it's a cult

fuck the tories

exactly, so why would we just concede to him on the immigration debate? point this out to people. remind them that we're talking about human beings. remind them of how horrifying his first term treatment of migrants was. and remind them of where this path leads, because we have most definitely been down this road before and it was my understanding that we did not want to go back.

I'm less alarmed and more cynically unsurprised. but again, the majority wanting something awful should not mean giving it to them. what would be the point in beating Trump if we only do so by implementing all his policies? is there not an option B where we CHANGE PEOPLE'S MINDS about immigration?

the budgets wouldn't be an issue if we TAXED THE FUCKING RICH and gave cities more funding. the only reason for there to even be a federal law on immigration levels is racism. and again, just because a bunch of voters are racist dickheads doesn't mean they get their way. there are limits on democracy; voters didn't want to integrate schools in the 50s, but we did it anyway bc it was THE RIGHT THING TO DO. democracy should not codify bigotry.

yeah, Biden could have done a lot of things to dick over migrants. BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO DICK OVER MIGRANTS.

oh fuck off. if those policies helped the drug cartels then how did we still manage to seize record amounts of fentanyl at the border? as for the coyotes, you know how you stop human traffickers? you make it so people don't have to resort to using them to get somewhere safe. if we welcome these people and make it easier to come on their own, they won't need to pay smugglers to get them here.

all of which I see as a great thing. people SHOULD be able to seek asylum here bc gangs have overrun their home. we SHOULD be welcoming any migrant coming to find a better life. we've got a gigantic goddamn statue on our largest port of entry that explicitly says so. how the fuck are we gonna claim to be the land of the free while defying the words of the statue of LIBERTY?

"most voters want to brutalize desperate minorities from third-world countries" is not a reason to actually do it. the only Dems who are criticizing Biden just don't want to deal with migrants themselves. I want Biden to give a speech like "yeah I hear what you want on immigration, and I'm telling you that is awful and I won't treat human beings that way. grow up, find your compassion, and quit giving in to your basest impulses."

IMPEACH. HIM. NOW.

I don't... I don't even know what to say to a lot of this. it would be like asking me to respond when someone says their most prominent memory of Trump is when he sprouted wings and pushed the Earth 10 million miles further from the Sun to stop global warming

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I'll post screenshots of the individual responses first, to highlight a few trends:

1) note how the Trump supporters are not only divorced from reality, they have fully taken up residence in the Upside Down

2) the only people who remembered January 6th and/or Covid are Biden supporters. Trump supporters have completely wiped his most despicable, abhorrent, indefensible moments from their memory

okay, this poll was nuts. I think I should start by saying I got this in my inbox, and it took a ridiculous amount of finagling to actually read it and see that... there is no one thing that stood out above the rest.

I swear to God if this doesn't win him the election, I am flinging this entire country into the sun

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okay I'm having a Mandela moment because I could SWEAR the Ayatollah was assassinated. like, wasn't he a supervillain from the Cold War era?

it really says a lot when your diplomats can't endorse statehood for a group of people without being punished.

and what the fuck is with this trend of "if you hold a politician accountable for their crimes, I now support them"? are we just doing away with the entire concept of corruption?

and of course it didn't.

good luck, kids with precocious puberty! and transition surgery for minors? a thing that DOES NOT EXIST BECAUSE CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT TO ANY KIND OF ELECTIVE SURGERY? tilting at fucking windmills because your rabid base has to have some minority target to destroy