Twoothy is an unabashed liar.

Laura Mohr,

I didn't vote for Trump. In the first primary (2016) I went for Cruz, not because I like him, I don't, but because he was the only candidate who had a shot at defeating Trump. In this last primary I supported DeSantis for the same reason. Unfortunately Trump won. I try really hard to deal n reality. Reality is he's the present dent for the next 4 years. So, my hope is it's a net positive.

I make a concerted effort to be objective. I do have biases, we all do. I work at making sure I diversify my sources of news and information to avoid living in an echo chamber.

Trump's EO to end birthright citizenship? Ridiculously stupid and I've been vocal about that. His deportations and tightening the border. 100% necessary especially given the massive influx over the past 4 years.

JPW articulated some legitimate concerns and I agree it's something we need to carefully monitor.

Having said that I fully support the new measure being taken, at least so far. But we need to keep a tight eye on it. It's something that can be easily abused and if that happens we need to take measures to stop it. Impeachment if necessary.

Laura Mohr,

I'm headed to bed. I will absolutely demolish your last post. I do recognize the it seems to come from a nice, albeit extremely misguided place. So, I won't be a dick about it.

Wait til morning - sleep has priority

Later...

Trombone,

Swallow it!

:-)

"apparently you dont know what gaslight means either.

#56 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-01-30 01:37 AM | FLAG: "

In a Thesaurus it's this: Gaslight = Danforth.

You're welcome.

"Trump has a worse criminal record than virtually everyone he is deporting.

#54 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE"

Then impeach and remove him. Absent that, accept the outcome of the last election and understand that the Executive has powers when it comes to enforcing out laws.

Danforth,

We have a process. That process doesn't involve sneaking across the southern border without any kind of paperwork.

If you favor illegal entry, just say so.

Don't try and gaslight it.

"Hit that perfect beat"

"Small Town Boy"

Very underrated.

Buttigieg would have expertly handled this.

Bronski Beat?

There's a blast from the past.

This is going to piss a lot of people off but it needs to be said...

Executive actions and orders, in and of themselves, are not a bad thing.

As long as they fall within the purview of the Executive branch.

Trump issued an EO trying to end birthright citizenship. While I think anchor babies are an abuse of the system, the Constitution is very clear on this issue. It will rightly be laughed out of court.

It looks like the same thing is close to happening with DACA, which is also a blatant over-reach by the Executive.

Congress needs to pass targeted laws that don't have crap like, "Secretary shall..." and POTUS needs to enforce said laws.

This whipsaw executive authority needs to stop. People can't organize their lives around this level of chaos when it changes so rapidly.

Another example: Paris Climate. Put it before the Senate for a 2/3 vote and we are either bound by that or it's something we ignore. Neither party has done that.

"Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for crashing an army chopper in Iran. Cost him an election."

My recollection is that people were pissed that it was such a half-assed measure. Crashes happen, especially during a wind storm in the desert.

" So you're arguing that they get whatever we do to them"

No. I'm saying if a person wants to enter this country the said person needs to do so by legal channels. This is not a difficult concept, or it shouldn't be. We either have and enforce laws or we don't. I'm for having and enforcing laws. If laws need to be changed we have a process for doing so.

" They're incompetent and don't have empathy.

#40 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-01-29 11:24 PM | FLAG: "

Biden's wide open border had detention facilities at 700% capacity.

This is far from perfect but it's much more humane that what open borders has wrought.

Nobody who is being deport d was compelled to enter this country illegally. With all of the human, sex and drug trafficking baked into illegal entry dwarfs whatever negatives deportation brings.

But, why even have a border at all? Just let anyone enter with impunity and then shower them with taxpayer funded debit cards and taxpayer funded shelter. If they rape or murder just tell them To be better next time and still let them stay.

" this is a recipe for disaster.

#33 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-01-29 11:14 PM | FLAG: "

No, it really isn't.

I'm pro criminal deportation.

Noted.

According to Bill Melugin (who has been on the ground for this issue for years) he has never seen numbers of attempted illegal entries so low as he's seen over the past several days. Surely that royally pisses you off. And I'm happy that it pisses you off. You are an anti-American D-bag and you deserve to have your America hating views repudiated.

Form = fork

" Is sending them to gitmo "deporting" them?

#22 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2025-01-29 09:47 PM | FLAG: "

Technically? I think so.

My overall point is that starting with the low hanging fruit is smart. Going after the nasties is a way to build political capital. And a two pronged approach of deportations and being hawkish at the border does the same as both are popular measures. Lefties crying that human traffickers are being removed makes the detractors look kind ridiculous. Now a point will eventually be reached where the low fruit is gone and will create a politically difficult form in the road. But we aren't even close to that yet.

Corky,

I hate to break this to you but deporting violent criminals and gang members that the last administration flew in and administered debit cards and other freebies (on the taxpayer dime) is popular policy, at least so far.

#10. The last administration was full- on Cloward-Piven.

"The big lie!"

Y'all made this bed. Now you get to lie in it.

Good catch, Boaz.

" Jeff lost his mind when a black guy became president.

#56 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-01-29 01:07 PM | FLAG: "

Tim Scott was my first choice in this primary. Swing and a miss. Stop race baiting. It's beneath you.