IOW fired, I’d bet. Gosh what a loss. (Not)
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Likely refused to sign the performance improvement plan.
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She has actually been doing some speeches at his rallies.
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I’ll take a dozen more of her, please (AOC that is):
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gatto
March 3, 2020, 3:37am
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we helped ourselves, what more do you people want? vote for me so i can focus on my generation again please.
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gatto
March 3, 2020, 3:44am
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mr_raccoon:
Trevor Noah: “Yo, this is not good. Just in the past 24 hours, Joe [Biden] has gaffed everything from the name of the TV anchor he was talking to, to the Declaration of Independence.”
a more direct link to the video if its helpful
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MalevolentPixy:
Said Sanders + his supporters shoud instead be making the push to earn those votes.
And, for the record, “STOP SUPPORTING WARREN YOU JUST WANT TO STEAL THE NOM FROM BERNIE IN A BROKERED CONVENTION YOU BIDEN-ENABLING IDIOT” is not how you “earn” votes from anyone .
Unfortunately, Twitter (and to a simultaneously lesser/more extreme extent Mastodon, just nicely hidden behind content warning markers) has been full of a lot of that going around today, and a lot less of the “let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah” singing montage from The Parent Trap like one might expect from AOC’s hope.
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gatto
March 3, 2020, 4:39am
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Wanderfound:
I voted for a fence. I voted, unlike most Democrats, I voted for 700 miles of fence. But, let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high”
well, for what it’s worth – he’s saying that the fence wont work, even if you build it 40 stories high.
not that what he is actually saying is all that great either:
he’s saying that you have to punish employers for hiring undocumented ( he say “illegals” ) workers, and you have to punish mexico. he’s also pointing out that cartels just drive their drugs in, and so he’s praising his tough on drugs approach.
( he’s also yelling at people who paid to see him? i’m already sick of hearing biden yell at people. )
i’m all in for castro’s proposals to decriminalize border crossings ( and lets add a focus on ensuring good pay, workplace and ag safety conditions ) but at least biden isn’t saying, lets build a big wall.
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…because he already built one.
This is what his fence achieved:
by Gabe Shivone A graph detailing the number and locations of immigrant deaths along the Arizona border between 1999 and 2011 A March 2010 Congressional Research Service report entitled “Border Security: the Role of the Border Patrol” candidly...
Est. reading time: 11 minutes
A March 2010 Congressional Research Service report entitled “Border Security: the Role of the Border Patrol” candidly details government policy goals and strategies in recent history. In 1994, the report explains, the U.S. adopted a “new policy” of militarizing urban border areas in order to reroute and steer anticipated human migration into “geographically harsher,” “more remote and hazardous border regions” (mostly through the Arizona desert), as a way of “deterring” migrants from crossing.
The new “vision” of the deterrence strategy to bring the border “under control” is outlined in a July 1994 Border Patrol planning document entitled “Border Patrol Strategic Plan: 1994 and Beyond”. The perception of the border environment is explicitly used to demonstrate that migrants “crossing through remote, uninhabited expanses of land and sea along the border can find themselves in mortal danger.” The document bases the strategy on the “prediction” that migrant “traffic will be deterred, or forced over more hostile terrain, less suited for crossing and more suited for enforcement.”
Forgoing any subtlety, “enforcement,” in this instance, is a euphemism for “mortal danger” as a premeditated method of death by example to deter human beings from crossing unauthorized into the US.
The strategic use of the “hazardous” border environment is not obscured by government officials. Six years after the strategic plan appeared, former Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Doris Meissner, admitted that “we did believe that geography would be an ally to us. It was our sense that the number of people crossing the border through Arizona would go down to a trickle once people realized what it’s like.”
On the policy’s fifteenth anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in its landmark Oct. 2009 report, “Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Desert,” that at least 6000 people have died in the desert as a “predictable and inhumane” consequence of these so-called “deterrence” strategies, eliciting a continental humanitarian crisis. The month following the release of the ACLU report, the American Public Health Association (APHA) released its own report, “Border Crossing Deaths: A Public Health Crisis Along the U.S.-Mexico Border.” The APHA likewise concluded that the Border Patrol’s policy of “prevention through deterrence” has “resulted in the purposeful displacement and diversion of migrants into more treacherous and dangerous zones to cross…” The APHA echoed the total number of desert deaths cited by the ACLU in its report the previous month, but added that “[t]hese statistics are merely the number of known deaths, and do not include those border crossers who have never been found or were reported missing, thereby underestimating the actual number of migrants who have died attempting to cross the border.”
The darkly euphemistic language of “controlling” (in contrast to stopping) unauthorized immigration is crucial in understanding the enforcement management system of death as a measure of deterrence capacity. A “key assumption” of the 1994 Strategic Plan was that migrant apprehensions “will decrease as Border Patrol increases control of the border.” Having observed the actual consequences of anticipated effects of blunt “control” efforts, the APHA report cited above notes that “despite a nearly 50 percent drop in Border Patrol apprehensions”—as coolly predicted by Border Patrol in 1994—and despite “the recent economic downturn, and a decrease in border crossings, migrant deaths along the border continue to increase ” (my emphasis).
This morbid trend over the past two decades is acutely evident. According to state medical examiners and human rights groups 14 deaths in the year of the strategy’s fateful onset, 1994, jumped to 90 deaths in 2000, to 145 deaths in 2001, to 163 deaths in 2002. The next year, in one of those rare moments of candor that occasionally crop up from retired government officials, former Tucson Border Patrol sector chief, Ron Sanders, was quoted an article in The Nation magazine on U.S. border militarization policy: “By every measure, the strategy is a failure. All it’s accomplished is killing people….If you had airplanes crashing in this country with the same numbers [of deaths], you’d have everybody after the FAA. But since these people [dying] are Mexicans, no one seems to care.”
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AOC herself is much smarter and better than a lot of her louder fans, fortunately and sadly.
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Maybe Dick - but Bernie was a folkie.
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