"I could care less what you think"
Lindsey Graham is fed up with Poland! Poland's prime minister tweeted that the US Senate should pass Ukraine aid and, he said, Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave.
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To the Prime minister of Poland, I could care less what you think. To the Prime minister of Poland, if Ronald Reagan were alive today, we wouldn't have this broken border. To the Prime minister of Poland, I want to help Ukraine. I want to help make a stronger NATO. But my country is on fire. We've had seven million people come across a broken border. How would you feel if seven million people came in illegally into Poland?
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To prove just how little he cared about what Poland's PM thinks, Graham had an enlarged copy of the tweet made and put it on an easel on the Senate floor while Graham was speaking. That's how Graham shows his complete indifference.
Graham asked how Poland would feel if immigrants were coming into their county. Indeed. What do they know about immigrants coming into their country?
And what would Ronald Reagan, famous for his love of border walls, say if he were alive today? We can only guess based on his past statements..
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“Rather than talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit,” he said. “And then while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here. And when they want to go back they can go back.”
The border, he said, should be open “both ways” — and border security policy should take into account the economic challenges facing Mexico.
Reagan’s words that night, and his stance in countless other public and private statements as president, contrast starkly with the false history lesson President Trump offered Friday in an early-morning tweet, hours before a potential government shutdown over funding for the president’s border wall.
“Even President Ronald Reagan tried for 8 years to build a Border Wall, or Fence, and was unable to do so,” the president wrote in a tweet. “Others also have tried. We will get it done, one way or the other!”
Trump’s simplified characterization of Reagan’s policies are not accurate.
“There was not any discussion at the senior policy levels during the Reagan administration about fencing or a wall that I can recall,” Doris Meissner, who was executive associate commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Reagan administration, wrote in an email.
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Finally, don't even get me started on the could/couldn't thing, which is what attracted me to this topic in the first place.
