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WTF is wrong with the left?

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4410 on: February 10, 2024, 08:08:13 PM »
We should probably pass a bipartisan immigration bill so we can handle a crisis.

Too bad that so many Latin American countries are shit holes and our policies contributed.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4411 on: February 10, 2024, 08:11:39 PM »
Right wing nuts love to talk about black on black and black on white crime. They like to pretend white on white and white on black crime don't happen.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4412 on: February 10, 2024, 08:21:43 PM »
Remember this?

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23M2SU/

"If you’re a white person in 2013, Nuzzo explained, your chances of being murdered by another white person are approximately 11 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a black person are two in a million.  Meanwhile, if you’re a black person in 2013, your chances of being murdered by another black person are 56 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a white person are five in a million."
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4413 on: February 10, 2024, 08:33:55 PM »
Right wing nuts love to talk about black on black and black on white crime. They like to pretend white on white and white on black crime don't happen.

Maybe in some cases but it’s pretty clear black on black crime is underreported, and, per your own data, is a pretty big problem. It’s another one of those “We don’t talk about that” things, but when someone does want to talk about it, the response is always the same.

Just because you’ve made everything in your world a “whataboutism” and project that into everything you opine on doesn’t mean everyone is so afflicted.

There is a magnificent yawning chasm between the stance of “I’m concerned about letting in violent criminals” and the stance of “I believe all these illegals are violent criminals because I am afraid of brown people” but you make that jump like it’s nothing.

I don’t think it’s that cut and dried, personally.

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4414 on: February 10, 2024, 08:52:37 PM »
We should probably pass a bipartisan immigration bill so we can handle a crisis.

Too bad that so many Latin American countries are shit holes and our policies contributed.
We should probably not create a crisis.
How are those immigration executive orders Biden has been working on for months going ? Biden forget about them ?
« Last Edit: February 10, 2024, 08:54:34 PM by No one »

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4415 on: February 10, 2024, 09:10:33 PM »
We should probably not create a crisis.
How are those immigration executive orders Biden has been working on for months going ? Biden forget about them ?

It's a little late to reverse course in Venezuela. The situation there is what it is. With a better foreign policy, we wouldn't have desperate people seeking asylum here.

Now, we have to deal with it. Trump wants to round up all illegals into camps and deport them. Miller thinks Americans will work those jobs and receive good pay with benefits.

Trump also  wants to secure the border with the military.

I think the shall plan is better.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4416 on: February 10, 2024, 09:16:05 PM »
It's a little late to reverse course in Venezuela. The situation there is what it is. With a better foreign policy, we wouldn't have desperate people seeking asylum here.

Now, we have to deal with it. Trump wants to round up all illegals into camps and deport them. Miller thinks Americans will work those jobs and receive good pay with benefits.

Trump also  wants to secure the border with the military.

I think the shall plan is better.
The person who can deal with it is behind the unprecedented and unsustainable problem and hasn't done jack shit to, as you say, deal with it. Instead, his DoJ fights any state efforts to "deal with it."
How are those executive orders that have been in the works for months going ?

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4417 on: February 10, 2024, 09:33:44 PM »
The person who can deal with it is behind the unprecedented and unsustainable problem and hasn't done jack shit to, as you say, deal with it. Instead, his DoJ fights any state efforts to "deal with it."
How are those executive orders that have been in the works for months going ?

https://www.borderreport.com/news/gop-senator-immoral-to-kill-border-deal-to-help-trump/

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4418 on: February 10, 2024, 09:36:25 PM »
Biden couldn't do much without Senate Republicans to break a filibuster.

He could use executive orders, but those are bandaids and are bad policy, whether it was W, Obama, or Trump.  .

Remember this?

"Republicans Alarmed Over Obama's Executive Orders, Cheer Trump's On
Republicans who skewered President Obama as an "emperor" for his use of executive orders are cheering as President Trump issues a raft of his own."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-alarmed-over-obama-s-executive-orders-cheer-trump-s-n712231

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4420 on: February 10, 2024, 09:41:26 PM »
Biden couldn't do much without Senate Republicans to break a filibuster.

He could use executive orders, but those are bandaids and are bad policy, whether it was W, Obama, or Trump.  .

Remember this?

"Republicans Alarmed Over Obama's Executive Orders, Cheer Trump's On
Republicans who skewered President Obama as an "emperor" for his use of executive orders are cheering as President Trump issues a raft of his own."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-alarmed-over-obama-s-executive-orders-cheer-trump-s-n712231


The bad policy was Biden's.

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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4421 on: February 10, 2024, 09:52:04 PM »
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The bad policy was Biden's.

Well, if you say so. Let's deport the dreamers and shoot the wetbacks.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4422 on: February 10, 2024, 10:07:55 PM »
How did the Senate do with the dead on arrival HR2 ?

The border reform bill from hell? Hopefully they didn't.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4390204-5-things-to-know-about-border-bill-hr2-gop-shutdown-threats/
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4423 on: February 11, 2024, 05:59:39 AM »
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Well, if you say so. Let's deport the dreamers and shoot the wetbacks.
The Senate bill didn't address the dreamers, did it.
And it's the wetbacks, as you call them, that are shooting tourists and at cops.
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Re: WTF is wrong with the left?
« Reply #4424 on: February 11, 2024, 06:21:17 AM »
The border reform bill from hell? Hopefully they didn't.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4390204-5-things-to-know-about-border-bill-hr2-gop-shutdown-threats/
"And it would revive long-ignored language from a 2006 bill that would allow DHS to close the border entirely if it determines doing so is necessary to block undocumented crossings."

"According to that act, “control” means “the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.”   

Mayorkas: 'the border is under control'
Biden: 'no it isn't'
McClintock: voted not to impeach Mayorkas

Thanks for pointing out that there are laws on the books that are, and have been, available for use.
Lol
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