Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” he said in a statement. “I thank the Board for its thorough investigation, and I approve their pardon recommendation.
pesky juries and DAs thinking they have legal authority!
Not sure how sarcastic you are, but I could see work camps being built. I think we’d see some deportations and some people sent to work camps, but not a complete crack down. Just enough to make it a threat.
It’s not just the logistics of moving that many people that is a problem. It would be extremely damaging to the economy. Undocumented labor makes the food we have as cheap as it is (along with government subsidies). If that labor pool evaporated we’d see more widespread issues with food rotting before being picked and food not getting processed.
The work camps would take the form of farms and food processing plants, possibly expanding to other manufacturing later. Free slave labor is how we’d compete against the slave labor in other countries. It’s important to note that managing that takes up a lot of resources, so I’d expect the majority to not be rounded up and sent to these camps. I’d expect the threat of being sent to a camp to be used to extract lower pay and more hours out of the existing undocumented population that works in those industries.
Having these populations still intact would be useful to instigate more crackdowns as political events to provide a boost.
The main problem with these camps (and existing populations) is that people have kids even under the worst circumstances. That is why we’re seeing the talking point to remove/overturn birthright citizenship. Eventually the camp population would be almost entirely us citizens which makes things less tenable. So they’d need to remain different so it’d be okay for them to stay in the camps they were born into.
We already have legalized slavery for US citizens, I don’t see the blockers for a maga implementing it for immigrants. Maybe not extermination camps, bit concentration camps? I can see it very well
Undocumented labor makes the food we have as cheap as it is (along with government subsidies). If that labor pool evaporated we’d see more widespread issues with food rotting before being picked and food not getting processed.
The GOP has literally already done this with those exact effects in Florida, Alabama & Georgia. The farmers I know collectively lost millions. Other farmers had to sell out to BigAg, which was just a bonus knock on effect for these ghouls. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the lion's share of these double digit Haley / GOP protest voters in Red states are in the Ag sector, or some other industry directly damaged by Trump's misrule.
But that is kinda the point of fascism. As long as they have power they do not care about people.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.
“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it — and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television] — on our airwaves,” McCaul said.
He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate, and they actually model Russian propaganda.”
I’m not convinced that Biden hasn’t slowed down. Dude’s old but his speaking style, history of gaffes, and his stutter makes it hard to really gage a change in his public speaking. I definitely don’t think he’s struggling nearly as much as Trump but ultimately I’m not sure how much difference it makes for how I will vote. Even if Biden was as bad as Trump he would be the better choice because he builds teams and listens to experts whereas Trump collects sycophants and listens to whoever best flatters his ego.
The job of the President is complex and involves dealing with incredible amounts of information. No one person can meaningfully process the amount of information Presidents get presented with everyday nor have the background to understand and properly contextualize the variety of types and sources of that information. The person that recognizes that they aren’t experts on every subject and who builds teams of subject matter experts to help them process the information and make the most informed decisions possible will always be the better choice.
He definitely has. He's not as snappy as he was in 2012. But it's normal old guy 'slow down'. My grandfather, STTL, slowed down in the last 15 years of his life, but remained quite sharp from an objective standpoint.
Biden could be a blumbering idiot who stutters every other sentence for all i care. From each of Biden and Trump’s track records, I’ve seen that Biden and Harris actually relegate experts in each field to study how to most effectively govern in that area and appoint competent staff.
On the flipside, Trump is very effective at making every goddamn thing about himself. Competency across the public service resigned and fled ship, and Republicans took this opportunity to appoint stooges to destroy the service they ran, such as Postmaster General DeJoy. The people in cabinet that answer to him were almost all yes-men, effectively babysitting Trump in the office, and he was out at the golf course 285 times over 4 years. The “Trump is more mentally fit” argument never made sense to me.
It’s so weird how the cons clutch their pearls whenever an accusation of racism is leveled at them, but they tell on themselves all the time when it comes to monuments to racist traitorous scum.
Holy shit lol. I’m going to guess Arizona is pretty up there.
Nope I was wrong.
Over 50% of the national service lines are concentrated in six states: Florida, Illinois (11.4%), Ohio (8.1%), Pennsylvania (7.5%), Texas (7.1%) and New York (5.4%).
You’re going to see a map of older areas, that is, urban cores and inner-ring suburbs. In other words, I don’t think you’re going to find the correlation you’re probably hoping for.
To be fair, though, the official government line – uh, until today, I guess – is that lead water mains weren’t actually a problem because of the large volume of water flowing through them relative to the rate of corrosion, unless you did something stupid (like the Republican governor-appointed emergency manager did to Flint) to cause them to corrode abnormally rapidly. Hopefully there isn’t much of a widespread correlation between political affiliation and brain damage from exposure to lead via plumbing at all.
Whenever kids (actual, post birth kids) need protecting, it’s all about “who’s going to pay” or “taxes are already high” or “but that will be really inconvenient to the upper middle class”.
The best excuse I’ve heard for a bill that would protect kids from pedophiles was “the bill would unfairly target conservatives”. I can’t remember if this was a federal bill or a local bill but I remember it coming up and people saying “You’re telling on yourself.”
Chicago proves you wrong. Chicago mandated lead pipes long after everyone else was phasing it out. They have high levels of violence now, often believed in part because of that lead, and they are known as a place where liberals have been in control for forever.
Biologist here, it gives you adhd (60% chance), autism, and cerebellar Hypodysplasia (cant remember the incidence rate for these last two, but want to say CH is 8%). Child abuses causes conservativism lol, but lead causes developmental defects starting as early as the embryo.
Source: “Half of US Population Exposed to Adverse Lead Levels in Early Childhood,” Michael J. McFarland, Matt E. Hauer, Aaron Reuben. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 7, 2022. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2118631119
Cant wait for republicans to mix Ivermectin-Horse-Dewormer with Lead to drink it on camera as a symbol of their patriotism. It would be a Christmas Miracle come true…
“The founding fathers had lead pipes and they turned out fine! If they didn’t intend for us to have lead pipes, they wouldn’t have put them in. Getting rid of them is simply un-American!”
Was anyone still the least bit confused about this? Given the choice, Baptist and Born Again White Supremacist Christofacist Republicans have sought the end of egalitarian secular representative Democracy since they were called Democrats before the Civil War. The end of The American Experiment has always been their goal.
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