Dems acknowledge that they govern by the will and wishes of their people, most of whom are in favor of legal, vetted immigration. So, the abuse of the asylum process, which does happen, is a genuine problem that needs to be addressed.
Neither of the major parties, nor the bulk of the populace, think the borders should simply be completely open though. That's a repub talking point to smear dems, and is a lie.
Bureaucracy and process are good things. Everyone just doing whatever the fuck they want, whenever the fuck they want is not.
This annoys me so much. Then your respond to them that is not the case and they are like. What a bunch of people aren't crossing the border and its like. no im not saying that s not happening im saying dems aren't just ignoring the issue or believe in an open border. They actually want to work within the confines of the law which requires reps to modify if we want to tighten it. Which rep reps, including big chief orangutan openly says they don't want to do because it will make biden seem better if they do their job and try to make america a better place. Which to them is only an acceptable thing to happen when they are completely in charge at which point they take actions to make it worse. Like trump bully the fed into lower interest rates before covid.
Yeah, I don't expect Trump to be the kind of fellow that would answer calls to arms from defending allies. I think most of us probably guessed that one.
But even as President Biden tried to downplay concerns about his mental acuity, he had yet another misstep: Referring to the President of Egypt as the President of Mexico.
"I think that, as you know, initially, the President of Mexico, el-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in," he said, referring to the border between Egypt and Gaza.
I cringed when I heard him say that, but it is exactly the sort of slip of the tongue I make all the time: I know exactly what I mean, but the wrong word comes out of my mouth. This week, I was talking about oxygen and alveoli but said areolae. No, no, stupid brain. Lungs, not breasts.
Anyway, from context, he obviously meant Egypt when he said Mexico because he was referencing the Hamas/Israeli war and was referring to the border with Israel and opening it up. It isn't in the linked article, but Biden continued as follows:
I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate. I talked to Bibi to open the gate on the Israeli side. I’ve been pushing really hard, really hard, to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza. There are a lot of innocent people who are starving. There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying. And it’s got to stop.
So I don't doubt that Biden meant Egypt, but it was unfortunate timing that he'd say the wrong country in a conference questioning his memory.
I certainly agree that, in a vacuum, a slip up like this is no big deal. But given the rest of the special counsel report, it is really just one data point in a huge cluster of red flags. I really wish he would step down. Trump has to be defeated, and between this and Gaza, he is really looking like far from the best candidate to do that.
Instead of standard weight figures, I really don't understand why airlines don't just weigh passengers themselves. Have a scale right where the attendant scans your boarding pass. You'd get an exact value for the weight of the passengers and their carry-on luggage.
So 20% of your passengers get to their destination without their suitcases, which will arrive … when the next under-loaded plane is available. Would you fly with them?
"Parental rights" politics only ever vector towards conservative values.
It's never about a parents rights to not have their child pressured to participate in religious ceremonies, for example.
It's not about a parents rights to have their child identified with chosen pronouns -- no, if that happens the school can step in and veto the parents' rights in favor of a conservative teacher's "sincerely held religious beliefs" that are neither sincere nor religious.
It's never about a parents rights to have their children taught only state-of-the-art science rather than backwards nonsense.
It's not about parents rights to not have their children exposed to industry propeganda in public schools.
It's only ever about the right to slowly convert public schools into state-funded Christian Madrasas. That's the end goal.
It's a pretty simple question: Were the documents requested back? Trump's keeping of his would have all gone away if he hadn't ignored the request of the archives to give them back.
An error is one thing. Willfully retaining them is another.
How they responded definitely shows that one of them (and their staff) made an oopsie and returned them immediately while the other (and their staff) were hoarding documents they shouldn't have and kept them even after being caught.
It is ridiculous how they are often presented as the same thing. It is like comparing someone who is in accident and exchanges insurance to someone who does a hit and run.
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