All Biden had to do it filter the bad ones and things would have been fine.

You're a moron, right off the Kremlin hotline with insipid talking points assuming Americans are too stupid to read for themselves.

That immigration bill sucked.

No one said it was perfect. The question is, was it better than this? Absolutely. You can't always get everything you want.

You prove exactly why there's been no movement for decades. You won't take less than 100%.

It had strong opposition in the Senate and was DOA in the House.

Only because of Trump. It was the most right wing border bill EVER, Lindsey said so.

Trump is the gravity within Republican politics. What he says, goes.

I believe those ICE reported numbers also included over 200 thousand with charges pending.

All roaming our streets thanks to Uncle Joe.

Wow, and who's fault is it that the GOP-authored Immigration Reform Bill was nuked with its provisions of addressing the broken migration system when he told Republicans to vote against their own bill?

But better yet, why don't we read the document where ICE compiled all their bureaucratic statistics along with explanation of the current laws they operate under which would have been enhanced in the Trump-killed bill.

U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annualized rate of 3 percent in the second quarter, showing an impressive performance for the economy through an elevated interest rate environment set by the Federal Reserve. Three percent growth in the Commerce Department's third estimate of GDP performance confirmed the second estimate, which also came in at 3 percent. Both were up from 1.6-percent growth in the first quarter.

The standard Republican line about Trump's economic performance is that 2020, when there was a recession as a direct result of a pandemic, shouldn't count. But even if we exclude 2020, economic growth in the United States has been stronger under Biden/Harris than under Trump/Pence.

With fewer than 40 days remaining before Election Day, this probably isn't the news Republicans wanted to see.

In the Republicans' version of reality, the brief August Wall Street slide was obviously Vice President Kamala Harris' fault. The Republican National Committee hyped the "Great Kamala Crash of 2024," and the Trump campaign had produced and circulated on social media a video tying the vice president to Monday's dip in the markets. By the afternoon, the Trump forces had turned "KamalaCrash" into a "trending" subject on X.

As September comes to end, Americans are no longer hearing much about the "Kamala Crash," in large part because there's been no crash. All of the Wall Street losses from earlier in the month have been regained, and economic growth in the United States continues to quite good.

If voters are supposed to believe that Harris is directly responsible for the world's largest economy, how much credit are Trump and the GOP prepared to give the incumbent vice president for 3% GDP growth?

As for the Republicans' crystal ball, four years ago, Trump told supporters that Democratic policies would "unleash an economic disaster of epic proportions" and force the country "into depression." He's begun making nearly identical predictions ahead of Election Day 2024.

Everything Trump said was wrong - and he hasn't even tried to explain why his predictions were so hilariously misplaced, or why anyone should believe his new predictions in light of his awful track record.

Reality has a very strong Biden/Harris bias these days regardless of what Trump's gaslighting tv commercials are telling Americans about our current economic state.

demolished her over her interview.

The article sited did nothing of the sort. Why do you insist on gaslighting every single topic? Why not actually READ what was written, not your insipid false spin on a fairly straightforward article.

Reid Epstein did - again - want to hold Harris to a standard no one holds Trump to - expecting details on policies not yet fully formed and then he obliviously noted the reason why Harris might be reticent to boldly promise what she cannot deliver without help.

Ms. Ruhle brought up the elephant in the room: How could any of this happen without Democratic control of the Senate?

This is a key question that hangs over the Harris campaign as Democrats increasingly fear Senator Jon Tester of Montana is in a perilous political situation. If he loses his re-election bid, Democrats would need to flip at least one Republican-held Senate seat to retain control of the chamber - an unlikely prospect given this year's daunting map for the party.

That is an argument she may find herself making to very skeptical Senate Republicans next year if she wins the White House.

It's political malfeasance to offer details when your opponent won't. When you do you create a target for negative ads. Speaking of which, Trump is still running ads that were accurate a year or two ago, but not now. Inflation has dropped from its highs and continues to do so. Unemployment is still near historic lows while his commercials claim its rising and that a recession is just around the corner. He falsely claims that wages are down, when they aren't. Anything of detail that Harris articulates now will only be used against her.

When she says trust her values, most people understand exactly what that means - look at her political life and what she's always placed at the forefront of efforts over decades of public service. No one can say what needs to happen after January 20th because so much can change before then. But America can decide who'd they'd rather have making those important decisions - the candidate whose spent her entire adult life serving the American people or the candidate whose spent his entire life serving himself and his own ego, to the extent he's hawking cheap branded goods simultaneously as he's running for President, blurring all lines between election laws not designed to address for-profit candidates.

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My guess would be zero if they're coming from Mexico due to NAFTA.

So, a general question ... with all the talk of tariffs that fmr Pres Trump spouts in his rally speeches, how does he balance the cost of those tariffs being passed on to consumers with his comments about lowering inflation?

He doesn't. It's that simple. In Trump's reality, tariffs are paid by foreign manufacturers, not American consumers and no one is going to change his mind on that. So his inability to tie higher domestic prices for goods to inflation is simply another liberal plot or fake news, no more no less.

This is why criticisms of Harris are so maddening. Trump talks complete gibberish or creates his own reality that doesn't exist, yet it's Harris who can't verbally communicate effectively according to our resident gaslighting champion.

If Trump and Trumpers didn't have projection, they'd never gained any political traction whatsoever. Whatever the accuse Democrats of doing is the very thing they're doing in spades.

It's obvious why her team has kept her from the press.

Hmmmmmm, who to believe, Mark Cuban or Strawlighter......

It could become a major Category 4 hurricane.

It is now officially a Cat 4 storm.

Even in the friendliest environments she fails to answer basic questions that should be a no- brained for a presidential candidate.

Name one question Trump has answered during his entire 3 year campaign to become President again.

Sometimes I think you just fell off a turnip truck. No candidate answers any question that they don't want to. Harris didn't start it, and she certainly won't be the last.

Binary idiots like you want to criticise others for what you allow in yourself and others you support. Questions about what someone would do NOW, or what someone thought THEN are wholly irrelevant to future decisions they might have to make because life isn't static, and what's true right now may be inoperative tomorrow, so why create an impression in simple minds that can be endlessly criticized if one needs to change approach or opinion? Intelligent people innately understand this, while morons stay chained to stupid zero sum mentalities of their own creation.

That describes you and Trump to a T.

Kamala Harris is roundly criticized for feeding America a steady diet of word salads

A career prosecutor whose entire adult life has been spent speaking in open court or in front of the public representing the offices she was elected to lead?

It's truly pathetic the extent you go in order to gaslight what any sentient person with ears has never thought when listening to the entirety of Harris' remarks about anything.

As a citizen, veteran and voter, I was not comfortable with many of the policy recommendations that Democrats offered at their convention in Chicago or those Republicans articulated in Milwaukee. My views tend more toward the center of the political spectrum. And although I have opinions on high-profile issues, like abortion, gun safety and immigration, that's not why I made my decision.

Character is the ultimate measure of leadership for those who seek the highest office in our land. The American revolutionary Thomas Paine is said to have written, "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." Regardless of what a person says, character is ultimately laid bare in his or her actions. So I pay attention to what a leader does.

I've thought deeply about my choice and considered what I've seen and heard and what I owe my three granddaughters. I've concluded that it isn't political slogans or cultural tribalism; it is the best president my vote might help select. So I have cast my vote for character, and that vote is for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief. When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.

I would urge others to vote as I have. But whatever decision you make, let it be thoughtfully considered, carefully reached and yours alone. We'll all have to live with it.

There simply are no words. Exactly what voters think that this person deserves to sit in the People's House, representing the constituency of his district - which I'm fairly sure includes at least some Haitian-Americans?

He could give less than a dump about how any Haitian Americas feel. The Haitians here are here exactly because their home is a corrupted hellscape masquerading as a nation-state. They came to escape that, not relive it here by an ignorant bigot elected to Congress evidently to hate on our diaspora.

Those are among the findings of a Senate Finance Committee inquiry into the operations of Affinity Partners, the Miami-based firm Mr. Kushner set up.

The committee opened an investigation this spring in response to reporting in The New York Times examining the firm's first three years of work.

Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, the committee's chairman, said the new information had only deepened his concerns that Mr. Kushner's firm creates conflicts of interest, particularly with his father-in-law running for re-election.

Mr. Wyden asked why Affinity Partners had not "distributed a penny of earnings back to clients," and suggested that perhaps it was set up primarily as a way for foreign entities to pay the Kushners rather than a typical fund in which partners reap the returns of deployed capital.

"Affinity's investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump's family, namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump," Mr. Wyden wrote in a letter to Affinity this week, asking two dozen questions.

Mr. Kushner, in interviews with The Times, acknowledged that his firm had moved slowly at first to invest the $3 billion it had collected from its investors since it formed in 2021. He said that was, in part, because a flood of venture capital moving into markets made it difficult initially to find attractive deals. That meant a delay in generating profits to return money to his investors.

When asked to address the report, Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the agency "is investigating a misconduct allegation involving an employee."

"The Secret Service holds its personnel to the highest standards," he continued. "The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation."

The alleged event took place in the staffer's hotel room, where she returned with the agent and other campaign staff after the group drank and dined at a local restaurant. One source told Real Clear Politics that the accused agent was so drunk that his coworkers had kicked him out of his hotel room and he passed out in the hallway.

If Harris becomes President, I certainly hope she appoints someone to overhaul the Service and return it to what it's always been before.

You don't know what biden and putin said to each other comrade. But everyone knows who pushed the LAUNCH button on this war. Putin wants to re assemble the USSR, and when he thought the USA was weakest he began his effort to do just that.

Effete doesn't know anything except how to highjack a thread about Melania Trump grifting at a level commiserate to her last name. He knows nothing of the Russia he thinks can win in any conventional war with NATO, much less the US. Russia's military is a joke. How do I know? Because a career officer of the Russian army educated me about things I had no idea about. The only military assets which Russia can depend on are Russians forced to the front of Putin's 3 day special operation (SVO in the story).

Graft was endemic in the Russian military, permeating every level from the top brass to the grunts. "The scale is astounding," said Sergei Fridinsky, one of Russia's chief military prosecutors. "Sometimes it seems that people have simply lost their sense of moderation and conscience." Theft was hard to root out, even if someone wanted to - it was less about criminality and more a mentality. The thinking was simple: It's one thing to serve the motherland, but you can't forget about yourself.

Pig was among the many commanders who stole state-subsidized fuel from the military and sold it on the side at the civilian market price. There were a number of methods for doing this - blatantly filling a commercial truck at a military gas station; filling a military transport, siphoning fuel from its tank to other carriers and then adding fake kilometers to trucks to explain the difference on the accounting end. Pig was also ordering his subordinates to saw wood from the base's firing range so he could sell it. Everyone did it.

Russia's turn-of-the-century prosperity had tapered off with the 2008 financial crisis and falling oil revenue. Though the government's official statistics suggest that poverty hovers around 10 percent, an investigation by the Russian outlet The Insider shows that the reality is much worse: Roughly half of Russian families in many regions live below the poverty line. Outside the major cities, more than 10 million people do not have gas in their houses; they collect wood for heating. Many families still do not have indoor toilets. They -------- in holes in the ground.

This incredible story only reinforces that anything America can do to lessen the grip of Putin over Russia is a step towards liberation for the long-suffering Russian peoples. Though this story is about one man's tale of his experience in today's Russian Army officer class, his ultimate assignment to the Ukraine front, and his survival against the odds in executing an escape James Bond would be proud of, this is really an inside look at a Russia that is not what we've been told it is, though it's one Donald Trump would feel right at home in since naked theft and graft appear to be the national pastimes.

The link at the top (not the FB one) is a gifted one that anyone can read if they want to. This reads like a Robert Ludlum novel more than a non-fiction account of real lives lived under head-shaking circumstances. It's simply impossible to stop reading once you start. Trust me on this.

To qualify for Temporary Protected Status, which maybe renewed indefinitely under Biden/Harris

any sitting US President, because it's a federal regulation which Donald Trump tried to unilaterally take away from the Haitian immigrants for no other reason than his deeply-held racism, and he was rebuffed by our federal courts.

A small town losing population due to a high unemployment rate that has been averaging 7% above US unemployment rate from 2019-2023,

To qualify for Temporary Protected Status, which maybe renewed indefinitely under Biden/Harris

any sitting US President, because it's a federal regulation which Donald Trump tried to unilaterally take away from the Haitian immigrants for no other reason than his deeply-held racism, and he was rebuffed by our federal courts.

A small town losing population due to a high unemployment rate that has been averaging 7% above US unemployment rate from 2019-2023,