"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
05/19/2018 at 15:00 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
05/19/2018 at 15:00 • Filed to: None | 1
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Jump!
This crazy man called Ricardo Anaya isn’t as crazy as Lopez Obrador, and he’s Obrador’s only real competitor. He wants to meddle in US policy.
Yep, we’ve gone full circle.
Anyways, the next debate on May the 20th will be in Tijuana, where they will discuss, amongst other things, their foreign policy. Mexico has the most trade deals world wide and our economy and culture has been shaped around a global perspective. I know I sound like an IB teacher now, but stay with me. Mexico is a big player in global foreign policy and the people competing for the Presidency will have the chance to shape it through a possible Trump double term, a more conservative EU, the rise of China and India, and the rise of automation and globalized business from which we have benefited for the better part of twenty years.
Anaya had posted on his own campaign site, that he wants to get the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program legislated through the American congress.
Almost half a million Mexicans living abroad (mostly in the United States) will vote in this election with turnout as high as 81%; much higher than those within Mexico and they just happen to be mostly voters for PAN: Anaya’s party.
Anaya is facing an uphill battle if he wants to get
Trump
Republicans to legislate DACA, surely the GOP being a “master negotiator”could find a way to make that happen, but at what cost to Mexico’s economic independence or in fact our sovereignty over things we already gave away to other administrations: NAFTA courts, co-dependent security policy and policing, and immigration laws.
Anyway, Anaya, Obrador, Meade, Zavala, and Rodriguez will all share a hotseat in the city of Tijuana come the 20th and be sure I’ll be laughing and crying somewhat simultaneously as the debate unfolds.
boxrocket
> Spanfeller is a twat
05/19/2018 at 17:00 |
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...I like turtles.
fintail
> Spanfeller is a twat
05/19/2018 at 23:11 |
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From what I can tell, it is A-OK if the Russians (and China) are involved with American politics and/or policy, why not the neighbors to the south?
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Spanfeller is a twat
> fintail
05/19/2018 at 23:33 |
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Well, I mean, we would be involved anyway, we don’t get trade more than half a trillion dollars a year for nothing. I just don’t think it’s reasonable to abuse a foreign nation’s lax laws (lobbying) and gullible politicians (most reps some dems) to sway policy. In the same sense I don’t think it was OK for the CIA to work with the DFS here during the dirty war or for other involvements in Latin America to happen, I don’t want our nation abusing that.
Now, when it comes to sending an army of lawyers when they want to sentence a Mexican to the death penalty in the US, well I’d agree with the continuation of that practice. But spending upwards of 5 million dollars lobbying? fuck no!
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fintail
> Spanfeller is a twat
05/20/2018 at 13:29 |
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I don’t know if Mexico is involved with money laundering in this unbelievable regime, or if it buys fake news and tries to sway elections. But as the base seems to think those are OK on the part of Russia, why not? I mean, we shouldn’t discriminate against Mexico, it’s not like the place is actually full of bad hombres :)
The lobbying industry is yet another deplorable industry of the modern American experiment.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> fintail
05/20/2018 at 13:42 |
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The Mexican government spends upwards of half a billion dollars a year on publicity, of which half ends up in the 10 largest media corporations like Televisa, whose owner has a mayor stake at Univision. Which in and of itself is an organization with a clear socially liberal, economic neoliberal bias, alike the cureent Mexican government does.