• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Some of my fav bits from this 92 page pile of donkey turds

    President Biden has taken decisive action to secure our border through executive actions that have significantly restricted eligibility for asylum at the border and created innovative legal pathways to the U.S. that, when coupled with strong enforcement, have decreased illegal border crossings. Since President Biden announced new border restrictions in June 2024, the number of unlawful crossings has fallen by 40 percent, demonstrating that the policy works. He has also implemented policies that have stopped record amounts of fentanyl from crossing our border.

    From page 62; weren’t we talking about how inhumane this was?

    LMAO

    President Biden has repeatedly asked Congress for additional resources to secure our border, including increases for personnel that are critically needed to quickly deliver consequences at the border to those who cross unlawfully. The Department of Homeland Security requested funds to hire 1,300 Border Patrol agents and 1,600 asylum officers. Meanwhile, the bipartisan Senate bill would have provided an additional 1,500 Customs and Border Protection personnel and 4,300 asylum officers. Congressional Republicans continue to play partisan politics with the security of our border instead of working with Democrats to fund these critically needed resources for DHS and border communities.

    From page 63, guess not, fuck them kids (in cages). I could pull more from their immigration section, but it’s just pissing me off.

    President Biden is working to build a durable peace in the Middle East bolstered by regional integration, a strong coalition to counter and deter Iran and prevent it and its terrorist proxies from threatening the security of the region, and a negotiated two-state solution that ensures Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state with recognized borders and upholds the right of Palestinians to live in freedom and security in a viable state of their own. The terrorist group Hamas sought to destroy the promise of that vision on October 7, 2023, but they will not succeed. The United States strongly supports Israel in the fight against Hamas. And the hard work of diplomacy under the President’s leadership has made real progress on a way forward that will free the hostages, establish a durable ceasefire, ease humanitarian suffering in Gaza, and make possible normalization between Israel and key Arab states, together with meaningful progress and a political horizon for the Palestinian people.

    From page 82

    Holy shit, they really do attack Trump for not doing enough about Iran lmao

    All of this [ed: prior 3 paragraphs all about bs Biden did against Iran] stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility. In June 2019, when Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace above the Straits of Hormuz, Trump responded by tweet and then abruptly called off any actual retaliation, causing confusion and concern among his own national security team. In September 2019, when Iranian-backed groups threatened global energy markets by attacking Saudi oil infrastructure, Trump failed to respond against Iran or its proxies. In January 2020, when Iran, for the first and only time in its history, directly launched ballistic missiles against U.S. troops in western Iraq, Trump mocked the resulting Traumatic Brain Injuries suffered by dozens of American servicemembers as mere “headaches” – and again, took no action

    From page 83

    Page 84 actually pisses me off more than the immigration section.

    Also, I get 12 matches for “in his second term” referring to Biden’s (presumptive) second term, are these idiots aware of who their nominee is? I’m supposed to take this clown shoes party seriously when they can’t even fucking proofread their own officially released documents?

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    Wherever i read the blueMAGA excuses there is one that surfaces very often and is very specific: Trump said that capital of Israel is Jerusalem.

    Dems are really taking all of what Trump said and did and are doing worse, point after point.

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    So the Harris campaign has committed to Biden’s strategy of “No I promise, I am the greater evil, I will do more evil than Trump and I can do it better, please vote for my evil”

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    Good to have their official policy positions that I can turn to when people act surprised that I don’t support any of the shit that they represent.

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    Before you quote this tweet it doesn’t actually say most of that stuff, except that BDS is discriminatory. It does however continue the Iran nuclear weapons myth, bringing back old classics

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      Hilarious that they’re calling Trump pulling out of the deal a “costly mistake” but don’t mention that Biden’s only offer to Iran was the same deal with even more restrictions and limitations on Iran. Iran would likelyhave returned to the original deal but Biden’s own costly mistake of slapping Iran in the face with more restrictions to get back to a deal Iran didn’t break means there’s still no fuckin deal

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        And again, a deal that was only ever a protection racket in the US’s favor in the first place. Iran is not, and has never been, developing nuclear weapons.

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            Any country that hasn’t needed to immediately arm themselves with nukes given what happened with Iraq. The US has shown it won’t hold war criminals responsible, so you’re leaving yourself open to regime change if you don’t have WMDs. This is especially true for Iran, who Americans confuse with Iraq all the time.

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      When you’re talking to sympathetic-but-skeptical libs (and many of us were there once), it’s far better to understate your claims than overstate them. You don’t want to get bogged down on debatable shit; keep the conversation on topics where there isn’t any defense.

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    so does it actually say this stuff or is this a gross exaggeration being repeated uncritically?

    (gross exaggeration?? in my hexbear?? it’s more likely than you think)

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      Nah, as pointed out elsewhere, this is exaggerated. The doc definitely thinks we should have been much harder on Iran, Yemen, and Lebanon, but doesn’t outline going to war with them, just the usual vague garbage of ‘Trump needed to be rougher with them’.

      It is right that the doc calls BDS discriminatory, and it is also critical of the UN, but not to the point of underscoring it as evil

      Poorly proofread garbage that still presupposes Biden getting a second term, and your usual neoliberal slop with some notable new (for them) nastiness (‘border security’,‘uncritical support for Israel to defend itself’, etc), though I suppose uncritical support for Israel is not new.