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Although I think 18 year olds are as a group particularly immature, but yet they can die for their country and also vote. There's a contradiction in holding them out as adults when it comes to their social obligation and denying them benefits because they are too immature.
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We've had this discussion before, and racist etc. goes too far, but certainly his supporters are complicit with such notions, even if they themselves don't hold such views.
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I think it's important to draw a distinction between the GOP and its strategists and actual Republicans. The GOP has been demonizing the left for decades to the point where Democrats couldn't even self-identify as liberals. With the Tea Party taking over the GOP the attacks on the Other have amped up manifold. Both sides do it, but the GOP have been conducting master classes in fear mongering for as long as I can remember both locally and nationally. And while certainly there's plenty of corrupt Democrats (both morally and legally), given that we live in the age of Trump with the GOP doing very little to bridle his behavior much less publicly call him out, the Democrats may not have the exclusive market on civility, they've certainly got the lion share. And again, I'm pretty sure Mike and I are talking about politicians not individual party members.
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Russians or GOP have dirt on him? Why did Lindsey Graham do an about-face on decency? IIRC, didn't the Russians also hack GOP emails which were never released?
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I think you might be imputing a bit too much self-awareness onto Trump though your reading may be right. Given the extent to which he seems to have obstructed, my sense is that there was a there-there, even if it could never be proven in a court a law, and Trump's worries about a media scandal were secondary at best.
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I'm seeing that the Padapolous (or whatever his name is) said they Trump campaign actually got the emails from the Russians through wikileaks, but that Padapolous wasn't credible. Here's the twitter feed I'm following: I think people are jumping the gun on the significance (or lack thereof) of the report before it's even been read or absorbed. Give it day or two.
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I think obstruction is a bigger deal, because the basis of their conclusion that couldn't establish collusion is that the witnesses were lying, and it also appears that there is credible evidence of obstruction, and Mueller never believed he could indict the President, so he left it specifically to Congress. It may not be politically beneficial for the Democrats to pursue this any further, but the notion that the Mueller report uncovered no wrong-doing should be put to bed. I wish Mueller had the chutzpah to indict, and safe Congress of the ill-conceived procedures of impeachment.
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The Trump "I'm ****ed" line is going to be a classic, though.
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Eisenhower (which I misspelled on my first try)?
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Because he's super articulate and hasn't taken hardline policy positions, and instead offered nuance on a variety of issues. He's also pretty likable and has an interesting biography, veteran, rhode scholar, etc. He's about as opposite as Trump as there is.
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Haven't they proved themselves trustworthy by now?
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Looks like Mueller sought to leave it to Congress not the AG to decide the issue of obstruction, which as I understand is pretty damning.
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Warren is getting publicity because she keeps putting ideas out there, though not as much as she deserves. Buttigieg is new and gay. Bernie is getting attention because of his taxes, going on Fox News, being a socialist, and front running. Biden gets attention because he hasn't announced and benefits from speculation. Booker and Beto, as Levi has pointed, have fallen off. Harris, who was arguably seen as a front runner, isn't getting much attention, but she hasn't been putting out her own policy ideas (that I've seen). Klobouchar was getting attention but not for the right reasons. And Gillenbrand hasn't received really any attention, but I've read there's been a lack of cohesion and direction in her campaign. I think there's clearly a bit of sexism (probably both in terms of distribution and consumption of the news), but there's also been lack of news-making on the part of the female candidates beyond Warren.
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I'm not disputing that they won't qualify for asylum, but that doesn't speak of their motives. In any case, I'm comfortable with calling them refugees. And as far as dealing with the actual problem, perhaps our asylum policy should consider economic hardships that occur due to acts of the origin government.
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I don't think anyone disagrees with this, but "illegals" has been used both to describe people who are seeking asylum, and those illegally crossing the border for work/trafficking etc. The two are discrete problems. But certainly there has been a lot more hubbub about the caravans and those coming from Central America, which seem to fall in the category of asylum seekers. (And to be fair, ewen has been jumping around in which group he's specifically talking about). And of course they aren't granted asylum automatically, but we still have to ethically process their petitions and then deport them which both costs time and money, perhaps better directed at mitigating the underlying situation which makes them leave their homes in the first place.
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Look, you keep changing the parameters of the discussion, so as to avoid addressing anyone's points. Upthread you said a 1000 people were at El Paso in one day, and kept pointing out how many people were coming to the border, and blamed Democrats for having no ideas; I shot-gunned a number of ideas how to address, and you ignored them on the premise that discussion is strictly about sanctuary cities, which is disingenuous. As Levi says, it's difficult to want to put out the effort to engage with you when you ignore much of the merit of what a poster has to say on whatever procedural grounds you decide but don't apply to yourself. It's exhausting.
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What is a Democrat? Why can't the party move towards Bernie? I don't get the loyalty to the Democratic party.
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Although I agree with the premise. Mejia dosen't have options; thus we lose him if we put him on waivers.
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He's miscast. They should shop him around and see if they can get actual relief help.
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I didn't watch. But I think it was a good idea. I'll continue to say Bernie has more cross appeal to the populist Trump voters than some us are willing to acknowledge.
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Is it any more urgent than the growing homelessness problem, or the rate at which people get addicted to opioids? Or as you continue to point out, the violence that happens among largely black communities in Chicago? Last I saw illegal border crossings are way done. If we are going to pool our efforts I've got some better causes in mind. You want solutions? Decriminalize the drug trade, taking the power away from the cartels. Redirect aid from Israel to Central American countries. Empower the UN to enforce transparent elections in Central and South America. Throw our support behind governments that work for their own people's interest, rather than American business interests. Develop an ethical process for the entry and exclusion of asylum seekers. Along the border, rather than building a wall, build unstaffed shelters with water and communication, encouraging people to contact the government. More broadly, prioritize people coming from Central and South America over anyone else in the world. Develop a plan for well-qualified people to enter legally at the border, without the upper-class need for paper work ahead of time. Prioritize politically, straightening out corruption in Mexico and other nations. Use trade benefits to leverage these countries, because it's their own business interests that the corruption survives. Or anything but put people in ****ing camps, and taking their babies. I'm shotgunning here. But the notion there's not an ethical, affordable way to deal with the border crisis is disingenuous and dishonest.
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He would need to be waived, and likely would be claimed. No options remaining.
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Mejia as an 8th guy made little sense. I don't understand why they left him in there after Smoak got a hit.
