I keep thinking about this, about how absurd and obscene her argument is (beyond the lies themselves). She seems to be saying that, because immigrants might kill someone (despite the fact that they do so at a lower rate than native-born Americans, thus lowering the crime rate when they come here), because America (and America only) values human lives, we have to ban anything that might kill someone.
But that argument works for literally anything. The argument begins to make sense when applied to things like weapons or air pollution - yet the Trump administration argument is the reverse when it comes to regulation (amounting to: “So some more people die? So what?”) So it’s not just laughable, it’s clearly a disingenuous position as well. I know, I know, there’s nothing new about any of this. It’s more lies and absurdities. It’s just that the administration manages to break my brain by coming up with new nonsense, regularly.
For Trump, I think the reality doesn’t meaningfully exist. I’m not sure there’s even object permanence with him - reality outside his own head isn’t fully real as far as he’s concerned. He makes statements that end up either having good or bad consequences for him, and that’s all that’s relevant (so he tries to make statements that have good consequences).
For Sanders, the reality just doesn’t matter. After the nonsense of this interview (on top of everything else she’s said), I really don’t think she has a shame threshold. (Of if she does, it’s pretty extreme and involves situations that wouldn’t come up in her current position.)
And even if we look, specifically, at the issue of illegal narcotics coming over the Southern border, it’s still not any better for her argument - the drugs are being carried in American cars, driven right through checkpoints. Even if the wall could magically prevent anything from coming through/over/under it, it still wouldn’t stop those drugs. (That doesn’t even touch on the drugs illegally coming into the country from China… ) Her argument is layers and layers of absurdities.
