Thank you. Those who have government experience know the drill. Biden came in here with a lot of shit broken, blaming him for “breaking a promise” ignores that his whole system is broken right now, that multiple agencies lack the staffing and everything to make things happen immediately.
It’s like everyone forgot that, just a few months ago, they were insisting that every government employee needed to resign. The same employees who are now needed to implement everything he’s got on his plate.
@castor_troy, the John Cornyn of the Hive. Always on the wrong side of an argument, always proud to be the dumbest guy in the room, and never afraid to triple down on either.
@daytrader, the classic unintelligent and idealistic individual who, when actually courageous, ends up the first person dead on the front lines for idealistic and naiive points (see Spain, 1936-39).
But most of them stay at the bar, insist how heroic they are to the young ladies, never actually sign up, and spend their lives being something less than they could have been.
I’m sorry for you and for the ladies you try to impress.
Dude, you’re already at Cornyn’s level, but to be frank, you just don’t have the integrity to reach Kevin McCarthy’s. So do us all a favor and stop trying, OK, you’re just making yourself look more ridiculous than usual.
Meanwhile, how do you like Biden’s reversal, eh?
Pity that he didn’t tell everyone to go fuck themselves, for all the reasons mentioned, but he’s maybe a little more circumspect than I am.
If giving you new numbers makes you happy, and you identify as more happy with better numbers, I’m happy for you.
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down …
It’s almost certainly more likely that Biden wasn’t ‘trying’ to do anything, he just hadn’t gotten to Item #5735734783 on his list of ‘shit I need to unfuck’.
Oooo! That IS excellent.
No, since he actually announced he was keeping trump’s limit. He got to that part and then 6 hours later was convinced of his mistake by most of the dems and backtracked to say he would raise the number in a few months. So in just one day he “got to it” twice.
This is such incomplete reporting on the part of TPM. Biden is reconsidering, in response to the blowback. But people are forgetting the destruction wrought by the Trump Administration to the refugee program, which was compounded by the worldwide Pandemic. Also, it seems as if Biden is pausing the increase in order to settle the thousands of undocumented children who have recently crossed the southern border.
We need to take a “wait and see” approach. Note that the screamers, like Tlaib etc., are screaming. Don’t be like them.
Keep blowing that whistle, dog.
Huh. Supporting Biden is now racist? That’s a new one.
Oceana has always been at war with Biden…
Also not the intended meaning.
Pretty sure that’s exactly the meaning of dog whistle.
But dogs don’t blow dog-whistles.
Cf.:
within 24 hour you’re 2 for 2
Pretty sure that’s exactly the intended meaning, just inartfully expressed.
Then you would be exactly wrong.
In fact, he didn’t. What he did was send his numbers to Congress last week, calling for 62,500. Then, yesterday, we got the Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021. That established the following numbers:
Which is what everyone got up in arms about. However, it also included this line:
In other words, ‘this is the bottom number, but as soon as we hit that, I can let more people in’.
Do you really think that’s the same as the Trump position? There’s basically 2 possible ways to read this:
If the final determination hasn’t been made, and he’s already told Congress he’s shooting for 62,500 (which he did), which makes more sense? Which of those interpretations sounds more like Joe Biden?
Then ask yourself: which of those two interpretations gets more clicks?
And maybe follow that up with ‘Do I trust the AP and CNN to not put the clickbaity spin on this even if they know better?’ Because you know the Wall Street Journal will.