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So, pushing migrants even further to the west, to cross the mountains and enter at the Big Bend. Going back to at least Carter, it looks like nothing more than the "kill em off, or wear em down" before they cross into the US.

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How do you titillate an ocelot?

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You oscillate its tit a lot. Like, a LOT (trust me).

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Increase the number of migrant corpses they have to feed on? Sorry for the morbid humor here, but that's less of an offensive joke than what Biden's doing, to immigrants, the environment, and above all his re-election chances (stupidly alienating the base he tenuously has in a futile attempt to woo GOP votes he isn't getting--the same genius strategy Hillary used to lose to Trump).

But then, why all the shock and surprise? It's just OHJB reverting to form...again. Even when he does 'good', he's still fucking up. That $140B we're gifting Big Auto to have U.S. EVs? The lion's share of it is going to prop up the economies of anti-union red states and districts, where most domestic auto production is based these days, whose senators and rep's all voted against it while they all run for re-election on it. And Joe's two minutes of flaccid word salad at a perfunctory and shallowly symbolic picket line photo-op isn't lost on auto workers, however much urban elite liberals celebrate it as a genuine commitment to organized labor.

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... the correct answer is "oscillate her tit a lot", but you do you

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This is exactly what Biden said:

"We spent as much as we could on other stuff allowed by the appropriation, but we still have this $190 million what has “BUILD WALL” written on it. So we’re going to have to, well, you know…"

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Crew member: Why are we hanging Billy Budd?

Captain Vere: It's the right thing to do.

Crew member: Not really.

Captain Vere: YES IT IS AND I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S A NICE DAY

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Well, here’s the thing. I live in NM with a woman Gov, and where cannabis, abortion, and being LGBTQ are all legal, and we don’t burn books.

And we kinda WANT a wall all the way around fucking Texas. (Which under abbot now appears to be an insane asylum.

And trivia fact: NM is the only State with two official languages: Eng and you guessed it, Spanish!

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Fuck it. The sooner the human species is wiped from the face of the earth the better.

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could we just take the $190 million to build like a ten, twenty foot section of wall with a diesel fueled mechanical facsimile of Donald Trump’s rear that bends down so Republican pilgrims can kiss it, out of solid gold? Seems like a win-win. See, I did a bipartisan!

But seriously DHS, if you’re not spending $1000000 per foot on that wall you’re doing it wrong.

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Can we please, for the love of all that is actually sacred, not made up sacred to fit some stupid paranoia by a brainless goon whose daddy didn't love him as much as his other brother, get rid of DHS? Has it ever actually done anything positive for the country? Because all I recall is a lot of whining and begging. And that's only after the half-hearted fanfare from the propaganda pieces the Bush II Administration managed to screw out of the media.

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Why did almost every opponent drop out of the primary against Old Man Centrist Biden after North Carolina? WHYYYYY?!?!??!

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Because the Black voters of *South Carolina indicated strongly that they trusted Biden most.

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You might be better off appreciating what a flipping awesome president Biden has been and still is. Student loan relief, covid vaccines, roads and bridges being fixed, finding ways to protect women’s healthcare, cash in our pockets, supporting unions, working toward an environmentally healthy future, expanding NATO and solidifying our allies. Decency, civility, kindness, and a deep love of our Constitution. Willing to place YOU and your well-being above partisanship!

But ur stuck on a stupid number? Jeepers my friend. Maybe think deeper and see whats actually important.

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stupid number? No idea what you mean? You mean the 40 miles of Trump wall he's building in my state? Biden is and always has been a center-right dem. It's only the shifting overton window that makes him seem liberal intstead of a family-separating, Trump wall building, oil drilling, centrist that he is.

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Because Bernie was going to earn his rubles by fucking over the Dems at the convention.

AGAIN.

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its not.

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"Shortly after he took office in 2021, Biden released a proclamation that said building a wall on the southern border is "a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security." He was as right then as he is wrong now."

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He still believes that. He also believes in obeying the law.

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I've never met a "leftist Trumper" but I guess if you support Trump's wall when Joe Biden spends millions on it, Your'e a MAGAt Bidenite

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Meanwhile, you're cheering on the guy building the Trump wall

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You're misspelling the word "you're" and supporting Trump's Border Wall.

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founding

I swear to christ some days

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Alternatively, Biden could have said his hands are tied by two dozen environmental laws on the books which he cannot break. Biden has chosen which law he prefers to follow as a political calculation.

Appeasing right-wing border perspectives is dumb. Gaslighting your voters about it is dumber.

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No he could not. The law is clear that the mandates of the DHS override any environmental laws that are in the way.

The law sucks, to be sure. It is, however, the law.

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Yes, he could.

And then someone would have to file a complaint in federal court….

Or, Biden could fold his hand upfront. As he did.

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Biden believes in the rule of law, unlike Trumpies.

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a ton of endemic plants in southern Texas, some of which are only barely hanging on because of limited activity in the border area.

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I'm going to get flamed I assume, but the 20 mile section of wall the administration is putting up is a high traffic zone for migrants and something needs to be done to show that the federal government takes the situation at the Southern border seriously or republicans will exploit fears of uncontrolled immigration to victory in '24. Biden was right that a wall along the entire Southern border "is not a serious policy proposal" because so much of the border is already protected by natural obstacles to migrants traveling on foot. Furthermore the environmental impact and maintenance requirements of such a colossal project don't justify their existence . In areas with high foot traffic not doing anything to slow down the flow of economic migrants is a recipe for a GOP win in '24 whether we like it or not. The odious tactic of GOP governors shipping migrants to democratically controlled states without a plan is having it's intended effect, overwhelming social services in those cities. We can be a nation that meets it's international and moral obligations where migration and asylum are concerned while building barriers in select locations to limit immigration to a level that can be maintained without overwhelming the social services of the cities that migrants are ending up in. Between Trumps "great wall" and the fictional "open border" of red state governors fever dreams lies a sensible range of policy choices that can help to manage the flow of migrants in a humane and economically beneficial way, and pretending it's only an issue to bigots and assholes is a losing strategy.

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We need to encourage people to arrive at the border checkpoints...

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For sure, lately they mostly do. Also Biden gets no credit for implementing a phone app that asylum seekers must use to schedule a hearing. It was a bumpy launch, but it's improving and slowing down the rate of crossings in several areas.

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the phone APPS? Oh please. You assume people that are fleeing poverty, violence, bad governments have cell phones and they can get wifi coverage out in the desert?

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Many do, it's a thing. I'm not pretending that by itself it is a solution. It's an avenue to legal entry that didn't exist before. It's janky, people have trouble getting it to work sometimes, but it's getting better and is the only attempt lately to address current challenges with asylum requests and the remnants of the "remain in Mexico" while awaiting an immigration court appearance policy.

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I mostly agree, but the GOP will STILL use the illegal invasion as an election year cudgel, no matter what happens. Because they love running on that shit.

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But how much traction they get with that (not with their cultists, who won't vote Blue anyway, but with people in the mushy middle) depends on how the administration handles the issue.

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Oh for sure, demagogues gotta demagogue

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