Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Biden Says the Quiet Part Out Loud Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 08:16:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 15:16:59 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="173578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nbVRWDKSSPnbfM8Xxwm5JInq32o= Content-Language: en-US X-User-ID: eJwFwYkNwEAIA7CVeJNmnBOI/Ueo3QnHsNCovj6FXnxkcky4M4QYxinl+kV6iyL2yI1nP/dsD9M= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4220 Lines: 66 On 5/11/2024 7:49 AM, shawn wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2024 14:33:05 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" > wrote: > >> BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> But no, the Dems aren't trying to dilute your vote and change the >>> demographics of the nation. >> >>> Pshaw! That's just nonsense. > > Even without the influx of Hispanics into the country it makes sense > for both parties, Democrats and Republicans, to court those Hispanic > voters. Ignoring them makes no sense in the long run. Assuming that > the majority are going to end up voting Democrat also doesn't make > sense. It will be years before anyone entering the country from > South/Central America will be able to vote so it will be the policies > in place at that time that are more likely to impact which party they > tend to vote for. > >>> ----------------- >>> President Biden referred to illegal aliens as "voters" during an interview >>> on a Spanish-speaking radio show released Tuesday. >> >>> "It's even a bigger influx now in terms of Hispanic voters, or Hispanic - >>> Hispanic citizens, who want to become citizens," President Biden said of >>> the current migrant crisis. >> >> Could we have the entire quote in context of a portion of the transcript >> please? > > > Looks like BTR was quoting this Fox News article: > https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-roasted-freudian-slip-referring-immigration-influx-hispanic-voters > > President Biden appeared to accidentally refer to Hispanic migrants as > "voters" during an interview on a Spanish-speaking radio show released > Tuesday. > > "It's even a bigger influx now in terms of Hispanic voters, or > Hispanic - Hispanic citizens, who want to become citizens," President > Biden said of the current migrant crisis. > > He argued that the current wave of immigration is "a little bit like > back in the 1840s and the great exodus of Ireland, because of the > famine and the way Irish Catholics were treated. They said no, no, we > don't need any more of those folks. There was a large influx." > > "The Hispanic community is part of the future of America," Biden told > a host from Spanish radio show Chiquibaby this week. "Twenty-eight out > of every 100 students in school speak Spanish, the idea that you’re > gonna ignore that? That’s our future. One of the reasons that we’re > growing so much is we have a significant influx of immigrants coming > into our country, only reason our economy’s so good. We’re not a > xenophobic nation. Other nations are, we’re not, that’s why our > economy is the best in the world." > > ----- > It's the sort of typical miss step that people have when speaking. Fox > News naturally chooses to read into it some nefarious meaning when it > is more likely that Biden just used the wrong term by accident. After > all the people coming in today aren't going to be voting for some time > to come. > True. The Rs want to make sure the non-citizens don't vote - there's already a 'rule' for that. When you register you have to be a citizen to do so.