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mandatorylurk said:
Be on the lookout for this, a quasi-amnesty bill for children of visa holders, with RINO fag support, is being pushed in the upcoming defense spending bill. Tennis pro can't play in the US Open because he won't get the Chyna shot, but illegals can come in and poo in the loos can have their kids become citizens, and RINOs will vote for it because they have to fund the military because 'Merica soldiers are just the best of the best:

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Cue to the third world skeptical kid wondering: Tennis players can't enter the US because they aren't vaxxed but unvaccinated children of VISA holders can?
 
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Well, he arrived safely.

Honor guard for Biden on Saudi arrival, no king​

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2022-07-15 15:24:37 GMT

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Joe Biden emerged from Air Force One on Friday, minutes after landing in Saudi Arabia and walked along a lavender carpet past a sword-bearing honor cordon.

The subdued arrival ceremony in the Red Sea city of Jeddah featured no formal program. The president was greeted upon arrival by Mecca’s governor, Prince Khalid bin Faisal, and Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Princess Reema bint Bandar.

He was not met by King Salman, the 86-year-old monarch who was hospitalized twice this year and requires a cane to aid his walking, nor by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom U.S. intelligence agencies assess ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Biden flew to the kingdom directly from Israel, hours after Saudi Arabia opened its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory — a key step toward normalization between the two Mideast nations.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Joe Biden on Friday became the first U.S. leader to fly directly from Israel to Saudi Arabia, signaling warming ties between the two Middle East nations as they find common cause against regional threats from Iran.

Air Force One landed in Jeddah ahead of planned meetings with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the kingdom. U.S. intelligence officials have determined the crown prince, often referred to by his initials, MBS, likely ordered the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

During his 2020 campaign for the White House, Biden had pledged to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” because of Khashoggi’s killing and other human rights abuses. He now seeks closer ties with the kingdom to bolster security in the region as Iran’s nuclear development continues unabated, and to secure additional energy supplies amid global tightening due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Biden’s visit to the Red Sea port city will include his participation in a meeting of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — as well as Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.

Earlier Friday, Saudi Arabia opened its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory — a key step toward normalization between the two Mideast nations.

WASHINGTON — The United States does not expect any announcements on a boost to Saudi Arabian oil production as President Joe Biden visits the kingdom.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One during the flight to Saudi Arabia on Friday not to “expect a particular announcement here bilaterally.”

Sullivan said that’s consistent with the administration’s expectations for the trip. “We believe any further action taken to ensure that there is sufficient energy to protect the health of the global economy will be done in the context of OPEC+,” he added.

U.S. officials have said they are hopeful that the energy producing cartel will agree to boost production in the coming weeks.

The OPEC+ agreement, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, to curb oil production was agreed upon during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in 2020. It is set to expire next month, though quotas could remain in place through the end of the year.

Prices of Brent crude have hovered around $100 a barrel. Although Saudi Arabia is producing around 10.5 million barrels per day currently, the kingdom and the United Arab Emirates are seen as two countries with spare capacity that can pump more to help bring down prices. It’s unclear though how quickly the kingdom could ramp up production.
 
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Being in the left during GG... the left had this wonderful veneer of sanity, respectability, civility, et cetera. They were the erudite party of learned scholars who knew better than the regressive rednecks who just wanted to keep us in the 50s forever.

But If you were on the left and also familiar with gaming, enough to know some of the shit the Guardian and Salon and the like were trying to sell didn't make any fucking sense, well, hope you kept that shit to yourself, because if not you became the enemy that must be destroyed. A switch would be flipped and suddenly you weren't a beloved member of the tribe you were now an enemy in their midst, put up with only until they could find you wanting and expel you, or harass you into striking out, expelling you. (Your excommunication was guaranteed, it was only a matter of time.)

It was like scratching that veneer of civility and discovering instead of wood underneath, it was something squishy, dark, and squirming.

Hell, for an example of this, look at The Amazing Atheist on youtube.

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Something similar with Abortion, come to think of it. I used to think "Pro-Lifers" were just religious nutjobs who hated the idea of a rape victim getting an abortion. Jello Biafra even had a funny song about it, "Will the Fetus Be Aborted?"

Then I discovered, thanks to the left losing that veneer and the squirming shit leaking out, that rape/incest/viability are less than 2% of abortions, and it's really just post-hoc contraception for irresponsible sluts, which was never the deal -- but Roe cemented the leftist view on it as the only acceptable view, ever, and if you disagreed with sluts murdering children because they wanted to slut it up some more, well, you could just eat shit. And that abortion wasn't an unfortunate thing that no one liked to put up with, but there were literally insane women crowing about having 15+ abortions and smugly bragging about it. And that second trimester abortions were literally doctors using a pair of medical needle nose plyers ripping a baby into chunks before vacuuming out the viscera. God only knows what the third trimester ones are.

The reason the left keeps epistemic closure ("hugboxes" "the bubble" etc) so goddamned tight is that if you EVER question the left, even once, you are no longer a member of the left. You're suddenly and forevermore "alt-right."
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this picture summarizes more than any words could that Leftist Progressive politics are a mental illness
 
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The Trump divorce was a HUGE thing in terms of dumpster fire celebrity gossip scandal. A Current Affair had it as their lead story for nearly a year and along with Inside Edition, made huge hay about the sordid tale of the horny millionaire and his mistress and his pissed off wife.

For an entire generation, THIS was how we first met Trump and is where a lot of rappers started idolizing Trump due to the fact that he was a literal baller when it came to women. And it's why a lot of people went "oh that Trump!" when the pussy tape dropped. We all fucking knew growing up that Donald Trump was a whoremonger. It was a feature, not a bug about the guy and why people liked him.
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Donald Trump being a womanizer in a lot of ways is a modern spin on The Jfk playboy image. Really Trump and Kennedy have a in common even politics wise when one stops and considers both where staunchly anti-war populist and had a Playboy millionaire air about them. Both of them even talked in a New York / New England tough business dialect. And of course like the both of them they'll be long since remembered in a positive way I'm not so much for Uncle Joe he's going to be right up there with Herbert Hoover.
 
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Media take notice as Hispanics ditch Democratic Party with ‘once in a generation’ political realignment (Archive)

The left-leaning media and powerful Democrats alike have taken notice that Hispanics are ditching the Democratic Party.

The "biggest political story of our time" is the major shift in the demographics of the two parties, with Republicans gaining major ground among Hispanic voters and becoming increasingly working-class and multiracial, according to a new report by Axios.

The Thursday article, entitled "The Great Realignment," details a Democratic Party that is becoming more elite and "a little more white," as inroads in a number of ethnic groups for Republicans could turn the tide in numerous Democratic-held swing seats.

One of the most notable points of data shows that Democrats are "statistically tied" with Republicans in congressional ballots when it comes to the Hispanic vote. The metric becomes more shocking when turning the page back to 2018, when the Democratic Party held a 47-point advantage with Hispanics in the midterms. Also notable is an April NBC News poll, which showed Democrats losing ground in every demographic, besides college-educated women, where they gained 10 points since 2010.

Giancarlo Sopo, a descendent of Cuban exiles, ran the Hispanic advertising and rapid response effort for former President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. He called what’s occurring a "once in a generation type of political realignment," saying working-class Hispanic voters simply don’t have anything in common with the modern "woke" Democrat. He explained that it’s critical to consider that the Hispanic poverty rate has declined significantly in recent years, as members of the community create new small businesses in droves.

"We're aspirational people. We want to work hard. We came to this country to succeed. Also, I think during that same time, it would be fair to say that the Democratic Party's overly educated or miseducated, depending how you look at it, you know, elites have taken over the party, and it's difficult to find groups that are more different than a woke White Democrat and your average Hispanic," Sopo told Fox News Digital.

"They're economically different. The social and cultural values are very different. Your average Hispanic tends to be far more religious and traditional in their cultural views than your average Democrat. So, I think if you understand the cultural transformation that we've seen on the Democrats, where they've become a lot more radicalized, and at the same time Hispanics… don’t just believe in the American dream. We personify it," Sopo continued. "Hispanics are really succeeding in America, the Democratic message just does not appeal to Hispanics."

Sopo believes the Democratic message is based on "victimhood" and "inequality."

The report by Axios details concerns from Democratic strategists, who assert that the party’s "biggest vulnerability" is assuming the views and priorities of progressives are in alignment with those of working-class voters.

"Hispanics want to prosper… they want to figure out, ‘OK, how do we reach the next step on the ladder?’ That's what Hispanics are focused on, not memorizing 74 pronouns. Not relitigating 1492 or Latinx and trying to upend the entire Spanish language," Sopo said. "[They] really just want to focus on living a good life in this country, providing for their families and succeeding."

The piece admits that communities of color have "borne the brunt" of skyrocketing crime in the age of the "Defund the Police" movement, which many progressive activists championed. Furthermore, Axios highlights statistics that show Hispanics living near the U.S.-Mexico border are in favor of tougher border security, a viewpoint long held by the Republican Party and many conservatives.

"The Democrats are absolutely terrified at what they're seeing among Hispanic voters, and they're going to do everything they can to woke shame Latinos into submission. Unfortunately for them, Hispanics aren't buying it," Sopo said.

"Even on immigration, we have very nuanced views. Yes, I'd say most Hispanics want to find some kind of legislative solution, especially for the DACA kids. But at the same time, Hispanics also like having a strong border, safe communities. They don't like the idea of people crossing over illegally, while many Hispanic families had to wait sometimes over a decade to come into this country the right way," Sopo said. "So even on immigration, Hispanics' views are nuanced. And in fact, when you look at how Hispanics, what they think about even legal immigration, they tend to have more restrictionist views than your average liberal White Democrat. There's just such a misunderstanding. The Democrats have gotten this so terribly wrong with Hispanics."

A New York Times/Sienna poll, conducted between July 5 and 7, also spells trouble for Democrats when it comes to demographics they have long relied on to push them to victory.

The poll shows that Hispanic Americans, more so than any other group, are concerned with inflation, the cost of living, and the economy. Eighty-seven percent of Hispanics and Latinos said in the survey they consider inflation and the cost of living "extremely important," in comparison to 81% of Black Americans and 75% of White Americans. Furthermore, 64% of Hispanic and Latino voters said the nation’s economic conditions were "poor," while 48% of Black Americans and 58% of White Americans said the same. The poll also found that Hispanic and Latino voters care more about the economy than other Americans, with 28% noting that it was the most important problem facing America out of a 26-option list.

The issue of inflation is likely to be a detriment to Democrats and the Biden administration, as past elections have shown dismal economic conditions often reflect poorly on the party in the White House. It doesn’t help Democrats that Republicans have seized on this issue, centering it as a serious voting topic, while Democrats are primarily running on abortion rights and gun control, which does not poll as high on average.

The media appear to be taking note of these substantial demographics shifts. Last month, CNN journalists warned Democrats that the Republican-won Texas special election, an election held in a historically Democratic district, showed that the party was taking Hispanic voters for granted.

Citing Donald Trump winning more Hispanic and Latino voters in the 2020 election than he did in 2016, political analyst John Avlon blamed the Democrats’ infatuation with "identity politics" as the big driver.

Political commentator Van Jones also sounded the alarm on Hispanic voters trending Republican, arguing that Democrats were losing Hispanics on economic concerns and socially conservative issues. Jones also knocked Democrats for labeling all Republicans as racists and for assuming that all Black and Hispanic voters are liberals.

The Democrats’ recent forays into Hispanic radio, and the media’s coverage of Republican minority politicians, have also angered a number of Hispanic and Latino figures, with the potential to further negatively impact the party’s ability to retain votes.

A George-Soros-linked group has recently taken steps to acquire a popular Spanish-language conservative talk radio station in Miami, Florida, in an attempt to reach voters, outraging staffers at the network. A number of prominent anchors subsequently left Radio Mambi, over concerns that the station would shift from the interests of their conservative audience.

"Latinos are fed up," former Radio Mambi host Dania Alexandrino told Fox News Digital the day before she quit the station. "The Democratic Party prostitutes the vote of the Hispanic population. They use it, they abuse it, and then they discard. They do it every single election cycle."

Meanwhile, some in the media have recently taken to labeling prominent Republican Latinas as "far-right" and warning about a rise in "White Supremacy" among them.

Last week, The New York Times published a piece headlined "The Rise of the Far-Right Latina," referencing Rep. Mayra Flores, R-Texas, the first female Mexican-born member of the House, and two other Republican Latinas running for office, Monica De La Cruz and Cassy Garcia.

This week, a CNN column suggested Flores was an inauthentic Latina. Raul Reyes, a regular CNN writer, slammed Flores, De La Cruz and Garcia, in a piece headlined, "These GOP Latina candidates are not the ‘real deal.’"

"I was down there on Election Day with Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia visiting all these different precincts and talking to voters and people will tell you that they've voted Democrat their entire life or maybe their grandparents were Democrats. But they say, ‘Listen, this is no longer my abuela’s [grandmother's] Democratic Party.' These people have been radicalized. They don't share our values," Sopo said.

"You really see it on the ground when you go to restaurants in Texas, particularly in south Texas, in the rural areas, you see Hispanic families gathering to eat at a table, and they pray before their meals. You know, these are just very different types of voters and the direction that the Democratic Party is heading in, which tends to be much more secular, much more politically correct," Sopo added. "Hispanics are not particularly preoccupied with political correctness. Many of us, we're like one or two generations removed away from pretty dark places, and we think this country is awesome."

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Flores herself had similar feelings, suggesting the Hispanic community places a strong emphasis on "God, family and country," as well as "jobs, jobs, and more jobs."

"Liberals have taken our community for granted for too long and think that by pandering to us, with such terms as Latinx, playing Spanish music or seeing us as tacos, it will help them— It is not, and they are just waking up to that reality. Buena suerte [good luck] with that!" she added.

Media Research Center Latino director Jorge Bonilla recently predicted the media will continue to attack Hispanic conservatives ahead of critical elections, hoping to paint non-liberal Latinos as "disinformers," and Sopo feels Democrats need much more than help from the press to win back Hispanic voters.

"Whenever Democrats think that in order to win Hispanic voters, all they have to do is maybe, you know, play a little salsa music, talk about tacos and promise amnesty. That message no longer works with Hispanics," Sopo said.
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Donald Trump being a womanizer in a lot of ways is a modern spin on The Jfk playboy image. Really Trump and Kennedy have a in common even politics wise when one stops and considers both where staunchly anti-war populist and had a Playboy millionaire air about them. Both of them even talked in a New York / New England tough business dialect. And of course like the both of them they'll be long since remembered in a positive way I'm not so much for Uncle Joe he's going to be right up there with Herbert Hoover.
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I hope so. Makes me wonder if trump will get the bush treatment when the mext republican president comes in. It'll be interesting to see the media acknowledge him being the first pro-gay president since he never went after them
 
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Donald Trump being a womanizer in a lot of ways is a modern spin on The Jfk playboy image. Really Trump and Kennedy have a in common even politics wise when one stops and considers both where staunchly anti-war populist and had a Playboy millionaire air about them. Both of them even talked in a New York / New England tough business dialect. And of course like the both of them they'll be long since remembered in a positive way I'm not so much for Uncle Joe he's going to be right up there with Herbert Hoover.
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In a sane world Trump would be remembered as a good solid president, but this is clown world we live in. If they win and hold onto the pendulum of society for a long time, Trumps face will be alongside Hitlers and Mussolini in future history books.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
Be on the lookout for this, a quasi-amnesty bill for children of visa holders, with RINO fag support, is being pushed in the upcoming defense spending bill. Tennis pro can't play in the US Open because he won't get the Chyna shot, but illegals can come in and poo in the loos can have their kids become citizens, and RINOs will vote for it because they have to fund the military because 'Merica soldiers are just the best of the best:

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I believe this is the text of the amendment:
Amendment No. 403 Offered by Ms. Ross of North Carolina

Add at the end of title LVIII of division E the following:

SEC. 28__. IMMIGRATION AGE-OUT PROTECTIONS.

(a) Age-out Protections for Immigrants.--
(1) In general.--Section 101(b) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(b)) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
``(6) A determination of whether an alien is a child shall
be made as follows:
``(A) For purposes of a petition under section 204 and a
subsequent application for an immigrant visa or adjustment of
status, such determination shall be made using the age of the
alien on the date that is the priority date for the principal
beneficiary and all derivative beneficiaries under section
203(h).
``(B) For purposes of a petition under section 214(d) and a
subsequent application for adjustment of status under section
245(d), such determination shall be made using the age of the
alien on the date on which the petition is filed with the
Secretary of Homeland Security.
``(C) In the case of a petition under section 204 filed for
an alien's classification as a married son or daughter of a
United States citizen under section 203(a)(3), if the
petition is later converted, due to the legal termination of
the alien's marriage, to a petition to classify the alien as
an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i) or as an
unmarried son or daughter of a United States citizen under
section 203(a)(1), the determination of the alien's age shall
be made using the age of the alien on the date of the
termination of the marriage.
``(D) For an alien who was in status as a dependent child
of a nonimmigrant pursuant to an approved employment-based
petition under section 214 or an approved application under
section 101(a)(15)(E) for an aggregate period of eight years
prior to the age of 21, notwithstanding subparagraphs (A)
through (C), the alien's age shall be based on the date that
such initial nonimmigrant employment-based petition or
application was filed.
``(E) For an alien who has not sought to acquire status of
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence within two
years of an immigrant visa number becoming available to such
alien, the alien's age shall be their biological age unless
the failure to seek to acquire status was due to
extraordinary circumstances.
``(7) An alien who has reached 21 years of age and has been
admitted under section 203(d) as a lawful permanent resident
on a conditional basis as the child of an alien lawfully
admitted for permanent residence under section 203(b)(5),
whose lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis
is terminated under section 216A or section 203(b)(5)(M),
shall continue to be considered a child of the principal
alien for the purpose of a subsequent immigrant petition by
such alien under section 203(b)(5) if the alien remains
unmarried and the subsequent petition is filed by the
principal alien not later than 1 year after the termination
of conditional lawful permanent resident status. No alien
shall be considered a child under this paragraph with respect
to more than 1 petition filed after the alien reaches 21
years of age.''.
(2) Technical and conforming amendment.--Section 201 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151) is amended by
striking subsection (f).
(3) Effective date.--
(A) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall
be effective as if included in the Child Status Protection
Act (Public Law 107-208).
(B) Motion to reopen or reconsider.--
(i) In general.--A motion to reopen or reconsider the
denial of a petition or application described in paragraph
(6) of section 101(b), as amended in paragraph (1), may be
granted if--

(I) such petition or application would have been approved
if the amendments described in such paragraph had been in
effect at the time of adjudication of the petition or
application;
(II) the individual seeking relief pursuant to such motion
was in the United States at the time the underlying petition
or application was filed; and
(III) such motion is filed with the Secretary of Homeland
Security or the Attorney General not later than the date that
is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(ii) Numerical limitations.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, an individual granted relief pursuant to
such motion to reopen or reconsider shall be exempt from
numerical limitations in sections 201, 202, and 203 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151, 1152, and
1153).
(b) Age Out Protections for Nonimmigrant Dependent
Children.--Section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1184) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(s)(1) Except as described in paragraph (2), the
determination of whether an alien who is the derivative
beneficiary of a properly filed pending or approved immigrant
petition under section 204 is eligible to be a dependent
child of a nonimmigrant admitted pursuant to an approved
employer petition under this section or approved application
under section 101(a)(15)(E), shall be based on whether the
alien is determined to be a child under section 101(b)(6) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act.
``(2) If otherwise eligible, an alien who is determined to
be a child pursuant to section 101(b)(6)(D) may change status
to or extend status as a dependent child of a nonimmigrant
with an approved employment based petition under this section
or an approved application under section 101(a)(15)(E),
notwithstanding such alien's marital status.
``(3) An alien who is admitted to the United States as a
dependent child of a nonimmigrant who is described in this
section is authorized to engage in employment in the United
States incident to status.''.
(c) Priority Date Retention.--Section 203(h) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(h)) is amended
to read as follows:
``(h) Retention of Priority Dates.--
``(1) Priority date.--The priority date for an alien shall
be the date that is the earliest of--
``(A) the date that a petition under section 204 is filed
with the Secretary of Homeland Security (or the Secretary of
State, if applicable); or
``(B) the date on which a labor certification is filed with
the Secretary of Labor.
``(2) Retention.--The principal beneficiary and all
derivative beneficiaries shall retain the priority date
associated with the earliest of any approved petition or
labor certification and such priority date shall be
applicable to any subsequently approved petition.''.
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The current law says that people who were born overseas and came over with their parents must return to their home country at age 21 if they are not granted permanent residency/citizenship. This amendment changes it so that they get to stay in the country as long as they've filed an application.
 
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