All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[ed2962]

"The laptop from hell"

[kidfresh512]

Least racist person in this room lol.

[InformationGeek]

"This guy is a dogwhistle the size of a foghorn."

Okay Biden, you got me. That was an amazing line.

[kidfresh512]

The easy comeback is you are president now why didn't you get it done

[AnakinFlair]

Finally made the point. Why didn't you get it done?

We had a Republican Congress.

[ed2962]

"AOC Plus Three" that's going to be the name of my doo-wop group.

[babyblob]

I know more about wind then anyone.

Of course because he is full of hot air.

[ed2962]

Joe starting to stutter, he's pissed! He really wants to say, "Enough with the goddammed fracking!"

[kidfresh512]

Lol. The families may get cancer but they making money?

[Mister Mets]

How they hell does keeping children with their parents compromise the border??!! What is wrong with your priorities that you are okay with this because of your imaginary "open borders."
The ones who needed to have a solution that wasn't this cruel and heartless was your Party, who are actually in power.

There is always the possibility that a terrible situation is the least bad option, so everybody needs a solution.

As for your question on compromising the border, federal courts have ruled that the Flores Settlement places restrictions on keeping undocumented families detained together until their cases are heard. This meant the Obama administration was not able to detain families indefinitely pending immigration hearings.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/906787...gration-flores

The alternative of releasing families on their own recognizance creates an incentive for people to cross the border illegally with their children. If enough of them have success, it is likely to influence others. So this doesn't seem to be an ideal alternaitve.

There are some other ideas, like increasing the number of immigration judges, so that families can have their cases heard faster.

The alternatives aren't suggested by the critics, which makes me think this is intended primarily as an end-run around immigration restrictions. To twist a phrase by critics of the Trump administration, the loophole is the point.

[kidfresh512]

This is the biggest mistake Biden made all night. He shouldn't have taken that. And get drawn into the get rid of oil industry quagmire.

[InformationGeek]

Well that's over. Thank god. Biden did fine, stumbled a bit and not sure on a point or two, but he was good.

Trump though? Well, he wasn't loud, but...

[worstblogever]

*Slaps face*

WHAT THE F**K?! Did Trump just say "Good" to Biden saying that kids were lost and in trouble?! WHAT?!

Trump shows he is incapable of caring about children.
Biden is as appalled as we should be.

Trump bit on a dig about "windmills caused cancer" and started complaining about windmills killing birds and "windmill fumes".

Nevermind that his understanding of wind power is nonexistent and closer to a "chemtrails" perspective than anything...

This motherf***er raised more of a stink about birds getting killed than losing 545 childrens' parents and making them orphans. He said, "GOOD" to making 545 orphans with his incompetence.

He owned being a racist monster tonight, unflinchingly.

[Amadeus Arkham]

Much more stable than last time, Trump was much better than he was last(yes, that isn’t saying much at all) but at least Trump was more restrained and more coherent, but a lot of his points were nonsensical and hypercritical. Biden was much more on his game than last time where he felt he was half-tired. He seemed actually...awake. He delivered a performance that I think was much more comparable to his performance to his debate with Sanders a few months ago.

Overall, it was a good debate but I suspect it won’t move the needle much either way. Trump needed this much more than Biden, and he was to his credit he didn’t self-implode and embarrass himself like last time but I still can’t see this debate helping him much.

[Surf]

Coyotes. Coyotes who bring children across the border. I can't even.