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The Biden administration Tuesday announced its most restrictive border control measures to date, issuing plans for a temporary rule that will penalize asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally or fail to apply for protection in other nations they transit on their way to the United States.
This, combined with the Texas state practice of police forcing migrants onto private property and then arresting them for trespassing has created an impossible situation for anyone seeking legal refugee status.
I'm referring to the ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the neighboring territories in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. I'm talking about our support for ethnic cleansing in Modi's India and Zewde's Ethiopia. I'm talking about our theft of $7B from the Afghani treasury on the departure of US troops, plunging the country into a famine. I'm talking about our continued military occupations in Haiti and Niger and Libya and Mali and Somalia. I'm talking about our tacit endorsement of the Polish blockade on Ukrainian harvest exports, because we've wedded ourselves to the US/EU agricultural deregulation efforts. And our support for Spainish, French, and German governments in the war on their own farmers who are in revolt over collapsing wholesale farm prices.
I'm talking about our $250B weapons export market in 2023, the highest in US history, which has contributed to escalating tensions from the Korean Peninsula to the Red Sea to the South Pacific.
Every year Biden has been in office has resulted in more war, more killing, more ethnic cleansing, in large part thanks to his international endorsement of some of the bloodiest wars since Vietnam.
He has been a fucking disaster. In the midst of a labor shortage, he's ratcheted up interest rates to depress wages. In the midst of record global temperatures, he's overseen a new peak in US fossil fuel production and consumption. In the midst of record domestic energy consumption, his FTC and SEC have green-lit a new wave of bitcoin mining and energy hungry AI data harvesting.
More money than ever before for the FBI, the NSA, and the Pentagon. Some of the lowest salaries for educators, medical staff, and agricultural workers in 40 years. Biden's "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" has flooded the investment markets with cash while doing nothing to improve quality of life for lay workers or retirees.
This is all real shit. Its why he's fucked in the polls. America under Biden has gotten materially worse. You are not better of today than you were four years ago and that's saying something given where we fucking started.
You're cruising for the edge of a cliff screaming "Just stay the course", and I'm sure you'll be back here blaming the folks that called it once you crash land into November.