You see we cause the problems and then we fix the problems, thus creating the self-sustaining economy we've been looking for.

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"The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY!"

Pretty blackpilling that the people who I heard my whole life whipped into a frenzy over how sacrosanct those all were turned out the the people who have come the closest to dismantling it, seemingly because we had the audacity to elect a black man to President. And then trying a woman next?

Some of us are capable of holding 3 distinct thoughts at once, sorry about your disability.

I wasn't talking about you but the guy I was originally responding to, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Forced centrism is in fact not a virtue. I am being partisan but I also believe I can fully justify that.

Hey can't put a price on a much needed evening of circle jerking each other. Of the actors won't do it for themselves who will??

It's a bit like media piracy, these are not people who would have spent money on the product no matter.

Anybody so wary to not have an Amazon account or even risk making a burner account wasn't watching the Emmys anyway. The people turned off by that requirement is like a percent of a percent.

Sure I can see that perspective and DACA was subject to the same problems all EOs are; they can just be undone with the stroke of a pen. However I think it's worth understanding that DACA didn't just go from idea to EO via Obama as soon as the idea came about, this was an issue that was attempting to be dealt with for the better part of a decade before DACA came through. Also I am not gonna listening to whining about EOs from a supporter of a man who has all but discarded Congress and passed more EOs in 2 years than Obama did in 8.

I mean just today the NY Fed said that we have 2% across the baord inflation solely due to the tariffs, tariffs enacted via EO. No smoke for that?

Would I have preferred real legislation? Absolutely. Did I want a bunch of DACA kids to be deported to countries they have never known in their lives because Republicans want to keep immigration a campaign wedge point forever and ever? No. We've had at least 2 Republican trifectas since then, why no new legislation?

And yeah, here we are because we still don't have an immigration legislation. Republican's refusal to pass that bill for decades means we are going to end up granting amnesty to way more than 1.3m

None of that happens in a vacuum though, the reason DACA was done via EO was that Republicans refused to pass the DREAM Act which was a bi-partisan bill kicked around since 2001 but Republicans would filibuster it at every oppurtunity.

- Same with the McCain Kennedy bill, bipartisan legislation never got a vote in the Senate
- Same with another bill in 2007, never made it out of the Senate
- Same with the Gang of 8 Bill which did et over 60 votes in the Senate, bipartisan! Then John Boehner , Republican Speaker, let it die on the vine, never got a vote.
- Then we have the Lankford bill, a bipartisan yet very conservative bill that Biden signaled he would sign. Was going to be actual law until Trump told Republicans he needed the issue to campaign on (Ted Cruz admitted to this explicitly) so they let it die.

So at every opportunity to pass actual immigration reform, something we have needed for like 50+ years, the last major legislation being from the Reagan era (where he granted amnesty!) Republicans stand in the way, almost like they don't really care about the issue, I mean, if immigration is this huge crisis why no legislation? Someone answer that question.

Absolutely fucking not, the lawlessness, the destruction of norms, the bending of the alw, the craven grifting, the brutally divisive rhetoric, it's incredibly different and any equivocation is really just copium or ignorance, usually the former, it's a self soothing permission structure, "we can be fucking unhinged because i feel personally slighted"

Even the bitter clingers thing is just nonsense, even the smallest bit of context destroys that whole talking point, there's a reason it's always brought up and never quoted

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

What exactly is so offensive about that statement? Who are the snowflakes here?

That is not responsive to anything I said. What statement did I make that is false?