The Frankish Reich

By the way, I live in the city. Not the suburbs. And somehow I don't live in fear. Including just last week, by a 9-0 vote.

I have no idea what this means. Sometimes people call other people "racist" on slim evidence. Sometimes they call them racist because they are unabashed racists. (As far as I can tell, you are a Club of One on this forum. I take some solace in that.)

If I had a Tesla I would totally do this. And replace it with the Audi rings. https://teslaemblems.com/products/de-lon-emblem-removal-tool-and-adhesive-removal-kit

So you're equally offended by native-born black/brown people and foreign black/brown people. Go pat yourself on the back. An equal opportunity racist.

This is a bit confused, but maybe that's because it's one of those awful Twitter threads. But she's right: the law provides due process even to someone who has bypassed normal entry procedures. And she's also right that rather than having the (Republican) Congress amend certain due process protections, Trump is cynically (by using inapplicable "national emergency" exceptions) trying to do an end run around them to basically render them superfluous. That's what's illegal here.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, other than that once again you seem to be conflated race with alienage. I live in the (relatively) poorer part of an expensive neighborhood. My wife and I sometimes go to the annual neighborhood summer party because it rotates between the truly rich peoples' homes and we get to see how they live. (We'd never be invited except for this neighborhood-wide events.) Guess what? I see lots of foreigners there. "Aliens" because they weren't born here and as far as I know they're not citizens. On one occasion a particular rich douchebag walked across the street carrying his own ostentatious wine glass filled with his own ostentatious wine because, I guess, the wine served by the richie rich host family just wasn't good enough for him. He made a ton of money by selling his Europe-based tech company. He was a foreigner. And I didn't even know that until I talked to him. I thought he was an ordinary American rich douchebag. I guess your foreigner radar is better.

The stats bear that out. Lowest percentage of passport holders by state. Notice a pattern? Mississippi: Less than 20% of residents have passports. West Virginia: Around 20.7% of residents have passports. Kentucky: Around 29% of residents have passports. Alabama: Around 27.7% of residents have passports. Arkansas: Around 28.4% of residents have passports.

Notice that there's nothing here but "We're the Feds and if you don't do what we say we'll punish you." There's no analysis of any sort. Just "we have the power to break you if you don't comply." These are the people who said they believed the federal government had too much power.

If you were a homebuilder, would you be amping up to increase building now? - mortgage rates likely going in the wrong direction (watch long bonds) - labor shortages likely (watch immigration enforcement) - uncertain supply situation (watch tariffs on everything from softwood lumber to nails) - recessionary fears (watch CNBC and read the WSJ) - unstable/stupid governance (watch Trump)

You do realize "alien" simply means "non-American citizen or national?" That it doesn't necessarily mean illegal border crosser, or dark person who speaks a language I do not recognize? That you can't recognize who is an "alien" just by looking at them? With that in mind, your quoted sentence does seem to reduce to "if I never have to see a nonwhite person again."

"If you want more of something, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan Autism Spectrum Disorder is not subsidized directly. But a DIAGNOSIS of ASD is subsidized. My kid is struggling in school. Has trouble making friends. If he's just a fairly dim child (think the left third of the bell curve), well, I just have a problem. If he's the same kid with an ASD diagnosis, I qualify for: - government payments for raising a disabled child - Special Ed classes/individualized attention to try to get him up to grade level - If he's able to use that to pull himself up toward the fat part of the bell curve, he gets 50% more time to take the SAT. Or maybe a private room and extra time to take the SAT. - a whole host of other "disabled" benefits, including in the future workplace Do other countries that don't similarly subsidize an ASD diagnosis show a similar increase in autism rates? Even when they took are inundated with microplastics and MMR vaccines and whatever? There's also a definitional problem as the Asperger's (a banned term, as Dr Asperger was apparently a Nazi) kids get lumped into ASD. Those with Asperger's often prefer to think of it as neurodiversity. In other words, not a "bad" thing, but just a different way of processing information that could make you the world's richest man (Musk) or a great success in some other field of endeavor that requires a different kind of mental processing. And there are clear genetic causes/susceptibilities, as well as other demographic effects (delayed child fathering, the old sperm thing) Until these economic/incentive-based explanations and definitional problems are resolved, I prefer the simplest explanation: there is no reason to go on a wild goose chase for environmental causes or to ring the alarm bells.

I don't care if Abrego-Garcia is a wonderful father of the year candidate or a degenerate gang member. Or a little bit of both. He should not have been deported to El Salvador. He should be brought back. In ICE custody. Everything else is noise that avoids the point.

Hey, Frederick, keep that piccolo tucked away! https://patch.com/florida/bradenton/former-desantis-spokesperson-exposed-himself-multiple-times-report

Immoral? Of course not. Just as getting the measles vaccine for your kids is the only moral course of action today. I was taught (in Catholic schools, no less) that we should also be concerned about our fellow men, women, and children. But I guess the Christian party has forgotten all about that?

It was on July 20, 2021 when I started this thread. But I guess to a "vaccine scientist" the facts on the ground never change.

The danger in NOT putting him back before the courts is that a court issues a blanket order since they can't trust Trump to comply with any future orders in individual cases. He is doing this for people like you, his base, to make a show that his is fighting your version of the oligarchy: the "deep state."

Your side is indistinguishable from the old 1970s Democrats. We'll save industry by building a protective tariff wall. There are no longer any Republicans.

Another wonderful day on the markets. Never in history has a president single-handedly tanked the markets. Another first.

Get back to spray painting your toilet gold. It's ... classy!

Holy Week, so expect more apocrypha.

Because some Salvadorans are bad, it follows that this Salvadoran must be bad. I think we have a word for that. It begins with "R"

Losing will do that to you. But let's not go with the old "not a leader of men" crap. Was mumbling, irritable Belichick a "leader of men?" Is introverted McDermott a leader of men? Siriani wasn't a leader of men until suddenly he was. I'm a Denver Nuggets NBA fan. They loved coach Mike Malone, an abrasive guy who got the best out of them. Until this year, when he became an abrasive guy they no longer wanted to play for. It happens. Familiarity breeds contempt. The Bills next coach will be a loudmouth extrovert, just as Rex Ryan begat Sean McDermott. That's why coaches don't often last long.

Because he was, and now he isn't. As the gospel says: He was lost, and now he has been found.

I'm glad you continue to be persuaded by the highly reliable "network contagion."

Warning: this is a serious topic, intended to initiate a serious discussion. Abrego-Garcia, the guy stuck in the Salvadoran prison. Did he have "due process?" Yes and no. In his deportation proceeding, yes. The core of due process: (1) notice of what the government is trying to do to deprive you of life, liberty, or property. (2) an opportunity to meaningfully respond. (3) a decision made by a neutral official (at a minimum, not the same person/board that initiated the proceeding. Abrego-Garcia was issued a notice to appear before an immigration judge telling him he was subject to deportation because he came into the United States illegally and didn't have permission to stay. That was uncontroversial. He was given the opportunity to apply for protection from removal as provided by U.S. treaty obligations and statutes. He was given a full and fair hearing. The judge found he was subject to deportation, but that he had shown that it is more likely than not that he would be subject to persecution if returned to El Salvador. The Department of Homeland Security serves as the prosecutor, and they may appeal. They didn't. Therefore, the final order - considered an order of the Attorney General acting through his designated officials - was that he could not be removed to El Salvador. He was removed to El Salvador. I'm not sure whether he was removed under the Alien Enemies Act. It seems like he was, since he couldn't be removed to El Salvador under the Immigration Judge's order. Was he given "due process?" No. He could have been informed that he was being shipped back to El Salvador, in which he would have objected that the judge's order prohibits that. He would've been right. Even under the Alien Enemies Act (I can't tell if it was invoked here), the Supreme Court said 9-0 that you get some kind of process. Maybe it's a quick/easy process in which you can say "you've got the wrong guy, I'm not Abrego-Garcia." Or "I am Abrego-Garcia, but you are subject to a valid order precluding you from sending me to El Salvador." Or "I am Abrego-Garcia, but I don't fit under the Alien Enemies Act because I am not, and have never been, a member of a gang." We'd have to see how involved the hearing would get; that's usually set by published rules. And then some neutral official would have to say "I ratify the removal" or "I find that you can't remove him under that charge." That's it. The Trump Administration violated the law. It is making no efforts to undo it's error. So this is outrageous, ridiculous, and dangerous to the rule of law (not "democracy;" something more basic, the rule of law). Period.