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Of course it was politically motivated. Wait until the “felonies” are overthrown on appeal as well. That circus deserves to be undone, but it will undercut one of the core political narratives (“convicted felon”) of the past 2 years.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The difference between Bundy and Kaczynski is that Kaczynski may one day be viewed as a prophet.
I agree with Mick that the stats aren’t a flex. For a person to have a criminal record, he has to be convicted. I have zero problem with detaining and deporting an illegal immigrant who consorts with known criminals…regardless of his own criminal record.
Put it this way, if I walk into a room that has 10 illegal immigrants in it actively, for instance, handling stolen merchandise, and 3 are hardened criminals with records, I’m fine w/ using ICE to deport the whole lot.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A theory:
For years, people have preferred reaching a “real person” to reaching an automated agent.
That’s all changing. Automated agents are now (and will be in the future) more polite, flattering, and helpful than most human agents.
In the future, people will prefer AIs for friendship, advice, companionship, and service. Why? Because people are a pain in the ass, and AIs are programmed to be flattering and to tell you what you want to hear while influencing you.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The women were punching up. That’s all that matters to that faction of the polity. Suck a dick to get ahead and it’s the guys fault.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)What happened w ice? I couldn’t get past the paywall. Literally cancelled my La times sub last month. It looked like they just showed up.
what do you have against law enforcement showing up where laws are likely being broken?
are there things I won’t defend? Yes. Open borders, sanctuary cities, abolishment of cash bond. Things like that.
do I think it’s heavy handed to have ICE show up at a rally visibly? Sure. Do I think it’s wrong? No.
what’s wrong is that people, maybe you, are triggered by men who are asked to bring law and order. They are more triggered by that than by public drug use and street culture intimidation.
that should be indefensible.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think tariffs are taxes and that taxes are deflationary. These act through price, which can create some transitory price spikes. But aggregate demand goes down when taxes go up.
I don’t think Trump cares about that. I do think he cares about US competitiveness and a re set to global trade. The “what happened to 90 deals in 90 days” rhetoric ignores what has been done. The 90 deals is typical politician bluster (“shovel ready jobs” is one winner of similar magnitude, as was “no new taxes”).
Scientifically, and I don’t give the administration full credit for being scientific…they operate more like a jazz band, price is the best way to get things to restructure quickly. Tariffs go to wholesale price and we already see how fast supply chains restructure.
btd, were you comfortable with China supplying nearly a quarter of all U.S. imports? Do you believe that the U.S. should be the consumer market for the world? Do you think that the U.S. is special in needing lower trade barriers than most other countries in the world?
funny, I grew up a business school educated free trader, but never lost my sense of fairness. I then watched China steal and lie its way to owning IP and manufacturing assets it had no right to…and of course no tax on NATO. So I’m willing to see where this goes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I just hope you are being ironic, because the mention of projection and the outline of the exact lawfare scenario Trump faced, including mugshot and trumped up charges…is deeply ironic.
why would Trump do that when he knows it strengthened his own candidacy?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Antifa was not law enforcement.
what does the “E” in ICE stand for?
Brown shirts were not law enforcement.
NRA scaremongering about jack booted thugs confiscating arms from citizens has nothing to do with immigration enforcement against non citizen illegal aliens.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Btd,
to you, is this report good news, neutral, or bad?
with that assessment, apply the same question to the recent inflation reports. Good? Neutral? Bad?
worst ppi report in 3 years. What was your assessment of the economy in summer 2022? Good? Bad? Neutral?
im seeking consistency and not finding it across the politicdd as l spectrum.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Antifa would like a word.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We have four and yes, it’s very expensive to have children and support them in a modern, upper middle class expectation set.
And, yes, that’s eugenics by just another name. See the film Gattaca for a dramatization of scientific embryo selection.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This got way less play than it should. The whistleblower was in the meeting with him. Ouch.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s crazy that Trump has to deliver real change while all Biden had to do was snooze for the same approval rate.
Trump won’t accomplish everything, and any particular failure is used as evidence of general failure.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Social security isn’t about you. It’s about all the other people around you.
It’s not a savings account you are “paying into.” That’s the most ridiculous tropes in politics. It’s a transfer payment scheme and it’s near insolvent. So to “pull your money out” is basically to say you want all the grandmas eating government cheese to regurgitate the cheese they have eaten during your career. There is no “money out”. It’s spent.
All this time you’ve been “paying into” you should have been thinking of it as “paying for” and that would be more accurate. You have been paying for your grandma, and your elderly neighbor.
your only hope is for the next generation to pay for you, but people aren’t having kids and we are stopping illegals from using borrowed ssn’s, so good luck with that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Uh, they adjusted the “Biden” numbers down right between Biden dropping out and Kamala ramping up. It was a data dump.
the labor market is weak. I for one think Trump made a tactical mistake in his hissy fit about BLS. He should have used it as further evidence to jawbone the fed, instead he put focus on the data being bad.
and, yeah, I don’t find the jobs numbers trustworthy. Such massive adjustments just kill credibility.
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