Reagan Is Back in Style but Not in Spirit

President Donald Trump once again rolled out the egg-colored Reagan rug for his second term, but the Trump-Reagan similarities are running thin.

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The Oval Office, a room famous for its distinct ovum—er, oval—shape, has become synonymous with American democracy and the president himself. It's no wonder that each executive has sought to personalize their backdrop.

The room has been the main executive office since President William Howard Taft ordered a southward extension of the West Wing in 1909. The expansion was meant to mimic the shape of the Blue Room, the White House's other oval-shaped room, which incorporated a semicircle design overseen by President George Washington. Washington was the only president to never live in the White House, but his preference for oval-shaped rooms to receive guests with presidential drama and formality has become customary. 

Administrations succeeding Taft's have since altered the Oval Office's decor to suit each president's preferences. Shortly after returning to the White House for his second term, President Donald Trump removed the dark blue Clinton-era rug brought out of retirement by Joe Biden and replaced it with the lighter, egg-colored rug used by Ronald Reagan. 

Since Trump entered the world of politics, he has fancied himself a successor of Reagan and his policies. But unlike when he unveiled the Reagan rug at the beginning of his first term, there's a lot more evidence now that Trump and Reagan share little else in common. 

One stark difference is Trump's immigration policies. While Reagan sought to tighten border security with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, he also granted amnesty for nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Less than 100 days under Trump's direction, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently detains close to 48,000 migrants and controversially shipped 238 individuals in ICE custody to El Salvador, raising serious due process concerns and legal questions. Trump may even have acted in contempt of court by defying a federal judge's order to turn around the El Salvador–bound planes. So far, it seems Trump's immigration crackdown has been anything but "reasonable, fair, orderly, and secure," as was Reagan's objective. 

Trump also differs from Reagan over his second-largest agenda item: tariffs. In only his first three months, Trump has rattled markets worldwide due to the unpredictability of his trade war. The fallout from his "Liberation Day" tariff announcement prompted many to quote none other than Reagan himself on the dangers of engaging in trade wars. Reagan advocated for free trade, believing that high tariffs only hurt Americans in the long run and that trade wars "weake[n] our economy, our national security, and the entire free world." In contrast, even though Trump instituted a 90-day pause for his tariffs, tensions with China have only continued to rise, leading to tariffs as high as 245 percent for certain goods. 

So while Trump may have brought back Reagan's rug, it's clear he's cracked away from much of the former president's legacy. Style is easy to replicate, but substance is harder to come by.

Comments

[AT]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is not a clone of Ronald Reagan!

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

He dares to succeed where Reagan failed?

[Nobartium]

Worse yet, he learned from his mistake: don't trade amnesty for security.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I don't know. Both of them sent drug dealers to Central America.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Ronnie saw the Soviets as an adversary. Donnie sees the Soviets as a positive role model for America.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Uh, sure. Now who was it that recently praised bread lines?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

The contemptible Bernie Sanders? If you think I ever liked that jackass you are sorely mistaken.

In fact his protectionist pro-Soviet populism is sickening to me and reminds me of Donnie.

Why do you idiots get my politics wrong? I am a globalist, capitalist, open society secular humanist.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Nobody believes your bullshit. Now turn yourself in for your crimes against children.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"I am a globalist, capitalist, open society secular humanist" in the style of Mussolini, Louis XIV, Alexander III of Russia, and Ibn Saud. Autocratic, anti-liberal and corporatist.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Shrike’s hero:

How George Soros's Youth Informed His War on the West

There are men whose lives are defined by tragedy. Then there are those who define tragedy, wielding their scars not as reminders of what should be avoided, but as tools to reconstruct the world in their own anguished image. George Soros, born György Schwartz in 1930 Budapest, is often regarded as a philanthropist, a financier, a globalist idealist. But the truth is far more unsettling. His formative years, lived as a Jewish teenager under Nazi occupation, did not merely teach him survival. They taught him something far darker: that moral boundaries are elastic, and that power accrues to those who understand this first.
In 1944, Nazi Germany tightened its grip on Hungary. Over half a million Hungarian Jews were deported to extermination camps. Tivadar Schwartz, Soros’s father, saw the storm coming and acted. He secured false papers for his family, including young George, and sent him to live under a Christian alias, Sándor Kiss, with one Baumbach, a Hungarian official in the Ministry of Agriculture.
Baumbach, it turns out, was no neutral bureaucrat. He was a cog in the vast machinery of state-sponsored theft and ethnic cleansing. His task: to catalog and confiscate the estates of Jews deported to Auschwitz. His accomplice, or perhaps merely his shadow, was George Soros. The boy accompanied Baumbach on inventory missions, including one to the opulent estate of Baron Moric Kornfeld, a Jewish industrialist who had recently been arrested. Soros has since insisted that he was merely present, a bystander watching history's machinery grind forward. But he also, by his own admission, helped.
In a chilling 1998 interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Soros, then 68, was asked if the experience left him traumatized. He answered: "Not at all. Not at all." He described the events with clinical detachment, likening himself to an impartial observer of an unstoppable tide. Asked if he felt guilt, he answered, "No," elaborating that someone else would have taken the property anyway, so his presence was morally neutral. To most people, the logic of "if I hadn't done it, someone else would have" is the language of moral abdication. To Soros, it was the foundation of character.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1911114505557262410

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

You were banned for posting a link to child porn.

[Frank Drackman]

Got the link?
I’m kidding!

[Rick James]

The Democrats hate Russia, because they yearn for the Soviets to come back.

[SIV]

The USSR collapsed in 1991. Now Russia and the former Soviet Republic of the Ukraine are fighting because of NATO's attempt to seize the Crimean port of Sevastopol.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Less than 100 days under Trump's direction, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently detains close to 48,000 migrants and controversially shipped 238 individuals in ICE custody to El Salvador, raising serious due process concerns and legal questions.'

I think I have figured out what Democrats and TDS-riddled critics mean by "due". If any process, fast or protracted, ends up in deportation, it is not "due". Only endless stalling, or decisions like Amnesty! can be "due".

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Another comic to make me laugh!

[Longtobefree]

" . . . he also granted amnesty for nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States."

In exchange for the promise of the democrats that they would close the border.
Never, ever, trust a democrat.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Still waiting on that visa exit system democrats promised in 86.

[BYODB]

Yeah, I was going to comment on that in particular as well since apparently the author is either entirely ignorant about the reasons for that amnesty or is intentionally lying about it.

Where Reagan fucked up on that one was trusting Democrats. This is one reason why there hasn't been another mass amnesty since Reagan. It is known that the Democrats won't hold up their side of the bargain.

It's almost like conservatives have tried to work with Democrats on immigration but been burned by their efforts time and time again.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

...

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

Reagan

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Reagan was a pussy.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Never, ever, trust an open borders advocate.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Reagan advocated for free trade, believing that high tariffs only hurt Americans in the long run and that trade wars

Glad Reagan never issued a tariff then. Or reality would get awkward around the narrative.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Poor stupid Autumn:

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa107.pdf

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Update from a previous commentariat story, lol:

“Life comes at you fast.”

https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1913964486702072243

[sarcasmic]

Nothing about 4/20 Day?

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

So five years ago.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

ActBlue was saying Trump was going to throwthem all in jail today.

[sarcasmic]

Reagan surrounded himself with people who understood economics.

Trump is willfully ignorant on the subject, as are his defenders.
I’m sure Jesse the dipshit will, if he hasn’t already, say that Reagan had tariffs. And that is true. The difference is the tariff rates. Reagan was not a protectionist like the game show host in chief who is currently doing his best to wreck the world economy.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Reason economic expert, Sarcasmic, folks.

Trump is the dumb one, which is why Sarc has a billion dollar real estate empire and Trump is a formerly homeless short order cook in Maine.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Trump never even ended up homeless.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

So no real world experience, right?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Exactly.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Lol.

You didn't know 2 years ago he had issued tariffs because you're fucking ignorant. Was hilarious.

And even in this comment he doesn't realize that one of his tariffs was solely protectionary. Want to know which one sarc?

One day you and Boehm will end up correct with a prediction. It will be by accident of course.

[Rick James]

but the Trump-Reagan similarities are running thin.

It's true. For instance, Reagan put massive tariffs on Japanese goods...

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Reagan Imposes 100% Tariffs on Japan Goods : Retaliatory Sanctions Aimed at $300 Million in Electronic Products in Semiconductor Dispute

By TOM REDBURN and DONNA K. H. WALTERS
March 28, 1987 12 AM PT

Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo’s failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.

In approving a recommendation Thursday by the Administration’s top economic officials, the White House decided to put the tariffs into effect about April 17, less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is scheduled to begin a visit to the United States aimed at easing trade frictions.

The tariffs will be targeted to bring in as much as $300 million and designed to punish such firms as NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Oki Corp. by either pricing some of their goods out of the American market or by forcing them to accept substantial losses on U.S. sales.

Little Consumer Effect

But American consumers should not suffer much from the steep tariffs on such goods as color television sets, personal computers, disc drives, power tools and commercial photo film because the products chosen are also manufactured by firms in the United States or other nations that are expected to continue to supply competitive goods at existing prices.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Sounds very trumpian. Luckily sarc has you on mute to avoid learning.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

You mean “on mute”.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Are you suggesting sarc would lie?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"Luckily sarc has you on mute to avoid learning."

Mute or not, Sarcasmic is guaranteed to avoid learning. Look at how long we struggled to get him to understand what 'ad hominem' actually meant.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Proclamation 5601 -- Imposition of Increased Tariffs on Imports of Certain Articles From the European Economic Community

January 21, 1987

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. On March 31, 1986, I announced my decision, pursuant to section 301(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Act) (19 U.S.C. 2411(a)), to take action in response to restrictions imposed by the European Economic Community (EEC) affecting imports of United States grain and oilseeds into Spain and Portugal. I determined that these restrictions deny benefits to the United States arising under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6)), are unreasonable, and constitute a burden and restriction on United States commerce (51 F.R. 18294). Accordingly, in Proclamation 5478 of May 15, 1986 (51 F.R. 18296), pursuant to section 301 (a), (b), and (d)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 2411 (a), (b), and (d)(1)), I imposed quantitative restrictions on imports of certain articles from the EEC in response to the EEC restrictions in Portugal.

2. In Proclamation 5478, I also announced my decision, in response to the withdrawal of tariff concessions and the application of the EEC variable levy on Spanish imports of corn and sorghum, to suspend temporarily, pursuant to section 301 (a), (b), and (d)(1) of the Act, the tariff concessions made by the United States under the GATT on articles described in Annex II to that proclamation. I made no immediate change in the U.S. duty rates for these articles in order to afford the EEC an opportunity to provide, by July 1, 1986, adequate compensation for the imposition of variable levies on imports of corn and sorghum into Spain. I further stated that, in the event such compensation were not provided by July 1, 1986, I would proclaim increased duties for these articles as appropriate. Having due regard for the international obligations of the United States, I decided that any such increased duties on these articles would be applied on a most-favored-nation basis.

3. On July 2, 1986, the United States and the EEC reached an interim agreement whereby the EEC agreed to take measures to avoid harm to U.S. sales of corn and sorghum to the EEC for the 6-month period ending December 31, 1986. In return, the United States agreed to defer action on the imposition of increased duties on imports of certain articles into the United States during this period so as to allow time for negotiation of a definitive settlement.

4. Despite extensive negotiating efforts throughout 1986, the EEC has not yet agreed to provide satisfactory compensation. Accordingly, I have determined, pursuant to section 301 (a), (b), and (d)(1) of the Act, that increased duties should be imposed on a most-favored-nation basis on the articles provided for in the Annex to this proclamation. Pursuant to general headnote 4 to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202), the U.S. rates of duty for countries not receiving most-favored-nation treatment will be modified accordingly.

5. In the event that the EEC provides adequate compensation for the imposition of variable levies on corn and sorghum imports, or if other circumstances so warrant, I am authorizing the United States Trade Representative to suspend, modify, or terminate the increased duties imposed by this proclamation upon publication in the Federal Register of notice of his determination that such action is in the interest of the United States. Such suspension, modification, or termination shall be on a most-favored-nation basis.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including but not limited to section 301 (a), (b), and (d)(1) and section 604 of the Act (19 U.S.C.. 2483), do proclaim that:

1. Subpart B of part 2 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation.

2. The United States Trade Representative is authorized to suspend, modify, or terminate the increased duties imposed by this proclamation upon publication in the Federal Register of his determination that such action is in the interest of the United States.

3. This proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 30, 1987.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.

Ronald Reagan

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:01 p.m., January 22, 1987]

Note: The annex was printed in the "Federal Register'' of January 26.

Date
01/21/1987

[Rick James]

because the products chosen are also manufactured by firms in the United States or other nations that are expected to continue to supply competitive goods at existing prices.

What's interesting about this is, this was a time when America still had some industrial capacity. The anti-tariff argument being made now (and it's not an illegitimate argument) is that there literally is no alternative. We simply don't make anything here and those 'productivity graphs' that show America's manufacturing capacity going up, (up up and away!!!) are literally taking American manufacturing firms that manufacture in China into account-- like my billion dollar company which is like every other billion dollar manufacturing firm. So I would agree, Trump's tariffs are very likely to affect consumer prices.

[sarcasmic]

I googled “what is manufactured in the United States” and the following came up. Are they lying?

The United States manufactures a wide variety of goods, including transportation equipment (like cars and vehicles), chemicals, machinery, computer and electronic products, and food. Other notable areas of US manufacturing include fabricated metal products, primary metals, nonmetallic mineral products, electrical equipment, appliances, and components, wood products, and furniture.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Key Manufacturing Industries:
Transportation Equipment:
The US is a major manufacturer of motor vehicles, including cars, trucks, and buses, as well as other transportation equipment like aircraft and trains.
Chemicals:
The US is a significant producer of a wide range of chemical products, from pharmaceuticals to industrial chemicals.
Machinery:
The US manufactures various types of machinery, including industrial machinery, construction equipment, and agricultural machinery.
Computer and Electronic Products:
While the US may not manufacture the raw components of computers and electronics in large quantities, it is still a major producer of finished products, such as computers, smartphones, and other electronic devices.
Food:
The US is a major producer of food products, including processed foods, beverages, and agricultural commodities.
Other Notable Industries:
Fabricated Metal Products: These include a wide range of metal-based products, such as steel structures, metal containers, and fabricated metal parts.
Primary Metals: The US produces a variety of metals, including steel, aluminum, and other alloys.
Nonmetallic Mineral Products: This includes products like concrete, glass, and ceramics.
Electrical Equipment, Appliances, and Components: The US manufactures a variety of electrical products, including appliances, motors, and electronic components.
Wood Products: The US produces lumber, wood panels, and other wood-based products.
Furniture and Related Products: This includes a wide range of furniture, from household furniture to office furniture.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Who has said this wasn't manufacturd here at all?

Arguing against your strawman?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Here comes dragon-slayer Sarcasmic, riding in to boldly defeat the argument nobody made.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Strict libertarians and ardent free traders have long criticized Reagan for what they perceived as hypocrisy on trade, as he instigated or signed off on numerous protectionist measures throughout his presidency, starting with his first months in office in 1981.

...

Reagan also secured agreements from several European and Latin American nations to adopt similar "voluntary" quotas on steel exports to the U.S. Additionally, Reagan imposed protectionist measures on textiles, specialty steel, Canadian wood products, Italian pasta, motorcycles, and even mushrooms during his two terms. In 1986, Reagan threatened to impose a 200 percent tariff on Spain for its restrictions on U.S. grain imports.

.

Heeding this pressure, in 1984 alone (an election year, to be sure), the Reagan Administration filed over 200 petitions with the International Trade Commission for relief (meaning retaliatory tariffs) from foreign market protection. During that same year, Reagan was quietly encouraging the efforts of the Emergency Committee for American Trade, a business group formed to oppose protectionist trade bills.

Yet sarc right above is showing his argument from ignorance.

https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/trade-protection-and-tariffs-from-reagan-to-trump

[TJJ2000]

I'm just wondering why there is so much fuss over a US Constitutionally granted 'Federal' power.......

When there is soooooooooooo, soooooooooooo, soooooooooooo much UN-Constitutional (treasonous) legislation still on the books.

Instead of article after article after article about Rand Paul is right FDR [D] Reciprocal Tariff Act is UN-Constitutional (we did get 1) and both sides (for once) should be able to get together and FIX it ... the bulk has been about *JUST* ?Trump? bad. Very little about Biden's Tariff and literally a lying denial of Reagan.

Until the US Constitution is the center-focus (i.e. 'definition') of the USA again; a free and prosperous USA will never get found.

[sarcasmic]

You mean high tariffs are ok because the author didn’t complain about Biden’s tariffs, and it’s ok for Trump to wield unconstitutional laws because the author doesn’t complain about other unconstitutional laws?

And you wonder why I mock you. Fucking idiot.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

If you'd admit to your history of being a leftist hypocrite it would probably be less amusing for the rest of us.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Being a hypocrite is kind of a kink for him.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

And you wonder why I mock you. Fucking idiot.

Literally the biggest idiot here, but he thinks he's got one over TJ.

[TJJ2000]

So proposing that the left join Rand Paul and FIX their FDR F'Up the known leftard (that's you) spouts off an accusation against Trump "wield unconstitutional laws" and ........... ?forgets? to mention Biden (who did exactly the same) and FDR (who literally put the unconstitutional law in place) in that accusation.

Your TDS mental-infatuation is only surpassed by your own Self-Projection.
"And you wonder why I mock you. Fucking idiot."

Course what should anyone expect from Leftard Tribalists.
Our [WE] Identify-as gang RULES ... is the only/basis substance to be found.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

"What's the big deal? It's not like they are going to go after citizens or anything..."

U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, who is visiting Tucson from Albuquerque, says he was lost and walking near the Border Patrol headquarters when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country. Hermosillo was not carrying identification.

Court documents say a Border Patrol agent arrested Hermosillo “at or near Nogales, Arizona, without proper immigration documents” and that Hermosillo admitted to illegally entering the U.S.

Hermosillo and his girlfriend, who have a 9-month-old child together, live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and are visiting family in Tucson. He says he has never been to Nogales.

His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention.

The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”

[rbike]

This happened to Cheech Marin once also. They made a movie of it call Born in East L.A.. It all worked out just fine.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

C’mon ice cream!

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Noted hard-left communist Joe Rogan thinks due process is important even for migrants.

You know what, what is the quote? Was it Benjamin Franklin's quote about innocent and that it better to allow 10 guilty people to go free than one innocent person arrested. You know, I'm on that side of things. Yeah, that's my, I mean I think due process exists for a reason. And the reason is it is horrific for someone to be accused of something they didn't do, be imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit. And then live in a cell, live in a cage with a bunch of people who did commit shit. Here it is Benjamin Franklin, it's better. A hundred gild person should escape than one innocent person should suffer. That that is wisdom that has survived hundreds of years.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The thing Jeff will never grasp is that Rogan—by his own admission—has always been fairly left. But because Jeff gets his worldview spoon-fed through ActBlue talking points, he pretends Rogan is some kind of alt-right figure.

What Jeff also misses is that it’s his own Buesky peer group that shifted: they’re the ones who morphed into Nazis, corporatists, racists, antisemites, neocon warmongers, anti-feminists, kleptocrats, elitist reactionary aristophiles, and anti-LGB crusaders. Meanwhile, people like Rogan, Musk, and Greenwald remain the same left-liberals they were a decade ago.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

So I hope Justice Alito reads this story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-fight-raged-ice-buses-filled-venezuelans-heading-airport-turned-rcna202007

In Justice Alito's dissent on the late-night order stopping AEA removals, he noted in part that the government hadn't yet had an opportunity to present their side of the story, and the government had promised - PROMISED! - that there wouldn't be any removals on Friday or Saturday, so the order was too hasty.

Well - at the same time as the government was promising "no removals over the weekend", they were loading up migrants onto buses and planning to send them to El Salvador over the weekend. In other words, they lied. They lied through their teeth directly to the court.

So I hope both Alito and Thomas understand the type of people they are dealing with, people who will lie TO THEM to abuse their power.

[TJJ2000]

Right in the headline of your link.....
bus "turned around, video shows"

Now tell us how Biden's defiance of the Supreme Court Student Loan Forgiveness E.O. got "turned around"...

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Did you see in the article where the government's lawyers PROMISED that there weren't going to be any deportations on Friday or Saturday, and then they put the migrants on buses planning to deport them on Friday night/Saturday morning? Hmm?

Would you like to explain why the government promised they wouldn't do that, then they tried to do it anyway?

[TJJ2000]

And Biden 'did'. What-ever you've dreamed-up to cry about 'didn't'.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Right, so you're just going to whatabout. Got it.

[TJJ2000]

What-about what *did* happen and What-about what *didn't* happen.
.......... What-about *reality*? Heaven-forbid.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Crying "whataboutism" is always such a cop-out when it demonstrates your refusal to acknowledge your own rank hypocrisy on that very topic.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Fatjeff: “How does my being morally and logically inconsistent on everything matter?”

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

Would you like to explain why the government promised they wouldn't do that, then they tried to do it anyway?

They were waiting until Monday morning.

[Stuck in California]

So, now I'm getting click bait headlines and lectures on Regan from some chick who wasn't even alive in the 20th century, much less the 1980s.

Reason's full on Buzz Feed.