Towards the end of this interview, Biden talks about "amelioration of the immigration situation", which means "letting Soviet Jews go."
Many of them, who owe their current US citizenship to Biden, now curse him for a communist and a senile traitor.
Racism is a hell of a drug.
You can see him searching for the word before saying "amelioration." This is not the stutter. He knew that even uttering the word "Jews" to Soviet media and this implying the USSR's institutionalized anti-semitism would enrage Soviet officials.
But, in the end, diplomacy worked.
Soviet Jews, though, were always Soviet first and everything else last. Unaccustomed to nuanced political discourse, they came to America determined to support whichever party was furthest to the right, and farthest away from socialism. Everything else was Brezhnev, by definition
Also, after being subject to terrible discrimination, they yearned to be in the majority, to be accepted by the racial elites. And, coming from a deeply racist country, they were not adverse to racial stereotyping and white supremacy, as long as they were on the giving end...
And the GOP, which was undergoing its racist "southern strategy" rebrand right at the moment, fit them like a glove. Soviet emigres became the staunched and most radicalized supporters of the Republicans, only growing more vehement with time. Like Cubans with much worse cuisine.
Russian American diaspora is an extremely sad, utterly insane intellectual landscape.
It has also given us Boris Epshteyn and Lev Parnas. And birther queen Orly Taitz.
Speaking to most fellow Russian Americans is unbearably depressing. They are miles to the right of Alex Jones.
They will always say the same bullshit about having lived through socialism and not wanting to go back to it again. It's raving lunacy. The reasons they support the GOP now are lazy reductionist thinking, asshole selfishness and unvarnished racism.
The same as anyone, really.
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When it comes down to it (assuming we are not headed for a coup and a civil war), the Democrats have won the White House, picked up at least 2 Senate seats and kept their House majority.
So, why is all the rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth? They did, repeat after me, good!
What they didn't do was knock off Republican incumbents in either deep red states (which TX still is and SC, KS, MT and IA always will be) or bluish/purplish states (ME and NC) in which they had sub-optimal candidates.
Is that really a terrible disappointment?
They have also lost some House seats in districts that had no business electing Democrats in the first place. A huge pro-Trump turnout was no doubt the reason. They failed to flip some state legislatures, for the same reason.
They lost Florida, which, admit it, is a red state.
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No. No, I am not willing to talk to the other side. I am not willing to understand them. I am not willing to be magnanimous. I sure as fuck won't look for a compromise...
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Trump 2020.
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Where by "it", Officer Lotsa Bacon means "this thing that has been going on on Donald Trump's watch."
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