I think I know what the next entry in the playbook is. After a suitable amount of protests they will free Mr. García, but not allow him to come back to the United States. That still ruins his life because his family is in the US, so it’s right up their alley on cruetly.

This will pacify a percentage of the protestors who will be tired and happy for a small win. It will “pacify” the courts, if they’re not already in on this play. The news will also step back because the see the story as concluded.

We need to be demanding justice for all 200 deportees. I know they latched on to Mr. García because he’s innocent, but for all we know they are all innocent. We need to stay mad until they’ve all had a day in court.

Honestly nothing short of an impeachment and conviction of this administration will restore my faith in this countries justice system.

Don’t worry about it. Our top man started a new signal group called “Signal group leak small chat”. They’ve invited all the best people to the chat and have already mentioned that opsec is clean.

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Am I doing this right?

The excuse for pulling this guy, and everyone in this companies security clearance is because he didn’t find evidence the 2020 election was stolen?

Security clearances aren’t cheap. Someone in the press should be asking the trump regime how this helps America.

Imagine not being aware how pathetic you look when someone bribes you. What’s that dinner like? Rich people always worry about their status. Who’s more important, who has the most money? Trump sitting down to dicuss this for a million dollars. A million dollars is so cheap to them. They must be laughing on the way home at how easy it is to manipulate him.

Its not the EU’s job to buy your products. The reason doesn’t matter. If they don’t want your shit they won’t buy your shit.

Be better. Make a product people want at a price they’re willing to pay. Stop whining.

Also maybe don’t alienate the entire world then get mad that nobody will talk to you on the playground.

You rolled in this shit. Now you can either clean it up or accept the consequences.

If he can arrest and deport anyone, even those that have broken no laws, then why can’t we arrest and deport him?

If the laws don’t matter anymore then just say it. If it’d going to be a free-for-all then let’s at least be honest about it.

That was wild. Like JD Vance quietly saying to hold off and you’re like “Hey, maybe there is a voice of reason behind the scenes.”

Nope. He just hates Europe so much he doesn’t want to do something that benefits them more than the US. What an asshole.

I don’t remember any scenes in Mad Max where there was a happy rich person living in their perfectly intact mansion with servants and a well manicured lawn.

The solution to this problem isn’t to ask a corrupt government to save you. They’ve already proven their word is worth jack by reversing policies of the previous administration. You should instead be trying everything possible to stop climate change. Including throwing money at the problem.

Whatever’s left of society won’t care that you’re immune to lawsuits. People who have never seen a tomato don’t care if you worked hard to get your fancy stuff. They’re just hungry.

Since shes asking France to be greatful, I’m guessing that she personally was responsible for the allies victory in Europe. If she is to be believed, then I am extremely greatful to her for all that she’s done for France, and the world.

What’s that? I’ve just been informed that she in fact was not yet born when WW2 occurred, and hasn’t done a thing noteworthy in her life for France, the United States or even herself. Furthermore, it has been brought to my attention that she is a sycophant and a traitor.

Another case of thinking your football teem’s win is your win, or in this case, the past victories or a county you happened to be born in are your own.

Dude has a dartboard with allied country names and a second dartboard with 3rd grade insults, and I guess a third dartboard with the most disproportionate responses to problems diplomacy ever concocted.

This guy wants a thank you for what now? Did he launch a rocket? Manage a network?

Let’s ignore the fact that a private company who has countries begging them for their service is fucked up.

The obsession that some people have that they are a part of the football team they like is nuts. Rubio asking for thanks for something starlink did is like me asking for thanks for Taylor Swifts latest hit.

Its more than just foreign relations.

The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn’t just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won’t be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.

We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.

Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn’t going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.

How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn’t bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.

I’m mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn’t matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.

People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren’t just foreign and that if something doesn’t change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.

It used to be fully funded with the money paid into it. Your current contributions are supposed to be paying for your future security.

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/

America does have this actually. I think at one point in about 10 years ago it was like $500k. I believe they raised it to something higher but it was less than $5m though.

Trump probably either didn’t know because the law doesn’t apply to him, or this is just a fee increase disguised as a new program his sycophants will applaud.

Anyone who works directly for a Musk company should quietly start looking for another job.

People in unions should strike right now. People who aren’t in unions should also strike, but I don’t expect miracles.

This is the biggest asshole boss indicator. There should never be a situation where someone in power “jokes” about firing.

He needs a very quick financial lesson in not fucking with his employees. One week of work stoppage across every company he owns should do it.

Vote blue and send huge amounts of letters and phone calls to your Congress people telling them to stop supporting this. Run new candidates under the Democratic party that push them further left.

Sounds impossible? Yes. People were force fed propaganda and gave up this election, because its a hard choice. There is no easy route. Its either revolution or try to change a party to something better. There is no option 3.

People told the centrists, I told my friends for fucks sake. I know someone who stayed home saying their vote didn’t matter and both sides are evil. I told them that is a vote for Trump.

They were right. Their vote didn’t matter because trump won by a landslide in our state. But what if they, and thousands of their compatriots, weren’t force fed propaganda on Facebook and TV?

The republicans won because of coordinated attacks that presented centrists with multiple trolley problems. I held out hope until the end, but I should have known what was going to happen when some reasonably intelligent people fell for it.

The Gaza strip is 141 square miles with a 2024 estimate of over two million people. I guarantee Trump doesn’t know how big it is, or the logistics required to displace that many people.

Not that he would care, but his followers need to be aware that this isn’t a small city or a united group of people. You can’t just send out an email and “tell” them anything. Especially after their communication infrastructure has been destroyed. So him saying they need to get out before his visit is no different than me saying he needs to resign by tomorrow.

Everyone who supports this needs to be aware that its a genocide. Supporting it is equivalent to volunteering to be part of it.

Write your tax return by hand and mail it in. The IRS downsized years ago and got rid of the people who read these things. They will try to OCR it and have a computer review it, but if there are issues then surely a human will need to look at it.

Would be a shame if everyone filed taxes in a way that was terribly inconvenient for them.

Besides all the other arguments, fingerprints aren’t like the movies. You need a reasonably flat surface to get a fingerprint from.

Getting a fingerprint from a house or a car to prove that someone was there at some point, any time in the past, is possible. Getting a fingerprint from a plastic baggy to prove someone held it would be much harder.

The distortions would make it extremely hard to match against a database. If they compare it to you then it might show a match, so if you’re a suspect they might make a direct comparison. If they compare it to the cop? Remember the cop is innocent until proven guilty, so they can’t compel them to give fingerprints for comparison. Yes, they could be in a database, but remember the distortion makes it hard to automatically find this.

Any lab work has a cost, and police are lazy. They aren’t going to spend time or money trying to solve a case. They go with best effort.

Just think about the fact that this man dodged the draft and everyone knows it.

He has never served a day in his life. It used to be pretty much a requirement that a realistic presidential candidate was ex-military.

This shit is bonkers. None of this guys children are at any risk if he goes to war with Denmark, Mexico, and Canada.

Not that he really wants Greenland, or Canada. Its a distraction once again to steer the talking points away from whatever Russia and China are doing, or whatever climate catastrophe they’re working on.

Finally, this is only news to people reading left leaning sites. Fox news would gloss over this shit or give it 30 seconds of praise. By the time we get properly agitated about something, his fans have forgotten it ever happened.

People keep saying “How is this not the last straw for people”… He was reelected by people who don’t know about these things or don’t care.