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GR as usual gets it.
Gangs don’t fight fair. Gangs don’t do “human rights.” And yes, we have to be careful not to become the monster while fighting them, but there is a threshold at which we simply have to act.
I am unmoved by extreme action against organized criminals engaged in murder, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and intimidation. It’s really the only way. They have no shower and have to share a toilet at the same ratio as an airport? Dios mio. Shouldn’t have murdered that judge and pimped out an immigrant 13 year old
We are being destroyed by our own civility. Worse, we are letting communities that we don’t live in be destroyed by our own civility. Cheap virtue.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Next thing you know we will be ordering drone strikes on US citizens. Right?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The framing that the “scientist” was “critical of trump” is new to me. Is there any publication of what was written?
I am seeing the topic for the first time but it appears to be treated fairly delicately. If, instead of an academic researcher who was critical of Trump’s cuts to research, it comes out that this is a Hamas sympathizer who wrote that the president needs to die, would that change the need for detention? I would give law enforcement (CBP) the benefit of the doubt.
Seems there might be more to the story. I’m not willing to jump to conclusions, but can assure you that the administration has far bigger things to do than to harass a random academic. Reframing the issue might prevent all the hysterics from being assumed as true.
Let’s put a pin in that one and come back to it as more is known.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think I was more shocked when I read that she was good at the job.
She strikes me as a base opportunist.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The strategic consequences of the U.S. pulling out of NATO are far more severe for everybody who is not the U.S.
the real question is what does NATO stand for? It was formed to keep the U.S. in, Germany down, and Russia out. What is it for now?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It gonna hurt and everybody is going to hate Trump, but this is necessary. Unfortunately too many people don’t realize they live off of government spending and haven’t prepared for a rainy day.
PLENTY of people would rather just continue the charade and keep borrowing to support consumption. They are wrong.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Further? I guess we should have just given them nukes. That would have solved it, right?
I’m supportive of Ukraine’s fight for its sovereignty. I’m also supportive of actions that strengthen the U.S.’s position.
I’m not supportive of vast sums of U.S. tax dollars going to foreign governments.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s Monday and I’m just now getting the Maine reference. I’m getting old in my middle age.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m amazed at how people can’t see that this gambit is totally anti Putin.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah, but they were 919 of OUR people.
You know how this goes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Once you see the amount of government money steered by Democrats, it all makes sense.
$400 million to one diocese! That’s just stunning.
wasn’t there some controversy about using churches or funding churches back during gwb? I think I may have evolved on the matter.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When you spend that much money on anything, it isn’t going away.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Reducing almost any government spending is recessionary. It’s a big reason it’s so hard to do.
as to BTD: there will be some good / some bad (the Gaza comments sound bad to me), but there’s more transparency in the first two weeks than we had for the last 4 years. The comparisons to fascists are overdone: Trump has pretty consistently acted out in the open and has if anything worked against entrenched interests. Fascists capture them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Indeed.
Trump accomplishes in a day what other politicians accomplish in a year of back and forth.
None of this stuff is as complicated as the people who get paid to prolong and delay it would have you believe.
I agree with you on the J6 pardons. He went too far when pardoning the folks who were convicted of assaulting officers. I don’t know how many there were, and they did serve time, but it’s a bad decision.
If there is anything project 2025 stated that has been proven true over the past week, it’s that a Republican president can’t get much done with a vast Democrat civil service. I fully believe that the Medicaid portal was shut down last week in an act of malicious compliance with the funding pause mandate.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t think options in the private sector are superior, and if the administration prevents hiring former employees as contractors, I don’t see many taking the deal.
hopefully I’m wrong.
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