Seems like Americans will take what could be an issues-oriented discussion and make it about their most loved or hated political parties and personalities.

It turns out that both major parties are OK with a giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security that fails to keep cartel product out of Seattle:

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This federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.

More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

 

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.

Both major parties seem to be good with it.

Does any major political party have a party platform that advocates for less in the way of undeclared/unwon wars?

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The failings of one extreme political party bring on the next extreme political party.

Biden

Old age impacts his abilities.

Biden leaves the borders open.

Biden collects big cash to maintain a giant US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Cartel drugs are present in Seattle.

US troops are in Iraq.

Trump

Old age impacts his abilities.

Trump collects big cash to maintain the US Dept. of Homeland Security. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

ICE agents gun down people at traffic stops and on the street inside the US. This takes place away from border crossings and ports of entry.

Trump seals the borders except for cartel drugs.

Trump blows up suspected drug boats in distant waters.

Cartel drugs still arrive in Seattle and US troops are in Iraq.

2026 Seattle street scenes:

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Homeland Security Is A Scam

Americans were told they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

It feels like a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place.

 

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