KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
 

do people still watch SNL?  and why do they matter?

ps.,maybe Biden's been hanging out with Jack Ma.

 KarmaKarma wrote:
 
.....ohhhhhhh mega burn! Kinda like the schoolyard "I'm rubber and you're glue" deal.

Gonna take me a few days to recover.

 R_P wrote: 
The morality police gon get ya

 kurtster wrote:
 
You paint a picture as if the illegals are choosing to take Greyhound buses to "run free" and traipse around the country and enjoy the scenery. They are being placed there by ICE for transport elsewhere. 

"American citizens do not have this freedom to flaunt Covid restrictions." What country have you been living in the past few years. The answer to that question is "Yes" and a lot of them often do. 

This comes from the article you reference: Greyhound already asks our customers to stay home and NOT travel if they are not feeling well or have been diagnosed with COVID. Does that give you a warm and fuzzy feeling? Is relying on the honor system a true restriction? In essence, American citizens are not prevented from travelling on Greyhound if they think they have COVID but Greyhound is hoping you don't. The fair thing to do here is test all passengers beforehand... is it more likely there are more illegals with COVID than citizens... sure. Call me old fashioned but if I was one travelling on the bus I wouldn't want anyone to be travelling with me having COVID... period. 

kurtster I am going to give you a gift that you never gave anyone who was criticizing Trump over in the other threads. Are there things that Biden needs to address on the immigration front (some of his own making)... sure. I do think that Greyhound management has a very good point. But the difference (I believe) between Biden and Trump is that I believe that Biden will make the needed adjustments and is capable of course-correction when warranted where Trump was more inclined to double-down on his mistakes and make a poor situation worse and then ignore it altogether when he lost all interest in it. Kind of like the difference between an adult's sensibilities vs a child's.  

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
 
Careful now.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
 

Their governor is blaming the more recent immigrants for any covid spread (who are more likely to follow the covid rules) but giving a pass to the WASPs who haven't done anything to stop the spread but complain about masks.

 maryte wrote:
 
What?

 KarmaKarma wrote:
 

Well, that will certainly help with Social Distancing.

 maryte wrote:

 

In this mornings newspaper...

Is ‘SNL’ soft on Biden? And why no news conference?

Peter Funt USA Today Guest Columnist-
No one saw this coming: Neither the real Joe Biden nor the fake Joe Biden has held a news conference since Inauguration Day.
Over the past 100 years, no president has gone as long as Biden without conducting a formal session
with White House reporters. And 'Saturday Night Live' has never gone
this far into a new president’s term without having someone portraying
him in a sketch. The last time a Biden character appeared on 'SNL'
was back on Dec. 19, when Alex Moffat offered a tame impersonation of the president-elect.

What’s going on here? Is the White House
worried about a gaffe or poor showing by the new president? Fox News and
other conservative outlets are eagerly promoting such speculation.

Is'SNL' afraid of making jokes at the new president’s expense? Producers
seem unsure about what to do with Biden, despite their rich history of
mocking politicians from both parties. Maybe both conditions are
circumstantial and soon to be corrected, but right now neither looks good.

The President needs to hold a news conference. Donald Trump and
Barack Obama each held solo news conferences during their first month in
office. The Biden administration, however, is focused on major
congressional hurdles — the COVID-19 relief bill and Cabinet
confirmations — to a point where freewheeling questions from the press
corps might place the new president in a difficult spot.
But at a time when true transparency is desperately needed in government,
especially on the heels of Trump and an administration that favored '
alternative facts ,' Biden is making a mistake by being so guarded with White House reporters.

Meanwhile,viewers of 'Saturday Night Live' are probably wondering what’s the deal
with Biden? He is mentioned briefly on 'Weekend Update,' but there has
yet to be a sketch with a Biden character in 2021.
During the campaign, Jim Carrey portrayed Biden on 'SNL,' and some Democrats felt
it was too harsh. Carrey left the role after the election — without much
explanation except to say it was never meant to be a permanent gig —
then cast member Moffat gave the part a try in one limp sketch. That’s it.

It’s not as if Biden is difficult to impersonate. Before Carrey,
Woody Harrelson provided a toothy, straight-from-the-headlines version of the former vice president. Earlier,
Jason Sudeikis did a spot-on Biden during the Obama years and was the presumptive favorite to return until Carrey got the gig.
Is ‘SNL’ going soft on the Democrats? 'SNL' producers and writers have
always been liberal-leaning yet generally willing to dole out insults to
presidents from both parties. If they were to mock Biden for his
occasional lapses in public speaking, the script might go like this:

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.

PRESIDENT:
My fellow Americans, ladies and gentlemen, members of the press, and my
immediate family. First, may I thank you all for being here, and I am,
and my immediate family. First, may I thank you all for being here, and I
am and my immediate family. Thank you all for being here. And I am
truly honored to be asked by you to open the ‘Saturday Night’ show …

(He pours water into a glass, then picks up an empty glass and attempts to drink from it.)

PRESIDENT: I do have two major announcements to make …

(He stumbles and falls.)

PRESIDENT: Whoops! Uh, oh.

(Gets up.)

PRESIDENT: No problem. No problem.

After that he’d attempt to drink water from the empty pitcher. He might bang
his head on the podium, stumble a second time, trip over two folding
chairs and, sprawled on the floor, shout: 'Live from New York, it’s
Saturday night!'

That could be very funny. But it has already
been done. That’s a transcript of the first time a president was
portrayed on 'SNL':

Gerald Ford, Nov. 8, 1975 . Chevy Chase
played Ford as a lame-brained klutz, a depiction that helped make Chase a
big star and hurt Ford’s chances against Jimmy Carter in 1976.

So, is 'SNL' going soft on Democrats in its 46th season? I hope not, because as the show’s creator and executive producer
Lorne Michaels once noted , 'If a culture doesn’t allow you to laugh at the
leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually
happening, that’s not good.'

We need more real news conferences, and more genuine laughs.

 VV wrote:
 


You're a funny guy. Not much substance to you, but funny nonetheless.

 kurtster wrote:
 

That's not at all what I said, but reading comprehension has never been your strong suit.

 kurtster wrote:
 

So biden is starting off as bad as trump (for difft obvious reasons) in dealing w/ immigration...and most of his predecessors. 
It's an extremely complex issue.
Trump and many Americans wanted a wall...couldn't get one, and wouldnt work anyway.
Closed, open, or partially open borders, any way you slice it there are going to be issues.
What can be controlled is how we legislate it. 
I think we should start from scratch and create some simple effective rules for immigration.
then anyone who doesnt play by those rules can be returned to sender, thrown in jail, shipped out to sea, put up against the wall. 

 maryte wrote: 
He's your governor, not mine.  Biden is all of our's POTUS and it is his policies letting this happen, not your governor.

So I take it that you have no problem with the way Biden is handling this then.  Okie dokie.

If this is such a crisis, please don't post here - email our moron governor and tell him rescinding the mask mandate is a bad idea, what with all those brown people carrying COVID into Texas...because it certainly can't be because so many white citizens are dancing in public places maskless and confronting people who *are* wearing masks.

 haresfur wrote: 
EXCLUSIVE: Greyhound CEO tells head of DHS migrant passengers must have proof they are COVID-free

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Border Report) — The CEO of Greyhound bus company has sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding that all undocumented asylum-seekers released by DHS show proof that they are COVID-free before boarding buses, Border Report has learned.

The letter, sent Wednesday, came during a week when it was learned that at least 108 migrants apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in South Texas tested positive for coronavirus at the Brownsville, Texas, bus station as they were en route to destinations North this past month.

...
Border Report has reached out to DHS officials and will update this story if information is received.

Earlier Thursday, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, called the situation “weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border.”

Still say this story is fishy and that Biden's denial is just an opinion ?

 kurtster wrote:
 

i dont think he said there was no issue, but described it as a "challenge"
yes, underplaying what is a very complex and difficult thing to deal with....something bush, obama, trump and now biden is fumbling.
regardless, biden admin should have been better prepared for what is currently going on.

 kurtster wrote:
 

So do Americans have to show they are covid negative to take Greyhound buses? I'm all in favour of quarantining everyone who crosses the border like we do here. Is that what you propose? And you have such rampant transmission of covid in the country that I wonder why you are particularly worried about these "illegals" Do you have instant result testing of them or are they tested, held until the results come back then released? The story you read sounds fishy.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
No.  It is bigger than that.  It is about letting Covid positive illegals run free unrestricted after capture.  I just saw a story that 25% of these people have tested positive and are not detained or quarantined.  Instead they are being released or put on buses or planes or just released into the general population.  It is so bad that the CEO of Greyhound bus lines sent a letter to DHS about how they will not tolerate or accept any of these Covid + onto their buses and that DHS must take steps to prevent this on their end.

American citizens do not have this freedom to flaunt Covid restrictions.  Movement has been restricted for citizens with Biden even threatening to close off travel to Florida because of their governor's policies of opening up the state to back to normal.  Biden is also ignoring "science" by doing this.  Either Covid is a global pandemic or it isn't.

Oh, and the cages.  They were cages when Trump used the ones built by Obama / Biden but now that Biden is running the show, these same cages are now no longer considered cages again.  Instead they are now "reception centers".