(09-22-2021, 02:30 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-22-2021, 12:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if the parties were reversed.
I'm trying to be both fair, and skeptical of myself.
I have never believed that we should open the border, or just let anyone who wants to come over come over.
I've always believed in orderly, legal immigration, for Haitians or for anybody else who is trying to escape poverty.
I've always believed we could let a few more come over than we're currently letting over, but I've also always believed that there will always be more who want to come than we could ever accommodate, so even the best immigration policy possible is going to end with us stopping and arresting people who are doing nothing wrong besides trying to cross the border, scenes like yesterday in Del Rio TX. These scenes are sad, and they should make you sad. But they are inevitable and not really anyone's fault.

The thing is, Biden and his administration have been mostly silent on this, they sent out a few empathetic "we feel your pains" but no promises to change anything. 

But we know, all of us, that if Trump were president still, he would not keep his mouth shut about this. He never keeps his mouth shut about anything. He would throw out some very unempathetic "this is what you deserve" and "go back to where you came from" and "obviously you screwed up your own country, we won't let you screw up ours" kind of messages.  And then I would come on here saying look what a bad job he's doing with his messaging, and then you would come back and laugh at me and say I'm too sensitive.

That's where you are totally wrong.

He's not wrong. He is describing himself to perfection. Even though Trump's team would handle this better, he would say something that some liberal would find offensive, and Mikey would focus on that instead of the problem that's being solved. He cares more about what Trump says than what Biden does, and that's because he gets his news from people that care more about what Trump says than what Biden does.

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