The “immigration reform” bill

A news item: Senate Republicans are turning on their own “bipartisan”-at-the-barrel-of-a-gun immigration plan.

If this turns out to have been Biden playing rope-a-dope I am genuinely going to be so fucking impressed, ’cause it’s playing out like some truly epic rope-a-dope, and I’m not saying that’s what it is…

…but that’s how it’s playing out so far.

A couple of weeks ago I was all, “I hate this, but we have to save Ukraine from Russia and we can fix it later. If this is the cost to keep the post-war consensus that wars of conquest are forbidden going, then as far as I’m concerned, it’s worth it. As much as it sucks, I’d make this trade.”

And I stand by that because wars of conquest being just fine – as per pre-World-War-II – was an unending nightmare of suffering for almost everyone.

But last week, I started going, “…wait,” because of how the deal was falling out. And I started thinking…

“…is this Biden and the Democrats playing rope-a-dope?”

If it turns out the plan was to lead the MAGATs into voting down their own proposals, that’s some finest grade Dark Brandon shit right there.

I really kinda hope it is. It would be beautiful.

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