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If my argument was so bad, why couldn't you come up with anything of substance to refute it?

Tom Homan was first appointed to lead border enforcement by Barack Obama. He says "Look, I started in the Board Patrol in 1984. I've been at this for over 40 years. I've worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can't have national security if you don't have strong border security. We got to know who's coming in, what's coming in, where it's coming in, why it's coming in, right? Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. That's just a fact.” So, gas light all you want. The fact is the Biden admin did open the border to just about everyone. That is why we had a surge at the border. That is why he had a high incidence of turn backs. But he also had a policy that devastated millions of people trying to get here. We have no clue how many died on the way. We have a vague understanding of all thoughts that were raped. We can't even grasp how many became slave here in America. Stop with the incessant gas lighting. You are lying. Everyone on this forum knows you are lying. Just stop already. Patently false: 8 U.S. Code § 1158 - Asylum "(2) Exceptions (A) Safe third country Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that the alien may be removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to a country..." They don't even have to send them home. They can literally ship them to any where in the world. Hypothetically, if we could vet them all, I have no problem with it from just an immigration standpoint. That said, this would be like filling a bathtub with a fire hose. So many problems. Tweaking the rates is fine though. Prove it. Debunked above. But keep repeating that lie. No, they are fleeing poverty or the law. The rest comes with violating the law. And now that we enforce the law, these things are not happening. Perhaps you are just making shit up. I said help them make their economies better. I didn't say send them money. Are you so unimaginative that you think the only way to fix a problem is to send money?

Is that why democrats are underwater...with their own others...in their own polls? You are delusional. This is what blind hatred looks like folks.

And how long have you been living in this fantasy world?

So true. But Rubio has returned a hero 20 times and that was just last month. /hyperbole. You could probably make a case for better VPs than Vance in our history. You'd be very hard pressed to find a better Sec of State than Rubio.

Rubio is a no doubter. Still loooove JD. But Rubio might out do Trump as POTUS.

The left: Melania was helping Epstein! Melania: "No I wasn't." The left: "See! Her denial proves everything!" These people are just distracting us from all the great things that have happened under 47. So let's have a look: Iran will never have a nuke. Venezuela is now our oil partner. China lost two oil partners. Russia lost two oil partners. Tax cuts are permanent. No tax on tips. Border closed. 3 million + deportations. Border wall being built. Renegotiate trade deals. Inflation under control Jobs shifted from government to private sector. Serious investigations into fraud. Mexico finally going after cartels. Trillions in new investments in the US. Terminated Biden-era electric vehicle mandates and policies. Implemented policies to combat fentanyl trafficking and illegal immigration enforcement. Facilitated the release of American hostages held abroad. Expanded American energy production and repealed restrictive environmental regulations. Established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and promoted U.S. leadership in digital assets. Signed executive orders protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation and ending unfair sports practices. Reformed federal bureaucracy to increase efficiency and reduce waste. 125 year lows in crimes, including murders. Advanced education reform and parental rights in schooling. Expanded clemency with pardons and commutations addressing perceived injustices. College sports reforms. Serious investigations into voter fraud. There are probably more. But what does the left have as accomplishments? Shot at border agents in Texas. Shot at other border agents in Texas, killing two illegal immigrants. Came up with TACO. Rioted in LA. Rioted in Minneapolis. Killed Charlie Kirk. Pushed debunked Epstein conspiracy theories. Record low approval ratings including net disapproval in own party. Shut down the government, twice, harming the people that are supposed to be protecting us from danger. Look, keep doing what you are doing. I love it. The left has become completely irrelevant in today's political climate. Don't stop now.

The wealth tax is the latest way democrats are proposing to bilk Americans of their money and fund the massive fraud that is our government's budget. A wealth tax will severely harm our economy. A wealth tax is: Let's take Calofornia's "one-time" wealth tax on billionaires as an example of how this would destroy economies. They want voters to vote on a 5% wealth tax (CNBC). The 5% would be the sum of all assets a billionaire owns. That would mean real estate, investments, cash, businesses etc would all have to be assessed for value and then totaled to determine the taxable amount. Once that taxable amount is determined, the billionaire has to pay the 5% with cash. At a minimum, that would be $50 million. Most rich people don't have all their assets in cash. They have property, investments, businesses, etc. The cash they do have is considered operating capital. Cash they use for day to day life. Fifty million is not just play money. They don't have this sitting in a bank account just waiting to be spent. How would they get the cash then? The cash would likely come from assets that are easy to sell. The easiest assets to sell are stocks, bonds and other investments. This will be where the economy gets harmed the most. If every billionaire had to sell their assets at the same time, they would flood the market. Econ 101 tells us that when a market is flooded with supply, the price goes down. The biggest issue with lower stock prices is the loss of leverage. Lower stock prices make it harder for businesses to raise capital. If they can't raise capital, or they have to pay more to get the capital, growth becomes harder. If a business can't grow the economy can't grow. Do not expect this "one-time" tax to be a one-time or just for billionaires. Eventually, it will be millionaires too. Imagine you have a $500,000 home, a car worth $30,000, a 401k worth $400,000 and $70,000 in cash. Congrats, you are a millionaire. Now you have to raise $50,000 in cash to pay your taxes. The first year is doable. But what about next year? The year after that? There are examples of how a wealth tax has harmed local governments. Maryland tried it in 2007. Instead of raising tax revenues, revenues fell drastically. This is what is in California's future. This is also what is in the future for America if we install such a suppressive tax. If America employs a wealth tax, you will see a rise in LLCs that are listed as investment companies. These investment companies would all magically hold just under the wealth tax number and/or they will be off shore investment accounts, leaving America void of capital. The stock market would falter. Business growth would be stymied. Slowed business growth would slow job growth. Another issue would be the offshore of businesses. A wealth tax would force businesses to flee the US or be forced to pass on taxes. To find a cost advantage, they would move to more tax friendly regions. Overall, the effects on the economy would be devastating. poverty would rise, jobless claims would rise, the stock market would fall and businesses would flee.

There is no spell check flag on a phone dumbasș. Oh, I saw them. My statement holds true.

You think the alias Trump used in a couple of interviews and to buy real estate equals proof that Trump and Hegseth threatened to kill the Pope? Who am I supposed to believe here? Your unproven assertions? You still believe in Russian collusion.

I am lying? I literally posted video evidence from YouTube dating back to 2024. What did I do, fake that? Did I fake the post from WesternLensMan? Or, maybe...just maybe...you just refuse to believe anything you don't want to believe, even when overwhelming evidence is presented. That seems to track more.

And @Hodad thinks it would be funny to nuke Jerusalem.

And.....Mamdani admitted, in this video, that Democrats suppressed blacks. Who has run NY since Giuliani? If it is systematic and the system is run by democrats....can you get there? ITS DEMOCRATS THAT ARE THE RACISTS!

You only believe what you want to believe.

Remember when Fox issued a script for a promo for their local news stations to air and the left lost their minds? Well, now the left is doing the exact same thing and it is just messaging to them: When Fox did it, it was an advertisement. They used local hosts to breed familiarity and trust. They delivered a message that was effectively an advert to watch the local news. When the Democrats did it it showed a lack of thought. They lack uniqueness. They lack credibility. Look at each shot. They were all TOLD to hold a small mic, ostensively to make ot appear as if they just thought of something and used a phone to get their message out. They are all sitting in informal settings for the same purpose. Every single detail was fixed. It was planned. It was coordinated. They even pause at the same times and accentuate the same words. They are mind numbed robots serving a master. Who is that master?

If Trump had not ripped up the JCPOA, Jerusalem would have been the third city to suffer under a nuke.

If China set a trap for the US, why is China trying to push Iran to give in to the US?

The left has no moral compass. That makes this type of fake report so believable to them.

And the cucumber

Wow. A typo. Oh noes! Someone called the burn unit. Ffs, if all you have is childish b.s. like this then you are basically admitting you cannot disprove my assertions.

Stop gaslighting. Biden had an open border policy. He violated federal law by allowing asylum seekers to be released into the country. He did very little to deport the millions that were later denied asylum. He allowed terrorists, murderers, drug traffickers and more into the country. I am not against immigration. I am against illegal immigration. The bill in question did nothing to stop illegal immigration. In fact, it had an article in it that allowed the President to declare an emergency to end all the provisions in the bill. So wtf good was it? All it did was spend money. Without new expenditures or new laws, the border closed to illegal crossings under Trump. The bill was a waste, rhino support does not negate that. How humanitarian is it to subject them to rape, enslavement and murder? That is a pretty f'd up since of humanity. If you want to help them, the only solution is to work with their countries to fix those economies. Just dumping them here is a bandaid at best. Right. The words are there.

If Iran was a trap for the US, why is China putting pressure on Iran to sign on to a ceasefire? China Pressed Iran Toward Cease-Fire, Iranian Officials Say

Biden did not enforce the law. Trump is. Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest level in more than 50 years. And before you use the b.s. stat that Biden deported more people, Biden's deportations were almost all turn backs. We have far fewer turn backs today because we have 1.25 million fewer encounters per year. I have done breakdowns of that law. It was absolute shit. All it really did was pass through more money to illegal aliens. The enforcement mechanisms on it were crap. It did nothing to facilitate legal immigration. It was just more wasted money. We did not need the law to slow illegal immigration. Pass through illegal aliens dropped to 0 most months. Asylum claims are down significantly and over 3 million illegal aliens have been deported. Good gawd man. You claim to be concerned with their well being. When confronted with the fact that these people are being raped, enslaved or are just evil aholes (like in the article above) you just shrug it off. The biggest threat to illegal aliens is the policies that make them think that it is ok to violate our laws. You just spent several paragraphs aggrandizing the virtues of illegal immigration and denying what the Biden admin did and now this 180?

Gee whiz Beaver, we did do that. But some dumbasș decided not to enforce the law so it was as if the law didn't exist.

Stop illegal immigration. We don't allow prostitution because legal prostitution creates victims. We don't allow drugs because drugs create victims. Why should we allow illegal immigration? Illegal immigration creates far more victims.