I noticed you dismissed my comment asking HOW Harris is a transphobe. I guess you really AREN’T going to back up your baseless claim.

I was going to post the same thing. Of all the things to post about, of all the issues they can draw attention to, *this* is what they continue to flog.

First, Democrats have power right now.

Well, your entire rebuttal is predicated on the notion that there’s a binary humane/inhumane quality to saying, “Don’t come to the border.”

I honestly had to scroll back up and look at the author because I just assumed this was a Joan post.

Politics is power. If being humane causes you to lose that power, then you haven’t really done the humane thing now have you? I mean, you’ve tried I suppose, but to the people who are on the receiving end of policy, principals don’t count for anything unless they can be put into practice. And that requires political…

considering Ask Jeeves was launched the same month as this event, the library was likely her only option, or she could have waited two years for google to become a thing.

right - cause a teenagers first reaction to anything is - let me go research that at the library. 

What kind of mental abuse has Khloe endured to make her do this to herself? She was beautiful, but obviously didn’t see it.

If the goal is to make her appealing to moderate Republicans then I can see this working. The point is the Biden administration needs to control the narrative around immigration and taking a more conservative stance takes the air out of the room for the GOP’s draconian policies.

Go fuck yourself, Megan Reynolds, you self righteous asshole.

I get it, but here’s another example of the same thing. Women (and perhaps better stated as people, but generally women) who are in abusive relationships can flee to a shelter. And they usually don’t flee from one state to another, do they? No, they need help, and the closest shelter is usually the choice, is it not?

Harris’s cherry picked quote does improve in the context Jezebel wants to ignore.

Agreed. Biden gave her a poisoned chalice by making her the face of the immigration issue. She will be pummeled by the progressives in primaries for being hawkish. She will be pummeled by the Republicans for not being xenophobic enough. It’s a lose-lose situation for her. 

The Week, a left leaning publication written by actual journalists, had a short story that put Harris’s complete comments into a nuanced perspective which sounds more like frustrated honesty than cruelty. “Do not come” was not Harris’s “original comment,” as Solis claims here. It came well within her speech.

Our whole immigration “system” is fucked after decades of slapdash patches it’s a complete disaster that is causing mass suffering. It’s also such a toxic issue, no politician in their right mind wants to go near it. Which leaves it to bigoted whackjobs using immigrants as boogeymen. It’s so bad closing the borders is…

These kind or reporting articles always argue from a high horse cause they never have to deal with the repercussions of an actual outcome or decision themselves

There is NO right answer here. We’re still dealing with pandemic. Variants are out there. What the hell was she supposed to say? 

It’s not cruel to tell people the truth.

Um. Have we forgotten we’re in the middle of a fucking global pandemic? What the hell was she supposed to say? “Hey everybody, storm the border! Yeah we can’t process people and our systems are about to collapse but hey, the US has done bad things in the past, so keep on comin!”