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    Trump Urging Republicans To Reject Border Security Deal-Keep the invasion going! 300,000 last month!

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, BillStime said:

     

    Agreed. It's a decent compromise bill, and will improve the situation at the border (and in our cities receiving these immigrants). It's not perfection. It is called governing.

     

    And nothing in the bill would stop Trump, if lawfully elected, from doing the so-called "mass deportations" discussed in the other thread. Trump's opposition is about the election, not about policy.

    Mass Deportations? That sure sounds like fascism, probably because it is.

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Here's the official ICE numbers for the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2023:

     

    This year, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) nearly doubled immigration enforcement arrests and increased removals for those with no legal basis to remain in the country from the totals cited in last year’s report. ICE ERO’s 142,580 removals and 62,545 Title 42 expulsions to more than 170 countries worldwide in Fiscal Year 2023 reflect increased capacity and agreements to conduct removals and returns – particularly after the lifting of the Title 42 public health emergency on May 12.

     

    As a reference point, Obama's ICE Director implemented prosecutorial discretion saying that ICE lacked the capacity to execute more than 400,000 removals per year.

     

    We don't need to do any "round ups" or build "concentration camps" to raise the number of removals by almost 200%. And obviously more resources could allow for more than 400,000 deportations, still done in an orderly fashion that is respectful of due process and the law.

    Mass Deportations? That sure sounds like fascism, probably because it is.

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Tiberius said:

    Really? Creating sprawling camps to concentrate the illegal ones is not "rounding up" people?

    I think the estimate is that there are well over a million people presumably still in the US who are under orders of deportation. I don't think it's a "round up" to say that there will be a plan to find and deport them in a systematic way. "Round up" is both wrong as a policy (and really not doable even if it weren't wrong), and offensive as a statement since people are not cattle.

    2 hours ago, Wacka said:

    Hey snowflake

    My pretty little snowflake

    Ooh, ooh, the change in the weather Has made it better for me.

    Hey snowflake, my pretty little snowflake

    I take it you didn't read anything I said other than that "round up" is not a helpful term.

    If you had, you might have noticed that I may just agree with you.

    But that would be no fun.

    2 hours ago, phypon said:

    Listen to you talking all dirty like.  I didn't know you're name was Banal.  How you doin?

    I know you are but what am I.

    Insult comic, meet Pee Wee Herman

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    Mass Deportations? That sure sounds like fascism, probably because it is.

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by The Frankish Reich

    I hate having to be the self-appointed Voice of Reason. But here we go again:

     

    - the language is needlessly offensive. Not sure if it's coming from the campaign, from think tank fellow travelers, or from so-called MSM reports. But "round-up' is simply not helpful. It's not helpful because it implies "to hell with the law, we're rounding 'em up and shipping 'em out")

    - to the extent they mean "arresting and detaining those under orders of deportation," well, then, that is the law. The fact that the Biden Administration wishes to be selective about how they enforce those orders doesn't mean there's anything unlawful about doing it. I would like to see a little bit of discretion applied here in which orders to immediately enforce (classic case: single mom, one kid still under 18, why not wait until that kid is of age?), but a whole lot less discretion than the Biden Administration has seen fit to grant.

    - to the extent that they're drumming up new infectious diseases to support a new invocation of Title 42 and a denial of the right to seek asylum or go through the mandated deportation process: that strikes me as cynical very likely unlawful. There are statutory remedies like detaining people until they clear a health review that aren't as drastic and that would probably better protect public health. I am never in favor of cheating a little on the law. The law is (or at least should be) the law.

     

    So there. Maybe I'm too optimistic in saying that 98% of Americans would agree with me here? (with the remaining 2% being vastly overrepresented on PPP?)

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    Envato: Newspaper Vintage History Headlines. The Unified Reich Hoax

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by The Frankish Reich

    So I tried to watch it. Everyone's taking it down.

    If it's so wholesome, so inoffensive, why are they taking it down?

     

    I realize Trump's campaign didn't produce it. But Trump himself posted it on his social media site.

    I stupidly gave Trump the benefit of the doubt, saying that it was an agglomeration of made-up old news headlines meant to communicate that the world is a dangerous place and we need a strong leader like Trump.

     

    But no. It literally tells us what to expect if Trump wins again, then zooms in on the headline about industrial production increasing under a "unified Reich."

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-unified-reich-video/index.html

     

    So that would be a new Reich, the Trump Reich. Which you could, I guess, say harks back to Hitler's First Reich (which I think was the Holy Roman Empire, which didn't have any industrial production, being a feudal realm that was neither Holy nor Roman), or some Bismarckian Second Reich (which did happen in the industrial revolution, but isn't exactly the best example that comes to mind when economic historians think "provide an example of the industrial revolution").

     

    But really: it's right there. The new unified Reich.

     

    Who talks like that? Who has the German fetish other than the ancestral Drumpfs?

    What on earth was this meant to communicate other than associating Donald Trump with some kind of new (Fourth?) Reich?

     

    Some quick comparisons:

    - "What will happen under a new Trump Administration?" [cut to headline: "Napoleonic Empire Expands]

    - What will happen under a new Trump Administration?" [cut to faux Italian newspaper: "The Trains Now Run On Time"]

    - What will happen under a new Trump Administration? [cut to faux 1941 headline about "Emperor Declares Japan the New World Power"]

     

    It speaks for itself. It is so stupid, so offensive, that I assumed that people were unfairly jumping all over Trump for posting it.

    No. He should be jumped all over for posting it.

     

    Verdict: Not a Hoax.

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    Your 2024 Republican Party

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    46 minutes ago, BillStime said:

     

    JFC, we don't?  Are you really this pathetic?  (Stupid question - you are beyond pathetic).

     

    YOU WISH Trump had these accomplishments:

    • Is Infrastructure still two weeks out?
    • What about the CHIPS acts?  
    • Oh, Veterans, you know, those folks you call suckers and losers and the true patriots who fought Nazis in WWII, Biden signed the PACT Act - an expansion of benefits for toxic-exposed veterans to improve their health and lives.
    • Inflation Reduction Act? You know - lowering drugs costs for Americans - caping insulin costs - every single cult member voted against it.
    • Protecting Social Security and Medicare
      • How's TrumpCare? Oh, that's right - doesn't exist. Meanwhile, Biden signed a law to protect ACA.
    • Job Growth = all time high bro! More people working now than ever before...
    • Stock Market = all time high bro!
    • How's NATO looking these days? Stronger than ever.
    • Democracy - Biden is protecting our DEMOCRACY with honesty and integrity.

     

     

     

     

     

    Alito

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    Posted

    9 hours ago, BillStime said:

     

    I love how the flag code brigade is always up in arms about some alleged disrespect to Old Glory, but they're perfectly fine when a Supreme Court Justice('s wife) takes to flying it upside down to make a political point.

    The end of "moving the chains"?

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

    Ball spotting i guess can be an issue but it feels rarer and far less likely to have a big influence on the game results

    I think it's a huge impact, but we don't notice it. That favorable spot on 1st down? That extra foot? It can make a big difference. I just think we all understand that spotting errors are pretty much unfixable.

    Victor Davis Hanson's Truth Bombs

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    Posted · Edited by The Frankish Reich

    On 5/20/2024 at 7:16 AM, B-Man said:

     

     

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Disgrace and Fall of the American Elite Campus
    American Greatness ^ | 20 May, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

     

    These infantile campuses have a rendezvous with adult accountability, both public and governmental. And they won’t like what is coming.

     

    Anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests have engulfed hundreds of college campuses. But the more coastal, blue-state, and supposedly elite the campus was, the more furious the violence that sometimes followed these demonstrations.

     

    Even rowdier and more vicious street analogs shut down key bridges, freeways, and religious services. Protestors often defaced hallowed American monuments, national cemeteries, and iconic buildings. Visa-holders were among the worst perpetrators, adding ingratitude to their criminality.

     

    The vast majority wore masks, not to protect from infection but to hide their identities. It is received wisdom, however, that those who wear masks do so for obvious reasons: so authorities cannot identify and punish those who commit crimes (e.g. the Klan, antifa, bank robbers, criminal gangs), or so that anonymity can help incite mob furor, given that participants feel that their vehemence increases once it cannot be traced.

     

    More mundanely, why don’t the students simply identify themselves, insist they want their “resistance” to be known, and then hope their arrests will be proof of their courage to galvanize like-minded people to join them?

     

    Why? One, because the students are sunshine and careerist revolutionaries. They see no inconsistency between shouting “Death to Israel,” “Global Intifada,” or “River to the Sea” one day and then the next, applying for a top spot at Goldman Sachs, a tony university, or a federal bureaucracy. Jacobin professors protest like it is 1793, but when politely arrested, they collapse into fetal positions and scream hysterically that consequences cannot follow their illegality, given they are privileged, superior intellects and moralists, with titles and degrees no less.

     

    Two, the protestors, deep down, know they are aligning with the murderers and rapists of October 7 and that their chants...

     

    (Excerpt) Read more at https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/20/the-disgrace-and-fall-of-the-american-elite-campus/

     

     

     

     

    First Columbia.

    Then Yale.

    And yes, friends. The protests have finally hit the Jewel of the eastern Central Valley, that Binghamton of the West, VDH's very own Fresno State. Damn elitists.

    https://fresnoland.org/2024/05/01/fresno-state-demonstration/

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    The end of "moving the chains"?

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    1st down play ends: some official puts his foot down within approximately a couple inches of the actual tip of the ball.

    2nd down ends: repeat.

    3rd down ends: repeat.

     

    Error of up to 6 inches after 3 plays.

    Bring the sticks out and find, definitively, that he came up an inch short!

    Hint: the laser won't improve this.

    Jesse Kelly's Astute Communist Observations

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    Posted

    12 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

    Shhh! You’re not allowed to look anything up. Just believe the rage baiting talking heads. 

    Because some guy named Jess Kelly just knows that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has never been drawn on for any purpose other than fueling our military.

    How dare you question him!

    I'm gonna have Julie of the Kellys do some legal research on this.

     

    Holy Oil Slick, Batman! I just learned that sales from the strategic petroleum reserve to reduce the (stated) deficit were authorized by the Republican House and Republican Senate in 2015!

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    How much did you pay for gas and groceries today?

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, JDHillFan said:

    I got excited for nothing. Thought for sure you would tell us what you paid for gas TODAY. It’s been months. What are you waiting for?

     

    Good article! 
     

    McDonald's plans to launch a $5 meal promo in an effort to lure back customers scared away by recent price hikes to its menu.

    The limited-time offer is slated to begin June 25 and will last about a month

     

    Not BS - 3.79 for small fries at McD an hour ago. I can manage the financial hit but that’s a little steep for a small. I imagine you would have cut them in half and fed a carful of three. 

    Bad food (fast food) is cheap. Six buck, 20 nuggets last month. 5 bucks, McD's meal later this month. Taco Bell "build your own cravings" box (up to 1,760 calories!), $5.99. This is why we have a child obesity problem.

    Good food (fresh/unprocessed veggies, etc) is cheap.

    Good restaurant (typically not chain) food is expensive.

    Budget accordingly.

    Alito

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    Posted

    Alito's wife is a bit of a flagpole maniac, isn't she. I think the Philly thing explains it.

    She can have all the fun she wants with her Phillies flags, but the day she puts up a Flyers 1975 Stanley Cup flag is the day I start my own personal encampment outside her home.

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    How much did you pay for gas and groceries today?

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    6 minutes ago, Doc said:

     

    They spent $150 at Olive Garden?  🤣

     

    Sorry but even $53 at Olive Garden isn't even an "excellent value."  That would be $1 more than 4 orders of unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks.

    Hey, you guys are finally catching on to these bs stories.

    I guess it depends how much wine you drink ....

    Meanwhile, for all the "I spent $25 for lunch at a fast food joint" people:

     

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-five-dollar-meal-fast-food-prices/

     

     

    Canceling student loans

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    Posted

    This is KJP's poster child. Paying off her student loan debt for 30 years until it was forgiven by Biden earlier this year.

    No explanation of how much debt, why it was extended over a 30 year term yet somehow she still had a balance remaining, what degree(s) she got and how she's using them, and why this loan forgiveness will finally allow this (apparent) 50-something person to finally achieve her dreams.

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