islabrown.bsky.social
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No they wouldn't recoil - this is exactly what they voted for! When it does affect someone they know personally, their conscience might trouble them for a few, but not enough to not vote for the same policies the next time around
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Good governance is not what the MAGAts voted them in for!
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You give too much credit to the Dems - they are not that strategic. Or heartless.
The truth is in Occam's razor - they are weak.
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A recession is one way of getting prices to go down
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"It is great! It says so in the name!"
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Worse, they support this 🤦🏽♂️
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thanks!!
i came here hoping to see exactly this!
fuck jp vance
or whatever the fuck his name is
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Schumer and the other "yes" votes are giving cover to the more vulnerable ones! If the Senate Dems as a whole wanted to block this CR, they could have pressurized the leadership to do that. But they didn't.
Not calling them Nazis, but if there is a table with one Nazi, that's a table of Nazis
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🤦🏽♂️
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Hi Henry! Here’s my full story:
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Merry Christmas Adam to you! 🎄🧑🏻🎄 🎁
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Trump doesn't have a problem with immigrants. After all, he married two. They just have to have the "right" amount of melanin is all
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I wish someone would add Musk to this, pulling his strings. That would get even more under his skin 😂
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Just 1 year in jail! Typical 🤦🏽♂️
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NC is a purple State?
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Sadly, the emperor (the GOP) has been seen to be without clothes and the subjects loved it 🤷🏽♂️
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Drives hate clicks from the Dems now; they (media) won't lose, either way
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Sucks to be them - they don't seem to realize that Trump has been bought and paid for
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No, we do both - punish those who pay the undocumented slave wages, and we return the undocumented home. No allowing either a free ride on our laws.
Also punish the traffickers who feed the slave labor trade, absolutely
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It was a logical extension of when you say a rapist got to be president so what's the point of immigration laws
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Agreed. But open borders is not the solution
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Of course the reason is capitalism. And taking away sources of reward from the oligarchs - from cheap labor from farm workers to cheap labor from IT workers - would be a good start. The undocumented are merely the tools and rewarding these oligarchs with more of them is also wrong
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Cheap imports off the backs of the Chinese may have made lower wages sustainable, but it is certainly not something that can continue into the far future
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Allowing unfettered immigration has lots of consequences to the native population. While the rich benefit from the enslaved labor of the undocumented, the native poor miss out on any increase in their standard of living. There is a reason our wages have not gone up much over decades.
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That we allowed Trump anywhere near power is to our eternal shame as a country. But that cannot mean it is open season on all laws. A compassionate society is definitely a worthwhile goal, but one has to recognize practical limits
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How is rewarding an illegal act worthy? How can open borders be sustained, environmentally or economically? What would be the limits on such a program - when people stop wanting to come here because conditions here are no longer attractive to them?
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The solution cannot be to accommodate every suffering person world-wide in our country. One has to think practically. The flip side to "deport everyone" cannot be "open borders!"
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🤦🏽♂️
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There's a joke waiting to be made about Hannibal Lecter eating brain and RFK Jr. and his brain worm, but I am not smart enough for that 😅
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He is very aware of his own worth (knowing that he deserves to get banned) 😀
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Lot of good that did us! Our fellow voters found out that our 45th President was even worse than we thought possible, and yet here we are
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Maybe not a good analogy but my point was that you cannot just say ignore a process because it is difficult. Maybe simplify the process, make it more accessible. But allowing flouting of our laws is not, IMO, a good place to start
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Unfortunately, the "collateral damage" will be the rest of us