• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Texas secessionists have not considered the ramifications of becoming a hostile force sitting on top of oil that the US regards as its own.

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        9 months ago

        There’s three things you don’t mess with.

        US and oil.

        US and their boats.

        And the US and an excuse to pump more money into the military industrial complex that masquerades as our Economy.

        You should also avoid bears in general.

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          9 months ago

          You know that game 6 degrees of separation, where you find 6 people you and a stranger have in common? You can do the same thing with your job and MIC spending by the government.

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            9 months ago

            my best friend works directly for a military contractor, I don’t need to play 6 degrees.

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        9 months ago

        Biden has already released a statement announcing he’s caving to them. I’d say they’re ‘finding out’ that they can do what they like and the Dems will fold without a fight, but they already knew that.

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              Well that sounds very bad. Giving the president emergency power to shut down the border? When does that expire? What conditions are required for it to be executed? Does it mean that Americans can’t leave or come home too? This doesn’t sound good at all to me. I really dislike that every administration rules through emergency and executive orders now, instead of legislating intelligent and long-term solutions.

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                Yeah, that’s not caving, that’s DARING Congress to refuse to pass the bill.

                See, they were going to pass a budget bill that has some border funding in it, and Mitch McConnell was telling the Republicans to pass the darned thing – but then Trump said it might be nice to use the border mess in his campaign, and Poof! McConnell spun around so fast, his heels were smoking! (no, not literally) Here’s a link: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-thrown-wrench-mitch-mcconnell-214452142.html

                The statement from Biden is a double-dog dare to not pass the bill. Every time Republicans cry, “Waaahh! Border scary! Biden’s fault!”, Biden is going to hold up that statement and point out that he was ready, but they refused to sign it.

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                  9 months ago

                  Oh my God, take a step back and look at yourself; this is literally Qanon “5d chess! Trust the plan” cope.

                  Biden is going to hold up that statement and point out that he was ready, but they refused to sign it.

                  This will never happen, and you will quietly move on and forget you ever said it would.

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                    He’ll say it, but only newsy Democrats will hear him. The Republicans will say the bill didn’t go far enough, cost too much, and blah, blah, blah, glossing over the crazy powers it would have allowed. This isn’t any special ‘5d chess’, this is standard politics. Biden knows Congress won’t do ANY border deal now that Trump told them not to, so it doesn’t matter what concessions it has.

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                9 months ago

                Many immigration and border requirements are clearly spelled out in law. Laws the administration is enforcing as written. Like many other issues, Congressional Republicans have chosen not to update these at any point over the last couple decades, while also complaining about border issues, simply so they can blame any Democrat President.

                This isn’t a new issue. It’s an issue the Republicans clearly plan. As soon as a Republican is in the White House the “imminent” border issues disappear, or the President enacts some over the top fascist solution that doesn’t actually do anything for the cause. And Congress then ignores the causes again so they can complain when the Democrats inevitably regain control and are stuck spending time fixing the fuck ups instead of handling the actual causes.