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#1911 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
bigbri wrote:Garbled post.
That happens when I post on my phone sometimes...It's hard to edit/revise when you can't see the whole thing...
My point basically was...I don't say any empirical evidence that these new immigration polices help anyone...I know it's hurting farmers and landscapers. I see no evidence that it's helping anyone.
I know it makes a certain segment of the population feel good though.
Basically on a list of priorities, immigration 'reform' doesn't even make the top 10 on my priority list.
If you don't understand why keeping economic illiterate migrants from sneaking into our country is important, I don't know what to say. They've completely changed the demographics of some areas and not for the better.
#1912 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:LOL
You’re not getting your wall...that’s not border control.
He paid out a very rational point, what does the wall have to do with it and why is it funny?
It’s unfortunately Mitch’s primary response when he can’t advocate an informed opinion to refute something he wishes wasn’t true. He devolves into a cheerleader.
Being outraged isn’t an accomplishment in and of itself. Unfortunately being upset and being vocal about it has somehow become confused with actually resolving problems.
We could fix this if we made actual changes to our immigration laws and enforcement. But a segment of society is completely happy with the status quo and essentially an open border. They think yelling “Nazi” or “racist” is an intelligent argument.
#1913 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Smoking Guns wrote:[/embed]
Nobody is being starved and murdered you idiot. Jesus Christ.
It never ceases to amaze me the cruelty that you’ll turns blind eye to...I’m really struggling to see what the point of all of it is....
This must be part of that dick heat you always talk about.
An MSNBC reporter went into the “concentration camp”. Said it was very nice and everyone was in very good condition and there were no cages etc and they were playing video games etc. I don’t like the separation shit. But they aren’t gassing anyone.
No one likes children being stripped from their parents. But they’re using their children as shields. That’s dispicable that parents would use their children being removed from them as a gamble to illegally enter and remain in the US.
Federal law prohibits children from being imprisoned alongside their parent. So we either separate them and place them in foster care or with a relative, or allow the parents to be released and free to ignore their deportation hearing. Then 20 years later when they’re caught, it’s crocodile tears that “Jose” was an upstanding citizen with his 5 American born children, and how “cruel” it is to send him to a place he hasn’t been to in 20 years.
Once people learn their children will be removed from them, they won’t make the gamble and illegally enter. Sorry, we have to enforce the law. Call your democratic congressmen and demand they pass immigration reform. Allow children to be housed with their parent in special migrant facilities (I love the idea of setting up shelters and temporary homes on military bases while their case is expedited to make a deportation judgement) and secure the border so they don’t get inside in the first place.
There’s an adult answer that acknowledges we have to secure our border and enforce our laws, and a purely emotional angle that selectively ignores that if economic migrants didn’t illegally sneak into the US with their children, knowing the likelihood they’ll be caught, there wouldn’t be an issue to begin with.
Feeling bad children are being removed from their parents is the easy part, and you’re not a hero for publicly stating it. Nor are you brave. The brave part is coming up with a solution to solve it. And allowing people to illegally enter our country without consequence isn’t an option. If you think it is, say so, and the rest of us can ignore you.
#1914 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 413 weeks ago
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Will walker get this pulled too? Seems like he wants an invite into the band
#1915 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
I miss 2001 Axl. He had his voice for at least a little while.
Sorry if I'm interrupting something important...it didn't appear I was.
Yea, the HOB video was awesome.
#1916 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
Their shamrock shakes are awesome.
#1917 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:mitchejw wrote:You can be in denial about the fact that Trump is pissing off our allies in cozying up to people he should not be clozying up to. You’re not right down the middle on this dance at all. You are pretty right wing with your interpretations of all of the stuff.
You’re not consistent at all. You’ve been pretty critical of the Iran deal. But seem to love this.
Huh? Nothing has been put forward. I want something that is put before the Senate to ratify. You’re bitching and moaning and don’t have any idea what’s been discussed, let alone what will be in some future document that the Senate will have to ratify to make binding. I’m not claiming to be anything but someone advocating a sit down with Kim doesn’t harm anyone, and could result in a beneficial agreement.
I want Trump to do what i condemned Obama for not doing. Make it legal and binding. You can call me any name you want and it won’t change the reality you represent everything you accused the GOP of being under Obama.
What people who believe 9/11 was an inside job or hate their country call me is irrelevant. I’m one of the only consistent posters on this forum. Your own logical inconsistencies doesn’t impact that.
You’re not consistent. I know you like to think that you are...but you’re not.
You were critical of the Iran deal tho based on its merit as well as the whole senate ratifying. You spoke of scary Iran.
See...trump is going to make special agreements with NK and Their nuclear program...you know he is...and his spineless congress will put it through proving the once and for all that this republican movement is utterly full of shit. We won’t ratify for Iran but will for Trump and NK.
You better well and hope that congress doesn’t go back to the other side this fall...i believe congress has the right to undo this...after it inevitably goes into effect when spineless Paul Ryan and Mitch do whatever’s asked.
Regarding money...we’re already running massive deficits...you already know that...and do not seem to care. I’m sure Kim will get his fair share of kick backs if he’s smart enough to play trump like a fiddle. If Kim compliments him....he will get whatever he wants. MAGA!
Random question RF....will you enlist again if this almost inevitable war comes to fruition?
The biggest reason trump is doing this is to one up Obama.
Mitch, you’re not being rational and your post demonstrates you don’t even have a basic understanding of how treaties are signed. The house (Ryan) has no input or vote. It requires 2/3 of the Senate, so at least 15 Democratic Senators to sign on if the vote were held today. You’re also ignoring that both the GOP and Democrats want a treaty if Trump is going to do anything, have demands, and both Trump and Pompeo have stated any deal will ultimately be put forth in front of the Senate to make it official. Then Trump or whomever wins in 2020 can’t just tear a deal up, because it’s official.
You call Trump a dictator, but he’s not the one who made a non binding deal with Iran because everyone but the most ardent Obama sycophants opposed it. Schumer was a vocal critic and has remained consistent on this issue. Yes, I think Obama’s Iran deal was junk, mostly because it was a temporary solution that halted Iran for 10 years. I don’t have any opinion on a NK deal, because no deal exists yet. So spare me your academic evaluations of the consistency of my opinions, when you lack even a basic understanding of what occurred and what’s required. You’re not stupid, so why submit to partisan ignorance.
And I was an officer, so I’m in the inactive reserve until I’m 65. So yes, if WW3 broke out and they called my ass back up, I wouldn’t have a choice but to put the uniform back on. But I’m not incredibly concerned at this moment of that happening, and if it did, I’d be at the recruiting station before they ordered me back.
#1918 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/politics … index.html
Such a controversial statement! How dare Trump sign this! He forgot to guarantee billions in cash he lacks the authority to provide!
#1919 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:mitchejw wrote:People on the right were outraged when Obama met Castro...
Why is Trump drawn to dictators....and why do his supporters support it? Communist dictators and Trump.
FDR and Stalin were forced together through war.
What are you talking about? He’s threatened Assad, Maduro, Kim, and Khameni. None of which are significant partners with the US. Putin and Xi aren’t in the same league as them, but I’d hardly call his relationship with them on parity with the leaders of the G7.
This idea of Trump as some despot, with a hardon for his own autocratic rule is absurd and liberal hyperbole.
6 months ago Trump was threatening to wipe NK off the map. But because he isn’t eloquent and surrounded by celebrities, you attack him for trying to end the conflict in Korea.
I don’t know if this will work out or if 6 months from now Kim will be shooting missles over Japan. But if getting Kim to give up nukes and open his country up to the world is possible, I’m all for that even if he keeps his own people in chains for the interim. No one gave a shit about the conditions of North Koreans under Obama, just as they didn’t give a shit about illegal immigrant children. The faux outrage is obvious to anyone who isn’t a partisan shill. You had no problem voting for the guy who honeymooned in the most tyrannical, suppressive and abusive government in the history of the world. You still support him. So don’t bullshit us that you suddenly care about human rights and fair and free elections. Link me to your post of concern about Iran cutting the hands off children for theft when Obama was doing his own thing on Iran.
Sorry dude, Obama was an abject failure at diplomacy. Our international standing can’t be any worse. I know in your mind he’s the greatest President since FDR, but by any objective standard he was mediocre at best. His Iran deal was garbage, so much so that his own party was against it. Something you and others conveniently forget.
Merkel and the EU are also abject failures. Their countries are being infiltrated and harmed by economic migrants that have no interest in assimilating or respecting their host nations laws or cultural norms. Iran and Russia provide them with a shit ton of oil, so don’t expect them to do anything against their own self interest. The entire Iran deal was a “Europe first” policy, and Barry lacked the balls to stand up to it.
The world isn’t a happy go lucky place. It’s violent and harsh, and only men with guns keep the bad guys out. People that have never seen war and true poverty and suffering are in a bubble no different than children oblivious to the reality their world will shatter if mommy and daddy get laid off. Appeasement is a failed strategy. We either entice people economically or militarily to bend to our will. There is no inbetween.
When every nation lives like the west and has our cultural norms, we can make stands on shit like how another country imprisons people. But if it comes down to ending the Korean conflict while a few million of Kim’s people continue to suffer, something that will continue if no deal is made, I say we go for the limited win and work to resolve the rest in the years and decades to come.
Britain has just arrested someone for practicing free speech. I haven’t heard you demand the US end cooperation with them because of a flagrant violation of human rights. You haven’t made a peep about the US ending its purchase of Venezuelan crude despite Maduro killing hundreds of “protestors”.
So do you really care about dictators and policy, or are you just continuing the “fuck Trump in any day that ends in Y” narrative? If it’s the latter, I’m not interested in helping you play out that fantasy.
You can be in denial about the fact that Trump is pissing off our allies in cozying up to people he should not be clozying up to. You’re not right down the middle on this dance at all. You are pretty right wing with your interpretations of all of the stuff.
You’re not consistent at all. You’ve been pretty critical of the Iran deal. But seem to love this.
Huh? Nothing has been put forward. I want something that is put before the Senate to ratify. You’re bitching and moaning and don’t have any idea what’s been discussed, let alone what will be in some future document that the Senate will have to ratify to make binding. I’m not claiming to be anything but someone advocating a sit down with Kim doesn’t harm anyone, and could result in a beneficial agreement.
I want Trump to do what i condemned Obama for not doing. Make it legal and binding. You can call me any name you want and it won’t change the reality you represent everything you accused the GOP of being under Obama.
What people who believe 9/11 was an inside job or hate their country call me is irrelevant. I’m one of the only consistent posters on this forum. Your own logical inconsistencies doesn’t impact that.
#1920 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 413 weeks ago
misterID wrote:bigbri wrote:Trump shook hands with a dude who killed his uncle with anti-aircraft gun and fed his remains to dogs and killed his brother-in-law via a nerve agent in a foreign country and told him it was a great honor to be with him.
I feel great again.
Truman/ FDR shook hands and stood with Stalin who was not only worse than Kim Jong Un but was worse than Hitler. Obama shook hands with Castro. Reagan sold weapons to Iran that were eventually used against us. We can go on and on, it's what a president's do.
I think he's a dolt, but this should have happened under Obama. For some reason he punted.
People on the right were outraged when Obama met Castro...
Why is Trump drawn to dictators....and why do his supporters support it? Communist dictators and Trump.
FDR and Stalin were forced together through war.
What are you talking about? He’s threatened Assad, Maduro, Kim, and Khameni. None of which are significant partners with the US. Putin and Xi aren’t in the same league as them, but I’d hardly call his relationship with them on parity with the leaders of the G7.
This idea of Trump as some despot, with a hardon for his own autocratic rule is absurd and liberal hyperbole.
6 months ago Trump was threatening to wipe NK off the map. But because he isn’t eloquent and surrounded by celebrities, you attack him for trying to end the conflict in Korea.
I don’t know if this will work out or if 6 months from now Kim will be shooting missles over Japan. But if getting Kim to give up nukes and open his country up to the world is possible, I’m all for that even if he keeps his own people in chains for the interim. No one gave a shit about the conditions of North Koreans under Obama, just as they didn’t give a shit about illegal immigrant children. The faux outrage is obvious to anyone who isn’t a partisan shill. You had no problem voting for the guy who honeymooned in the most tyrannical, suppressive and abusive government in the history of the world. You still support him. So don’t bullshit us that you suddenly care about human rights and fair and free elections. Link me to your post of concern about Iran cutting the hands off children for theft when Obama was doing his own thing on Iran.
Sorry dude, Obama was an abject failure at diplomacy. Our international standing can’t be any worse. I know in your mind he’s the greatest President since FDR, but by any objective standard he was mediocre at best. His Iran deal was garbage, so much so that his own party was against it. Something you and others conveniently forget.
Merkel and the EU are also abject failures. Their countries are being infiltrated and harmed by economic migrants that have no interest in assimilating or respecting their host nations laws or cultural norms. Iran and Russia provide them with a shit ton of oil, so don’t expect them to do anything against their own self interest. The entire Iran deal was a “Europe first” policy, and Barry lacked the balls to stand up to it.
The world isn’t a happy go lucky place. It’s violent and harsh, and only men with guns keep the bad guys out. People that have never seen war and true poverty and suffering are in a bubble no different than children oblivious to the reality their world will shatter if mommy and daddy get laid off. Appeasement is a failed strategy. We either entice people economically or militarily to bend to our will. There is no inbetween.
When every nation lives like the west and has our cultural norms, we can make stands on shit like how another country imprisons people. But if it comes down to ending the Korean conflict while a few million of Kim’s people continue to suffer, something that will continue if no deal is made, I say we go for the limited win and work to resolve the rest in the years and decades to come.
Britain has just arrested someone for practicing free speech. I haven’t heard you demand the US end cooperation with them because of a flagrant violation of human rights. You haven’t made a peep about the US ending its purchase of Venezuelan crude despite Maduro killing hundreds of “protestors”.
So do you really care about dictators and policy, or are you just continuing the “fuck Trump in any day that ends in Y” narrative? If it’s the latter, I’m not interested in helping you play out that fantasy.
