There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.
This is the Bowling Green Massacre all over again!
From what I gather, the car was headed to Canada. But the news doesn’t say that, they just say “at the border crossing”.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That didn’t stop a candidate for president of the United States from appearing on Fox News to promote an aspect of his platform: Building a border wall with Canada.
“I have been sounding the alarm bell about the northern border for a long time,” said Vivek Ramaswamy during a lengthy interview about an incident he did not witness, was not a subject-matter expert on, and had no insight into.
The afternoon of speculation rekindled rough memories for Canada from the 9/11 era, where American fears of cross-border terrorism resulted in a long-term tightening of the border.
Canadian diplomats in Washington spent years trying to dispel that canard, as it had created a real-world impact on Canada’s economy and its major international border.
Meanwhile, on social media, Republican Arizona politician Kari Lake called this a terrorist attack caused by Joe Biden’s open border policies.
One terrorism expert, a Canadian living in the U.S., told CBC News that, given events in the Middle East, she’s been worrying a lot about domestic incidents, and originally thought this might be one.
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I watched these articles appear in real time streaming Angry Cops live on Yt. There should be some way to prevent such speculative, incendiary, exploitative, under-produced garbage reporting. There was no way that anyone, especially the press had any idea what was going on and just chose to use fear to scare people into clicks. Why can’t we have a truth in reporting legislation where this national enquirer level crap cannot happen without the larger company thinking about their bottom line? Just make them give all their money they made from ads on that bad journalism plus extra to the families they hurt with it.
You know the answer. Because the lawmakers rising to power are beholden to the propaganda machine that got them there (and probably can blackmail them)
It’s simpler than that.
Media companies are for-profit. Their boards and executive leadership are out to make money first, and be a media company second. These days, that means leaning into dopamine-generating sensationalist headlines that elicit strong emotional reactions from readers and viewers. It’s designed, like many other things in our hyper-consumerist society, to be addictive. The truth is often a causality in that dynamic.