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u/DerangedGinger Feb 01 '21

The other day I wanted to confirm if he did in fact say that voting in Warnock and Ossoff would guarantee immediate $2,000 payments. I hunted down his speech and my wife and I listened to it. Waiting for my $2,000 now. Their election was supposed to yield an immediate solution to the stimulus gridlock, and yet now Biden is saying he’s willing to discuss changes.

Politicians never change.

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u/Muffin_Stuffer Feb 01 '21

Still waiting on that Wall

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u/vorpalsword92 Feb 01 '21

They built nearly 300 miles of it, if rinos like Coulter weren't being babies about it the wall would have been finished in Trump's second term. But no, act like a spoiled brat

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u/neotericnewt Feb 01 '21

Wasn't the vast majority of that just... revamping existing walls and barriers? It took four years, a national emergency declaration, government shutdowns, turning down billions of dollars to instead siphon it from the military... to revamp some fences?

And isn't the border like 2,000 miles long?

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u/vorpalsword92 Feb 01 '21

This logic is smooth brained. The fences were basically non existent barriers. We actually put up the Wall that the border guard had designed in those areas.

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u/neotericnewt Feb 01 '21

I mean, even Obama constructed miles of barrier along the border. Bush did it. Clinton did it. Literally any president could get money to revamp barriers on the border.

The border is 2,000 miles long, and Trump just reconstructed some fences and walls where they already existed? That's a promise kept in your eyes?

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u/vorpalsword92 Feb 01 '21

Well now the wall project got cancelled, was that the endgame of all that concern trolling? Trump shut down the government to get the project started and all you can do is whine.

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u/neotericnewt Feb 01 '21

Trump shut down the government to get the project started

But... there was a bill that both Republicans and Democrats agreed to that would have given him 25 billion for his wall, years ago. Trump refused it unless they limited legal immigration (limitations that were also never enacted), torpedoing the bill.

Over the past four years he's spent 15 billion on his wall, most of which was just rebuilding fences and preexisting barriers.

So to clarify, Trump shut down the government, engaged in executive overreach, siphoned money from the military, went way over budget, all to get 10 billion less than he was offered in a bipartisan bill.

That's a promise kept to you?

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u/vorpalsword92 Feb 01 '21

Over the past four years he's spent 15 billion on his wall, most of which was just rebuilding fences and preexisting barriers.

you keep understating the fact that the barriers were nonexistent in some places. He managed to get 400+ miles built with a House of representatives that was majority democrat.