If only she had 108 days…
This would work so much better for Hunter. But I suppose that would have required daddy Biden to do something about drugs coming over the border.
True, but the Biden family hasn’t been relevant for some time, and Don Jr. strikes me as closely resembling the trope of a 1980’s cocaine-using businessman.
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Top comment on /r/memphis to a post sharing the Executive Order deploying federal resources to Memphis:
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Why not both?
Possibly. But is Don Jr an admitted and convicted addict?
You mean like the drone strike on the people “responsible” for the Afghan airport bombings? The one that killed an aid worker, his wife and kids, and a guy who had been a translator for US forces.
Be honest here. The strikes on the boats have at least as much to back them up as the drone strikes Obama liked to use in the Mid East and Central Asia.
Although the precedent of two presidents committing war crimes shouldn’t justify a third president’s war crimes, the drone strikes in the Middle East and Central Asia do at least have the cover of being arguably related to the Congressional authorization of the use of military force against parties at least tangentially related to the 9/11 attacks.
The current administration has referenced that authorization in their justification for their recent boat-bombings. That’s a stretch beyond the point of believability (not that the authorization hasn’t already been stretched too far).
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I’m not fan of any of our actions in Iraq or Afghanistan in this century, but at least they had the tacit approval of both Congress and a large portion of the American public.
Trump is ignoring all that and just killing people to burnish his tough-guy image.
Be honest. Do you really have no problem with these actions? Is this method somehow bettee than the previous protocol of interdiction that was the norm?
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Oh I have problems with these actions.
I am certainly not in favor of extrajudicial killings. I also happen to think that we need to take significantly firmer measures with the cartels. What I honestly wish would happen is that the Congresscritters of both parties would start doing their jobs. We might have some hope of hashing out good policy and have relative stability across administrations if that happened.
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We had a decent chance at that before Trump shot down the bipartisan border bill.
There were 3 consecutive administrations in which bipartisan border bills were agreed to, only for the Republicans to back out. Trump shooting it down was particularly frustrating, because he mostly did so after Ann Coulter bullied him about it and now the 2 of them hate each other anyways.
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Yep. That was the first meaningful legislation in years on the topic, and Trump killed it because he thought it hurt his election chances.
