand what’s happening (and that heritage foundation christian nationalist saying this is their take on a second revolution and basically goading reaction of fringe left to try to set things off). Whaaaat the hell is even happening? This will be more of a stream of consciousness post with a few different things that I’ll try to dive into at a later time. I’ve typed up stuff on a handful of items the entire umbrella of the…