The Frankish Reich

The identity of the girl in the photo is described right there in the caption to the photo! Just because your side is lazy and can't read anything other than 24 point text doesn't mean the rest of of can't. These "media is biased things" have reached a new level of idiocy.

I think Dominion had something to do with it. Sure, it used to be Chavez/Venezuelan, but it appears to be All American now. I'd blame them.

Agreed. That's probably the direction we need to go in. Not everyone needs an individualized hearing. Cuba: we all agree it sucks and is an abusive human rights regime. As long as you can show you weren't complicit with the government, you get to stay. Chile: we call agree that it is a democracy that respects basic human rights. Unless you come with actual proof of something extraordinary, your case should be summarily denied. We'll never get out of this mess through the idea that everyone, regardless of country of origin, needs to have a full and complete asylum hearing and appeal rights. Difficult cases: China. But that's only a 1.4 billion people ...

For those that didn't click play ... you'll be underwhelmed. "We were all aware of how he's doing. We've watched him lead, and we're also aware that he's 10 years older than he was 10 years ago." Ooh, gotcha! He just admitted that Biden ages chronologically! Pete is too smart to fall for it. But the RNC will run with it anyway, knowing that none of their followers will do anything other than read their stupid mischaracterization.

You have to work harder to understand the Trumpist right. It amounts to this: - Israel good. Jews in Israel good. Jews who support Israel good. Netanyahu good no matter what he does. - Jewish financiers bad. Jews who support Jewish financiers bad. George Soros bad not because he's Jewish or a financier but because he's a Jewish financier.

Basically that is the US policy with respect to Cubans. The law says they can get permanent residency if they come in and manage to stay one year.

I didn't know that. Leggings on the beach! Or in this case on the sand dumped in front of the Eiffel Tower. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13682545/Paris-Olympics-Games-2024-women-beach-volleyball-bikinis-uniforms-sexist-complain.html

Doesn't that mean "just let them in?"

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1. So do you think Mike Pence was a good choice? 2. So do you think Paul Ryan was a good choice? 3. So do you think Dick Cheney was a good choice and a good VP? 4. So do you think John McCain was a good man and good presidential candidate? Because all I read here is that they were war-mongering, Trump-denying "globalists."

Yep, definitely not Mike Pence! Or Paul Ryan. Or Dick Cheney. It's almost as if you guys hate the 3 most recent white male Republican VP picks. Counter-example: Sara Palin, but I'm not sure if the Trumpies like her anymore. She's got the "dumb like a regular American" thing going for her, but she is sullied by her association with John McCain. Who you also hate.

From the last couple comments, it is obvious that the Trumpists fear Shapiro, bringing up anything that can be spun into a misleading headline. So I say he's my man.

I'm not sure the Singapore model scales to a country like the USA. And by the way, it also effectively bans gun ownership and has the death penalty for firearms offenses. As for jail (and this one is from personal experience): it is amazing how even a little time in jail focuses the minds of many criminals. I live in a city that effectively made drug use/possession legal. Police don't arrest/jail people doing drugs in public. Take an addict and put him in jail even for a week and he goes through withdrawal. Most spin right back out and use again. Some don't, and go to treatment. And a lot move along to a city that doesn't arrest them for doing drugs in public. Lack of even basic enforcement of the laws is a terrible idea that has had terrible consequences, even if the penalty is not severe.

Of course not. I will agree with you that that has been the fallback position of the immigrant advocacy groups. Since we really can't know who has a legitimate claim, let them all in until they have a hearing. And when you let them all in you break the system and people have to wait 5 years for a hearing. And when people have the expectation that they will be let in and it will be 5 years before they're hearing, even more come. So no, this is not sound policy and it is not sustainable. Neither is summarily block/deport them all. There are valid responses, including detention while a claim is heard, but both sides continue to talk past each other.

Interesting that it would be o.k. to blaspheme Smurf Dionysus. Who will speak for the pagans?

I'm not sure about corporal punishment, but on punishment in general (jail) we agree.

True. The system itself needs reform. The system as it stands has no way of separating legitimate asylum applicants from illegitimate or fake/fraudulent ones, at least not until the applicant has waited years for a hearing. There needs to be an honest discussion, but we're not going to get that from the current stances of our political parties.

JD Vance says this childless woman really has no stake in our children's future.

I imagine he also won every golf tournament held on the grounds of his own villa. Oh, they're trying all right.

The current government rousing a bunch of "protesters" to try to stop an orderly election process that would result in it losing power? Yeah. Difference of degree, not of kind.

It's interesting. Based on real conversations with people who work in this field: Yes. You do see some doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers, etc. walking across the border with backpacks. The first recent wave of Venezuelan immigrants had a lot of educated/professional people. The Venezuelan middle/professional classes collapsed, and they came whatever way they could. The second wave was more of laborers, etc. And unfortunately the most recent wave has included a lot of the lowest economic rung. They didn't have the money to get out, but with "modern" smuggling networks anything is doable now, you just owe a debt that you repay through money or work, including supporting the criminals who smuggled you.

Ahh, that's our Bernie (and you won't see me defending him)

Serious question: Cuba is ruled by a horribly corrupt and abusive communist regime. Is it a bad thing that people who hate living under that regime are able to come to the United States to seek a new life?

Good. That's what I was hoping to hear. So next: was JD Vance absolutely the best qualified VP choice? There was no woman, no minority candidate better qualified than a 39 year old white man who has held public office for not even a couple years?

As Twitter would say, a reader provides context: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/chinese-immigrants-new-york-city.html#:~:text=But immigration court filings since,at the Migration Policy Institute. The shelter they are protesting would be in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn's Chinatown. Q. How did it become Brooklyn's Chinatown? A. Thanks to a wave of Chinese asylum seekers/illegal immigrants! In other words, the last wave of illegal immigrants protesting the current wave of illegal immigrants.