Posted by DougOut on 2/12/2022 6:53:00 PM (view original):
Go ahead and copy and past it professor.

And Joe Biden making the border secure? Everyone is laughing at you.

Posted by DougOut on 2/12/2022 6:59:00 PM (view original):
If 3 guys cross the border and I catch 2...well that's something.

If 100 guys cross the border and I catch 3...well....I guess I apprehended more.

Good job Joe!

Common sense needed to address border crisis Rep. - Glenn Rogers - Abilene Reporter News

Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of President Biden's job performance as his approval rating sinks even further, according to a new CNN poll released Thursday.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans said they disapprove of Biden's performance, while only 41 percent approved. The same poll in December found that 49 percent of Americans approved and 51 percent disapproved of Biden.

In the new survey, only 36 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans approved of the job Biden is doing. Eighty-three percent of Democrats still approve of Biden, but that's a drop from 94 percent from last summer.

In a sign of how tough it could be to turn the tide, when those who disapproved of Biden were asked to name one thing that they approved of during his tenure, 56 percent could not come up with an answer.

The survey is the latest in a string of polls showing Biden's approval plummeting.

The administration has been hit with criticism from across the political spectrum over inflation, its handling of the coronavirus, foreign policy and more.

It has responded by touting its infrastructure bill and deployment of vaccinations across the country, though those arguments have thus far failed to stop the backslide in Biden's poll numbers.

The poor polling has caused Democrats to sound the alarm over the November midterm elections, warning that such low approval ratings could lead to Republicans flipping both chambers of Congress.

Posted by DougOut on 2/12/2022 5:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Uofa2 on 2/12/2022 5:36:00 PM (view original):

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/30/us-oil-production-to-increase-further-in-2022-oil-expert-dan-yergin.html

U.S. oil production set to increase further in 2022

”He added that he has been on two calls where the U.S. energy secretary asked companies to increase production.”

flipping idiot. you said one ******* thing and it’s exactly what Biden is doing, you absolute comically inept imbecile.

Now now.....temper.

Why would we have to ask for increased production when just over 1 year ago we were energy independent and a net exporter of energy?

I want you to take a time out.

Posted by tangplay on 2/12/2022 11:42:00 PM (view original):
fyi, I think Biden is actually bad for continuing Trump's border policies. I don't like how this conversation presupposes that Trump immigration policy = good

It is very telling and typical of Doug to not be able to name a SINGLE policy or thing Biden did to increase immigration or increase gas prices.

The go-to answer is always the Keystone pipeline, which was so ridiculously inefficient that no private entity wanted to sponsor it and employed about a dozen people full-time, and also wasn't even completed at the time of its cancellation so ending the pipeline had zero effect on production.

Doug won't respond to this btw. He'll post some random conservative meme or a snarky quip that doesn't address the point to dodge the fact that he's just wrong about basically everything. This is how most conservatives are: They're wrong and don't care that they're wrong.

Posted by Uofa2 on 2/13/2022 12:38:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 2/12/2022 11:42:00 PM (view original):
fyi, I think Biden is actually bad for continuing Trump's border policies. I don't like how this conversation presupposes that Trump immigration policy = good

It is very telling and typical of Doug to not be able to name a SINGLE policy or thing Biden did to increase immigration or increase gas prices.

The go-to answer is always the Keystone pipeline, which was so ridiculously inefficient that no private entity wanted to sponsor it and employed about a dozen people full-time, and also wasn't even completed at the time of its cancellation so ending the pipeline had zero effect on production.

Doug won't respond to this btw. He'll post some random conservative meme or a snarky quip that doesn't address the point to dodge the fact that he's just wrong about basically everything. This is how most conservatives are: They're wrong and don't care that they're wrong.

100% agree re: Biden’s border policies. I’m not the biggest fan, though he’s made some cosmetic changes that are good. But overall, nah, it’s not that much change from Trump.

Its just ******* hilarious that he’s doing a better job of it, just like Obama did, as bag said, and the right wingers won’t acknowledge it. So clearly it’s not policy they actually have a problem with.

Obviously you’re correct about the keystone pipeline as well.

How did the Donald J. Trump administration handle migrant flows?

For the last four years, U.S. immigration policy focused almost solely on stopping migrants from coming to; entering; or, if they reached the United States, staying in the country. The Trump administration forced Central American countries to sign “safe third country” agreements, which require asylum seekers to first seek refuge in neighboring countries before applying in the United States. It also narrowed the interpretation of what constitutes grounds for asylum, largely excluding the domestic or gang violence that so many flee. And it drastically lowered the annual U.S. cap on refugees from over one hundred thousand to just fifteen thousand.

For those migrants who did make it to the border, the Trump administration processed them. Later, it sent those waiting for their claims to be adjudicated back to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the Remain in Mexico policy. The Mexican government, for its part, agreed to hold these tens of thousands of migrants indefinitely.

What is Joe Biden’s approach?

The Biden administration’s approach differs in that it looks to both manage the migrant flows and to change the situations on the ground that force people to leave their home countries. In his first weeks in office, Biden ended construction of the wall along the U.S. southern border and canceled the safe third country agreements with Northern Triangle countries. He is allowing some twenty-five thousand asylum seekers currently in Mexico under the MPP to enter the United States as they await a decision. On the campaign trail, Biden promised to invest $4 billion over his first term to address the root causes of migration, including through programs in Central American countries to reduce and prevent violence, help farmers set up irrigation systems or change crops, and create economic opportunities.

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