(03-11-2024 09:47 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious how long the right is going to ignore that a key part of her rebuttal was a complete fabrication of events and facts?
Regarding the Mexican woman who was trafficked....
1. It happened in Mexico, not the USA.
2. It happened while George W. Bush was president.
3. She wasn't trafficked by Mexican drug cartels, but rather a pimp.
4. Britt didn't meet 1:1 with the woman.
Even worse, Britt is now doubling down claiming she made all this clear in her speech. 
Yeah, no, you didn't.
3 of your 4 assertions are wrong or immaterial/misrepresentations.
Let's start with this.
There are youtube videos of her and the woman... so your #4 is just wrong.
Now let's look at what she actually said.
“We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days. When I took office, I took a different approach. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped. The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe box of a room, and they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours on end. We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.”
So she spoke to a WOMAN who bad been trafficked starting at age 12.
I don't know about your definition, Tom... but I don't call a girl a 'woman' until at LEAST 18, and even more likely not until at least mid 20's... so anyone that thinks she implied that this 'happened under Biden' is a moron and a liar.... so your number 2 is out as well. She's simply talking about what she really did (went to the border with an expert) , vs what Biden really did (signed a bunch of EOs making things at the border worse).
The woman she met said this about herself...
“I work as a spokesperson for many victims (of human trafficking) who have no voice...."
so she certainly sounds like the sort of person whom wouldn't simply be retelling her own story from years ago, but would be precisely the sort of advocate who could give a new congresswoman an idea of what the CURRENT problems were... and not those from 20 years ago. Congress seems to have agreed, since they also spoke to her.
Point 1...Like Biden you need to understand the problem better... When the woman testified before congress, she reported that she was trafficked to a border town and that it was 'foreign visitors' who raped her.... and given the location, those would most likely be Americans. More on this in a minute.
Like drugs, we create the demand and they create the supply....
In 2004-2008 it was fairly common for US residents to cross the border to go to bars, clubs...and yes... strip joints and brothels... I had a customer in Laredo and we regularly went across the border to the original cadillac bar.... but since then, the border towns have gotten much more dangerous because of the drug smugglers... so NOW they are trafficking those people here. Bringing the supply to the demand like drugs... and that would have been precisely what this woman would have told her. SHE was trafficked in Mexico for the benefit of (mostly) Americans.... and now those people are being brought across the border.
so to point 3, what the hell difference does it make? You realize that they are often the same people, right? They often use drugs to 'hook' the girls.... and certainly now they use the same people to send drugs as people across the border.
Is it a GREAT correlated story? Not at all... I'm actually a bit embarrassed at how poor speech writers are these days.... Kamala literally has only one 'go to' phrase and Biden says the same things he's said for years.... maybe she got nervous and missed a line in her speech or something.... but the ONLY point that you make here that means ANYTHING (and you didn't really make it... I did) was that Biden's policies had nothing to do with that woman Personally being trafficked.... but neither did anyone claim this. They just didn't explain the connection.
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Interestingly enough, Tucker Carlson picked his office for his rebuttal with special guest Alex Jones. Reminded me of office water cooler talk.
