WATCH: Mexican Gangbanger Arrested During Texas Stash House Bust
Authorities in Texas arrested a known gang member from Mexico during a raid at a stash house where dozens of illegal aliens were being held.
The bust unfolded on Wednesday but the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) just released information and footage over the weekend.
𝐓𝐗 𝐃𝐏𝐒 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐛 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲
— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) May 18, 2024
5/15: @TxDPS Criminal Investigations Division received information about a stash house in Webb County.
DPS Special Agents and Troopers discovered 29 illegal immigrants,… pic.twitter.com/TRfs501YnD
TxDPS was tipped off about a stash house in Webb County near the Mexican border.
When troopers and special agents arrived, they encountered a total of 29 illegal aliens, including 21 males and eight female citizens of Mexico and Honduras.
The illegals were crammed into just a few small rooms inside the residence, video shows.
“One of the males was identified as a member of the Tango Blast gang,” TxDPS spokesman Chris Olivarez explained.
All of the illegals were referred to Border Patrol, but it is unclear what became of the gang member.
U.S. authorities continue to apprehend dangerous illegal aliens who belong to organized criminal groups.
Another member of the Tango Blast gang from Mexico was just caught illegally in the U.S. for the 25th time, as InfoWars reported last month.
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Fear Is the Mindkiller
An essential part of the modern self-image is a belief in the power of rationality. And not just a belief in the power of rationality, but its power above everything else: above emotion, above instinct, above intuition—and certainly above faith.
Frankly, it’s nonsense.
Yes, rationality plays an enormous, even oversized role, in the way the modern world works, not least of all in the operation of science and industry, which have transformed our societies and our planet, giving us electricity, the x-ray, the atom bomb, the Saturn V rocket, and of course, the IPhone, with its wondrous ability to send high-resolution images of our private parts beaming across vast distances in the blink of an eye.
I think I’ve made that joke before.
Anyway, you don’t need to be paying attention too closely to see, or indeed to feel, that, for all our technological progress, the irrational is very much still with us, whatever we like to tell ourselves about the triumphant, and inevitable, march of Progress.
Humans are, after all, animals, whose being is grounded in animal senses and instincts that claw us back hundreds and thousands and millions of years into the primordial soup in which the first single-celled organisms bubbled and roiled. These senses and instincts, which have nothing to do with formal calculations made according to the axioms of logic, have remained with us as guides across the vast chasm of our development for the simple fact that they have helped us survive. They’re still here because we are.
But those irrational parts of us can also lead us astray, into folly and even our own doom. Fear, in particular, as Paul Atreides reminds himself in Dune, “is the mindkiller”—the most potent means of inactivating our thinking faculties and rendering us helpless and compliant.
There’s no better example of this, in our time, than the pandemic. I posted a screenshot on Twitter today of a Daily Mail headline from 2021, in which the paper—famous for issuing sober, well-considered warnings—claimed that trees might be spreading COVID-19 through their pollen.
Quick, chop them all down!
How did anybody ever believe such arrant nonsense—or the ten thousand other absurd things we were told to believe and do by our rulers during the greatest mass delusion in history?
How did anybody believe that standing six feet away from everyone else would protect them from the virus? What about if I stand 5 feet 11 inches away—what then?
How did anybody believe that sitting on a bench outside with a cup of coffee or walking, alone, across a desolate English moor, or surfing—again alone—on the beach could be a public-health risk?
And how did anybody believe a thin piece of cloth, with pores of a size many magnitudes greater than the virus itself, could offer an effective barrier to transmission?
How indeed.
Integration of hysteria with police who does not know to prioritize its resources-Israeli police forces,helicopter and jet-skys in a massive operation to pull a surfer out of the water near Tel Aviv, after he violated the #corona lockdown.The fish were saved from the virus pic.twitter.com/kZjdQsLtPx
— Ronen Bergman (@ronenbergman) April 24, 2020
On the subject of masks, I also wrote today, at greater length, about a new study which shows that wearing face coverings did nothing to reduce the risk of infection by the Omicron variant of COVID. I can’t say I’m shocked.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at survey data taken from large-scale public surveys during the pandemic which assessed rates of infection and also gave details of personal habits, including social and work behaviour, and mask-wearing.
By analysing these data, the researchers found that wearing face coverings did not reduce the risk of infection by the Omicron variant at all.
The researchers claim, however, that during the first wave of COVID-19, before the emergence of the Omicron variant, wearing a mask was associated with a decreased risk of infection. But other evidence, including other studies, suggests even that isn’t true.
At the very least, we can say that during the pandemic, we had no effective guide—no clear data, no clear precedents—as to the effectiveness of masking.
Many people forget that we were told, in the beginning, not to wear masks. Remember that? It was because, we were told, even if you had a proper medical-grade respirator, only a professional could fit one properly and ensure an effective seal. In the very early days, it was the few mask-wearers, usually equipped with proper respirators and even military gasmasks, who were considered weirdos, and the non-mask wearers were the sane majority. And then, overnight, it was the other way around.
We just did it and swallowed the uncertainties, the cognitive dissonance.
We would be wrong, however, to believe that the irrational has somehow just intruded into medical practice and public health recently.
A 1957 paper in the American Sociological Review, titled “Ritual and Magic in the Control of Contagion,” looked at protective measures against tuberculosis in a veterans’ hospital. The author, Julius Roth, showed that the uncertainties surrounding the transmission and the effectiveness of techniques like ultraviolet sterilisation and wearing of personal protective equipment, led to the “ritualization” of safety procedures in ways that made little rational sense.
These uncertainties, Roth added, “also leave the way open for irrational practices that can properly be called ‘magic’.”
For example, hospital workers were aware that they were not consistently sterilising items that entered the hospital, but they still carried on: books were sometimes sterilised, for example, but money, never. Although medical personnel were required to wear personal protective equipment at all times, visitors to the wards weren’t. Even so, doctors and higher-ups would frequently flout the rules for wearing masks and caps—probably because they knew they didn’t work as barriers and that nobody would challenge them for doing so—whereas the lower-downs wore their gear rigorously. Patients were forced to wear masks when they were moving around the hospital on “business,” but when they socialized, including sitting in a crowded room for hours watching movies, they didn’t have to wear them.
As Roth put it, acidly, “The rules suggest that the tubercle bacillus works only during business hours.”
Long before the events of the past three years, sociologists were observing the irrational (i.e. magical) elements of disease control within the medical system. This short paper, on tuberculosis control, is from the American Sociological Review, from 1957. 👇 pic.twitter.com/EzzFrAtxhc
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) December 8, 2022
Of course, the situation during the pandemic was more complicated than in that 1950s veterans’ hospital. Nobody had a government jackboot quite literally on their neck, for one thing. And yet it all seems so familiar.
Clearly, during the pandemic deep veins of irrationalism were tapped by the powers-that-be. And, never forget, they were tapped deliberately, through the use of specialist psychological warfare units like Britain’s 77th Brigade and so-called “nudge” units in government departments, dedicated specifically to guiding people’s behaviour through targeted interventions in the media and especially on social media.
All of this must be remembered. But if we want a true reckoning with the pandemic—and I would suggest we do, if we want to prevent the same mistakes from happening again—it will also have to be a reckoning with ourselves, with the emotions and feelings that have been with us the longest, for good and for ill.
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Zuckerberg’s Instagram Warns Against Tagging Tucker Carlson in ‘Happy Birthday’ Post
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram warned against tagging former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a “Happy Birthday” post on Thursday, claiming the top journalist has been known to violate “Community Guidelines.”
A post wishing Carlson a “happy birthday” was met with a warning from Instagram urging users to reconsider tagging the former Fox News host in a Story.
“This account has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent fact checkers or went against our Community Guidelines. Do you want to mention this account?” the warning from Instagram read, before giving users the option to either “cancel” or “mention anyway.”
Carlson, one of the top journalists in the country who started his media company Tucker Carlson Network after leaving Fox News, celebrated his 55th birthday Thursday.
Notably, Meta, Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, in February revealed a strategy aiming to diminish the circulation of political content on its apps.
It’s unclear exactly what Community Guidelines Carlson has violated, but given his criticism of the Ukraine war, abortion, transgenderism and the Biden administration, it’s reasonable to assume Instagram “fact checkers” considered any one of those criticisms to be a “violation.”
That is, except facilitating pedophile trafficking networks on the platform.
Watch: New Yorkers March For Trump in the Bronx Ahead of Rally
Trump supporters gathered in the Bronx on Saturday to show support for the presidential frontrunner ahead of his upcoming MAGA rally on Thursday.
Donald Trump’s campaign announced on Friday that the former president would be holding an event at Crotona Park in the South Bronx on May 23.
In videos posted to X, Trump supporters could be seen walking through the streets holding a banner with the words, “The South Bronx for Donald Trump” while people chanted, “Trump, Trump, Trump!”
The people in the Bronx are feeling represented for the first time in GENERATIONS.
— Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia) May 18, 2024
And it’s all thanks to Donald John Trump! Amazing!
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Other signs read, “Black Lives MAGA,” “Black Patriots For Trump Rally. The Bronx. 5/18/24,” “Hochul it’s the Bronx, not duh Bronx,” and “Young Black Kids Growing Up In The Bronx Who Don’t Even Know What The Word Computer Is. Governor of NY Kathy Hochul.”
Other videos showed New Yorkers, many of them minorities, praising Trump’s policies and urging others to vote for him in November.
“Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Stand with me. Fight with me,” one woman said. “Because I am here for the people. We the people, it is we the people. I am here for the children, the future of our country, for our children. I have grandchildren, I want a better America for our children.”
#NYC “Black Patriots for Trump” gathered in South Bronx Park to speak ahead of Trump’s scheduled rally and encourage locals to vote for the former president.
“We Want better schools, so our children won’t be accused of not knowing what a computer is”.
A few attendees in proud… pic.twitter.com/KwS5YAoOfx— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 18, 2024
Another speaker said, “We want jobs, we want fair housing, we want better schools so our children won’t be accused of not being able to know what a computer is. Build some brand new state-of-the-art computer labs in those schools, make the investments into these communities.”
During a rally in The Bronx, Speaker Kevin Jenkins urged minorities to support Donald Trump for president:
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 18, 2024
“We have to get together to make sure we support Donald Trump. To make sure we have somebody in the White House that will stand up for us.”
🎥 @NJEGmedia pic.twitter.com/2qGs9itk31
South Bronx woman: I’m voting for Trump! pic.twitter.com/m3ksucbjUC
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 18, 2024
Many Bronx residents also expressed their excitement for Trump’s upcoming visit.
Blacks in the South Bronx are voting for Trump…. here they got a message for Biden
— Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) May 18, 2024
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A recent New York Times/Sienna College poll found support for Joe Biden among blacks has taken a major hit, while black support for Trump has surged compared to 2020, in addition to leading Biden in five of six swing states.
Trump has doubled his support among Black voters from this point four years ago. If his support held, it’d be the best GOP performance since Richard Nixon in 1960 among Black voters….
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 17, 2024
Trump’s doing it thanks to pulling in a quarter of Black voters under 50. pic.twitter.com/qDqBfRVLVA
The scheduled South Bronx rally comes after Trump visited a bodega in Queens in April where a worker was attacked, robbed, and faced wrongful prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.