Obama's Parting Gifts

[Fife]

Well, we're eight days out. It seems likely we will need a thread for what is sure to be an overflowing fountain of goodness from the outgoing POTUS.

Speculation from anyone about what is most likely / least likely?

What deals are Billary, Inc. floating this evening?




Anyhoo.... here's a starter for the thread.


Obama is giving DJT a head start on his wall, on the commie side of the Gulf. I'll be interested to see how DJT deals with Cuba, if at all.

As to the Cuban people, well, they're collateral damage.


Op-ed in the Miami Herald: Cubans will have to make the case for asylum, too

And ending the policy is clearly a concession to Cuban leader Raúl Castro, who has demanded it. Yet to be seen is what else President Obama has agreed to as part of this unexpected deal with Cuba.

WaPo: Obama ending special immigration status for migrants fleeing Cuba

The policy was agreed upon with the Cuban government, which issued a statement calling it “an important step in the advance of bilateral relations” that will guarantee “regular, safe and orderly migration.” The government has long complained about the special status for Cubans, particularly the “wet-foot, dry foot” policy, which it said encouraged illegal travel in unseaworthy vessels, homemade rafts and inner tubes.

edit:grammar

[Speaker to Animals]

I am pretty sure it takes more than a little encouragement on our end for people to cross sixty plus miles of shark-infested ocean in an inner tube.

[TheReal_ND]

Cubans cost the democrats Florida. They are no longer a protected class.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

[Okeefenokee]

Cubans cost the democrats Florida. They are no longer a protected class.

This guy gets it. Florida is no longer in play.

[TheReal_ND]

52-48

That's pretty in play dude.

[Okeefenokee]

52-48

That's pretty in play dude.

That was before the left idolized Castro and started ripping into protections for Cuban exiles.

Miami has a Republican mayor.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, they lost it, man.

Also, boomers are dying out. The old boomers in South Florida are starting to burn out, causing the state to go back towards red.

[TheReal_ND]

Boomers trend towards republican but the ones in Florida are usually snow birds from the yankee coast so yeah, that could help Florida. But Florida is in play . It was a very narrow margin and it was only the panhandle that pulled them out of the fire.

[Speaker to Animals]

Boomers trend towards republican but the ones in Florida are usually snow birds from the yankee coast so yeah, that could help Florida. But Florida is in play . It was a very narrow margin and it was only the panhandle that pulled them out of the fire.

Yeah, but the old fogies in West Palm Beach and Boca Raton are dying by the year. In four years, how many will be left compared to this year. How many this year compared to 2000 when Gore almost won the state? The only reason it was "in play" during the past two presidential cycles was that white people were voting for Obama who might otherwise have voted for the republican.

The dems lost the Cubans, man. I am telling you right here and now, those guys are far more nationalistic than we are. And they will remember something like this for generations. The dems were all about making friends with Castro. Now they want to punish the Cuban American community. Democrats are dead to the Cubans at this point.

When Gore lost Florida in 2000, a reporter during the recount showed a picture of one of the ballots cast. The person wrote the name Elion on the fucking thing.