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Man Throws Molotov Cocktails Into L.A. Federal Building

A man reportedly tossed Molotov cocktails into a federal building while expressing irrational anger at the Trump administration for its immigration policies.

Fox News investigative reporter Matt Finn broke the news about the deranged criminal with explosive intent, who appears to have been a leftist domestic terrorist. The attack occurred in downtown Los Angeles, California, and the man was arrested by federal officers. The man himself purportedly described the attack as a terroristic one.

The (NY) Times has deep pockets and deep connections in the Democratic political and policy world. Still, somehow it took until now for them to write about the fact that even before Biden was elected in 2020, his team was warning that his immigration plans would cause a humanitarian disaster. Still, Biden and his closest advisors didn't want to hear it.

They were worried that Latinos, or should I say the "LatinX" community, wouldn't want better policies.

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In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.
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But Mr. Biden was now president-elect, and his positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings, experts advising his transition team warned in a Zoom briefing in the final weeks of 2020, according to people with direct knowledge of that briefing. That jump, they said, could provoke a political crisis.

“Chaos” was the word the advisers had used in a memo during the campaign.

As early as August of 2020, his advisors warned of the chaos that Biden's proposals would bring, but Biden's political team thought that immigration was a distraction, and doing anything to stem the chaos might be political poison with a constituency they were determined to service.

Ironically, their failures on securing the border helped seal Biden's fate.

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...a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden’s record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today.

Former Biden administration officials told The Times that Mr. Biden and his circle of close confidants — including Ron Klain, who was chief of staff during the president’s first two years, Mike Donilon, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Anita Dunn — made two crucial errors.

First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, citing immigration as a reason for supporting Mr. Trump in 2024.

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During his reelection campaign, Biden claimed that Trump had tubed a deal that would have reformed the immigration system, but it turns out that Biden didn't want to have anything to do with the talks because it might come up with ideas that would offend his left base.

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Democrats blamed Mr. Trump for sinking the deal. But Mr. Lankford pointed to another culprit: the Biden administration’s own foot-dragging.

When negotiations had gained momentum the previous fall (2023), the White House had refused to get involved, according to Mr. Murphy and Mr. Lankford. “We don’t want our fingerprints on these negotiations,” Mr. Lankford recalled the White House telling him. Only as border crossings continued to spike did the administration relent, he said.

... all I could think during her gasping poutrage was, lady, you were ****ing your co-host and he was if I remember correctly, still married, and even if he wasn’t I believe you were.

Orrex (66,512 posts)

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Run over by minimally-inspected freight train?