• @Ensign_Crab
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    1921 year ago

    Want to ignore 26 laws to destroy protected wildlife refuge in order to build Trump’s wall for him? Sure! No problem!

    Want to do anything that might benefit the poor? “No you stupid progressive. This must be your first election because you don’t understand how anything works. Everyone knows that we need a quorum of both houses to convene in a graveyard at midnight under a blood moon on the third Tuesday of the month, in accordance with the infield fly rule. Then, we wait for the appearance of the Great Pumpkin, so that we may know how to proceed.”

    • @[email protected]
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      361 year ago

      Here’s what looks like an answer: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/30/joe-biden-forced-build-donald-trumps-border-wall/

      TLDR: This is a 2019 law passed by Congress during the baby hands administration. The Biden administration has been pretty careful not to overstep other branches of government(I think as a direct response to how flagrantly and harmfully baby hands used executive action), and while Biden returned wall money taken from the DoD, the rest of the wall money was explicitly designated by Congress for building the border wall in 2019 and Congress will not cancel that legislative order(wall funds), despite Biden asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds law since arriving in office in 2020.

      This post is misleading, the money is being legally used for a legislatively required purpose and any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        -191 year ago

        Cool. The talking points are out.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I know, this thread was crazy without any real answers. At least now there’s legislative and executive record out there.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            -51 year ago

            Yeah, now there’s excuses for waiving 26 laws in order to enforce one of Trump’s laws. Hooray.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              Just one excuse, the law that Congress won’t repeal since they’re down with the wall, but yea.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                -111 year ago

                Well, as long as you’re honest that you’re making excuses.

                • @[email protected]
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                  71 year ago

                  As far as “excuses” go, respecting the Constitution and the legislative process are pretty good ones.

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    -101 year ago

                    Well, at least you were accidentally honest about making excuses until I pointed it out.

                    You got the wall you and Biden wanted. Congratulations on all the dead ocelots.

    • @Retrograde
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      121 year ago

      Spoken like a true John Oliver, bravo and agreed

    • Konala Koala
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      1 year ago

      Well, my main concern regarding the border wall no matter who is trying to build it, is the destruction of protected wildlife refuge and habitat, being that I’m an environmental conservationist. It pains me to hear about wild-lands and woodlands being clear-cut in the name of greed or something that doesn’t make much sense.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        11 year ago

        I live not too far from the section of wall Biden is gonna build for Trump. I worry about the ocelots.