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Cake day: November 3rd, 2024

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  • I dont need your "more than welcome ", thanks.

    And Harris/Biden ran an out of touch and clownishly far rightwing genocidal campaign, not me. Not knowing she’d lose by 10 million votes and in every swing state and almost every single demographic when she blew a billion dollars of dem money on consulting fees really shows you that no one there has any idea what they are doing.

    They appear to have lied to themeslves as much as to all of us. So take your good luck and fold it till its all sharp corners, smug centrist. You lot led us to a loss but you’re so keen to blame everyone but yourself. Look in the mirror.

    Progressives told her exactly how to win and practically begged her to do it.




  • You’d think that’d be true judging by the modern republican party, but IRCA in 1986 under Reagan was about the only large scale amnesty program ever done in the US. It legalized 2.7 million undocumented immigrants, which was about 75% of the undocumented at the time. It required that they pay back taxes, had been here 4 years, and had “good moral character”, evidenced by no criminal history. Reagan was well aware of how critical immigrant labor was.

    Modern dems talk about these issues but are either unable to get it done or think along much more limited goals. The Dream act and then daca were targetted at minors who entered the US undocumented, not the general undocumented immigrant population.

    Reagan also appointed the first woman, Sandra Day Oconnor to the supreme court. He was full of paradoxes (he hated unions) and his personal life was an awful mess, but in some areas he’d be to the left of Biden.