i mean… is it!?
it’s right there, in the name:
i keep hoping there’s some other reason. because not a single media talking head nor a single politician has explained any of it.
it’s like everyone is supposed to know that freedom of movement is somehow… bad? like i said, it’s baffling to me.
“… MY grandparents came here the RIGHT way”
( which at that time just meant “not being chinese” )
i’m starting to think this whole “land of the free” is some sort of weird marketing campaign
That, and corporate interests like illegal immigration. Corporate farms, meat packing plants, etc like sub-minimum wage labor they can bully and threaten with reporting. It even helps them keep regular wages down. Legal immigration means they have to pay fair wages and benefits and have less control. Of course, if the border shuts down too well, then they don’t have enough workers and prices rise for things like fruit and veggies, eggs, meat. Which MAGAts love to complain about without understanding that they helped cause it by chanting “build the wall!”
yeah. that’s a good point.
Also see: “We were here first!”
(Actual quote of a co-worker, when I reminded her that her own grandparents had come to the U.S. from Germany)
Americans who watched on Thursday said, 62% to 38%, that the policies Biden proposed will move the US in the right direction, rather than the wrong direction. In a survey conducted before the speech, just 45% of those same people said Biden’s policies would move the US in the right direction.
Wtf? The nut job that lives down the street with a trump shrine snuck in.
No, wait, that’s actually an elected congressman from Texas, Troy Nehls. Of course his record as a sheriff is far from stellar
So, I’m like Bernie!!!
That’s just how he looks, like a slight nauseated, smug asshole.
I’m sure he believes that every dead child brings Jesus a step closer to returning…
But… but… poison, blood, country… /s
Perhaps modern conservatism could be solved by adding more fiber to those assholes diets?
“I think it sounds like President Biden doesn’t want a capitalist government. He wants a government for socialism.
He’s never read Wealth of Nations.
(The billionaire hosts his own radio show; recent guests include right-wing Senate candidate Kari Lake, former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz, and Bill O’Reilly.)
Or much of anything else.
Good. Die mad, assholes. PAY YOUR SHARE!!!
Full disclosure:
About a month ago, I started listening to Pod Save America, a group of guys some of whom were part of Barack Obama’s campaign staff and later, part of the Obama White House administrative team. There’s definitely more than a little inside-baseball in their discussions, in case any of y’all find such things annoying.
I find their analyses useful. Their analysis certainly overlaps much of my takeaway here re last night’s SOTU:
Agreed. Gloves are off. Finally, dangit. And the Pod Save America guys (sadly nearly all guys all the time, oh well) said as much. Well spotted!
Um, YES please!!!11!!! Every one of your ilk is a policy failure. Pay up, asshole.
Right?
Here’s the full thing…
Read a transcript, saw our smug, useless, fascist appeasing prime minister in a photo from the event. Aside from Kristersson, I am impressed with the whole thing. Biden is from my scandi perspective one of the most progressive US presidents since I don’t know when. Here is an american president clearly stating a desire to break both with neoliberal orthodoxy and proposing real reforms.
