Don’t forget that it’s tough to go around calling undocumented migrants thugs and criminal if you have to send them back on 737s with WiFi and inflight movies.
The “win” for Trump is he gets to keep tossing migrants out of the country so he keeps the adulation of his base. Whether they fly on military aircraft or civilians charters doesn’t matter. What matters is he threatened another country publicly and the he thing he told his base he would do is still happening. The rest is fluff between someone’s ears.
Where I'm going with all this is - has been and will remain - my utter disgust at the Biden and Harris screwed up framing when a massively consistent part of the electorate doesn't, didn't, and probably won't vote. Those people deserve public shaming but instead we get spectacular theatre about how Biden handicapped Harris who then underperformed and so now we get authoritarianism. I'm so,so,so tired of looking at specs in eyes and not logs.
The 36 million who stayed home are an indictment of two parties offering them no reason to participate and an election system hell bent on making voting harder not easier. The million or so who voted third party is proof too many Americans take ideological purity too seriously and don't actually believe bad things will happen to them or people they claim to care about as a result.
36 million Americans didn't vote. More Americans voted for someone else then Trump if you add the third party vanity votes to the democratic votes. Seems to me that claims of America wanting this ring hollow.
Conservative America certainly isn't sick of him. I'd suggest the 22 states who sued over the birthright citizenship EO are sick of him. Likely the 30 ish million who voted against him and some portion of the 36 million who stayed home.
And Rasmussen isn't just conservative leaning - it's outright conservative slanted. So its findings are not exactly a surprise.
I think we agree that Congress has walked way back from being a co-equal branch. Problem is the GOP spent 50 years damaging the other co-equal branch which means both checks are no longer really in play.
We have laws to stop the racism I don't like. Those supercede EO's. Those laws lay out clear reporting pathways not subject to EO direction. I've been required to have training on those laws every year of my 24-ish years of federal service.
That isn't this. This is an assumption of pernicious action by federal civil servants. This assumes that everyone can and will refuse to follow this directive and thus must be threatened to comply. As with many things, it betrays the utter contempt for and lack of trust of the civil service by the Administration. This is further reinforcement of the notion that we are enemies because our loyalty is to the Constitution and not the President personally. This is "Comrade must report"
On “The Colombia Gambit”
I’ve reread it several times. If there’s criticism of Trump in there it’s very very well hidden.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
We live in a performative politics world. This is performative/
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025”
There’s also the fear mongering performative aspect which is reported leading to immigrants abandoning crops in the field.
But this is what they voted for.
On “The Colombia Gambit”
Don’t forget that it’s tough to go around calling undocumented migrants thugs and criminal if you have to send them back on 737s with WiFi and inflight movies.
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The “win” for Trump is he gets to keep tossing migrants out of the country so he keeps the adulation of his base. Whether they fly on military aircraft or civilians charters doesn’t matter. What matters is he threatened another country publicly and the he thing he told his base he would do is still happening. The rest is fluff between someone’s ears.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
Remember how they concluded with high confidence that Sadam Hussein had WMD? Pepperidge farm remembers.
On “Trump Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Lawlessness”
Someone really ought to look at greenlands minerals - especially critical minerals for electronics production. Might be some “there” there.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
No, we won't give you time. We don't get to recover. You don't get to recover.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/23/2025/give-us-a-little-time-democrats-search-for-a-guiding-principle-against-trump
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And as long as they get their tax cuts and an end to the regulatory state the GOP will happily ride the crashing wave down.
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Where I'm going with all this is - has been and will remain - my utter disgust at the Biden and Harris screwed up framing when a massively consistent part of the electorate doesn't, didn't, and probably won't vote. Those people deserve public shaming but instead we get spectacular theatre about how Biden handicapped Harris who then underperformed and so now we get authoritarianism. I'm so,so,so tired of looking at specs in eyes and not logs.
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He's already got military plains flying deported migrants to who knows where.
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Both?
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TL:DR - stop bringing charts and graphs to bazooka fights.
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cause vaping is so much healthier for you . . . SMDH
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You are infamous around here for not answering the questions asked and you want to police me? That's the funniest things I've heard all day.
I did answer your question. You don't have to like it or agree with it but I answered your question.
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The 36 million who stayed home are an indictment of two parties offering them no reason to participate and an election system hell bent on making voting harder not easier. The million or so who voted third party is proof too many Americans take ideological purity too seriously and don't actually believe bad things will happen to them or people they claim to care about as a result.
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36 million Americans didn't vote. More Americans voted for someone else then Trump if you add the third party vanity votes to the democratic votes. Seems to me that claims of America wanting this ring hollow.
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I was aware - just maudlinly hopeful she might change her mind when the other women did.
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If Collins and Ernst defected that would be something.
On “Trump Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Lawlessness”
Conservative America certainly isn't sick of him. I'd suggest the 22 states who sued over the birthright citizenship EO are sick of him. Likely the 30 ish million who voted against him and some portion of the 36 million who stayed home.
And Rasmussen isn't just conservative leaning - it's outright conservative slanted. So its findings are not exactly a surprise.
On “Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders”
Trump was impeached twice. He wasn't convicted. Words matter Jay.
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I have always maintained the GOP had and has agency. I'm told repeatedly by people here that I'm wrong.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
At what point do we get to start the I told you so chorus?
On “Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders”
I think we agree that Congress has walked way back from being a co-equal branch. Problem is the GOP spent 50 years damaging the other co-equal branch which means both checks are no longer really in play.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025”
We have laws to stop the racism I don't like. Those supercede EO's. Those laws lay out clear reporting pathways not subject to EO direction. I've been required to have training on those laws every year of my 24-ish years of federal service.
That isn't this. This is an assumption of pernicious action by federal civil servants. This assumes that everyone can and will refuse to follow this directive and thus must be threatened to comply. As with many things, it betrays the utter contempt for and lack of trust of the civil service by the Administration. This is further reinforcement of the notion that we are enemies because our loyalty is to the Constitution and not the President personally. This is "Comrade must report"
And it won't end here.