Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Rod, Jim:

Is Trump a mastermind or a buffoon? 

You guys think he incited violence.  If Trump truly was inciting an insurrection,  he clearly was cagey enough to walk up to the line of criminality but not step over it.  I have read the transcript of his speech.  Some quotes taken out of context make it sound like he was inciting violence.  But overall, each of those quotes, in context, has a more  innocuous "political rah-rah" interpretation too.  If Trump was actually inciting violence, he was masterful and cautious - he spun up the crowd to march on the Capitol, but never really exposed himself to legit criminal charges.  This would be Trump the mastermind, and I'm not buying it.

I think he spun up the crowd of adoring fans without thinking of any consequences.  When did he ever think before he acted?  Did he even know there were some in the crowd hell-bent on violence, up to and including allegedly hanging Pence?  I doubt it.  Maybe he should have known the danger.  Maybe he should have listened to level headed advice.  But when did he ever do that, to this day?  I'm in the Trump as a buffoon camp, and I do not think the second impeachment was righteous at all.  

We'll see if any future or current president pays the price for cheapening the impeachment process into something along the lines of a feeble censure.   You could argue that the cheapening of impeachment has been a long time coming, and you'd be right - but that does not mean the most recent instance was a good idea.

Jim

It's clear from Trump's many actions that he's a psychopath. As such, he doesn't care about the ramifications of his actions along as they serve an immediate gratification of his own needs. In this instance, his actions by way omission and co-mission in his speech was to incite the crowd in order to keep in himself in power to satisfy his own need to do so. That's also why he watched, with great satisfaction, the rioting within the capitol without calling for it to stop.

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

People that watch a variety of news (although NBC did show 4 seconds) saw the 10,000 gathered under the overpass on the border. People that say this is not a big problem might live in a neighborhood where it is not a problem. These are not only Mexican but Haitian and other Central Americans. How high is the rate of vaccination? Haitians could be lower than 1%. It is not very high in Mexico either. Biden is making a lot of noise about COVID but seems to be overlooking this part of the problem. He has failed on the S. Border.

I don't see them being allowed to move from there into our country, do you? That's why they are where they are. Moreover, just the other day, "A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from expelling migrant families with children apprehended at the US-Mexico border under a public health order, according to a Thursday ruling, marking a major defeat for the administration."
"In a long-awaited ruling, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia District Court acknowledged that the ruling will force the government to make difficult decisions, but determined that there are enough measures that can be taken to mitigate the spread of Covid-19."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/politics/federal-judge-blocks-administration-expulsion-of-migrant-families/index.html

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

CNN is saying thousands of them have crossed the border.
NBC is saying they are not tested unless they are showing symptoms!

Here is what CNN is stating:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/us/texas-del-rio-migrants-bridge/index.html
Again, a federal judge says the Biden administration can't expel on the basis of covid: 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/politics/federal-judge-blocks-administration-expulsion-of-migrant-families/index.html
What part of that can't you understand, Mel? All of it?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

PVL Weasel,


Where do you think they are going to go?  The Biden Administration is bussing them and flying them all over the place, to Southern States, to Midwest States, everywhere but your place there in Temecula.  

Do you get up in the morning, pull brain matter out of your ears, and then replace that grey matter with Stale bits of Cracker Jacks as a substitute for brain cells??  

Just curious.

And hopefully someone is taking measures to stop the spread of Covid by Migrants, because Joe Biden and the rest of the idiots he surrounds himself with, aren't doing a damned thing.  

Not that you care..

The Biden administration has been flying them across the US to their ultimate destination: deep in the interior of Mexico! That's what your MAGA media forgets to tell you!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-starts-flying-migrant-families-into-mexico-far-border-source-2021-08-06/

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

I understand you are pretending Biden cannot keep them out. Some will believe that.

Not for covid, as per the judge's decision and that's what we've been discussing...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Now you are saying silly stuff. Biden should not allowed thousands to come here.

Here, read about the peaks between during the Trump administration in 2019 and the peaks in 2021:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/border-crisis-2021-2019-trump-biden-explainer/index.html

and:
"Migrant encounters refer to two distinct kinds of events: apprehensions, in which migrants are taken into custody in the United States to await adjudication, and expulsions, in which migrants are immediately expelled to their home country or last country of transit without being held in U.S. custody.
Most encounters that have occurred in recent months have resulted in expulsion, not apprehension, under a public health order known as Title 42. President Donald Trump’s administration invoked Title 42 in March 2020, arguing that it would slow the domestic spread of the coronavirus by expelling migrants rather than holding them in close quarters in U.S. immigration facilities. Between April 2020 and the end of the Trump administration, more than 80% of monthly migrant encounters at the southwestern border resulted in expulsion rather than apprehension."
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/13/migrant-encounters-at-u-s-mexico-border-are-at-a-21-year-high/
Remember, we can't keep 'em out because of covid due to the federal judge's order. So we're either expelling most of them or apprehending them. Either way, they're being caught so stop reading or listening to propaganda news on MAGA media....

So it's evident you are saying silly stuff...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

What a bunch of nonsense.
So Biden wants more to be on this side but those mean judges just won't let him!

READ THE LINKS! 

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

For the stupid people, the unaware people, and the just plain brain dead out there, and lastly those with 2 brain cells to rub together:

https://starlocalmedia.com/news/state/texas-border-town-struggles-with-covid-positive-migrants-released-into-community/article_ad04a07d-9559-514a-a0d6-feb400d01ff6.html

McAllen Tx, 7000 illegal aliens with Covid left in their city.  

Just one of more than 100 cities that had had illegal aliens sent on buses or flown into their cities by Biden.

The Del Rio bridge has 11,000 living in filth and their own sewage.

Good Job Biden.  

"CNN reported on Thursday that the Dept. of Homeland Security planned to use emergency funds to support efforts to test migrants in Border Patrol custody but, according to the network’s sources, Texas had not approved the grant."

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Looks like "over the horizon" needs more work.
The videos of Biden announcing the strike are not helpful.

He announced the first strike which took out the right target. I don't recall him announcing the second one. Either way, the general conducting the operation took full responsibility for it since he made the final call to pull the trigger...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

8-29 Strike
8-31 Biden-"This is the way the mission was designed.
9-01   Few Dems defend Biden.
Biden says he takes responsibility.

8-26: Biden, quoting General McKenzie, "And as General McKenzie said, this is why our mission was designed — this is the way it was designed to operate:" Biden takes responsibility for withdrawal, not for drone strikes
8-28: First Strike, accurate and successful
8-28: Biden: "Another strike likely"
8-29: Second Strike
9-17: General McKenzie takes responsibility for botched second strike.

Notice how Mel conflates and confuses different dates and issues. Nothing new here with that...