And really, whatever his limitations are he will make a much better president than the ignorant troglodyte that we currently have. Even the deplorable will be better off.
Received from Beto today
It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month-old son to come here. Should tell us something about our country that we only respond to this desperate need once she is at our border. So far, in this administration, that response has included taking kids from their parents, locking them up in cages, and now tear gassing them at the border.
People are leaving violent countries where they fear for their lives. Without money, they are subsisting on hope for their kids, for themselves, that they can get to safety. After being denied the ability to lawfully petition for asylum for the last 10 days, they are desperate.
We choose how to respond to this challenge.
Let’s do this the right way and follow our own laws. Allow asylum seekers to petition for asylum at our ports of entry. They must do so peacefully and follow our laws; but we must also ensure the capacity to effectively and timely process those claims (right now 5,000 waiting in Tijuana and only 40 to 100 are processed a day).
Those who have a credible fear of returning to their home country (as determined by a U.S. judge) will be able stay until their full asylum request has been determined. Those applicants ultimately granted asylum will then live in the U.S., make us a better country for being here, and those who are not granted asylum will be returned to their home country.
Longer term: work with the people of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to address underlying conditions that are causing them to flee in the first place. That means addressing effects of our failed past involvement in those countries (in their civil wars, drug trade and drug wars) and the institutional failings in those countries (rule of law).
It won’t be easy and will involve a much greater investment of time, focus and resources. Or we can continue to ignore those countries and their people until they show up at our border.
- Beto
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I’m not so worried about the Democratic nominee. What I’m REALLY interested in is if anyone has the stones to primary the orange shitgibbon.
BHO’s Doppelgänger? That’ll be good enough.
Since it can’t be Reincarnation (BHO’s alive, kicking and rocking the world with goodness)
…at least, Hinduism tells us so.
The other day in my Queens neighborhood I saw a full sized lifted pickup truck aka Bro dozer with out of state plates parked. On the rear window there was a Beto sticker prominently displayed. I thought yeah very cool.
There is a lot of Bobby Kennedy there.
Finally a candidate I’m excited about!
He’s a very exciting candidate.
RFK 2.0
How do I put this - yes but with a better outcome.
yikes and yeah
If 2016 proved anything, it proved that “mere” ability and competence will not win you an election–if it were Hilary would be doing a great job of running the country right now. I don’t think the skillsets of campaigning and governing have much overlap, but then, I don’t watch TV.
So we need flash and competence. I think this guy’s got it.
Not quite. Beto isn’t funded and guided by billionaires and Wall Street. Quite the opposite, in fact…
I’ve seen “Vanilla Obama” floating around on Facebook
As of today, O’Rourke is three years older than JFK when he took office. He has had more governmental experience–local and national–than Trump. He took some pretty strong hits from the Republican raffking crew and survived. He graduated from a pretty good college. Let’s go!!
My daughter and I were discussing how one unites the disparate Democratic streams these days - especially these days - and I told her that’s when a charismatic politician steps in. Welcome, Beto.
O’Rouke/Abrams!
Give me Amy Klobuchar at the head of the ticket with maybe Beto (or Kamala or Cory…) as Veep for seasoning.
