President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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utvolpj said:
He had a gop Congress. His inability to work with that is on him and his very painful and drawn out transition

Where have I ever said to sit on their hands? They need to make real immigration reform that addresses those here and the real labor needs. If anything, the useless wall is simply more of the same inaction to address the issue
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So paralysis by analysis?
 
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utvolpj said:
He had a gop Congress. His inability to work with that is on him and his very painful and drawn out transition

Where have I ever said to sit on their hands? They need to make real immigration reform that addresses those here and the real labor needs. If anything, the useless wall is simply more of the same inaction to address the issue
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How is it possible that people don't understand that you can't enact real immigration reform until you actually close the border to illegal immigration? If you were to enact real immigration reform prior to closing the border, you may as well just annex all of Mexico and Central America because the entire populace of those countries will cross the U.S. southern border before the new immigration reform goes into effect. For the record, I think and have always thought that Trump is a pompous idiot. However, his policies were outstanding. Trump ALWAYS said that we needed immigration reform. However, he knew that you first have to close the border to illegal immigration.

I think almost all conservatives know that we need comprehensive immigration reform. The system is broken. However, you first have to close the border. Currently, the administration is punishing law-abiding immigrants that work their way through the system by giving preference to law breaking individuals streaming across the border.

The biggest issue that I have with Trump was the order of his priorities when he first took office. He should have used his majorities in the House and Senate to first address mandatory voter ID in federal elections, an issue that over 80% of all Americans support. Instead, he first chose to bite off Obamacare and other issues that bogged down his administration in endless lawsuits and court appeals as liberal activist judges all across the nation did what they do best - overstep the parameters of their job and attempt to actively legislate from the bench.
 
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Vol423 said:
How is it possible that people don't understand that you can't enact real immigration reform until you actually close the border to illegal immigration?
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Because it's not true. You're just conditioned to believe it because that's what you were told. Removing the incentive to cross renders a wall moot. Especially the border monument that was thrown up
 
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luthervol said:
It's the "dregs of society" talk that becomes the story.
It's like Hillary's "basket of deplorables" comment.
Are there dregs of society on the left - absolutely, on the right also.
Are there deplorable people on the right - absolutely, on the left also.
The dregs and deplorables (pretty big overlap) drag everybody down. Policies that minimize those groups are what's needed.
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Do you agree with Jimmy Carter using racial dog whistles in his race in Georgia early on in his political career? Was he a deplorable
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Do you agree with Jimmy Carter using racial dog whistles in his race in Georgia early on in his political career? Was he a deplorable
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That's before my days in GA. I would have to view it in context.
Do you have a link or something that shows an example?
 
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During the spring 2020 presidential primaries, days before his set of big wins on Super Tuesday, Biden pledged to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, if elected. Now, with the chance to do so, just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Biden to consider "all possible nominees." Just 23% want him to automatically follow through on his history-making commitment that the White House seems keen on seeing through.

Although the poll's sample size was not large enough to break out results for Black people, only a little more than 1 in 4 nonwhite Americans (28%) wish for Biden to consider only Black women for the vacancy. Democrats are more supportive of Biden's vow (46%) than Americans as a whole, but still a majority of Democrats (54%) also prefer that Biden consider all possible nominees.
 
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headhunter15 said:


Damn. Tulsi just ended Harris again.
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You greatly overestimate Tulsi Gabbard’s influence. I really don’t understand all the love for Tulsi Gabbard. She’s truy dangerous because she is a liberal that attempts to hide that fact and appears to be appealing to some independents because she’s ripping into Democrats.
 
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AM64 said:
If the GOP dredges up another of it's recent losers - like Romney, I'd hope Trump would step in and give them the opportunity for snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. It's been appalling the garbage that both parties have been trotting out recently. Both parties should be looking for quality non-politicians, but they won't because those are the kind of people they can't control.
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A nice truth bomb sir.
 
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utvolpj said:
Trump spoke to the lowest common denominator at a 5th grade level. He had no intention of doing much and ran up the debt despite promises to eliminate it. He handed out trillions to cronies and then there was his covid response of handing the reins to Fauci.
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Two things that virtually any GOP presidential candidate - and some dems - will promise is to reduce the size of the federal government and to reduce the debt. They can't do either; bureaucracies are the cockroaches that will survive a nuclear holocaust - they will not be cut. Congress - and not the president - controls spending; a president may sway what happens in a closely divided congress, but he's still not going to control it. A reminder of that would be what happened when Trump tried to first secure funding for a border wall, and secondly tried to shift funding for a border wall, and never forget the business of the delayed Ukrainian payment. We know when a couple of presidents added a new bureaucracy (Carter) or created a new Frankenstein (Bush 2), but to cut one ...

The other thing about bureaucracies - they are there and staffed. The new guy may appoint a token figurehead, but you can bet he's not in control - just a four year nuisance to his "underlings". It's a little like the SC - when a president comes to power it's there in a set form; when he leaves he might have filled a vacancy or two, but generally he had what he inherited. Sure Trump could have fired Fauci if he thought there was someone better in the wings, but look where talk of firings in the DOJ and FBI got him. There's also the thing about emergencies ... you don't change horses in midstream. BTW, why hasn't biden fired Fauci?
 
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utvolpj said:
No you shouldn't talk like a middle schooler trying to hit 500 words on their paper. It's nonsense and he's a con artist. He's all marketing

The wall was another grift. It was a Maginot line without a real immigration policy yet he wanted nothing to do with that.

It wasn't the swamp it was Trump signing off on untraceable slush funds for his friends. It was criminal
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We have a "real" immigration policy; it's not enforced. Most places have laws and prosecute shoplifters; SF probably has a law and doesn't enforce it - notice how that's working out. There's a difference in managing with some leakage and complete freefall.
 
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Vol423 said:
How is it possible that people don't understand that you can't enact real immigration reform until you actually close the border to illegal immigration? If you were to enact real immigration reform prior to closing the border, you may as well just annex all of Mexico and Central America because the entire populace of those countries will cross the U.S. southern border before the new immigration reform goes into effect. For the record, I think and have always thought that Trump is a pompous idiot. However, his policies were outstanding. Trump ALWAYS said that we needed immigration reform. However, he knew that you first have to close the border to illegal immigration.

I think almost all conservatives know that we need comprehensive immigration reform. The system is broken. However, you first have to close the border. Currently, the administration is punishing law-abiding immigrants that work their way through the system by giving preference to law breaking individuals streaming across the border.

The biggest issue that I have with Trump was the order of his priorities when he first took office. He should have used his majorities in the House and Senate to first address mandatory voter ID in federal elections, an issue that over 80% of all Americans support. Instead, he first chose to bite off Obamacare and other issues that bogged down his administration in endless lawsuits and court appeals as liberal activist judges all across the nation did what they do best - overstep the parameters of their job and attempt to actively legislate from the bench.
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Reagan agreed to address those here in return for fixing the leaky border. We had amnesty, and the border was never fixed. You are fight - next time you force congress to do it's part and fix the damn border - then you address the people in place.
 
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AM64 said:
We have a "real" immigration policy; it's not enforced. Most places have laws and prosecute shoplifters; SF probably has a law and doesn't enforce it - notice how that's working out. There's a difference in managing with some leakage and complete freefall.
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We do not have a policy that addresses the need for workers or one that addresses the ones already here
 
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AM64 said:
Congress - and not the president - controls spending; a president may sway what happens in a closely divided congress, but he's still not going to control it.
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The POTUS can veto bills they don't agree with. Trump willingly signed off on trillions of more debt
 
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