Lipdrag

We have found the problem. T'weep and others believe that crime is not a big deal. How much "little deal" crime becomes a burden on the citizens nearby? Every attempt to put structure on this question is highly successful (3 strikes laws, sentencing minimums, etc.) and then ended as soon as the success of it is noticeable and quantified. Note that T'weeps' team also is very specific about who is doing "no big deal" stuff. Grandmothers from Kansas taking selfies between velvet ropes must be bankrupted and jailed to the max extent of the law. Illegal aliens doing 8 more illegal things . . . Meh, not a big deal.

THE SOLUTION. The Washington Orangeskins!! I love it. The other solution is to keep the Redskins name but change the logo to a potato. With feathers, of course.

17 of the "intelligence" agencies wrote what they were told to write. Even the 14 of them that DNI Clapper declared were not part of the hoax. Are those other 14 agencies just FOMO Hoaxers? Freelance Hoaxers? Just hoaxing on rumors of made up fakes elsewhere or only when told directly to fake information? Hoax Ninjas all up in those "intelligence" agencies!!

Babylon Bee Headline. Sorry, no link to the story. It is behind a paywall.

Is there a biologist in the house? We need a ruling that our resident Black Female Supreme Court Justice is unable to determine.

Let's pay WNBA players the same money as any man with those same skills. In other words, they would pay to play in a Tuesday night church league while working a real job. The world cup soccer chicks complained about their paychecks also. They sued because they were paid according to a different formula from the men's team. Forgetting, conveniently, that they had the option to be paid by the exact same formula the men were paid and voted against it! I think they were suing over the fact that no man interceded and made them vote in their best interest rather than with their feelings. Interestingly, both the men's team and the women's team would have been better compensated if they had taken the others' pay scheme. Of course, none of this has anything to do with absolute talent and skill levels. We all know 15 year old boys will beat the women's national soccer team. So paying the ladies the same that we pay 15 year olds to play soccer seems to be just mean and curmudgeonly.

Then embrace your unsettled feeling as your contribution and worth it for your principles. The issues seem to be bigger than anyone's unsettled feelings in your estimation. So, be fully principled and do not blame those applying the law for those feelings you should be welcoming as the struggle against the economic (and social and governmental, etc) situations in the home countries of these refugees.

The only reason you could get swept up is because there are illegal aliens here. No illegal aliens then no danger of being swept up in an operation to remove illegal aliens. Let's take the concept to another domain: Stores in high crime areas must lock up their products and inconvenience honest people. It is unsettling to both the store employees and non-criminal shoppers. Is the store owner to blame? No. All of the inconvenience and unsettling feelings are due solely to the criminals and those who enabled the criminals.

I think Slotkin is recognizing Trump's modification and application of the Teddy Roosevelt maxim to "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Trump's Corollary: "Speak quickly then apply the big stick when the other side has trouble hearing." We are seeing it in trade policy also. It is too bad that he never did learn how to speak softly. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/19/slotkin-people-doubted-u-s-but-trump-sent-a-signal-we-will-act-with-iran-strikes/

Interesting take. Of course you are right that traditionally the term pork applied to the old Robert Byrd model of bringing federal money back to the district or state to serve a purely local interest. I expanded the term to beyond a geographical constituency to an ideological constituency - applying the concept of pork barrel to an expenditure serving only one side of the political spectrum. Cancelling the programs is no more base pandering than funding the programs. Your last statement shows we are in agreement about this being analogous the the Broken Windows Policing theory. The message (i.e. marketing) is the value.

Several points of discussion here: 1 - It is still against the law - just like speeding is against the law. 2 - Current documents implies proper documents were in place at one time. So, let's stipulate that lapsed documents is not a crime. However, just like speeding this violation comes with penalties. Additionally, the penalties escalate with the severity of the circumstances. You can lose your privilege to drive and be jailed for speeding so egregiously that you endanger life and limb of others. For legal (at one time) aliens the penalty can range from "fix it in 2 weeks" to deportation with no option to return. 3 - Driving without a license or on a suspended license is a crime. If proper immigration and residence papers were never obtained then we are dealing with criminals, not civil violators. 4 - Another apt analogy to the traffic comparison: Traffic check points for seat belts or DUI. People who are stone cold sober and wearing their seat belts get "swept up". Then they are quickly released when they are not the target of the enforcement action. Source: living in America

I agree they are piddly in terms of deficit reduction. But I also am a subscriber to the broken windows theory of policing. And making your bed every morning. These piddly cuts are the pork barrel budgeting analogy to fixing windows, clearing graffiti, and nipping it in the bud. Small things matter for what they indicate about character, resolve, dependability. Watch those last 3 words trigger some of our brethren! 3 . . . 2. . . . 1 . . .

I understand this sentiment but I do hold my nose and vote. I helped Clinton get elected by voting against Bush via casting my ballot for Perot. Perot was far from perfect but Bush had forfeited any shot at re-election via betrayal and craven spinelessness. And Clinton was, well, you know, too slick to be let out of Little Rock..

Yes. He totally screwed the pooch on Covid (Warp Speed, Navy Hospital ships to NYC, not getting rid of Fauci on the first mask reversal, allowing shut downs to be EVEN PROPOSED!!!), being soft on illegal aliens while focusing on the visual of a wall, not draining the swamp, exploding government spending, firing Flynn rather than the top 1000 FBI and CIA political operatives, and many other things. He was OK on tax policy (although SALT deduction should be zero), foreign policy, energy policy, getting out of silly international agreements. The question is why couldn't the Republicans nor the Democrats come up with something more appealing to the American people? When asked by European work colleagues in 2016 who I was going to vote for - it is strange how interested in American politics they are and how they feel it is not to personal a question to ask someone - I would answer thus: "I have stated before that I will vote for a steaming pile of dog feces before voting for Hilary Clinton. And this year I have the opportunity to prove it." I supported other candidates in the contested primaries of 2016 and 2024. Yet the democrats leave me only the option of proving dog feces is preferable to their candidate over and over again. Where is the modern day Sam Nunn, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, etc?

The joke is on all of us. And we are it. INTEGRITY! "He's stupid for free," Foundation for Targeted Analysis & Research Databases (FTARD). https://babylonbee.com/news/integrity-this-man-says-stupid-things-on-the-internet-and-no-one-is-paying-him-to-do-it

esocceria.

Dudes, can we stop the "I know you are but what am I?" and "I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you." taunts on this thread. We have enough of that crap in other areas. Can we keep the Climate Hoax thread about important things like cow farts? The history of failed prognostications and extrapolations. Changed river shapes, coastal outlines, and other climactic convulsions which happened before SUVs existed, The climate model which applied from all data through 1950 and its correlation to the actual measurements that occurred in the last 75 years, etc. Can the board moderator create a food fight room where our colleagues can take their "you're a jerk/ no I'm not but you certainly are" fights?

The FISA court judges should also be indicted. Their ONLY JOB is to detect when the FBI and CIA are lying to them (i.e. protect the American people from the administration) and to punish them mercilessly. Their failure was not due to being dumb. They were in on the conspiracy either overtly or they turned a blind eye purposefully. They were shocked, shocked that the very people they were hired to control could act in an out of control manner. https://y.yarn.co/f4b760cf-7f29-4e5b-a5d4-3b674a705c7c.mp4

YES, of course you are right. No fires whatsoever! No internal combustion, external combustion, gastric combustion. Zip. Zilch. Nada. No CO2! Keep those carbons right where they are now because they are in the mostest bestest place they ever have been and ever will be!!! The only acceptable fires in the state of CA will be extreme green energy produced pictures of fires like these: Oh, yeah, no breathing either. Because, you know, CO2. So just stop your stupid breathing in CA and the world will be perfect for CARB.

White Christian Straight Conservative Males (ones born that way, natch) - who are probably emotionally unavailable and not in touch with their feelings. THAT'S WHO!!! Next question.

The same percent as get elected in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, etc. etc. 100% Lunatics.

California self-hoax. Pay $2.00 more for gas than anyone else. Refineries closing. Businesses leaving. Whodathunkit? How is it even possible to anticipate these reactions to legislative, regulatory, and endless media attacks? Can't we make them stay and make us exactly the gas we demand they make at prices we demand they charge with the absolute certainly that we intend to put them out of business with all of our administrative and legislative might? Making people do what we want them to do - isn't that freedom and democracy? https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Californias-Gasoline-Crisis-Was-ManufacturedNow-Theyre-Pretending-to-Fix-It.html

Only if you are buying tanks. RV knows all about tanks be tanking Oh, and straw. Man, he's full of straw. RV covers you for short tanks and strawmen. Strawmen be tanking.

And the looters are not looting American illegal alien businesses in Mexico, are they? They are looting Mexican businesses in Mexico. A'holes going to A'hole in "mostly peaceful looting" ways the world over.

Canuck Hoaxing. Eurotrash hoaxing. 300 million Canadian (luckily not very much in real money) was given to friends of Justin with no strings attached. Just like USIAD money and all the Billions of real money Brandon's team was throwing out of the Whitehouse after (s)he lost the election. Money for nothing!