Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border | The White House
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East Room 2:20 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  I’ve come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress refuse to do: take the necessary steps to secure our border.  Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation between my staff and Democrats and Republicans, we came to a clear — clear bipartisan deal…

Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation between my staff and Democrats and Republicans, we came to a clear — clear bipartisan deal that was the strongest border security agreement in decades. But then Republicans in Congress — not all, but — walked away from it. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. He told the Republicans — it has been published widely by many of you — that he didn’t want to fix the issue; he wanted to use it to attack me. That’s what he wanted to do. It was a cynical and a – extremely cynical political move and a complete disservice to the American people, who are looking for us to — not to weaponize the border but to fix it.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    He is going to the right though, and a clear issue here is that many independents are actually on the left of. democrats. We’re not a cohesive group or a “party”.

    And he is fucking over the border. We know what we need to solve it- increased funding for more clerks/judges/legal aid

    But that’s not funding for their salary raises/expenses, or the corporate/billionaire mega donors subsidies and tax breaks. So fuck even trying that.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Long term it’s an awful idea, for the DNC

        It’ll put the DNC in competition for the conservative votes, while leaving progressives free to form a legitimate party that’s actually progressive.

        For the short term, it means the republicans are just going to further into fascism while the dnc progresses to fascist lite (exactly where the repugnants used to be.)

        The only hope is if one or the other parties fails and/or progressives to finally figure out that “lesser of two evils” is exactly how we got here in the first place

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Short therm, you’re very right- long term, 2+ decades, if the dems keep shifting right, it’ll happen on its own.

            Democrats and republicans are not the first political parties in the US. They probably won’t be the last.

              • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                20 years from now, they won’t remember this specific act. But it doesn’t change the shift, and people will remember the broad strokes.

                Not sure how that’s a far cry. Short term, democrats are going fascist lite as republicans are full on embracing fascism.

                Progressives (and the centrists being passed by,) are either going to continue voting for the lesser evil (which is increasingly fascist…) or they’re going to find other answers.

                This is just my prediction.