"Democrat leadership"
Fascinating
mozz
joined 2 years ago
Hello! Okay so, one, she didn't say that. The quote was:
“Our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass, but at the last minute, Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down.”
There's also a quote that's a little closer, from this pretty good article about the rally where this all happened:
"Donald Trump does not care about border security — he only cares about himself," Harris said. “As president, I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed, and I will sign it into law, and show Donald Trump what real leadership looks like," she said.
So, she's not claiming she's tougher on border policy than Trump is, but it is fair to say she is pivoting to a "border security" narrative. In order to explain why she wants to pass a border bill, it is necessary to explain what is actually going on at the border. Because our media is shit, almost no one knows; I suspect she's pivoting to "border security" as a narrative because she's being attacked from the right on it, and because something genuinely does need to be done, and she wants to lay the groundwork for making the attempt. But anyway. What is happening is that there are two big problems in immigration in this country:
- There's a huge backlog of asylum / deportation cases which means people stay in custody in racist and oppressive overcrowded prisons
- We're rate limiting the people coming into the country (see point #1), which means a lot of asylum seekers who are trying to do it legally wind up waiting for months (maybe years now, IDK) on the other side of the Mexican border, basically just living in a big, dangerous, squalid, crime-ridden open-air field with no facilities for life, and no job, no medical care for anyone no matter how young or old, it's fuckin dangerous
There's also a problem that the whole agency in charge of the border police is for the most part made of racist people, but that one is unfixable unless Harris can fire the whole agency en masse and then find 40,000 people who want to be immigration police who are not racist. So, unfixable. The other two problems do have legislative solutions, but the Republicans blocked anything Biden did, even when he tried promising to do some cruel or racist things as a compromise in order to get them to also agree to some badly needed things (mostly, increasing ICE funding so they can at least house the people they have in better conditions, and increasing the number of judges to process cases so people don't wait for a year before their case is heard).
And, any time a Democrat tries to do anything about any of this, e.g. reducing the rate of people allowed to come across the border, or increasing the number of judges to reduce the backlog, or increasing funding for ICE, everyone on the left as far as I can tell thinks they're just being cruel on purpose for no reason and gets really mad.
So, OP: What should the Democrats do? You are (edit ~~angry~~) attacking them because they are talking about border security and trying to fix this mess. What should their messaging be instead (since you seem angry about this particular messaging, which again, you kind of have a point about "tough on the border" being a callous message in addition to feeding into the false media narrative)? And, what their legislative action?
I think that is exactly what they plan to do
You need to read again the thing that was described, more carefully. Imagine for example that by “a page,” the person means a page called /juicy-content or something.
Remember how cool it was with Kamala up there and the local band playing, and people in the audience bopping around? That’s exactly how it was in Tiananmen Square for a while, and how it felt in Nicaragua when the Sandinistas were doing literacy and immunization, and a dawn of hope was growing that good people might get to run the country for once.
It’s not safe yet. Take it real fuckin serious.
Here’s how to volunteer with the Democrats; there are other organizations that are less “political” if you prefer those. I definitely think having allies during what's coming is a good idea, both to get involved in stopping it, and for simple survival if it does go wrong in a big way.
I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.
This is fuckin GENIUS
Yeah. I sort of suspect that a big factor in how much the State Dept didn’t like it, was a certain feeling of “you guys are making us look bad on the world stage with your incompetence” and not just that it was inflammatory. It was a real shit show, real embarrassing. The one we tried on Chávez didn’t work, but that was because he outfoxed us, not because it was operated by a bunch of people who would have trouble organizing a gangbang in a bonobo whorehouse.
It’s Evan Gershkovich, who was a reporter doing his job, and Paul Whelan, who is a crook and idiot who was running a security company in Russia because no one in the West trusted him far enough anymore to give him any money or responsibility. We need Gershkovich back because it’s a human rights violation and Whelan back because it’s bad for our rep if anyone in the world can pick on US Marines without us intervening, even if they are idiots.
Russia accused them both of spying, which is presumably a bunch of bullshit, although who knows it doesn’t have to be.
Not the same documentary, as far as I know, but the same park
There are other more professional ones on the same park but this video is by far the best I’ve seen in terms of getting to the heart of things
I started watching it because the guy was making a spoon for himself and I thought it was so cool that he was so self sufficient
Then I turned on one of the episodes and we was going into his HOUSE that he made for himself, mucking around with the door and trying to make a good way of doing the hinges
I have good news! She's not actually doing what the headline says. IDK why the media is so shit when covering this issue but the picture that's being created (where the choices are "nothing" which is fine or "border security" which means cruelty), is wrong in both respects. See my longer top level comment.