This story about Trump's new proposed visa rules reads like all of the other new proposals. You can't tell anything and everything is very much in flux.
There's a big fee for a visa, except when there's not... except when there is, except when there's not. The tariffs are announced like this, too. Big tax is coming, except when it's not, but it might be, etc.
There's a pattern here. I would call it, "Say anything." That way, everyone hears what they want. Folks who want to keep out immigrants will hear the fee part, and folks that want their friends to get in will hear the exemptions -- and probably both are true. Or neither is true!
Since we know all politicians and elite people are lying all the time they speak in public, I think the technique they use is more important to recognize than the actual content. People will get upset about whichever side of the visa fee issue that they're on -- and that's what the politicians really want. The visa fee is a non issue, since we know it can come and go on a whim. The real news here is the example of the mind control technique these folks use.
This one has a formal name, the Hegelian Dialectic, a fascinating topic in its own right and something we see all the time but rarely recognize.
It will apply to applicants from countries with very high overstay rates, as outlined in this report [1]. Some examples of countries with very high overstay rates (rates of people that apply for tourist visas but then never leave): Chad, Haiti, Laos, Sudan.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 17.3 ms ] threadThere's a big fee for a visa, except when there's not... except when there is, except when there's not. The tariffs are announced like this, too. Big tax is coming, except when it's not, but it might be, etc.
There's a pattern here. I would call it, "Say anything." That way, everyone hears what they want. Folks who want to keep out immigrants will hear the fee part, and folks that want their friends to get in will hear the exemptions -- and probably both are true. Or neither is true!
Since we know all politicians and elite people are lying all the time they speak in public, I think the technique they use is more important to recognize than the actual content. People will get upset about whichever side of the visa fee issue that they're on -- and that's what the politicians really want. The visa fee is a non issue, since we know it can come and go on a whim. The real news here is the example of the mind control technique these folks use.
This one has a formal name, the Hegelian Dialectic, a fascinating topic in its own right and something we see all the time but rarely recognize.
It will apply to applicants from countries with very high overstay rates, as outlined in this report [1]. Some examples of countries with very high overstay rates (rates of people that apply for tourist visas but then never leave): Chad, Haiti, Laos, Sudan.
1: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/24_1011_CBP-...