The Biden Administration (No Lago)

[Kaelik]

For the love of God someone lock Joe biden in a room so he can't give any more public speeches about how Republicans are great and everyone should vote for republicans because of how cool and normal they are.

[Kaelik]

Joe biden is expanding title 42 and implementing a version of the trump transit ban.

This is not because the courts made him, this is just his own executive action he is taking after giving him speech about how hes going to do it.

[MGuy]

This time for China right?

[Kaelik]

Follow up: when Joe biden did the only good thing he did internationally of his entire presidency, withdrawing the us occupation soldiers in Afghanistan, he also stole 7 billion dollars from the Afghani people and then implemented aggressive sanctions. This caused a massive famine and has killed millions of people.

Several months ago, as pressure mounted, Joe biden decided that it was time to pretend to compromise with leftists demands. So he announced that he would only keep half of the seven billion dollars to allow the 9/11 victims to sue..... the government of Afghanistan for uh...... not stopping the Saudi nationals from doing terrorism.... amd the other half would be set up in a foundation with trustees who would use the money to pay for charity work in Afghanistan.

Now obviously it's bullshit to steal half, and bullshit to claim that us people get to decide how to spend the other half, but that was true at the time.

The follow up is that the 9/11 victim families are telling biden to stop using them as cover to steal from Afghanistan because he wants to protect the KSA, and the charitable trust fund of good intentions has counteracts the ongoing famine caused by us policy by...... spending zero dollars and sitting on the money.

[Kaelik]

Biden successfully killed the rail strike that had as a major plank a bunch of safety features, there's a giant fuck off huge train derail because the braking regulations are too lax, so the Biden admin is reducing regulations of train braking so we can have more giant crashes.

Also the cops arrested a journalist for trying to cover the crash, just in case you wanted to add some ACAB.

[Kaelik]

The government of DC passed a comprehensive legal system reform bill that prosecutors and defense attorneys call an improvement. Very "moderate" thing.

This bill is going to be overturned by the federal government because DC lacks sovereignty. The main thing the gop is complaining about is that it reduces the sentence for stealing a car from someone who is in it from 45 years (longer then the actual minimum for Mos killing people crimes) to 15 years (still on the long end of US state laws, but not 3 times as long as the longest state). Is this the real complaint? Are they just being delusional? Who the fuck knows? But this is what they are pretending it is about.

Now DC laws have not been overriden by congress like this in decades, but the process is the congress votes down the change and the it goes to the president. If the president vetos it then boom the DC council passed law goes into effect.

But unfortunately the president is Joe "I will personally lock up every black person in the world" Biden, so he has preemptively announced he has no intention of vetoing this and supports the gop in deciding that black people are too stupid to write their own laws and that only white people can decide what the laws are.

[PseudoStupidity]

The NYT says the Biden administration is considering bringing back family detention on the border. Is Biden still better than Trump on immigration if he literally does the same thing Trump did?

[Kaelik]

Democrats still don't believe in climate change. See *waves vaugely* all of this, but in particular biden approving the largest ever oil extraction on federal lands.

[PseudoStupidity]

I've heard that we actually need to drill more to prevent climate change, because if the economy slows down at all or fails to grow we won't be able to do green tech or public transit or something. This is obviously a stupid position, but I heard it and so now I'm inflicting it on others.

[Kaelik]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/1 ... n-00086655

This is a story about the same corrupt anti democracy bullshit that democrats have always done and are still doing to pick who gets to run for senator and who doesn't, no opinion from the people required.

It has previously produced such leading lights as "that one military person who ran ads about how trump was good in 2020 in the Ohio market with the 80 million dollars people donated to her" and "krysten sinema" so no reason to stop rigging primaries in advance for the most far right possible candidate for the dem nomination.

[Thaluikhain]

Democrats still don't believe in climate change.

Dunno about that, the old Simpsons quote about the difference between not understanding and not caring may apply.

[Kaelik]

Biden admin takes the position that they can provide zero water to the Navajo under the treaty and genocide them and Navajo just have to shut up and die.

[Kaelik]

Joe Biden thinks the biggest problem with the GOP house budget is that it cuts funding to ICE and CBP.

[Kaelik]

Biden admin proposing new regulations that allow schools to exclude trans athetes. Because there is no issue that the Democratic establishment can't agree with fascists about.

[Kaelik]

Dianne Feinstein sits on the judiciary comittee and also she's been clearly not there mentally for years and also she's been physically not there for months.

So even the few times that Biden does roll out of bed and actually tell someone to give him a piece of paper with a judge's name on it and sign it, they still can't be confirmed because of the COMITTEE, not even the whole senate.

Democrats also won't be doing any investigations on the 37th crime that they should just be arresting Clarence Thomas on either.

They have now asked the republicans to pretty please let them switch her out for someone not shitty, temporarily. The gop, you will be shocked to hear, did not line up to help democrats appoint judges because they want those slots empty for more Trump2 appointees and unlike extremely stupid democrats, that means they don't help the other party appoint judges.

There's a really easy solution, which is to have the clearly dementiaed 89 year old resign, but democrats wouldn't want to set a precedent that 89 year old dementia patients who can't even show up at the job have to resign for the greater good, because half of them will be 89 year old dementia patients who really want their staff members to refuse to resign on their behalf while they slip in and out of comas in 10 years.

Completely useless party can't even confirm judges because they can't just tell a dumb piece of shit to resign, not for being a dumb piece of shit, or being too fucking old, or having dementia, but for being literally NOT IN DC FOR MONTHS.

[Kaelik]

The Biden admin stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Venezuela and then gave it to the opposition to help them fund their elections and subversion today.

That's probably not even the worst thing the Biden admin will do today, but just a nice reminder that literally every day the US, wether republican of democrat is president, is engaged in regime change and imperialism around the world.

[Kaelik]

Biden admin has announced it's new post Title 42 asylum policy to employees at a meeting and it's being leaked.

That policy is: Asylum is cancelled, no one is allowed to apply, get the fuck out.

No really. It's that fucking bad. This is Stephen Miller's wildest fantasies brought to life.

The actual method is "anyone who has travelled through any country that signed the 1951 refugee convention or the 1967 protocol" which includes.... Mexico.

So if you were in Mexico, and then you got to the US from Mexico, you can't apply for asylum.

(Just want to be clear, like 99% of the world is signed to these things, not just Mexico, but for obvious reason 'anyone who travelled through mexico' is just a huge fuck off to asylum seekers.)

[deaddmwalking]

Would you care to explain why requesting asylum in Mexico is not viable? I understand most asylum seekers/refugees are currently located in a country immediately neighboring their country of citizenship.

I'm in favor of accepting more refugees/asylum seekers. I'm not sure I see why a Ukrainian currently in Ukraine being prioritized over a Ukrainian currently in Poland is automatically bad. I'm pretty sure that people can MAKE it bad, and maybe they will, but wouldn't a policy that has people applying for asylum at the first place they could safely be better than having them walk 2000 miles before they have any legal protections?

[PseudoStupidity]

The problem is not with people requesting asylum in Mexico, it's that Biden wants to make it impossible for people to request asylum in the US if they dared pass through Mexico (and a ton of other countries, but Mexico is obviously the big one because it's on the southern border). You can travel through a country and not request asylum there.

It's obviously evil to forbid people from requesting asylum because they touched dirt in some other country. Do you think it is somehow not evil to forbid someone from even requesting asylum in your country because they touched another country's dirt on their way to yours?

[MGuy]

Should probably start by asking yourself "why would the administration do this bad thing instead of good thing" instead of having your first thought be "why can't the poor people just cope with the bad thing?".

[Kaelik]

Would you care to explain why requesting asylum in Mexico is not viable? I understand most asylum seekers/refugees are currently located in a country immediately neighboring their country of citizenship.

I don't actually care if requesting asylum in mexico is viable or not. Millions of people want to request asylum in the United States, very commonly because of the evil the US did to their countries of origin. If Mexico can't handle all of them, or even if Mexico could but they want to apply for asylum in the United States, I don't give a shit about whether they could have applied in Mexico but didn't or were denied.

I care about paying back people for the evil of the US, the inherent dignity of people, the fair allocation of resources, and the US complying with it's international obligations, all of which require the US to accept asylum seekers even if they passed through some other country that sometimes might have been okay for them to be in first, but also might not have been.

I'm in favor of accepting more refugees/asylum seekers. I'm not sure I see why a Ukrainian currently in Ukraine being prioritized over a Ukrainian currently in Poland is automatically bad.

This is not even remotely relevant. The US is not "prioritizing" anyone. It's blanket banning refugees from all of south american and all of central america except Mexico. The US does not accept asylum applications from people in Guatemala while they are in Guatemala, because asylum is a process you can only apply for ONCE YOU ARE IN THE UNITED STATES. The US does not have a finite amount of asylum slots that it's trying to allocate. The Democratic President of the United States is trying to make refugees seek refuge in other countries because he wants fewer brown people in the United States of America and is implementing a policy to drastically reduce the number of asylum seekers who don't get kicked out the fucking door the second they show up in violation of international law for some reason relating to racist and/or nationalistic desire to hoard resources for the "real people who count."

I'm pretty sure that people can MAKE it bad, and maybe they will, but wouldn't a policy that has people applying for asylum at the first place they could safely be better than having them walk 2000 miles before they have any legal protections?

A Policy that REQUIRES people to apply in any specific country, (IE not yours) which is what this is, is specifically illegal under internationl law because it would in fact be bad. It's actually very bad to say that no one from Guatemala can ever apply for asylum in the united states. If someone from Guatemala wanted asylum in the US they would not get more protections from applying in Mexico. Legal protections for refugees under international law apply regardless of whether they have applied and where they are applying. The only thing this does is prevent them from applying in the US at all ever.



EDIT: I just want to post this ass an example:

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/74176933 ... -elsewhere

Donald Trump, the worst president ever, was two countries more generous then Joe Biden. He attempted to prevent people who passed through THREE safe countries to be banned from applying in the US.

Why is Joe Biden taking this to one?

(This was challenged as unconstitutional and the case was stayed because the Biden admin said it was reviewing the policies for immigration. But sure, just be way more strict, that's definitely great!)

[Kaelik]

Biden doj still defending trumps child separation policy in court.

[Kaelik]

Interesting fact. While the debt cieling bill is actually really bad (cut IRS, more defense spending, cut benefits for old people on snap, give Joe Manchin a pipeline he wants without even getting him to stop filibustering Biden's EPA and other nominees, could have just not passed it and coined/14th amendment/take care clause conflicted the debt cieling out of existence and the court would in fact have gone along with it), the one single good part is conditional.

If the various spending bills are not all passed, it changes the normal "government shutdown" rules that suck shit and cut all the essential government functions but keep military spending THIS YEAR ONLY. The temporary rules for this year are that if they can't pass all twelve spending bills they need to, it cuts all spending to 2023 levels minus 1% in an odd way.

This amounts to a 3 billion dollar cut to non defense spending and a 37 billion dollar cut to defense spending. With the GOP house, any spending bills that actually DO pass are going to have more then 1% cuts to the good social spending anyway from what the 2022 Dem house and senate passed.

So that means the "evil bad" worse case scenario of NOT PASSING ANYTHING AT ALL is actually better then anything that will get passed.

No, don't get me wrong, democrats will probably jump across the isle to help republicans pass 5% cuts to public parks to avoid a 1% cut to military BUT, if the incompetence of the republicans rears it's head at the right time and they don't manage to get it done, HEY GREAT Huge cuts to defense spending for basically nothing is a win!

So keep that in mind when Dems are negotiating about spending cut bills. They could in fact win easily by just passing nothing and anything that gets passed is a net loss over passing nothing.

[Kaelik]

Anyway, remember when states had lots of unspent coovid funds and the Joe Biden admin told them to spend it on cop raises instead of ventilation?

Too bad we didn't have a president who made them spend it on ventilation, could have helped with the 1st, 2nd, and probably 3rd worst air pollution days in the US since tracking in 1986.

[PseudoStupidity]

The cops are going to shoot the pollution right out of the air. It isn't from this country, doesn't have any money, and it's dark, which is what the cops call a trifecta.