... FOR HIGH STAKES DUEL!!?!?!??!??
~punctuation added for emphasis~
What the fuck with the headlines. These two elderly men are not going to do anything as exciting as the title implies.
this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
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The loser is getting banished to the shadow realm.
No, it's the winner who gets to live in government housing in DC.
~TIL how to format subtext, ty~
But yes I agree.
Then again, maybe Trump will try to whip up some sort of confrontation? He’s done dumber things…
The headline says a high-stakes duel. If the two were to engage in an actual duel, à la Hamilton-Burr, how would that work? Would the Secret Service have to prioritize protecting the sitting president over the former president? Would it be one Secret Service team versus the other? Or is president-on-president violence the only allowable kind?
They both have Presidential immunity, so everything's legal
I feel a Family Guy cutaway coming...
antiques road show
What's up with the article image that Lemmy shows. It's not in the BBC article and it's the most biased shit ever. Trump gets a professional picture taken from 8 years ago and Biden gets one where he scrunches his face in bad lighting.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The former president is likely to tout these kind of aggressive measures and cite them as part of the reason why border crossings have dropped in Texas recently, while spiking in Arizona and California - states with Democratic governors.
The White House only announced Mr Biden's own visit to Brownsville, Texas, a few days ago and the president's trip is another indication that Democrats are scrambling to respond to an area of perceived weakness.
More than 6.3 million migrants have been detained crossing into the US illegally during Mr Biden's time in office - a higher number than under previous presidencies - though experts say the reasons for the spike are complex, with some factors pre-dating his government.
Leaders in major Democrat-run US cities have grown increasingly critical of the president's immigration policies - a consequence of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have arrived in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York either on their own or with transportation arranged by Republican governors in states like Texas.
Mr Biden's border visit, the second of his presidency, appears part of a concerted effort to reverse this trend and turn the tables on Republicans - or at least minimise the political damage - allowing the election outcome to hinge on other topics, such as the economy or abortion rights.
When he was president, his early restrictions on immigration from majority-Muslim countries - an attempt at implementing his so-called "Muslim ban" campaign promise - created chaos at US airports and became mired in months of legal battles.
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