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m_d_hWhen I saw that President Biden had placed Vice President Harris in charge of the "crisis" at the southern border, I imagined her therapist encouraging her to "practice saying 'no'". The VP doesn't work for the President, the Vice Presidency is a separately nominated Constitutional position, separately chosen by the Electoral College, and the incumbent does not serve at the pleasure of the President. The VP can only be removed from office via impeachment and conviction by Congress.
So Harris could say "no" to Biden, "No, I'm not going to fix your fucking southern border 'crisis' for you, fix it yourself."
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There's little condemnation on the Left of Biden's response to the increasing numbers of people seeking asylum in the US or crossing the US border away from US checkpoints. Biden himself told wanna-be immigrants on national television, "I can say quite clearly: Don't come over…Don’t leave your town or city or community," while his DHS Secretary is publicly gearing up to make more border apprehensions than we have "in decades". If this were still the Trump administration, the Left would be hopping mad at how the President is treating these people -- "No Human is Illegal" right? That's what the Left said under Trump. That's what the yard signs in my neighborhood say.
"No children in cages," we all said!
But under Biden the slogan is "stay home", and the media are not allowed to visit the detention facilities where immigrant children are detained.
People choosing to exercise their legal right to apply for asylum in the US is called: a "crisis" at the southern border. Biden tries to stop them, just like Trump did, but partisanship in the US means the Left sits by quietly as Biden prepares to apprehend more migrants than any of his predecessors.
VP Harris, just say "No"!
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I think at one point I wrote in here that the US, despite its great wealth, cannot take in every person on the planet. Not all 7 billion who aren't here already. But that was before I adopted Green Communism. Now I'd say, yes, that's exactly what we should do, we should share our wealth with everybody, open our borders to everybody. But we don't have to wait for them to come here, we can share our wealth with everybody regardless of where they live.
I'm certain that even in a nation like ours where a majority claim to be Christians, that sharing our wealth with everybody would be unpopular. The American claim to Christianity has always been a pile of crap, more concerned with regulating sexual & reproductive behaviors than sharing the wealth. Catholic Bishops in the US have recently been arguing over whether the COVID vaccines are immoral because they were developed in part using technology derived from stem cells taken decades ago from aborted fetuses -- these are not a group of men (still all men) who put saving lives ahead of regulating them.
But this is what I advocate as a Green Communist: I advocate dissolving national borders and treating every human the same. Personally, I've been increasing my charitable contributions to put more of my money where my beliefs are, but I hope when I retire from my current job in 2027 to practice a lifestyle even more in keeping with my ideals. Maybe as a pro bono immigration attorney representing asylum seekers. I dunno, we'll see where I end up when I don't have house & pets & job keeping me here.
If I were in charge of increasing the number of Democratic Senators, I wouldn't advocate for Open Borders and reducing the US standard of living by 80% to share our wealth broadly. But sometimes I advocate for my beliefs instead of pushing a party line. Perhaps I should do more of the former and less of the latter.
So Harris could say "no" to Biden, "No, I'm not going to fix your fucking southern border 'crisis' for you, fix it yourself."
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There's little condemnation on the Left of Biden's response to the increasing numbers of people seeking asylum in the US or crossing the US border away from US checkpoints. Biden himself told wanna-be immigrants on national television, "I can say quite clearly: Don't come over…Don’t leave your town or city or community," while his DHS Secretary is publicly gearing up to make more border apprehensions than we have "in decades". If this were still the Trump administration, the Left would be hopping mad at how the President is treating these people -- "No Human is Illegal" right? That's what the Left said under Trump. That's what the yard signs in my neighborhood say.
"No children in cages," we all said!
But under Biden the slogan is "stay home", and the media are not allowed to visit the detention facilities where immigrant children are detained.
People choosing to exercise their legal right to apply for asylum in the US is called: a "crisis" at the southern border. Biden tries to stop them, just like Trump did, but partisanship in the US means the Left sits by quietly as Biden prepares to apprehend more migrants than any of his predecessors.
VP Harris, just say "No"!
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I think at one point I wrote in here that the US, despite its great wealth, cannot take in every person on the planet. Not all 7 billion who aren't here already. But that was before I adopted Green Communism. Now I'd say, yes, that's exactly what we should do, we should share our wealth with everybody, open our borders to everybody. But we don't have to wait for them to come here, we can share our wealth with everybody regardless of where they live.
I'm certain that even in a nation like ours where a majority claim to be Christians, that sharing our wealth with everybody would be unpopular. The American claim to Christianity has always been a pile of crap, more concerned with regulating sexual & reproductive behaviors than sharing the wealth. Catholic Bishops in the US have recently been arguing over whether the COVID vaccines are immoral because they were developed in part using technology derived from stem cells taken decades ago from aborted fetuses -- these are not a group of men (still all men) who put saving lives ahead of regulating them.
But this is what I advocate as a Green Communist: I advocate dissolving national borders and treating every human the same. Personally, I've been increasing my charitable contributions to put more of my money where my beliefs are, but I hope when I retire from my current job in 2027 to practice a lifestyle even more in keeping with my ideals. Maybe as a pro bono immigration attorney representing asylum seekers. I dunno, we'll see where I end up when I don't have house & pets & job keeping me here.
If I were in charge of increasing the number of Democratic Senators, I wouldn't advocate for Open Borders and reducing the US standard of living by 80% to share our wealth broadly. But sometimes I advocate for my beliefs instead of pushing a party line. Perhaps I should do more of the former and less of the latter.