The United States will be immediately implementing much tougher Extreme Vetting Procedures for gun sales. The safety of our citizens comes first!

That would be soooooooo great!

I’m waiting for the parody to Buster Poindexters “ Hot Hot Hot”

Its was fun watching Twitter completely lose its shit for three minutes.

I’m willing to bet he had never heard the phrase ‘chain migration’ until yesterday... he heard it on Fox & Friends yesterday morning

“...while incentivizing job growth within —”

“Again, sorry Mr. Speaker, but just for copy editing purposes, when you say ‘Cut Cut Cut Act,’ should that be with hyphens or without?”

“So, as I was saying, this bill will totally not dick over the middle cl-”

But white guys doing the shooting are these lone wolfs with mental issues. So much so that we may never figure out what happened and how to prevent it. It has nothing to do with guns, and there isn’t anything we can do about it except say thoughts and prayers on our social media accounts. /s

Trump addressing the Visa program is especially hypocritical (what does he do that isn’t?) in light of his response to the Las Vegas attack.

ISIS doesn’t need to sneak people into this country to do harm. All they need is an internet connection to find people to radicalize. The only thing travel/immigration bans will do is make it easier for Bob the redneck cousinfucker in Bumblefuck Patch, Alabama to be even more racist. With the growing normalization of…

called for a merit-based immigration system

He was seeing a therapist about it, and presumably he/she diagnosed it that way.

Allowing Maryland to keep slaves if they fought on the side of the Union was also a compromise.

“Give them an inch, they take a yard;

If I am not mistaking the Kansas- Nebraska act was also a compromise.

What they mean (then and now) by compromise is “give us everything we want and none of what you want”

Yes—(and I wasn’t trying to disagree with you at all, btw.) Just making the point that it was a super shitty compromise.

I mean he isn’t incorrect that it was an inability to compromise - just not in the way that he means it LOL

And here’s a screenshot of the most important part of the Cornerstone Speech about the reasons for secession. I keep this handy for those who try to tell me that our Civil War was about states’ rights or call it the War of Notthern Agression

I find what most people REALLY mean when they say compromise is you give in to what I want and shut up.