VakAttack

Feels like I haven't seen the BernDawg in quite a while. Hope all is well.

Obviously they're not doing as well as Penn State. For the sake of this post, I'll concede development on Mizzou and NC State, even though neither team has consistently outperformed Iowa. But Ohio State? GTFOH. They have more resources than everybody, and still Iowa has better results, and there's no evidence of Tom Ryan and Co. developing athletes better than Iowa. I'd argue tOSU has underperformed what should be expected of them.

I'd recommend the older stuff, but then I say that about most country music.

You're just being purposely obtuse. HR2 wasn't a bipartisan piece of legislation, and couldn't even get the support of the entire R caucus. It was purposely designed not to be passed, including language to try to kill support for aukraine, a Democratic priority So "we" are not playing that game too. It's fine that you guys don't actually care about the border, I'm just glad you're fondant admitting it.

You insisting that Biden could have done this before is a broken record, it's all true, as could Trump. But they didn't, and now, it's being offered. The definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face...if you actually care about the issue.

The amount that you and others demand things explained to you that you could read for yourselves is staggering. The bill reshapes the asylum policy, including a mandatory border closure policy over the 5,000 person threshold. It increases the standards that people have to meet to be granted asylum while also streamlining the process of asylum claims being adjudicated. Exhibit A on the compromise (people on the left have been pushing for streamlining the process for years, as these claims right now take years to adjudicate) while people on the right have been pushing for higher standards to meet criteria for asylum. There's an increase in funding for increased detention, up to 50,000 people, which is a conservative wishlist item for years. The bill also forces the Biden administration to continue to erect border barriers beyond what they're currently required to do by previous appropriations, obviously a known Trump dream and something Biden has spoken out against. Compromise.

I HAVE criticized the Democrats for how they handled abortion issue, what are you talking about? Not for "dog catching car", but for the fact they played politics on it without trying to pass any actual laws on the subject because they liked being able to use it as a political weapon.

I was on a flight during the semifinals, and ESPN wasn't working for most of it, but man, managed to figure out at some point that Spencer got pinned, but I didn't see most of the semifinals.

They won a team title two years ago and have taken third and second since then. People have got to stop the madness.

There is not "just as much" bipartisan support for voting no. Using simple math, that's 24 out of 100. But I would guess, given the open public pressure not to pass it for political reasons, that number will grow on the Republican side. As to the text of the bill, which is by definition a compromise between the two parties, that means obviously there are things in there you won't like and things in there I won't like. That's what a compromise is. As to the actual parts of the bill, the people who are charged with actually doing the border enforcement say it's a good (but not perfect) thing, and THEY want it to pass. Stop trying to shift the argument. This is just another case of Republicans catching the car and not knowing what to do or liking it, just like the abortion debate. For months and as recently as December, they screamed that any additional support for Ukraine would have to be tied to border reform. They obviously thought Democrats would never go for it, and now they have, and they're just refusing to go ahead for openly political reasons. That may play well for the full on MAGA heads, but not with the normal people/independents, who WANT both parties to work together and compromise.

Nah, what I said was correct.

RIP to Toby Keith. I didn't agree with his politics, but the man put out some BANGERS, especially early in his career before the performative patriotism became his staple. Cancer is a bitch, and it seems like the end stage of his life was rough, so I'm glad he's not in pain anymore. "How Do You Like Me Now?", "Shoulda Been a Cowboy", "Whose that Man?", "Beer for My Horses", "I Love This Bar", "As Good as I once Was", and "Whiskey Girl" are all all-timers.

Great. You still haven't answered why it shouldn't be done, you've just whined about why it wasn't done earlier.

Fine. Political person does something for political gain. Do you care about the issue? Nope, not really, because the thing you're saying should have happened is now being offered.

You're not even trying, lol.

Great. And a bipartisan group is ready to give it to them. If you actually cared about the border, you'd be jazzed. You don't, so you're not.

Ok. That still doesn't answer why we shouldn't do it. Because the people on the front lines want it.

It's ok, man. It's good you're finally able to admit it.

So you don't actually care about the border, good to know.

I'm sorry, I was told multiple times he already had the power to just do these things. Is that only true for Biden? What a wonderful exercise in lowering the bar, though, lol.

It's weird how he didn't do that the first time. Almost as if he doesn't really care about the things he screams about unless they somehow help or enrich him.

The literal Border Patrol Union is telling you this is not true, and yet here you are, the guy with the real answers.

I don't know, maybe the situation wasn't as bad back then? How is this a justification for not doing it now?

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Why don't President Trump or the House GOP support Border Patrol?