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Mexico agrees to deploy 10,000 troops to US border in exchange for tariff pause

That agreement came under Biden, a few months ago.

Convicted Felon Trump can strong-arm weaker players like Colombia with tarrif threats. Not do much heavy hitters like Mexico and Canada.
 
That's a VERY good observation which I never really thought of. The way they went after Trump with not one, but TWO phony impeachments with the intent to hobble him, and then when he decided to run to immediately craft lawfare cases on dubious interpretations of law was all they had to tell Joe, who may have resisted in his feeble state of mind.

Undoubtedly Ma and Pa Kettle had a chat with him at pudding feeding and said, "Ummmm Joe, we know where your family lives and we have the receipts to throw all of them in prison for taking money from China, Russia and Ukraine and we know we could let the Republicans impeach you for keeping classified documents and your dirty deeds in Ukraine of telling them they weren't getting that billion unless they got the prosecutor off your son's tail. Now, look, Joe, we know you like thinking you're the president, but we will eff you up bad if you don't drop out. Then we go after Jill and prove to everyone how she had to help you read and change Depends, and then after your family. We know people in the FBI and CIA, Joe. Now go out there and we'll let you say you are turning the reins over to a younger generation, just like that effing poster Paradoxical said you would 6 months ago. We'll get that guy for you, Joe. He knows too much."
 
Gee, @soap box want to weight in on your post?

He lied, and did so extensively.

As I proved.

I would ask @rahl to consider that we're limited in an Internet forum concerning proof. We can't conduct interviews or examine available evidence. A chemist has a high threshold of proof, but the social sciences don't. Some things can be proven in words alone but not often.

There are several claims he made that weren't true. Asking for proof is appropriate in a courtroom, and even then it's qualified by reasonable doubt. Here however, we don't have have the same threshold but we still have lots of evidence to consider.

The best estimate of insurgents was only 10 to 20. They weren't searching for a high level associate of Bun Laden. The man who rescued him said his story was exaggerated and a Navy Seal familiar with the event said it was nonsense.

The part that was most convincing to me was the exceprt from the book written about the event. As much as I would commend his service, and as much as I would say I have never lived through an excruciating ordeal like he did, I believe he did lie.


Rahl, I agree with most of your posts but not the 2A and that's why we're here. I still respect you. Let me know what you posted about our fellow member not reading which part? Are you pointing to my first paragraph? I'm skeptical about my favorite paper, The Texas Tribune, and sometimes even they disappoint me, but the links in the article I posted check out.
 
You might want to examine the following:

 
Ok, let's have a example of Biden's documented 'criminality'-not just something you invented. As for the ignorant nonsense about Biden selling off "valuable" metal-it was agreed by Congress, and Texas already bought a load of leftover steel. You know nothing about anything-except how to post ignorant bullshit, which a few seconds of fact-checking is enough to prove you wrong. As always you make this far too easy. Try harder; I enjoy a challenge.



 
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So you still can’t prove he lied. Thank you.

Nobody can "prove" anything like that unless we can all examine the evidence and interview witnesses. You're saying this without any supporting notion. Are you saying he's not lying? What makes you think that?
 
So you still can’t prove he lied. Thank you.
Uh…..not only did I do so, soapbox likewise confirmed my statements.

You are just flailing for the sake of flailing.
 
Another feeble attempt by you at diversion and trying to turn that 3000-watt spotlight that is exposing you, onto me. You have not answered why Biden did NOT build 20 feet of wall, how even if he did, how that stopped illegals from coming over, why he didn't continue the wall that Trump was in the process of, why he decided to build 20 feet of wall when he promised that he wouldn't build any walls during his campaign.

So, what we had with you was in response to the question of why border crossings dropped in November (after the great Trump was re-elected) was that the reason for the reduction was because Biden built 20 miles of wall (actually 20 FEET).

Again, how did Biden NOT building a wall stem the flow of illegals?
 

Since people are coming here turning themselves in seeking legal asylum, what good is a wall?
 
No diversion, merely correcting your serially ignorant contribution. Biden continued to build Trump's vanity wall. Are you really that unaware, or simply trolling for a reaction?




You don't need 'excerpts', the headlines tell you all you need to educate yourself with.
 
Since people are coming here turning themselves in seeking legal asylum, what good is a wall?
The asylum nonsense is bullshot. They weren't asking for evidence that they were being targeted and/or oppressed because of their sexuality. They just LET them in with a wink, a nod and a cell phone with a debit bard. Stop with this crazy crap that millions of people are fleeing their government or oppressed because they are gay. They are fleeing because they are poor.
 
Biden "approved" the wall, but it was never built. HE KNEW IT WOULDN'T BE.

Again, snakestretcher, it appears we have what the great movie "Cool Hand Luke" did, which is "failure to communicate"

The wall was NOT built, so how did NOT building the wall stem the flow of illegals.

PS. Posting a headline from Vanity Fair? Seriously>??
 
Go away; you've been comprehensively owned. Deal with it like a man and quit the pathetic whining-or you could explain how any one president, regardless of their politics, could adequately secure 2000 miles of porous border. Here's your chance to impress us all with your masterplan...

 
You should actually read the links you post. If you did you would have found this:

On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would build an approximately 20-mile (32km) section of border wall in the area, an announcement that stood in stark contrast to then-candidate Joe Biden's 2020 declaration that he would not build "another foot of wall" as president. He halted construction on his first day in office.

This was a report from your state-run news that he claimed he would do this and not that he did it.

I don't know how someone who is thoroughly owned keeps coming back like Cool Hand Luke thinking he beat the other guy when he is all bloodied and can barely stand up.
 
So you still can’t prove he lied. Thank you.

What kind of proof would you accept? What do you mean by proof?
 

They get a hearing. That's the law.
 

I don't think the Democratic Party ever figured that Trump would be legally free to run for the presidency again, and that in fact, led to their demise. Look how lazy they both were until the fourth quarter to pay attention to the polls on immigration being one of the main issues for the electorate. An issue they pretty ignored as being valid to the voters.

After doing nothing constructive for four years the only thing left was for them to do was hurl their toxicity and voter shame.
 
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The border was a disaster and showed clearly how inept Harris was. I think they would have stuck with Biden if they could have continued to hide his mental decline. They were forced in the last minutes to thrust Harris into a position she was not qualified to handle. Her speeches were a lot of nothing said and the people saw right threw it.

Dumping millions of illegals all over the country right after a pandemic was a big mistake. People are trying to go back to work after a lot of businesses closed the doors for good. Then forcing them to compete against illegals in every city in the country was not popular. If you were working in a warehouse for 20 years making a decent livable wage and instead of being hired back you were replaced by one of these illegals for less money you just lost a vote. A lot of factory workers were thrust into a lot of lower paying jobs as one after another factories closed down and went elsewhere. Now they are bringing people here to put them back out of work again is not a way to get votes.
 

Here is what you wrote to another poster: "You are clearly unaware (probably deliberately), that illegal border incursions fell under Biden, but rose under Trump. Why does this need constant repetition-or is your memory that short?"

Whether or not you believe Trump lied may be relevant to interaction with others, but my objection is that extreme mischaracterization. Moreover, the chart you subsequently provided shows how bad that mischaracterization is...

First, there were periods of rising and falling from BOTH ends to Trump's and then Biden's administration. Hence, your statement is logically false.

Second, "border incursions (encounters) as measure in both numbers and averages were far less for Trump than under Biden. And whereas Trump worked aggressively (often around obstructionist courts) to promptly discourage these illegals and it quickly tailed off, Biden not only refused to pursue aggressive policies he actually encouraged it by his parole of asylum applicants into the US. Only after years of attempts to snow the American people and falling polls did Biden begin to toughen up and use the powers, he always denied he had to discourage the human waves.

Your cited chart verity's this:

 
fake impeachments? lol. lawfare? lol.
 
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Nobody can "prove" anything like that unless we can all examine the evidence and interview witnesses. You're saying this without any supporting notion. Are you saying he's not lying? What makes you think that?
So neither of you can prove he lied. Thank you.
 
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