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Perhaps you could explain what is bad, and then I will see it.

I don't understand why so many pages are necessary. 1. Deport current illegal aliens. 2. Cap how many illegals can be in the country for asylum review. 3. Fund border patrol initiatives as needed to keep illegal immigration near zero and process asylum cases promptly. 4. Update amendment 14 to eliminate confusion; no birthright citizenship to illegal alien children born on US soil. Some complexity with a pathway to citizenship and worker visas.

When I was 17, still in high school, I had a gig at this equipment rental shop. One day, I had to fire up a customer's big ol' dually truck to move it around to the back of the shop. And guess what? Toby Keith's tunes were blasting! It was my first real introduction to his music. I went out and bought his greatest hits and have been a fan ever since!

Parts of it - https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf Good and bad. Dead. Example Good $584,116,000 shall be for the hiring of U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel $139,000,000 shall be for overtime costs for U.S. Border Patrol Training Example Bad The Secretary shall activate the border emergency authority if (i) during a period of 7 consecutive calendar days, there is an average of 5,000 or more aliens who are encountered each day; or (ii) on any 1 calendar day, a combined total of 8,500 or more aliens are encountered. Change the terms to something like 100 or more aliens encountered daily or 5,000 or more aliens encountered monthly.

Do dogs refuse to eat the crumbs off the floor? It's a terrible deal.

Caseload is the surface angle to underhandly pack the court like FDR tried before. A good justice will interpret the law as intended rather than today's political agenda. Folks like to believe that the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. It does not. This phrase excludes certain individuals from automatic citizenship, such as foreign diplomats and their families, who are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction. It excludes illegal immigrants, tourists, and their families, who owe allegiance to another country. https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/birthright-citizenship-fundamental-misunderstanding-the-14th-amendment If expanding the Supreme Court was about handling caseload with strict constitutional interpretation rather than biased ideology, nobody would care whether Biden or Trump picked the next justices. The left wants to pack the court now with left ideologists the way FDR wanted. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-fdr-lost-his-brief-war-on-the-supreme-court-2

Would expansion be appropriate in 2025… to handle the caseload? Some are calling for 27 total… https://time.com/5338689/supreme-court-packing/ Sort of depends on who is president.

Not too long now before Congress has the majority and then adds size to the Supreme Court. Democrats are calling for it... its a matter of time.

The party is not dead yet. Its voters are being rapidly outnumbered.

Use data and think critically. The Republican party is dead. The US has been on the path of a one-party state and will succeed by 2044. Who is the primary voter for the Republican party? White Christians Who do nonwhites vote for? Democrats Nonwhites provide 40% of the Democratic vote Nonwhites provide less than 20% of the Republican vote How has the population of white people changed in the USA from the original 13 colonies to 2020? What is the nonwhite demographic that is increasing in the USA? How is the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives computed? The number of people regardless of citizenship. What can the House of Representatives do? Pass bills, spend money, impeach, etc. Are there bills proposing to allow noncitizens to vote? Yes. How long does it take for an illegal immigrant to become a citizen and vote? Depends. It can be immediate with amnesty, while other paths take years. Children of illegals are immediate citizens and can vote on their 18th birthday. Illegal immigrants have multiple children. Does the ordinary public citizen support illegal immigration? No, because it redistributes wealth from them to illegals. Who benefits from illegal immigration? The immigrant and the immigrant's employer of cheap labor. What is the likely reason for the mass increase in illegal immigration from those in power? To stay in power and profit How long will it take for Democrats to gain a permanent voting majority? 20 years. Most likely less. Are white and black citizens losing political influence? Yes, rapidly to Hispanic people. Does Biden want to secure a one-party state? Biden's string pullers do. References Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States#endnote_NatAmPop Laws - https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_permitting_noncitizens_to_vote_in_the_United_States Voters - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-profiles-of-republican-and-democratic-voters/ Unraveling the immigration narrative / wealth redistribution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zFREz1Lp0&ab_channel=NYUDRI https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/03/21/public-sees-an-america-in-decline-on-many-fronts/

Great dig on Woods there. FWIW: The best bridges are found in women's wrestling. The flexibility and arch are genuinely incredible.

Don't confuse my digital magic with being an admin. I'm not an admin.

8. Who is 'we' and 'you' in your statement? 9. In simple terms, the left cares more about helping criminals change and improve their lives than punishing the criminals for their actions. There are numerous posts across forum topics about weak consequences for criminals (in the name of social justice). My critique is that you seem to participate in most of these discussions, and I find it hard to believe that you cannot associate 'soft on crime' posts as related to Thomas's statement. 10. The purpose of this post was not to debate. The purpose of this post was to share how a libertarian-conservative thinks about issues. I agree with every statement Thomas made. Thomas uses rhetoric but no 'bad' argument is detected.

7. I 100% agree with you (and Thomas) that it is easy to sympathize with the plight of refugees. Immigrants want to improve their lives and believe/hope their destination will be better for them and their heirs. I agree with Thomas about Middle East refugee 'fit' concerns in America. The USA doesn't just get workers; it gets people, not necessarily the people it desires. There is a difference in 'fit' for potential immigrants. America is an English-speaking, Individualistic, Christ-religious country with personal freedoms. The Middle East is less English-speaking, collective, Muslim, with different views on freedoms. There are generational conflicts still occurring today between these people. Americans hear much about how diversity makes everything better... but less discussed is the research presenting the downside of diversity https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477.2007.00176 Putnam Diversity.pdf. And we can see clashes in videos from across the pond. One clever statement made by George Borjas on immigration is that people should look at immigration as a redistribution of wealth as a social policy. Your support relies on whether you want to better support your country's natives versus immigrants, BUT also how much you want to redistribute wealth from natives that compete with immigrants to the natives that use the immigrants. For my comments earlier... I was thinking about immigration during colonization being compared to today. That was different than comparing 1900 to today. Reframing my thinking to 1900... the public's desire to have immigration, and specifically Middle East immigration, changes over time.

1. Don't care to discuss outside the original point. There have been other discussions on this topic on this forum. 2. The definition of entitlement is in the original sentence. "A feeling that the world owes you something while you owe nobody anything." 3. Please tell me more about how Thomas and his siblings were raised. Tell me if he was raised left or right-leaning. What politics did he support in his college paper writings? What caused his belief system to change? What about him makes him awful in your opinion? Why bring up Trump? I am critical of Trump's behaviors while supportive of his policies and execution. This is stated with specifics across these forum discussions. 5. The metric is wealth. North Korea, South Korea is the obvious live example. This is one of those self-evident items at this point. One enables wealth creation. The other redistributes wealth. Listen to Argentina talk about their lived experience. 6. I may not understand your concern? Here is the original statement with 'oppression' listed. Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for the oppression that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for the oppression they themselves are doing today? I'm assuming you are dissagreeing with the first point... which is fine... my point is that many people do not have any guilt or responsibility for their ancestor behavior.

5 Words Big Government Support Is Childish

My argument is with your accusation that Trump 'literally' tortured the children. I'm surprised you didn't say, 'and the evil man enjoyed it hugely.' What did the article say about this from what was provided before? It was several comments ago...

I don't think about visa holders and non-immigrant students as immigrants. If I did, they would be classified as legal immigrants. If that's how you think about them, then fair point.

1. My reading into Thomas' statement was that the government monopoly is poor quality. 2. The statement is about encouraging individuals to take personal responsibility for their actions and contributions. It criticizes societal attitudes toward achievement and entitlement. 3. Will you address it without dismissing it with rhetoric? 4. The media needs to cover facts without spin. Its what citizens want per the surveys. 5. LOL. Would you deny that capitalism has lifted more people up than socialism? Look around and read a book. 6. The generalization is irrelevant. Thomas emphasizes the importance of individuals taking responsibility for their actions today, which is a foundational principle in ethics. 7. One of the key comments is that there are negative cultural clashes that are occurring in other countries and will increase in the USA. You keep talking about actions from previous generations and comparing immigration today as if the context was the same as the past. Feel free to explain why this matters and why you think the situation is the same. 8. https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/climate-crimes-must-be-brought-justice-0 ...I (Catriona McKinnon) have proposed that international criminal law should be expanded to include a new criminal offence that I call postericide. It is committed by intentional or reckless conduct fit to bring about the extinction of humanity. 9. I don't accept your ignorance. We talk about this on this forum. 10. Remember this isn't me... rather a readout of the article from Thomas. I think he is saying we need to be wiser and avoid monumental tragedies caused by politics.

MLK has something to say about accepting responsibility for your actions. We are all familiar with the most common agencies on which we project responsibility for our actions. First we tum to environment. How easy it is for one to affirm that one's whole personality make-up and indeed one's very destiny itself is determined by one's environment. Here is a man about forty now whose life has been given in riotous living. Now as he looks back over these wasted years his comment is: “I would have been if I had been {in} a rich family with prestige and fame or if I had been in a more progressive community. It is my environment that has corrupted me.” Yet such persons as this fail to realize that many individuals rise from the very lowest of environments to be some of the most noble characters of human history. There is a Marian Anderson, born in a poverty stricken area of Phila. Pa. She could have very easily given up in despair and cried out that she was born in the wrong environment. But she was not one to make excuses. This same Marian Anderson rose from a poverty stricken environment to be one of the world's greatest contraltoes, so that a Toscanni can say that a voice like this comes only once in a century and a Seballius of Finland can say, “My roof is too low for such a voice.”4 There is a Roland Hayes, born on the red hills of Gordon County Georgia under the most crippling restrictions. At a very early age he found himself working in an iron foundry of Chatanooga Tenn. But from these red hills of Georgia, he rose to the palace of Queen Mother of Spain. From this iron foundry in Chatanooga, Tenn., he rose to the palace of King George the 5th.5 There was an Abraham Lincoln, born in poverty and insecurity, later working as a Kentucky rail splitter. Yet this same Abraham Lincoln rose from a Kentucky rail splitter to be one of the greatest characters in the great drama of history. These are but few of the many examples that could be used to refute the claim that one is completely determined by his environment. Those who hold such a position fail to see that many fine and noble persons stem from bad environments and many very bad and corrupt persons stem from comfortable and desirable environments. Another external agency on which we readily cast responsibility for our actions is heredity. There are those who would affirm that one is completely determined by heredity. How easy it is to say, “I would have been better if I had had better hereditary circumstances.” Here again those who project total responsibility for their actions on hereditary circumstances fail to see that numerous individuals rise above such circumstances. There is a John Bunyan, deprived of his physical sight, and yet he wrote a Pilgrim's Progress that generations will cherish so long as the cords of memory shall lengthen.6 There is a Franklin D. Roosevelt, inflicted with infantile paralysis and yet he rises up to leave such an imprint in the sands of our nations history, that future history books will be incomplete without his name. There is a Hellen Keller, burdened with blindness and deafness, and she rises up to live such a sublime and noble life that millions have come to admire her as one of the choicest fruits on yhe tree of history.7 These are but few of those who have proved that man is not finally caught in the cluches of heredity. He has within himself the power to transcend the disadvantages of bad hereditary conditions...

Thomas Sowell says things in 2016 that are more true today. If you want to know how a libertarian-conservative thinks about issues... It is astonishing that some people think that the answer to the problems of Obamacare is to go to a “single-payer” system. But “single payer” is another way to say “government monopoly.” Does anyone notice how government monopolies operate — from the local DMV to Veterans Administration hospitals? Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentment of other people’s achievements — and a feeling that the world owes you something while you owe nobody anything. The political Left’s hatred of Donald Trump is ironic because both he and they have the same pattern of automatically demonizing those who disagree with their views rather than confronting opposing arguments with hard evidence or convincing logic. If the media seriously wanted to report the news — instead of spinning it — they could stop calling rioters “protesters” and stop calling terrorists “militants.” Letter from a reader: “The socialists want to take the ‘sting’ out of poverty. They don’t understand that it’s the ‘sting’ that got everyone I know out of poverty and not a minimum wage.” Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today? Any decent human being can sympathize with the plight of Middle East refugees. But other refugees have been helped in their own part of the world — with money, food, medicine, and other things, in settings more compatible with their own way of life, rather than being brought across an ocean to a country that neither fits them nor which they fit in. Have you ever encountered even one human being — whether in person, in print, or in the broadcast media — who denied climate change? If not, why do you suppose zealots for the catastrophic “global warming” theory want laws passed to punish “climate-change deniers”? Is it because they are losing the battle of evidence on “global warming” and need to shut up others? One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political Left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims. The monumental tragedies of the 20th century — a worldwide Great Depression, two devastating World Wars, the Holocaust, famines killing millions in the Soviet Union, and tens of millions in China — should leave us with a sobering sense of the threats to any society. But this generation’s ignorance of history leaves them free to be frivolous — until the next catastrophe strikes and catches them completely by surprise.

I can remember my naivety of being pro-government. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Great, they can follow the legal path available to them.

Go ahead and lay out your criticism in detail and consider supporting it with data. What would be the long-term impact of temporarily stopping legal immigration while eliminating illegal immigration?

Some of your responses man o man. Did Trump 'literally' torture children? LOL. If we choose not to take care of our own people, why are you talking about caring for other's people? Are you the guy asking for a raise and promotion right after your employer announces financial distress and layoffs? Timing! To expand the homeless conversation. Have you read into and watched interviews with many homeless that share they are homeless by choice? It's not always money, shelter, and rehab access.