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That's awesome -- an actual answer. I can work with this. Follow-up question: Why is "nothing" the right answer to this and this? Why would you describe hiring more judges as deliberate cruelty?
I do actually agree on some of the actual cruelty things he tried to offer the Republicans, as a compromise, but that's a very small minority of the things this administration has tried to do about the border, and when they did it didn't happen anyway. The majority of what they're doing as far as I know has been things like hiring more judges (i.e. obviously the right thing to do) or limiting the number of people coming in the country (which was an attempt to deal with problem #2 which also worsened problem #1, but it's hard to see it as some villainous act, to me, given that problem #1 exists).
I wouldn't. I would describe this:
As cruelty, which is what I initially responded to.
Since you have decided to be dishonest about my position, I'm not going to continue this conversation. I should have known, given every other conversation we've ever had.
Interesting. So, if you want to clarify that "the only action he can take is deliberate cruelty" doesn't apply to hiring more judges, and that you think hiring more judges isn't deliberately cruel, then cool -- obviously, I agree with you about that.
If you want to seize on that one sentence to pretend I'm engaged in bad faith and flee the conversation at this stage -- and not engage with anything else I said or asked you -- I won't stop you. I think actually it's probably a good idea tactically for you to do so. Cheers.
Why would I say that hiring judges is cruel? You deliberately lied about my position. Sealion at someone else.
I know, right? It would be insane to claim that trying to hire more judges is an exercise in deliberate cruelty. I am glad to have you as an ally in this assertion, because there are lots of people who are claiming all kinds of weird things about what Biden's attempting to do at the border and why.
Anyway, like I said, I won't keep you; I'll go and sealion somewhere else I guess.