*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[BananaStand]

Actually I'm just getting bored of trying to talk sense to you and Ong when you're both more interested in talking any shit you can to defend separating children from their parents.

no one is defending that. But to put all the blame on Trump's administration is not acknowledging the whole problem at all.

First of all, if you made it all the way to northern mexico, your *need* for asylum is pretty fucking dubious in the first place.

Second, if you have a legit asylum claim....then just wait in line. What imminent threat exists in Northern Mexico that makes you above the rules??

Breaking the rules has consequences. Whether you're an asylum seeker with a legitimate claim, or whether you're a criminal smuggler with MS-13 tattoos on your forehead....the law applies the same. You can't cross the border in between checkpoints. period. Don't do it, or you will be charged. What's wrong with that?

Poop - you refuse to acknowledge that a 'catch and release' policy only incentivizes people to take children on dangerous journeys.

Should there be a better process for reuniting people with minor children....probably. If that's the worst thing Trump does in his presidency, he's one of the all-time greats. The problem got fixed pretty shortly after it was publicized, and it would have been fixed sooner if congressional democrats weren't cocksucking pricks. So sorry that Trump isn't batting 1.000. What do you want him to do about it now?

[Poopadoop]

no one is defending that.

Then you're obviously missing the entire point I made, or ignoring it just for the sake of arguing.

[an essay about why he's right and everyone else is wrong]

Can you make a point without it being an entire page long? There's no way I'm ever going to read all that.

Here's an idea: cut out all the insults and hyperbole and "demagoguery" and just make the argument you want to make as plainly and succinctly as you can. It's not a contest to see who can type the most words.

[BananaStand]

just make the argument you want to make as plainly and succinctly as you can.

ugh ooga booga man break law gug buga he go cage room durka booga ugh family no go too

Any surrounding circumstances of what he may have fled and left behind 3000 miles south are irrelevant to the crime at hand.

[Poopadoop]

ugh ooga booga man break law gug buga he go cage room durka booga ugh family no go too

I guess you can't make a succinct argument. Sorry for pushing you into the deep end there.

Any surrounding circumstances of what he may have fled and left behind 3000 miles south are irrelevant to the crime at hand.

I understand the gov't policy. I just don't think that makes it ok to separate families. Either don't enact the policy or if you must enact it, find a way to keep the families together.

[BananaStand]

I understand the gov't policy. I just don't think that makes it ok to separate families. Either don't enact the policy or if you must enact it, find a way to keep the families together.

I dont' get what your problem is.......

It's the exact same separation policy that applies to single-moms busted for shoplifting at wal-mart. You commit a crime, you get arrested, you go to jail, and your kid doesn't get to come with you.

If you need asylum, there are ways to get it. If you get rejected...that's on you. Apparently shit wasn't as bad as you thought. If it takes a long time...tough shit. The border patrol isn't interested in intentionally slow-walking anything. They're trying to keep america safe by vetting everybody and that takes time.

if you CHEAT, then you face the consequences. And if htat means you go to jail without your kids....so be it.

The only thing I will acknowledge is that there could have been a better way to reunite folks after all this was done. But on the list of things that tilt me in politics, this is probably number 10,847. I'm not really sad if criminals are having a hard time.