AI prompt: “Write a 10min US presidential address to the nation regarding ICE's Lawful operations. Explaining that while US citizens have a right to protest, a right that is protected under the US Constitution, they don't have the right to impede and obstruct Law Enforcement. US citizens can petition their Representatives and Senators and they can democratically change the laws. Etcetera ...”
I said “That was great. It sounded like Obama though. Can you tweak it to sound like Trump?
It gave me a three paragraph speech… if you could call that a speech.
“ My fellow Americans, I am speaking to you tonight from the Oval Office because we have a situation in our country that requires straight talk and very firm action. For too long, we have watched as our borders were ignored and our laws were treated like suggestions. But those days are over. We are a nation of laws, and without borders and without enforcement, we don’t have a country. It’s that simple. Our nation needs strong leadership to address the issues we face. It's time for a change in direction, a focus on putting America first, and ensuring the safety and prosperity of all citizens. We need to secure our borders, create jobs, and restore the respect our country deserves on the world stage. It's about bringing back manufacturing, making our communities safe, and ensuring every American has the opportunity to achieve their dreams. We're going to do things differently, and we're going to make America great again.”
It's possible that what Trump intended was for the NATO countries to step up to the plate and protect Greenland from the Chinese. Whether or not that was his intention, that may be the result. Or not.
It should be obvious that what’s happening on the streets in MN has nothing to do with rounding up and deporting immigrants. ICE is engaging with protesters, not immigrants.
To say that everybody from Kristi Noem down to individual masked ICE agents on public streets has a credibility problem would be an epic understatement.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
It was a two-step process:
1. Have the unquestioning cooperation of local authorities, law enforcement, and the press, such that deportations carried out in the interior go off without interference or even comment; and
2. Call border turnaways "deportations" to boost your numbers so you give the impression of being "strong on border security."
No need for a call. And of course it would be useless to call Biden to see why he made the border decisions he made... because he didn't.
"...I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head. ..."
My understanding was that Obama preferred to kill American citizens using drones. Of course, that opened up the numbers on collateral damage - you know, bridesmaids, ring-bearers and that kind of thing.
Rogan, among others, is pointing out that masked, armed people in uniform pulling people out of their cars and, in some instances, deporting people who are here legally are bad moves and bad looks. He, as well a the next person, can read the polls on that.
Trump is losing the middle, the voters who held their nose and voted for him despite all the negatives he brings -- his only tactic is bludgeoning and his only speed is full ahead. He doesn't seem to care about the Republican Party -- it will be shellacked next November -- and he doesn't seem to care about the long term damage he's doing to the country.
Billionaire Larry Ellison named his new yacht "Izanami" after a Shinto deity. He had to rename it "Ronin," because "Izanami" spelled backwards is "I'm a Nazi."
The biggest issue, which Rogan pointed out, continually gets lost in all the noise. It’s the fact that American citizens are continually getting caught up in the ICE raids. Their citizenship is being questioned right there on the street. They are being asked for “their papers”. They are being asked to prove where they are from and where they were born. And so many Trump supporters seem Okay with it. “Just show your papers, you have nothing to hide, right?”, they say.
For a group that claims to hold personal freedoms so dear, they sure are quick to submit to an “unreasonable search”, devoid of any probable cause. It’s absolutely infuriating to see that happen in the country in which I grew up. It’s unthinkable, but here we are.
Any leftist purporting to stand up for innocent citizens being caught up in ICE detention is a blatant liar. They are all performers who just use people to gain whatever yardage they can. They’ve no problem injecting people with novel vaccines, stealing their id to vote, or convince their kids to undergo trans surgery. Never ever believe any leftist who purports to care for anything but a leftist cause, or just any “revolution”, cuz it makes them feel so “alive!!”, godammit! Thats all that matters to them.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head. 1/17/26, 7:41 PM
Who was shot in the head? The person that rushed the agents while they were arresting someone and got a "less than lethal" shot to the eye? We don't need Obama's instruction for that, people just need to not attack federal agents.
Here's another one of those articles about "the day ... [something, something]". This one purports to identify the exact day that NY publishing lost its soul.
Kakistocracy said... "It should be obvious that what’s happening on the streets in MN has nothing to do with rounding up and deporting immigrants. ICE is engaging with protesters, not immigrants."
What is obvious to anyone but you is that ICE is being kept from doing their jobs by being physically assaulted by rioters. Now run away and hide.
Whose FIL? Who wasn’t married? I ask as I have heard that Renee in MSP wasn’t married but have only seen one mention of that possibility. If true, then the GFM account definitely should go to Renee’s kids.
Also heard (same post) that Renee’s partner is an ex con……no details known
Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached and removed from office. ~ Tuson.com
"I'll be candid with you: There's so many Republicans mad about this," Bacon said. "If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know: The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren't going to tolerate this and he's going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm."
Daily Mail now reporting that domestic terrorist Renee Good's lesbian wife, who received $1.5 million in laundered bribe money through GoFundMe, is now under investigation for her role in bringing the terrorist to the site, filming the terrorism for later distribution on social media, encouraging her wife to "Drive, baby, drive" into an ICE officer, and almost killing him.
It's unclear if donors who paid the GoFundMe bribes will also face prosecution for funding domestic terrorists in the United States or whether GoFundMe itself will be allowed to fund domestic terrorist acts in the United States.
We'll see ... but this is some small measure of progress on this horrific domestic terrorist attack that severely injured one of our brave ICE officers and resulted in the shooting death of one of the domestic terrorists.
ICE officials are, of course, going about the removal of murderers and rapists brought into the country by Joe Biden and the Democrats into swing states in an effort to rig the 2024 election. Their efforts failed when Biden - who won all the primaries - faced a coup by his own party and was removed from his leadership position as President.
Trump's push to secure U.S. ownership of Greenland would seriously undermine NATO—the world's strongest military alliance—and runs fundamentally counter to America's national interests.
Recent polls show that a solid majority of Americans recognize this and oppose the idea: roughly three-quarters reject any U.S. attempt to take control of the territory, with even broader opposition to the use of military force.
Trump has demonstrated an ability to move past particularly short-sighted decisions in the past. Let's hope he does so here.
Trump's push to secure U.S. ownership of Greenland would seriously undermine NATO—the world's strongest military alliance—and runs fundamentally counter to America's national interests.
Move to Europe loser. Nobody cares about your whining.
The forced contraception and sterilization of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls by Danish authorities, known as the "Spiral Case" (referring to the Danish term for IUDs or coils), did not occur in a single specific year but as part of a systematic campaign spanning several decades.
But dipshit Democrats were always into various Eugenics projects.
If Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize.
Kak is wrong. For Trump to win, he would need to beat Barack Obama's record of 26 murdered.
This includes 4 Americans (including children) who weren't even charged with a crime. And it includes 22 people completely innocent people (including children) 7 of whom got bombed by Obama while eating peacefully at a roadside restaurant, due to Obama's abject incompetence.
So far, it's Obama 26, Trump 1.
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize then embarked on these murders. Trump has not.
Raise a ludicrous straw man. Cite, without detail an unidentified “recent poll”. Having not moved the needle a jot (I mean, really, Greenland?) move on to a different ludicrous straw man in a couple of days. It’s easy but it seems so futile and boring,
Was discussing AWFLs with a couple of apolitical non-AWFL women tonight. They brought it up so it must be a topic out there. They were frankly baffled. One said that it reminded her of schizophrenia. I imagine she meant that in the way it’s popularly used, not the DSM definition.
“LOL, it's not Trump who has spent the last X number of years trying to censor his adversaries.”
LOL, in what reality do you live? Jimmy Kimmel ring a bell?
You supported kicking Trump off of all social media and banning him from all corporate media.
The fact that you even pretend Jimmy Kimmel getting fired because affiliates wouldn't put him on air just shows everyone what a hypocrite and a retard you are.
Well Tempered Clavier played as cleanly as I've ever heard, at least for the first dozen or so. The later slow ones lose the clean voicing and become more muddy chordal.
Brett Pike @ClassicLearner Your grandparents didn’t go half way across the world and fight the Nazi’s to the death, just so a bunch of foreigners who came here after World War II could call you a Nazi for having the same exact world view as your grandparents. 5:16 PM · Jan 13, 2026 https://x.com/ClassicLearner/status/2011200725490286619?s=20
Kak has replaced Ritmo as the commenter with a Gatling gun for a keyboard. Not my blog, but it would be great to limit number of comments per post by a commenter.
The problem with the last past interference call against the Bills was the refs had been letting it go all game. Grabbing the receiver’s the trailing arm that is.
Denver QB Bo Nix broke his ankle is obviously out for the season.
Breezy said... “Any leftist purporting to stand up for innocent citizens being caught up in ICE detention is a blatant liar. They are all performers who just use people to gain whatever yardage they can. They’ve no problem injecting people with novel vaccines, stealing their id to vote, or convince their kids to undergo trans surgery. Never ever believe any leftist who purports to care for anything but a leftist cause, or just any “revolution”, cuz it makes them feel so “alive!!”, godammit! Thats all that matters to them.”
Just seems to me that if the Basket doesn’t like being referred to as a cult, maybe they should quit writing cultish things.
- Buffalo’s last pass play was a completion, IMHO. Down by contact. - The 2nd to last PI call was BS. That was excellent coverage by the Bills’ DB. - Bad calls (and bad non-calls) by the refs at key moments late in key games has my wife regularly questioning if they happen because the gamblers want one team to win.
In 1917, Denmark and the US approved a treaty (or more specifically, a convention), the guts of which are summed up in [these] simple paragraphs:
His Majesty the King of Denmark by this convention cedes to the United States all territory, dominion and sovereignty, possessed, asserted or claimed by Denmark in the West Indies including the Islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix together with the adjacent islands and rocks.
In full consideration of the cession made by this convention, the United States agrees to pay . . . the sum of twenty-five million dollars in gold coin of the United States.
In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
Watched Portillo with Stefan Kyriazis, reviewing a West End production of High Noon. Portillo mentioned the original pic was an anti-McCarthy fable. I must confess I never thought of this. Nor did Any of my lefty teachers. And I think most Americans just saw it as reinforcing traditional.values. CC, JSM
12 hours later and I'm still waiting for Kak to tell me who was shot in the head. We know it wasn't Good. So, who was? (I made a guess when I first asked the question. Is it the person hit by the "less than lethal" round?)
"A progressive Pennsylvania group that has already pledged to back a primary opponent against Sen. John Fetterman in 2028 has unveiled a website that will help unhappy donors get refunds for their contributions to him.
The Pennsylvania Working Families Party on Friday said PrimaryFetterman.com will be the hub for its efforts to oust the first-term Democratic senator who has alienated many Democrats with his views on Israel and support for its Gaza military offensive, votes for Trump administration officials and support of Trump policies.
“While Senator John Fetterman is supporting Trump’s use of American tax dollars to ‘run’ Venezuela or buy Greenland, 500,000 Pennsylvanians are about to see their healthcare premiums rise because of the Republican budget bill he supported,” WFP’s mid-Atlantic communications director Nick Gavio said in a statement.
Gavio, a former Fetterman 2022 campaign staffer who later served on the senator’s communications team, said “people across Pennsylvania did not put time, money and energy into supporting his campaign just to elect a Democrat who votes against our interests time and time again. We need new leadership.”
In November, the WFP announced that it would actively recruit candidates to challenge Fetterman in the 2028 Democratic primary.
The new website offers what the WFP called “a unique tool allowing deceived Fetterman donors” to request refunds for their contributions to his campaign “with just a few clicks.”
Additionally, the website offers the “Fetterman Sell Out Tracker,” which will monitor his voters and positions.
The tracker “will be continuously updated with new information as the senator supplies it — which occurs regularly,” the WFP said in a statement.
WFP also said that it would back digital ads to put the refund tool onto social media platforms. The party launched an online portal and plans on holding recruitment and training events across the state for various offices, including the Senate seat."
No heretic is hated more than the one from among the ranks.
You have to understand with Kak, it's "just business" with him. He's not a true believer in the delusional reality that the media plants in people's brains, like Inga, or the quintessential mid-wit, like Ronald J. Ward, who is almost the very prototype of the guy at the thickest point of the IQ bell curve in that meme, Kak understands how propaganda works, and he expects to profit from or very possibly, he is being paid to spread what he very likely knows is nonsense.
Down to the top ten in the Major League Fishing tournament. Local boy Chris Lane won the knockout round yesterday with a bag of 29 bass, weighing 91 lbs, 10 oz in total. That’s a mess o’ big fish taken on a cold winter day.
Living on the NY/ PA border due south of Buffalo I am exposed to lots of Bills fans. They have always had the “woe wis me” mentality. Going to church this morning I will witness that in spades.
Propaganda 101 Rule # 2; Blame your opponent of which you are guilty of.
The irony of Jaq accusing me of being easily media manipulated is that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting, that tariffs will not drive up prices, that Trump is an honest broker, and I could just go on and on and on but generally side with the narrative channeled by the echo chamber that appeals to their worldview.
That really isn’t an opinion as it’s been proven with Fox News getting busted in the most spectacular way in a court of law. The cult will flock to the media that tells them what they want to hear and there it stops.
Ronald J. Ward wrote, “ that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is [sic] about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting, that tariffs will not drive up prices, that Trump is an honest broker….”
Mary Beth said... What would be the proper amount of force for someone rushing at you as you are trying to arrest another person? ------------------- A nightstick to the side of the head?
It’s clear the Trump administration is getting behind the curve as the lefties have had an opportunity to catch up and bundle their old outrages into tidy little bundles. Time to expect another constitutional crisis this week from the administration…
Whom needs NATO more, the occupier of the largest effective Island nation in the world or a collection of mostly land locked and pinch point constrained countries bordering Russia, the Middle East and a panga ride from Africa?
Propaganda 101 Rule # 2; Blame your opponent of which you are guilty of.
The irony of Jaq accusing me of being easily media manipulated is that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting,
78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.
The only ones who aren't don't bother applying because their Learing Center is doing so well.
Kakabich is what happens when every single prediction one makes turns out wrong- they devolve into mindless and repetitive posting of unrelated talking points in thread after thread. It's like a dog returning over and over to its vomit to eat it once again. Pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
He really is starting to resemble the late Ritmo in that regard but he isn't Ritmo- Ritmo, for all his faults, was much smarter than Kakabich.
No, Ronald, it doesn't. Dazzle us with your analysis of what they are about if not those items of illegal alien deportations and drugs respectively. Use your dizzying intellect to educate us basket of deplorable, low IQ rubes on how we are being fooled by Donald Trump and his Gestapo.
Achillies, “ 78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.”
There you go, proving my point again. You found a kernel of proof and there you stopped. How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions?
Beasts: "A sentient being would have phrased that as ‘have reasonable questions about an irregular election which yielded several statistical outliers’."
Jesse Watters is now frequently talking about his recurring 'dreams' in which the 2020 election was stolen. Huge shit-eating grin on his face. Fox's internal wall against this sort of thing may soon crumble....CC, JSM
- How did turnout spike an unprecedented 10% from the previous election cycle? - How did Trump increase his vote total by 17% as an incumbent and lose re-election? Obama’s vote total fell by 5% and he was re-elected. - How did a white guy from the party of identity politics receive more votes than the historic first black candidate, the historic first female candidate, and the historic first black female candidate?
RJW: "How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions? That’s where you don’t want to go."
I'll go there. All of your postulates, if true, make it worse!
They would mean we imported people just to create a class of US-citizen welfare dependents. Not people doing the jobs Americans won't, or the jobs we ran out of Americans to do, or the jobs we failed to teach Americans to do, or any of the pieties spewed by the left.
Just more Democrat-voting state sucklers. Exactly what both parties predicted. CC, JSM
Voter ID - with a valid photo ID, allows for one-person / one vote and it is accomplished PRIOR to voting.
Mail in and signature verification is a democratic party scheme/plan used to build any cheat as needed scenario. True verification after the fact - becomes impossible to "prove". That's their point.
Remember when a court of law decided that Mar a Lago was worth only 20 million dollars and a single family house in Palm Beach on less property sold for 160 million?
Oh, gosh. I feel better now. Wow. That one word answer was right there the whole time and I missed it. Turnout. Why didn’t I think of that? Turnout certainly answers the spike in turnout. I’m gonna have to take a shot of vodka or something because my mind is blown. Dear diary…
The United States sits on magic dirt, and no matter the moral universe of the country immigrants come from, the moment they touch our dirt, they fully accept our professed values, not to mention that it’s perfectly fine to run elections where trillions of dollars are at stake on the honor system.
Fox hosts are also teasing their bosses and audience with the idea that Maduro may give up all the details on the vote-machine hacking as part of a plea bargain.
I have previously opined here that I don't think machine hacking made any dispositive difference: blue-city bosses wanted the machines to work properly so they could run all their 'extra' ballots through. But it is still a nice way to needle-dick the needle-dicks. CC, JSM
Thank you for engaging McKinsey & Company to answer your questions, re: the 2020 Presidential Election. We assigned our Top Man, Ronald J. Ward, to this important task and his report and analyses are as follows:
Achillies, “ 78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.”
There you go, proving my point again. You found a kernel of proof and there you stopped. How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions?
That’s where you don’t want to go.
Oh I want to go there.
Nobody on public assistance of any kind should be voting.
Sponges don't contribute. They shouldn't vote.
This goes for people on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, disability, Welfare, NGOs and employees, Government employees.
You really should lose all benefits of citizenship if you don't contribute to the future of society.
Registered voter rolls should be publicly available with pictures attached.
Anyone who votes in the election should have their picture updated in the rolls next to their tax ID number. People who don't pay net positive taxes shouldn't vote in a republic.
Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune
"Below-zero windchills didn’t deter hundreds of protesters rallying against Lang and his handful of supporters in downtown Minneapolis."
Jake Lang thought he was tough when he was swinging a bat at Capitol Police officers on January 6th. Forgive me if I can’t muster any sympathy for him.
Achilles: "Anyone who votes in the election should have their picture updated in the rolls next to their tax ID number"
That is a great idea! It might even make "voter id," in the sense of an actual card, unneccessary. Your ID is your face - or, when the cost comes down, your retina scan or fingerprint.
Scrapping the fancy-shmancy voting machines for paper ballots would more than pay for the photo gear.
There is the problem of verifying people for the first iteration. But on the bright side the evidence of fraud is readily available in the system to prosecute the ones who slipped through. And it's much harder to fake a person than to fake a ballot.
You already get retinal-scanned in international air travel. And facial recognition was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it swept up all the J6'ers. So the left should enthusiastically endorse voter-photer.
I kid on that last part. Of course they will yell and scream. Which is why the idea should be rammed home. Well done Achilles! RLTW, JSM
Some of us get Social Security, and Medicare while also paying lots of taxes. Social Security and Medicare for some of us is just the government paying back a zero interest loan, and my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance. I just want voting restricted to citizens, and the system to assure that as well as possible. Voter ID and far stricter registration should be mandatory nationwide, just like every other nation that even tries to be democratic.
Kak: "Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune"
Here are some pull quotes from the story:
"he was pulled off a City Hall window ledge where he was standing to speak. A crowd then followed him four city blocks to a hotel where he retreated, bleeding from a head wound"
"When Lang arrived outside City Hall shortly before noon, the crowd began shoving and grabbing at an “Americans Against Islamification” banner and flags.
"“Arrest him!” Lang shouted through a megaphone as one of his supporters fell in the snowy street while fighting with a protester. But officers soon left the scene.
"The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed in an email to the Minnesota Star Tribune that there were no arrests downtown....
"“We weren’t expecting a whole lot of [supporters] because of the weather,” said Zak X, 36, of St. Cloud. X was charged with misdemeanor assault after he attacked an anti-ICE protester outside the Whipple Federal Building, according to a criminal complaint filed Dec. 30."
Looks like 2-tier justice to me. Police deliberately deciding not to protect an arguably offensive but tiny demonstration. Where is the ACLU?
I think most Democrats know that our elections are full of fraud. They just like the results of the fraud, so they resist transparency and reform. They will never admit the obvious unless it somehow helped Republicans, as we saw with Texas redistricting. They have one hand in the cookie jar while pointing at their brother picking up crumbs off the floor.
Inga said... ... So far Trump hasn’t been able to take away the First Amendment. ----------------------- Biden sure gave it a hell of a try during Covid.
Some of us get Social Security, and Medicare while also paying lots of taxes. Social Security and Medicare for some of us is just the government paying back a zero interest loan, and my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance. I just want voting restricted to citizens, and the system to assure that as well as possible. Voter ID and far stricter registration should be mandatory nationwide, just like every other nation that even tries to be democratic.
I don't mind any net taxpayer, employer, veteran, or parent that raised 2 or more children in a married household voting.
The rest can kick rocks.
Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are all pure disasters.
We should take over Cuba and auction it off to pay for social security promises until we can close the whole program. There will be almost no wage income soon thanks to AI/Robotics so the whole program is doomed anyways. (only half joking)
It would be nice to think that we could get Greenland without having generations of Eskimo-American college students lecturing us from now until Kingdom come about how we stole their land and destroyed their culture, but that's not how the modern world works. * I think of how much painstaking effort I put into handwriting as a child and how illegible my writing is now. Signature becomes a scrawl. Does one match up with another? Hard to say. It's even worse when I have to "sign" an electronic pad or display. I'm back to "X - Queequeg, his mark."
Shouldn't tax identification numbers (social security numbers) come with PIN codes and dual verification by now?
Democrats think everyone who does not obey their thought-crimes/ speech crimes and diktats - should be rounded up. ie: You will bow down to Biden and never ever even think that the dems stole it for him. You will also never admit what you see with your own eyes - that he was a hollow shell and a puppet for the mob-left.
This is the most damning piece of evidence about the 2020 election's theft. The deviation, followed by the reversal in 2024, is extremely significant and can't be explained away by turnout- especially given that 12 of the 18 were in states Biden won. The next biggest anomaly in the bellweather counties was the 2016 election but all of those bellweathers were in CA.
Hell just start with Florida election rules. You know, the rules Democrats insisted upon because Florida stole the election from Al Gore. Florida rakes third in population and same in allocation of electoral votes, two time zones, high election day turnout yet they’re usually done counting before 10 eastern time. That would restore dome faith to the faithless so you eye rollers would have one less thing to eye roll about. Strangely, you resist…
Maybe SS disability (which is really welfare for the disabled and the pretend disabled) but not SS proper. I worked all my life and am still working and I have been taxed for SS throughout.
Seems familiar. Oh, yeah, peaceful tea party rallies physically attacked with no police protection. And, peaceful pro Trump rallies physically attacked with no police protection.
john mosby said... Kak: "Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune"
Here are some pull quotes from the story:
"he was pulled off a City Hall window ledge where he was standing to speak. A crowd then followed him four city blocks to a hotel where he retreated, bleeding from a head wound"
"When Lang arrived outside City Hall shortly before noon, the crowd began shoving and grabbing at an “Americans Against Islamification” banner and flags.
"“Arrest him!” Lang shouted through a megaphone as one of his supporters fell in the snowy street while fighting with a protester. But officers soon left the scene.
"The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed in an email to the Minnesota Star Tribune that there were no arrests downtown....
"“We weren’t expecting a whole lot of [supporters] because of the weather,” said Zak X, 36, of St. Cloud. X was charged with misdemeanor assault after he attacked an anti-ICE protester outside the Whipple Federal Building, according to a criminal complaint filed Dec. 30."
Looks like 2-tier justice to me. Police deliberately deciding not to protect an arguably offensive but tiny demonstration. Where is the ACLU?
John way back at 9;28; “They would mean we imported people just to create a class of US-citizen welfare dependents. Not people doing the jobs Americans won't, or the jobs we ran out of Americans to do, or the jobs we failed to teach Americans to do, or any of the pieties spewed by the left.
Just more Democrat-voting state sucklers. Exactly what both parties predicted.”
There you go blaming the problem on immigrants when it falls back to failed Republican policy of widening the equality gap.
We presently have over 43 million people on SNAP with nearly 90% born in the U.S. and nearly half working full time jobs.
This has happened over weakened bargaining power, an insistence on lower wagers, refusal of minimum wage hikes, elimination of prevailing wages, and shifting more of the tax burden to the workers to offset tax breaks for the wealthy, all Republican initiatives.
Over the years, Republican laws and policies have used middle class tax dollars to offset or subsidize the payroll of full time employees for Walmart, Amazon, the banking industry, et al. with SNAP, housing, medication, education, etc.
Under the Big Ugly Bill, it looks like the fat cats saw those subsidies and told Republicans; “hey, we want that too” and then told the Gullibles to blame it on the “illegals”.
These are things that Alex Jones and AmericanNonThinker doesn’t want to tell you about.
I hate when these games are on ABC now, I get my signal over the air, and when the other networks carry an NFL game, the picture is pristine, and when it's an ABC/ESPN game, it's cable tv quality, they down scale the image in order to make it streamable.
I know nobody here cares, but I am hoping that ABC looks at social media, even if by AI, and somebody sees that consumers know that they have degraded the quality of their product.
RJW: "failed Republican policy of widening the equality gap."
I would agree, if limited to pre-Trump GOP.
"weakened bargaining power" - Chief weakeners were globalist trade and immigrants lowering the wage floor. Trump is counteracting both of those.
"refusal of minimum wage hikes" - minimum wage destroys jobs and increases the temptation to pay illegals under the table.
" shifting more of the tax burden to the workers to offset tax breaks for the wealthy" - this would take most of a week to fisk, but most important among the Fiskars would be: in a labor market of citizen workers protected by tariffs and borders from Third World competition, if you tax the workers, they will bargain for higher wages from their employers. If you tax employers, they will either fire employees or keep their wages low. And some people will be frightened by the taxes to never become employers.
"middle class tax dollars to offset or subsidize the payroll of full time employees for Walmart, Amazon, the banking industry, et al. with SNAP, housing, medication, education, etc." - I agree with you as to the problem. We will disagree as to the solution. Mine and Trump's is: Destroy the Walmart/Amazon business model with tariffs on cheap ChiCom crap. Those greeters and package pickers then become factory workers in American industry, getting a livable working-class wage so they don't need the welfare. Tighten up the rules on welfare so that even fewer working people's dollars go to non-workers. CC, JSM
John, we agree that taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing profitable corporations’ payrolls. Where we part ways is the idea that tariffs alone fix that. Without labor power — unions, wage floors, and antitrust — tariffs raise prices, not wages. The mid-century middle class wasn’t built by borders alone, but by policy choices that strengthened workers’ leverage.
The thousand cuts from the last half century is getting closer to the kill.
RJW: "Without labor power — unions, wage floors, and antitrust " I would love us to have a real Labor party and movement.
Only thing is, you need industry first. Specifically, interlocked domestic industries, for which there is no alternative.
We had that in the 19th century because of tariffs. We had that in the mid-20th because half our competition got blown up, and the other half was behind the Iron Curtain and blowing itself up through commie incompetence. So a union movement could build up that basically held itself hostage until it got what it wanted.
We don't have strong unions now because there are so many ways to defeat them by offshoring, immigration, &c.
Get us back to a situation where the average company's supply chain is all American, and we can have strong unions again. CC, JSM
I love that a guy who supports bringing millions of scabs from the third world to compete for American jobs, housing, and medical services, driving down wages, and up the other costs, and who doesn't support creating economic incentives to manufacture in the US styles himself a friend of labor.
More mid-wittery. He wants to structurally disfavor workers though creating an oversupply of labor, then somehow use unions to clean up the mess he made, while forcing the employers to compete with cheap overseas labor, and so his prescribed policies create a race to the bottom for US labor, which is why the billionaires pretty much all back the same policies.
We know it's taboo for you to honestly consider these arguments Ronnie, we know that if you risked considering them honestly, you risk membership in your group, risk being associated with the Trumpsters you consider hideous. It was all laid out in the book by Freud's nephew, the German who laid the foundation for the science of propaganda.
In Ronald J. Ward's world, if the unions do manage to win higher wages for their workers, without the protection of tariffs, it just increases the financial pressure on the factory owners to move offshore.
"my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance."
Ours, too.
Ditto, as they say. Now, I will say that some of the premiums I "enjoyed" in the past were underwritten by my Employer. But the cost of Medicare is something that has surprised me.
Jaq, explaining my motives doesn’t explain the data.
Disagreeing with you isn’t about group membership — it’s about outcomes. Countries with strong unions and high wages still manufacture without blanket tariffs. Trump tested tariffs without labor power, and wages didn’t rise. If anything, the additional tariff burden will slow wage growth. If unions caused offshoring, Germany wouldn’t build anything.
If Walmart, banks, Amazon etc need to rely on me to subsidize the payroll for their full time employees, which they have for years, I’m fine with them moving elsewhere.
And Jaq, I totally missed your 2:33 rant, which goes full blown strawman. I’ve never supported immigration labor competition but it’s something I’ve had to deal with from the time I entered the workforce in the 1970s.
That’s yet another problem the politically ignorant want to ignore- immigration didn’t start with Biden. If anything, it’s been exploited for generations by which brings us to where we are in the labor market and wealth inequality I’ve argued.
Calling immigrants ‘scabs’ lets employers off the hook. Wages fall when labor has no leverage — not when workers exist. Countries with immigration, strong unions, and manufacturing disprove your claim. Tariffs without labor standards protect corporations, not workers.
If immigration destroyed labor, Germany wouldn’t manufacture. If tariffs raised wages, Trump already would have proven it.
What I’m really arguing is that Trump’s policies pulls the rug out of any meaningful solution. Burning it to the ground leaves an economy in ashes, regardless of who or what was the culprit.
Kinda hard using Germany as an exemplar of economic growth:
"Germany's manufacturing sector has experienced a dramatic downturn over the last 15 years, particularly since 2021.
The Performance Summary
Germany's economy declined by 0.2% in 2024, following a 0.3% contraction in 2023 (Bureau of Labor Statistics,) making it the worst-performing major economy in Europe .(Congress.gov.)
Manufacturing output declined approximately 10 percentage points below its pre-pandemic level by late 2024 (Social Security Administration), and manufacturing output for 2022 was $760.96 billion, a 6.4% decline from 2021 (NBER)."
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165 కామెంట్లు:
AI prompt: “Write a 10min US
presidential address to the nation regarding ICE's
Lawful operations. Explaining that while US citizens have a right to protest, a right that is protected under the US Constitution, they don't have the right to impede and obstruct Law Enforcement. US citizens can petition their Representatives and Senators and they can democratically change the laws. Etcetera ...”
I said “That was great. It sounded like Obama though. Can you tweak it to sound like Trump?
It gave me a three paragraph speech… if you could call that a speech.
“ My fellow Americans,
I am speaking to you tonight from the Oval Office because we have a situation in our country that requires straight talk and very firm action.
For too long, we have watched as our borders were ignored and our laws were treated like suggestions. But those days are over. We are a nation of laws, and without borders and without enforcement, we don’t have a country. It’s that simple.
Our nation needs strong leadership to address the issues we face. It's time for a change in direction, a focus on putting America first, and ensuring the safety and prosperity of all citizens. We need to secure our borders, create jobs, and restore the respect our country deserves on the world stage. It's about bringing back manufacturing, making our communities safe, and ensuring every American has the opportunity to achieve their dreams. We're going to do things differently, and we're going to make America great again.”
It's possible that what Trump intended was for the NATO countries to step up to the plate and protect Greenland from the Chinese. Whether or not that was his intention, that may be the result. Or not.
It should be obvious that what’s happening on the streets in MN has nothing to do with rounding up and deporting immigrants. ICE is engaging with protesters, not immigrants.
To say that everybody from Kristi Noem down to individual masked ICE agents on public streets has a credibility problem would be an epic understatement.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
In before the AWFLs. And WFLs. And WMLs.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/2012592083131855175
https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2012636644407460135
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
It was a two-step process:
1. Have the unquestioning cooperation of local authorities, law enforcement, and the press, such that deportations carried out in the interior go off without interference or even comment; and
2. Call border turnaways "deportations" to boost your numbers so you give the impression of being "strong on border security."
No need for a call. And of course it would be useless to call Biden to see why he made the border decisions he made... because he didn't.
Yes, well, it looks like the capabilities of A.I. images are far outstripping the capabilities of comedy writers.
Lefty rioters don't show up when a democrat is President.
"...I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head. ..."
My understanding was that Obama preferred to kill American citizens using drones. Of course, that opened up the numbers on collateral damage - you know, bridesmaids, ring-bearers and that kind of thing.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
‘Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was going to be a strong suit of mine’ Obama?
There's force, and then there's FORCE.
Rogan, among others, is pointing out that masked, armed people in uniform pulling people out of their cars and, in some instances, deporting people who are here legally are bad moves and bad looks. He, as well a the next person, can read the polls on that.
Trump is losing the middle, the voters who held their nose and voted for him despite all the negatives he brings -- his only tactic is bludgeoning and his only speed is full ahead. He doesn't seem to care about the Republican Party -- it will be shellacked next November -- and he doesn't seem to care about the long term damage he's doing to the country.
None of those turned out to be islamic state operatives
Same playbook as 2020; riot and blame it on Trump.
Like a marvel film it gets very predictable
The Times sheepishly admits they werent married (never mind)
Greg kelley interviewed the father in law, a man of remarkable christian faith and patience
Kak - at 8pm. Doesn't DJT hurting Rs make you happy?
Billionaire Larry Ellison named his new yacht "Izanami" after a Shinto deity. He had to rename it "Ronin," because "Izanami" spelled backwards is "I'm a Nazi."
A great Bills-Broncos game, but was hoping the Bills would win.
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"Doesn't DJT hurting Rs make you happy?"
Unforced error. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The biggest issue, which Rogan pointed out, continually gets lost in all the noise. It’s the fact that American citizens are continually getting caught up in the ICE raids. Their citizenship is being questioned right there on the street. They are being asked for “their papers”. They are being asked to prove where they are from and where they were born. And so many Trump supporters seem Okay with it. “Just show your papers, you have nothing to hide, right?”, they say.
For a group that claims to hold personal freedoms so dear, they sure are quick to submit to an “unreasonable search”, devoid of any probable cause. It’s absolutely infuriating to see that happen in the country in which I grew up. It’s unthinkable, but here we are.
Any leftist purporting to stand up for innocent citizens being caught up in ICE detention is a blatant liar. They are all performers who just use people to gain whatever yardage they can. They’ve no problem injecting people with novel vaccines, stealing their id to vote, or convince their kids to undergo trans surgery. Never ever believe any leftist who purports to care for anything but a leftist cause, or just any “revolution”, cuz it makes them feel so “alive!!”, godammit! Thats all that matters to them.
I would suggest Trump give Obama a call to see how he did it without shooting Americans in the head.
1/17/26, 7:41 PM
Who was shot in the head? The person that rushed the agents while they were arresting someone and got a "less than lethal" shot to the eye? We don't need Obama's instruction for that, people just need to not attack federal agents.
Here's another one of those articles about "the day ... [something, something]". This one purports to identify the exact day that NY publishing lost its soul.
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-day-ny-publishing-lost-its-soul
If Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize.
The Left will come to regret their actions…
When the corksoakers grow up.
Kakistocracy said...
"It should be obvious that what’s happening on the streets in MN has nothing to do with rounding up and deporting immigrants. ICE is engaging with protesters, not immigrants."
What is obvious to anyone but you is that ICE is being kept from doing their jobs by being physically assaulted by rioters.
Now run away and hide.
Kakistocracy said...
If Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize.
If Walz and Frey aren't arrested soon then Trump is deserves to be called James Buchanan Jr.
Narcisso
I ‘m lost.
Whose FIL? Who wasn’t married? I ask as I have heard that Renee in MSP wasn’t married but have only seen one mention of that possibility. If true, then the GFM account definitely should go to Renee’s kids.
Also heard (same post) that Renee’s partner is an ex con……no details known
How proud all the liberals much be to see bands of thugs roving the streets of Minnesota attacking innocent people.
There’s video of leftist mob in Minnesota attacking a black man for wearing a hoodie with the American flag.
And another group confronting a small group of engineers having lunch because they thought they might be ICE.
Do our resident leftist support this?
"ICE is engaging with protesters, not immigrants."
It shouldn't be necessary to point this out, but physically assaulting ICE agents is not 'protesting'.
Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached and removed from office. ~ Tuson.com
"I'll be candid with you: There's so many Republicans mad about this," Bacon said. "If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know: The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren't going to tolerate this and he's going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm."
Encouraging.
Daily Mail now reporting that domestic terrorist Renee Good's lesbian wife, who received $1.5 million in laundered bribe money through GoFundMe, is now under investigation for her role in bringing the terrorist to the site, filming the terrorism for later distribution on social media, encouraging her wife to "Drive, baby, drive" into an ICE officer, and almost killing him.
It's unclear if donors who paid the GoFundMe bribes will also face prosecution for funding domestic terrorists in the United States or whether GoFundMe itself will be allowed to fund domestic terrorist acts in the United States.
We'll see ... but this is some small measure of progress on this horrific domestic terrorist attack that severely injured one of our brave ICE officers and resulted in the shooting death of one of the domestic terrorists.
ICE officials are, of course, going about the removal of murderers and rapists brought into the country by Joe Biden and the Democrats into swing states in an effort to rig the 2024 election. Their efforts failed when Biden - who won all the primaries - faced a coup by his own party and was removed from his leadership position as President.
Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached ...
Denmark is going to GIVE us Greenland. We're not going to invade it. That's ridiculous, Kak.
Denmark is going to do that because if they don't give us Greenland, we'll give Denmark to Russia, their next-door neighbor.
Trump's push to secure U.S. ownership of Greenland would seriously undermine NATO—the world's strongest military alliance—and runs fundamentally counter to America's national interests.
Recent polls show that a solid majority of Americans recognize this and oppose the idea: roughly three-quarters reject any U.S. attempt to take control of the territory, with even broader opposition to the use of military force.
Trump has demonstrated an ability to move past particularly short-sighted decisions in the past. Let's hope he does so here.
“Also heard (same post) that Renee’s partner is an ex con……no details known”
“Caged Sooo-eeeee!”, from Roger Corman and American International Pictures.
“Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached and removed from office. ~ Tuson.com”
Are they finally finding some courage?
Kakistocracy said...
Trump's push to secure U.S. ownership of Greenland would seriously undermine NATO—the world's strongest military alliance—and runs fundamentally counter to America's national interests.
Move to Europe loser. Nobody cares about your whining.
They can MOAB Minneapolis for all I care. That place seems like a shithole.
But Trump is fumbling Greenland. I think if he was diplomatic and made an offer of a million dollars per resident we'd own Greenland tomorrow.
Inga said...
“Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached and removed from office. ~ Tuson.com”
Are they finally finding some courage?
No. They are getting lots of money to sell the country out to European masters.
It is the opposite of courage, but a retard like you wouldn't understand that.
That is why you think calling Trump a NAZI on a public message board is courage. It is just stupidity.
The forced contraception and sterilization of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls by Danish authorities, known as the "Spiral Case" (referring to the Danish term for IUDs or coils), did not occur in a single specific year but as part of a systematic campaign spanning several decades.
But dipshit Democrats were always into various Eugenics projects.
If Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize.
Kak is wrong. For Trump to win, he would need to beat Barack Obama's record of 26 murdered.
This includes 4 Americans (including children) who weren't even charged with a crime. And it includes 22 people completely innocent people (including children) 7 of whom got bombed by Obama while eating peacefully at a roadside restaurant, due to Obama's abject incompetence.
So far, it's Obama 26, Trump 1.
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize then embarked on these murders. Trump has not.
Raise a ludicrous straw man.
Cite, without detail an unidentified “recent poll”.
Having not moved the needle a jot (I mean, really, Greenland?) move on to a different ludicrous straw man in a couple of days.
It’s easy but it seems so futile and boring,
Was discussing AWFLs with a couple of apolitical non-AWFL women tonight. They brought it up so it must be a topic out there. They were frankly baffled. One said that it reminded her of schizophrenia. I imagine she meant that in the way it’s popularly used, not the DSM definition.
Trump isn't going to invade Greenland, you morons.
“That is why you think calling Trump a NAZI on a public message board is courage.”
I’m calling YOU a Nazi too. So far Trump hasn’t been able to take away the First Amendment.
LOL, it's not Trump who has spent the last X number of years trying to censor his adversaries.
"LOL, it's not Trump..."
Self-awareness is not the left's strong suit.
“LOL, it's not Trump who has spent the last X number of years trying to censor his adversaries.”
LOL, in what reality do you live? Jimmy Kimmel ring a bell?
LOL, in what reality do you live? Jimmy Kimmel ring a bell?
You mean the guy who hid behind a broadcast license and lied so viciously that dozens of affiliates refused to air his show?
You mean the guy who had his show renewed for another year because ABC decided to cave to you thugs as you were firebombing those same affiliates?
That Jimmy Kimmel? That censorship Trump tried to enforce?
Go scream at some duck hunters.
So if we take Greenland Europe will kick us out of NATO.
We would get Greenland, could bring ~100,000 troops home, and save ~50 Billion Dollars annually.
I find your terms acceptable.
Inga said...
“LOL, it's not Trump who has spent the last X number of years trying to censor his adversaries.”
LOL, in what reality do you live? Jimmy Kimmel ring a bell?
You supported kicking Trump off of all social media and banning him from all corporate media.
The fact that you even pretend Jimmy Kimmel getting fired because affiliates wouldn't put him on air just shows everyone what a hypocrite and a retard you are.
Well Tempered Clavier played as cleanly as I've ever heard, at least for the first dozen or so. The later slow ones lose the clean voicing and become more muddy chordal.
Brett Pike
@ClassicLearner
Your grandparents didn’t go half way across the world and fight the Nazi’s to the death, just so a bunch of foreigners who came here after World War II could call you a Nazi for having the same exact world view as your grandparents.
5:16 PM · Jan 13, 2026
https://x.com/ClassicLearner/status/2011200725490286619?s=20
Kak has replaced Ritmo as the commenter with a Gatling gun for a keyboard. Not my blog, but it would be great to limit number of comments per post by a commenter.
The problem with the last past interference call against the Bills was the refs had been letting it go all game. Grabbing the receiver’s the trailing arm that is.
Denver QB Bo Nix broke his ankle is obviously out for the season.
"Not my blog, but it would be great to limit number of comments per post by a commenter.
Looks around nervously.jpg
Breezy said...
“Any leftist purporting to stand up for innocent citizens being caught up in ICE detention is a blatant liar. They are all performers who just use people to gain whatever yardage they can. They’ve no problem injecting people with novel vaccines, stealing their id to vote, or convince their kids to undergo trans surgery. Never ever believe any leftist who purports to care for anything but a leftist cause, or just any “revolution”, cuz it makes them feel so “alive!!”, godammit! Thats all that matters to them.”
Just seems to me that if the Basket doesn’t like being referred to as a cult, maybe they should quit writing cultish things.
- Buffalo’s last pass play was a completion, IMHO. Down by contact.
- The 2nd to last PI call was BS. That was excellent coverage by the Bills’ DB.
- Bad calls (and bad non-calls) by the refs at key moments late in key games has my wife regularly questioning if they happen because the gamblers want one team to win.
Perhaps treat the GoFund for the terrorist's "wife" as a RICO enterprise?
In 1917, Denmark and the US approved a treaty (or more specifically, a convention), the guts of which are summed up in [these] simple paragraphs:
His Majesty the King of Denmark by this convention cedes to the United States all territory, dominion and sovereignty, possessed, asserted or claimed by Denmark in the West Indies including the Islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix together with the adjacent islands and rocks.
In full consideration of the cession made by this convention, the United States agrees to pay . . . the sum of twenty-five million dollars in gold coin of the United States.
In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
Done deal!
Colin Jost's Hegseth impression is becoming Colbear-ish. A righty can watch and love it. CC, JSM
@Rocco. Totally agree.
Watched Portillo with Stefan Kyriazis, reviewing a West End production of High Noon. Portillo mentioned the original pic was an anti-McCarthy fable. I must confess I never thought of this. Nor did Any of my lefty teachers. And I think most Americans just saw it as reinforcing traditional.values. CC, JSM
Buffalo got screwed.
Again.
So we are told but cooper like montgomery and reagan were staunch anticommunists
Timmys son (whose child is raising) committed suicide
Bacon is one of the possum
I agree it was a completion. Tough game to watch.
I’m rooting for the Pats today, of course, but not too hopeful.
Carl foreman was one of the stalinist 10, fifth column ala gransci
12 hours later and I'm still waiting for Kak to tell me who was shot in the head. We know it wasn't Good. So, who was? (I made a guess when I first asked the question. Is it the person hit by the "less than lethal" round?)
Random accusations are too random.
Progressive Pa. group targeting Fetterman launches website to get contributions refunded
"A progressive Pennsylvania group that has already pledged to back a primary opponent against Sen. John Fetterman in 2028 has unveiled a website that will help unhappy donors get refunds for their contributions to him.
The Pennsylvania Working Families Party on Friday said PrimaryFetterman.com will be the hub for its efforts to oust the first-term Democratic senator who has alienated many Democrats with his views on Israel and support for its Gaza military offensive, votes for Trump administration officials and support of Trump policies.
“While Senator John Fetterman is supporting Trump’s use of American tax dollars to ‘run’ Venezuela or buy Greenland, 500,000 Pennsylvanians are about to see their healthcare premiums rise because of the Republican budget bill he supported,” WFP’s mid-Atlantic communications director Nick Gavio said in a statement.
Gavio, a former Fetterman 2022 campaign staffer who later served on the senator’s communications team, said “people across Pennsylvania did not put time, money and energy into supporting his campaign just to elect a Democrat who votes against our interests time and time again. We need new leadership.”
In November, the WFP announced that it would actively recruit candidates to challenge Fetterman in the 2028 Democratic primary.
The new website offers what the WFP called “a unique tool allowing deceived Fetterman donors” to request refunds for their contributions to his campaign “with just a few clicks.”
Additionally, the website offers the “Fetterman Sell Out Tracker,” which will monitor his voters and positions.
The tracker “will be continuously updated with new information as the senator supplies it — which occurs regularly,” the WFP said in a statement.
WFP also said that it would back digital ads to put the refund tool onto social media platforms. The party launched an online portal and plans on holding recruitment and training events across the state for various offices, including the Senate seat."
No heretic is hated more than the one from among the ranks.
Pennsylvania commies
Mary Beth, would that be Kaden Rummler?
Shot in face at point blank range with tear gas ball, blinded in one eye and broken bone.
There are more, but this case is pretty clear excess force.
You have to understand with Kak, it's "just business" with him. He's not a true believer in the delusional reality that the media plants in people's brains, like Inga, or the quintessential mid-wit, like Ronald J. Ward, who is almost the very prototype of the guy at the thickest point of the IQ bell curve in that meme, Kak understands how propaganda works, and he expects to profit from or very possibly, he is being paid to spread what he very likely knows is nonsense.
Down to the top ten in the Major League Fishing tournament. Local boy Chris Lane won the knockout round yesterday with a bag of 29 bass, weighing 91 lbs, 10 oz in total. That’s a mess o’ big fish taken on a cold winter day.
Living on the NY/ PA border due south of Buffalo I am exposed to lots of Bills fans. They have always had the “woe wis me” mentality. Going to church this morning I will witness that in spades.
Propaganda 101 Rule # 2; Blame your opponent of which you are guilty of.
The irony of Jaq accusing me of being easily media manipulated is that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting, that tariffs will not drive up prices, that Trump is an honest broker, and I could just go on and on and on but generally side with the narrative channeled by the echo chamber that appeals to their worldview.
That really isn’t an opinion as it’s been proven with Fox News getting busted in the most spectacular way in a court of law. The cult will flock to the media that tells them what they want to hear and there it stops.
The Seahawks sure put a whuppin on the 49ers. I would love to see the Hawks and the Bears in the NFC championship game.
Like my alter ego said, he’s a mid wit
Quarter wit
Mary Beth, would that be Kaden Rummler?
That's the one I mentioned in my question. "Americans" is plural. What are the others?
What would be the proper amount of force for someone rushing at you as you are trying to arrest another person?
Ronald J. Ward wrote, “ that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is [sic] about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting, that tariffs will not drive up prices, that Trump is an honest broker….”
Then explain what MN and VZ are really about.
Mary Beth said...
What would be the proper amount of force for someone rushing at you as you are trying to arrest another person?
-------------------
A nightstick to the side of the head?
’…the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers’
A sentient being would have phrased that as ‘have reasonable questions about an irregular election which yielded several statistical outliers’.
That would, however, require intelligence and intellectual honesty; clearly above your pay grade.
@William50, I think you need to scroll back a bit
Mark said...
Mary Beth, would that be Kaden Rummler?
Shot in face at point blank range with tear gas ball, blinded in one eye and broken bone.
Would a nightstick have been guaranteed to cause less damage?
It’s clear the Trump administration is getting behind the curve as the lefties have had an opportunity to catch up and bundle their old outrages into tidy little bundles. Time to expect another constitutional crisis this week from the administration…
It looks like Igna is into the box wine again.
It’s not a good mix with all your psych meds sweetie.
Day ending in y
Three koi feedings
Whom needs NATO more, the occupier of the largest effective Island nation in the world or a collection of mostly land locked and pinch point constrained countries bordering Russia, the Middle East and a panga ride from Africa?
I Feel the Earth Moving Under Our Feet - American Thinker https://share.google/iVVD6YqSsr23L5auo
Thing is Beast, questions stop being ‘reasonable’ when they’ve been asked, answered, litigated, audited, and still rejected.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Propaganda 101 Rule # 2; Blame your opponent of which you are guilty of.
The irony of Jaq accusing me of being easily media manipulated is that the bulk of the regulars here tend to be election deniers, think that the Minnesota attacks is about fraud, that Venezuela is about drugs, refuse to understand asylum laws, think the bulk of immigrants are criminals or soaking up welfare and voting,
78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.
The only ones who aren't don't bother applying because their Learing Center is doing so well.
Kakabich is what happens when every single prediction one makes turns out wrong- they devolve into mindless and repetitive posting of unrelated talking points in thread after thread. It's like a dog returning over and over to its vomit to eat it once again. Pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
He really is starting to resemble the late Ritmo in that regard but he isn't Ritmo- Ritmo, for all his faults, was much smarter than Kakabich.
Those are writing star trek academy
He’s like a cargo cult commenter, he replicates the forms of intelligent comments, but the parts don’t connect together and work properly.
Dave @ 8:40; “ Then explain what MN and VZ are really about.”
That kinda validates my point, don’t ya think?
Ronald J. Ward said...
Thing is Beast, questions stop being ‘reasonable’ when they’ve been asked, answered, litigated, audited, and still rejected.
Fulton County just admitted they illegally counted 315000 votes that had no verification.
They are still fighting in court to keep anyone from physically seeing those ballots.
You can't actually argue any of this honestly.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Dave @ 8:40; “ Then explain what MN and VZ are really about.”
That kinda validates my point, don’t ya think?
You think it validates your point because you are stupid.
Its just a flesh wound, honestly
"That kinda validates my point, don’t ya think?"
No, Ronald, it doesn't. Dazzle us with your analysis of what they are about if not those items of illegal alien deportations and drugs respectively. Use your dizzying intellect to educate us basket of deplorable, low IQ rubes on how we are being fooled by Donald Trump and his Gestapo.
’Thing is Beast, questions stop being ‘reasonable’ when they’ve been asked, answered, litigated, audited, and still rejected.’
Thanks for the laughs!!
For the record. I have never denied that an election took place.
I'm a Denver fan - but I agree. Buffalo got screwed.
Signature verification is a total farce.
Anyone on the right pushing it or defending it - is part of the problem.
Achillies, “ 78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.”
There you go, proving my point again. You found a kernel of proof and there you stopped. How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions?
That’s where you don’t want to go.
Beasts: "A sentient being would have phrased that as ‘have reasonable questions about an irregular election which yielded several statistical outliers’."
Jesse Watters is now frequently talking about his recurring 'dreams' in which the 2020 election was stolen. Huge shit-eating grin on his face. Fox's internal wall against this sort of thing may soon crumble....CC, JSM
Here are a few unanswered questions:
- How did turnout spike an unprecedented 10% from the previous election cycle?
- How did Trump increase his vote total by 17% as an incumbent and lose re-election? Obama’s vote total fell by 5% and he was re-elected.
- How did a white guy from the party of identity politics receive more votes than the historic first black candidate, the historic first female candidate, and the historic first black female candidate?
RJW: "How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions? That’s where you don’t want to go."
I'll go there. All of your postulates, if true, make it worse!
They would mean we imported people just to create a class of US-citizen welfare dependents. Not people doing the jobs Americans won't, or the jobs we ran out of Americans to do, or the jobs we failed to teach Americans to do, or any of the pieties spewed by the left.
Just more Democrat-voting state sucklers. Exactly what both parties predicted. CC, JSM
There is no doubt in my mind that they counted 81 million votes for Biden but you will never convince me that 81 million people voted for him.
A snapshot of INAG's Democratic-Nazis.
2020 was stolen... so that Biden could be installed to build the infrastructure of a corrupt one party state. Illegals needed.
Beast @ 9:25. They’ve been answered. Turnout.
Surprise or upset doesn’t equate to election rigging.
’All of your postulates, if true, make it worse!’
He’s so excited about trying to score points that he doesn’t complete the progression. It’s great entertainment. lol
Chain of custody (that we saw failed in fulton)
@Ronnie Ward, you misspelled “ballot box stuffing,”
Voter ID - with a valid photo ID, allows for one-person / one vote and it is accomplished PRIOR to voting.
Mail in and signature verification is a democratic party scheme/plan used to build any cheat as needed scenario. True verification after the fact - becomes impossible to "prove".
That's their point.
Remember when a court of law decided that Mar a Lago was worth only 20 million dollars and a single family house in Palm Beach on less property sold for 160 million?
The carter baker commission pointed this out in 2005
’Beast @ 9:25. They’ve been answered. Turnout.’
Oh, gosh. I feel better now. Wow. That one word answer was right there the whole time and I missed it. Turnout. Why didn’t I think of that? Turnout certainly answers the spike in turnout. I’m gonna have to take a shot of vodka or something because my mind is blown. Dear diary…
Inga said...
“That is why you think calling Trump a NAZI on a public message board is courage.”
"I’m calling YOU a Nazi too. So far Trump hasn’t been able to take away the First Amendment."
I bet with your little rodent brain you can't figure out why that will never happen.
The United States sits on magic dirt, and no matter the moral universe of the country immigrants come from, the moment they touch our dirt, they fully accept our professed values, not to mention that it’s perfectly fine to run elections where trillions of dollars are at stake on the honor system.
"Turnout certainly answers the spike in turnout."
Heh.
Fox hosts are also teasing their bosses and audience with the idea that Maduro may give up all the details on the vote-machine hacking as part of a plea bargain.
I have previously opined here that I don't think machine hacking made any dispositive difference: blue-city bosses wanted the machines to work properly so they could run all their 'extra' ballots through. But it is still a nice way to needle-dick the needle-dicks. CC, JSM
Mark said...
"Mary Beth, would that be Kaden Rummler?
Shot in face at point blank range with tear gas ball, blinded in one eye and broken bone.
There are more, but this case is pretty clear excess force."
Says who? A gratuitous assertion that can be equally gratuitously denied.
No its not.
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Ronald J. Ward said...
Achillies, “ 78% of Somalian families granted asylum in the US are on welfare.”
There you go, proving my point again. You found a kernel of proof and there you stopped. How many of those are now Americans citizens? What percentage of this “welfare” is reduced school lunches or WIC items or were receiving the ACA benefits granted from the COVID extensions?
That’s where you don’t want to go.
Oh I want to go there.
Nobody on public assistance of any kind should be voting.
Sponges don't contribute. They shouldn't vote.
This goes for people on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, disability, Welfare, NGOs and employees, Government employees.
You really should lose all benefits of citizenship if you don't contribute to the future of society.
Registered voter rolls should be publicly available with pictures attached.
Anyone who votes in the election should have their picture updated in the rolls next to their tax ID number. People who don't pay net positive taxes shouldn't vote in a republic.
Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune
"Below-zero windchills didn’t deter hundreds of protesters rallying against Lang and his handful of supporters in downtown Minneapolis."
Jake Lang thought he was tough when he was swinging a bat at Capitol Police officers on January 6th. Forgive me if I can’t muster any sympathy for him.
Blue states are refusing to comply with voter roll records requests from the Trump administration.
What do they have to hide?
Achilles: "Anyone who votes in the election should have their picture updated in the rolls next to their tax ID number"
That is a great idea! It might even make "voter id," in the sense of an actual card, unneccessary. Your ID is your face - or, when the cost comes down, your retina scan or fingerprint.
Scrapping the fancy-shmancy voting machines for paper ballots would more than pay for the photo gear.
There is the problem of verifying people for the first iteration. But on the bright side the evidence of fraud is readily available in the system to prosecute the ones who slipped through. And it's much harder to fake a person than to fake a ballot.
You already get retinal-scanned in international air travel. And facial recognition was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it swept up all the J6'ers. So the left should enthusiastically endorse voter-photer.
I kid on that last part. Of course they will yell and scream. Which is why the idea should be rammed home. Well done Achilles! RLTW, JSM
Some of us get Social Security, and Medicare while also paying lots of taxes. Social Security and Medicare for some of us is just the government paying back a zero interest loan, and my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance.
I just want voting restricted to citizens, and the system to assure that as well as possible. Voter ID and far stricter registration should be mandatory nationwide, just like every other nation that even tries to be democratic.
Kak: "Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune"
Here are some pull quotes from the story:
"he was pulled off a City Hall window ledge where he was standing to speak. A crowd then followed him four city blocks to a hotel where he retreated, bleeding from a head wound"
"When Lang arrived outside City Hall shortly before noon, the crowd began shoving and grabbing at an “Americans Against Islamification” banner and flags.
"“Arrest him!” Lang shouted through a megaphone as one of his supporters fell in the snowy street while fighting with a protester. But officers soon left the scene.
"The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed in an email to the Minnesota Star Tribune that there were no arrests downtown....
"“We weren’t expecting a whole lot of [supporters] because of the weather,” said Zak X, 36, of St. Cloud. X was charged with misdemeanor assault after he attacked an anti-ICE protester outside the Whipple Federal Building, according to a criminal complaint filed Dec. 30."
Looks like 2-tier justice to me. Police deliberately deciding not to protect an arguably offensive but tiny demonstration. Where is the ACLU?
Will make great GOP commercials. CC, JSM
I think most Democrats know that our elections are full of fraud. They just like the results of the fraud, so they resist transparency and reform. They will never admit the obvious unless it somehow helped Republicans, as we saw with Texas redistricting. They have one hand in the cookie jar while pointing at their brother picking up crumbs off the floor.
Inga said...
... So far Trump hasn’t been able to take away the First Amendment.
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Biden sure gave it a hell of a try during Covid.
bagoh20 said...
Some of us get Social Security, and Medicare while also paying lots of taxes. Social Security and Medicare for some of us is just the government paying back a zero interest loan, and my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance.
I just want voting restricted to citizens, and the system to assure that as well as possible. Voter ID and far stricter registration should be mandatory nationwide, just like every other nation that even tries to be democratic.
I don't mind any net taxpayer, employer, veteran, or parent that raised 2 or more children in a married household voting.
The rest can kick rocks.
Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are all pure disasters.
We should take over Cuba and auction it off to pay for social security promises until we can close the whole program. There will be almost no wage income soon thanks to AI/Robotics so the whole program is doomed anyways. (only half joking)
It would be nice to think that we could get Greenland without having generations of Eskimo-American college students lecturing us from now until Kingdom come about how we stole their land and destroyed their culture, but that's not how the modern world works.
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I think of how much painstaking effort I put into handwriting as a child and how illegible my writing is now. Signature becomes a scrawl. Does one match up with another? Hard to say. It's even worse when I have to "sign" an electronic pad or display. I'm back to "X - Queequeg, his mark."
Shouldn't tax identification numbers (social security numbers) come with PIN codes and dual verification by now?
Democrats think everyone who does not obey their thought-crimes/ speech crimes and diktats - should be rounded up. ie: You will bow down to Biden and never ever even think that the dems stole it for him. You will also never admit what you see with your own eyes - that he was a hollow shell and a puppet for the mob-left.
This is the most damning piece of evidence about the 2020 election's theft. The deviation, followed by the reversal in 2024, is extremely significant and can't be explained away by turnout- especially given that 12 of the 18 were in states Biden won. The next biggest anomaly in the bellweather counties was the 2016 election but all of those bellweathers were in CA.
"my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance."
Ours, too.
“But it is still a nice way to needle-dick the needle-dicks.”
But then, what do they have up their sleeves for the needle-dicked bug fuckers, like Mark, ‘fly, Ward Cleaver and kaKAW!?
Hell just start with Florida election rules. You know, the rules Democrats insisted upon because Florida stole the election from Al Gore. Florida rakes third in population and same in allocation of electoral votes, two time zones, high election day turnout yet they’re usually done counting before 10 eastern time. That would restore dome faith to the faithless so you eye rollers would have one less thing to eye roll about. Strangely, you resist…
Maybe SS disability (which is really welfare for the disabled and the pretend disabled) but not SS proper. I worked all my life and am still working and I have been taxed for SS throughout.
Seen on X:
Shannon: "I guarantee ICE will be staking out election locations during the midterms in all the blue cities"
Jon: "Why would illegals be at voting locations Shannon"
Hell yes!
Let's take the vote from priests, nuns, and other celibates, and the infertile . . .
Seems familiar. Oh, yeah, peaceful tea party rallies physically attacked with no police protection.
And, peaceful pro Trump rallies physically attacked with no police protection.
john mosby said...
Kak: "Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters ~ Minnesota Star Tribune"
Here are some pull quotes from the story:
"he was pulled off a City Hall window ledge where he was standing to speak. A crowd then followed him four city blocks to a hotel where he retreated, bleeding from a head wound"
"When Lang arrived outside City Hall shortly before noon, the crowd began shoving and grabbing at an “Americans Against Islamification” banner and flags.
"“Arrest him!” Lang shouted through a megaphone as one of his supporters fell in the snowy street while fighting with a protester. But officers soon left the scene.
"The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed in an email to the Minnesota Star Tribune that there were no arrests downtown....
"“We weren’t expecting a whole lot of [supporters] because of the weather,” said Zak X, 36, of St. Cloud. X was charged with misdemeanor assault after he attacked an anti-ICE protester outside the Whipple Federal Building, according to a criminal complaint filed Dec. 30."
Looks like 2-tier justice to me. Police deliberately deciding not to protect an arguably offensive but tiny demonstration. Where is the ACLU?
Will make great GOP commercials. CC, JSM
John way back at 9;28; “They would mean we imported people just to create a class of US-citizen welfare dependents. Not people doing the jobs Americans won't, or the jobs we ran out of Americans to do, or the jobs we failed to teach Americans to do, or any of the pieties spewed by the left.
Just more Democrat-voting state sucklers. Exactly what both parties predicted.”
There you go blaming the problem on immigrants when it falls back to failed Republican policy of widening the equality gap.
We presently have over 43 million people on SNAP with nearly 90% born in the U.S. and nearly half working full time jobs.
This has happened over weakened bargaining power, an insistence on lower wagers, refusal of minimum wage hikes, elimination of prevailing wages, and shifting more of the tax burden to the workers to offset tax breaks for the wealthy, all Republican initiatives.
Over the years, Republican laws and policies have used middle class tax dollars to offset or subsidize the payroll of full time employees for Walmart, Amazon, the banking industry, et al. with SNAP, housing, medication, education, etc.
Under the Big Ugly Bill, it looks like the fat cats saw those subsidies and told Republicans; “hey, we want that too” and then told the Gullibles to blame it on the “illegals”.
These are things that Alex Jones and AmericanNonThinker doesn’t want to tell you about.
Gonna be bitter cold in Soldier Field tonight. 🐻⬇️
I hate when these games are on ABC now, I get my signal over the air, and when the other networks carry an NFL game, the picture is pristine, and when it's an ABC/ESPN game, it's cable tv quality, they down scale the image in order to make it streamable.
I know nobody here cares, but I am hoping that ABC looks at social media, even if by AI, and somebody sees that consumers know that they have degraded the quality of their product.
Prime does 4K, and that is even better than over the air, but ESPN/ABC does not.
RJW: "failed Republican policy of widening the equality gap."
I would agree, if limited to pre-Trump GOP.
"weakened bargaining power" - Chief weakeners were globalist trade and immigrants lowering the wage floor. Trump is counteracting both of those.
"refusal of minimum wage hikes" - minimum wage destroys jobs and increases the temptation to pay illegals under the table.
" shifting more of the tax burden to the workers to offset tax breaks for the wealthy" - this would take most of a week to fisk, but most important among the Fiskars would be: in a labor market of citizen workers protected by tariffs and borders from Third World competition, if you tax the workers, they will bargain for higher wages from their employers. If you tax employers, they will either fire employees or keep their wages low. And some people will be frightened by the taxes to never become employers.
"middle class tax dollars to offset or subsidize the payroll of full time employees for Walmart, Amazon, the banking industry, et al. with SNAP, housing, medication, education, etc." - I agree with you as to the problem. We will disagree as to the solution. Mine and Trump's is: Destroy the Walmart/Amazon business model with tariffs on cheap ChiCom crap. Those greeters and package pickers then become factory workers in American industry, getting a livable working-class wage so they don't need the welfare. Tighten up the rules on welfare so that even fewer working people's dollars go to non-workers. CC, JSM
John, we agree that taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing profitable corporations’ payrolls. Where we part ways is the idea that tariffs alone fix that. Without labor power — unions, wage floors, and antitrust — tariffs raise prices, not wages. The mid-century middle class wasn’t built by borders alone, but by policy choices that strengthened workers’ leverage.
The thousand cuts from the last half century is getting closer to the kill.
RJW: "Without labor power — unions, wage floors, and antitrust "
I would love us to have a real Labor party and movement.
Only thing is, you need industry first. Specifically, interlocked domestic industries, for which there is no alternative.
We had that in the 19th century because of tariffs. We had that in the mid-20th because half our competition got blown up, and the other half was behind the Iron Curtain and blowing itself up through commie incompetence. So a union movement could build up that basically held itself hostage until it got what it wanted.
We don't have strong unions now because there are so many ways to defeat them by offshoring, immigration, &c.
Get us back to a situation where the average company's supply chain is all American, and we can have strong unions again. CC, JSM
I love that a guy who supports bringing millions of scabs from the third world to compete for American jobs, housing, and medical services, driving down wages, and up the other costs, and who doesn't support creating economic incentives to manufacture in the US styles himself a friend of labor.
More mid-wittery. He wants to structurally disfavor workers though creating an oversupply of labor, then somehow use unions to clean up the mess he made, while forcing the employers to compete with cheap overseas labor, and so his prescribed policies create a race to the bottom for US labor, which is why the billionaires pretty much all back the same policies.
More like a nitwit than a mid-wit.
We know it's taboo for you to honestly consider these arguments Ronnie, we know that if you risked considering them honestly, you risk membership in your group, risk being associated with the Trumpsters you consider hideous. It was all laid out in the book by Freud's nephew, the German who laid the foundation for the science of propaganda.
In Ronald J. Ward's world, if the unions do manage to win higher wages for their workers, without the protection of tariffs, it just increases the financial pressure on the factory owners to move offshore.
"my income adjusted Medicare premiums are higher than private insurance."
Ours, too.
Ditto, as they say. Now, I will say that some of the premiums I "enjoyed" in the past were underwritten by my Employer. But the cost of Medicare is something that has surprised me.
Jaq, explaining my motives doesn’t explain the data.
Disagreeing with you isn’t about group membership — it’s about outcomes. Countries with strong unions and high wages still manufacture without blanket tariffs. Trump tested tariffs without labor power, and wages didn’t rise. If anything, the additional tariff burden will slow wage growth. If unions caused offshoring, Germany wouldn’t build anything.
If Walmart, banks, Amazon etc need to rely on me to subsidize the payroll for their full time employees, which they have for years, I’m fine with them moving elsewhere.
And Jaq, I totally missed your 2:33 rant, which goes full blown strawman. I’ve never supported immigration labor competition but it’s something I’ve had to deal with from the time I entered the workforce in the 1970s.
That’s yet another problem the politically ignorant want to ignore- immigration didn’t start with Biden. If anything, it’s been exploited for generations by which brings us to where we are in the labor market and wealth inequality I’ve argued.
Calling immigrants ‘scabs’ lets employers off the hook. Wages fall when labor has no leverage — not when workers exist. Countries with immigration, strong unions, and manufacturing disprove your claim. Tariffs without labor standards protect corporations, not workers.
If immigration destroyed labor, Germany wouldn’t manufacture. If tariffs raised wages, Trump already would have proven it.
What I’m really arguing is that Trump’s policies pulls the rug out of any meaningful solution. Burning it to the ground leaves an economy in ashes, regardless of who or what was the culprit.
Kinda hard using Germany as an exemplar of economic growth:
"Germany's manufacturing sector has experienced a dramatic downturn over the last 15 years, particularly since 2021.
The Performance Summary
Germany's economy declined by 0.2% in 2024, following a 0.3% contraction in 2023 (Bureau of Labor Statistics,) making it the worst-performing major economy in Europe .(Congress.gov.)
Manufacturing output declined approximately 10 percentage points below its pre-pandemic level by late 2024 (Social Security Administration), and manufacturing output for 2022 was $760.96 billion, a 6.4% decline from 2021 (NBER)."
So what skills do you bring to the table, Chuck, where you deserve better than minimum wage?
Labor is a commodity.
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