2024 US Presidential Election

If we limit discussion to the current situation, do you see anything that would justify cruelty as a strategy for keeping migrants from our borders? For migrants apprehended while attempting to enter the country the term used seems to be expulsion. The Border Patrol is currently expelling over 2 million illegal immigrants each year. If this is all you want then you've already got it. Words fail me. Mayorkas is following the same procedures as his predecessors in the Trump administration. I don't even know what this means. Every response involves addressing what someone else says. I think what Theodoric is trying to get across, indeed what everyone is trying to get you to understand, is that you're mischaracterizing the current situation. Yes, many more migrants are arriving at our borders the last few years, but the way it is being dealt with is little different than under Trump, except without the family separation and the Wait in Mexico.--Percy

To be accurate, it was 4 Republicans and 2 unaffiliated petitioners. Per the Supreme Court:

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Last September, about six months before the March 5, 2024, Colorado primary election, four Republican and two unaffiliated Colorado voters filed a petition against former President Trump and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in Colorado state court.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf

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Uncle Ronnie would be a RINO today, or perhaps a mainline Democrat. The GOP today is nothing like it was when Ronnie was around. Let's not forget that Ronnie gave amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the country at the time:

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As the nation's attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.

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But the bill also made any immigrant who'd entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty -- a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.
A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants : NPR

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There are even Republicans who are saying that the impeachment is silly political games. Rep. Ken Buck has already stated that Mayorkas has broken no laws. You can't name a law he has broken. It's just Republicans doing political grandstanding, the only thing they are capable of doing. Govern? Hell, no. Won't do that. And Republicans have already shown they don't want to do anything about it. They would rather have an issue than a solution.

The negotiated bill had wide support until Trump came out against the bill. Trump didn't want Biden to have a win, so the bill was killed. It's that simple. The Republicans want an issue to run on, not a solution. They have calculated that stopping illegal immigration would hurt them in the polls.“Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating, I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man’s dismal approval ratings. I’m not going to do it.""Why would I help Joe Biden improve his dismal 33 percent, when he can fix the border and secure it on his own? He can secure it on his own through executive order." --Texas Representative Troy Nehls

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

Wow! The racism, elitism and hate is strong in this one. First of all, these were criminals. People coming to the border are not criminals. Asylum seekers are not criminals. Africa is not an empty place. It has countries and people. Finally, I thought you had your panties in a wad about deficits and wasteful spending. Do you have any idea how much it cost to do this? Do you have any idea how many people were transported to Australia and the time frame?This is all I can deal with. I need to shower the filth off.

Yeah, but he wanted nothing to do with the "peanut gallery". I have read to him some of our discussions. He is far less patient and accepting than I am. He hates Biden. I tolerate Biden. He loves Trump. I do not. He is more one-sided than I am, though Theo sneers that I am an RWNJ. If I lean more to the Right than I do to the Left, I could care less.I'm as smart as any of you...be you Conservative or Liberal I don't need to play by anyone's rules! I don't need a Trump or a Biden to run my country and I don't need a bunch of wimps. I liked Reagan! He helped end Communism (for a while, anyway) and he took no shit from any tinhorn dictator like Khadafy. He knew which rebels were freedom fighters and which were terrorists. (Sandanistas and Conras, IIRC.)Were I not a compulsive gambler, I would have been as wealthy as any of you guys.In conclusion, I prefer to indirectly quote talking points from both my Conservative friend Joe and my progressive friend Chris. (Occasionally) Now...what were we talking about again?

Well, there was that whole Iran-Contra thing. They also helped arm Saddam Hussein. So they gave weapons to both Iraq and Iran which means that both sides were shooting at each other with weapons supplied by the US through the Reagan administration. A bit odd that.

His campaign worked with the Iranian ayatollahs to hold the hostages until Reagan was in office.
Reagan Campaign Revealed to Done a Deal to Delay Iranian Hostage Release

the apparent consensus here is that the evidence does not agree with this conclusion.Maybe me, but not everybody. Many here are smarter than me.

I post here because I am constantly learning. Many people here are smarter than I am. I have a very narrow focus of knowledge and in that I cannot claim expertise. All I can claim is competence.

I read that! It sounds believable too. Carter was a better moral president than Reagan, but the fact was that our economy was hurting during Carter's years and it would take
a Republican to make America Great * prosperous * again.

Esquire:

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Everybody had their own "friend of a friend" who'd heard from "some guy at State" about how the Reagan people had made common cause with the mullahs to delay the release of the hostages until their mutual antagonist, President Jimmy Carter, was out of office.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump campaign makes some sort of deal with Mexico to allow people into the United States until Trump can campaign again on the "big beautiful wall" schpiel and take credit for the bill he recently had the party reject. (so Biden doesn't get the credit) Politics is a dirty business.

Keep in mind that right after WWII, the U.S. owned 65% of the world's known gold directly and had its allies store another 25% (roughly...I don't have the data) of their gold in the New York Federal Reserve. Thanks to Bretton Woods, the entire global financial system was backed by the United States dollar, which was itself backed by gold. Here is my source:
Nixon Ends Convertibility of U.S. Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price ControlsIn 1974, the dollar, needing stability, was then backed (again) by a hard asset...oil. The petrodollar carried the country through the eighties, nineties, and even past the infamous 9-11. Fast forward to the Ukraine War. Note what now has happened.

Confidence is inversely proportional to knowledge. Dunning-Kruger. Given your confidence, I would worry. Here's a nice graph that you won't understand, so be confident: Mindless bluster works against you.--Percy

I sympathize: in a world of experts, it's tough to navigate with an independent perspective. It is necessary to devise a way to evaluate the conclusions of folks who know more than you do.If we could settle issues by measuring IQs, instead of dicks, we could boast our IQs over our hearts, then just find the name tag with the highest number, and follow it. Alas, that person boasting a stratospheric IQ may be a fool. That brilliant industrialist may be led to the idiocy of fascism with a potent mix of bigotry, rhetoric and emotionalism, to cite one contemporaneous example (Musk) which echos the past (Ford). History is littered with geniuses who believed the most appalling idiocies.Once you pass the bar of normal human intelligence, already an impressive force, one's level of native intelligence is less telling than training in critical thinking, applied with rigor and discipline.And of course you play by other people's rules. That's just silly.