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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude one certainly does not view deal as a victory
"Not for one single second should anyone trust Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on his vaguely-worded fake promise to bring up a bill for the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. You know, the Dreamers. McConnell is so full of shit that he should be declared a hazardous waste site, but people keep wanting to build houses on that toxic bit of Senate real estate. Democrats caved after making multiple offers for ways to reopen the federal government that would either force action on the DREAM Act or contain protection for those recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. They even offered to fund the stupid fucking wall."
"And maybe you were outraged at the idea of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers being able to walk onto a Greyhound bus in Florida and ask people for proof of citizenship. It's a "show me your papers" scenario right out of every anti-Nazi or anti-Soviet Union movie or book."
"The government is operating against what a majority of the nation believes, and it is harming communities, as well as families, hurting the nation in the pursuit of a blatantly nationalistic and, frankly, anti-American goal. It is long, long past the time for a new non-violent resistance movement to protect the soul of the country. And if you believe that soul is white, you can fuck off to some fantasy place and wallow in hate and ignorance."
I'm very disappointed in my Senators, Kaine and Warner for voting for this.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/01/on-immigration-wall-thats-really-going.html
Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)If you dont want this problem, then you need to vote GLADLY for ANY democrat EVERY November.
Hundreds of thousand even millions of average people are harmed when the government is shut down.
GOP doesnt give one shit about them including and especially the military, democrats do. There is NO other reason for democrats to do what they did other than they see it as the best chance they have to do both, save CHIP and working people as well as get a vote on DACA
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)By the way I do 2 of those 3. Can't truthfully say GLADLY is one of them.