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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #135 on: March 02, 2022, 08:20:51 pm »
https://news.yahoo.com/rep-cori-bush-to-biden-you-didnt-mention-saving-black-lives-once-in-this-speech-165454772.html

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., was seemingly unhappy on Tuesday night after President Biden announced his support for funding police departments.

In his first State of the Union address, Biden told Congress: “The answer is not to defund the police, it’s to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.”

Shoot Biden. Shoot Biden. Shoot Biden.

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“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” Bush tweeted. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings."

“Defund the police. Invest in our communities.”

A flagship Black Lives Matter account shared a tweet suggesting it also wasn't happy with the president’s stance on the issue, using a screenshot of Rep. Maxine Waters's face, from at some point in the night, to deliver its message by meme.

Black Lives Matter. Biden's life does not matter.

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #136 on: March 02, 2022, 09:18:17 pm »
So, if you failed to educate racism away I guess more funding will work? Brilliant! Money solves everything yet again wooohooooo! We can all go home now and forget about racist cops gunning innocent unarmed civilians down simply because the color of their skin!

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #137 on: March 04, 2022, 08:05:28 pm »
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084409254/tens-of-thousands-of-ukrainians-can-stay-in-the-u-s-without-fear-of-deportation

Meanwhile, what about Haitian refugees?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10520599/Democrats-address-Bidens-border-crisis-comparing-encounters-Haitian-migrants-slavery.html

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Biden's invocation of Title 42 to expel many of them was met with criticism from progressives and activist groups. Many allies of the president called into question his campaign trail promise to undo Trump's border policies, which lawmakers said 'circumvent humanitarian obligations' in the Wednesday letter.
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Title 42, which will have been used for two years in March, allows Border Patrol officers to turn asylum-seekers away immediately regardless of their claim in the name of keeping COVID cases down. It's the reason for two million deportations so far.

Is there no COVID in Ukraine? I looked it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory

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Haiti: 71 deaths/million
Ukraine: 2587 deaths/million

Claiming this is about COVID is an insult to our intelligence. It is about it being OK for refugees to be "white". Or even more than OK:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-good-to-be-a-white-refugee

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unlike thousands of Haitian refugees who have tried to seek safety in America only to be met with violence and indifference. Recall the shocking photos of Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively trying to stop them from crossing. Unlike our staunch support for Ukrainian refugees, the US has visited inhumane treatment on Haitian refugees, often portraying them as being poor criminals.

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #138 on: March 15, 2022, 09:23:14 pm »
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/us/politics/biden-trump-immigration.html

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Biden Administration Fights in Court to Uphold Some Trump-Era Immigration Policies

Immigration activists and Democrats say there is a disconnect between the president’s words at the lectern and the government’s litigation in the courtroom.

WASHINGTON — President Biden promised to unravel the “moral and national shame” of the immigration policies enacted by President Donald J. Trump. But that was hardly the position Mr. Biden’s lawyers took in a federal courtroom earlier this year.

Appearing in January before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, government lawyers urged the court to let Mr. Biden enforce a restriction imposed by Mr. Trump that allowed migrants to be quickly turned away at the border.

Judge Justin R. Walker, an appointee of Mr. Trump, was confused. The same lawyers had argued weeks earlier that enforcing a different Trump-era border rule would not “align with the administration’s” values. Now, they were essentially saying the opposite.

“What are we to make of this?” Judge Walker asked.

The answer is found in the collision of Mr. Biden’s fervent campaign trail promises to undo Mr. Trump’s harsh immigration policies and the grim reality of trying to manage a surge of migrant crossings amid criticism from Republicans that the president is weak on border security.

The government lawyers in Judge Walker’s courtroom were fighting to uphold a Trump-era public health rule allowing the United States to turn away migrants without providing them an opportunity to ask for asylum.

They have sought to defend the Biden administration — and former Trump administration officials — against lawsuits from parents who were separated from their children at the border, even after Mr. Biden called the separations “criminal.” And winners of a visa lottery, including those increasingly at risk in Ukraine, were surprised to see federal lawyers continue to delay the processing of their green cards.

The gulf between Mr. Biden’s words and his government’s legal arguments is testing the patience of some of his supporters, including top Democrats in Congress. They say the administration is not only moving too slowly on promised reforms, but also is far too willing to use — and defend — Trump-era policies in the meantime.

“The only way I know if I’m reading a Biden or Trump administration brief is by looking at the signature block,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. “There’s simply no daylight on the legal positions.”
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While Mr. Biden formed a task force last year to help unite minors who were separated from their parents under Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, the government walked away from settlement negotiations late last year for the families of some of the 5,500 children.

After it was revealed that the government was considering $450,000 payouts to families, which prompted a backlash from Republicans and conservative outlets, Mr. Biden told reporters that the payouts were “not going to happen.”

The president later said the families deserved some form of compensation. But the administration pulled out of the negotiations in December and has sought to get the courts to dismiss families’ lawsuits against not just the United States, but also the Trump administration officials involved with putting the policy in place.

Lynden Melmed, who served as chief counsel for the government’s legal immigration agency during President George W. Bush’s administration, said there had for years been a break between a presidential candidate’s platform and the approach taken by his legal team once in office.
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Critics, including multiple former Biden administration officials, say the government is using the rule as an easy way to quickly remove migrants who are gathering at the southern border — and to fend off Republican attacks.

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #139 on: March 22, 2022, 12:16:50 am »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-apos-playing-very-strong-204211477.html

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Biden 'playing our very strong hand in a very weak way,' Russia expert warns
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An expert on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that President Biden is "playing our very strong hand in a very weak way" by squandering the power of the United States to deter Russian aggression.
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By not threatening to use the means at his disposal, Koffler said Biden failed to project strength against Russian adversaries.

"The cardinal rule of deterrence is to convince your opponent that the cost of his hostile action will by far outweigh the benefits, and Biden has done the exact opposite," she said, saying Biden "telegraphed weakness" by allowing Putin to assemble a battle-ready force of 190,000 troops.

I agree. Biden keeps emphasizing what the US won't do in response to Russian aggression! How do you think that sounds to Putin?

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Describing the ongoing conflict as "a three-dimensional battle of the wills" between Putin, Zelenskyy, and Biden, Koffler said, "Out of all of them, we, the United States, have the most superior might: economic, geopolitical influence, military. Combined we just trump both of them."

"And yet, Zelenskyy seems to be winning, despite the fact that the Ukrainian military is so much inferior to Russia. But his will to fight and his leadership style inspiring the Ukrainian people is basically putting Putin on the heels. By the same token, Putin, despite having weaker military, much weaker economy, has been able to outmaneuver Biden.

"And so that's the three-dimensional battle that, unfortunately, we're losing only because of the weakness of our president," she added.

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #140 on: March 24, 2022, 11:55:16 pm »


Ukrainian refugees should go to the back of the queue. After all refugees from all earlier crises who have been waiting to be taken in by the US have been taken in, then we can discuss Ukrainian refugees. Unfortunately, Biden is just another ethnonepotist.


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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #141 on: April 09, 2022, 12:32:37 am »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/african-immigrant-advocates-point-to-double-standard-as-ukrainians-receive-us-relief/ar-AAVTLGn

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In the wake of President Joe Biden announcing plans to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to the U.S., African and Caribbean immigrants are questioning why so many Black refugees fleeing their conflict-torn countries have been denied similar humanitarian consideration.

Biden also announced that Ukrainians already in the U.S. would receive Temporary Protected Status, meaning that they would not be deported. This is more, advocates for Black immigrants said, than the nation has done for Haitians fleeing after a deadly earthquake and their president’s assassination; for Cameroonians displaced by their country’s civil war; and for the thousands of Black immigrants deported under what they call racist, xenophobic immigration policies.

“The reality is that all over the world, unfortunately, there are many people who are experiencing similar things and don’t get that type of urgency from the U.S. government or attention,” said Samah Sisay, a Liberian immigrant who has spent years working as an immigration lawyer and is now with the Center for Constitutional Rights.

“It’s just clear racism. There’s this feeling that Ukrainians are Europeans and therefore, the immigration system maybe doesn’t view them as a threat in the same ways we see conversations about Black migrants,” Sisay said. “You see how there is this double standard.”

Russia invaded Ukraine last month by land, air and sea, following weeks of tension, sending thousands to various borders seeking to leave the country. African citizens living in Ukraine have reported incidents of racist discrimination and abuse at the country’s borders, including beatings, being denied entry to trains or being left stranded in border towns.

Reports have highlighted the stark differences between the ways African and Middle Eastern refugees from Ukraine have been welcomed into western Europe compared with white Ukrainians. Last month, an alliance of prominent civil rights lawyers from around the world announced it would file an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of Black refugees facing discrimination while trying to flee the invasion. 

Meanwhile, immigrant advocates and politicians have consistently called for relief for Black immigrants and refugees in the U.S. In the weeks leading up to the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. halted deportations to Ukraine and U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., urged the administration in a letter to “extend that same level of compassion” to Haitians in the U.S.
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Advocates have said the racial disparities are clear, and have only been made more evident by the well-documented hardships Black immigrants and refugees face in the U.S., including challenges that make it nearly impossible to find security and safety.
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“We’ve always known that African, Black people always get the worst of the worst,” Bello said. “Ukraine has TPS after days of conflict, and there’s no Cameroonian TPS after five years. That discrimination should not come as a shock because every other program within American immigration justice is anti-Black, anti-African. … Why is it that Black pain doesn’t meet restitution and immigration relief?”
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Although the border is still officially closed to asylum-seekers because of Title 42, a Trump-era Covid policy, a memo last month from the Department of Homeland Security declared Ukrainians exempt from the asylum limits on a case-by-case basis.

In the wake of the decision, immigrant advocates and politicians have urged the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions, which, they said, have been disproportionately weaponized against Haitians. The U.S. quickly expelled thousands of Haitians who gathered at a Texas border city after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

“It’s not people saying, ‘The government shouldn’t be assisting Ukrainian refugees,’” Sisay said. “It’s saying the same level of care that you’re giving to these folks, why is it that refugees, mainly Black refugees and refugees of color, don’t get that same sort of care and attention when obviously they also are in need?”

Why do you think?

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #143 on: April 20, 2022, 12:32:08 am »
Oh no:


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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #144 on: April 25, 2022, 12:07:06 am »
The Story Biden Refuses To Tell
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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #145 on: April 30, 2022, 09:37:34 pm »


Meanwhile:

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #146 on: May 04, 2022, 08:07:23 pm »

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #147 on: May 17, 2022, 09:56:55 pm »
'These vital signs are very, very bad': New CNN poll contains rough news for Democrats
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CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod reacts to a new poll that says 65% of Americans are concerned about how things are going in the US.
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"Democracy is the belief that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and  hard" ... H. L. Mencken

They've definitely been getting it "good and hard" haven't they....  :)

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #148 on: May 20, 2022, 08:02:22 pm »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-biden-hasnt-killed-trumps-103739924.html

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WASHINGTON - With the stroke of a White House pen, President Joe Biden could lower the cost of thousands of consumer and industrial products and strike a blow in the anti-inflation fight that he calls "his top domestic priority."

All he has to do is lift the tariffs on imported Chinese products that President Donald Trump imposed starting in 2018.

But with his advisers split, the potential economic gains limited and the danger of Republican attacks for being "soft on China" looming, Biden is unconvinced.
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"It's a no-brainer to reduce tariff burdens on Americans at a time of high inflation," said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

But as always Biden would rather listen to Red pundits:

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"Republicans would blast President Biden if he cut tariffs substantially," said Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "The U.S. deficit in goods trade with China set a record for the first quarter, despite tariffs, and could set a record for the year. If President Biden cuts tariffs and we do see a record deficit, it's handing Republicans a chance to draw away union voters."

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Re: Biden disapproval
« Reply #149 on: May 21, 2022, 09:09:45 pm »
Biden thinks it's OK for Poland to be "white":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-given-pass-rights-violations-115900709.html

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Three months ago, Poland was a political pariah in Washington and European capitals. Today, Warsaw is an increasingly pivotal ally.

Not long ago, Poland’s government was coming in for sharp criticism – and even being punished – for its violations of European Union principles and rules regarding media freedom, the protection of minorities, and judicial independence.

But the Ukraine invasion has overshadowed such concerns. The security imperative has imposed itself.

EU leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, who now holds the union’s rotating six-month presidency, have muted their criticism of Poland and other self-professed “illiberal democracies” on their eastern flank.

Mr. Biden, for his part, chose Warsaw’s Royal Castle for the major address of his European visit one month after the invasion. He praised Poland’s role in NATO as well as its generous welcome for hundreds of thousands of refugees.

In contrast to how Poland treated earlier waves of refugees who were "non-white".....

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And in extolling the importance of democracy he avoided singling out President Andrzej Duda, a political soul mate of Donald Trump.
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the latest trade-off comes on the heels of Mr. Biden’s insistence that the contest between democracy and autocracy is of central importance in today’s world.

Except it's not. Neither was the original Cold War, for that matter (when the US was happy to ally with other autocracies against the Soviet Union). This is an anti-Turandom war. Poland should be viewed as part of Turandom. It is that simple.