The Real timschochet

Yes, and I’m trying to do the same. I reject your ideas not you as a person. I don’t know you as a person, but you did serve this country as a police officer and that deserves respect.

You’re right I should be more specific. You have expressed a desire to: 1. Shut down the border. 2. Raise tariffs. 3. Cut off support of Ukraine. 4. Support Trump’s drilling proposals. 5. support Trump.

It is absolutely as secure. There are a lot more people coming in (creating the crisis) but that has very little to do with any changes Biden or Harris made.

Wow I’d forgotten about him. Surely one of the most despicable members of Congress in recent history. I’m sure they’d get along.

With you? Take your pick.

There is almost nothing she can do unless and until Republicans in Congress are willing to reform immigration. Otherwise she’s essentially powerless.

@Hardcore troubadour has expressed strong support for policies and politicians which would help to destroy everything great about this country and bring us abject misery and pain. Based on that, if he says someone has been horrible in office I can almost automatically assume that person is competent and excellent.

Yes Biden only considered black women, but he didn’t choose an incompetent one. And she hasn’t been horrible at all. By whose standards? Yours?

You meant the guy who just compared Trump to King David and called him a “man of moderation”? That Ben Carson? He proves that even a competent surgeon (by all accounts) can be a completely incompetent politician and not very bright (about politics.)

“He or she is only in that position because he or she is black”. How many times are conservatives going to make this argument? Kamala. Obama. Fani Willis. Tanya Chutkin. Even Mike Tomlin. It gets really old after awhile. It’s never true.

The guy wrote that the only reason she’s there is because she’s black. That’s racist. It’s ugly. Sorry you don’t see that.

As he should. Because Texas wants to shoot anyone who crosses. And while that may be hyperbole by Abbott, Texas has also demonstrated complete incompetence on this issue when they cost American taxpayers and consumers millions by slowing down trade even for a few days.

Kamala Harris was an excellent attorney general and senator. She’s extremely qualified, despite your racist labeling.

It would be hard to find a worst list of people.

Uh oh. I shouldn’t have called you names then.

Are you Crazy Chester?

Another aspect of lazy, dumb downed thinking is to resort to personal attacks rather than debating an actual position. Carry on.

You have, IMO, two false assumptions here: the first is that people are coming here because of “free food and services”. The second is that you can somehow convince them not to come here.

How will the conservative solutions alleviate any of the misery?

More than actual policy positions, the worst aspect, IMO, of the Trump era is a return, by conservatives, to anti-intellectualism. I say return because conservatives have had these attitudes before, in the 1950s, the 1920s, the 1850s. You guys disdain experts and yearn for simplistic solutions that usually make things worse. Your attitudes toward immigration, Covid, climate science, gender issues, our international commitments, racism- all part of the same problem.

Well obviously I disagree. The border is a crisis right now but it’s not a catastrophe, and the point of the opinion piece I linked is that the solutions you want to try will only make things worse not better. As to your last point, there are no Democrats who want “open borders”. I want more open immigration, never open borders, but unfortunately there are far too few Democrats who even want that. What Democrats want is to avoid Republican solutions which to liberals come across as cruel or too draconian. Other than that they have few solutions to offer (as the opinion piece also points out.)

I don’t think simple, lazy solutions to complicated problems ever work. But it’s looks like we’re going to find out, once again, the hard way…

Terrific opinion piece in the Washington Post this morning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/18/border-migrants-gop-immigration/ It makes a very reasonable argument as to why current Republican proposals to secure the border would have little to no effect on the flow of migrants. The Democrats don’t have any good ideas either. What is needed is more creative approaches of the sort that are impossible given today’s xenophobic attitudes on this issue.

Nope. But I don’t think that is Biden’s intention.

Big Marc Cohn fan, Hopefully he gave a good performance. Would’ve enjoyed seeing that, I doubt @Cdub100 would have cared for it though…