Border crisis

[Sua Sponte]

53 minutes ago, Prosuper said:

How about the idiots who vote for the idiots that run Denver. It's getting to the point that the Peterson SFB commissary is the most north I want to go in Colorado. Have to go to Boulder for a forest fire fighter class soon, looking forward to all the rainbow hair color spectrum LBGTQ I'll be seeing.   

Do you mean the self-proclaimed "Democratic Socialists?" This idiot is the first Gen Z rep in the CO General Assembly. Besides being in his 20s and looking like he's 40, he's too buy replacing the US flag at his desk in the House with a Palestine one, sponsoring a "Chicano/Chicana" license plate (like CO needs any more license plates), and "an assault weapons ban."

https://twitter.com/_timhernandez?lang=en

To the citizens of Denver who are now pissed the mayor is cutting $180M in the city's budget to pay for migrants, you get what you vote for.

 

Edited March 30 by Sua Sponte

[Sua Sponte]

20 minutes ago, dream big said:

Just enjoy the craft beer, it’s one thing the hippies have on the rest of the country, just one. 

Beer in the PNW is better and I grew up in the Front Range area. Avery Brewery in Boulder is pretty great though.

[HeloDude]

The beautiful thing about the US is that as bad as the federal government is, a lot of the state/local governments differ quite a bit—move to one that more closely matches your values and desires.

[Lord Ratner]

5 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

It will be interesting to see if this issue is strong enough to overpower abortion as the deciding factor in the next election.  Right now the polls would indicate it is...I simply don't understand why our liberal friends think this situation is acceptable.

I think if it was a year ago, abortion would have a lot more weight. But fortunately the process is going the way I had hoped, and each state is coming up with their own rules, which will never shut up the activists, but will absolutely shut up the voters, who do not make huge distinctions between state and federal law, as long as they agree with it. More voters will be satisfied with abortion law as a result of the Supreme Court's action. And whatever damage it did in the election in 2022 I think was overridden by the absolute dog shit slate of candidates that Trump got on the ballots.

 

Of course, if Republicans try to make abortion a federal issue again, which some of them are, they'll get exactly what they deserve.

 

(Sidebar, if anyone is interested we can start a new thread on my theory that in our lifetime contraceptives and abortion will be outright outlawed as more countries grapple with the painful results of population decline.)

 

As to immigration, I honestly don't know. While I do believe there is an element of society, especially in academia, who are trying to covertly flip over the system in order to rebuild it in a postmodernist, pseudo Marxist fashion, I generally don't give those conspiracies the credit of wide scale participation at the political level.

 

But the continued insistence of many Democrats to support this absolute dumpster fire at the border is truly mystifying. I know they see the same polls that show how unpopular open borders are, and I know they see the polls that show Donald Trump taking the lead in a matchup with Biden, so whatever reason they are refusing to adapt is not because of political expediency. That only leaves a true desire for an immigration disaster, one that would support the eventual "reset" of our Democratic capitalist society into a communist Utopia, or they simply cannot fathom the idea of supporting anything that the opposition supported before them. The fact that Republicans have been anti-illegal immigration simply excludes the possibility of Democrats ever changing their mind?

 

Either way, immigration coupled with Joe biden's obvious and continued decline is going to cost them the election. Unfortunately that means Donald Trump is going to win, which while the 4 years of his presidency will probably be marked by great policy and less chaos, it is very likely he triggers the same response that leads to another idiotic Democrat winning the following election and undoing whatever good things he accomplishes. Or maybe not since he can't run again.

 

Until the war kicks off at least. Then we restart the cycle.

[Standby]

4 hours ago, dream big said:

Just enjoy the craft beer, it’s one thing the hippies have on the rest of the country, just one.

Oh great…another shitty IPA courtesy of these folks. They can have their “craft” beer. 

[ClearedHot]

Anyone watch FBI Director Wray's testimony yesterday on renewing FISA?  "A coordinated attack on the U.S. is likely."  He tried to say it without saying it, the border has let a lot of bad actors in and we are about to reap the outcome.  The administration is now signalling Biden will come out with an executive order the end of April on the border so he can claim he fixed it...even though he has been saying he doesn't have that power for the past three years.