Quote (Goomshill @ Oct 28 2021 11:57pm)
The off-year elections, mostly the virginia gubernatorial race, are in just a few days. And the democrats in congress have a big economic bill to deliberate on
And then the administration somehow shits out this absurdity of a headline in some unforced error that completely obliterates their credibility with any sane americans.
I mean, if you checked the poll numbers you'd find more support for satanic child rape cults than "giving million dollar reparations and citizenship to illegal aliens"
Now, I charitably want to believe this wasn't some intentional policy initiative and rather some conservative operatives / think tank / journalists on a mission managed to conjure this story by digging into existing lawsuits at the right time. I mean, why in god's name would an administration ever shoot themselves in the foot this badly? Even for Joe Biden's track record of incompetence this would be a whopper.
The best thing you can say is that democrats don't really have much at stake to forfeit right now, and are imploding on their economic bill and disfavored in virginia even without this kind of story in the headlines.
But, major yikes.
I don't think this is going to be in the news for very long. The people who are swayed by this are already voting red. Having said that, if this is to settle a lawsuit....what kind of damages are we actually looking at here? Will we be liable to pay out even MORE if they don't settle?