An open border sounds like a good deal right now

As someone who couldn’t stand Joe Biden’s open-border policy, simply because it never made sense, the question now becomes – which president would I take, given a choice, if I could rewind the hands of time? Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

Honestly? I think I’d go back to the days of the open border. Even if 10 million people came into the U.S. under Biden’s four-year watch, and the number is debated, some have said 14 million, I think I’d still take those days compared to today.

Farmers could still ship their soybeans to China and weren’t asking for a $50 billion taxpayer bailout just to stay afloat this year. The rest of the world wasn’t laughing at us. Businesses didn’t have to worry about how a new tariff might affect them. The fed government was still open for business. We hadn’t bombed Iran. We weren’t threatening to start a war with Venezuela. ICE agents weren’t raiding Home Depot parking lots.

And on and on it goes; where it all ends, no one yet knows.

Trouble is, so much of what the president is doing affects South Texas, and none of it I see as good, not counting the border, which is indeed now secured.

We have one of the highest rates of poverty in the U.S. (approximately twice of the national rate), and too much money for the poor (food, health care costs) is being cut. Something has to give.

Meanwhile, Trump wants to send $20 billion to his buddy in Argentina in the form of a financial bailout. Money that will never get repaid.

Rise in Political Violence

Also, political violence wasn’t escalating under Joe Biden, even if he was asleep a lot of the time.

Over the weekend, for example, the home of an elected state circuit court judge, Diane Goodstein, caught fire in South Carolina. She wasn’t home when the fire began, but her husband and son have been hospitalized with serious injuries. The fire is currently being investigated as possible arson.

The judge has been receiving death threats in recent months after she temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Source: time.com.)

“I’m hearing everywhere that judges are worried about their own safety. There are people who are inflamed by the incendiary comments of our president and members of Congress about judges. Public officials have legitimized attacks on judges with whom they disagree,” Nancy Gertner, a former judge and current professor of practice at Harvard, told the Guardian in May. (Source: time. com.)

For example, the president’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, likens judges like Diane Goodstein (home up in flames) as “radical rogue judges,” while the president has referred to judges who have ruled against his executive orders as either “radical left, lunatics, and/or crooked.”

Compared to what I’m seeing today, recession getting worse, etc., the days of worrying about trans issues seems small in comparison.

Cities also weren’t up in flames under Biden.

Funny thing is, actually it’s not funny, but I’ll say it anyway -- I think our economy would have fared better under Kamala Harris, and that’s saying a lot for a woman who had trouble stringing together two sentences.

Oh, for the good old days. Yep, I’d take the 10 million new immigrants if only I could rewind time and change the course of events.

Sure beats what I’m seeing today.

Fox News Echo Chamber

Which is why I have moved inside a Fox News echo chamber where every day, this administration does something great and wonderful for all of us.

At least that’s what we’re told, over and over again.

Uh-oh. I stepped outside the Fox News bubble for a quick minute and ran into this bit of actual news from The Economic Times: “The US economy is standing on shaky ground, and for many states, the downturn has already begun. According to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, 22 states and the District of Columbia are now showing clear signs of recession, marked by ongoing economic weakness and job losses that are likely to continue. Another 13 states are ‘treading water,’ he said.”

I am back, however, now safely ensconced inside my Fox News echo chamber where I can listen all day long to people, smart people, with good-looking hair, perfect teeth, ripped, buffed, and shredded, tell me how great President Trump’s America is.

The outside world, full of actual facts, can be a very scary place to be.

I’ll take Fox where every day, America is a sunny place to be.

Screw reality.