Big Picture American Politics

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!

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[Psy-Fi]

U.S. retaliatory strikes start in Iraq and Syria in response to Jordan drone attack

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Biden reverses course, reinstates numerous Trump-era policies like Houthis, border wall and oil

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US says strikes on Iran-linked sites in Iraq and Syria just 'the beginning'

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US says strikes on Iran-linked sites in Iraq and Syria just 'the beginning'

Genocide Joe just getting started 

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"Hey hey, ho ho, genocide Joe has got to go!"

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Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, US court rules

[Shhon]

If they feel the border bill can wait until the next election then it's obviously not a crisis

[Nimbly9]

What is it with Biden and constantly lying to voters that he's talked with people who are already dead?

[Jwb]

Who says he's lying?

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What is it with Biden and constantly lying to voters that he's talked with people who are already dead?

Joe "Ouija" Biden.

[Lisnaholic]

^ I'm not convinced that the above posts are "Big Picture American Politics", especially in a week that includes:-

-Appeal court's unanimous ruling that US Presidents don't have immunity for crimes, as Trump laughably proposed

-SCOTUS to consider "probably the most important constitutional and political case in all of American history" (= can an insurrectionist be a Presidential candidate)

- Republicans block bipartisan bill that they spent 4 months negotiating, thus stopping $91 billion going towards improving border security. The new party policy being "let the immigrants and fentanyl flow, on the off-chance that our guy Trump can fix the prob some time in 2025" ( which seems highly unlikely to anyone who remembers the failure of the GOP to put an infrastructure bill together when they held the White House, Senate and House. It wasn't until the Biden presidency that an infrastructure bill was passed.)

- Republican's attempt to impeach Mayorkas (Sec of Homeland Security) without good cause is defeated in a House vote, highlighting the fact that Speaker Johnson is short on both morality and competence.

-RNC chairwomen is pushed out by Trump even though she gifted $50 million of donor's cash to cover his legal expenses 

With so much happening, why are you guys going with Biden's inconsequential memory glitch?

 

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- Republicans block bipartisan bill that they spent 4 months negotiating, thus stopping $91 billion going towards improving border security. The new party policy being "let the immigrants and fentanyl flow, on the off-chance that our guy Trump can fix the prob some time in 2025" ( which seems highly unlikely to anyone who remembers the failure of the GOP to put an infrastructure bill together when they held the White House, Senate and House. It wasn't until the Biden presidency that an infrastructure bill was passed.)

I view the Democrat party line on this to be so disingenuous. How did the Democrats go from "there is no crisis at the border, everything's under control" to "This entire border crisis is the Republicans fault! Look at all this fentanyl coming through!". Late last year, the Biden admin was selling off unused parts that were intended for the border wall, instead of, y'know, actually using them.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-border-wall-material-auctions-new-wall-approval-1832711

That entire 'border bill' is a crock of shit, and the fact that some Republicans were on board with it should be a wake up call for conservative voters. There's nothing in the bill that would stop the practice of 'catch-and-release', and Biden's administration has been steadfastly trying to end the 'Remain in Mexico' policy, which was effective in Trump's term, with some success. The bill would allow 5,000 illegal immigrants in a day before expulsion powers take effect. That's nearly 2,000,000 illegal immigrants a year allowed. And the cherry on top? Illegal immigrants from non-contiguous countries (middle eastern countries, Russia, China, Somalia, etc) won't even be counted towards the limit of when expulsion powers take effect:



How many illegal border crossings occurred in 2022? 2.2 million - a record at the time, only until 2023, where we had 2.5 million illegal border crossings.

This is not what fixing the border looks like. This is an attempt at an optical win for the Democrats (because they know that most of the public won't bother to read the details of the bill, so they'll just accept the lies they're fed from media pundits and late-night comedy hosts) in an election year, while the problem remains entirely unfixed (even if the bill was passed). So the attempt at framing this as: "Well, Biden tried to fix the border but the Republicans stopped him!" or "I guess it can't be too big of a crisis, because the Republicans wouldn't pass a bipartisan bill" is nonsense. This bill would have fixed nothing - and there's no reason to think that this isn't by design.